[RESEARCH] Ashinara

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Ashinara needed to improve it's electrification if it were to keep up it's development. Two equally pressing issues for that were the source of power, and the infrastructure for it. The source - Ashinaran engineers currently knew how to build coal and staol power plants - both resources that were currently limited - especially Staol. The infrastructure - it was almost entirely imported, so far. Both these issued had to be addressed. 

What was an electric generator if not simply a large spinning wheel? And what did Ashinara had no shortage of? Rapid current mountain rivers - many of which historically were dotted with early industry powered by water wheels. All they had to do was put two and two together.

Ashinara starts research on hydroelectric power generation to unlock the construction of dams.

From the limited electrification that already existed, Ashinaran engineers had exposure to the various electrical components needed for electrification. Now they needed to develop plans to produce them themselves.

Ashinara starts research on electrical component manufacture to unlock the construction of electronic factories.

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With the only two connections to the outside world that Ashinara currently had being one undersea telegraph cable to Franerre and one to UKUG, news from foreign fronts were coming in slow, but they did nonetheless. And one of the most alarming news was the first use of mass scale chemical warfare in Orthoria. 

The development of Gas Masks would begin immediately and given top priority.

Additionally, Ashinara would look into fielding chemical weapons of their own.

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RESEARCH STATUS

Dam Research - In Progress

Electronics Factory - In Progress

Gas Masks - Completed

Chlorine Gas - Completed

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The few (in comparison, at least) engineers and architects that lived in the Eyrie Free Territories were given a task to research the automation of food production. After several weeks, Chief Engineer Georgi Marsakov and Chief Architect Venniamin Zotov had the general idea of the direction they wanted to move in - a circular, almost fully automated bread factory, where people would only need to load in the raw ingredients at one end of the huge conveyor system, and offload finished product at the other end, along with general overseeing of the process and periodic maintenance.