Building The Best Ship?

I don't think Skoda would have any real problem building a 21cm gun, though. And there's always Krupp if they can't, though I'd be reluctant to give too much business to a foreign firm.

Speaking of which, if Nicolau actually is able to get the French director working, passing it on to Skoda for production or even setting up a new company to manufacture them might be one way to spur a domestic industry for mechanical computers. If Nicolau is really a genius then twenty-thirty years down the line there might be an Austro-Hungarian IBM. If Austria-Hungary survives that long.

There might perhaps also be an opportunity to purchase the Argo Clock mechanical analogue computer and use the French data and input from Nicolau and Arthur Pollen (if the British are willing to allow him to sell) to improve it. The French gadget is clearly spurring Maximilian's interest in that direction and the spat over the Dreyer Table should be public knowledge, and the Brits were willing to let Pollen sell the Argo Clock to the USN.

Sturmi said:

I've come to the realization that we can speak at least 4 languages and we can still only communicate with about 3/4 of the empire's inhabitants. Oh well. Better than most people...

EDIT: Make that five, at Serbian(mutually intelligible with Croatian if i recall), Slovenian, German, Hungarian, and English. All that's left is Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, and Czech(mutually intelligible with Slovak).

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It has been established in one of the intel reports that Max does not speak Armenian, to his regret:

Unfortunately, you don't speak Armenian and neither does anyone you know particularly well (it's a fairly obscure language) so right now what you have are third-hand rumors that may have gotten a bit distorted in the retelling.

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I may have been a little subtle in indicating he speaks Italian:

The largest local ethnicity are the Italians, and you heard nothing else spoken during your visit to Whitehead.

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I noticed that there was no explicit confirmation that we are using an all-or-nothing inspired armour scheme, and though the intent behind the armour votes was to do so, it was never mentioned in an update or voted on.

@tomwritestuff Do the Alpens have the proper internal bulkheads for it, or do they by default not have them?

[X] You went to look at the worksite on Sunday, and while distractedly thinking of a certain woman of Vienna, you bumped into a ladder and got hit by a falling box of rivets.
-[X] certain snuggly woman

You have a busy week planned – looking at the Viribus Unitis today, the Tegetthoff tomorrow, and on Wednesday, you're going to make a personal visit to Silurificio Whitehead. The 53cm x 7.5m torpedoes are, after all, the most powerful weapons on the Alpen, even if they aren't the main weapon. It will have

[X] 10

torpedo tubes divided among

[X] 2 (tubes are stacked, 3 on bottom, 2 on top)

launchers, located

[X] aft deck, foreward the main battery Y turret aft


It is difficult to classify her attitude towards you as anything less than flirtatious, and you can see why she might be deemed forward. Her behavior was more demure when you had a dinner with her uncle, who seemed extremely curious about your background and how it was that you, as a relatively junior member of the department deeply involved with another project, had some sort of say in how the new aircraft carriers would be designed.

[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.

The two of you walk down the street together. The conversation mostly consists of you talking while Marie sulks angrily.

[X] You tell her that you love her as you love a sister, and you cannot bear to lose her. You will not give that up if you find another woman to love as a wife; you have no natural siblings that you are as close to, and she need not be jealous that some other woman will replace her. You will never love her as a wife, but you will never stop loving her as a sister.
You pass the first evening of All Souls' Week quietly in Trieste, reflecting on the father you never knew. Your mother never talked much about him, but as such a public figure, you could learn as much as you liked about him. You have mixed feelings about that, especially as he was something of a rake.

[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.

Friday, November 1st, 1923
On the train back from Trieste, you look over some very interesting documents. They are design studies for a new cruiser, one that will be fast enough to act as an escort and companion to the Alpen. It is not clear what might be shaken loose from the budget when in order to free up the space for such a thing, but the ship has a curious and distinctive resemblance to a certain battleship. It has a profile that looks much like the

[X] Lyon, with a quartet of quadruple turrets.


When you look back up, Birgit has vanished already. There is a note on the handle of the basket, inviting you to dine with her family two weeks hence, after Tamás returns to Vienna.

[X] You will accept this invitation

"I understand very well that matters are difficult for your company lately, but that is all the more reason you can spare a few of your metallurgical experts," you snap into the phone. "Yes, I am aware of your proposal to the government, I work in the appropriate department to hear of it, after all."

[X] "If additional metallurgical expertise is made available to us, I can convince Skoda to offer your company a new and extremely capable dual purpose 12cm gun for the Prussia class ships with a favorable 'friends and allies' license agreement."

