I sent three of my new one hundred meter Shoni-class cargo freighters to odessa for grain. Relying on a subspace to hold all cargo, leaving my people to design a fast and well armed and armored ship. With a double hull design, shields and void containers for increase ammo loads per clip. Plus the new science created tier four durable material greymetal used in it's construction painted black to avoid attention. It can make any pirate feel utterly foolish for attempting raid my shoni-class freighters.
Built for speed and semi submersible, as it travel just below the water leaving a small thin conning tower slicing through the water as it moves. Supported by water magic, underworld's new fleet of shoni-class freighters ship that have a thirty knots cruising speed. When the first videos came out, the conning tower was like a black fin, and such was mistaken for megalodon sightings. As the golden science made greymetal I sold to the world as new spaceship hull material was also a fantastic material for naval ships.
Since my people have no use for the material, they simply called it greymetal for the prime ingrediant and toss it to nato for their new starship hulls. Of course they wanted the black plasmetal, but I was not going to give them that. Besides, earth did not have any Obsidian Iron ore deposits, so no point anyways. Which lead to the creation of the science made durable material to help protect starships from small meteorite damage.
As the three shoni-class freighters head north in the black sea heading for odessa, a orkian frigate hailed them to stop for inspection. Since I already informed the captains to ignore orkian threats and to retaliate if attacked. My captains simply responded that underworld corporation does not accept orkian bullying of the high seas and continue without deviating from their assigned course.
So when the orkian frigate fired a warning shot, my ships retaliated with a volley of anti ship magic ammo missiles and blew the frigate out of the water. All nine missile struck, despite the frantic attempt of the frigate to ward off the missiles, the frigate instantly sunk as it was completely blown to scraps. A single pop up launcher on the fore deck each ship had fire three missiles can be seen from the fancam livestream from the crews. After a quick blink of time I gave each ship fifteen thousand tonage sunk to their names for the shared kill.
The madman of orkia bluster for days about the lost of his missile frigate, but since all my trade towers are next to major nato cities. There was not much he can do but direct his anger at my three offending ships in odessa and plan an explosive welcome when they leave ukrainian coastal defences.
Of course the world was shock at the brazenness of the my three captains. Who was seen at a local pub sharing a round of drinks when they got the good news that every ship was rewarded fifteen thousand tonage sunk on offical duty. Their cell phone sized restriction panels happily chirping fifteen thousand underworld credits was rewarded as battle field rewards to all crewmen an hour after the official posting of their ship's kill.
The world watch in anticipation for the black sea conflict between three underworld transport ships and the orkian black sea fleet that musters out to stop them from reaching turkey with five ships and squadrons of aircraft from their supporting airbases. It took three days to fill three hundred thousand ton subspace storage on each shoni-class freighter with grain.
When an inspector arrive to ask what was taking so long to fill up the small freighters stormed into the control room ask "Why are you still dumping grain into these small freighters, it's been two days!" Then looks at the number of tons of grain already loaded on and goes "what the hell, two hundred and eight six thousand tons!"
The operator goes "Yeah, each transport has a three hundred thousand tons void tech capacity. So we are moving grain from storage quickly as possible. It should take about three to four more hours to finish loading. The captains stated they will leave first light tomarrow. We hate to see them leave, they help keep odessa skies clear of orkian missiles and drones. Oh! There they go again!"
The inspector watch as a popup turret on each transport sound a warning and then shoot off a volley of trailess missiles that shriek off as they go subsonic and realize why the orks call them whistling death. He also realize the transports sounded the alarm and launched and watch the distance explosions over the black sea. All this was accomplish before his own nation sounded their own missile warnings.
He also notice the front and back of the transport had no decking on top, just rounded armor plating rather then the standard ship prow. From his height advantange can see three hazard boxes, on the round nose, behind the conning tower and above the engine. He had first thought the front and back could be use for helicopter landing zones, but the one behind the conning tower seems out of place. But now realize they were safety outlines for popup missile launchers.
