The Slokovian Army stumbled upon what could only be described as a gigantic battlefield. They discovered a massive war raging between three nations, one being the Kingdom of Lanier and the Free Town of South Haven against the Sivler Empire. They were incredibly stunned to see the aerial technology that each of these nations had achieved, being able to construct massive aerial warships capable of dominating the skies with advanced weaponry and heavy firepower. The Slokivian Army realized the potential that this technology could bring them, and immediately returned to the capital Purimait to report their incredible findings to the Premier Yalkov Bronovhic. Bronovhic was utterly impressed with the designs that these nations had constructed and set out to build his own air force with these incredible airships. He soon created the Slokovian Airship Fleet, and positioned General Jalkev Lokrosky as the head of this new fledging airship force. Lokrosky wanted heavy firepower mounted on these airships capable of turning any direction on the craft independently and carrying enough explosive power to breach even the thickest of armor that these nations had devised with ease. The weapons designers struggled for many months to build a design until a decommisioned Silver Empire officer Aldon Helan had found the Slokovian outpost of Korsov and joined the weapons designers, intent on fulfilling his new designing group with great success after the his misery of being decommissioned. Aldon submitted an experimental cannon that would be able to fulfill Lokrosky's demands with ease: the artillery cannon. It was a weapon concieved by the Sivler Empire towards the end of the War of Acquisition to easily penetrate the heavy armor of the advanced Kingdom and Pirate warships with ease from a long distance. Though the Silver Empire had not yet built a functional prototype, Lokrosky was determined to bring this cannon to the Slokovian Airship Fleet and ordered the development team to commence work on this new turret design. After many months of struggling to build a functional prototype, Aldon had finally built a fully functional prototype with the help of novice weapons designer Henry Geolovich. They built a turret that could rotate in any direction on the ship without having to be moved by the ship, rendering it a fully indepentent extension from the ship. It had a range of almost 500 meters and fired twenty metric tons of high explosive at a speed mach 2.5. It also had the adjustable arc, range, and accuracy that could easily exceed the newest condesning cannons that the shipwright Robert Bellamy designed. With one more modification to the prototype, the turret could now be submerged underwater and still function because of the fluid dispenser and timing mechanism in the firing chamber. Lokrosky was deeply impressed by the turret design and soon began mass production of this cannon for later use in warships. Even though this cannon consumed enourmous amounts of high explosive, the Slokovian Army had a great production rate of explosives that highly exceeded the amount needed for these new turrets. Lokrosky remained satisfied until he realized the potential that these cannons could have on a carrier design. General Lokroskly soon after his realization, began a constest to see who could design a cannon just like Aldon and Geolovich's that could be mounted on a carrier without obstructing it's flight deck. Practically no one submitted any relevant designs until Adlon and Geolovich met a retired pirate named Vincent Nord who worked with Bellamy on the second refit of the Shadow of the Deep. He soon joined forces with Aldon and Geolovich to construct a naval artillery turret that could be mounted on a carrier. Vincent gave both of them the idea that any structure above the flight deck besides a flight operations bridge would be considered an obstruction, the pirate gave them the secret that Bellamy was using to double the firepower on his new ship: to mount the turret on the underside of the ship rather than above it so it can rotate freely yet not cause any obstructions to incoming fighters. The three of them set off to work developing this new revolutionary turret and in a mere three weeks heavily modified the design they had previously so that it could be mounted on the underside of a ship. The result was a turret just as efficient, reliable, powerful, and versatile as the naval topside turret that could easily be mounted on the belly of an aerial warship. Lokrosky then ordered this new turret into mass production just like the topside version, and soon the Slokovian Airship Fleet gained the armament that they required to build their ambutious designs. The three designers were praised by both General Lokrosky and Primier Brhonovic for their outstanding contributions to the fledging airship fleet, and were promoted to the head developers of the research and development team for the Slokovian Airship Fleet. The Airship Fleet then began developing high-tech warships that were specifically designed to be armed with these revolutionary new turret designs. Soon, the fleet became a force to be reckoned with as the turrets mounted on these warships made them serious threats to the Silver Empire. the Kingdom of Lanier, and the Free Town of South Haven.