The Book Temple

The Book, or Library Temple is one of the most preserved ancient structures on the island.

Back in the 10-11 century, when the Nordic Catholic Christianity tried to gain hold on the island, there were already remnants of the Norse temples destroyed by the King Hrothgar's Covenant and its new republic. His granddaughter Linga inspired a cult based on the idea of her divinity, and the Temple was dedicated to her.

Most of the temples were built in and around the city of Bethel (see map here), which has been changed from a name of a Norse deity most likely Frygaheim, by king Kleist the Bloody who restored the democratic monarchy based on Noachide laws, and eradicated both the Christianity, and idol worship in the form of the Linga cult.

Initially the Book Temple was used to hold astrological tablets on 3 shelves carved into the wall. Many of the shelves and the tablets were destroyed by Christians and then the hordes of king Kleist the Bloody, only to be rebuilt afterward as a national archive. The books contained in the temple are copies of national family and land registers and other related ledgers dating back to 14th century. The originals are stored in the National Archives in Waldihnok.

Yahalma River mountains

The north of the island is studded with these tall peaks, many of them over 2000ft high, which are different from pillars. These are the mountains dotting a Yahalma River valley.

Sheer drops and albatrosses

Unlike the northeastern mountain shores that are known for their tall pillars, the northwestern shores are simply 3000 ft tall, sheer drop precipices. Their height means that the sunset starts very early in the day. This cliff is dark after 2:30 pm on a balmy winter day. Just like the pillars, many cliffs have been settled.


Towards the top there are enough ledges to support the North Atlantic's only albatross population.

The largest natural tunnel

This huge natural tunnel is located on river Glada (golden, in north germanic languages), between the capital and the end of the Chasm-Canyon gorge.

As I have described in the post about the Emerald Valley, when the Glada Lake emptied catastrophically, its waters bored their way down the new path for a long time, long enough to form holes in the landscape, natural arched gateways to the Valley, and this natural tunnel. As you can see the opening is an irregular oval, in the foreground the tunnel is more round, and then becoming a flattened oval. The tunnel is about 200 feet long and 50 to 140 feet high in places.

Natural hot water waterfalls issue from many locations on the tunnel walls, and the largest spring has been harnessed into the pipes and ducted into the nearby geothermal power station.

The hole in the ceiling has been drilled in the early 1930's.

Intro to the pillars

Offshore the eastern half of the northern coast is dotted with these pillars. The pillars are not a product of erosion, and they do not have the horizontal stratification so typical of stacks and pillars throughout the world. The structure rather suggests a fast and recent extrusion as part of a geological uplift.

There are more than 1,300 pillars on or off the island. Here are the pillar statistics:
60% of the pillars are offshore
20% of the pillars are located on the coast or close to the sea.
85% of the pillars average 400-600 m. high, 20 m. wide, and less than 200 sq. m. on top
1 pillar has an area of 2 square miles, and it is the most distant from the island
205 pillars have been settled by carving or construction of residences into or on the pillars themselves
146 pillars are more than 800 m. high
12 pillars are slimmest - only 4m. wide and over 110 m. tall

Turbocharged fanprop

The unique turbofan prop engine illustrated below is a product of King Yarl's incessant work on many projects. The projects always overlapped. The King also saw the engine applied in his country's own aircraft designed from scratch. (Unlike the Vandal aircraft, which use structural concepts developed jointly with US manufacturers) These indigenous aircraft comprised unusually fast and maneuverable Coast Guard patrol-gunship planes, a large attack gunship plane and a utility heavy lifter plane.

The engines are unique because they preserve efficiency of a turboprop at any speed and altitude, allowing for controlling individual speeds of turbines, propellers, and propeller pitch. Another unique feature of the engine is having an equivalent of a turbocharger and a variable afterburner.

How the MHD (Plasma) propulsion works

The MHD (Magnetohydrodynamic, or Plasma) propulsion employs a very simple construction with minimal moving parts. The only moving parts are less than 20 valves needed to occasionally control auxiliary power compressor, or the flow of cold gas to the engine jacket.

