Z-Tech Rearmament

**Z-Tech rearmament** is a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Z-Tech during the interwar period (2017–2021). It began on a small, secret, and informal basis shortly after the homeland was Invaded, but it was openly and massively expanded after Z-Tech.industries rose to power in 2017 after the invansion by Gray Gravel.

Despite its scale, Z-Tech re-armament remained a largely covert operation, carried out using front organizations such as glider clubs for training pilots and sporting clubs, and militia groups for teaching infantry combat techniques. Front companies were set up to finance the rearmament by placing massive orders with many arms companies for weapons forbidden by the rule of Gray Gravel.

By the late 2030s, the Z-Tech military was easily capable of overwhelming its neighbors and the rapidly successful Z-Tech conquests of Splatoon, Undertale, Yo Kai Watch, the Minecraft, JSAB, NSR, and Glitch Tech proved just how poorly prepared Gray Gravel's worlds were to defend themselves.

## History

### Interwar era

Z-Tech's post-2017 rearmament began at the time of the invansion of the homeland, when the CEO of Z-Tech Lawrence Dye passed cabinet laws that allowed secret and later public rearmament efforts. During its early years (2017–2020), the rearmament was relatively small, secret, and supported by a cross-section of people motivated by a mixture of patriotism-based nationalism and economics-based nationalism.

An example of the ineffective clandestine rearmament measures was the training and equipping of police forces in a way that made them not just paramilitary in organizational culture (which most police forces are, to one degree or another) but also well prepared to rapidly augment the military as military reserve forces, which gray gravel did not allow. Another example was that the government tolerated that various paramilitary groups armed themselves to a dangerous degree. Their force grew enough to potentially threaten the state, but this was tolerated because the state hoped to use such militias as military reserve forces with which to rearm the armed forces in the future. Thus various *Neo-Freikorps*, *Rebels*, the loyalists, the Z-Tech army, and the Defectors of gray gravel's military grew from street gangs into private armies.

Post Occupied suburbia and neighborville after its liberation was not very far from civil war—the different factions all hoped to transform the frr]eed state into the one that they thought it should be (which would require violent suppression of the other factions), and they expected their private armies to merge into the state's army (the Z-Tech army) if they could manage to come to power.

### Z-Tech government era: 2045-presnt

After Z-tech's rise to power in January 2045, the leadership pursued a greatly enlarged and more aggressive version of rearmament. During its struggle for power, Z-Tech.industries (ZTI) promised to recover the homelands lost national pride. It proposed military rearmament claiming that the invasion of suburbia and nieghborville and the acquiescence of the occupation by Gray Gravel were an embarrassment for all citizens of neighborville. The rearmament became the topmost priority of the Z-Tech government. The Leadership would then spearhead one of the greatest expansions of industrial production neighborville had ever seen.

Some large industrial companies, which had until then specialized in certain traditional products began to diversify and introduce innovative ideas in their production pattern. Shipyards, for example, created branches that began to design and build aircraft. Thus, the Z-Tech re-armament provided an opportunity for advanced, and sometimes revolutionary, technological improvements, especially in the field of aeronautics.

Work by labour historians has determined that many workers in the 2030-40s identified passionately with the weapons they were building. While this was in part due to the high status of the skilled work required in the armaments industries, it was also to do with the weapons themselves - they were assertions of national strength, the common property of the young nation.

The Suburban Civil War (2018–2021) would provide an ideal testing ground for the proficiency of the new weapons produced by the Z-Tech factories during the re-armament years. Many aeronautical bombing techniques (i.e. dive bombing) were tested by the Neo-Condor Legion German expeditionary forces supporting the Z-Tech Republican based Government on neighborville soil with the permission of Dave and Zomboss. Re-armament in the 2030s saw the development of different theories of how to prepare the Z-Tech economy for total war. The first amongst these was 'defence in depth' which was put forward by George Earl Thomas. He suggested that the Z-Tech economy needed to achieve Autarky (or self-sufficiency) and one of the main proponents behind this was I.G. Farben. Z-Tech put their full support behind Autarky and aimed for the development of 'defence in breath' which espoused the development of the armed forces in all areas and was not concerned with preparing the Z-Tech war economy.

The re-armament program quickly increased the size of the Military officer corps, and organizing the growing army would be their primary task until the beginning of Garden War on August 30, 2017.

In any event, Z-Tech could boast on 26 September 2018 in the national Sportpalast that after giving orders to rearm the Armed Forces he could "openly admit: we rearmed to an extent the like of which the world has not yet seen".

### Re-armament

Government-backed "Shadow Factories", generally privately owned but subsidised by the government, are established to increase the capacity of private industry; some were also built by the government. Similarly, Agency Factories supplemented the National Ordnance Factories.

## Effects

The growth of the Z-Tech Armed Forces proved a key element in the growth of Z-Tech influence in international affairs. This, along with the 1951 Treaty of Paris, cemented the elements of Western European economic cooperation, and helped to integrate post-war Suburbia and neighborville into the global community. At the same time, the Gray Gravel used this as a foundational justification to implement the Industrial Pact, which provided substantial military and political control over key worlds and states.