Surprisingly within a month, the residents of Gama had been successfully integrated into Terra. The farmers program brought up by the agriculture department had seen great feedback as some people who were already farmers in the past used the opportunity to get to Gama for the farm allocation.
During that period, two new innovations appeared, the typewriter and the printing press.
The typewriter received positive feedback especially from administrative officers as most of them spent time writing on paper so the typewriter enabled them to do more in less time ( at least for those who learnt to use it well.)
For now, the typewriter was scarce and was handed to the most productive staff while the others still used fountain pens.
The printing press was nessesary for relaying information and would play a very great part in his propaganda efforts.
The first publication of the newspaper, the voice of Terra as it was called featured news about the agriculture departments farmers program, it talked about the addition of Gama into Terran territory. In an article, it stated that the Kingdom of Alfonse was dead and that people should embrace their identity as citezens of Terra. It also reminded people of the " crimes " committed by the Blackthorn empire, how they pillaged , raped and murdered in the name of conquest. It also reminded them of the slavery that they had to endure in the hands of the empire.
Evidently the articles goal was to rile up the populace and because of that more people applied to join the army , productivity was also increased as the workers saw it as a way to punish the Blackthorn empire for their crimes.
The newspaper also featured names of people who had performed excellently during the weekly evaluation.
As this was happening, Ceaser was embarking on a project to generate electricity. This was by far the most difficult but essential project that he had ever worked on.
He already knew the principle of electromagnetism, an electric current flowing through a wire creates a magnetic field.
To create an electromagnet, he needed and electric source. Which was solved by making a Bhagdad battery. It involved immersing copper , iron or zinc discs in an acidic solution that acts as an electrolyte. This was an essential starting point for making a usable generator.
Next was the creation of the the electromagnet , a bar of wrought iron was wrapped up with a copper wire that had already been insulated with wax and resin. This copper wire has already been drawn with corrondum making it thin and evenly shaped.
With this refined copper wires, large electro magnetic cores were made and were exited as they came in contact with the batteries.
An amateur rotor was made from wrought iron for the shaft and a cylinderical core which the shaft was inserted into.
A laminated core was also made, this involved making several thin iron discs which were insulated in-between with resin soaked paper.
Then a copper coil was made out of the insulated copper wires which was tightly wound to the diameter of the cores stots.
The slot was further insulated with strips of resin soaked clothes so as to prevent a short circuit.
The coils were then placed carefully in their respective positions on the cores slots and was effectively secured before they were further insulated with resin again.
There were two prototype generators being produced , one of them had a commutator for d/c while the other was connected to slip rings.
When the steam engine was started and the project participants were quiet in anticipation for the results of their experiments. Soon, they could see the sparks generated from the electrical currents of the generator, the project was a success. It has taken three whole weeks of round the clock work to achieve this success.
But they did not rest,they divided themselves into two groups, one to work on the Leyden jar that would act as a capacitor while the other worked on designing the light light bulb.
The Leyden jar used for the capacitor was finished fairly early while the bulb took longer than expected because of the limitations in making a vacuum. The first prototype could only last for and hour , but further work on the bulb increased the lifespan to five hours. With the technological level of this era , even with his modern knowledge he was not sure that he could get any better than this without breaking the workers, but this project would inspire them to work on developing better designs.
With the prototype generators finished , Ceaser could now submit his plan for the steam turbine which would be able to generate better electric currents.
During the course of the next three weeks , major factories were being fitted with light bulbs. As soon as the steam turbines were produced, Patagonia entered into a new age. Now innovations would progress smoothly and quickly and if done well, it might surpass the technological level of his past life.
The discovery of electricity seriously aided in the increase in production as workers could now work in shifts throughout the day.
In the royal capital of Fantasia, several figures clad in different kinds of armour had besieged the royal palace. These men were not soldiers of the Blackthorn empire but were soldiers and guards from the noble houses.
They had betrayed their king and the kingdom just because they could keep their lands and titles if they submitted to emperor Quentin. Driven by greed, they seized all the cannons they could find on the battlefield and pointed it to the capital. Soon the city walls were breached due to insiders who created distractions that divided the attention of the city defenders who were then overrun.
The same couldn't be said for the castle which was a fortress of its own and was built to last.
The beseigers were in for a surprise as the palace had stockpiled enough shots and gunpowder with cannons placed in strategic positions. For five days they fired at each other intervals. The Royal guard were conservative in the way they used their cannons sometimes resorting to using only arrows and crossbows while the rebelling nobles fired so much that the barrels overheated and were degrading over time. There were even few cases of premature detonations that added to their casualties.
It could have been good news for the Royal guard if only they hadn't eventually depleted their gunpowder.
The invaders seeing this started bombarding the walls and the gates new found frevor regardless of how many men and artillery they sacrificed.
Eventually, they breached the palace walls and clashes with the elite royal guards who fought greatly and bravely but eventually they couldn't compete with the sheer numbers of their attackers and succumbed to the pressure.