The propulsion is used solely on the Vandal project aircraft. The gas is usually xenon. The liquefied gas flows under its own expansion-generated pressure through the chamber jacket, where it undergoes heating and further expansion, and enters the electric ionizer, whose function is very similar to the conventional fluorescent light. The ionized gas is then split into symmetrical injectors and fed into the chamber head (the bulbous cavity). There the gas is ionized further by the X-ray ionizer into a complete plasma state.

The extremely large AC voltage gradient of specific field characteristics and frequency is continuously applied between the chamber head and the chamber nozzle, and this results in simultaneously pinching and pumping the plasma into an extremely narrow, tubular flow path. The Electromagnetic ionizer conditions the plasma, pinching and accelerating it further, imparting speeds over 3-4 Mach.

The aircraft's power is generated by channeling of some of the jacket-heated gas into a turbogenerator, and returning the gas into the injector feeds. During the cold starts the aircraft uses a dedicated storage battery to power the ionizers. Hot start is possible after the chamber standby, wherein the chamber has not received gas flow, is flooded with cooler gas and the electric ionizer is at low power.

The plasma generation characteristics of the engine dictate that speeds below 300-400 are unsustainable. There is a moderate difference between fuel usage at cruise or maximum speed. In order to maintain low speed, only one chamber is used, and the remaining chambers ( 1, 2 of 3 in Vandal T-22, 3 of 4 in Vandal XB-70) are shut down, or put into a standby state.

More specific details are never disclosed by the DOD and Koborg Turbomotors Propulsion Research Center in Kingstad. The Koborg Corporation and the MHD engine are the creations of King Yarl.

Combat aircraft procurement with Air and Naval aviation

The national defense has developed all of its aircraft jointly with the US DOD, according to the Joint Defense Development Agreement. Vandal project aircraft were totally re-engined for entirely different propulsion system, and lengthened to accommodate heavier weapon loads, and higher capacity tanks for containing noble gas.

Conventional jet propelled aircraft were mostly derived from US DOD canceled aircraft.

		MHD	propulsion	Jet	propulsiuon
		Air Force	Navy	Air Force	Navy
Vandal A-12	attack, bomber	YES
Vandal SR-71	recon, bomber	YES
Vandal T-22	bomber, attack	YES
Vandal F-111	attack, bomber	YES	YES
Vandal XB-70	bomber	YES
Vandal F-104	fighter		YES
Vandal A-5A	fighter, attack		YES
F-4MGN Magnum	fighter, attack				YES
F-17F-Fiend	fighter				YES
F-23BGN-Fury	fighter			YES
F-29-Fang	fighter			YES

The MHD-plasma propulsion is used mainly in the heavier, longer bomber aircraft F-111, F-104 and A-5 are heavy attack planes, which can also serve as bombers, and are the only MHD aircraft procured by the Navy.

The Navy uses two conventionally powered craft in the general fighter role, F-4 Magnum and F-17F Fiend.

The Air Force acquired different aircraft with conventional propulsion, F-23 Fury and F-20 Fang. These aircraft are usually deployed overseas. The Air Force has stopped using these aircraft for home and coast patrol, relegating the duty to the purpose-built turboprop aircraft developed independently of the US DOD.

The Air Force does not have any conventionally powered bombers. All its bombers are MHD powered, and are deployed at home and in Belize, as part of a program to deter any threats from Cuba.

Details of the Joint Defense Development Agreement

Since his takeover of the government, King Yarl has foreseen the need for independent development of the national defense. As a part of the huge multi-billion load package (that has been finally paid back in full in 1997), in 1973 the King, on the behalf of the National Government, has signed the agreement thereby Attland Defense Authority became entitled to purchase leading tactical defense weapons, and subsequently to the continuing growth of the experience and progress in military industries, to develop new weapon platforms that may be based on the purchased originals.

