Dustreun

== About ==
The Dustreun (aka. Sea Bullet) is a Crimsonian battleship. It is one of the oldest battleships and serves as the pride of the Crimsonian Navy. In 1986, it was one of the ships spotted along the coasts of Bistonian Shingleton, and in the aftermath of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War it was abandoned for a short while until in 1992. The Dustreun sank the following year by a artillery shell fired from a floating fortress set up by the Free Bulgarian Army while they were heading to Arshturn after the siege of Telvinra.
== History ==
The Dustreun first began construction at an unknown port located in the Republic of Crimmitonia, in the year of 1925. Originally, the Dustreun was once an ocean liner with a different name owned by a company and it continued to serve voyages throughout the Telvinra Sea for nearly decades to come. However, due to the Great Depression, the company laid off the ship and kept it frozen in a port. However, the company was affected by the economic decline and as a result the company sold the ocean liner at around a thousand. Over the years, the ship began to deteriorate as the companies which had bought the ship also went into an economic decline and some of them couldn't afford the cost to maintain the ship. It wasn't until the economy had gradually recovered that the fate of the ship was eventually decided upon.
== Second Great War ==
In the 1940s, the Crimmitonian navy took their interests into the 20 year old ship and had bought it for over thousands of dollars to the company which had bought it, the following year it underwent major renovations and restoration to the decks and stripped nearly all of the interior, and it transitioned into a civilian ocean liner into a temporary military battleship. The reason for this was that the Crimmitonian navy was on a shortage of battleships, and it resorted to buying old derelict ships to convert them into their fleet. Cannons, weapons and other battleship features were mounted on the exterior of the ship, and the ship was given a paintjob.
In 1943, the Crimmitonian navy took the ship into battle, and participated in several naval battles, however over a month after being in the navy fleet, the ship struck a mine at the stern and began sinking, however with several compartments closed the ship stopped sinking and it was transported back to the ports in mainland Crimmitonia to await repair, however due to shortages on metal the Crimmitonian navy has not been able to repair the damage and the ship remained in the port for another few years. The ship was discharged from operations the following day.
== Post-war period ==
In the post-war period, the Crimmitonian navy was devastated as many of their remaining ships had sank in the naval conflicts, with one exception being the ship that had been struck a mine years prior. The Crimmitonian navy decided to repair the damaged parts of the ship with what they had and had got the ship working properly. In the post-war period, it continued to serve as a battleship for the Crimmitonian navy. However, there were many major setbacks as the government had demanded that the navy hand over the battleship so they could sell it to civilian use, however due to the state of the Crimmitonian navy, the government abandoned their demands and the ship remained in the hands of the navy. However, during their years, it wouldn't last long, as the Crimsonian Civil War occurred.
== Crimsonian Civil War ==
In 1947, the Crimsonian Civil War began, and the Crimmitonian navy still continued to be in its vegetative state, as it was underestimated that Crimsonian rebels couldn't spread to its overseas territories, the Crimmitonian navy decided not to participate in the civil war, and continued to operate the ship for another year. However, in the year of 1948, an operation was planned by Crimsonian rebels and the next day Crimsonian rebels stormed and raided the ship, killing personnel and capturing dozens onboard. In the aftermath, the Crimsonian rebels had seized the ship and after news of ships being captured by rebels came to the Crimmitonian government, they had become overwhelmed of the raid. Crimsonian rebels then managed to restart the ships engine and used it in battle, and gave the ship new paint.
After the People's Republic of Crimsonia was proclaimed, celebrations spread throughout all across mainland Crimsonia, and to congratulate the proclamation of the communist state, the ship stayed in the coasts of Telvinra for a few days.
== Crimsonian Navy ==
In the aftermath of the Crimsonian Civil War, the ship was incorporated into the Crimsonian Navy. The battleship was renamed the Dustreun and it was then given another paintjob with the rest of the ships exterior painted light gray. The interior was stripped once again for the final time and rebuilt and latest weaponry was installed on the ship, although the cannons mounted on the bow of the ship still remained intact. In 1958, during the Bistonian Conflict, the Dustreun was nearly captured by Bistonian rebels as it was at a port in West Bistonia, however after days of clashes the Crimsonian Navy was able to recapture the ship before Bistonian rebels could potentially put it into use. In 1961, during Crimsonia's split in the Eastern Bloc, a ceremony was held to commemorate Crimsonia splitting away from their allies. 
