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Do we even have any Diamond Dog sailors in our navy right now?
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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Do we even have any Diamond Dog sailors in our navy right now?
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They've been around almost as long as the Navy has so yeah more than likely we do. Even if we don't have them in our Navy there are a bunch of fisherdogs that ply their trade. Diamond dogs are prevalent in every facet of our civilization at this point.
Most terrestrial helium supplies come from radioactive decay of elements like uranium and thorium, and is trapped with natural gas. Our country has large amounts of non precious minerals, so if that extends to radioactive elements, we might have a good supply of helium available.
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Well even if we don't then we just strap some super magic powered fans and go full FF airship style but with more steampunk and guns.
Omake: Comparisons of Mythology and History, Part 1
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Omake number 2! @Questor
Chapter 6-0: Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I
One can not talk about the history of the modern gryphon without speaking of the first post-discord Emperor, Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I. (Isn't he that gryphon those Ogres & Oubliettes nerds are always going on about? Or maybe it was maxy, she's always telling me about that game of hers... except wasn't Golden-feather a girl in that fate whatever thing she's always going on about?)
To the populace, his reign has been heavily romanticized. Sagas such as Talon-Sea's "In Darkness and Discord" (I hope thats not required reading) have touted him as the mythical dragon-blooded warrior king (I suddenly feel like I need to read more), A single gryphon worth hundreds on the battlefield, equal to his wife and surpassed only by his right claw-gryphon Konrad Hardbeak, to return with his legendary blade should Gryphons ever face catastrophe again. Others, such as Beakspear's "Garrick & Gabriella," (He was the main character of that boring waste of paper!? Maybe I should just ask sparky notes for some help with this one then...) have painted him as an incredibly handsome romantic, with a head for the people and a heart for his one true love. And yet others still portray the gryphon as a ruthless, paranoid pragmatist and schemer who would do whatever it takes to attain his goals, such as in Milo's long form military epic, "Song of Griffonia," or simply "Griffonia," as it is called now. (Looked it up in the library. Nuh uh. Not reading that. Not even if it's assigned. I'm sure the dictionary has less pages...)
Among those three portrayals, it is "Griffonia" (What? But he sounded so cool) which strikes the closest as true, commonly attributed to being both the oldest of the three and written in an era closest to the legendary emperor. The current estimate, according to historians, is it was created near the tail of his reign and written down not fourty years after. However, even that depiction is considered inaccurate to who Garrick Golden-Feather I was.
Despite all the stories told, the emperor was not a god-like figure, nor was he descended of one. All first and second party accounts indicate that, before taking the throne, he was simply a merchant, carrying goods across a divided nation until he was chosen by the sheer happenstance of being the only living descendant of the line of the old gryphon Emperors after the previous king passed away. Should the journal of the first emperor not have been stolen and split between various third parties in the 4th century P.D., this would have been easier to prove, but on one of the pages we do have access to (see figure 1A), a log of various transactions has been written out, with magic-dating and handwriting analysis confirming it to have been before the estimated date of the start of his rule. Combined with the matching transaction logs in the old Feathersian archives, gives a fairly decent picture to his mercantile past. (real wordy way of saying "He used to sell stuff." Got it.)
Furthermore, given various accounts with both wingbardy and the Feathersian league, his strengths were not on the battlefield, but rather in administration and diplomacy (He's getting more boring by the minute). And, in the writings of many at the time, including his wife, Gabriella Golden-Feather, before the First Winter War the Emperor was not the handsome muscle bound predator that many of the late images picture him as (Oh, so the pic at the start of the chapter wasn't accurate? Or it was, but not at the start or something...). Rather, he was average in terms of body tone, perhaps even less so than the modern day standard for gryphons (Even the girls feel like they'd break one of my hooves by accident if they shook it...). Still incredibly handsome, by all accounts, although some detractors say his appearance was embellished, and he was not quite as handsome as the portrait "Atop the Snow Capped Cliffs" (see figure 2A) (The heck? Dude still looks jacked), a depiction of him at the time of the winter war, would have the populace believe. Some radical scholars would go as far as to say he was disfigured in some manner, and forced as many gryphons as he could to make him look better, but this theory is one that only has credence stemming from the writings of King Cyril Brochard, a then enemy of the emperor. (right, dude was handsome, get on with it)
All in all, it does not paint the picture the mythic ruler defending his nation, a magic, anti-evil sword in claw. (yeah, get to that part please!)
So what was it that elevated the first emperor of the gryphons to such a legendary status? To have tales exaggerate him to such a legendary, nigh ingryphon paragon?
