Capítulo 66: Megaproject
Chernov only feels the burden on him become heavy. Of course, without any doubt, he will keep his faith, but it just feels different when someone asks you to do something more big. If there is nothing happens, he will keep his rank of Colonel for his entire life, this is the maximum rank that a special force can reach.
But now, he may need to work hard, do something else, to get to a higher position, even the Secretary or chairman of the country, to help the National Will.
"I have my last question, for years, have you always been here?"
"Yes, I have always been here. Remember what I said? The Soviet Union is me, I am the Soviet Union. From the first day the Soviet Union was built, I was born, of course, by that time I was just a form of energy. As long as the Soviet Union still exist, and our people still believe in communism, I will be here."
"I have no more questions."
The 'National Will' then raised his hand, pointing at Chernov's heart.
"Remember, you are in a world where the myth and god are no longer unreal, we have not met them yet, but soon, we will. I hope you can do as you say, I will give you some of my power. I hope by the day you meet them, you know what you should do, you earn the power from me, and same, you should do the sacrifice for the people and motherland. Long live the Soviet Union!"
Chernov only felt his heart burning, under great pain, he fainted.
In the real world, the room where Chernov stayed. Many were watching it outside.
"Comrade, look at his chest, there is smoke coming out."
"Raise the alert, prepare yourself, we do not know what will be coming out later."
Luckily, it was proven to be a false alarm, nothing came out from Chernov's body. Two men entered the room with their equipment to check on him.
"Major, you should come in and have a look."
Sokolov who was once Chernov's adjutant has now become one of the officers to look after him, as they think he has lived and fought with Chernov for a long time. If there are any slight changes to Chernov, he can spot them.
He walks in front, sees what they saying, and only sees that on Chernov's chest, a symbol form by sickle and hammer are on it. A symbol that they are familiar with. The symbol are just like born on it, can not be scratch down, and also not like scar that are from weapon, it just like it connected to his heart.
"Huh!"
All of a sudden, Chernov woke up. Showing his eyes which turn red as well.
He told the other what had happened to him, and then it was quickly reported to their supervisor and, lastly, to Andropov.
"Will of Nation? Comrade Lenin? Interesting." Looking at the report submitted by his adjutant, Andropov came out with a thoughtful smile.
"How about the prediction by the deflectors? What are the analyses on it?"
"We believe every sentence may be correct and have some based, but when it joined together it become lies, Montage lies. We have checked on the few person names she gave, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Anatoly Chubais. Yeltsin was now the First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee. We see that he is doing quite a good job in that area."
"For Gorbachev, I believe comrade Chairman you know him as well, he is one of the secretaries in the central committee, responsible for agriculture. And last Anatoly Chubais is an economist and academy that worked in Leningrad before the war started. We see his paper, finding he has the ideas of decentralization and privatization."
After listening to the report from the adjutant, Andropov starts to think about it.
"Doesn't matter, just continue to have surveillance on them, I still doubt whether they are the ones who save our country, just feel like they are going to make our country into capitalism after hearing your explanation. Just wait for time, and it will tell us what kind of person they are. Any other things?"
"Yes comrade chairman, here is another plan that came from the joint ministry. It is, I will say very imaginative, I believe you will be interested as well."
Andropov took over the profile and started to have a look at it. On the first page, the big word "Megaproject" was written.
"Our scientist in Plainspire has got us something, about the technology of preventing the nuke attack. They initially built a small prototype and proved that they were doing it right. Now, they are thinking of promoting this technology, the only requirement of it is to have a tall building in the city, with this, a shield can be activated and the taller is it, the more area it can be protected."
"Besides, an EMP can be activated if necessary, they believe it will be one of the efficient countermeasures to the undead, and possibly to other who uses magic as well. To do this, they plan to build statues in all the cities in the Union."
Andropov continues reading the profile on his hand, there are images of how the device prototype looks like.
"If we are going to build statues in all the country, and also with enough height, it will be a high cost. We are lacking man everywhere now, do we have enough manpower to do it?"
"Yes, we do. Our industrialization and entry of our product in the land of the plain has made many of the locals lose their jobs, or more accurately we can also say liberated them from their original status. We mobilize these people to help us build roads and railways, if it is needed, we can send some of them into the country to help with the construction. Plus, with the intense growth of our electronic industry also entering the factory, workers needed can be reduced."