== Greco-Crimsonian War ==
The Greco-Crimsonian War was a conflict and a naval war between the People's Republic of Crimsonia and the Greek military junta in early 1970. Crimsonia's motives for the war was to end the Greek military junta and to assert their dominance over the Telvinra Sea and reclaim control over parts of ocean seized by Greece before the war and in 1970 the People's Republic of Crimsonia declared war against the Greek military junta. The Dustreun also began involvement in the war.
In the early phases of the war, the Dustreun was launched from Crimsonian ports and it got into a clash with a Greek battleship in the Telvinra Sea, after damages were brought to the outside of the ship, the Dustreun managed to fire a hole through the stern of the battleship, and sank in the end. The Dustreun continued to be in battle for nearly half a year until the end of the Greco-Crimsonian War.
== Crimsonian-Bistonian War ==
Prior to 1986, the Dustreun was aging rapidly, as systems began failing including some of the outdated engines, but however the Crimsonian Navy had decided to ignore the problems and forced the Dustreun to operate. In the year of 1986, around a year before the beginning of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, the Dustreun was spotted by fishermen along the coasts of Bistonian Shingleton, which caused a panic within the Bistonian public opinion as war became imminent. The news of the Dustreun sighting at Bistonian Shingleton was broadcasted on Mazoji FM, and New Vilna Radio.
During the beginning of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, the Dustreun fought in naval conflicts against the Bistonian Navy, however along with several other naval conflicts the Dustreun was damaged in the process, as cannons from Bistonian battleships had struck the midsections of the battleship. It was then decided that the Crimsonian Navy placed Dustreun in repair and leave it at a port until further notice. After the ships damaged sections were repaired, it was then again decided that the Crimsonian Navy should put the Dustreun in a port and leave it abandoned as the navy had been reluctant to lose its pride despite the ship rapidly aging. Over the rest of the years, the Dustreun remained abandoned for nearly a few years and the equipment, including several door compartments below the ship malfunctioned.
== Aftermath ==
In the aftermath of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, the Crimsonian navy was devastated, as nearly all of its fleet had been destroyed in the process and several had sunk in the Bistonian Sea, however they did not have the budget to restore its navy as the country was facing yet another economic crisis in the post-war period, as a result, the Crimsonian Navy had made decisions to use the Dustreun, which had been abandoned for nearly over a few years. Work immediately had gone on the ship, and news soon came as the structure of the ship had been rusting and the ship not capable of sailing might be imminent. However, the Crimsonian navy administration denied the claim and forced many of the workers to continue installing latest equipment in the ship, however, the ship was partially completed.
In 1991, the ship was ready to be operational for the Crimsonian Navy, however, delays continued to overwhelm the process, as the Kradovo Spring had broke out including violent riots at the port city of Telvinra, as a result of the massive delays, the Dustreun continued to float at port. After troops were deployed to Telvinra, the situation stabilized which gave the navy enough time to potentially operate the ship. However again, they have decided not to.
== Second Crimsonian Civil War ==
In 1992, the Second Crimsonian Civil War broke out, with the Free Bulgarian Army seizing Southern Dobruja. This was a major concern to the Crimsonian Navy as rebel controlled territory was over a mile away from the city of Telvinra, and the Crimsonian Navy was forced to act in the civil war, with many personnel from the navy joining together with the Crimsonian People's Liberation Army to defend the city of Telvinra, during the hours prior to the Siege of Telvinra, Crimsonian Navy personnel had an escape plan incase if rebels had captured the city of Telvinra, their plan was to escape the city of Telvinra using the Dustreun, which had been docked for nearly over a year at the port. Once they had got the Dustreun to operate, they would focus on their route to Arshturn, where a unused Crimsonian naval base would be used in order to await further instructions. 
