NationStates Jolt Archive


Build your Castle in the Sky

The Jade Star
17-02-2007, 19:05
Feeling grounded? Your nations real-estate not up to snuff?
Maybe that heavy pollution is giving you cancer?
The Tolarian Academy has a solution for you!

Recent advances in powerstone-based engine technology which have led to shifts in TSF building policies (The Jade Star class of battleships, as the prime example), have been modified by our own brilliant thaumaturgists for a number of civilian purposes. This has resulted in, as the thaumaturgists responsible for the discovery have dubbed it, 'unreal estate'.
Using a number of military-grade powerstone engines it is possible to lift not only starships, but buildings and, indeed, small islands, and keep these stable within a planetary atmosphere, allowing for, essentially, flying houses.
Never having to find a parking space again aside, the advantages should be clear. Protection from most forms of crime not involving significant military hardware, rising above most pollutants, less traffic noise, and a 24 excellent view. Plus, if you want to move, all you need do is push a few buttons.

The price must, unfourtunatly, reflect the usefulness of these structures. We cannot provide a standard price guide as our clients are generaly of the more demanding sort with very specific demands in mind for their home.

However, rest assured, the Tolarian Academy makes use of only the finest materials and labour to construct these facilities. If you wish to purchase a hundred room castle made entirly of diamond, we will locate a source of diamonds of a suitably large nature and rearrange them into a suitable domicile. If you want a six hundred foot tall tower constructed entirly of black steel, we will find steel and blacken it.
If you want a mansion built of living human flesh...we probobly wont do that, but we will attempt to find a suitable substitute. However we can do swimming pools full of blood, jello or mercury, depending on your tastes.

Our contractors will provide price quotations free of charge or commitment, your home will be constructed on a planet of your choice (They are quite difficult to move between planets), and will be ready within the deadline we provide prior to construction or we will return %20 of the cost directly to you, our customers.

The Tolarian Academy will NOT construct military facilities on this pattern, we can provide islands suitable FOR military construction, however.
Any weapons emplacements, fighter bays, etc. etc., you request with your purchase will be contracted through other military suppliers and added to the cost.