[h2][b]Commonwealth of Australia Capital, Sydney[/b][/h2]

The Prime Minister of Australia stood at the window of his officer wiping sweat off his face as he looked out at the Bay of Sydney watching the large metal ships steam in and out of harbor as merchants went about their work. He missed the days when he could hop on a merchant vessel and be off to some far away lands but that was before he had given up his life as a merchant and became the ruler of an entire nation. Prime Minister Lockly had pulled his graying hair back into a ponytail to keep it out of his face while he looked over the papers in his hands explaining the situation that the Republic of Van Diemen (Tasmania) was continuing the harass Southern Australia with a dozen airships that they had captured when the British had pulled out of the Oceanic region and now refused to surrender their small population to the Commonwealth of Australia.

As he returned to his desk, he placed down the paperwork and looked at a report showing giving him an update on the war raging in America which had been hindering trade with the country. The outward stance of the Commonwealth was that they frowned upon the war that tore their ally apart, but they had secretly for over a year now been supplying blue coal to both sides. Now that Parliament had finally come to an agreement about supporting the Northern side which was why at this moment there were three cargo ships full of blue coal headed across the Pacific to supply the North with enough coal to hopefully win the war. 

On another note, the Commonwealth did not like to turn their eyes to the northern nations very much but that being said they had sent a couple airships to several nations asking for help building up their military power in exchange for gold and blue coal. These nations included the German Empire, Eisenkreis-Kzechverin Hegemony, The Empire of Japan, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. They hoped the incentive of gold from the new gold mines would help loosen the hands of some of the nations to come to the Land Down Under and help build the growing nation. 

[h2][b] 3 days off the coast of California[/b][/h2]

Commander Francis Philips stood aboard the airship, CAA Redemption as it soared through the sky leading the way for three large cargo ships full of blue coal bound for the American Northern government. He smiled to himself as he rubbed the gold emblem on his chest recognizing him as a fleet commander where only twenty years earlier he had been a English prisoner bound for the colony of Australia to serve out his sentence. Philips had been given the mission to escort the cargo ships to San Francisco before taking the Redemption to the Eastern Coast of America and meet with the Northern Government with new terms for the partnership of their two nations.