Before their plans could be foiled, personnel hired workers from the ports to get the ship under operation in a rushed way. The workers had managed to get the ship to operate properly, however they had written in their notes that there were setbacks, such as the compartments below the ship had not been working nor closing properly due to the rust, and the machinery was too outdated. However, it was rushed and it was largely ignored by those who planned to use the ship to arrive in Arshturn.
== Siege of Telvinra ==
After heavy clashes between the Free Bulgarian Army and the Crimsonian People's Liberation Army, the offensive had been foiled, and as a result the Free Bulgarian Army arrived into the city of Telvinra with fierce resistance by Crimsonian troops, prior to that, three ships from the Crimsonian Navy, the hospital ship, Telvinra, had arrived and docked at the ports of the city in order to help troops establish a temporary military hospital, as the hospital was destroyed by artillery from rebels in the surrounding areas. The Crimsonian battleship, the Vaptsarov, and finally, the Crimsonian battleship, the Dustreun. Dozens of cargo arrived at the docks and they were loaded into nearly all of the ships.
As the Siege of Telvinra reached into midnight, the rebels were on the verge of destroying the last Crimsonian holdouts and surrounded the city, and as a result Crimsonian troops began to retreat, as part of the navy's plans, most of the Crimsonian troops boarded the Vaptsarov, Telvinra and Dustreun, and the remaining forces were left to fight against Crimsonian rebels. Just as cargo was bound to be loaded into the ship, rebels bombarded a nearby warehouse, and the cargo was immediately dropped. Hours later, the rebels were nearly a distance away from the Crimsonian naval base.
==Escape from Telvinra==
As rebels had destroyed the last remaining pockets of resistance against Crimsonian troops, they had nearly arrived at the Crimsonian naval base, and as a result both captains from both ships had no choice but to force many of their personnel to cut the ropes holding the Dustreun, and the rest of the ships did the following. Because of this, dozens of Crimsonian troops were left standing on the naval base as their only way of escape was gone. The Dustreun then went out of the naval port first, including the Telvinra, and the last ship to escape the port was the Vaptsarov.
After their sudden departure from the ports in Telvinra, Crimsonian officers sent a message to the captain onboard the Dustreun, including all ships through their radio room, claiming that the remaining Crimsonian troops had decided to stay in order to fight the rebels attempting to get the city, and that Crimsonian officers gave all ships a task to remain drifting in the Telvinra Sea until Crimsonian troops secured Telvinra from rebel forces and that all ships are given permission to land once it had succeeded. Over 5 hours into the last voyage, the captain of Dustreun attempted to contact the Telvinra and the Vapstarov to no avail, as they had cut contact. Personnel also attempted to contact the Crimsonian officers remaining at Telvinra in news regarding the siege. Once they had managed to get the radio operating, it soon came that Crimsonian troops had failed in the siege, and that Telvinra fell under the rebels. The last remaining Crimsonian officer demanded that all ships which had received their last message should arrive at Arshturn to await further instructions.
1 day had passed since the Dustreun had departed from the port city of Telvinra, and during that day a ceremony was held in which all of the crew, personnel and Crimsonian troops which had managed to get into the ship came to the main ballroom. During the ceremony, the anthem of the People's Republic of Crimsonia was played, and the captain of the ship had provided a statement and an important message from the chairman of the People's Republic of Crimsonia, Ilya Zhivkov, in which his message was directly broadcasted to the ships which had departed from Telvinra, hoping safety and morale to the people inside the ships.
Over 2 days into the Dustreun's voyage to Arshturn, the captain had made a decision and attempted to turn the ship to another port city in mainland Crimsonia, despite many of the risks posing to the personnel and the crew onboard if they docked to the city, and as a result an argument occurred between the crew and the captain, which turned into a fight. Eventually, the rest of the crew had pinned down some of the opposing sides and tied them up to chairs to hold a meeting on their potential locations, mainland Crimsonia or Arshturn. The majority then voted Arshturn which caused another argument between the captain and the crew which eventually turned into a fight once they were released. They were then sent below to the decks where they were handcuffed into the bunkbeds in the quarters of the ship, including the captain.
