[center][b][h1]SALUTE TO THE FALLEN[/h1][/b][/center]

[center][u][b]Late October[/b][/u][/center]

[u][b]October 16th[/b][/u] 
[list][*]The Machinengunnen-10 machine gun was based on the successful Havka gun of the Empire of Saurilia, at least on paper. After creating the Hadukken company outright in 1910, the company took the design of the Havka gun and improved it, reducing its weight by lightening and simplifying the action and substituting components made with high strength alloys. The MG-10 was unique in that it was not created by government ordinance but rather by sheer will and testament of private designers. The initial batches--240 of them--reached the Blutlander Army just as tensions with neighboring Tyro-Antari reached a new high.

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[i]Triple MG-10's with air cooling slits on a Hadukken test site, 1910[/i][/center][/list]

[u][b]October 17th[/b][/u]
[list][*]In the [b][color=lightblue]Republic of Staratia[/color][/b], Ferdi and Leopold Industries finish their initial designs on the LF-75mm Cannon. With a completed blueprint, Ferdi and Leopold only needed the go-ahead for production to begin. I is a thoroughly conventional gun, being a modernized version of Ferdi's earlier LF-72mm gun, but fails to incorporate any recoil system other than a partially effective spade brake, and fires a 12-pound projectile. Ferdi and Leopold Industries could build these for a price of $4,800 a piece and a maximum of 47 pieces a month at their [i]Ferdinand Plant[/i] in Northern Staratia.

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[i]Blueprints of the LF-75mm written in Mathiu Leopold's native Antarian[/i][/center][/list]

[u][b]October 18th[/b][/u]
The [i]Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen or K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen[/i] is established in the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Antarian Empire[/color][/b]. The Imperial and Royal Aviation Corps, it's based at the [b]National Flight Academy[/b] at Ipswich and officially graduates twenty men--many of them from lowly ranked infantry brigades with high aptitudes and brazen attitudes into the the [i]Jagdfliegerkompanie.1[/i], the 1st Fighter Squadron.

The men are eager for war, but the Tyro-Antarian Empire must first decide the fate of the [i]Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen or K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen[/i]

[b][u]Fate of the Imperial and Royal Aviation Corps[/u][/b]
-- [b]Attach it to the Imperial Army[/b]: The IRAC will exist as an extension of the Imperial Army, acting to aid in maintaining the supremacy of ground forces and devoting research in that particular direction.

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[i]Proposed symbol of the Imperial Army's Aviation Corp[/i][/center]

-- [b]Attach it to the Imperial Navy[/b]: The IRAC will become a joint naval organization, blossoming into theories of naval aviation, though with squadrons--for now--still able to conduct over land operations.

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[i]Proposed symbol for the Naval Aviation Corps[/i][/center]

-- [b]The IRAC Will Exist Independently[/b]: The Imperial and Royal Aviation Corps will be a standalone organization that will develop technologies at it's own pace, have it's own command staff and operational strategies and tactics.

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[i]Proposed symbol for the Independent Aviation Corps[/i][/center]

[u][b]October 19th[/b][/u]
After several days of deliberation, despite efforts to put a Zellonian fleet together to strengthen Leylon and relieve Surayanna, a fleet is still [b]not[/b] dispatched. [b]Zellonian Naval Bureau[/b] admits that due to paperwork errors and fleet logistics in an admiral being appointed of an established fleet. General Matthew raged, citing Zellonian bureaucracy as the reason why Zellonian colonists were dying while the Zellonian fleet sorted out paperwork.

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[i]An unnamed Zellonian military harbor, circa 1906[/i][/center]

[u][b]October 20th[/b][/u]
On October 20th, word reaches of the [b]Surayannan Attacks[/b] that occurred a week earlier. The Surayannan rebels, declaring themselves the [i]Oiuirati[/i], seized the military garrison of Zellonian Surayanna--seizing the stockpile of ZLR-012 rifles and a handful of grenades. The Surayannans however flee the [i]Oiuirati[/i], despising them almost as much as the Zellonians who landed only weeks ago.

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[i]Oiuirati soldiers, circa 1910[/i][/center]

The [i]Oiuirati[/i] control over twenty percent of the island, with enclaves situated on the coast home to coast watchers--constantly on the look out for Zellonian ships--and hidden bases where the [i]Oiuirati[/i] strike out at night to attack Surayannans at their own will.

[u][b]October 21st-October 31st[/b][/u]
The last week and a half of October, 1910 was encapsulated in a small piece of rural land in the Meung Dominion. The Xianese Republic, under the guise of President Wan-Yen's idea of a "free and broad minded, modern nation," was now fighting for it's life. It was victory or as General Chi Haotian wrote in his journal: "[i]We will either match as victors, or kneel as servants[/i]."

The [b]1st NRA Army[/b] marched east, with the very same General Chi Haotian leading them. Their objective was the city of Dading. General Chi Haotian anticipated a tough battle for the major trading hub, with freshly mobilized Dominion troops dug in and waiting. The march itself was grueling, with very little in the way of paved roads and a populace that was apathetic to who was ruling them. It was poverty either way.

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[i]Soldiers of the 1st NRA receiving news from home, October, 1910[/i][/center]
After six days march, the [b]1st NRA Army[/b] reaches the city of Dading, a home of almost thirty-one million people. Without defenses, General Haotian is shocked. Wilder still is that there is no army protecting the great swathe of land. On the last day of October, General Haotian and the [b]184th Infantry Regiment[/b] become the first to enter the city of Dading. It's provincial governor had fled northeast toward Dominion controlled territory. Immediately after, General Haotian wrote back to President Wan-Yen on the capture of the primitive industrial complex deep in the heart of the city. The [i]Wutang First Complex[/i] is tooled for mosaics and glassware but with a few rudimentary changes could have rifles or even large artillery pieces churned out starting in December.

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[b]BUDGETS[/b]
- [s]STARATIA[/s]
- TYRO-ANTARI
- JOURAN
- ZELLONIA
- XIAN
- [s]SAURILIA[/s]
- SELJUK