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| Fortress Atulke: A History | |
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| Atulke | Aug 18 2014, 07:02 AM Post #1 |
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In the mountains of Jahema, you can drive on the Lukbec Gore Highway, and turn off onto Exit 71 for ten miles. The exit road terminates in what seems to be an average Jaheman town, with a small market, a well, an Atunist temple,and all the trappings of a village. But unlike most villages, there is an airstrip designed for heavy planes. This is because a few ridges over is Fortress Atulke, the greatest white elephant in the history of the Atul Union. Ikarun spy plane image and accompanying sketches, taken c. 1998 NYThe building has its origins in the mind of Commissar-Chairman Verkin Calo, who invaded the nation of Jahema to secure his nation's core. Calo wanted to imprint a perament Atul presence in Jahema, so he ordered the fortress to begin construction in NY 1963. Calo used forced labor, bringing in Jaheman prisoners of war to build the vast project. In the dry steppes, he saw an opportunity to create a grand bunker. He set aside enough money into the project to force the nation to practice 65 years of austerity. It is for this reason psychologists have posthumously diagnosed him with histrionic syndrome, putting aside practicality in a compulsive drive to make oneself known. The construction was finished on the ground level in NY 1981, which included a control tower and a large central runway. It was equipped with artillery and a skeleton crew of thirty thousand men the year after. Work then began on a nuclear bunker that would withstand a direct impact from a bomb, with three tunnels converging in one long shaft that led down to a command room a half mile below the surface. Above ground, the building proved hard to maintain due to its size and the comparatively small crew assigned to it. Before the nuclear bunker was even finished, Kors Belin came to office in NY 1985, and ordered the project to be halted. Kors Belin also freed the forced workers and let them return to their lives. By that time, the fortress had utterly ruined the Atul economy. The fortress also had been discovered by foreign intelligence in NY 1969, making the entire construction worthless. It had been the most spectacular failure in the history of the Atul Union, and was abandoned and stripped down of materials to be used in much smaller bunkers. Today, only the concrete skeleton and the central runway still stands. The shaft intended for the nuclear bunker became flooded as it was exposed to groundwater. Today, Atulke has just recently finished paying the debt after sixty-five years of deep austerity programs, which severely crippled social services. The concrete shell is now a favorite haunt of military history buffs and citizens with a deep nostalgia for the days of the Atul Union. It was recently sold to Levansky Housing to be used as a city in its own right, with one half of the fortress, including the control tower, being maintained as an historical preserve and tourist center. Thus, the fortress has now been given a second life. I will end this feature with a precautionary anecdote. A historian was once asked by an interviewer what she would say to a nation that wanted to build a similar fortress. The historian smiled, saying "I would only recommend it if they enjoy inflicting sixty-five years of misery on themselves, only to build a fortress that is ultimately useless." |
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