>>3834488
Many metal rooms are found, rooms filled with ancient and ruined weapons which cannot function properly as anything more than a bludgeon. Storehouses full of ruined food can be found around every corner blocked by doors of freeze broken iron, most of the metal of the area is found to be generic and iron like, poor enough to be smithed in even the fairly baseline furnaces of the nation. But the metal which makes up the ruined contraptions of the area are found to be consistent in both form and function no matter what temperature this metal is heated to or cooled to. This metal, called Blue Iron by the general population may be useful in armor and weapons for use in very low temperature environments or combat since all other metals and other known materials eventually fail when the temperature gets cold enough. The barrels of the Black Sludge are left mostly untouched for now since it isn't very useful.
 
Though Mammoths are not particularly brave creatures they can still greatly out speed the glacial pace of the Ice Giants and thus serve as mighty platforms for hunting, and with the recent reinvigoration of the art of bowcraft due to the hunting of the megafauna and the harvesting of their bodies for catgut strings and sinews for bowstring.
 
Due to a lack of competition only a small bunch of Mondraki Riders can be raised but through the training of hunters using similar tactics many more could be raised in the future if war ever comes to this new world.
 
>>3835792
The rapid colonization of the ruins - now called Barceleron - leads to the discovery of a strange underground section. This area nicknamed "The Catacombs" which is a large section of the hive whose walls are made of combs which contain the mummified corpses of Hingashi (with the heads all facing the hall) has caused quite the creep among the new denizens and especially the new Queen due to the disturbing implications it may bring. For now the section has been blocked off and any digging done into it is also ordered to be immediately blocked off. Due to the theorized size of it the possibility of it being fully explored passively are null and thus an officially funded expedition must be taken in order to explore it properly.
 
The water is found to be especially good, tests preformed reveal that workers fed with mead made with it are especially lively and good working. Being now in better health and in better mind.
 
>>3835924
Due to imprecision in smithing and linking technology full suits are still very expensive but with improvements to smithing they could even soon be affordable for large scale use.
 
The nation remobilizes in response to the looming threat a second faceless war and as one of the first actions of the new God-King. (war action: gained)
 
A defensive line has now been set up, though it seems this time the faceless hold all of their cards on the table as the assault has already caused great casualties among the entrenched forces as wave after wave eats away at the sheer cliff formed of burned blood and, with the arrival of the volters goat flesh as well.
 
Through smuggling a few good engineers reach the distant totu, and they send word back that all is going well. Despite the other words speaking of two simultaneous totu queens.
 
>>3836242
Using tarnish support the great ship of the totu surveys the regions of tarn, looking at every island chain for a region which would be good for their people. Many good islands of decent size and with a large quantity of nearby islands are found which could be given to them. Most on the edges of the empire.
 
Using even larger and more directed waves under the cover of mist the Giib are slowed down considerably. As the humidity increases and the air naturally becomes hotter the recovery rates of the enemy begin to go down.
 
The Giib are now cut off from new supplies, they have also split into two, with one continuing to go towards the mines while the other is heading around, presumably in order to get rid of the canal.
 
>>3836336
Many suitable islands are found, of special interest is a larger island in the north west which has a good bunch of desert and is sparsely populated.
 
Due to metal costs and cargo hold issues the totu end up using only a half a dozen larger canons on their ships, two of which can fire in both directions and two on each side which can only fire in one direction.
 
A good chunk of weaker totu are exchanged for more experienced and better skilled totu, though the scale of this exchange may have alerted some within Gurtand to this whole exodus fiasco, along with this the first instance of known resistance by totu under their own free will against the exodus occurs, with the murder of a notable local organizer and conspirator by a totu born south.
 
The Queen now feels insecure due to the presence of a new Queen, already several notable collaborator and neutral totu settlements have been razed by the Sonarii army, even getting as close to her retinue as destroying a settlement which was supposed to be a pit stop in between Gurtand and the settlement further.
 
>>3836514
The ritual does not go as planned, during several parts of it a great pain could be felt in the prospect queen and after several hours of the sounds of agony and several moments of thought defeat the ritual is finished. And now a new Queen walks among the Sonarii, but she is different from the traditional depictions of a Totu queen, as her face is more angular and her nose is more upturned. She mentions how she feels more than one presence of Queenhood in this world, that she is not the only Queen of the Totu. She recommends that she stay in the fortress for a while in order to fully grasp and develop herself so that her proper first impression with the lowly totu can be a good one. She mentions several small settlements which she knows are collaberators after being presented with a map, and thus the army mobilizes in order to cull these towns, and it succeeds.
 
>>3836520
The increase in infection caused by the humidity is curtailed and reversed due to the increasing medical expertise of the medics.
 
After the order is sent and a reply of successful improvements comes in the supply lines become heavily disrupted as certain bands of bridge are pounded with waves which halt or slow down supplies considerably. If something is not done the Giib may find themselves trapped in a city with only what can be scavenged for sustenance.
 
While the taking of the mines proper continues the army splits and is now considered to be about half way to the canal.
 
>>3836550
The army heads south, arriving in full force in the thickness of war. Over the distance huge hordes can be seen sprinting towards the currently entrenched burned men army. 
 
The lightning sifts and turns, never quite hitting the right spot to dig into the ground properly. After hours of failed attempts proper digging tools arrive. Under the rock is found to be a huge orb of metal, using the machines and tools some of its surface is uncovered though after the strike of a hammer hits its surface a great magnetic pulse is emitted, throwing back the entire crew along with all the metal tools causing great damage. 
 
>>3837252
The Sonarii have asked if they may have free reign over the totu settlements of the desert as they claim traitors lie there, by the time this message arives news of the massacres of Totu by the sonarii have reached the courts.
 
The rail is constructed using the wealth of metal still available to the realm. It reaches out from Necropolis reaching out to Tomb and then on to Gurtand, where it is then transported by Oni to the lands of the Burned Men. Though an alternative route based around leaving the rail earlier is considered just in case conflict breaks out in the city.
 
Just outside of mortuary the beds are layed, and the crop of crab provided by these new islands is quite noticeable. Through this new food the settlement increases in size, finally ending the required food surplus which used to be sent through the gate.