Sorcerer. We have the chance to step into greatness, far surpassing Askia's advancements.
On one side is the Steam Turbine, SCTA, which will fuel or meteoric rise to greatness. This is the metaphoric Key to the Steam/punk Age.
And on the other side, we must also decide another path. For me, that is using Skytears to take to the sky. The Sunseeds fuel the Steam Age, but Skytears fuel the age of flight and the Future of the Sky.
Think, of a castle floating in the sky, with it's own airport. It may move slowly, but such is possible for us so long as Skytears take to the sky. In this manner, Ithil is perfect. Electricity for lift, which the Turbine Design provides near limitless electricity. Indeed, it can also be used to lighten our first planes, and create bombers of great speed and light weight. Likewise, advancing the use of Skytears is a rightous cause, for the Askian Horde have already created quite a few interactions so far. We have two Special Resources, so using both effectively can lead to ever greater results.
Easier than trying to argue on discord.Steam and Flight. The first is etroa's Dream, and the second Mankind's Dream. Being made without any real weak point unlike zepplins, they are floating ships in a time where Ground to Air attacks don't really exist. Major advantage there.
As another note.. Apparently Sane designs are not going to be voted, given Ice Ships are on the docket...
Skytear Reaction: Flight in any way shape or form
Use Turbines for movement.
Build a Flying Keep and rain down destruction from atop it's deck.
Oh wait, I already did this, and it is being rejected even though it is Sane... The only other option would be planes but... Compared to an airship, not as impressive.
Purity Manipulation: The combination of Skytears and Sunseeds to trap and manipulate heat and gases into a compressed area. Used as a way to create artificial layers underground and maintain comfortable levels near the Heart Forge. As well as in the creation of steel and rarer metals.
Civilian:
Emel -o i coe(Heart of the Earth)When other nations were just now using Iron, Etroa lept ahead, creating Purity Cores. Crafted from Sunseeds and Skytears melted in a high-heat sealed foundry making full use of the Cauldra's heat, these gems could be used for a number of purposes. It constantly drew in heat from the surrounding area into itself, along with any gas near it that wasn't a basic gas found in the sky, like oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide.(Effectively anything more complex in the atomic table ends up being cooled till they become solid or too heavy to stay up. Hot Liquids like lava and magma also suffer from the heat leach. Though Humans are mostly unaffected, since it's point of absorption is around 99 F* and higher.) Shaped properly, it could also be triggered with electricity to release that heat along a specific path. As well, they stored that heat very well, with none of it being released to harm that which it touched.
Purity Cores allowed us to build underground near the deep veins of magma, and use that heat safely to create high temperature smithies and a safe, cool work environment. This in turn, allowed the forging of metal ores previously untouchable due to the heat needed.
Moreover, using these Purity Stones led to a revitalization of the Blacksmiths' passions an an interest in mining deep into the earth, where a number of rare metals existed. However, the biggest discovery was the creation of Steel. These two things led to ships being forged of Steel rather than iron, being lighter, stronger, and more durable. This along with the forging of special alloys proved itself key in the defense and counterattack against the enemy invasion. Likewise, steel was used to create far better guns, able to use more power due to being more durable against cracking, and hence having better range and power.
Purity Cores are made up of melted Sunseeds and Skytears. When melted with Skytears, the Skytears force the combination to lose density. The Sunseeds then end up adding Heat to the process, forcing crystallization of the Skytears. This ends up passing negative density before coming right back around to positive density.
The result is the Purity Core, a gem of brilliant colors like that of a rainbow trapped in clear glass. Due to the Density Loss, Sunseed's property has changed entirely, now absorbing heat into it's structure. The more heat is added, the more the heat is condensed. But this never actually changes it's outer temperature at all. It's only when sending electricity into it that the heat is released from it's bonds, following a specific path out of the gem. Cutting it properly allows you great control over this, and makes it perfect for creating a very high heat forge.
The Density Loss of the Sunseed, is more it's heat being released into the process. It turning right back around to become positive density, it reaches an equalization point where all heat is absorbed, hence how the gem forms. It is best to consider it a mixture of Sunseed and Skytear in a perfect harmony. And it's sphere is Heat Density specifically, being able to store large amounts until it is released. More electricity means more is released over time. It's density never changes though, it simply draws in all heat sources in it's purview. Larger ones tend to have larger areas of effectiveness.
