[EVENT] Sharks of the Red Sea

[u/GalacticDiscourse090]

November/December 1508

Suez, Mamluk Sultanate.

Amidst the winter months where temperatures in Egypt would drop to around 60 degrees, multiple ships arriving from the Northwest dropped anchor near a fishing town known as Suez, a few kilometers south of the town, lie the waters of the Red Sea. The men sailing to shore would meet at a fine compound exchanging goods and services to one another. Admiral Amir Hussein Al Kurdi, clothed in fine tunics from the Far East and jewels from his Kurdish governorate, met with the aging but venerable Admiral Melchiore Trevisan, a veteran of the Second Ottoman Venetian War. The two men were tasked by their respective governments to build a fleet. To what end, only they know, but eye sightings would see the dismantlement and reconstruction of Venetian sourced ships and rebuilt at ports at the Red Sea. Materials, cannons, wooden frames and cloths would make their way through pack animals and rivers through the Suez strip, taking advantage of the mild winter months to prepare the fleet.

[Raising Ships in the Red Sea]