Completion of the TransAfrican Channel

[Schwieger]

Orbis III

Niger

 

On the savannas of Niger, the lead elements of the Pordish construction crews finally make contact with the Triskeli contingent. They meet in grand spectacle, with the Pords offering meat, nog, pelts, and other gifts to their Triskeli comrades. Overall, it has not taken very long for the channel to be built. Now would come the time to see it in full operation. With signal from the Triskeli, the vast seawalls previously erected are taken down and the chilly Atlantic rushes in, finally linking Lake Chad with the vast stormy sea of Orbis. Eager torrents of seawater crash east in a rush of blue and white; sea foam bubbles and froths as the ocean churns and rolls. Its speed is impressive, but the distance is vast, and it takes quite some time for the sea to fully cover the floor of the channel and then completely fill its greater extent. But it does. And soon the Jewel of Orbis will be due in the channel's wide waterways - the first of such visits the Jewel will be making, but not the last: Nalydian Iceland has seen the completion of the other Jewels as well, and they are named for each of the oceans of this world: the Jewel Borealis, to be sent north, the Jewel Arabia, (just now leaving for the Indian Ocean), the Jewel of the Orient which will greet those in the placid waters of the Pacific, and the last Jewel to be built, the Jewel Atlantica, already slated to be moored somewhere near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.