Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

3rd July 1658

To the south of the Indian overseas territory of Maldives, a huge behemoth was roaring through the ocean. The Pune Class Battleship, a monster in its own right, was easily dwarfed by the Goliath Delhi class battleship.

The ocean was choppy, and the tide was strong, but that did not stop the Bharatiya fleet, which was conducting test runs in this isolated part of the Indian Ocean, where rarely any European travels.

The most experienced shipbuilders, the most innovative ship designers, the best engineers, and the brightest naval scientists, all came together to represent the pinnacle of intellect, wisdom, and brilliance of the Bharatiya Empire’s Naval industry.

After a gruelling and mentally exhausting six months, they were finally able to figure out how to build the Five Swords of the Empire, the new generation of Bharatiya Naval Military vessels.

The top scientists, engineers, designers, and builders stood on the deck of the Pune Class Battleship and witnessed their creations come to life. They couldn’t help but feel emotional. This moment was especially profound for designers like Danior Boswell, Vishesh Niladri, Ganaprabu Berunda, Ananth raj Shetty, Puneet Shetty, Balakrishna Poojari, Bhargav Reddy, and other designers.

Even though the majority of the Intellectual elites were feeling motion sickness, as they had no experience travelling through the ocean, they still held back their discomfort and intently looked at the giant monster they had built with their own two hands, cutting through the ocean like a predator hunting for prey.

Looking at the Delhi Class Battleship, domineeringly proclaiming its might with a roaring barrage of 64 Bharatiya cannons, its designers, Danior Boswell and Ganaprabu Berunda, along with its builder, Vedant Iyer, stood still, stunned, unable to utter a single word.

Even though they were a long way from the Delhi Class Battleship, they could still feel the tremor and might of the monster they had created. All three of their hairs stood on end as they felt the slight radiation in the air, which was released from the shockwaves of the rampage of the beast called the Delhi Class Battleship.

The tests went on for a whole week, and throughout that time, even though it was unnecessary, none of the intellectuals involved in the construction of the ship wanted to stay behind in the empire. Instead, all of them repeatedly boarded the Pune Class Battleship.

Despite the nausea, they endured the entire testing phase of the new naval vessels, gritting their teeth and maintaining constant smiles throughout their suffering.

"Hey, you guys from the Ashoka Shipyard, look at the frigate we designed. Isn’t it handsome and the most beautiful?"

"No, fool, it is obviously the clipper I helped construct. Nothing could be more amazing than it. You are obviously hallucinating after vomiting as much as your body weight."

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"....."

Bragging was naturally heard throughout the process of the testing, which kept the Navy constantly entertained.

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11th July 1658

Gangadhar was pretty excited as he entered the Simhasana Bhavana Royal Palace. His walking pace was quite fast because he was feeling very impatient due to his excitement. If not for the fact that running would seem very disrespectful, he would have already sprinted towards the conference room.

Gangadhar couldn’t be blamed for his impatience because today was the day his majesty would officially release the funds for the naval expansion bill. Even though Vijay had already passed the naval expansion bill through the government, the funds hadn’t been allocated yet since even the prototypes of the ships were not available.

However, after a week-long, harsh testing of the warships in the most intense part of the Indian Ocean, the new generation of BNVs had preliminarily reached combat effectiveness, which explained Gangadhar’s eagerness.

Ganesh was waiting in the corridor for Gangadhar to arrive, and when he saw Gangadhar, he immediately went to greet the admiral. But to Ganesh’s surprise, the admiral did not even stop for a second to greet him. Instead, he hooked his arm and dragged him to the conference room impatiently.

"Let’s do all these greetings later; let’s go to the conference room first."

Ganesh was immediately startled when he was suddenly pulled by Gangadhar, but after hearing the impatient and urgent words, he couldn’t help but feel amused. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

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Inside the conference room, Vijay was having a discussion with Prime Minister Vinod, Minister of Finance Jagannath Mohan, Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Industry Rajesh, Director of the Reserve Bank of Bharat Dharmendra, Minister of Internal Affairs Arjun, and finally, the Marshal of the Empire, Kiran Poojari.

