So, I've been having a discussion about how one can travel to Kugane.
In the MSQ, it makes a pretty big deal of having to manage to get a ship to sail all the way out to Kugane. And, if I'm remembering correctly, someone stated that traveling by sea to Othard is a two month affair - referenced in the lorebook or something similar to that. Once you've actually traveled to Othard, though, you can use the aetherytes to teleport willy-nilly if you have the gil to spend.
But what got brought up is... why couldn't one travel there in an airship? If you followed a similar route, skirting the southern edges of the Garlean Empire, couldn't you make the journey in potentially less time? The WoL certainly would've had access to airships to travel that way and, even if they needed a specially modified one - I'm sure Cid and them could've modified the Enterprise or something to make that journey.
So, why wasn't it an option? I'm trying to remember if the MSQ actually brings up a reason why it was unfeasible.
Was it because the Garlean Navy would've detected them and shot them down? If so, wouldn't have just normal sailing have been just as dangerous? I mean, I suppose it was/is since you had to make a deal with smugglers to get to Kugane to begin with. But then afterward, you can sail back and forth without incident (which could, again, just be a game consent to keep you from being able to go to and from).
Or was it a fuel issue? How much ceruleum gets used up by the airships just going around Eorzea? Maybe they don't have access to enough of the fuel or efficient enough engines to risk flying over the ocean like that? Could Cid and company have designed something that might've fixed that, or would that still have required an airship of a size they just didn't have access to or time to modify?
To tl;dr this whole thing down to its base: how hard is it to get to Othard and what options are available to people?
In the MSQ, it makes a pretty big deal of having to manage to get a ship to sail all the way out to Kugane. And, if I'm remembering correctly, someone stated that traveling by sea to Othard is a two month affair - referenced in the lorebook or something similar to that. Once you've actually traveled to Othard, though, you can use the aetherytes to teleport willy-nilly if you have the gil to spend.
But what got brought up is... why couldn't one travel there in an airship? If you followed a similar route, skirting the southern edges of the Garlean Empire, couldn't you make the journey in potentially less time? The WoL certainly would've had access to airships to travel that way and, even if they needed a specially modified one - I'm sure Cid and them could've modified the Enterprise or something to make that journey.
So, why wasn't it an option? I'm trying to remember if the MSQ actually brings up a reason why it was unfeasible.
Was it because the Garlean Navy would've detected them and shot them down? If so, wouldn't have just normal sailing have been just as dangerous? I mean, I suppose it was/is since you had to make a deal with smugglers to get to Kugane to begin with. But then afterward, you can sail back and forth without incident (which could, again, just be a game consent to keep you from being able to go to and from).
Or was it a fuel issue? How much ceruleum gets used up by the airships just going around Eorzea? Maybe they don't have access to enough of the fuel or efficient enough engines to risk flying over the ocean like that? Could Cid and company have designed something that might've fixed that, or would that still have required an airship of a size they just didn't have access to or time to modify?
To tl;dr this whole thing down to its base: how hard is it to get to Othard and what options are available to people?
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