Simply put, the reign of the first emperor could be considered the perfect storm, for it was the sheer combination of talent at the head of the government directed by his unparalleled pragmatism and a war on the scale of existential denial that made the emperor who he was. (Why haven't we learned about this earlier if its so important?)
In terms of his government, all under the emperor were experts in their field, and with his acumen as an administrator he used them to their fullest potential. However, two names in particular stand out among them.
Grandmaster Konrad Hardbeak, leader of the Lions and fighting savant, and Archimedes, praised as one of the greatest geniuses to have ever lived. (We meet again Archimedes. I have yet to defeat you in math class, but I will do so here!)
And among those two, it was Archimedes who the emperor made the greatest use out of as both an administrator and a military tactician.
Should war have not plagued the gryphons, there is no doubt among scholars that Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I's abilities in direction and administration would have led to a peaceful golden age rife with advancement on an unprecedented scale. Steam technology, metallurgy, agriculture, ballistics, chemistry, on all fronts, Archimedes and his disciples advanced at a mind boggling pace, and with the emperors trust placed in him, there is no doubt even without war, griffonia would have been an incredibly prosperous, if not incredibly drunk, (Did they have the joke about gryphons being born with a bottle of alchohol in their mouths back then?) empire under his rule.
However, there was war.
And with war, do heroes rise.
Chapter 6-1: Beginnings of a ruler, The Unification war and Kingslayer Hardbeak
To be continued at a later date, if I feel like it.
Excerpt from "Comparisons of Mythology and History," by Ferdinand Ironclaw and Dusty Scripts, notes and highlights by an unnamed student
Chapter 6-0: Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I
One can not talk about the history of the modern gryphon without speaking of the first post-discord Emperor, Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I. (Isn't he that gryphon those Ogres & Oubliettes nerds are always going on about? Or maybe it was maxy, she's always telling me about that game of hers... except wasn't Golden-feather a girl in that fate whatever thing she's always going on about?)
To the populace, his reign has been heavily romanticized. Sagas such as Talon-Sea's "In Darkness and Discord" (I hope thats not required reading) have touted him as the mythical dragon-blooded warrior king (I suddenly feel like I need to read more), A single gryphon worth hundreds on the battlefield, equal to his wife and surpassed only by his right claw-gryphon Konrad Hardbeak, to return with his legendary blade should Gryphons ever face catastrophe again. Others, such as Beakspear's "Garrick & Gabriella," (He was the main character of that boring waste of paper!? Maybe I should just ask sparky notes for some help with this one then...) have painted him as an incredibly handsome romantic, with a head for the people and a heart for his one true love. And yet others still portray the gryphon as a ruthless, paranoid pragmatist and schemer who would do whatever it takes to attain his goals, such as in Milo's long form military epic, "Song of Griffonia," or simply "Griffonia," as it is called now. (Looked it up in the library. Nuh uh. Not reading that. Not even if it's assigned. I'm sure the dictionary has less pages...)
Among those three portrayals, it is "Griffonia" (What? But he sounded so cool) which strikes the closest as true, commonly attributed to being both the oldest of the three and written in an era closest to the legendary emperor. The current estimate, according to historians, is it was created near the tail of his reign and written down not fourty years after. However, even that depiction is considered inaccurate to who Garrick Golden-Feather I was.
Despite all the stories told, the emperor was not a god-like figure, nor was he descended of one. All first and second party accounts indicate that, before taking the throne, he was simply a merchant, carrying goods across a divided nation until he was chosen by the sheer happenstance of being the only living descendant of the line of the old gryphon Emperors after the previous king passed away. Should the journal of the first emperor not have been stolen and split between various third parties in the 4th century P.D., this would have been easier to prove, but on one of the pages we do have access to (see figure 1A), a log of various transactions has been written out, with magic-dating and handwriting analysis confirming it to have been before the estimated date of the start of his rule. Combined with the matching transaction logs in the old Feathersian archives, gives a fairly decent picture to his mercantile past. (real wordy way of saying "He used to sell stuff." Got it.)
Furthermore, given various accounts with both wingbardy and the Feathersian league, his strengths were not on the battlefield, but rather in administration and diplomacy (He's getting more boring by the minute). And, in the writings of many at the time, including his wife, Gabriella Golden-Feather, before the First Winter War the Emperor was not the handsome muscle bound predator that many of the late images picture him as (Oh, so the pic at the start of the chapter wasn't accurate? Or it was, but not at the start or something...). Rather, he was average in terms of body tone, perhaps even less so than the modern day standard for gryphons (Even the girls feel like they'd break one of my hooves by accident if they shook it...). Still incredibly handsome, by all accounts, although some detractors say his appearance was embellished, and he was not quite as handsome as the portrait "Atop the Snow Capped Cliffs" (see figure 2A) (The heck? Dude still looks jacked), a depiction of him at the time of the winter war, would have the populace believe. Some radical scholars would go as far as to say he was disfigured in some manner, and forced as many gryphons as he could to make him look better, but this theory is one that only has credence stemming from the writings of King Cyril Brochard, a then enemy of the emperor. (right, dude was handsome, get on with it)
All in all, it does not paint the picture the mythic ruler defending his nation, a magic, anti-evil sword in claw. (yeah, get to that part please!)
