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The construction contract was eventually given to [[Ladvner Construction]] who subcontracted much of the work out to the [[O'Shea Corporation]]. Ladvner would oversee strategic control, materials ordering, and hiring. O'Shea would conduct the day to day construction, receiving, and would be retained as the operations administration for 10 years after the completion of the canal, training the next generation of administrators. The canal was projected to hire, employ, house, and feed 15,000 workers and their families over the span of 10 years. Smaller, local construction companies from [[Faneria]] were hired to build worker housing and commissaries along the canal route and the rail lines of both countries were contracted to extend to the canal zone to expedite worker travel and the shipment of materials. | The construction contract was eventually given to [[Ladvner Construction]] who subcontracted much of the work out to the [[O'Shea Corporation]]. Ladvner would oversee strategic control, materials ordering, and hiring. O'Shea would conduct the day to day construction, receiving, and would be retained as the operations administration for 10 years after the completion of the canal, training the next generation of administrators. The canal was projected to hire, employ, house, and feed 15,000 workers and their families over the span of 10 years. Smaller, local construction companies from [[Faneria]] were hired to build worker housing and commissaries along the canal route and the rail lines of both countries were contracted to extend to the canal zone to expedite worker travel and the shipment of materials. | ||
This grand vision was almost immediately halted when in [[1962]] after only three months of preliminary construction, funding became an issue. Member states who had pledged funding to the Committee for Global Prosperity and Improvement's projects balked when the time came due to actually pay. The international effort ground to a halt despite local housing and rail line construction continuing. [[Caphiria]] and its allies cooled to the idea of keeping its their commitment of 1.5 billion [[Aureus]]es as the [[Occidental Cold War]] grew into a larger part of its approach to post-war [[Levantia]]. [[Burgundie]], who had committed to paying 700 million [[ | This grand vision was almost immediately halted when in [[1962]] after only three months of preliminary construction, funding became an issue. Member states who had pledged funding to the Committee for Global Prosperity and Improvement's projects balked when the time came due to actually pay. The international effort ground to a halt despite local housing and rail line construction continuing. [[Caphiria]] and its allies cooled to the idea of keeping its their commitment of 1.5 billion [[Aureus]]es as the [[Occidental Cold War]] grew into a larger part of its approach to post-war [[Levantia]]. [[Burgundie]], who had committed to paying 700 million [[Taler|Talers]] over the duration of the project, found itself embroiled to stop a pro-communist coup in [[Kandara]] that would eventually expand to the massive [[Operation Kipling]]. It reduced its commitment to 500 million [[Taler|Talers]] over 30 years, regardless of when the project was completed, which reduced investor confidence in the success of the project. For much of the mid 60s the project stagnated, directly coinciding with the worst of the [[Lean Years]]. | ||
While the Southern [[Levantia|Levantine]] nations continued to focus on their existing rivals as if the [[Second Great War]] had never ended, for the countries of Northern [[Levantia]] they found that without the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] their were boundless new economic and political opportunities in [[Levantia]] and abroad for them to explore. The nations of [[Eldmora-Regulus]], [[Faneria]], [[Fiannria]], [[Hendalarsk]] and [[Yonderre]] found this a time of optimism and economic growth. By [[1967]] many of these nations had made commitments of their own that almost filled the gaps left by the [[Sarpedon]]ians and [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] backing out or reducing payments. In [[1969]] enough funding had been secured to resume full schedule construction. The pause, while costly and a waste of time, had however allowed technology to catch up the scale of the task. What was projected to take 8 years took only 6. Massive crews of men in mechanical diggers and boring machines carved through the isthmus at an incredible rate. The progress of the canal is considered on of the first satellite time lapse sequences to be completed, taken by [[Caphiria|Caphirian]] spy satellites and declassified in [[2018]] after the conclusion of the [[Occidental Cold War]]. | While the Southern [[Levantia|Levantine]] nations continued to focus on their existing rivals as if the [[Second Great War]] had never ended, for the countries of Northern [[Levantia]] they found that without the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] their were boundless new economic and political opportunities in [[Levantia]] and abroad for them to explore. The nations of [[Eldmora-Regulus]], [[Faneria]], [[Fiannria]], [[Hendalarsk]] and [[Yonderre]] found this a time of optimism and economic growth. By [[1967]] many of these nations had made commitments of their own that almost filled the gaps left by the [[Sarpedon]]ians and [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] backing out or reducing payments. In [[1969]] enough funding had been secured to resume full schedule construction. The pause, while costly and a waste of time, had however allowed technology to catch up the scale of the task. What was projected to take 8 years took only 6. Massive crews of men in mechanical diggers and boring machines carved through the isthmus at an incredible rate. The progress of the canal is considered on of the first satellite time lapse sequences to be completed, taken by [[Caphiria|Caphirian]] spy satellites and declassified in [[2018]] after the conclusion of the [[Occidental Cold War]]. | ||
In total, over the course of the 15 years of construction, the project cost 8.7 billion | In total, over the course of the 15 years of construction, the project cost 8.7 billion Talers, employed 640,034 people, and is estimated to have fed and housed 1.5 million workers, families, and persons who provided on-site goods and services. Financially, it was, like most other grand infrastructure projects, poorly managed, inefficiently run, and wasteful. However, it is touted as a massive human success. Service men and women coming back from the far flung battle fields of the [[Second Great War]] and were given stable employment, a roof over their head, and three square meals a day for the duration of the time they worked or lived in the canal zone. | ||
==Incidents of Note== | ==Incidents of Note== | ||