Chapter 7

Today was finally the one where I would be able to see what Germania's Military would bring for the Badly needed Hardware Update plans. The priority, surprisingly, was the Navy, so I gave them the opening position. It's as modest and budget oriented, I always focused on that when planning for them, so for now I could say good job. The proposal was very straightforward, our existing destroyers were too old, so a whole new design would be put on top Priority, it was a typical D (for Degurechaff no less) Class Destroyer our Navy prides in, Loads of AA and CIWS batteries, SAMs, ASMs and two dual purpose guns, this model would use a new 90mm DP model, the design was from a famous Ildoan Arms manufacturer that collapsed and its designs just conveniently were in the Possession of Poseidon Naval industries, an ARMS TRIGGER child company specialized in Navy armaments. For the CIWS it would be 12 5cm Triple barreled Revolverguns, 6 5cm chainguns modified for Dual Purpose and 6 30mm Six barreled revolverguns, those would however be on an "according to Mission" design, its space would be where the ASMs and Torpedoes would be fitted, so the new design was centered around cheap, mobile, modular and be made up to spec for a D class destroyer. Not bad, not bad.

KMS Kaiserin was already being retrofitted one last time, the flight deck would be improved to extend service life, same for the Onboard electronics, comms and radars and rangefinders, all to give it just enough extra Lifetime until its new sister was ready, three new sisters, the planned Carrier design, named Millennium Argent Class, the Three planned Carriers to be built in tandem or one after another even had names ready, Elenium, Argent Fox and Viktorya. I let them do so, Germania's situation is only a standstill for now because no hostile Nation has conditions to try anything at us or is too wary to try, but that won't last, so if letting them Name things in my or my loved ones so be it.

KMS Kaiserin would also receive its one last Upgrade, one it never ended receiving back then due to a dire need of hastily Mobilizing her to contain another absolutely shitty fiasco overseas, it would finally get the proven to be of use KMS Magical AI core system, in a Nutshell, that would give it its own AI slash Persona (It would be Robotic laws compliant though, no need to tempt fate with Skynets or whatever Genocydal Ais manning some of our Valuable Military grade hardware), operate what weapons could be automated in the vessel as well help keep it running at peak performance even if a hit causes loss of crew or would hinder the crews capacity to keep things operational at peak performance, but most valuable was allowing the ship to deploy Tactical Class spells, mostly deffensive shells, detection arrays or even Anti-Magic Jamming fields to make Mage guided Missiles useless, theoretical study also concluded KMS AI cores would make ships untargetable by Magician attacks as the AI core Mana flowing through the ship would be akin to making it into a Mage's domain.

How would we power such a thing? The nuclear reactor on the ship, an add-on would be added, hooking an Energy to Mana generator Unit, in comes the energy the reactor makes, out goes Mana for the Core. Simple but also hard to even get it right.

"Alright, All these are fine, remember however, for now we need our Forces to get back to normalcy, no gimmicks or untested or unproved to be mass replicable ideas, understood?"

Silent nods, but I can feel it, they're eager to have something resembling an actual Force of use, even if their many ideas have to simmer some more.

Now for the Air force, The Fighters, Multi-Roles and Fast strike Bombers would be replaced by ARMS TRIGGER old models, still, what's old for them is actually top of the Line for forces wanting to be up to date, The fighter was the SF-630X, Nickname Monarch, About the right payload capacity for both Ground launched or Carrier based, a good top speed, about 40% more than the best available to our immediate threats, the engine packs a new CM suite, it could let small balls of Hyper condensed Plasma eject from strategic exhausts, creating a short lived but impossible for any IR seeker avoiding being fooled, retraining on Pilots would be necessary, but the specs alone more than made for it. The Multi-Role will be the sister model, AF-503B, nickname Mobius, similar size and about 60% parts commonality, so logistics were kept easy enough, It could pack more than enough Ground strike ordnance for its intended Role, had the same Anti-IR and Radar seeker Counters the Monarch had, and from the 4 20mm Autocannons, it now had 2 30mm High Velocity, high precision Autocannons, and could have a Low Power Railgun added to its Belly, that or a 5cm gun, both were just as atrocious in Killing its maneuverability though.