"I have to go shake some sense out of Miss Weber's chemist friend, and after Wednesday's meeting, I cannot imagine he has more to say. Send him off on the train with..."

[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.

"Hmph. I do not approve, Herr Hohenwerfer, but you do have the authority. He is arriving in Fiume on Wednesday or Thursday with postage due. You may travel to retrieve him or wire the past due amount on his passage along with enough for him to buy train tickets." Heinz throws up his hands.

[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.

Personal:
[X] You went to look at the worksite on Sunday, and while distractedly thinking of a certain woman of Vienna, you bumped into a ladder and got hit by a falling box of rivets.
-[X] certain infuriating woman

[X] You tell her that if she cannot behave with a high level of propriety within the office, you will be forced to let her go from the position in order to preserve your reputation. Her relationship with you, such as it is, must remain on a discreet level.

[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.

[X] You will decline this invitation.


Work:
[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.

[X] An almost-untouched design study catches your eye, superficially similar to the Alpen- a quad turret fore and aft, with a triple superfiring over the fore quad. The superstructure is tightly abbreviated, with the last turret oddly far aft to make room for a catapult or two quadruple torpedo launchers a side. In the notes, it is mentioned that the catapult would likely need to be retrofitted in, or if that wasn't possible more secondary battery mounts.

[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."

[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.

[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.

[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.

[X] You were out quite late drinking …
-[X] … with Elizabeth. At some point you asked her to give you her best shot, and she helpfully punched you in the head. (You were drunk, it seemed like a good idea at the time.) She apologized profusely afterwards and kissed the cut one of her rings made.
[X] You tell her that you love her as you love a sister, and you cannot bear to lose her. You will not give that up if you find another woman to love as a wife; you have no natural siblings that you are as close to, and she need not be jealous that some other woman will replace her. You will never love her as a wife, but you will never stop loving her as a sister.
[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.
[X] You will regretfully decline the invitation; knowing your luck you're going to be in Fiume on business.

WORK
[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.
[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.
[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."
[X] Lyon, with a quartet of quadruple turrets.
[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.
[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.
-[X] And also visit Miss Hadik along the way.

On the torpedo side of things, historically one of the only cases of a battleship torpedoing another was by the HMS Nelson during the sinking of the Bismarck. Most torpedo tactics of the era seem to lean towards surprise attack via submarine or launching from a high-speed surface vessel like a destroyer or torpedo boat. So how effective they'll be on the Alpens so the twin quad-launchers on the aft deck give us torpedoes that if need be could be dismounted and reused elsewhere.

Would a more rounded arrangement of the torpedo launchers be preferable? For example the advantage of turret mounted guns over batteries is that the ship doesn't have to maneuver to get its weapons to bare, the problem with a standard broadside launcher set up is that an good ship driver will know to avoid the firing arcs and try to get to where they cannot get to, so the solution it seems is to distribute them for total coverage, like having the wing launchers far enough forward to have overlapping coverage past the bow and then another one on the stern.

I just want to pop in here and say, this Quest is scratching an itch that I've been looking to fill for a very long time.

Tetsurou said:

Would a more rounded arrangement of the torpedo launchers be preferable? For example the advantage of turret mounted guns over batteries is that the ship doesn't have to maneuver to get its weapons to bare, the problem with a standard broadside launcher set up is that an good ship driver will know to avoid the firing arcs and try to get to where they cannot get to, so the solution it seems is to distribute them for total coverage, like having the wing launchers far enough forward to have overlapping coverage past the bow and then another one on the stern.

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Its usually best to keep torpedo launchers closer together so that the spread they create when they fire is synchronised, and so that they don't hit each other.

PERSONAL
[X] You were out quite late drinking …
-[X] … with Elizabeth. At some point you asked her to give you her best shot, and she helpfully punched you in the head. (You were drunk, it seemed like a good idea at the time.) She apologized profusely afterwards and kissed the cut one of her rings made.
[X] You tell her that you cannot handle combining your professional working relationship with a personal relationship of a more intimate nature. She cannot be both your secretary and your lover, and must choose which she wants to be.
-[X] She has already lost the chance to be a lover, so she can either settle for being your colleague and friend or walk out of your life entirely.
[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.
[X] You will regretfully decline the invitation; knowing your luck you're going to be in Fiume on business.

WORK
[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.
[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.
[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."
[X] Lyon, with a quartet of quadruple turrets.
[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.
[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.
-[X] And also visit Miss Hadik along the way.

