In a world left changed and deserted by a magical cataclysm, civilization slowly begins to reassert itself. These are the struggles of those who came first, their fights, travels, and adventures.
Efficiency of supply chains? Existancee and resiliance isfirst?
It *is* kind of important to subsistence though. Most of the modern world relying on overly elaborate logistics chain, any advanced gear they want a steady supply of that would not be related to salvaging. Ammunition, food, spare parts... Hard not to concede those don't play a role in existence and resilience. Not every colony has the manpower to put together a workshop to machine the parts they'd need to keep something like mere generators running.
It will be interesting once The Fearsome Fivesome get more ‘screen time’ with the New Tides regulars. Probably once they reach Havana.
Lots that can happen in Havana. Way I designed that colony, it's intended to be a trade hub for the American sector. Lots of stuff.
Hard part though, is that Alden's story is months ahead of mine in lore, so coordinating events between the two without spoiling one or the other is a bit of a challenge.
man this chap i read at the sound of a song for a siren. thanks spotfy
Siren? Hmmm... There are still two of the trio left alive. Pity the poor sod that'll try to sail the Baltic. Might need to borrow a 40mm Bofor from the WSU, ought to drive 'em off.
amazing chapter Merchant Mariner all kinds of fun times are a hoof.
A-hoof? Way to get my gears running on technicalities. Since they walk on 'em but use them to grab stuff, would the closer idiom be 'at hand' or 'afoot'? ... At Hoof... A Hoof... [grumbles thoughtfully]
11026559 i am more talking about a pairing the reading the last chap whit this music song for a siren that my Spotfy rolled this week in week discoveries
What happens when a pregnant woman turns into a parrot or other egg-laying species?
Nothing harmful normally. In all likelihood, the affected mothers would return into existence with the egg within them and would find themselves laying it in very short order after that, with the embryo inside set at a development stage proportional to how long it had been in the womb before that. Might be quite the surprise for them, but I doubt even a Returnee not familiar with the new world would be surprised to see a parrot or dragon laying an egg.
Only specie I can think off the top of my head where the difference in development time would be significant compared to humans, is the dragons, since they're notably slow to reproduce, so the egg would take several more months to finish its cycle than the usual 9 months.
The complicated part might be with species like hippogriffs and griffons that can gestate both ways, since for them the early stages of the pregnancy/egg are when the conditions are set for which type will be chosen, and a new Returnee wouldn't have the knowledge of which factors to pay attention to, to get the result they want.
and how do changeling reproduce? The same as in the canon of ponies after people or by the queen or otherwise?
That uh... depends. In order to make it fit together at least semi-coherently with PaP canon and MLP in general, I've decided to follow the same thread that the 'template' for returnees that come back as changelings was a bit screwed up.
So in practice that means multiple wildly different subspecies of changelings exist. They're still all egg layers, but those subspecies will differ in appearance and social order. On one extreme you'd have Chrysalis' kind of 'lings with a hivemind and a queen that produces the drones, and on the other end of the sprectrum you'd have the more independant 'reformed' changelings that can reproduce on their own, but lack the hivemind connection.
And since the species' template is screwed up, add to those two however many subspecies you'd want.
Narratively speaking, and I try my best to keep the worldbuilding coherent... changelings are a pain in the ass.
Comment posted by discord2004 deleted Nov 12th, 2021
Not many, and in all likelyhood they would be of small tonnage and firepower. A corvette or a frigate maybe, but nothing much bigger than that. The point of the story isn't really to have modern militaries turn up and curbstomp the demons -if they were still present in the story, they would-, but it's more of a low intensity conflict where the WSU is more interesting in cementing their infrastructure than actively going after the demons.
And in their eyes, a surface-combattant isn't that interesting. An armed cargo vessel can fight off an attack and prove itself useful by ferrying goods and manpower between colonies. A destroyer would have little trouble fighting off a sea beast, but good luck loading one with enough cargo to be relevant on a trade route.
11047447 Difficult to work with. Another author might be interested, but personally I'm not too invested in adding military ships, much less one that would bring several thousand people in one go when the largest colony at the time barely breaks the 300 inhabitants cap.