Vijay had called all of them to a meeting in order to finalize the naval expansion plan and fully discuss the specifics of the plan.

Suddenly, Ganesh entered the room and brought Admiral Gangadhar with him.

Entering the room, everyone’s eyes were immediately attracted not to the admiral but unusually to Ganesh, because Ganesh was actually panting, and sweat was trickling down his forehead as if he had run a marathon.

A similar question arose in everyone’s minds: ’What did this guy even do?’ But it didn’t last long as Ganesh quickly moved out of everyone’s line of sight and sat alone in a corner of the conference room.

Gangadhar finally took his designated seat with a happy smile on his face.

Vijay, looking at Gangadhar’s energetic expression and Ganesh’s tired expression, felt a little doubtful, but he chose not to pursue the matter. "Gangadhar, how were the military trials of the new generation of warships?"

The smile on Gangadhar’s face immediately widened as if he had been waiting for this very question. "It was a huge success, Your Majesty. All the warships performed exceptionally well in the harsh conditions of the Central Indian Ocean."

"Though there were many small problems discovered during the trial run, overall these problems were not too critical, and the designers, builders, engineers, and scientists immediately came up with solutions to the issues found."

"So when we officially start to produce these ships on a large scale, we can be rest assured that these ships are reliable."

Gangadhar’s words were filled with confidence and pride.

Ganesh, who had been transparent until now, immediately spread 8 identical copies of a folder containing multiple reports to everyone present as he took one for himself and became transparent once again.

Gangadhar expertly got up from his seat, spread the documents within the folder, and attached them to the board that was visible to everyone in the room.

"We have conducted Naval trials for these vessels both scientifically and practically."

Scientifically, we conducted tests for the overall structure of the ships, including stress tests, tension tests, weight-bearing tests, impact resistance tests, tensile strength tests, and other benchmark tests done according to the experimental setup invented by the scientists at the Bharatiya Academy of Military Sciences and the Bharatiya Academy of Civilian Sciences.

"The results we got from all of these tests not only crossed the required rating score of 7 but also came close to the theoretical rating of 10."

Vijay quickly understood how the tests were conducted after briefly reading the detailed report put forward in front of him, and impressively, according to the data collected by the scientists, the ships, on average, actually received an impressive rating of 7.6532.

Gangadhar knew that most of the people in the room, except His Majesty, wouldn’t understand what he had just said. To be honest, that included himself—but the point is, he still had to mention it as it was formal and the right thing to do.

Now that the theoretical tests were over and he had already submitted the theoretical test reports, Gangadhar went on to explain something everyone would understand: "In the case of practical tests, all the new ships have undergone the BSO 50,000 series tests conducted by the Ministry of Standards themselves. Minister Amit Shah personally took the lead in conducting these tests."

"In the end, despite minor problems, overall there wasn’t anything major that would stop the ships from passing the trials."

"And finally, we conducted our own military testing to determine how effective all the weapons on board the ship were." Gangadhar immediately became excited; even thinking about the firepower of the Delhi class brought chills down his spine.

"This aspect of the warships absolutely did not disappoint, as the firepower produced by these ships is definitely one of the best in their class throughout the world."

"I dare say that the Delhi class battleship of the empire is already comparable to the 2,500-ton galleon of the Spanish Empire, and the 800-ton Colombo class frigate is already comparable to the Dutch 1,000-ton battleship and has already surpassed the Ottoman 1,000-ton battleship."

Everyone in the room was surprised by the proclamation made by the admiral. Everyone had unbelievable expressions on their faces, well, everyone except Vijay, since he knew around what these battleships were based on. So he was not too surprised, but he was still taken aback by the scientific strength of the empire, which made even him a little speechless.

In the end, Vijay simply shook his head, as this was the result he wanted in the first place.

With the further reassurance from Gangadhar, everyone ultimately believed his words, and they became excited about the future of the empire.

To be Continued...