Rheinbund
Established Nation
Due to Eiffelland’s southerly location, September is still a summer month there. The temperature sometimes even reaches the 35 degrees celsius, and occasionally a summer thunderstorm emerges. Yesterday evening, there had been such a thunderstorm above Trier, but now the sky was blue again. The weather forecasts promised a beautiful day, less warm than yesterday, but still temperatures rising to 30 degrees celsius and staying above 20 degrees celsius during the night.
The river Rhine has done something strange in the area where Trier is situated. The Rhine’s main stream flows through Trier, along the west side of the city centre. But a side arm of the Rhine flows farther to the west, feeding some small lakes in Southwestern Trier, and also the Trierer See to the Southwest of Trier. Geodetists say that this was made possible by a fast‑flowing river flowing into the Rhine to the North of Trier. This is also the place where the side stream splits off the main stream. Both the river flowing into the Rhine and the Rhine’s side arm flowing west of Trier are called Havel. South of Trier, the Havel flows into the Rhine again.
The lakes in Southwestern Trier, but especially the Trierer See itself, are popular among the Trierers to go to on warm days. Many well‑to‑do Trierers have a weekend house near the Trierer See, the Royal Family itself has a weekend house there as well, there are camping places, holiday resorts, companies that let out boats, and hotels from cheap to extremely expensive.
Between mid October and mid April, the Government usually rents Schloss Köpenick for important meetings like the one between officials from the Ministries for Defence of Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland, and representants of the defence industries of these countries. But Schloss Köpenick is situated in a city quarter. OK a middle class city quarter in a city that is quite roamy and green for a city with 2.7 million inhabitants, but still a city quarter. During the summer months, it can be extremely hot there in an Eiffellandian summer. Therefore, during the summer months, a luxury hotel by the Trierer See is rented for conferences. That was also the case for this conference.
Minister for Defence Daniel Wolzow was about to receive representatives from Franken and the Mezhist Union, as well as representatives of the defence industries from Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland. The topic would be to find out possibilities for cooperation between the defence industries of these countries. Such a cooperation had already taken place in the past; the defence industries from Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland had developed tanks together. The result of that was the Panther medium tank and the Tiger (or Grizzly, as it was called in the Mezhist Union) heavy tank. After that, when more efficient armour methods became available, the Germanic tank producers had developed an universal tank, the Universalpanzer Löwe, while the Mezhist Union had upgraded its Panthers. But there would come a time when further adjustments to Löwe or Panther were needed. Furthermore, it was also interesting to see whether people could cooperate regarding other topics as well.
Everything was ready to receive the guests from Franken and the Mezhist Union. Minister Wolzow would receive them together with a representant from the plane manufacturer Dassau (Franz Markus), one from Magirus‑Deutz, the company that builds the tanks in Eiffelland (Armin Köppen), one from Rathenau Militärausrüstung (Werner Rathenau, the eldest son of the CEO of the Rathenau Gruppe and pater familias of the Rathenau family, as well as a personal friend of the Crown Prince), one from Carl Zeiss GmbH (Florian Hönemeyer) and one from Agfa (Roland König). Now they were waiting at the airport of Trier‑Tempelhof to receive their guests.
The river Rhine has done something strange in the area where Trier is situated. The Rhine’s main stream flows through Trier, along the west side of the city centre. But a side arm of the Rhine flows farther to the west, feeding some small lakes in Southwestern Trier, and also the Trierer See to the Southwest of Trier. Geodetists say that this was made possible by a fast‑flowing river flowing into the Rhine to the North of Trier. This is also the place where the side stream splits off the main stream. Both the river flowing into the Rhine and the Rhine’s side arm flowing west of Trier are called Havel. South of Trier, the Havel flows into the Rhine again.
The lakes in Southwestern Trier, but especially the Trierer See itself, are popular among the Trierers to go to on warm days. Many well‑to‑do Trierers have a weekend house near the Trierer See, the Royal Family itself has a weekend house there as well, there are camping places, holiday resorts, companies that let out boats, and hotels from cheap to extremely expensive.
Between mid October and mid April, the Government usually rents Schloss Köpenick for important meetings like the one between officials from the Ministries for Defence of Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland, and representants of the defence industries of these countries. But Schloss Köpenick is situated in a city quarter. OK a middle class city quarter in a city that is quite roamy and green for a city with 2.7 million inhabitants, but still a city quarter. During the summer months, it can be extremely hot there in an Eiffellandian summer. Therefore, during the summer months, a luxury hotel by the Trierer See is rented for conferences. That was also the case for this conference.
Minister for Defence Daniel Wolzow was about to receive representatives from Franken and the Mezhist Union, as well as representatives of the defence industries from Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland. The topic would be to find out possibilities for cooperation between the defence industries of these countries. Such a cooperation had already taken place in the past; the defence industries from Franken, the Mezhist Union and Eiffelland had developed tanks together. The result of that was the Panther medium tank and the Tiger (or Grizzly, as it was called in the Mezhist Union) heavy tank. After that, when more efficient armour methods became available, the Germanic tank producers had developed an universal tank, the Universalpanzer Löwe, while the Mezhist Union had upgraded its Panthers. But there would come a time when further adjustments to Löwe or Panther were needed. Furthermore, it was also interesting to see whether people could cooperate regarding other topics as well.
Everything was ready to receive the guests from Franken and the Mezhist Union. Minister Wolzow would receive them together with a representant from the plane manufacturer Dassau (Franz Markus), one from Magirus‑Deutz, the company that builds the tanks in Eiffelland (Armin Köppen), one from Rathenau Militärausrüstung (Werner Rathenau, the eldest son of the CEO of the Rathenau Gruppe and pater familias of the Rathenau family, as well as a personal friend of the Crown Prince), one from Carl Zeiss GmbH (Florian Hönemeyer) and one from Agfa (Roland König). Now they were waiting at the airport of Trier‑Tempelhof to receive their guests.