3 days had passed, and the tension onboard the ship had calmed down. The captain was immediately released from the bunkbed and he was forced to stay in the main ballroom along with the rest of the troops living in it, and he was not given permission to operate the ship as his plans were seen as disgusting by many of the crew. By day 3, the crew onboard the ship had now taken over the Dustreun, despite the tension having calmed down, the remaining crew were still handcuffed to the bunkbeds and food shortages ran rampant across the ship, as the storage had barely enough food to sustain the passengers. At midnight, one of the crewmen was killed by a gunshot in the stomach in one of the bathrooms.
Day 4 had then arrived, and Crimsonian soldiers were getting frustrated as one of the bathroom doors were locked, and as a result they kicked the door, as the room was dark and the lights were broken, one of the soldiers took a flashlight and spotted one of the corpses of the crewman sitting on a toilet with a gunshot wound to the torso, and the crew including the passengers were alerted by the incident. The captain immediately got through the crowd and began inspecting the body. An hour later, before the rest of the crew could potentially investigate the scene, the body disappeared and it was soon spotted drifting away at the ocean covered in a bedsheet. It soon came to realization that the bedsheet belonged to the captain, as his bed in the quarters had no bedsheet later on. After confrontation, the captain admitted that he threw the body from the ship because it might potentially cause a repulsive smell across the ship, but he denied any doing in the murder. The crew became suspicious of his actions, and began arming themselves with weapons incase if the captain approached them. Tensions in the ship rose again as another fight between troops and the crew occurred as troops opposed against them for stealing their weapons.
== Arshturn ==
The Dustreun's motives were clear, they would depart from Telvinra and arrive at the island of Arshturn to an unused Crimsonian naval base, where they would be staying for a few months to await instructions, mainly, all ships which were in Telvinra at the time also had the same motives, but however both had failed as a result of the Free Bulgarian Army presence in the ocean.
== The Sinking ==
After the chaos which had occurred in Day 3 and 4, Day 5 had arrived, which would eventually be the final time the Dustreun would be seen, including several of its personnel. In the early morning, the crew released some of the remaining crew members which had been handcuffed to the bunk bed due to good behavior, and made sure that they would never do the same thing again, the food situation was dire, as passengers in the ballroom had been starving for days, and some had gone far as to beat each other for a piece of bread. One of the people which was released from the bunkbed, was a person close to the captain. After they had began a conversation, they had been acting weirdly. During sunrise, one of the passengers died of starvation, and his body was dumped into the sea. During night, the captain, along with his closer friend, went to the meeting room, as soon as they continued their conversation in private, the captain was interrupted by suddenly thinking about the argument done days prior, and went under a mental breakdown. As a result, he unholstered his pistol and shot his closer friend in the head and dropped on the floor. The captain then shot him for 5 times until passengers including the crew members heard the gunfire and ran to the meeting room where his corpse was spotted. They then came in conclusion that the captain had shot him and the rest of the crew ran to the bridge, there they spotted the captain and he then shot at another 2 of the crew. Some ran and then tackled him and tied him, then he was eventually carried to the storage room, where he was tied to a shelf.
In the aftermath of the violence, the crew went ahead and cleaned up some of the blood and the bodies, and the situation on the Dustreun had stabilized for now. Later on, 4 days prior, the Free Bulgarian Army had invented a handmade weapon called floaters, these floaters were artillery guns mounted onto a platform which would later on be surrounded by paint, grass and other things as camouflage, to disguise as a island. Many of these floaters began operating in the Telvinra Sea and it was able to travel at medium speeds with engines. As midnight reached, one of these floaters spotted the Dustreun drifting at sea, without any order to shoot, the crew operating one of the floaters had made a decision to violate their orders and fired artillery rounds at the port side of the ships bow after they managed to approach the ship without detection. 
