Within in the deserts of Egypt, a large group of Austrians were gathered. It had taken them close to a year, but during this time, they had gathered the necessary manpower and equipment to begin construction of the greatest canal the world had ever seen. A year ago, Berengar had met with the Byzantine Emperor, and asked for a bit of land to build a canal that would connect the Western and Eastern worlds, and allow for regular trade between them.
Emperor Vetranis had thought Berengar was crazy to think of such an idea, but he was indebted to the Austrian King, and thus permitted him to begin construction. Now, after a year of painful logistics, the Austrian Corporation that was hired to fulfill the task had begun to break ground.
