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Have you seen the latest discussion on things like Land Dreadnoughts being canon in Frostpunk? Some are getting worried, because Nemo was canon in the game and he's canon here too...
Actually, have you played the game? I just bought Frostpunk but I have work tomorrow.
Yeah I have, in the game all Land Dreadnoughts are actually broken things you can scavenge for parts because they couldn't handle function once the temperatures got cold enough, mechanical failure.
Did you encounter possinilities of threats we can't handle with just commandoes? Also, do you think our Equatorial colony can have a useful growing season with greenhouses? They seem alot more resource efficient if the climate is warm enough.
Keep in mind that this is only vaguely inspired by Frostpunk, we can't take things from the game too closely. In Frostpunk you don't encounter any military threats *at all*. The weather is just too bad for any army to move. You pretty much only need something along the lines of a police force to deal with internal unrest. There are no true military units.
We don't have any equatorial colony. I think greenhouses will require a lot of space and a lot of glass compared to Pincertech requiring a lot of rare materials and technical knowhow.
Northern Chile, near equator, with copper mine and airship dock.
Given A) Pincertech requires lots of coal burning and B) Morganville seems to be the only colony with tons of coal it might worth building some greenhouses ahere plausible.
Honestly not sure that I'd really call it equatorial. It's at the closest 19 degrees south of the equator.
Though another potential issue is extreme lack of water there. The Frost probably won't help with that because the rain shadow issues, so you'd need to bring in a ton of water for agriculture.
If we start up more colonies I really do think a very close to the equator coastal colony might be able to get away with minimal heating and greenhouse driven agriculture. We could find a location that could supply one of the minerals we need that way.
I just looked at a map, and Chile is not at all close to the equator! It might be a typo from Shaper.
But yes, greenhouses do not require electircally activated steam or incandescent lighting, so coal burning can be minimized if insolation is sufficient.
So an 100mph airship would take about 2 days to reach northern Chile from West Virgini, and can haul 20 tons.
The question is then how much of a fuel fraction of does the airship need to perform such transport at such speeds, and what the reliability (and hence uptime vs maintenance downtime ratio) of our airship fleet is expected to be.
It's why I figured that we can only effectively build colonies at locations that coal can be mined, or equatorial enough to get away without much heating.
And yes Chile isn't that close to the equator, that's why I didn't count any of our colonies as equatorial.
Also I have this odd thought that "electrically activated steam" is actually a cool mist humidifier. Because electricity directly in water just produces hydrogen and oxygen. Granted this is basically physics defying tinkertech so it doesn't really need an explanation that works with our physics.
I'm just thinking that it's might just be aeroponics.
Well, he said its plausible to run a single colony on the output of a Radium mine, but given it's extreme rarity and expense we should supply that colony with Coal and have them only use radium if a storm cuts off shipments of coal for extended periods.
More generally the grant belt of uranium deposits comes quite close to the San Juan coal basin. So if you're interested in proximity rather than being able to produce millions of tons a year of coal, you can probably get them even closer.
I figured it was just a small steam engine because there would have probably been comment if they found the power system unusual instead of just the brain.
Hmm you might raise that point to him about the automaton.
Though it's also possible that the two ton mech doesn't have any space of the right shape for it. A horse's barrel would allow you to fit a unit of higher volume.
If it turns out there's no power unit either, then I'm going to go with it definitely being wireless electricity instead of electric computer brain.
Hmm don't remember seeing the alloying ingredients list you had.
Rubber is a bit of a point, but we can get mature rubber trees for that, or produce synthetic substitutes. I don't think we can buy and store enough to effectively permanently fill demand like we can with aluminum for instance. Added it to the list though.
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