(06-03-2016, 04:50 AM)Valence Wrote: Oh right, Cerruleum... I'm le stupid.
Which brings me to the question: why not using cerruleum and attaching Magitek wings for those manacutters then? Hard to replicate on small ships? Maybe the same process that saw the design of bigger airships, that weren't initially propelled by cerruleum power?
Likely that a ceruleum engine is much too large/heavy for a small manacutter to support, or that it would exhaust fuel too quickly to go very far? I don't know for certain, but if you go to the Market Board and look up the Airship Components tab under Items, you can read through the descriptions of all the airship parts and they provide some interesting lore. Like how a new type of airship, called the Viltgance is applying manacutter aether technology to larger airship builds. Unfortunately, if you look at its stats, it greatly reduces the airship's overall range.
Viltgance-type Aetherwings Wrote:The wings of a Viltgance-type airship, which adopt the same technology as Garlond Ironworks' Manacutters in treating the wings with wind-aspected aether for buoyancy.
And the Odyssey also has an experimental aetherial propulsion engine, however, on the larger airship, it seems to greatly reduce its speed.
Odyssey-type Aftcastle Wrote:The rear half of an Odyssey-type airship, including the poop deck, tiller, rudder, and an experimental aetherial propulsion engine.
So there is a mix and match of technologies that is happening when creating new airships. Maybe someone will invent a ceruluem propulsion engine small enough for manacutters, allowing them to fly in less aetherially dense airspaces. However, that doesn't seem to be possible yet.
Perhaps that is something for your character to be ICly working towards?
