Kalistani Major History

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Kalistani Students make their way to Liore
Aim to bring Kalistani Knowledge to help Liore in Strategic Mission
Kaliburg, Ananto
July 20, 4879


A groups of more than 50 engineering students travel to Liore in early July to study with the Liore Navy

An article appeared in the newspaper of the distant Republic of Liore a year ago which described the plans of the Government of Liore to begin reverse engineering Deltarian naval vessels for the purpose of using the plans to develop warships of their own.

"I was reading the copy of Mjumbe lent me by my friend," said Engineering Junior Kyle Sutcliffe-Edwardson, of Kaliburg, "and it said these guys were going to take apart these Deltarian ships piece by piece and use the designs to begin to build their own weaponry. I know that the Regular Navy had acquired a lot of valuable ship building knowledge through reverse engineering. My first thought was 'Cool' and my second thought was 'I bet we could learn something from this!'" Sutcliffe said he immediately began contacting everyone he knew to find a way to get in touch with the Liore Arch Ministry of Defense.

"Our goal, because we couldn't go over in any official capacity, was to arrange person to person visits between Kalistani Engineering students and those working in the Reverse Engineering project for their Defense Ministry," said Sutcliffe. "We met with a very welcoming response, and began to make arrangements to travel to Liore." Sutcliffe said he enlisted the brightest 50 engineering students from across the Republic, and also included a handful of professional naval engineers who work for the National Shipyards, and then worked out an informal year long study abroad program between Kalistan and Liore. "Yes, we'll get credit for it, but the knowledge we bring back from studying ship design and construction from the Comrades in Liore will be invaluable!"

Travel and Per Diem for the visitors have been subsidized by the Socialist Party and several small ship contractors from Kaliburg and Sulari. Additionally, sympathetic operators at the National Shipyards have supplied access to the blueprint archives maintained there, which detail, among other things, the reverse engineering done by Kalistan on Vanukean Ships more than four centuries ago. "These designs are so outdated," said Sutcliffe, "that Vanuku has probably completely discontinued them, but for what they were they were pretty good, and besides: reading a blueprint and building a ship from it which sails and actually serves as an asset to the Navy are two totally different things."

Sutcliffe said he plans on returning to the Republic eventually, and getting a job with the National Shipyards. "I started wanting to build bridges, but really, ship design seems so much more interesting to me, and I suppose it will be more important to the Republic as well."