Chapter 34: The Great Conference

                                    

                                          
Topkapi palace, Constantinople,  July  1642,
The sultan got bored and was unlucky, as he had to listen to the ramblings of his ministers on the disappearance of the levant to earth, he cursed himself, why them, out of all places, goddamn Levant had been stranded, oh boy, he can't imagine the religious tensions of those self righteous Imams, blabbing about he is not an caliph and other stuff, and an religious panic ensued over the disappearance of the levant, it took hard work to calm the clerics and people now, he had taken an secular tone, an reminder of the Young Turk revolutions, his ancestors faced 40 years prior, taking heavy reforms from an secular viewpoint, the last thing he wanted is an Christian or an Kurdish rebellion after stranded in an another world
They had just come out after an self imposed short term isolation/ neutrality , refusing German requests to invade Parlpadia, the aging but still strong Enver Pasha nagged him to break the neutrality, 
"sir, are you there?" asked an minister waking the Sultan Abdulmejid II up from his swirl of thoughts
"sorry, where we last left?" asked the sultan
"yes, about the construction of an submarine fleet?, it's funding requires about 2 million Lira each?"
"sorry, well, got carried away, as for the project, I approve" said the sultan
"sir?" 
"yes?"
"the Arabs are restless again, what should we do?"
"distract them, or they nag us to death about the Levant and use the chaos to declare independence, we can't repeat Europe in Our literal backyard of Arabia!"
"yes, my sultan, we received some concerning news"
The sultan raised an eyebrow at this "concerning news? tell me, Also, don't, just don't inform me of any religious panics or economic rise or fall"
"we have apprehended 3 spies in Ankara , they are not of our allies, but of someone else, the Gra Valkans" said the minister
"what? You mean the country who tried to plant spies in Constantinople an year prior, I still don't understand why you and the Germans and Austrians getting so worked up about them?" said the sultan
"they are estimated to as twice as powerful to the Soviets, forcing us to ally with our old enemies of UK, Romania , the Baltics, the Ukrainians and more (BTW with British and the German backing the Baltics and Ukraine managed to fight off Soviet invasions) besides, Qua-Toynians dispatched two of Gravy ships when they tried to attack them, this GVE is militaristic, barbaric and racist, and arrogant, more than the Parlpadians, per se, and have power to back it up, they seem to be an exact carbon copy of the Japanese"
"well, we must rejuvenate our land forces, I don't know what you do, complete modernizing our army, those Panzers of the Germans are issued to us, truly wonderful, we even designed an few tanks by ourselves ( imagine their tanks as Sherman-like) , mechanize them, as much as you can, I'll allocate funding and convince the general assembly (Meclis-i-Umumi) to give up, we have been frugal for quite some decades, and you are all dismissed" said the sultan
"yes, sir" the ministers went back
"finally, I can get some sleep" said the Sultan, going back to his bed chambers
Greater Gra Valkas empire, imperial capital Ragna,
The empire had an conference, an crucial one at that, to determine the future of the nation,
"we shall now commence the conference"
"Admiral Caesar, marshal Pontus, their so-called ;11 nation conference ' will begin soon, what shall we do about it? are our 'preparations' complete? " the Meishu started the inquiry with the grand admiral of the eastern fleet, Caesar Roland, AKA 'The god of war'