It was spectacular two nights of fireworks over the black sea as the odessian people celebrated their safety under underworld corporate protection. For the first time the city had a few good nights rest that improved thier moral. Especially when they learn the ships physical cargo space was a store that had separate areas for civilian products and military hardware.
When the odessian military commander learn of this and made a prompt visit, then with a quick call to his superiors and then return to purchase all the military hardware available on each transport. Each shoni-class transport acted like a mini trade tower, carrying the most popular items for each category to friendly ports.
Ukrainian military personal laugh as they hauled away crates full of buzzbombs, clips with three hundred round void storage, and anti air systems both portable and nine anti air missile vehicles. Plus crates full of thunderbolt drones and new smite nine capacity top loading clips. Plus plenty square nine micro missile ammo filled crates to match the new clip's capacity.
It was a clear blue day when the underworld transports took off under the watchful eyes of satalites and drones. Traveling at normal trade route speed, the three shoni transport slowly reach the limits of coastal defenses. The transports peal off their designated offical route and headed directly into the black sea proper with ever increasing speed.
Live satalites high resolution imaging capture the world as the rotating hull plates rise from the inside of the double hull construction, enclose the middle of the ship, then sunk beneath the waves like nemo's submarine. Then continue to increase speed leaving a long wake cause by it's thin shark fin looking conning tower, it is obvious from the satalite feed that the shoni transports became much faster than the orkian frigates.
The submerge shoni transports dash south for turkey and such breakneck speed that orkian missiles were unable to hit the tiny conning tower above the waves. Any orkian missile who track came close was intercepted by belt fed micro missile volleys. Fighter bombers launched and dropped their payloads to no avail, any thing dropping close was intercepted by micro missiles from the three popup missile turret each transport ship supported.
With each turret having nine launchers, that meant eight one heavy micro missiles could be launched in any given time by the three shoni transports. I told my captains sink a missile frigate for themselves and damage the other two. As for the airplanes, not a single one make it back to their airfield. Once the orkian naval forces limped away trailing black smoke, the three transports resurface and reopen it's deck for the crew to enjoy the sun once more.
Nato recon drones buzz pass the shoni transports and their video feed showed the crews barbequing from many grills and drinking in celebration. The mix crews dancing and basically having a great time, many of which gave victory gestures to the passing friendly drones. Selfies were made, crew fancam accounts streamed for audience from around the world.
Females steamed their day aboard a shoni and how exciting it was fighting off the orks. Pit masters talked about what they were grilling. Even one of the captains chugged a bong to show the youngsters he still got it. Most of the crews were dancing away with hardcore underworld club mixes blaring away that drones with audio could pick up miles away on the open seas.
Drones that flew close vibrated along with the air as underworld tremor devices cause the air to beat with the music. The seas around the shoni transports bubbled as the tremor devices pounded the water with musical vibrations. As the world watch in awe of the crews fancam accounts, while the crews of other freighters curse their life and wish they could work on a shoni transport. Especially while glaring at the young females dancing away to show off on their fancams.
At three hundred million a pop, after the black sea conflict, my people and a sudden influx of naval work to fulfill. With a three hundred thousand ton void storage and forty five knots cruising speed when submerged. Many nations wanted to upgrade their freighter fleets. Not that there was much work to do as the entire shoni transports was replicated in one go once the final blueprint was install. I just did not want to make the world even more jelly if I sold and deliver bunch of new ships at once. So I had to pretend there was production time limit for now.
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After that, I decided to retailate against the orks attack on my shoni transports by invading Sakhalin Island and announcing is at a special military operation to protect the indigenous people. An hour later, three division of scarabs emerge from the eastern beaches and storm ork bases thoughout the island. Within twenty four hours, I had secured the island and began sending the half million orks though transit gates back to mainland orkia.