Thus the National Naval Force received:

• the license to jointly build 4 Missouri-class battleships, with unlimited number of independently developed ships based on the class
• the license to build, and then develop unlimited number of Truxtun (T-class), Long Beach, Bainbridge, and Virginia class ships
• the use of facilities and testing of hostile country look-alike ships, which resulted in development of Udaloy, Krivak, and Sovremennyy class ships

the National Air Force received:

• the license to jointly build, and then independently develop the SR-71 and YF-12, F-4, F-104, XB-70, A-5A Vigilante, F-111 platforms
• the license, buy and independent development rights to develop future high-performance and stealth platforms, which later became F-19. The use of US test facilities at AF bases Beale, Edwards, Groom Lake and others led to unconfirmed rumors of unidentified aircraft and objects in these areas.
• the license to use US Air Force bases for performance and development testing of aircraft which are not subject to the agreement
• the use of facilities and testing of of hostile countries look-alike aircraft, which resulted in development of a platform resembling the Soviet Tu-22
• the US receiving the right to unspecified use of the Attland's independently developed Vandal (plasma-propulsion) military aircraft, which has been exercised by employing Attland pilots in USAF-marked aircraft.

The main guidelines on foreign policy:

The government certainly likes to observe these points along the lines of foreign policy:

• keep a cool stance on diplomacy, military cooperation (not including absolutely necessary military cooperation on defense) with countries having socialist governments
• not to rely on the principle of good will reciprocity with governments other than US, Canada and Japan, preferably purchasing services or access when required
  
• no weapon sales to countries, except non-sensitive components to US and Israel
• enter into agreements to most favorite foreign trade status not attached to political conditions
• avoidance of membership in international organizations
• no joining of international nuclear energy treaties since having no nuclear reactor breeder program
• distancing from any permanent diplomatic relations with Russia
• maintaining separation from Royal foreign policies (example here)
  

there are more, but I haven't found them to be clearly formulated

How Tony Blair lost his job

Somebody who's privileged to read SCS newsletters told me about the real reason Tony Blair resigned so quickly. First, it was the operation PRINCE PAWN, and then WEST SPORTS. The US friends of Blair government could lo longer find a reason to encourage the pain to go on.

The Blair government led to:

• the loss of Gibraltar within few hours of early morning
  
• the loss of the ECHELON and other surveillance installations
• the embarrassing capture of British and US technical personnel (with the US servicemen being released a week afterwards)
• the shoot down by Attland's Phantom 4MGN (Magnum) and Vandal 107 plasma jet fighter of the entire squadron of 20 jet fighters
• the loss includes the loss of brand new Harrier GR9
• the loss also includes the brand new Eurogihgter Typhoon,
• and the loss of the only F-15s in the RAF, where one was allowed to limp back (inflicted limited damage on purpose) to Britain smoking badly and leaking fuel without firing a shot or a missile
• the loss of Cyprus
• the loss of the surveillance and other NATO radio installations there
• embarrassment to the US and NATO

I think there is more to the list :-)

Interesting Koborg lawsuits

Throughout the last 10 years Koborg Corporation has also made good money through winning or settling several lawsuits. One of these is the famous Microsoft lawsuit, where Koborg has ascertained that the Microsoft server-router traffic that is usually handled by Koborg Photonics Network Solutions' indexing servers at ICANN, rerouted connections to Microsoft Exchange and .net servers, SQL servers, causing revenue loss, congestion, and longer response time throughout Internet, and especially e-mail. Koborg won more than $23 billion settlement.

In a similar lawsuit, Koborg sued Google for using ad, search servers, and performing active and archived URL hashing, agreement to use Koborg Photonics' Network Solutions servers for search and hashing. Koborg and Google reached an agreement, wherein the oonly specified details are that Google will employ Koborg Photonics servers for serving Adsense, Adwords, and Webtrends.


It is virtually unknown why Koborg sued Apple, inc., but the good guess is that the touch controls and display lighting and wiring somehow infringed on Koborg Photonics technology. Apple settled by paying unspecified license fees, n addition to agreeing to use Koborg technology in high-end iPod and iPhone touch pads and displays.

I bought a Luxon and I am learning UCICS

I am buying an incredible laptop. It is about an inch thin, very lightweight, and it is not electronic. Though it is Photonic, or quantum. Finally, I shelled out 2 royal crowns and 230 darlings, (2.23x$1210) almost $2698 for Luxon F-YON. It has a two way monitor, and a keyboard area made of the same kryptonite-embedded polymer interactive surface, that is turned into the third screen.

