Wow, early fossile fuels! Shit, Aymeric, I need to shake hands with some of your engineers, it sounds like they totally bypassed terrestrial combustion engines. Fucking wild!
But trust me, whatever the hell kinda engine they're running, we can do better. Imagine an airship that runs on something twice as powerful that you can probably mine right outta your own mountains.
[ Cain was nodding, the mental gears already spinning. Maybe the ten years of learning about Martian geology in basic classes would actually come to some kind of use?
He drummed his fingers on the sword he carried. ]
But that'll always be the second-best option, Meric. Because... think of it as math, right. To fly, and travel that distance, you need the power to battle multiple forces. You need to go up, then in the right direction fighting air currents, and the more goods you transport the heavier you are, so the more power you need.
And, um. You're already at the top of a mountain. Gravity's your friend, you've got like... one of the most powerful forces in the universe just sitting there, unused. The same way aqueducts work, right? The tiniest slope, maintained over miles, keeps the water moving down-elevation into cities. What you want is... a railway of some kind. Turn that week into two days.
Besides, the noble problem should be easy to work around. The answer's sitting right there in front of you?
[ He cast a thoughtful look up at Aymeric. ]
What's your relationship with the church like? Do you have connections you could call on? What's the faith's relationship with the, um, the nobility?
What I'm getting at, is... if you want someone to do a thing, make it something they want to do. Don't brow-beat the nobles into it, find a charismatic young priest who wants his own chapel or something.
A new place of worship, dead-center of the road, a place for the faithful to rest on the journey and pray in peace, and to greet... y'know, pilgrims. Build a sense of exclusivity, it's a project only the best stonemasons and artists will have access to, and of course it'll need protection, maybe a local watchtower and garrison, good fucking heavens, you can't have men of the faith and such a holy place out there all alone with the bandits...
You could probably get merchants outside of the nobility to help donate money too, if you explain the practical benefits of them throwing their support behind the idea.
[ He flit his freer hand down to snatch up one of the flowers and pop it into his mouth, chewing with a pleased noise. ]
But yeah, definitely needs a railway. If you can't increase productivity, you decrease wasted time.
HAH oh god i feel you, just roll with what feels right
But trust me, whatever the hell kinda engine they're running, we can do better. Imagine an airship that runs on something twice as powerful that you can probably mine right outta your own mountains.
[ Cain was nodding, the mental gears already spinning. Maybe the ten years of learning about Martian geology in basic classes would actually come to some kind of use?
He drummed his fingers on the sword he carried. ]
But that'll always be the second-best option, Meric. Because... think of it as math, right. To fly, and travel that distance, you need the power to battle multiple forces. You need to go up, then in the right direction fighting air currents, and the more goods you transport the heavier you are, so the more power you need.
And, um. You're already at the top of a mountain. Gravity's your friend, you've got like... one of the most powerful forces in the universe just sitting there, unused. The same way aqueducts work, right? The tiniest slope, maintained over miles, keeps the water moving down-elevation into cities. What you want is... a railway of some kind. Turn that week into two days.
Besides, the noble problem should be easy to work around. The answer's sitting right there in front of you?
[ He cast a thoughtful look up at Aymeric. ]
What's your relationship with the church like? Do you have connections you could call on? What's the faith's relationship with the, um, the nobility?
What I'm getting at, is... if you want someone to do a thing, make it something they want to do. Don't brow-beat the nobles into it, find a charismatic young priest who wants his own chapel or something.
A new place of worship, dead-center of the road, a place for the faithful to rest on the journey and pray in peace, and to greet... y'know, pilgrims. Build a sense of exclusivity, it's a project only the best stonemasons and artists will have access to, and of course it'll need protection, maybe a local watchtower and garrison, good fucking heavens, you can't have men of the faith and such a holy place out there all alone with the bandits...
You could probably get merchants outside of the nobility to help donate money too, if you explain the practical benefits of them throwing their support behind the idea.
[ He flit his freer hand down to snatch up one of the flowers and pop it into his mouth, chewing with a pleased noise. ]
But yeah, definitely needs a railway. If you can't increase productivity, you decrease wasted time.