rogue_star (rogue_star) wrote in exiles,
@ 2010-08-24 12:58:00

Entry tags:

"with great power...", black knight, bullseye, crusader, danielle cage, iron dragon, iron widow, kevin kinross

With Great Power Comes... Shiny Faux Gold Belts, pt. 1
The Exiles disappear from the asteroid in the midst of massed armadas after the fight with Thanos, down two of their number. After the grandeur of space and sweeping cosmic nature of their last mission, its kind of a shock to the system to end up in a dusty parking lot outside a massive arena. Currently the place is empty, though signboards flash up some of the current events planned to take place there in the near future.
Just as pressing, of course, there's a couple new faces in their midst.

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rogue_star
2010-09-16 04:09 am UTC (link)

"Those are cars. In most worlds, they came about around a century before the current time period. They're potentially much faster than a horse, and magic is not commonly available to the masses in most worlds. A car also doesn't take up the space needed to raise horses. The haze in the sky is from them... from factories that mass produce goods... lots of sources. For the most part, though, I think there's a lot of technology we'll have to get you used to. In any case, most of these people never lived in a time without the haze in the sky and pollution. There's efforts being made on a lot of worlds to cut back on it, but it will never be like before the industrial revolution again."

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steelandsorcery
2010-09-18 02:58 am UTC (link)

Dane listens intently as Sarah explains these "cars" to him. He finds it both strange yet hopeful that people have come to depend on these technologies to aid them. How much different would his own world be if they had cars to ferry them against The Chosen?

"Hm. I see that I'll need to spend some time studying the technology of the worlds we travel to. There may be things in our travels that can aid my world when I return to it." he surmises.

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rogue_star
2010-09-18 03:06 am UTC (link)

"Probably so. If you don't have cars, I'm also guessing your weapons are at the crossbows and melee weapons stage? Maybe muskets? If so, I can teach you about rifling, rocketry, ballistic arcs... somewhere between two hundred and a thousand years of warfare and tactics beyond what I'm guessing your technology base is."

Normally she wouldn't dare do such a thing to a less advanced world, but for the overthrow of demons? That would be worth it, right?

"As for the cars... there's also heavily armed and armored versions, as well as flying vehicles that travel at hundreds of miles an hour."

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