05/11/2026
In 1913, Rudolf Diesel boarded a ship for London. He ate dinner, went to his cabin, and was never seen alive again.
In the morning, his bed was untouched. His coat lay folded over the deck railing, as if he had set it down and stepped into the sea. Ten days later, a crew spotted a body in the water, too far gone to bring aboard. They took the items from its pockets and threw the body back to the sea. His son only confirmed it was Rudolf because he recognized the items. He never saw the body.
They ruled it a s*icide. But two of the most powerful forces on Earth wanted him gone.
He had built an engine that didn’t need oil. He built it to run on peanut and vegetable oil, fuel a farmer could grow in a field. A world that would never again depend on the men who controlled petroleum. And that alone could not pass.
It was 1913, one year before the war. His engine was about to power the submarines of the future, and he was on his way to hand it over to Britain. So they stopped him in his tracks.
Nobody knows for sure what the body looked like. It was decomposed after ten days in the water. But why did the crew decide to throw it back? Who gave that order, and what did they want to hide?