Right, I'm not clear on the write-in for the cruiser being accepted, and the Lyon-alike has the most (turret) room to grow if up-armed to 21cm guns. And seeing quad turrets being used on other Austro-Hungarian designs is something to encourage.

As far as Marie goes, I've said before it's too late to pull the "I think of you as a sister" card. That went out the door when Maximilian passed on a letter saying he was interested. To fall back on it now comes off as frankly kind of whining and pathetic as well as dishonest. He shouldn't try to have his cake and eat it too. We should leave the choice up to Marie, well except in so far as we don't believe she should be a viable candidate to win the Max-bowl now. Or I suppose if you do, at least please put in a vote that puts a foot down on any drama in the office.

Also that said something will need to be done regarding Brigit. She's kind of the most boring romantic choice, though it must be said she is fundamentally a sweet young woman who doesn't deserve to be toyed around with. TBH she'd probably make the most conventional wife and foster a sweet and supportive home life that would be quite gemütlich, as it were, that Viennese ideal of coziness and comfort. Also it would be good not to infuriate her father and grandfather in breaking it off, as while duelling is unusual in these days it isn't unheard of, and there are other ways for a naval officer to make his displeasure keenly felt (alongside his fists).

Rukia said:

I just want to pop in here and say, this Quest is scratching an itch that I've been looking to fill for a very long time.


Its usually best to keep torpedo launchers closer together so that the spread they create when they fire is synchronised, and so that they don't hit each other.

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For anybody interested here's a neat little presentation on WW1 and WW2 torpedo tactics

adsfhgjlk175 said:

I noticed that there was no explicit confirmation that we are using an all-or-nothing inspired armour scheme, and though the intent behind the armour votes was to do so, it was never mentioned in an update or voted on.

@tomwritestuff Do the Alpens have the proper internal bulkheads for it, or do they by default not have them?

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The machinery, magazines, and torpedo stowage areas are subdivided in a similar fashion to contemporary US ships, not necessarily due to an intention to increase internal subdivision so much as slavishly recycling turboelectric machinery plans - essentially meaning the entire internal arrangement of the citadel - obtained by an Austro-Hungarian agent in Quincy. There was some shrinking of chambers to make them fit better after someone corrected for an amusingly bad shaft length error.

This does not, of course, tell us very much about the ship's very long forward section in front of the citadel.

The ship does have a very massive fluid-filled torpedo defense system (as in contains fluid to the tune of 1/8 of the ship's total displacement); it contains a cylindrical lower bulge, and a torpedo belt subdivided in chambers. I think that points in the direction of paying a lot of attention to controlling flooding and underwater damage, although not all of the suggestions for increasing internal subdivision as a feature of the torpedo defense passed a majority threshold of support.

We could schedule a future vote on the topic.

Cavalier said:

Also that said something will need to be done regarding Brigit. She's kind of the most boring romantic choice, though it must be said she is fundamentally a sweet young woman who doesn't deserve to be toyed around with. TBH she'd probably make the most conventional wife and foster a sweet and supportive home life that would be quite gemütlich, as it were, that Viennese ideal of coziness and comfort. Also it would be good not to infuriate her father and grandfather in breaking it off, as while duelling is unusual in these days it isn't unheard of, and there are other ways for a naval officer to make his displeasure keenly felt (alongside his fists).

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Small note: Max has not yet met Tamás under any circumstances (professional or personal). This may or may not be relevant to your planning on this subject.

[X] You were out quite late drinking …
-[X] … with Elizabeth. At some point you asked her to give you her best shot, and she helpfully punched you in the head. (You were drunk, it seemed like a good idea at the time.) She apologized profusely afterwards and kissed the cut one of her rings made.
[X] You tell her that you love her as you love a sister, and you cannot bear to lose her. You will not give that up if you find another woman to love as a wife; you have no natural siblings that you are as close to, and she need not be jealous that some other woman will replace her. You will never love her as a wife, but you will never stop loving her as a sister.
[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.
[X] You will regretfully decline the invitation; knowing your luck you're going to be in Fiume on business.
[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.
[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.
[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."
[X] The imagined Bretagne reconstruction, with quadruple turrets both forward and aft and a split superstructure surrounding a central aircraft catapult.
[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.
[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.
-[X] And also visit Miss Hadik along the way.

tomwritestuff said:

The machinery, magazines, and torpedo stowage areas are subdivided in a similar fashion to contemporary US ships, not necessarily due to an intention to increase internal subdivision so much as slavishly recycling turboelectric machinery plans - essentially meaning the entire internal arrangement of the citadel - obtained by an Austro-Hungarian agent in Quincy. There was some shrinking of chambers to make them fit better after someone corrected for an amusingly bad shaft length error.

