Chapter 14: Gears of War
The forges of Yekaterinburg roared day and night.
In response to looming threats both internal and external, Mikhail had issued an Imperial Decree: total military-industrial mobilization.
[Policy Activated: War Economy] [Industrial Output: +45%]
Every citizen aged sixteen to fifty was required to serve the war effort—on the front lines, in the factories, or within logistical support networks.
The Leviathan was only the first of many.
By May, three new armored trains—Behemoth, Goliath, and Fenrir—rolled off production lines.
[Unit Deployed: Armored Trains Squadron – Iron Spear]
But it wasn’t enough.
The Ottoman-sponsored uprisings in the Volga flared higher. British agents incited tribal groups in Central Asia. And secret shipments of rifles and artillery crossed frozen borders at night.