Last was our Fast Strike Bomber, or basically our Deliverer unit of Pinpoint accurate 2-ton F yous to enemy forts, or to simply drop several Laser guided smaller Bombs to make sure our enemy drowns or gets blown to bits in all the fucks Germania have to give to their asshole behavior. It was the M58-C model, nickname Fenrir, of all models, this was a strange one, Supersonic capacity, VTOL capable, capable of carrying AAMs, have an onboard Autocannon and in general it CAN dogfight if the Pilot has the Skill, so long they aren't loaded in their internal Bay with Bombs that is. Mike reported to me this was being sold because the successor was more than enough already, so this one was allowed in, from the looks, because the skill floor to even REMOTELY have a chance with it in a dogfight is high enough that so long the leash is kept short long enough, by the time I have enough Pilots able of handling this thing as a do all aircraft, the gap would remain. Fair game.

"While this isn't ideal, aircraft technology has just lagged too much, so for now, start R&D back as priority, while we will buy the stopgaps until we can make our own designs again."

The head of the air force was clearly displeased, but the facts were undeniable, the last decades have show an absolute zero sum gain in new technologies applied to aircraft, rather, reports made clear, most of what can be upgraded based off proven ideas and core design Philosophies just isn't possible anymore, the gains are being outstripped by circular logic, things are ending in returning to Great war paradigms due to that, one look at the disastrous US attempt at their M5 rifle chambered in that horrendous 6,8mm decades ago should be enough proof.

And speaking of Infantry hardware and Ground Armies, their plans were even more modest than the Navy's.

The G36M5, simply put a fancy G36 with Magician CAD furnishing it and adding dead weight as well as fucking the firing ergonomics, would be reverted into a G36 Karabiner model, shorter barrel, foldable stock and instead of those shitty integrated Optics, a good and proven Rail system alongside more comfy Iron sights as backup, same for the ACP38, out with all the junk over it, back to the DSP-45, from the garbage anemic low power 9mm, to the proven and true .45 ACP. The rest would follow a similar path, the only pricey part of the new Infantry program was the readmission of crack C class Mages for the forces.

As for their Vehicles, the Leopard 2 was still enough for a few more years, then we would replace them with a design the eggheads of our Industries were purposefully keeping in development hell out of spite at the inept previous government. Kpz-404, callsign Sleipnir, basically it would soup a new Composite armor design, a new MTU engine, same Horsepower as the Leopard 2's, but more compact, seems like our AFV forces will also have KMS AI cores added as well, the gun would remain the 120mm, since that, if the KMS AI unit works as planned, no one will expect the same gun to start punching with four times its previous best performance at times, or that the Tungsten Carbide APDSFS that punctured the enemy Tank exploded it into nothing, truly wonderful, next our air force will have jets carry over 300 AAMs, each guided by a fairy and our Pilots given the ability of making 90 degree sharp turns with their jets like as if the laws of Physics stopped existing and they're some Bloodless Super ace Pilot of an Arcade flight game.

The Puma IFV would however be replaced ASAP, from what it looks, the design never had its worst flaws amended or fixed and age is just worsening the issues. So for now, the new IFV design, Prokjekte WKP would have funds focused at. Design wise, it was still a lightly armored IFV capable of carrying 8 soldiers in full gear, armed with either a 76mm Autocannon or a 9cm Gun with an autoloader unit, an ATGM or SAM launcher pack could be fitted as well. Overall it would be more or less proofed against RUSS 30mm AP and APDS from the front, and 14.5mm from the sides, not THAT light armored given the specs, but once the CAB packs get in, then the weight starts veering into Medium Tank territory, and that's a worry.

Germania's ground attack doctrine does make great use of both our Tanks and IFVs in tandem to push on, since any IFV squad that is to be transported into such assaults are oftenly made of the Best C rank mages, this makes such attacks very hard hitting, but this Blitz was never used outside well planned and advantageous scenarios, the weight of these CABs can put a dent in our High Mobility Offensive attack philosophy.

"Worry not Holy Kaiserin, the new design will use an engine design brough by the same design the new MBT is planned to use, so Mobility won't be an Issue."

"I see, then make sure logistics and any kinks are taken care, last I want is our new IFVs having the same thing early P50 engines had, this age has enough Great wars deja vus in my Opinion."

That got them right into full attention, good.

The last parts of this Military Meeting were merely revamping of the Training, recruitment and other areas, all could be left to them. It ended unceremoniously, after that, it was time to start reading some long due good stuff….

…. Alright, This is turning into a shitty Joke.