Efficiency of supply chains? Existancee and resiliance isfirst?
It will be interesting once The Fearsome Fivesome get more ‘screen time’ with the New Tides regulars. Probably once they reach Havana.
man this chap i read at the sound of a song for a siren. thanks spotfy
amazing chapter Merchant Mariner all kinds of fun times are a hoof.
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It *is* kind of important to subsistence though. Most of the modern world relying on overly elaborate logistics chain, any advanced gear they want a steady supply of that would not be related to salvaging. Ammunition, food, spare parts... Hard not to concede those don't play a role in existence and resilience. Not every colony has the manpower to put together a workshop to machine the parts they'd need to keep something like mere generators running.
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Lots that can happen in Havana. Way I designed that colony, it's intended to be a trade hub for the American sector. Lots of stuff.
Hard part though, is that Alden's story is months ahead of mine in lore, so coordinating events between the two without spoiling one or the other is a bit of a challenge.
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Siren? Hmmm... There are still two of the trio left alive. Pity the poor sod that'll try to sail the Baltic. Might need to borrow a 40mm Bofor from the WSU, ought to drive 'em off.
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A-hoof? Way to get my gears running on technicalities. Since they walk on 'em but use them to grab stuff, would the closer idiom be 'at hand' or 'afoot'? ... At Hoof... A Hoof... [grumbles thoughtfully]
11026559
i am more talking about a pairing the reading the last chap whit this music song for a siren that my Spotfy rolled this week in week discoveries
11026559
What happens when a pregnant woman turns into a parrot or other egg-laying species?
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Nothing harmful normally. In all likelihood, the affected mothers would return into existence with the egg within them and would find themselves laying it in very short order after that, with the embryo inside set at a development stage proportional to how long it had been in the womb before that. Might be quite the surprise for them, but I doubt even a Returnee not familiar with the new world would be surprised to see a parrot or dragon laying an egg.
Only specie I can think off the top of my head where the difference in development time would be significant compared to humans, is the dragons, since they're notably slow to reproduce, so the egg would take several more months to finish its cycle than the usual 9 months.
The complicated part might be with species like hippogriffs and griffons that can gestate both ways, since for them the early stages of the pregnancy/egg are when the conditions are set for which type will be chosen, and a new Returnee wouldn't have the knowledge of which factors to pay attention to, to get the result they want.
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and how do changeling reproduce? The same as in the canon of ponies after people or by the queen or otherwise?
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That uh... depends. In order to make it fit together at least semi-coherently with PaP canon and MLP in general, I've decided to follow the same thread that the 'template' for returnees that come back as changelings was a bit screwed up.
So in practice that means multiple wildly different subspecies of changelings exist. They're still all egg layers, but those subspecies will differ in appearance and social order. On one extreme you'd have Chrysalis' kind of 'lings with a hivemind and a queen that produces the drones, and on the other end of the sprectrum you'd have the more independant 'reformed' changelings that can reproduce on their own, but lack the hivemind connection.
And since the species' template is screwed up, add to those two however many subspecies you'd want.
Narratively speaking, and I try my best to keep the worldbuilding coherent... changelings are a pain in the ass.
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will there be warships in history?
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Not many, and in all likelyhood they would be of small tonnage and firepower. A corvette or a frigate maybe, but nothing much bigger than that. The point of the story isn't really to have modern militaries turn up and curbstomp the demons -if they were still present in the story, they would-, but it's more of a low intensity conflict where the WSU is more interesting in cementing their infrastructure than actively going after the demons.
And in their eyes, a surface-combattant isn't that interesting. An armed cargo vessel can fight off an attack and prove itself useful by ferrying goods and manpower between colonies. A destroyer would have little trouble fighting off a sea beast, but good luck loading one with enough cargo to be relevant on a trade route.
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And an aircraft carrier whose crew would not be able to fly planes anymore?
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Difficult to work with. Another author might be interested, but personally I'm not too invested in adding military ships, much less one that would bring several thousand people in one go when the largest colony at the time barely breaks the 300 inhabitants cap.
So it's highly unlikely I'd ever add one.