So what was it that elevated the first emperor of the gryphons to such a legendary status? To have tales exaggerate him to such a legendary, nigh ingryphon paragon?
Simply put, the reign of the first emperor could be considered the perfect storm, for it was the sheer combination of talent at the head of the government directed by his unparalleled pragmatism and a war on the scale of existential denial that made the emperor who he was. (Why haven't we learned about this earlier if its so important?)
In terms of his government, all under the emperor were experts in their field, and with his acumen as an administrator he used them to their fullest potential. However, two names in particular stand out among them.
Grandmaster Konrad Hardbeak, leader of the Lions and fighting savant, and Archimedes, praised as one of the greatest geniuses to have ever lived. (We meet again Archimedes. I have yet to defeat you in math class, but I will do so here!)
And among those two, it was Archimedes who the emperor made the greatest use out of as both an administrator and a military tactician.
Should war have not plagued the gryphons, there is no doubt among scholars that Emperor Garrick Golden-Feather I's abilities in direction and administration would have led to a peaceful golden age rife with advancement on an unprecedented scale. Steam technology, metallurgy, agriculture, ballistics, chemistry, on all fronts, Archimedes and his disciples advanced at a mind boggling pace, and with the emperors trust placed in him, there is no doubt even without war, griffonia would have been an incredibly prosperous, if not incredibly drunk, (Did they have the joke about gryphons being born with a bottle of alchohol in their mouths back then?) empire under his rule.
However, there was war.
And with war, do heroes rise.
Chapter 6-1: Beginnings of a ruler, The Unification war and Kingslayer Hardbeak
To be continued at a later date, if I feel like it.
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This is the only part that is not accurate. We are not the descendant of the line of kings. We are the descendant of the Imperial House of the old Empire not the Kings of Griffonia. Aside from that good job.
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Ah, lemme fix that real quick then...
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well, I just went with she's pretty young at the current, and probably doesnt recall this particular part. Thus, her testimony isn't as relevant for the initial part. that, and I'm not sure if at 1000 years she'll still recall as far back. her testimony will be used, but 1, it'd be biased, and 2, can't count on memory when it'd be a small section of a thousand year time span.
That, and she might be like "Yeah! He totally fought 100 gryphons at once! Dad was the best!" Well, don't have a bearing on her personality yet tho.
That, and I'm not sure if she'll be alive then... not to be dark, but I just wanted to make sure
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Dragons have pretty good memories. I doubt she would forget what we did. She is young right now but we have at least one more war if not two against Sombra she is going to remember.
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Yeah, given the next war isn't for 2-3 years, minimum, she'll remember that for sure. just, her testimony wouldn't be relevant until we reach that point. If something doesn't go wrong... and she's still alive then.
anyway, now onto drunk gryphons invent calculus... if I can even write that one properly. I can only write something halfway funny if its short.
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The war is going to be longer than 2-3 years it will take a while even with mind control to rebuild and equip an army the size that Sombra used last time. He is also likely to make it even larger than before as well so even longer to rebuild.
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I.... don't see what the problem here is? I just said that's what I think the absolute minimum time he'll get something resembling a fighting force in. It will most likely be longer, hopefully.
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No problem just saying you are really low balling the time it would take.
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+15 to a roll! Once again, astounded by the number of omakes this Quest has seen!
@Raptor580 pretty much have mine to be used in the immediate period, sorry. But if my inspiration hits on something I might... better not count on it though been busy ^^
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For the emprah!
I will mainly only do omakes if I'm inspired for it, so the fact that you're quest has given me enough motivation to write three is pretty telling as to the quality of this quest so far.
Anyway, for that omake, put a couple of references in there that I'm sure several picked up. in darkness and discord isn't a reference to anything, although the story is more a reference to mainly king arthur/fionn/el cid, which double jokes back to that "fate something" bit near the top about Golden-feather being a girl. garrick and gabriella is a reference to antony and cleopatra, although the story content will be different... hopefully. and song of griffonia is a reference to the illiad.
the painting atop the snow capped cliffs is a nod to another omake, I believe.
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@Questor please use my bonus to the Intrigue action if it's a bad roll ; if not to make a good roll in a critical one.
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