"What kind of JUNK is THIS? How does ANYONE manage to get one off this, this SHIT?"

Burned to cinder was what I can in no uncertain terms to have been the worst piece of R18 material I ever read…. For the love of Mike! How far has Akitsushima fallen? The entertainment of other regions is as bad or even worse. The exception was seven seas stuff straight from South Americas, guess I can see WHERE the good talent for entertainment fled to.

"Ugh…. Really? Have all Artists been turned into Cucked Eunuchs? Is the only haven of good culture Literature from there only?"

This won't do. No, No and NO. Fuck. I need, no, I WANT to know WHAT fucked entertainment this bad. I call in Anya, and ask her about data on Entertainment, Economics of the field and all that spanning the Entire period I wasn't present. It came quite quickly, probably was part of all the data both about all the time gap I wanted to cover to avoid both embarrassing myself and leaving some blind spot in my knowledge of this world's history, as well as maybe the loads of economic data along what Policies were tied to those numbers, be as causes for them or responses to those same numbers. The summary of what I wanted, Truly stupid. As if the US and non OZEV nations falling to armchair Lefty idiocy (along some astounding degree of malicious Magician sabotaging) wasn't enough, with the first major casualties being Entertainment sources in general in the Economic landscape, even places Like Akitsushima, where fucking TENTACLE PORN and all the degeneracy made for some HEFTY money sources for both the Nation and Business alike, ended pulling some really blind, braindead, Petty or all of those altogether, moves that crippled their entire Entertainment Industry. Those very Petty tyrant laws earned their deserving nickname, Shimoneta Laws, from what the paper told me, it's based off a Series with pretty much the whole core idea being exactly a what if such laws passed and society partially adapted to it. As is the case, Fiction hardly represents the practical effects of such pie in the sky actions, the numbers even from the very implementation say all, a lot of those so called "positive" gains were through some absolute garbage Ponzi scheme level number fudging, I wasn't the one who would be fucked by what happened, so I have all the time to verify these numbers with hindsight as a bonus, and voila, the most blatant, corrupt and absurd book cooking ever done for that Asian nation. The buildup was as unceremonious as it was nuclear when it blew up, Workforce morale was at an all time low, suicide rates got to peaks that put the previous highest to shame, the mere fact being labelled as someone caught having horny thoughts, aka the crudest Thought policing ever imagined, got you the oh so marvelous Akitsushiman societal treatment, which just gave Yakuzas their revival, growth back to massive power and to a degree where even Magicians got fucked big time there, to this day Yakuzas retain massive power holdings in the nation, because the Magiciancracy realized too late they have their in nation neighborhoor be a fucking War on terror nightmare 9.0, basically trying to root them out by now would be as economically suicidal as if they themselves were removed. Far too Many once despised people lineages of the shimoneta period still hold the Government with absolute contempt and aren't willing to cede a single thing.

As for the entertainment, all this basically killed any available talent that would publish publicly, those with skills retreated to dark corners of the web in Invite only forums to stay with like minded individuals, and what still exists and is open for anyone to enjoy is bottom level feed. The entire thing has gone full amateur, yes, the wide open seven seas only has Hobbyist level amateurs with no skill whatsoever in art, storyboarding or even a remote passable ability to write something worth reading. Meanwhile the good materials are all locked into the bowels of deep net culture and are nowadays as user unfriendly to access as possible, you go there because YOU REALLY WANT that stuff.

"Ohhhh….. really. This ENTIRE WORLD really can't have me not present to hold its hands and nicely guide it to avoid EVERY DAMN LANDMINE in history."

FUCK this absolute shit sandwich buffet. Know, what? Time to get another hobby out. Going to the Private office of my home, a set of tools for the trade came out from its small case. Pen, mechanical Pencil, eraser, rulers and a generous stack of papers, thin and cheap, good for what I was about to do. Some arm stretching, fiddling with the seat so I can stay comfy, then I pick the pencil and start.

For now, let me start with some rust removal exercises, one sheet I fill with circles, another I draw several 3d shapes, Cylinders, cubes, spheres, some odd angular objects. Then I start using basic shapes to get back the hang of how to draw limbs, torsos and the oh so elusive hands and feet.