The keys can luminesce into any 4 of Attland's writing system character sets, Japan's Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji, as well as English, Hebrew, Korean, all Germanic languages, but not Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic. I love downloading the whole newspaper in a fraction of a second, and then read it at a coffee shop, propping it up on the table just like above.

Graet thing about it that there is no need for backups - quantum computers don't crash or lose data.The biggest minus is that it is impossible to enjoy the Photonics system on other PC platforms. Photonics can support Windows with all its applications, but not the other way around. The UCICS system and the Photonics have set up and programmed the PC so it cannot be activated outside the market area - that is why it is nearly meaningless to buy and resell the Photonics PCs in countries that are not on the Attland's preferred trading partner list.

My Luxon has only one type of PC interface - three USB sockets. All other sockets are coherent Photonics outlets. I can designate a part of my 140 GB memory for my favorite XP Home edition, a part for Linux, so I can learn and practice, and still have tons of memory left for movies, presentations, and Wall Street Journals.

I understand that Photonics PCs have no conventional CPUs. There is a block of kryptonite-precision impregnated metal-organic polymer, which is zapped with 24 volts, oscillates at 3-4 Gigahertz, and becomes a 5- or 8 dimensional simultaneous RAM-ROM-CPUs, each processing or storing data in instantly created arrays. The only other photonic materials are the I/O interactive surfaces - the thin sheet that is the screen, and the keyboard. The screen is also a touch sensor, and a video sensor of dimensions designatable by the user.

The quantum system requires no machine language, scripts or plugins. The photonic CPU comes embedded with the 5 Koborg Photonics languages that comply with the Attland's UCICS (The Unified Communication, Information and Computing System)

LUICS ( or Linguistic User Interface Command System) Logic-code Uniform Interface Command System is an U6 uniform (OS) language that incorporates the following sublanguages:
AIPL – Artificial Intelligence Programming Language - real-time adaptive, scripting, self-writing program, also used as a development tool.
ICICL – Information and Computer Interface Command Language – incorporates a network OS and netbios functions, it is the primary interface with other network formats
SLATRAN – Symbol-to-Logic Array Translator- used by the OEM to make changes in processing and memory of optronic (Photonics) and electronic interfaces, i.e., translation of databases and other operating systems, debugging, and seamless interfacing with the Photonic environment.
MACOL – Machine Access Object Language - an engineering language that is used to upgrade a I/O, thin client type of Luxon computers up to a full PC or even a server.

Koborg's Luxon ($1,300 for D-YON, the cheapest model), as well as its crystal-embedded polymer display technology licensed to Optar, and which has been marketed as Optar Raylynd ($1379) are uncomfortably expensive, but, hey, what other monitor would let you see through it, or display a different screen on its flip side, or have a perfectly placed control panel buttons on its face just the way you like it, or have the 3-D clicking, or , which you might only dream of - assign a section of the screen to serve as a web cam (Luxon E-, F-, and G-YON)?

Or this projection computer - it's great for presentations, and it fit into a pocket. Everything in it is Koborg Photonics - from touch-sensor projector keyboard, to a coherent laser display.

Brog Industries Structure

Brog Industries started back in 1930's as a concrete and tar manufacturer in Brog City. Preserving their independence from both royal and venture capitalists, the private company used their royal estate permission to expand, and soon developed one of the earliest petroleum production companies in North America. During the turmoil of the socialist rule 1948-1967, the company was nationalized.

Soon after the King Yarl's return and his restoration of the national political and economical system, Brog Industries was privatized, given a small rescue loan, and soon allowed to sell stock. The company together with the royal family's Koborg Corporation was the first to buy back the stock, streamline the operations into pure manufacturing, and by the year 2000 becoming a trillion-dollar, extremely profitable operation. The keiretsu-like company uses Attland's independent Intercontinental Bank, and, unlike Koborg Corporation's multi-corporate structure, is composed of these division-like entities:

• Waste Processing and Recycling
• Steel Works
• Specialty Metals
• Basic Chemicals
• Paints, Plastic and Polymers
• Refined Chemicals
• Heavy Machines
• Automotive
• Shipbuilding
• Aerospace Structures
• Fibers and Rubber
• Liquid Gas
• Cement and Glass
• Magaproject Construction
  

The headquarters are located in the city of Brog, in the building the company built wholly with its own manpower and materials. I visited the building, which looks like like the Communist monument to the Space Exploration, except it is extremely futuristic, and overhangs the coast.