After the floater crew fired an artillery shell along with violating their orders, the artillery shell struck the port side of the ship, creating a huge hole in the bow, after the explosion, the rest of the crew and the passengers heard an explosion coming from the bow, and the crew ran directly outside to inspect the explosion, as they approached, they immediately spotted the massive hole on the port side of the ship, and came to realize that they were in grave danger. The heavy waves began pounding against the hole and water began coming into the cargo. Doors to the compartments were shut off to avoid the ship from sinking, but however due to poor maintenance the doors failed. The ship began listing to port and passengers began panicking amid the chaos. Crew members eventually began setting up the lifeboats but somehow they didn't manage to release the remaining lifeboats for more passengers to board on. However, the lifeboats failed to launch and dozens fell to their deaths in the cold freezing water. The captain was released from his cuffs and he began giving orders to the crew. 1 hour into the situation, the bow began flooding and the ship's engines were still operating in which the ship continued to drift. After the bow flooded, personnel sent an SOS message through the radio expecting surrounding ships to pick up their message, and received a message from a Greek vessel. Eventually electricity went out and passengers couldn't see in the pitch black darkness, and as a result the remaining passengers and crew members began jumping into the deep freezing ocean, with the majority of them being dead. 
2 hours into the chaos, the bridge flooded and half of the ship nearly capsized. The rest of the remaining crew and passengers on the ship continued to stay on the ship waiting for the water to come in, however one of the crew members took up an oil lantern and wandered through the ship looking for survivors, once he managed to get all of the survivors in the ballroom, the fragile glass surrounding the ballroom had broke, and water began flooding the ballroom. It was also at this time that the rusty and fragile ship funnels began separating from the ship. During the complete silence of the ship, the remaining crew members released the rest of the lifeboats containing passengers successfully despite furniture floating around the ship.
After 3 hours, half of the Dustreun was completely underwater, and then minutes later the entire ship went underwater. The remaining survivors including one remaining crew member survived the sinking and the remaining passengers, personnel and crew members died in the sinking due to hypothermia, although several had survived. The survivors of the ship continued to stay in the lifeboats for another 8 hours with over 5 people dying due to starvation and hypothermia, afterwards, the Greek vessel arrived to the area, having no sighting of the ship sinking other than hundreds of furniture floating on the ocean. They then managed to spot one of the remaining lifeboats containing survivors and afterwards the vessel had rescued more than 38 survivors from the ship.
== Aftermath ==
After 38 survivors were retrieved from the Telvinra Sea, the crew of the Greek vessel had made a decision to send the remaining survivors to a nearby port city in Greece, as they did not want to cross the Crimsonian border to return the survivors. The survivors were waiting to return to mainland Crimsonia but however they were not able to return to the country as the civil war was still ongoing and the government at the time refused to take people into the border. As a result, the survivors continued to stay, however they were given benefits by the Greek government before they would be returned to Crimsonia. After the sinking occurred, the remaining troops at the naval base in Arshturn had anticipated some of the 3 remaining ships from Telvinra to return, however it came to no avail. Personnel attempted to contact the three remaining ships to no avail and they contacted the Crimsonian government in Kradovo regarding the situation.
After weeks arrived since personnel at the naval base had anticipated for the 3 ships to arrive, they had come to realization that all of the ships had sunk a day after their departure, however they weren't able to confirm the ship had sunk nor do they had a reason on why they had sunk. The following day, vessels owned by the rebels had spotted floating benches, remaining glass panes and lifeboats, including corpses floating at the site, despite weeks after the ship had sunk. After they retrieved some of the remaining floating items around the site, they had come to conclusion that the Dustreun had sunk, and they had not arrived to Arshturn, with the label of the lifeboat named Dustreun. Afterwards, two more sites of sunken ships were spotted scattered across the Telvinra Sea, confirming that all ships had sunk. After a short investigation was held, the news of the Dustreun, along with the Telvinra and the Vaptsarov sinking in the Telvinra Sea had spread nationwide.
