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------TIEN WANDA: Moth Paikor (ex-Tienmi Gigant) sets off for Tomp City. Paikor has a hundred and sixty-three storm seasons under her crest - several thousand transits to and from the far side of the world. Her line of transports are built like forts against the tempests this world delights in casting, and cheaper to operate than their chain sub competitors. The stats dictate, however, that it is but a matter of time before one of their ilk fails to return.
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Utterly fascinating image, truly great and incredibly rare sense of Fantasy-Industrial. Great and engrossing details, marvelous depth and palette.
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Thanks so much for the feedback and support; glad you relate to it! I never had a specific term for the aesthetics I'm going for, but Fantasy-Industrial helps alot with pinning that nebula : )
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Thank you for some truly wonderful art.
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Wow! Did they pump out the ballast to raise her to the height of the dock?
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Hey Dreagthe! I wonder if they are - she does seem to sit pretty high in the water doesn't she? There's still alot going on beneath the waterline though, as she'd need the reassurance on those sullen oceans. Maybe you can tell me
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Thanks, glad you connect with it
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Thank you! Very happy you think so.
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I have to admit though even as a fantasy dirigible enthusiast, I believe large mairtime ships will always have a niche to fill in intercontinental transport. Airships, while faster and able to cross land, are vulnerable to storms and high winds, since their lighter-than-air weight and massive size more or less make them giant rigid balloons, even when tethered, thus making them unsuitable over water where there are few if any safe places to hunker down from the hurricane-force winds that whip across the sea, threatening to tear airships into shreds from the forces alone.
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I share your fondness for the rigid airship! It IS a stretch though, to envision a world relatably similar to ours, in which dirigibles are viable and ubiquitous stand-ins for the roles traditionally associated with blue water shipping. It’d have to be a place very unlike Earth as it is today. Still.. eh, we can root and feel for both modes of transport! The airship will have its niches (or can make them, at least), and no one can look upon a hundred thousand tons of moving steel without at least a sliver of wonder.
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Thank you! Glad it works
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