This does not, of course, tell us very much about the ship's very long forward section in front of the citadel.

The ship does have a very massive fluid-filled torpedo defense system (as in contains fluid to the tune of 1/8 of the ship's total displacement); it contains a cylindrical lower bulge, and a torpedo belt subdivided in chambers. I think that points in the direction of paying a lot of attention to controlling flooding and underwater damage, although not all of the suggestions for increasing internal subdivision as a feature of the torpedo defense passed a majority threshold of support.

We could schedule a future vote on the topic.

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This dodges the important question, though- is the citadel flotation-independent? If the answer is yes, we're in buisness. If not... Well, we're gonna need to get to loophole hunting at the speed of reeeeee to get that fixed, or else our long bow could become a major liability.

Well, it is to be stuffed with those compressible and buoyant packing peanuts as well as fluid. I think we're okay on floating.

MagisterAurelius said:

Well, it is to be stuffed with those compressible and buoyant packing peanuts as well as fluid. I think we're okay on floating.

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As long as we can keep all the bits that are supposed to be under the water under the water, more flotation is never a bad thing. Besides, what if the bow falls off?

I am now incapable of not thinking of Alpen performing the classic military maneuver reserved primarily for destroyers where we reverse the entire way back to our home port after the bow has been blown off by torpedoes as demonstrated by HMS Eskimo (F75) - Wikipedia and HMS Express (H61) - Wikipedia

And as for something completely unrelated, should we begin to look into the altered political situation of the Balkans in order to secure ourselves from any embarrassing escapades on that front(*cough cough Serbian Campaign of World War I - Wikipedia *cough cough)? I imagine that Bulgaria would be our best friend as in OTL, having claims on literally all of her neighbors in the form of Dobruzhda, Vardar Macedonia, and Kavala, with no conflicting claims of our own. Greece is outside of our sphere of influence, and will follow France wherever she goes. Romania has the potential to be a strong ally against the Russians if the can properly modernize their army, and they have a claim to boot on Bessarabia, but there is always Transylvania as a problem. Serbia may never stop screaming for the Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, so I don't see any buddy buddy events happening there.

Well, Uncle Franz could always push for the Triple Monarchy solution that he favored in OTL.

MagisterAurelius said:

Well, Uncle Franz could always push for the Triple Monarchy solution that he favored in OTL.

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Alright, for those of us week in double-eyepatch history, can we get the abridged version of this plan?

Personal:
[X] You went to look at the worksite on Sunday, and while distractedly thinking of a certain woman of Vienna, you bumped into a ladder and got hit by a falling box of rivets.
-[X] certain infuriating woman

[X] You tell her that if she cannot behave with a high level of propriety within the office, you will be forced to let her go from the position in order to preserve your reputation. Her relationship with you, such as it is, must remain on a discreet level.

[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.

[X] You will decline this invitation.

WORK:

[X] Nelson, with a trio of forward triple turrets.

[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."

[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.

[X] Send Severino to go pick him up.

Personal:
[X] You were out quite late drinking …
-[X] … with a Slovenian foreman that Elizabeth introduced you to, and have a terrible hangover.
[X] You tell her that you cannot handle combining your professional working relationship with a personal relationship of a more intimate nature. She cannot be both your secretary and your lover, and must choose which she wants to be.
-[X] She has already lost the chance to be a lover, so she can either settle for being your colleague and friend or walk out of your life entirely.
[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.
[X] You will regretfully decline the invitation; knowing your luck you're going to be in Fiume on business.

Work:
[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.
[X] You told him that you had a family connection of sorts higher up in the decision-making hierarchy, and that your informal connection led to you being yanked out to help smooth out an otherwise deadlocked decision, leaving the precise nature of the connection deliberately vague.
[X] The imagined Bretagne reconstruction, with quadruple turrets both forward and aft and a split superstructure surrounding a central aircraft catapult.
[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."
[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.
[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.
-[X] And also visit Miss Hadik along the way.

Though the Bretagne option does assume the 21cm guns are used. If using the 15cm guns it might be better to go with the Lyon option. That seaplane is tempting though, especially if the cruisers are going to be used outside the Adriatic where our land based aviation may not reach.

