Nah, it's okay! The time passed earlier when I saw somebody running by without any Terran traits, and the world is kind of, like, more stationary? Than it would be at Lungmen. The city moves on a giant vehicle because it's a nomadic one.
[ it's like a massive fucking tank, basically.
his ear twitches like animal ears do when you touch them, and he looks out of the corner of his eye, kind of amused. ]
You already fixed my hair and fur in the jail, you can touch them if you want, Jolyne.
[ she is ignoring that last bit and just kind of... pets them gently :soup: and maybe gives him a gentle scritch while she's there. ]
That's right—you mentioned something about it being Nomadic. So... your city moves? That's insane. I think that's like the stuff of dreams back home, a moving city.
[ they are velvet soft! he relaxes further with the scritch, eyes closing placidly as he listens. ]
Kind of like a tank..? It's a lot of interwoven stuff, really - they're powered by Originium, which forms after a Catastrophe happens on Terra. But the Catastrophes are why there are nomadic cities. It means that they can evacuate everyone all at once before a natural disaster takes them out, and no one is trampled in a panic.
I talked to Ponta, and apparently Earth doesn't have them happen nearly as often as Terra does.
Mmhm. Volcanos. Tornadoes. The whole gamut - whatever natural disaster you can think of, Terra gets slammed by them. We've lost whole cities to Catastrophes, and we've even had some nomadic ones taken out because they didn't mobilize fast enough.
Countries like Kazimierz - a, uh, knightly kind of place? I guess? they're sort of feudal capitalistic nation in some ways - don't have that many nomadic cities. Kjerag is a theocratic nation based in the mountains, and they don't really have a need for nomadic cities, so they don't have any at all.
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[ it's like a massive fucking tank, basically.
his ear twitches like animal ears do when you touch them, and he looks out of the corner of his eye, kind of amused. ]
You already fixed my hair and fur in the jail, you can touch them if you want, Jolyne.
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That's right—you mentioned something about it being Nomadic. So... your city moves? That's insane. I think that's like the stuff of dreams back home, a moving city.
What kind of vehicle is it...?
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Kind of like a tank..? It's a lot of interwoven stuff, really - they're powered by Originium, which forms after a Catastrophe happens on Terra. But the Catastrophes are why there are nomadic cities. It means that they can evacuate everyone all at once before a natural disaster takes them out, and no one is trampled in a panic.
I talked to Ponta, and apparently Earth doesn't have them happen nearly as often as Terra does.
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[ pet... pet... ]
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Countries like Kazimierz - a, uh, knightly kind of place? I guess? they're sort of feudal capitalistic nation in some ways - don't have that many nomadic cities. Kjerag is a theocratic nation based in the mountains, and they don't really have a need for nomadic cities, so they don't have any at all.