Now that the leadership of the Guild has been discredited Maximilian van Lichtenstein uses the momentum to push though his vision on how the war for the heavens should be held. The first thing he does is raise an army.
Facilities in and outside the city are confiscated and turned into training centers for the military.
Technical and academical personnel is enlisted to create the necessary military equipment and weapons: ammunition...
...rifles and machine guns...
...airships and planes...
...and for the first time in the history of mankind: nuclear weapons.