7734 said:

Alright, for those of us week in double-eyepatch history, can we get the abridged version of this plan?

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Franz Ferdinand felt that the Empire needed decentralization in order to stabilize and make things between the various minority groups calmer. His idea was to turn the Dual Monarchy into a Triple Monarchy by adding a third crown to the overall government and decision making bodies, preferably one of the larger Balkan groups. This plan also included a lot of regional autonomy for the various ethnicities as well. Basically he was shooting for a proto/mini EU type of solution to the polyglot nature of Austria-Hungary.

There's no real clear consensus on what Franz Ferdinand ultimately intended. Trialism, the creation of a third pseudo-independent Crown covering either the South Slavs or the Czechs had been floated for a while, but wouldn't ultimately solve the acute problems of ethnic competition in Bohemia or Magyar oppression of Slovak and Romanian minorities. After all, the Croats already had substantial autonomy in Hungary (though unifying their lands, split between Austrian Slavonia and Hungarian Croatia-Slavonia would be helpful) and the Czechs were the wealthiest, most educated, and most politically free popularion of Slavs already. Neither would it have made Serbia's designs on Bosnia go away or make the Italians more reliable allies or dissuade the Russians from their increasingly blatant embrace of a goal of partitioning the Empire.

So far as I can tell, Trialism was loosing ground in favor of a major reorganization of the Empire. Something based on Aurel Popovici's proposal for a federal union of ethnic communities, or a unified and more centralized state like the Austrian Empire of 1860-1866 were the contenders. In any case Franz Ferdinand was preparing to refuse the coronation in Budapest to avoid taking the required oaths supporting Hungarian unity, and intended an octroi establishing universal male suffrage in Hungary. If the Hungarians resisted he had Conrad's Plan U on hand calling for a rapid suppression of Hungary by the Austrian and Common armies.

I am doubtful the Hungarians would have fought a civil war given their poor odds of victory and likely revolt of the non-Magyar peoples. It's a lot more likely before or without WWI here than in an empire that somehow survived the Great War though.

Personal:
[X] You went to look at the worksite on Sunday, and while distractedly thinking of a certain woman of Vienna, you bumped into a ladder and got hit by a falling box of rivets.
-[X] certain infuriating woman

[X] You tell her that if she cannot behave with a high level of propriety within the office, you will be forced to let her go from the position in order to preserve your reputation. Her relationship with you, such as it is, must remain on a discreet level.

[X] It would be appalling for you to follow in his footsteps, given the cautionary lessons you learned growing up as a bastard yourself.

[X] You will decline this invitation.

Work:

[X] Nelson, with a trio of forward triple turrets.

[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."

[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.

[X] An almost-untouched design study catches your eye, superficially similar to the Alpen- a quad turret fore and aft, with a triple superfiring over the fore quad. The superstructure is tightly abbreviated, with the last turret oddly far aft to make room for a catapult or two quadruple torpedo launchers a side. In the notes, it is mentioned that the catapult would likely need to be retrofitted in, or if that wasn't possible more secondary battery mounts.

[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.

[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quad launchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.

Personal:
[X] You went to look at the worksite on Sunday, and while distractedly thinking of a certain woman of Vienna, you bumped into a ladder and got hit by a falling box of rivets.
-[X] certain infuriating woman

[X] You tell her that if she cannot behave with a high level of propriety within the office, you will be forced to let her go from the position in order to preserve your reputation. Her relationship with you, such as it is, must remain on a discreet level.

[X] It would only be natural for you to spread your attentions and affections as your father did.

[X] You will decline this invitation.

Work:
[X] Eight torpedo tubes, in two quadlaunchers on the aft deck fore of the Y turret.

[X] "It is in the Kaiser's best interests that Austria-Hungary's navy is strong. You cannot count on the reliability of the Italians. Oh? Well, I have proof. I will courier that to you."

[X] Bányász Gergely, the two young engineers can bounce off each other the whole way to Pilsen and back.

[X] An almost-untouched design study catches your eye, superficially similar to the Alpen- a quad turret fore and aft, with a triple superfiring over the fore quad. The superstructure is tightly abbreviated, with the last turret oddly far aft to make room for a catapult or two quadruple torpedo launchers a side. In the notes, it is mentioned that the catapult would likely need to be retrofitted in, or if that wasn't possible more secondary battery mounts.

[X] Travel to Fiume to retrieve Nicolau. You can pick his brain.