Half an hour of it was enough, so I began for real. As a starter, it's Germania-Chan, that Blonde like mine hair, with an Ahoge no less, the nice and fluffy eyes, a smile with canine tooth present, the typical pack of hers. Then come that Petite but still feminine Body, Small but still present Breasts, some thinning in the waist area, some roundness at the hip curves…. And once her body is done, the Dress, for now, a More modern Germanian Uniform, Pants and Shirt, modern Boots, yet she still carries the Type 95. To top it, I do another one, but go for C cups rather than the very petite B, amp those hips just a bit more and her hair gets more freedom, waving nicely as if a natural ever present gentle breeze is keeping presence, also I put some extra height. Instead of the Military wardrobe, an Office Lady salarywoman getup, a White Shirt with a small blazer kept open, a Skirt just shy of being off regulation, Shoes with just a small set of heels, and to oomph those salaciously exposed legs, a pantyhose, her face also bears a more professional and attractive expression, a little reworking and maybe that would be just getting to a salacious secretary levels of naughty expression.

Hm, good. Now for the real goodies. I crack my neck a little and then get to work.

"Hm, 3 hours, huh? For a First in a while, not bad, right? US?"

The GIRL was very satisfied, those Sweets were brimming in the Composition and details on them.

The SALARYMAN nodded, a well-executed Composition, Balance of details and the concept was attractive, Obeyed Anatomy and was well colored.

The SOLDIER had a shine in her eyes, she executed all this, but of her Pride and Happiness, was what the two figures had on them, yeah, that should never be missing in such a scene with two ladies of war.

The Work THEY put their whole focus these 3 hours was for them, a first, of feeling happy and satisfied with, no Competitions, no Metrics to meet, no Insane Objectives ordered by an armchair commander. Pure and simple search of what THEY liked, subsumed into a Drawing.

A Short Blonde woman, blue eyes and all the markings of a Degurechaff expy character, embracing a taller, Brown long Hair woman that has clearly Rus descent, the exaggerated oomph in the chest notwistanding, Chest size was about either Elya or Anya in size, but aside that, many could say she was probably a Visha expy, Both were lacking a lot in clothing, lots of exposed skin and even a bit or two of their underwear, yet both had a weapon, the not!Tanya had a LmG-55, the Last Rifle Degurechaff had ever made full use in her time in this world before her infernal hellish reincarnation cycle, and Not!Visha was holding a well detailed Wilhelm LmP 99, the Last 9mm Pistol ever issued to Mages. They were both in an almost dance like pose, holding hands and ohmy, those eyes! Those mouths and blushing cheeks! If a continuation image was made, the bedroom would be the logical next step. For the background, a lavish area, like a Ballroom or a Party Hall, a long Table had many Sweets, detailed and as eye catching they could be made as a background element, the big piece just behind the lovely pair of ladies was a 6 floor Chocolate Cake, the Chocolate extravaganza was in full display. Choco details, Choco decorations, Choco Biscuit women, CHOCO EVERYTHING in that cake. At the top of the Image made, a Chibi Bussy X was being kicked off to his death by a Silhouette like Mine, but instead of a Black or white cutout, a Mini Microcosmos was making me, a bit Symbolic yes, but it's OUR drawing done by US, so suck it critics, a Very nice and Iconic Smile of mine was also present in that me. All in All, a well done piece of work.

Once done, my focus returns to the surroundings, and I see a petite person right by the desk side, Type 95, from the looks, her full Maintenance check was complete, and here she is, still focused on what I made, this… is a bit embarrassing.

"95, Your check-up?"

"Hm? It's well, no issues."

Her eyes are in the drawing, and it seems I know exactly what is in that Sweety Quadcore's mind.

"You want it?"

Those eyes shine immediately, GAH! The LIGHT!

"CAN I?"

"Uh, so long you keep it safe."

"THANKS!"

She picks it and with care, hurries to stash it in the Little area of my Bedroom arranged for her, well, she would store it there first thing if someone I REALLY didn't want seeing that Drawing of all things. Anya.

"Oh, did you make it 95?"

"NO, My Partner did it!"

"Oh! This is… VERY NICE."

She sees me, crap.

"Oh, Holy Kaiserin! I was about to come ask you for something and…"

For a Successor of Elya, Anya is…. A very scarily spicy woman in her Bed tastes…. She pestered me for quite the raunchy Drawing, while I slaved away doing such a boatload of the weirdest P site Tags I ever heard were a thing, 95 was Happily putting that Drawing I gave her as a centerpiece of her little corner….. Fuck this Wasteland of Porn filled with Horny Netizens