Andropov looks at the proposal, all the statues will be built with the story from World War II and also the time when the undead invasion. He thinks of what happened on the Will of Nation, and also some history of the Union.
"Do you know about the Palace of the Soviets?"
Adjutant was stunned for a second.
"Yes, comrade Chairman. Do you mean we should add this into the plan as well?"
Andropov nodded.
The Palace of the Soviets was a project to construct a political convention centre in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The main function of the palace was to house sessions of the Supreme Soviet in its 130-meter wide and 100-meter tall grand hall seating over 20,000 people. Only the statue of Lenin, it has a height of 75m. If built completely, would have a total height of 416 meters.
The plan first came out in 1924, but due to various challenges, it only started its design in 1931. Yet, in 1931, Stalin's industrialization and collectivization process became a disaster, many only know there were millions of Ukrainians dead, but there were also more in the rest of the Union states. Due to this reason, the site commenced in 1933, and the foundation of the building finished in 1939.
In the end, the plans were shelved, 1941, Nazi Germany invasion on the USSR, and resources that use to build the foundation were now used to support the building of infrastructure and military defence. Engineers that participate in the plan are also diverse in the army. After the end of the war, every part of the country needed resources to rebuild, and Stalin also lost interest in continue building it. Until the Khrushchev era, it was built into a public swimming pool.
"I was just curious, what if we could combine the national will with the shield, does that amplify its power? Or anything else we could benefit from? This was just my suggestion, I am not an expert on it, if it is impossible to be done, then you can just ignore it."
Adjutant think for a while and answer,
"I will convey your opinion to the Ministry of Construction. I believe it shouldn't be a problem, our technology and equipment are different from what they were 50 years ago."
Until now, the proposal on Andropov's hands is not only half, there is another half, with the title of the army megaproject.
"Strategic airlift cargo aircraft? How would this be a megaproject?"
"Requirement from the building of the space army and our space program. It is a replacement of the Myasishchev VM-T. They need a larger aircraft that can carry or even airlift a space aircraft, the Antonov has already got their primary design, and as long as their design has been approved, they can build it out."
"Spacecraft? They can build it now? Incredible."
"Not only spacecraft but possibly others as well. I heard they have another project called the 'Olympiad,' which aims to completely eradicate the remaining undead empire. I'm not sure how it works, but it is certainly not something weak."
"Alright this is from the space program, and what other megaproject from the navy?"
"There are a few. First is the Island reclamation, we are too far from the Karak, Admiral Gorshkov hopes that there are some supply bases in the middle of the route. So even if any of our ships get attacked by any unknown creatures again, at least there will be reinforcement available."
"Second, is the build of aircraft carrier. It is not what not the Kiev class that we have now, but a pure aircraft carrier that can convert the Red Navy into a real blue-water navy like the US has. For this, it might take a few years more, and since we are currently building an airbase in the Karak, perhaps it might not be needed now that urgently."
"There is an original word from the Director of the Black Sea Shipyard. To build an aircraft carrier, I need the Soviet Union, the Central Committee, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industrial Commission nine defence industry ministries, 600 related majors, and 8,000 supporting manufacturers just to build it. In short, it requires much effort to build it, and it can only done by a great country. "
"Last is the ekranoplan, for this, it can be built in a faster way since they have already finished the design. The navy has already built one prototype of it, called the Lun-class, they need more of this to support our future ambitious warfare, or to send more troops to our possible enemy."
Andropov just feels a headache, almost every department is asking him to give them more resources to develop their program. Nowadays, even though he is still the chairman of the KGB, in action, he already started to be in charge and makes decisions for most of the significant events in the Union due to Brezhnev's health situation.
"Approve everything they need, but give priority to the building of the mega statues first, we need first to set up a shield to protect our city since we already know that gods in this world are true, we should not risk ourselves. We will not conduct any military operation before we have done that, tell Koldonov and Gorshkov to be patient."
The Adjutant noted down all his instructions and left the room.
Andropov takes a deep breath, it has almost been a year since they came to this world. The longer they stayed, the more they knew. The enemy army perhaps weak in front of their guns and artillery, but they are more mystery weapons or even what can be called magic are more destructive than that.
Well, it is useless to continue guessing the enemies mystery weapon that can cause mass destructive, improving the strength of themselves is the only thing they can do.
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