Deep Sea Observers

[Jydsken-Østveg]

The Free Navy operated a fleet mostly composed of submarines. There was a feeling that they could achieve more while having less. More bang for your buck as their Sylvanian counterparts would say. Their subs travelled around the world usually unbeknownst to most other naval powers, but certainly assumed.

Today the Free Navy’s FNS Ukko would be embarking on a mission to the Reman Sea. The FNS prefix was never really an official identifier for the Free Navy, but has become well known and common for international naval branches to refer to their ships as such. This often bothered Pohjanmaan officers which couldn’t agree on how to prefix their own ships due to linguistic differences within Pohjanmaa. Such was the problem of the Fennic languages in comparison to the Nords.

The Reman Sea mission was based upon the increasing chance of conflict in the region. The Rurikgrad and ODS nations were quite likely to conduct missions in that area as well and the Ukko was to monitor the region. More specifically... to spy. Observe the movement of warships, troops, defenses, whatever was possible to gain from having a submarine in this region. She set off immediately and was expected to be there within the week.

 

[Furlanìe]

The Friulian naval operations in the Reman sea where known by all, as they were structured and evolved in the centuries. the delicate naval routes going from Furlanìe, through the Retalian strait, to the long-sea territories, where vital to the economic stability and national integrity of the maritime Republic of Tergest far back from the late middle ages, and to the Grand Duchy of Furlanìe today.
But even tho everyone knew, since the advent of submarines, the Friulian naval policy was one of secrecy, the stability of the whole Reman sea, considered by some an extension of the nation itself, was taken in the hands of the Friulian Navy, one of, if not the most advanced player in those waters for ages.
The secrecy was required by the vast amounts of naval traffic and national interests in the area, the large fleet of submarines scanning and moving in silence deep under the sea helped avoid diplomatic quarrels and foreign political crusades that the imposing presence of warships often provoked, while guarding the safety of trade and movement, and guaranteeing fast intervention and influence over the area.

Since the rise of Montedorean-Pelasgian tensions in the Long sea the proud Friulian Navy was in high alert, the international irritation that followed the movement of the small Friulian flotilla from mainland Furlanìe to the naval base in Savalonut helped reaffirm the importance of the classic discreet policy of surveillance.
And so a small detachment of submarines was sent from the Reman into the Long sea, and spread out from the Montedorean coast to the entrance of the Retalian strait.

The group, directed from the spy ship Ustinade in Savalonut, monitored any unusual movement, being also very careful not to irk the Pelasgian Navy. for this reason the entire operation was kept the most secret possible, with only the Confenonîr and the Grand Duke knowing about it.

The Submarines stood still and silent, monitoring the waters, and moving only at night, carefully, to refill their food supplies, fuel and rotate the personnel some miles from Savalonut, with the help of a large oil tanker disguised as a fishing vessel.