Building Civilizations on Primitive Planets
16. The Demands of Slaves

In the afternoon of August 22, 2022 at 14:23 was held the ceremony of release of SS Valhalla who will make a voyage to the Kingdom of Faranina. Earlier in the afternoon yesterday, the organizing of the people in Alamut was carried out.

Johnny is unilaterally appointed as the Outstanding Ambassador of Alamut in Full Power. The military uses TNI-style positions but the organization and doctrine in the future will follow the American style.

Sena who was appointed as a warlord the previous day with the rank of 4-star Admiral was made Minister of the Navy who oversees the Marine Corps and Marine Corps. The Army, Police and Gendarmarie are planned to be formed later

This was based on the discussion that Zayn and Udin had subsequently conducted to divide the armed forces in various ministries to prevent the leadership of a single army under one commander whom they considered at risk in the future.

Sean was appointed Chief of Staff of the Sailor Corps and Rio was made Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps with both only given the rank of Major on the grounds that the number of personnel was still small and they actually did not have a troop unit today these.

Danu and Andi became Commander of the Base and Commander of the Fleet of Sailors with the rank of Captain. For the Marine Corps Wawan and Sugeng were appointed Headquarters Commander and Marine Corps Battle Commander Alamut also with the rank of Major.

Valhalla's release ceremony was brief and half an hour later Valhalla had left the waters of Alamut leaving Zayn and Udin with the women and children who would stay in Alamut until Valhalla's return.

After Valhalla was seen starting to sail away, Rena slave girl owned by Udin the oldest among others opened a question.

“The wise gentlemen, since yesterday we saw the virtue and wisdom of the master both make arrangements and give freedom to the men by giving them a position. We ourselves realized our position before becoming your slave, also fared very badly by being a trading slave of Prince Johnny, even our position is only a collection of women and children who may be meaningless. But if you both have wisdom about our status, we also want to be liberated and even so forever we promise to remain servants of the aetia masters, we are also always ready to carry out any orders given and ready to serve and satisfy our respective masters according to the arrangement of a few days ago. Of course the two of us did not want to be considered asking for too much more, and even we were so grateful that the two masters who had us up to now did not treat us as slaves were generally treated, he said, and have never asked for anything that we have not done with the man who is also the right of the gentlemen to us as the rightful owner of the independence of our souls,” said Rena with firm words but spoken with soft intonation and not harden the voice according to the standards of politeness of the people of Suleka.

“So this is how girls and children, actually enslaving others is foreign to us, in our lives and cultures there is no longer a culture of enslaving others, he said, it's been hundreds of years since before we were born. We also understand that maybe you have envy for men who currently have certain abilities in their field so it is easy for us to direct them to become what they are. In addition, we really want to marry each of you 1, because in the religion we profess is prohibited from marrying some women who have brother status. Even so there are still other obstacles, our religion prohibits marrying people who worship many gods and gods. Surely that is not appropriate for you. So while it is good to live out your status today, we will not close our eyes and will educate you to be useful to us before in the end all are freed from slave status,” Zayn gave an answer.

The slaves wept, but now Anna stood up and replied, “Okay gentlemen, we are ready to accept whatever the two masters will teach us and we will prove we are worthy, in addition, gentlemen do not feel hesitant to ask for the right of the master to our respective bodies according to the previous division.” said Anna full of resignation.

“As if you are sad, I know you especially the big ones are educated people, then the first lesson today is to read and know numbers and letters. You will teach us the Fantastica script and we will write the equivalent with the script that will be used as the Alamut script for you to memorize and use,” between Udin.

Finally the day of education for the girls began until the afternoon of sunset, for temporary residence, because on the ground there are only 1 tent then set alternately. Tonight Udin and his slaves stayed on the mainland, while Zayn and his 5 slaves slept in the Rihlah. Zayn sleeps in the wheelhouse while his 5 slaves occupy the room.

The next day Udin announced the draft competition for the two slave teams they had discussed earlier.

“Ready standing, salute (welcome to answer “Good morning, we are ready to receive teaching”) sit ready,” Udin opened the first class about reading and writing accompanied by Zayn who later continued his duties in the second class teaching the norms of life ala Alamut.

“We have a competition for two groups that are here, for the group who graduated early to be able to read and write using the Alamut script then unless the members of the children will get the opportunity to sail with Rihlah accompany his master to carry out the next mission of Alamut. A second class on the norms of Alamut life will still be taught during the voyage. The voyage will be made to the capital of Suleka in the city of Kebon Gede in secret that allows you to see briefly your hometown, while the losers continue to study here and are tasked with defending this area. While the children of the winning group even though they do not join the sail will still get a special prize. Competition time is only up to 2 days ahead. If there is no winner then forced all of you will stay for a while in the ruins of the fortress in this forbidden forest, while we both sail. Then everyone fight!” Udin gave orders.

Zayn and Udin had agreed to take advantage of the situation while Johnny and the men sailed to Faranina and took 10 days to sail back and do missions there.

Rihlah will make a secret round trip cruise mission to the capital Suleka in just 2 days.

Not until 2 days later, the next day it turns out that Udin's slave team managed to win the reading and writing competition, and the next day, Udin's slave team managed to win the reading and writing competition, so it was agreed they with Udin who would walk at night after the class was completed to Kebon Gede through the western line of Grand Papalepap Island which faces the strait that separates this island with Sam Brody Island in the the territory of the Samiam kingdom is about 180 km to its closest point. They both deliberately wanted to cross this path to map the sea lanes of the western waters of Grand Papalepap and how the shipping hustle and naval power of Suleka in the western part of the main island which is certainly the most powerful because it faces directly with their arch-nemesis, the Kingdom of Samiam on the other side.

The cruise time is chosen at night to make it easier to break through all the possibilities faced. Sailing is also done automatically sophisticated, where in the world in general ship autopilot is done by making a route of travel coordinates that are connected to satellite maps, which are, but the revamped Rihlah has detection capabilities that make advanced autopilot that can be done by reading the distance of the waters and ships through sensors without the need to enter coordinates connected to gps.

The Rihlah will sail at a speed of 44knot (79 km/h) and sail as far as 4 km from the beach, they will sail not far from the beach, because their radar without the help of satellites is only able to map the maximum as far as the horizon or maximum with a distance of 5 km as the farthest reach of the human eye to see the earth's curve at a flat point like the ocean.

The cruise is expected to take 10 hours to reach a small island covered in mangrove forests south of the capital Kebon Gede precisely islands located in the delta of the mouth of the Kalideres River, the largest river on the island.

With a full-speed cruise there is certainly a possibility that the sound and movement of the Rihlah will attract the attention of people on the mainland, but Zayn and Udin have decided to take all the risks.

For those who are curious about the form of Rihlah, then a little information Rihlah using basic OTAM 45 GTS Millennium Restyled made from OTAM, a fast yacht manufacturer from Italy. Rihlah has a length of 13.5 meters and actually has a maximum speed from the manufacturer up to 54 knots with a cruising speed of 48 knots, however, there are modifications and changes to the engine drive energy source that have been done Udin and Zayn to be able to use a mini reactor with a spare battery, so the maximum speed of Rihlah reduced to 50 knots only with cruising speed to 44 knots, 1 knot itself setar 1.8 km/h.

Illustration of the Suleka kingdom, where Alamut was built in the forbidden forest area

Illustration of SS Rihlah

Illustration of SS Valhalla