The Nine-Thousand Isle
05-10-2008, 19:50
The streets of Grand Slavia move as normal today. Elzanite powered clocks tick away on various street cornor, Elzanite powered lamps light the streets, buiness procedes as normal, the only disturbance being a heated debate in the main square. Its the usual Luddite vs Advancers deal, it always has been these days. However, this is not about street life, this is about Advancement in technology. In the Manufactorium, homeplace of Elzanite machines works around the clock everyday, churning out machines, both conventional and military. A worker is putting the finishing touchs on a fire lighting device, Powdered Elzanite is added to a mixing vat of gunpowder, and so on a so forth. Further into the depts of the earth, reactors, extracting the magical energy from absorbers on the surface covert it into Elzanite, to be shifted to the Factory on the surface. But it is also on this floor where engineers work round the clock to produce new machines. Today, Marcus Fenix will present something drasticly important for the future.
"What I have here sirs is a mini reactor and absorber, with absorbing power increased ten-fold"
A portly young man in his 20's, Marcus places the device down by some other Elzanite powered objects. There is a click, and a load humming noise, then something odd happens. The objecrs round the device stop working. A light fades then goes out, a clock stops ticking, a grinding stone ceases to move, and the Observers look on in wonder
"Facinating, but, what does it do?"
"We are not sure yet, we are working on the possibilities for its use, for now we just wanted to show you want it does"
"Very well, you are dismissed"
Marcus packs up his devices and leaves, along with the senior staff, but just as he gets to the door "Young man, may I speak with you?"
Marcus turns, its the head of the facility, and founder of Elzanite himself, Constantine Godfrey "Sir?"
"We need to talk, privately"
He comes over to him, and listens closely"Boy, what you have there, is something that has the potientail to expand our knowledge of the outside world!"
"What? But why do we need to go out there?"
"As much as I dislike outsiders, like most people, if we are to ensure our future, we must know what lands are beyond our borders"
"But, don't we have maps?"
"Geographical Maps, but not maps of Nations, Countries, Empires!, and what you have there boy is the potiential two leave the 'field' "
The field is the area of magic that surrounds the isles, it is both a protection from enemies, and a prison cell, you see, navigational equipment such as compasses, do not work out at sea, for the magic interferes with the workings, and makes it unreliable.
"Tell me, how efficient is this device?"
"It only absorbs energy for a short time sir, 5 to 10 minutes at the most"
Constantine frowns "Dissapointing, I will put resources, limited to what I am allowed to give you, to makeing it last longer"
"But couldn't we just ask the Head of state for-"
"That is not an option, boy, you have something that saps the energy out of Elzanite powered objects, do you think that is 'they' knew about it, they wouldn't take it and use it againist us?"
"You mean the Luddites?"
"They are the only ones who would"
The discussion continued, they discussed what they would need to improve, how they could implement it into water worthy craft, and how long it would take. From that moment the first stones were laid for Slavia's expansion to the outside world
"What I have here sirs is a mini reactor and absorber, with absorbing power increased ten-fold"
A portly young man in his 20's, Marcus places the device down by some other Elzanite powered objects. There is a click, and a load humming noise, then something odd happens. The objecrs round the device stop working. A light fades then goes out, a clock stops ticking, a grinding stone ceases to move, and the Observers look on in wonder
"Facinating, but, what does it do?"
"We are not sure yet, we are working on the possibilities for its use, for now we just wanted to show you want it does"
"Very well, you are dismissed"
Marcus packs up his devices and leaves, along with the senior staff, but just as he gets to the door "Young man, may I speak with you?"
Marcus turns, its the head of the facility, and founder of Elzanite himself, Constantine Godfrey "Sir?"
"We need to talk, privately"
He comes over to him, and listens closely"Boy, what you have there, is something that has the potientail to expand our knowledge of the outside world!"
"What? But why do we need to go out there?"
"As much as I dislike outsiders, like most people, if we are to ensure our future, we must know what lands are beyond our borders"
"But, don't we have maps?"
"Geographical Maps, but not maps of Nations, Countries, Empires!, and what you have there boy is the potiential two leave the 'field' "
The field is the area of magic that surrounds the isles, it is both a protection from enemies, and a prison cell, you see, navigational equipment such as compasses, do not work out at sea, for the magic interferes with the workings, and makes it unreliable.
"Tell me, how efficient is this device?"
"It only absorbs energy for a short time sir, 5 to 10 minutes at the most"
Constantine frowns "Dissapointing, I will put resources, limited to what I am allowed to give you, to makeing it last longer"
"But couldn't we just ask the Head of state for-"
"That is not an option, boy, you have something that saps the energy out of Elzanite powered objects, do you think that is 'they' knew about it, they wouldn't take it and use it againist us?"
"You mean the Luddites?"
"They are the only ones who would"
The discussion continued, they discussed what they would need to improve, how they could implement it into water worthy craft, and how long it would take. From that moment the first stones were laid for Slavia's expansion to the outside world