I'm pretty sure the Scope is a camera?
the image produced is erased by moving the plates, so i wouldn't say it produces a permanent image.
True, but it's definitely not a live image. It stays until it's erased.
I very much hope it will be someone, anyone, wanting to talk about the fully functional Waystones we just started hammering into the landscape like nails in Chaos's coffin.
Most critical objective is that the Empire and allied nations can and will proliferate Waystones and tributaries without further input from Mathilde. We may have reached this point but such is not immediately evident.
Got it. I suppose it's up to us to decide whether it's worth spending more time making Seviroscopes to make them and their general principles more worthy of note.
They already did stop being coy about albion.
We would need to look at the Marienburg and Los Cabos nexuses before worrying about whether either of those are necessary or even viable.
They've admitted it exists, but that it's still entirely inaccessible and largely unknown even to them doesn't make it very reliable as one of the hinges the entire Old World is hanging on. In canon this led to multiple centuries of everyone farting around while Belakor did whatever he pleased there, and Mathilde has butterflied away several individuals who would have been instrumental in delaying his plans.
The current state of the nexuses is largely irrelevant; it's the political issue that they exist in vulnerable locations with relatively poor military protection, and an agreement to intercede if something happens only goes so far when Chaos already succeeded at cutting the Marienburg leyline once and Ulthuan was late to the party.
It is relevant, because making new nexuses is hard and making new route to bypass Marienburg would be... extremely hard. It may legitimately be cheaper to put a few knight monasteries next to the relevant nexuses and fund them for the next hundred years than to make a whole new nexus.
The issue there is that the current waystone model we have is ideal for high-Dhar locations next to (or close) to rivers, which Laurelorn Forest doesn't have many of.
Point of order, we know how much they need it already:
Tributaries in Kislev is paydirt for our project's efforts at saving the world - it means they can build up faster, and therefore build up more before the invasion happens. We shouldn't skip it.
Writing the papers will do that just fine -- after all, Waaagh and Peace was a paper, not a book, and that's the most popular thing we've ever done (9 CF). The thing that makes books different from papers is that they sacrifice the College Favor from writing multiple papers in exchange for action efficiency (since it's two AP to write a book that might cover multiple papers' worth of ground); however, with Seviroscopes/phones, there's no reason not to do it as papers because it's two AP either way and doing it as papers is more CF.
Is making new nexuses hard? We don't know that yet, and making new waystones turned out to be way simpler than I think anyone would have guessed prior to the project. It turned out that when everyone put their heads together, there were very simple solutions for things the old methods made very complicated, like how we completely eliminated Titan-Metal from the design, and found three different ways to replace it no less.
Per the accords, the elves no longer have any say in what non-elven nations do with the portions of the network within their borders. The Vortex is Ulthuan's property, but most human nations aren't allied or particularly friendly with Ulthuan, and as long as they aren't using it to sabotage Ulthuan, they have every right to establish a link with their well-established Dwarven allies who have just as many uses for the energy as Ulthuan does.
