Emperor Meiji would have been proud if he could live to see the photographs placed on the desk of Governor Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, which contained the light machine gun design Bruno had inspired him to commission during his final years as Emperor of Japan.
Alidius currently reigned as the governor of the Dutch East Indies, and in the wake of the Second World War's end, he now found himself in a precarious position.
Surrounded by officers of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, the governor looked at each individual photograph and saw the initial signs of an armed uprising forming.
One of the officers was quick to point out the details they were looking at.