After the Second Crimsonian War had officially ended in 1995, prior to the end, the Free Bulgarian Army had scattered all across the area searching for survivors to interrogate, however it came to no avail, as it had been weeks since all ships had sunk. In 1995, the Greek government responded by agreeing to return the remaining 80 survivors to Crimsonia, and the following year they had returned. In the aftermath, Bulgarian authorities immediately detained the remaining survivors and interrogated them, they became eyewitnesses and had given accounts of what had happened on the ship. They were pardoned immediately afterwards.
== Modern Day ==
In the modern day, the Dustreun still remains as a wreck deep below the Telvinra Sea, and as a result of being wrecked for nearly 20 years, parts of the bow began flaking off the ship due to the rust, and there were still rumors that bodies still remained trapped inside the vessel. Bulgarian authorities were reluctant to refloat or dismantle the wreck in the ship, as it had costed over a hundred million dollars. The Dustreun became a tourist attraction and it would be opened for diving tourists for over a thousand dollars, due to the risks.
The survivors of the Dustreun still remained, although some had died of old age, including the last crewmen which were seen as a hero to the Bulgarian government. Some of them attended interviews.
== Sections ==
In the Dustreun, there are over a dozen sections in the ship, however, there are not much of them. Some of these sections are empty, as some of them were work in progress at the time. Currently, we don't have images of the ship, although some of our developers or anybody else can screenshot them. Please send them in the New Shingleton discord server.
=== Bridge ===
The main center of the Dustreun, the bridge was used to maneuver the ship when it was operating. This was also where the fight between the captain and the crewman occurred.
=== Ballroom ===
Also known as the main room of the vessel, the Ballroom is the largest section in the ship, and its walls are partially covered in elegant fine wood. It was also where the main canteen for the ship was located, including the podium where the ships captain could address speeches to the audience. In 1992, it was converted into a large dorm room for Crimsonian soldiers who managed to get into the ship due to overcrowding.
=== Conference hall ===
Also known as a meeting room, the Conference hall was a room specially made for high ranks within the Crimsonian Navy, originally it was used to make decisions, but in 1992 it turned into an area in which the crewman would decide the fate of punishment to the perpetrator. It was also where the Dustreun's crew made routes to travel to Arshturn. The Conference hall is covered in wooden walls. The interior is plain, as it only contained a large table with dozens of chairs, including metal tables with radio equipment and ammunition.
=== Ship station ===
Also known as the radio room, the Ship station was used for personnel to contact any nearby ships, and many other things. It was also where they had received a message that Telvinra had been captured. During the ships sinking, an SOS signal including a message was sent to its nearby surroundings. The interior, like many of the rest of the sections of the ship is plain. Most of the walls were metal and it was filled with radio equipment and shelfs. 
=== Dorms ===
Also known as the jail room, the dorms were formerly used as a sleeping and residential quarters for personnel on the ship. However, in 1992, it was converted into a jail room after a fight with the captain and the crew occurred, forcing some of them including the captain to be cuffed to the bunk beds. Almost all personnel was evicted from the room and moved into the main ballroom, all of the people who were cuffed to the beds were released after they had calmed down. The dorms were located below the upper decks and it could be accessible by stairs located at the stern of the ship.
=== Offices ===
Also located below the upper decks and near the dorms, they were rooms originally used for personnel, however somewhere in the late phases of the Crimsonian-Bistonian War, some of the equipment in the offices have been not used for a few years until all of them broke. The rooms were small and only a table and a chair could fit into the room. Outside of the offices, a bunch of metal chairs were set up outside them incase many of the personnel wanted to take a break.
== In games ==
* In the thumbnail of the game, Build a Ship to Survivors Island by Navillion, you can spot the Dustreun in one of the thumbnails over a month ago, however, currently it has been removed. The thumbnail was an image of the Dustreun sinking, with its stern painted red. The full model of the ship is also found in the group models. You can find the model here including the people who've contributed to the construction of the ship.
* In a game called "My Ship Creation's Museum" by the writer of the lore, mistyerisa, you can find a room dedicated to the Dustreun, with all of its furniture displayed. A miniature version of the Dustreun can be spotted in a display case aswell.