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To be honest, while being a foreigner and technically a spy for Vlanlados, Joe was quite...upset. No, not over the fact Vlanlados was invaded and taken over, he had accepted it and gotten over that a while ago. No, not at the fact that the fate of Capitalism in Forenia was hanging in the balance, though it did really make him anxious. No, the real thing that made him quite upset was the fact that there were delays on the prototype projects that were considered wonder weapons that would win the war, specifically the Hammer of Forenia, or the Piratskioubiytsa, both which were remade to be modernized, and this was all due to the war coming to a close, that and the other engineers not seeing the use out of such wonderful weapons like he did. Maybe the war ending was for the best, it probably was, it means he could get more sleep every night, though it would mean his business would suffer, though it already was with how dangerous the shores were with the whole Cannalan invasion. Still, the business was a side venture, his main source of income was being a weapons designer, and what exactly would he get if Forenia was made like the German Empire in the great war? Simple, he'd get fired or none of the designed he, or any of his friends in the armed forces made for him to fix up into something somewhat reasonable, would ever be accepted other than the minor and uninteresting cheep garbage that would be produced and destroyed in droves. And that's if they even allow Forenia to have an army anymore...

Sighing, he looked out the window, away from his newspaper and at the coast, at least one project was going well, the Zingel, a design made by him and him alone, except for the nuclear reactor part anyway. He wondered how effective such a ship would be, a ship with the speed of a destroyer and the killing power of a battleship, and yet, they would only ever be able to have one of them. Technically, the Zingel was not called the Zingel, it was the Swordfish, but then a critical error caused the Swordfish to go the way of an archer and not come back up again...then the Catfish...then the Tigerfish and so on until the ninth ship came around, the Zingel, which unlike the others showed plenty of promise. In a sense it was a shame that the ship was going to probably be scrapped or scuttled at the end of the war as a final 'fuck you' to Cannala. Maybe he could steal it with its crew and become a myth to the Cannalan Navy for a time, a sea monster that no one sees until its too late and your ship is split in two by a violent explosion. That would be nice, but such thoughts were just dreams...

Then, the radio had a very special message, one that made him smile and put down the newspaper almost immediately and calmly walked over to his Salamander that he bought a while ago and got in, ready to drive down to the Submarine. Maybe the war would keep going on, maybe not, either way, before this war was over, he, the test crew, and the Zingel would happily arrange a meeting between the Cannalan Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, under the waves. At the very least, he could prove to the other engineers that his Sub, in the end, was better than their own idea's, and finally once and for all prove that the designs pushed forward truly were wonder weapons.