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// Talking with the Princesses 
// Story: H-44 GERMANIA 
// by Sanguine Blade 
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To Celestia and her Sister, this being was very equine,but also different at the time. His height, pale skin, and his very foreign uniform made him stand out, and this kept the guards on alert.

"Greetings your majesties, I am admiral Hanz Von Ravenmark. I, and my ship have arrived to speak with you on matters important to your kingdom, and all others." The being, now known as Hanz spoke. 

"Very well, but would you care to explain who sent you?" Celestia asked. She already knew the answer, but wanted to  make sure this was no falsehood.

"I was brought here by Aquarius, and was requested by her to solve the problem of uncontrollable piracy that affects all the nations on this world." came the reply, and the diarchs looked at each other before Luna motioned the guards to wait outside during this talk. 

"So you are the one that she sent to hear out our prayers. We are very aware of the problem Mr. Ravenmark, but we currently suffer a problem of naval deficiencies. You see, for the longest time, all fleets did was protect the coasts, and thus were rarely used to fight in open ocean." Celestia spoke.

"As you can see, this caused us to now lay catch up with these pirates, but the fleet is still going through improvements."Luna stated, and Hanz nodded in understanding. "We ask of your admiral Hanz, to assist us in our goal of fixing the problem." She finished.



Hanz nodded after hearing the two princesses out. 'In order for me to help them, i would need to see what I'm working with. Would they agree to allowing me this Aquarius?'

'They will be hesitant, but I can sense that they are willing to do what is necessary to help my champion of the seas.' replied Aquarius and Hanz closed his eyes in though before opening them again.

"I shall help you, but I know that even my ship needs aid in combat, no matter how powerful it is. Thus I need to see these ships that are being worked on, and I will need escorts when traveling. This is all I request and in exchange I will give you some basic inventions of my people to increase your ships capability." Hanz spoke, these "upgrades were nothing highly secretive, just better propellant, shell design, and the most basic metal ship concepts. In this case it was more of to bring the Equestrian Fleet up to a good enough standard that they could actually protect Germania during her mission. They would not be getting details on 20 inch rifle cannons diesel propulsion, aircraft, or anything that he considered German exclusive under patent protection.

"We thank you Mr Ravenmark. Your requests shall be met however, we also request that we be allowed to observe you personally as to make sure you are not wasting our time. I trust this to be agreeable?" Celestia replied. 

"I accept your majesties. On my honor as a German I will carry out my mission until it is completed." Hanz spoke  before bowing.

"That is good news. You shall be given access to the Horseshoe Bay Naval yard for your inspection, as this yard has the most capacity in the event that these designs of yours are deemed of quality to construct ships based on them. You shall stay the night here before heading to the yard tomorrow." Luna replied, and Hanz did agree that he was tired, and took them up on the offer of having an actual bed again.



"Alright do you have eyes on the vessel?" a sailor asked his comrade as they slunk there way into the bay in search of this alleged monster ship.

"Yes, and those birdbrains were not lying when they said the ship was a monster, its huge!" the scout said looking through his spyglass. The other sailor pulled out his spyglass and was in shock of the massive ship sitting in docks. Its black silhouette overshadowing their little dinghy. After a few moments, the duo rowed away back out of the bay to their ship, data in hand, to report to the triplet of Pirate lords that ruled the area. No one was allowed in these seas without their say so, and this was just the scouting portion of a much larger plan,... but that's another story...