It was really easy to secure the island, as scarab micro missiles have a thirty mile range. The widest part of the island is only one hundred and six miles wide. The fast moving scarabs were pestering the terrified orks with endless three second volleys of magic ammoed missiles as they race to the western beaches. The other two divisions using loud speakers ordering orks to throw down their arms and surrender and also issuing marital law for all orks to return to their homes. While the indigenous peoples could go about their daily business and requesting to meet with their leaders.
The indigenous people at first was wary, but under the oppression by the ork, came out to see what life had to offer. The more they heard, the more excited they became, especially when they were told the half million orks had already started being deported back to their mainland. They were stunned when they learned they no longer need to pay taxes or send their boys to military training. They were free to leave the island to see the world, and free to come back after being disillusioned by the world's modern culture.
This was a huge incident as many claim I was making things worst. I had already teleported a trade tower to the tokyo trade tower and had it move north to the newly build foundation near the renamed capital of Toyohara. As I perfer not to use orkish names for my trade towers. The orkish military presense was a joke as it was under staff and under equipped for battle. Besides, with roughly twenty thousand micro missiles launching every three seconds, the orkian defenders surrendered after suffering massive losses from the constant bombardment.
Since the Kuril Islands was in range, I ship the orks off those islands as well. I did not want orks living on both sides on my new island. I invite the japanese to recolonized the newly emptied kuril islands. As the madman ranted at my sudden take over, I threaten to invade Kamchatka and Primorsky Krai and the madman shut the hell up. After deporting the orks from Königsberg and Sakhalin Island, he had his hand full trying to find homes for these newly made homeless. He could not afford to handle population from kamchatka and primorsky krai.
I might be an abc to the eyes of my race, american born chinese, and brought up with western ideals. But I was not about to let any one walk over me and my people. I had made sure the madman understood I was willing to annex orkian territory and kick all the orks out, and there was nothing he could do about it. I was not a western softy who only bark when things go wrong. I'll pull out my drone army and make my enemies fear me.
Personally, I did not care what the world thought, if the madman in orkian can invade ukraine with his nonsense. Then I can do the same nonsense and invade orkia, I gave orkia it's own medicine and began a proxy war on their territory. By the time the orks could respond, the Toyohara trade tower had arrived to defend my new territory.
The former detroit trade tower open fire with in energy cannons and began shooting down approaching orkian aircraft. As the orkian pacific fleet arrive for landing operations, a division of scarab unloading their micro missiles to take out their landing fleet thirty miles out. Suffix it to say, no orks set foot on my new territory.
The madman went nuts when most of his pacific fleet was sunk in such a short time. The energy cannon on top of the trade tower sunk the remaining orkian ships before they could escape the three hundred mile range. The orks are stupid, they knew the range of my energy cannons, yet they attempted to invade my new territory.
In the end, the madman of orkia destroyed a underworld corporate funded artic research station made up of researchers from around the world. I had only provided the starter funds for these independant researchers to build a base and live in the artic. Their members would rotate a new shift every month, allowed many researchers to experience living and working in the artic research station. I only help with the start up costs as I thought the independant researchers needed their own non government own facility.
The world condemned orkia for the innocent death of researchers and staff. As the world did the blah blah usual convo with one another, I send in my stealthed delta dagger fleet to drop squad of scarabs on every orkian oil platforms in the artic.
I then gathered my griffon class fleet and blew up every orkian artic base there was with their orbital bombardments as underworld corporation's official response. I was actually upset as a few researchers I liked had died in the attack. The world finally understood my growing fleet of griffon skyships can do. The ork high command cried gallons realizing their nightmare has come true. My civilian ships in orbit can be armed to the teeth, due to their modular design, the cargo module can be switch out for a weapon module.
The sides of the griffon transports now have deeply recessed turrets providing a great deal of protection. Two rows of nine turrets, each in individual irising tubes for additional protection.
The Smite portable shoulder fire missile launcher was a big hit with it's three round top loaded clip. Since the clip is above the shoulder for balance, the user can actually hear when a new missile drops in place and hear the chamber rotate to launch position. It did not take long for their frontline soldiers to request larger missile capacity clips. Not sure I want to arm a terrorist in the future with that kind fire power.
