Infrastructure: Part One Hundred and Thirty Eight

To the world beyond it's borders, Infrastructure was a riddle wrapped within an enigma shrouded in deviation from the norm. It operated in a radically different manner than the other established kingdoms and states that which it came to interact with. Moreover was the matter of technology. Some items like flintlocks or lathes were understood fairly easily. Others took some time to get one's head around such as steam engines, but a mechanical mind could decypher them quickly enough. Electric machinery was only not seen as magic due to the fact that mana sensitives who had anything to do with it found them to be more magical than other machines. A few books of engineering had passed out of infrastructure and information had also gotten out by other means. But most mysterious of all were Fabricated Items. They were rare even in Infrastructure, only a few of them ever made it out of Infrastructure and those that did even the most cunning of artificers and craftsmen could not make heads or tails of them. The full capacities of the Central Committee and Infrastructure were undocumented

While the fog screen did conceal the Dark Elvish fleet from the eyes of the enemy, it also limited their own visibility. They kept track of the Infrastructural fleet in rough terms through skrying, but that had it's own complications. The level of fog went up over hundred meters over sea level. If a Dark Elvish sailor was to look straight up, he or she would see a white sky and the faint glow of the sun. They would be unable to see the Unmanned Ariel Vehicle which hovered right above them. As it flew overhead, it gave off and detected radio waves. That was how it was remotely controlled and sent back information to it's controller on the hunter. Others were more generalized and were directed at the surface of the ocean while the UAV listened for their reflections.

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