Hey Borys, I signed a Peace Treaty with the Italians, not with the Austrians... ;)

DF, you're a Nverse masochist it seems. 

February 1915, Vienna
A smoke filled room, adorned with horned skulls on the walls

- "1915 will be a good year for the fleet. The brace of ships of the line, the three small cruisers are close to being fitted out, and will be comissioned in the first months of 1916. That - together with the newest zerstroeren and minenesuchenbooten - will bring us to over 200,000 tonnes. For the first time in about a decade."
- "Yes, since they've expanded their facilities Danubius at Fiume is doing an excelent job with the grosstorpedoboten, or zestreor, if you prefer. The trio to be laid down in the summer is to be of a new, larger type. Now with three, not two main guns."
- "Bleh, it's the torpedorohren which count, not the kanone!"
- "Never mind ... also, in the second part of this year four ... yes, FOUR panzerkreuzer are to be laid  down. Sadly, we don't possess adequate slips for what we'd like - nine-inchers, so these will be economy vessels, with eight 7,5" guns. But we'll finally have something for the Atlantic."
- "As we're talking about the Atlantic - the command structure over the next 12 months will be modified. A permanent Atlantic Squadron will be formed - with the Parana Division grouping all avisos, with any cruisers sent to the Atlantic being subordinated directly to Desterro. Maybe the SMS Frankreich will be posted there, as station flagship. In the Med the battlesquadron will be split between Malta and Pola, with a Division at each port. The small cruisers - six by spring - will be divided between them. The two scout cruisers will serve as flaships for the four flotillas of torpedobooten, plus the single zestreor flotilla. Again, spilt between Malta and Pola, although the later often rebased to Dubrovnik, Cataro, or even Valona - when accompanied by a tender. "
- "A pity we can't build a base a Valona. Not yet. The base we CAN build under the Ottoman Peace Treaty, at Thessalonika, is not so useful - in case of war we'll have access to Pireus and Crete anyway, so why bother with a base there ... "
- "True, true. But nevertheless, over the next few years a railroad will be built to Valona - thus making that backwater's expansion into a base possible. Probably the first earth will turned on the very day the Kaiser decides he can safely ignore the Ottomans."
- "Going back to the Atlantic - I've commisioned a study on the feasability of w/t towers for communication with Parana. The focal point seems to be the Ilha de Maio - it is just in range of Desterro, and of both La Valetta and Alhuceima."

early March 1915
Firing range of the "Femaru Fegyver es Gepgyar" works in Budapest

- "Looks like we've learned how to make the Italian ammunition.  The number of stoppages was again  within the limits acceptable for the Heer. Unless the Italians are very picky, they should be happy with this lot as well. But I'll cable the Embassy in Vienna, for the Military Attache to come over and confirm."

April 1915
Snippet from Editorial in Kaiserlich-und-Koeniglich Wienner Zeitung.

"The news which continue to reach us from the Indian sub-content make it clear, that the local culture is barbaric and inferior to our own. And that European Powers are not doing all they can to  improve the lot of the local Primitives. What is called for is a Cultural War, a Kulturkampf, to Enlighten and Civilise the Indian. To this end ... "

1915
Parangua, Parana

- Kundapooooooooooreeee chicken!  Kundapooooooooooreeee chicken!

Major Hans Kloss marveled at the morsels sold by the East Indian peddler. And sniffed at the exotic scents and condiments. All from a dozen paces away. He wasn' quite sure that this was how the colony was to look like. The swarthy seller made the posters extolling colonisation and their slogan of "Parana the new Danube" a lie.

- Tortillaaaaaaaa pimiieeeeeeentos! Tortillaaaaaaaa pimiieeeeeeentos!
The screams of the other peddler made him shift focus to the other stall, selling some sort of pancakes. And various maize products, as far as he could tell.

He shifted his attention back to the chicken. He judged the faith of this "oppressed Christian" as somewhat suspect - he gave yet another glance to the figure propped above the stove, and - for the love of the Virgin, he could not remember any saintly figure with FOUR arms.

Autumn 1915
The four hags, upon their arrival from the Parana Run, are subsequenbtly taken off that route for the time being. Instead they are sent to Pola for a quick look-over at the newly opened gigantic drydock. After all acrapping and minor repairs are effected, the four transports are assembled at Thessaloniki, HQ of the 2nd AFL.

October 1915
The SMS Feldzugmeister Laudon is sent to Indian waters. Due to its slow speed, it will make its way there on its own, stoping for recoaling at Aden. Request for passage through Sueze was filled through the normal channels.