Jim Noble swooped in and took #2000
I am glad to hear that the rail guns are operational and will be ready for deployment. I am certain that when they were first proposed critics thought it was a pipedream (they said the same things about SDI and hitting missiles with missiles too, if I recall).
Well back to trying to throw together a hack story about an invented country and a very bad naval battle where everyone is an Admiral. :p
You could add dragons or ghosts or something.