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Post by Lord Derikai on Sept 1, 2014 19:12:17 GMT -6
Airships are a feature allowed in this rp, as a form of high altitude, long-distance transportation. As a recently rediscovered technology, most airships are either large cargo ships owned by companies or military blimps meant to transfer troops and supplies between areas.
Not anyone can pilot an airship. A fire and a wind elemental must be on board to power/pilot the ship, and both elementals must be at least of standard rank. The ships come in several size classes, based on how many to transport: passenger-4, cargo-4+supplies, troop carrier-100. Golems cannot travel on these airships, and so two classes were designed for them: Carrier class-10, and War class-50. The bigger the ship, the more elementals of higher ranks are needed for it to function.
Airships are a combination of steam technology and elemental abilities. Water's stored in the base of the ship and guided to a furnace, powered by the fire and wind elementals. There, it's boiled and the steam/heated air gets stored in the upper balloon and inflates it. The elementals can decide how much to feed, so they can raise and lower the airship as needed.
NOTE: Airship pilots must ask first to be one in their bio.
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