The Emerald Valley, The Valley Gates

Long time ago the area of the Emerald Valley was a lake. When the Glada mountain lake emptied catastrophically, the rushing waters flushed the lake and together the waters ran off further along Glada and Yahalma rivers, causing changes to the confluence of the rivers at their joint mouth in what is now Miklasgard City. The lake bottom became a fertile ground for the new Emerald Valley. When the enormous amount of water rolled down the Glada river, it encountered the ridges rising out of the lake and joining the mountains. The waters punched these holes, and also chiseling away some of the rock, forming the Valley Gates, which are also the real gates to the Valley and its fertile wetlands.



Least to say, besides emeralds, sapphire, diamonds (the root of the Yahalma river's name) and gold (what Glada river stands for) titanium, tungsten, and coal, the Valley is one of the most fertile regions of the world, hosting most unusual selection of crops - grapes, apples, pears, peaches, berries, as well as Attland's exotic vegetation and gourmet crops - coffee tree; vanilla, balm and iris orchids; meal (muel) tree; and nectar lily.
Besides exotic trees, the Valley is rich with most unusual views and sights, like these unique river fields, whose shape and fertile soil resemble many river deltas. These river fields are actually medium-sized, perfectly flat islands that are used for crops. Most of the Glada and Yahalma river lengths split into these fields, contributing to the riches of the Valley.

On the Yahalma River side there is also the mysteriously exotic Cycad Valley, rich with the prehistoric cycad trees

I am going to post more photos and art of the Emerald Valley, espcially about the temples and other strange formations.

Obama reacts to Chancellor's iron hand principle

Obama reassured the Arab world during his volunteered interview: "The US is not your enemy."

Of course, since the Arab world is well aware of Attland's staunch support for US endeavors in the Middle East, and Chancellor Dolgrynd's statement that "there will be no compromise nor appeasement nor dialog with the barbaric Islam that the West has been bullied into referring to as the Religion of Peace.

The Security Commission Service

Otherwise unofficially known as SCS, because there are no other official names to Attland's intelligence and security agency. Unlike CIA, FBI, FSB, SDECE or KGB, the incognito agency has never been officially discussed. It does not have an address, a publicly known building, and nobody knows its governmental title. What is known and deduced is that it is a service of the Security Commission, an equivalent of the US National Security Council.

King Yarl must have created the service, because the Security Commission is one of the few government bodies that never undergone restructuring. Nobody knows most of its members. Chancellor Dolgrynd is known to have been the member, but only due to the released information that introduced him as the new chancellor with "plenty of experience in investigating irregularities in domestic and international finance."

SCS does not have uniforms, nor official service personnel with titles linking them to the SCS. Whenever a security-related arrest is made, the warrant language and the arresting police officers cite "acting under the authority of the National Security Law."
The headquarters, training and operations center are all based somewhere up north, and also very likely in the Maarheinigt's own private city.
SCS has been deduced to have strategically leaked major intelligence to the world press, thus waging the most efficient information war.
When Attland was almost in a cold war with France, SCS somehow got hold of compromising information that drove Pierre Beregovoy to suicide.

Using what must be a leading edge UCICS surveillance methods and nano-technology-based robotic bugs, SCS was capable of penetrating most sensitive offices of Russian, British, German, Israeli and other governments, and has used the information either to impart surprise leverage to Attland's foreign policy or to leak the information that causes damage from within a foreign power.

Often preserving the American Cooperation Treaty, SCS jealously protects or sides with US's national (read conservative) interests by offering free info or advance warning to the American security agencies when they could not otherwise detect the problem themselves. Just as in the Harold Nicholson father-son intelligence spy case.

A US Defense Intelligence Agency officer unofficially estimates that SCS provides the US intelligence community about 40% of tips, sources and other intelligence data.