The favorable tidings of the “most honorable and noble party of governing council advisors” had planned to create a new international sea port on the tourist destination of the Aral Sea. Smaller than the Caspian and Black Sea, the Aral was far more prone to military testing and civilian fisher infrastructure. The Air Port was to be a fabulous international terminal that was built on oyster beds newly uncovered by the receding water levels. The addition of American planes never came but several European countries and points of interest in South East Asian countries has connecting flights so it would be normal to see Swiss, Italians, Indonesians and tourists from Hong Kong so take in the Mirror Like vistas of the Aral. Fabulous and rare dishes were on the menu, Tiger Belly, Reindeer, Giant Squid, Panda, Mongolian Horse… living in open air atriums to have the freshest delicacies.
A forgotten project of the Soviets was infecting Killer Whales with a brain parasite for weaponized work that was intended for use in the Black Sea to induce “accidents” as these beasts where trained in taking down luxury yachts for assassinations. They were able to scuttle large boats and then pick off the life rafts. This project was deemed as more of a select operation for black hats, not something that would be useful in the coming third world war. Unfortunately the program was cancelled and a unwise technician dumped the surviving baby stock of the Whales into the Aral testing ground after the final culling of the original test group from the late 1950s.
The Airport named after Stalin’s Pet Moray Eel. Ангелина Светлана, Anzhelina Svetlana which means in english, Angel who shines like the stars. Creating a wholly new architecture style that was largely copied from the Frank Loyd Wright Imperial Tokyo Hotel that was demolished in 1968 that was a favorite of Comrade Stalin and his forebears of the Politburo Khrushchev and Brezhnev… who after killing Stalin wanted to maintain a political tie to the mighty hero Stalin in the second world war, but move away from purges, secret police and crushing repression of the Stalin years. Ironically the Killer Whale program was named after Comrade Stalin and was his brain child he had thought of while on holiday on the Black Sea. His compatriots at that time were largely yes men and would devote resources to any wild ideas he had, like air breathing packs of Killer Whales trained in sabotage and mass murder of US airmen in sinking carrier groups during nuclear war.
The group of Orcinus Orca that proliferated in the Aral has become an amusement when small. Bumping into tourists boats or laying out on the salt marshes breathing air and hoping after wounded land life. The extent of their difference between their unaltered ancestors was stark. These Orca would peel the skin back from their skulls to menace curious tourists. Not only could they survive days out of the water, beached on the Oyster-beds but they also had a defense mechanism on land. They could exhale a toxic gas that made any victims in proximity feel lethargic and unable to run. So as these giant beasts would be unable to swim while on beaches and rock bars, they could cause their human prey to stumble and fall or be completely paralyzed as swarms of them hopped on their bellies to tear them to pieces.
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Its unknown how quickly this developed as the selling point of the place was to see these amazing creatures. Its possible that a subtle intoxication of the tourists and staff has let their guard down. From 1968 until the massacre in 1971 when the Air Port was abandoned there were very few incidents, mostly to foreign staff and trainers from India and Sudan who went missing while on the Oyster-beds at night. The day the Air Port was over taken happened suddenly. Larger groups of these косатка, дышащая воздухом had broken the large glass windows and were lounging in the atriums and concourses. Business went on as usual as the young were shot on dragged out with meat hooks. Larger “Air Breathing Orca” косатка, дышащая воздухом were left alone and fed buckets of fish to keep them away from the tourists.
The inevitable happened when a group of female soccer players from Uruguay and the Falkland Islands surrounded a pod of several mothers and their calves and 3 males. The women and their boyfriends were rendered in a halcyon state of amusement until they were set upon. Torn to pieces in front of international news cameras. All at once the groups on the Oyster beds, inside the terminals and on the tarmac began hopping after workers and flight crews. The live game in the restaurant were the first to panic and several of the wild animals broke from their glass enclosures and fled the area while the humans had far less sense. Many seeing the bloodshed stayed to gawk at the feeding frenzy. Somehow the gas these beast exhaled had gotten a hold of 2 pilots on different planes that were so distracted by the scene on the ground during take off… crashed the planes into the tidal pools of the Aral.
Over all the death toll was 330 with 2 dozen missing and presumed dead. The survivors were a group of Palestinian and Japanese terrorists who had been waiting for a chance to skyjack a plane heading to Switzerland and Germany with help of the Red Brigades. This incident was hurriedly covered up by Spetznaz who were able to track the camera crews back to Europe to stage suicides and plant confession notes of the fabricated story about the Air Port in Aral that did not exist. The Aral Sea was allowed to dry up and fishermen in the area continued to turn up missing, boats abandoned and entire coastal cities bulldozed from memory. Now the beautiful Aral is a mostly marshes, rusting ships left in a desert of isolation. The Orca project and massacre is relegated to urban legend as the water quality and depth is no longer able to support large sea life. There are plans to revitalize the region, pump in sea water and bring a new era of wealth and prosperity to this forgotten and desolate chapter in history.