Salim Basha
سليم باشا
Thirteen | Male | One-Hundred Fifty-Six Centimeters | One-Hundred Twenty-Five Pounds
Ottoman Empire | Technologism | Industrial Engieering
Their Story
Salim Basha (سليم باشا) is a Kurdish-born man, albeit his name is not actually Kurdish but Iraqi in nature. Poor and unable to afford any form of proper education, Salim had little else but to do hard labor to make means-end for his family and himself. It was not until the age of ten that his grandfather, Khayru Ahsan, came into Basha's life - having been released from prison (The criminal charges? Involvement in conspiracy and revolution against the Ottoman state. It did not help either that Ahsan was also a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party but that is a story kept for another time) - that things quickly changed for young Salim. Ahsan was a former Technologist and a decent one at that. Hoping to improve the life of his grand-son somehow, Ahsan educated Salim on how to do math, read, write, and more importantly taught Salim about Formulization and Technologism. Things were starting to look brighter for Salim as he used his newfound skills to better the local village community. In turn, he was more respected and gained a fair bit more money and support for his efforts. While that might be, life was quite hard. The Ottoman Empire, while granting the Kurdish peoples more autonomy and freedom, still greatly restricted the rights of the Kurds due to the material resources within the region and for nativist-political reasons that favored the Turks.
A few months after, he was making a decent name for himself as a promising person within his own field of Technologism. This caught the attention of the Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa, or Special Organization in English, a paramilitary organization heavily tied to the Ministry of War and National Intelligence Organization that acted as a de facto internal security agency within the region. Interested in the work of Salim, the Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa paid a visit to the household. Their request was simple: come with them or face imprisonment. Without much choice in the matter, Salim was forced to follow the orders. The Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa then handed Salim to the Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı for analysis. After a series of tests, Salim was found to be a fledgling learner in Polymath. Given that fact, Salim was hurried off to the Imperial School of Engineering in Istanbul. From there, Salim spent the next two years of his life studying industrial engineering and plenty of other courses in relation to said subject. At the age of thirteen, Salim, after having proved himself very capable in his own major, was given the chance to move into the Academic City of Bermuda by the Ottman government...albeit under the watchful eye of the National Intelligence Organization and Special Organization.
Specialty Explained
Salim specializes in the field of industrial engineering; optimizing complex processes and systems by the development of improvements and then the implementation of the organizations into the industrial operation. In simpler words, Salim is someone that seeks to optimize how items are made (for mass production, along with standardization). Production engineering, logistics engineering, and human factors engineering are the three sub-fields of industrial engineering that Salim is currently pursuing. Manufacturing engineering concerns itself with the practices of manufacturing. What is the most effective, efficient, and economic way possible to turn raw materials into a product. What are the machines, equipment, and tools involved and how are they used within the manufacturing process? Etc. Logistics engineering is the scientific organization of how to best use transports, storage, and distribution methods in a logistical supply chain to efficiently get products to where they are needed and at the right time done at a reasonable price. Lastly is human factors engineering, also known as ergonomics, which involves a fair amount of psychological and physiological principles. The main focal point is how do humans interact with machines and other objects of interest and how to ensure that human error is kept to a minimum, increase productivity, and ensure safety and comfort for the operating human.
Organization: Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa (مخصوصه تشکیلات) | Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı (منظمة المخابرات الوطنية)
Current Mission: [Secret]
Secret: [Secret]