Respecting our promises
Operation Zara Part I
Rovograd Military Port
“The sonar and the radar are tested. Everything else is working, sir.”
“Good work, Porucnik. We must load the munitions on the cruiser and also test the electric equipment on the corvettes.”
“Yes, sir.”
Admiral Călin Revnik was nervous. The cruiser Czar Edvard II was the flagship of the Altaic National Naval Forces and if not, the largest ship in Himyar was preparing for his baptism of fire. Not only this. He hoped that during his command of the Naval Forces, he wouldn’t need to think about how to fight against another fleet, or how to invade a foreign place. He only hoped that after Sidorenko’s retire, the Czarina will bring peace to Altai. But he was profoundly saddened by the approach of the Czarina concerning the August Catastrophe. Even if he wanted to protest, against her moves, the Chancellor approves her actions and the people love her and stand by her. All is about religion again. Diagism. A religion, literally loved by the people of Altai, who see the Czarina as an envoy of the Great Spirit. She is the first Diagist ruler of Altai since the assassination of Czar Dorin II Demian in 1935 during the revolution. She is loved by the people as much as Czar Dragan Demian or Sultan Dan I Abari. But even so she is more like a Dragan with teats. She makes us all think that she is like a peasant who doesn’t understand anything about politics and how to rule a state, but she literally knows everything about it. It seems that Anka, her mother has done her homework. Se can see that she really is the granddaughter of Prince-Chancellor Alen Demian. She knows hot to make everyone love her but also knows how to stab someone in the back. It is like she was made for the role of ruler in the venomous court of Altaisk.
Admiral Revnik was brought back to life by a captain who gave him a report. He read it and smiled. The Submarines were ready. His mission has started. There was no time in thinking about Czarina Tatyana. The time for was has come.
He left the cruiser Czar Edvard II and went to the place where the Kilo-class submarines of the Altaic Navy were docked. When he arrived he checked the reports of the shipmen again. Everything seemed fine. He began not the feel his legs and a shiver has made him shake. Revnik didn’t know if all of those were emotions of him being proud because of the start of the operations or being scared about Altai entering in this Great War.
In two hours later, the submarines were prepared. And the members of the crews were standing in formation in front of their submersibles.Revnik knew that most of them were scared. At least the normal ones. The reckless ones were eager to fight.
“Soldier of Altai,” he began his speech. “Now the sun rises for Altai again. The 20 years-long night has ended and again we are here to show the world that this small Himyari country is here and still has some power to show. Sixty-one years have passed since the Altaic Army faced the Talemantine Empire and again the time has come for us to defend the interest of the Altaic people. The time has come for us to be great again. Let us fight and destroy the enemies of the crown!”
The crews gathered there began to applaud.
“We must be ready and strike at the speed of light. The airplanes are ready, and now we must begin our mission. The Submarines Rechinul, Marsuinul and Delfinul will leave the port of Rovograd and begin their designated missions. The Cruiser Czar Edvard II and the rest of the fleet will leave immediately after they are loaded. God and the Great Spirit help us.”
So, it has come to this. The submarines will leave first and then the rest of the ships will leave, north inbound. He continued to stay on the dock and think until the crews embarked and the submarines left. Only when none of the three subs couldn’t be seen anymore, a officer came to him and told him that the fleet will be ready to leave at 4 o’clock in the morning.