So in the end, I decide on a self destruct layer that activates after three years of service and gave the ukrainian frontliners what they wanted with nine round clips of micro missiles. The troopers say nothing can beat the versatility of micro missiles that can take out any air or ground vehicle with a push of a single button. Since the micro missiles leave no contrails, it is impossible to detect other then the whistling sound when it arrives. Ukrainian operators can take their time knowing their position is hidden and can calmly take out targets in rapid succession.
The ukrainians were learning that they can reload faster by manual mode, they just need to push a lever up with their right hand until they hear a missile drop in place and quickly push the lever back down to close the chamber. Normally it take the smite two and a half seconds auto reload, but a good operator can launch three missiles under six seconds.
It is said in the battle of vuhledar, two ukrainian operaters on separate days had gain nine kills from just one smite clip. While the combat footage shocked the world as my people ramp up production for the western nation's greedy militaries. What can I say, my people make nice toys that makes things go boom. The madman of orkian was once again grunting his this is not fair routine once more with his form of media. The world laugh at the madman's antics while western nations happily filled back orders for the now popular shouldered fired micro missile launchers with nine round clips of explosive fun.
When orkian drones became a problem, I went to me people and came up with the dragonfly drone. A six hour loitering drone that actively hunt enemy drones. I gave ten crates of thirty dragonflies to the ukrainians to test out. When deployed an hour before an offensive begins, the dragonflies clear the skies of all types of orkian drones. Each dragonfly is built around a micro launcher with a top loaded, now standard, smite nine round clip of air bursting goodness.
Seeing the orkish mass artillery causing a headache for the ukrainians, I again went to me people and they came up with the Grudge counterbattery heavy micro missile launcher. With a thirty tubes set in a circular set up to minimize it's footprint. For protection a barrier with stealth restriction added ensures the orks could never find the larger cousins of the whistle death missile that already terrorize the orkian lines. With a ninty mile range, the grudge counterbattery quickly turn any detected orkian artillery into scrape a within a minute after detection.
The grudge counterbattery is set up well out of orkian artillery range and automatically fires when it detects enemy artillery fire. Because of it ninty mile range, the ukrainian push more foreign aid my way for the new defensive counterbattery system. For the first time did not ask for void storage, on it first deployment, it had destroy twenty three artillery systems. The ukrainians had quickly rearmed it, but ended up moving it to another battlefront to find more targets to destroy.
To help clear orkian trenches, I design energy base riot shield base on the roman style curved body shield. Since it was a magic barrier, it was completely invisible and thus see though. With a small hole to shoot from, the ukrainian assault teams now take fewer loses if any. A forearm bracer is worn and project a frontal barrier when activated. With restrictions to improve it's durability, the magic barrier is only about thirty percent stronger than what's on the magic market. But what made a difference was that a backpack fuel cell generator could be use to augment it energy supply. Providing the shield bracer barrier three hours of extended use compared to the standard ten to fifteen minutes the rest of the world had to deal with.
But with underworld corporation quality standards, the shield bracer soon became the number one donation gifted item sent to ukraine. When the first video of ukrainian assault on orkian trenches protected with the new shield bracers, people over the world went to underworld corporate online store. With it's life saving price tag of nine hundred dollars, over a thousand was shipped out the first week of sale as donations around the world pour in to equip more ukrainian assault units.
With a long list of household products and an ever increasing list of military systems popularized in ukrainian combat videos.
Underworld corporation was earn a tremendous amount of moola every month as it sold out civilian and military products. I get alot of flak from geeks and non western nations about underworld corporation's monopoly of technologically advance products.
Most of the geeks are hardcore musk fanatics who claim I possess alien technology as no human on the planet could make such copy proof products. Of course I could not tell them they are partially right, after all I had researchers from ninty six races living inside my underworld subspace. It just pisses me off claiming I had alien tech, as I never consider my people aliens. Besides, they are all better than real worlders who backstab for the own greed.