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Gargantia's city-ships were 10/10 awesome, mostly because of how they addressed where they got resources. rain collection being a huge deal, fishing, continual salvage dives. And the gliders. awesome setting.

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Lots of good info!

So an Ironclad is a fully iron hull? or is it a wooden hull reinforced with metal?

If I'm reading this right, Aetherite amplifies casting rather than acting as any sort of "energy buffer", or am I mistaken in that it DOES act as a buffer, but the caster can't feel it deplete, and when the Aetherite runs out, momentum can kill the caster?

Do engines just channel unfocused Aether-energy, or do they have to be "programmed" with a single spell the engine channels energy into? If there are larger engines, is larger more efficient, or just linearly more powerful by being able to burn more Aetherite at once?

Mad Science galore, it sounds like. My kind of setting.

Robots and power cells? Would have thought they'd just be dragging up scrap metal mostly. If there are power cells and engines, that means electricity? Are we talking full Sci-Fi circuits and carbon-fiber or steampunk brass and smoke? either way, awesome.

I'd still like to know the smallest engine size commonly used. Are there Dinghy-sized Aether-engines? Skiff-sized? Do islanders slap crude Moon-Engines on surf-boards for fun and travel?

Additional questions: if nature has adapted, are there "floating forests" (sick idea for a name either way: "Forest of Sails") people could potentially live in, and if so, is it possible to create a "living boat" druid-style out of a sea-tree?

Last question, Is it just humans on the oceans? Monsters with enough wit to trick humans into a watery grave? Rumors of fantasy-races in remote corners?


Sorry for going full-broadside with the questions here, it's pretty interesting.