Project Double-N

Project Double-N (Miss Ning (Phoenician: 寧小姐, : Níng Xiǎojiě) as the local callsign; x by TTO intelligence agencies) was the codename for a series of four simultaneous cosmic weapons tests carried out by Fengjiang at 3:00 pm on 27 12 1955. The tests were carried out at Dhan Tso, Yunjiang on the Bautan Plateau.

The devices were, designs for which were made at the Gee Visionary of the Farthest West in the Viceroyalty of Phwa-Kwok-Tsau (now dissolved), later assembled on site for the test series. The yields of the four devices tested ranged between 20 to 49. With the tests, Fengjiang became the third country to ever develop cosmic weapons, behind Barenia and Arsytia. This was the first of several thousand comic weapons tests of the country, which continue to be carried out to this day. The next test series was carried out almost immediately after: Operation High Noon around 1 of 1956.

Background
The concept of the cosmic weapon emerged in Fengese theological-scientific discourse (through its state religion of Infernalism) around the early decades of the 19th century, a logical extrapolation from the various breakthroughs in cosmosophy ( in oriental parlance) which occurred during the period. Among these, the most significant of which was the by the Fengese cosmosophist and Erudite Sakaguczi Jomogihara in 1911 (termed "stratic shattering" by the Fengese) and concurrent (though later) oriental experimentation on the concept by  scientists  and. While Jomogihara's findings determined cosmic weapons to be theoretically feasible, the concept remained a topic of both scientific and political contention, given Jomogihara's materialist leanings - the drafting of the Jomogihara Missive by Sakaguczi and fellow Materialists, which warned of the development of an "extraordinary weapon with the potential to fragment the Microcosm" and urged the acceleration of atomic research on threat of universal obliteration, would draw battle lines which defined Fengese politics in the coming decades. For his findings, Jomogihara would be controversially appointed Potentate of cosmosophy and join the Eternal Phare, delivering advice on scientific matters in his expertise to the Scion. His appointment to the position of Archmagus in 1931, beyond its drastic political implications for Fengjiang and Infernalism entire, would see the official initiation of the Fengese cosmic weapons program.

Production of the necessary   and  was the primary bottleneck of the program and indeed, empirical research on the cosmosophical theories proposed at the time. The technical difficulties of the endeavor notwithstanding, procurement of the resources (both financial and material) necessary for research was hampered by bureaucratic red tape originating from political opposition to Jomogihara and the materialist movement he was practically the face of at that point. Among the constituent Five Great Houses which then formed the country, only two (the Daiszu Commonwealth where Jomogihara was born and the Viceroyalty of Phwa-Kwok-Tsau) actively supported the program - the "West Group" which headed the program was predominantly comprised by researchers from the two aforementioned constituencies and their Sanctuaries. Ironically, the outbreak of the Great Serrataran War in 1936 and Fengjiang's later participation in 1944 would contribute substantially to the program's progress, as wartime measures forced a centralization of the country under the Eternal Phare - headed by Jomogihara and Aluyama, a sympathetic Scion.

The atomization of Bakphwalaw by a Barenian atomic bomb in 28 8 1945 (part of the greater atomic bombing of Fengjiang) served as a crucial breakthrough for the program, being a proof of concept for the theories still thought outlandish by some corners of the Fengese scientific community. To the great Materialists, the atomization of Bakphwalaw was no better than a divine inspiration from the Mother Phoenix. Whereas the radios and criers spoke of unimaginable tragedy in the obliteration of seventy thousand souls, the Erudite celebrated the martyrdom of those seventy thousand for their contribution (even if unknowing until the end) to the Infernalist understanding of reality. As Jomogihara stated: "As Erudites, we ought not be blinded by the fog of ignorance and hysteria which blinds lesser humans. For our duty, as it has always been since Her Descension, is to the grand font of Erudition, not the petty worries of peasants."