One thing to note is that is entirely impossible to melt a Purity Stone with heat, as it simply absorbs it. And as noted, only temperatures of 99 F* and above are absorbed, at which point it stops leeching heat. Along with not actually being hot on the outside, it is safe for humans to handle.
It drawing hot gases to it is more a case of Skytear's density manipulation, in that it compacts it to solid form even as it leaches the heat, so volcanic gases and such get robbed of their poisonous ability, ending up falling to the floor and settling. Doesn't actually help against anything cooler than it's leech point though, or is gas at room temperature.
For an upgrade from our old stuff to the current age, along with a very interesting reaction. Being able to store heat for later has it's uses, yeah?
It's Civilian, though it is also military thanks to improving our basic stuff. The discovery of Steel is a big thing. And those Earth Forges mean forging special ores is also nice. We can probably manage to actually liquefy or evaporate Skytears and Sunseeds too, and define those reactions.
For the War Crimes section of the day, Skytear Gas causes anything it touches to compact together, forming stone and more... Exotic structures..
Just as an example Make a bomb out of it that has already had it's inner shell hardened against the effect and add an explosive to release it.
Icui-class: Buster Ship
By combining Skytear powder, mixing it with wood pulp, and then mixing in water and sunseed powder cooled through refrigeration, Gladyer kra is created. Boasting a defense greater than the strongest materials devised by mortals, and self-recovering, turning air and water around it to fill in any cracks that do get made in it. It is fairly lightweight for it's density, easily floating in water.
This was thanks to a property of Skytears to become denser the colder they got, and due to being mixed int the ice, this turned the resulting mixture extremely dense for it's thickness, easily beating out steel and more comparable to mangalloy and titanium.(In modern tests) Any cracks or imperfections that did form in the structure would literally drink in water to repair itself until it sealed over like a scab.
This was used to create the Icui-class Buster Ship. The base of it was built on land, rooms and wooden supports framed by canvas. This canvas was then sprayed by the quickly freezing Gladyer kra, which densified forming connections with the rest of the ice's structure, each layer connecting and compacting together. Using this to build a floating iceberg, gun encampments were planned ahead of time, wood supports where they would go. As well, areas were left in the new iceberg for propellers to go, which would be powered by the engine rooms.
Once the top of the ship was fully frozen, the platform it was built on was pushed to the sea, where the Gladyer kra immediately started drawing water to itself, growing an underwater base to match it's top.
The Icui-class made use of huge sails along with it's propellers, moving slowly. However it carried many many weapons, being at least 500 feet in diameter and it's visible top raised with towers reaching 100 feet. The Main reason they were called Buster Ships is because their weapons were huge for the time, making use of newly discovered steel for their barrels, allowing greater power. A single Buster Ship could take down an armada of lesser ships one by one. And it's tunnels beneath the surface made the resupply lines for these guns very safe. Moreover, they proved nearly impossible to board due to many ships simply running aground and tearing apart on impact. And even if you could, the corridors made them close ranged affairs in the tunnels, and death sentences if an enemy was atop it, unable to find proper cover, as the crewmen had no issues turning their guns against the ship's deck, secure in it's protection. And even then, not losing your ship while trying to board was impossible thanks to that fact.
Icui-class ships would go on to be known for being a sign of death, and later be built off of for numerous uses from sea airports to sonar and communication installations in the following ages. But the original Buster Ships would and will always be remembered for their defense and offence.
Given electric turbines have been removed from that STCA design.. I'm doing clean up. Only those two, but mostly cause they are older.
Military
Railwalker: ()
Reaper Gatling Gun: (1) Stirk
Angwilin, 'Iron Birds': ()
Sky Carrier: ()
Support Balloons: ()
Flying Frigates: (1) Madman
Ithil, & the Aiwenor: () Outdated, cleaned up the writing.
Graf Eld Class Skyship: ()
The Aiwenor: ()
Icui-class: Buster Ship: ()
Civilian
Eclipse Engine: (2) Stirk, TricMagic
SCTA: (2) Vostok, Madman,
Emel -o i coe(Heart of the Earth): ()
Please come back once there is actually consensus.... I'd vote multiple if I could..