Michael finally seems to realise that he is Doomed, as does Ritchie, although Ritchie seems accepting of his fate.
In the case of Grand Admiral Schmidt, it’s not the state military funeral happening, it’s all the spooks from the different agencies that are only known by their initials, numbers, or combination of them attending and poking around. Wouldn’t surprise me they try and open the casket or coffin just to make sure that there is a body in it and it is actually the Grand Admiral.The next funeral unless I missed it should be Grand Admiral Jacob von Schmidt and depending on his wife and daughters it should be a grand State Funeral with the representatives of the World's navies at the highest levels attending.
IOTL former President Truman planed a very elaborate State Funeral but after he died his wife Bess scaled it down to a more intimate function with just a Lying in State in the Capitol Rotunda.
The true purpose of a state funeral is to conduct diplomacy and to make sure the bastard in question is actually dead. Schmidt's funeral will have an unusually large contingent of military & naval attaches (military intelligence), in addition to the ambassadors. Their civilian counterparts, usually the cultural & commercial attaches, will not have such a convenient excuse to attend, so they'll probably wait for conformation and hoist a drink or two in thanks that the old bastard is finally dead.In the case of Grand Admiral Schmidt, it’s not the state military funeral happening, it’s all the spooks from the different agencies that are only known by their initials, numbers, or combination of them attending and poking around. Wouldn’t surprise me they try and open the casket or coffin just to make sure that there is a body in it and it is actually the Grand Admiral.
And having a strutural weak point designed into the armour of a tank... hmm
That would be delicious.Kat's goal should be to stop the spread of any potential violence and go after public corruption (Anyone thinking that Franz Josef Strauss is part of the corruption?).
Rheinmetall & Krupp suits: "So, you've mapped the entire panzer. Any ideas on how, or even if, we can get an auto-loader to work in one?"There was also the auto-loader proposal that Suse and her team had been working on since they had finished mapping every square centimeter of the Panzer VIII Leopard that had been lent to them. Over the prior weeks they had reached the consensus that every other attempt so far had gotten it wrong because they were trying to work within the current design of the Panzer VIII’s turret. The question had eventually been asked; Why were they doing that?
Rheinmetall & Krupp suits: "What do you mean?"That had resulted in a drawing of a redesigned turret that had literally been done on a napkin with ballpoint pen over lunch at an eatery in Charlottenburg frequented by Students from the Mechanical Engineering Department. Different types of shells and cased propellent charges in an automatic magazine that was computer controlled. The Commander and the Gunner would be seated on either side of the gun breech with an armor bulkhead between the crew and the magazine. The shells and charges passing through an automated hatch and the case was ejected out of the vehicle after every shot. “Having the doors blow off” was sort of the point of the new design.
Rheinmetall & Krupp suits: "An entirely new turret. The Heer is going to have kittens. They really want minimal changes to the panzer and, unless they sign off on it, there is going to be hell of a fight to get the funding to upgrade the Leopards."There was however the question of selling it to the Heer. At that point, Suse discovered the real reason why she had been selected for the project in the first place.
Franz Josef Strauss and his obsession with eradicating "lesser crimes" has allowed the far more serious and actual crimes to thrive because the police are too focused on dealing with his crusade.Kat should know by this time that organized crime will never go away but it can be limited so that ordinary law abiding citizens are not affected.
Kat's goal should be to stop the spread of any potential violence and go after public corruption (Anyone thinking that Franz Josef Strauss is part of the corruption?).
Sweet!We need to to talk your father into getting the Bohemian Army to OK a trial of this design."
Suse: "Wait... What?"
Or has he?“I wanted to talk about whether or not we should get married” Michael said and saw a dumbfounded look on Birdie’s face. In that instant he knew that he had probably just made another mistake.
I thought of that as well, but you are dealing with the youngest child, the one who manages to get away with the most. Also, do you really want to bring Andrew into this conversation? I sort of had him butterflied just to avoid the resulting flame war if I had.I was about to call B.S. on how Billy acted because IOTL there was in no way that Prince Philip would have remotely tolerated such behavior from the OTL sons but then I realized that ITTL Billy is the long hoped for son after a string of daughters that yes it is very possible that Billy is getting away with things that the OTL Charles, Andrew, and Edward couldn't have.
He really is part of the "Easier to just have him never exist" list for everyone writing in the 20th century now huh?I thought of that as well, but you are dealing with the youngest child, the one who manages to get away with the most. Also, do you really want to bring Andrew into this conversation? I sort of had him butterflied just to avoid the resulting flame war if I had.
Yeah, Margot having issues with Kat being raped as a pubescent minor, having to be grilled by a group of men why she shouldn't be forced to keep the asshole's spawn it to the point she bit her lip bloody, and Margot having an issue with that to the point it comes off that she was on the side of that group of men?Perhaps the most surprising aspect of all was the things that Marie’s mother had done that Oma Blackwood objected to the most had apparently occurred years before they had met, when she had been Marie’s age. It was unclear as to exactly what that had been, but everyone changed the subject whenever it came up, saying that it was something that Marie would have difficulty understanding.
Andrew was already butterfied away so I didn't even think about his problems that he is going through right now and you are right for not having him exist in your timeline.I thought of that as well, but you are dealing with the youngest child, the one who manages to get away with the most. Also, do you really want to bring Andrew into this conversation? I sort of had him butterflied just to avoid the resulting flame war if I had.