Kalahari Sea
The ships had left the harbor in the shadow of the storm, a while after Fist of the People and Democracy had set for the Long Sea to much public fanfare on their supposed anti-smuggling mission. What really mattered though was that they would be at the center of intelligence attention, so when the small detachment of dredge ships left the harbor in the typical spaced pattern of merchant vessels unaffiliated with each other, the gamble was that they would draw far less attention to their cause, instead blending into the ever-busy stream of ships passing through the Kalahari and Long Seas in either direction.
The vessels with their large apparatuses would first join the general stream of civilian shipping on the trading lanes, before eventually diverging onto a course into the general direction of Helionesos Island in the Southern Tiburan Empire, but would stop many dozens of miles before even entering the national waters of the Pelasgians and outside of, from what Kashtanese intelligence could tell, the radar coverage of either Eiffelland or the Tiburans.
Then, they would dig. And they would vacuum.
The ships had left the harbor in the shadow of the storm, a while after Fist of the People and Democracy had set for the Long Sea to much public fanfare on their supposed anti-smuggling mission. What really mattered though was that they would be at the center of intelligence attention, so when the small detachment of dredge ships left the harbor in the typical spaced pattern of merchant vessels unaffiliated with each other, the gamble was that they would draw far less attention to their cause, instead blending into the ever-busy stream of ships passing through the Kalahari and Long Seas in either direction.
The vessels with their large apparatuses would first join the general stream of civilian shipping on the trading lanes, before eventually diverging onto a course into the general direction of Helionesos Island in the Southern Tiburan Empire, but would stop many dozens of miles before even entering the national waters of the Pelasgians and outside of, from what Kashtanese intelligence could tell, the radar coverage of either Eiffelland or the Tiburans.
Then, they would dig. And they would vacuum.