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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

GERALD BULL'S GC 405, a Hundred and 55 Millimeter Howidzer

The space research corporation was doing pretty well by most people standards. They've got about 11 million dollars in us Defense contracts, which was quite a lot of money at the time. But Gerald bull is still disappointed by their rate of growth. So he works out a deal with a belgian ammunition manufacturer to create a european subsidiary of his company,. funded by an injection of their investment cash. This money allowed gerald bull to do what he did best, design new, really fucking big cannons. He took his revenge by selling it to the highest bidder, that turned out to be south africa.

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