The War That Transcends Timelines - 80 Intermission part II

Time: 10 minutes Into Phase Three

Location: Underground City Complex, Capital City

POV: Mackensen’s

The armoured train arrived at the massive gate that leads into the Capital city of the City complex, also the only city with an exit and entrance to the outside world. ”Airplanes from an unknown source, did they make a mistake?’ Some thoughts are running through my mind. I enter the jeep where my personal Silver Skull is already seated and ready to speed off to the CC. ”Sir, here is the report you asked for.” The silver Skull gave me the clipboard with the report on it. ‘120 planes have entered our airspace from Italy over Milan, 100 single-engine aircraft and 20 twin-engine aircraft, probably tactical bombers or transport planes. No flag painted on them, no radio contact, currently being escorted by 50 Hurricane fighter planes.’ I read what was on the report, ‘Peculiar, who could they be, the Union? Unlikely. Maybe… Nah, also unlikely.’ I try to think who it could be, but no answers come to mind.

It took us 8 minutes to arrive at the CC, driving through airlocks, compounds, sectors it is quite large, hence taking time to reach the CC which is at the Heart of the Capitol. ”Sir! The Architects are here with the total overview of the progress of the construction, they have also set up a separate Command centre that regulates all cities, gives status reports and is the central communications Hub!” a Unteroffizier reported. ”Understood I’ll make my way to the City Central control,” I said contently. ‘Those planes will be dealt with, I have been tasked by Kyle to oversee the construction so that is currently on a higher priority than those planes.’ I prioritized my time.

I walk into the room with an entourage of generals and advisors, ”Ah, General Mackensen, we have been anticipating your arrival, please make yourself comfortable, I mean after the project we will be your Architects. Now to not waste any of your valuable time we shall start immediately. ” The head architect said while moving to a drawing of circles and cylinders. 5 other architects were present as well who each is responsible for a part of the project’s design.

”Now, There was a general request made by your Marshall which is to make a self-sufficient underground complex, which A; Can house a population of More than 10 Million People, But sadly I can only say that can be reached in 40 years time, we can at max by 1939-40 accommodate 1 million people total. B; Can be self-sufficient, no need for any outside contact. Which is quite hard as the problem lies in the lack of sunlight, entertainment, greenery, relaxation facilities, oxygen supply, water supply and electricity production.

We can solve some issues already,

As we will use fluorescent lighting throughout the complex which will elevate the less sunlight the people will experience and will allow plants to grow.

Entertainment facilities will include sports centres, Theatres, etc. Special smoking areas will be constructed to allow oxygen levels to stay constant without a constant influx of other elements from smoking.

Plants will be needing minerals and other elements to grow, so they will be connected to a special system of pipes that will provide the nutrients and minerals which allows greenery to be abundant down here and remove the depressive atmosphere.

Oxygen, water and Fuel will be stored for emergencies in large tanks located underground and will take up 1/3 of a cities foundation structure each. So 1/3 is for oxygen storage, 1/3 for Water and the other 1/3 for Fuel. So each city can be cut off during unknown circumstances but will be able to survive for an estimated 3 months before the supplies will run out. All Storage tanks are connected to each other, the pipes running through the tunnels connecting the cities. That is just the basic structure for Utilities as a City has a constant structure. There is one major dome, which is the main city where the people who work there live, relax and pass their daily lives. Connected to the main dome will be either: Factories, Storage facilities, Research labs, Underground Farms, Military training facilities, Military storage facilities, etc. A city will have a minimum of 1 Storage Facility, Farm and Military Training camp. A maximum of 9 Smaller domes can be connected to one city, 3 are always taken. The other 6 Will always be the same for specialisation purposes of the City. Now there will be 5 Major Cities, and one Megacity in the complex, the Megacity is the Capital which we stand in. The 5 Other Major cities will be The Agricultural centre, Main Production Hub, Research HQ, Military Training HQ and Logistics HQ. Only These 5 Cities Will be Connected to the Capital, while the other smaller specialised cities will be connected to the Major Cities. This is to ease Logistics, all Tunnels must be wide enough to accommodate 3 E50s driving side by side and one train heading in each direction. Lastly, Defences will mostly be standard for each city except the capital. The Doors will be made of a Mixture of materials ranging from standard Steel to Tungsten to Chromium to Titanium. Weaponry and such must be provided by yourself, some preliminary positions have been made for weaponry to be put, but any other materials must be added by yourself.” The head Architect finished finally.

But before we can even ask any questions, another Architect steps forwards and starts talking. ”Now to continue what my fellow colleague has said the main city will also be specially made. The dome which will house the city must be constructed with the utmost care, massive steel support beams will be needed to uphold the weight above. We estimate that the Capital can hold 1 million people, a Major city 500,000, and a normal City between 50,000 and 250,000. Each City will have its own governor Building which monitors the Dome and sub-domes. Other large residential building will be built to maximize space, so we will need to build tall structures as well. Other structures besides the Domes will be Missle Silos, Barracks, Checkpoints in Tunnels, Emergency shelters in tunnels and Emergency Tunnels to the Surface. Cables and Pipelines will all be built in separate service tunnels next to the normal tunnel, it can only be accessed by an entrance inside a city. If an enemy has captured a normal city than the Major city can force lockdown their access, same for the Capital with the major cities.” The man said before stepping back, but AGAIN! before they could ask questions another architect steps forwards and starts talking, ”Now to talk about some miscellaneous stuff, The main oxygen, water and fuel supplies are coming from storage facilities around Switzerland, We want to connect those Facilities with train tunnels for emergency transport of goods, besides that the Marshall has requested another 3 airbases to be built for more planes to be housed. Other things requested was to leave extra cable space for cables in the future, certain mounting spots for things he calls ‘Cameras’, a few Special Silo which launches much larger Rockets than the current ones in design. Some other minor things that are being built are Certain Siloes for the launch of vertical takeoff vehicles, not sure what the Marshall means by that but we do as he wishes. That is all.” The man finished, the generals sighed, thankful that they can ask questions, ”Now I have a…..” I started before being interrupted again! ”Before I forget, we will not answer any questions, we only answer questions of the Marshall.” The 4th Architect said before walking out with the other 4 architects, ‘What the fuck is this?!?’ I was outraged in my heart, ‘But then again we have a clear overview.’ I thought, ”Construction of the Capital is at 88%, the other cities at an average of 11%!” the 5th architect shouted before running back to the group.

I was just pondering of what has been said before standing up, oh well let us deal with this when Kyle is back. I walked out of the Room into the CC.

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POV: Author’s

To my dear readers, It has come to my attention that my previous chapters especially chapter 1-30 are in desperate need of improvement. I have spent today 12 hours going over each chapter again and correcting about 30 spelling mistakes on average, now I need to also start editing old chapters, make them better and more consistent, add more, develop more background, etc. So I will be busy with adding loads of new content to old chapters, Next chapter will be a list of chapters I have added more content to our background too. Hope it will make people enjoy my novel even more. ‘Goes back to find that ONE MISSING COMMA in chapter One ._.’

Your Marshall!