If our Empire doesn't get some kind of military trait from this I will flip! /half-joking
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
- Thread starter Questor
- Start date
Twilight Sparkle visiting from the future to learn history straight from the source?
- Location
- Florida
'Sips smoothie watching the scrying mirror blasting everything into a fine red mist' "Discord pass the popcorn it's gettin to the good part"- Grabs handful of popcorn from statue munching loudly.
Eyyy I got my hills at last!
It'll be intersting to see the rumor mill reacts to this thisness.
Using Orichalcum or even black steel to protect our cities and other infrastructure would be insanely expensive and not worth while I'm sure with runes and other such Magics wards could be created and we can save the Metals for meeting rooms and vaults if we absolutely need to be sure. The metals are just to expensive and rare to use in such vast projects
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Getting Too Old For This...
- Location
- The Shadowlands
Admittedly it brought me great satisfaction to see a genocidal maniac like Pegicles bask in his admittedly well-earned victory and rally his people right before a teleporting explosive went off in his face at point. Blank. Range. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I'm also thoroughly glad to see we got away with our foreign adventurism largely unscathed. Questor wasn't kidding when he mentioned that, historically, such interventionism has an awful track record, even when taken with the very best of intentions. I don't know what's going to happen to Maretonia in the future, but whatever it is, I can't really see it being any worse than Pegicles as an ascendant tyrant, and the non-Pegasi of the nation enslaved to feed his war-machine. That would have been... very bad, to put it mildly.
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Looking forward to seeing Equestria's reaction to the explosive conclusion to Maretonia's civil war.
Why should she care about them much that were literally raiders trying to loot a war torn Nation at it's weakest and most damage point and why would she see them as kin they are nothing like her and her family and people?
By the way, can someone remind me what species Koryū is? Because if he's just a normal dragon then the discovery of an entire nation of them might cause problems
On a brighter note, even if we're not conquering anything, as much as that pains me, hopefully all the loot we're bringing home will go a decent way to recouping our losses from last turn, especially with us probably not having to do anything to restore morale or make up losses
Wait a second… we can annex Libertalia!
On a brighter note, even if we're not conquering anything, as much as that pains me, hopefully all the loot we're bringing home will go a decent way to recouping our losses from last turn, especially with us probably not having to do anything to restore morale or make up losses
Wait a second… we can annex Libertalia!
Not much of a problem I think a lot of people will be happy for the fact Mr war crime cyclone is dead and won't do it to them?
I do want to mount a set of dragon armor in the palace gardens though. Its socially acceptable chest beating and possibly informative.
- Location
- Canada
Orichalcum is anti magic no doubt about it, but its protection only extends to those who wears it. Its not gonna stop a teleportation say, 2 feet above a floor of orichalcum. (which sounds very expensive and not at all worth it.)
No, what we need isnt orichalcum floors or walls. What we need are wards, something to create interference and enchanted to prevent scrying or divination so magic users cant see where they are aiming. So Runes, to make wards, enchantments to program what they need to target a specific branch of magic. Which sounds way more cheaper thing to research and develop then making a room made out of orichalcum.
No, what we need isnt orichalcum floors or walls. What we need are wards, something to create interference and enchanted to prevent scrying or divination so magic users cant see where they are aiming. So Runes, to make wards, enchantments to program what they need to target a specific branch of magic. Which sounds way more cheaper thing to research and develop then making a room made out of orichalcum.
Oh no, my point is that Koryū is kinda literally worshipped by his people as a divine ancestor and the last of his kind iirc
So if he's just a regular dragon then a bunch more of them might cause a schism
@Questor , so your not against harvesting materila from sentient creatures? or better yet is it taboo to do so?
- Pronouns
- He
If I recall correctly, he's a heavenly dragon while our daughter is an earthly dragon, AKA eastern and western.
I was talking about the morale part of your sentence.
- Location
- Canada
There is more then one way to conquer a territory, we shall now flood their markets with our goods.
Ah, my bad sorry
I'm honestly kind of worried how they're going to cope because as much as my desire to turn them into a protectorate stemmed from greed it was also a genuinely good way to help them recover from a massive civil war that decimated their population, destroyed their two most important cities, irrevocably changed their culture and society, destroyed most of their food supply and removed their main industry
Sure we could just build a train network for them and provide them with some technology to help but we'd need to charge through the nose and who the hell would we even be charging?
- Location
- Attempting to cast animate object on a black hole.
Because now we have a dragon daughter.
It'd be really awkward to discuss butchering technique now.
Edit: Also, we apparently picked up some carts worth of choice/blasted-off bits.
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lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
- Location
- Waxahachie tx
God.... I think there will be plenty of pegasi with ptsd about loud booms also
I would LOVE a pov of the other two faction leaders when we pulled out the scry and die.
I can just see them looking at us like "THIS IS WHAT WE ALMOST FOUGHT"
and them concluding that "While there are beings out there mightier individually than griffons there are none with a greater affinity for war. Griffon generals show a frightening insight into the most devestating plans and ways to destroy any enemies that threaten them. If you are to face an army with a seasoned griffonian general at the head be ready to face a mind built, bred, and honed not for battle, not for combat, not even for conflict.... But for war."
Then them seeing us leave without looting or demanding anything as a price
And then them going "But this insight of war does not merely limit at waging it but also knowing it's cost and price, knowing when it is over. Few are those among grifffonian generals of good standing who seek war but every soldier and general is always ready to end it."
I would LOVE a pov of the other two faction leaders when we pulled out the scry and die.
I can just see them looking at us like "THIS IS WHAT WE ALMOST FOUGHT"
and them concluding that "While there are beings out there mightier individually than griffons there are none with a greater affinity for war. Griffon generals show a frightening insight into the most devestating plans and ways to destroy any enemies that threaten them. If you are to face an army with a seasoned griffonian general at the head be ready to face a mind built, bred, and honed not for battle, not for combat, not even for conflict.... But for war."
Then them seeing us leave without looting or demanding anything as a price
And then them going "But this insight of war does not merely limit at waging it but also knowing it's cost and price, knowing when it is over. Few are those among grifffonian generals of good standing who seek war but every soldier and general is always ready to end it."
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- Location
- Underground
For SCIENCE!
Obviously.
And she doesn't know those dragons. Also, they were dicks, anyway.
Considering the matter of orichalcum based protection it should be said that the expensiveness of protections would depend on the following that I shall list; minimum required thickness to block teleportation and scrying magic (foils are less expensive than heavy plating),
if there is a minimum size for gaps in orichalcum through which magic can penetrate possibly differing between spells (like when one uses a metal mesh for a faraday cage or photon wavelength constraints),
and whether or not the teleportation can reach around walls (if it just hits a wall of orichalcum and dissipates rather than coming from another direction that would be ideal).
if there is a minimum size for gaps in orichalcum through which magic can penetrate possibly differing between spells (like when one uses a metal mesh for a faraday cage or photon wavelength constraints),
and whether or not the teleportation can reach around walls (if it just hits a wall of orichalcum and dissipates rather than coming from another direction that would be ideal).