#Military Energy Storage

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Ground Military Battery Market Analysis Key Trends, Growth Opportunities, Challenges, Key Players, End User Demand and Forecasts to 2032

Overview: The ground military battery market refers to the market for batteries used in various ground-based military applications such as armoured vehicles, communication systems, field equipment, and portable electronics. These batteries play a crucial role in providing reliable and long-lasting power supply in demanding military operations.

Key Factors:

Increasing Defence Expenditure: The rise in defence budgets across the globe is a significant driving factor for the ground military battery market. Governments are investing in advanced military technologies, including ground-based systems, leading to an increased demand for reliable power solutions.

Growing Adoption of Unmanned Systems: The proliferation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and autonomous systems in military operations requires high-performance batteries. The need for longer endurance and improved power efficiency in these systems is driving the demand for advanced batteries.

Focus on Lightweight Solutions: Military forces are emphasizing the need for lightweight battery solutions to reduce the overall weight of equipment and increase mobility. Lightweight batteries enable soldiers to carry more equipment and operate for longer durations without the burden of heavy power sources.

Operational Efficiency and Reliability: Military operations require batteries that can withstand harsh environmental conditions, including extreme temperatures, shocks, vibrations, and rugged terrains. Ground military batteries need to provide reliable and consistent power supply to critical systems without compromising performance.

Characteristics:

High Energy Density: Ground military batteries need to have high energy densities to ensure longer operation times and support power-intensive applications such as communication systems, night vision devices, and electronic warfare equipment.

Durability and Robustness: Military batteries must be designed to withstand harsh operating conditions, including extreme temperatures, humidity, shocks, and vibrations. They need to be rugged and reliable to ensure uninterrupted power supply in demanding environments.

Fast Recharge Capabilities: Quick recharge capabilities are essential for military batteries as they often operate in time-critical situations. Fast recharge times ensure that soldiers and equipment can quickly resume operations after a power source has been depleted.

Safety Features: Ground military batteries should incorporate safety features such as protection against overcharging, short circuits, and thermal runaway to prevent accidents and ensure the safety of soldiers and equipment.

Long Operational Life: Extended operational life is crucial for ground military batteries to minimize the frequency of replacements and reduce logistical burdens. Longer battery life ensures continuous power supply and reduces downtime for critical military operations.

Demand:

Armored Vehicles: Ground military batteries are extensively used in armored vehicles for starting engines, powering communication systems, operating electronic systems, and running various other auxiliary systems.

Communication Systems: The demand for ground military batteries is high in communication systems such as radios, satellite terminals, and data communication devices. These batteries provide reliable power to ensure uninterrupted communication in the field.

Portable Electronics: Military personnel rely on portable electronics such as handheld GPS devices, night vision goggles, and ruggedized laptops. Ground military batteries power these devices, allowing soldiers to operate effectively in the field.

Field Equipment: Various field equipment, including surveillance systems, remote sensors, and command posts, require batteries for their operation. These batteries need to be durable and long-lasting to support extended field deployments.

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Steven, who DIDN'T PICK OUT THE APARTMENT, who literally does NOT have the time nor energy nor MONEY to fix up the place, who probably isn't the reason the kitchen table is jury rigged and on a tilt, who is just managing to keep his goldfish alive, who wouldn't have sand and tape everywhere if he weren't being hijacked at night for secret quests: oh I'm sorry we can't all be weird military washouts who live in a tidy little storage locker because all the rest of our stuff is actually stored at MY place and the only thing you had to stash there was a cot and your bag full of crimes.

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Maria, Shadow and Gerald in Sonic 3: how small changes in lore lead up to disaster

It's a fact that an adaptation of any particular work is going to change some of the original's aspects around to fit the new medium it's being adapted into. However, a considerable chunk of the changes the third Sonic movie makes to Sonic Adventure 2's plot, seemingly innocuous or even major improvements according to some, actually result in the movie falling apart, both as an adaptation and as its own story.

SPOILERS AHEAD.

The terminal illness Maria had is omitted.

This change significantly affects all three of the characters:

Maria had to stay at the top-secret research facility Gerald worked at, Space Colony ARK, because her illness could only be managed in that facility’s specific conditions. The movie doesn’t explain what its iteration of Maria, who is healthy, was doing at the military base Shadow was being studied at in the first place.

Gerald agreed to head the government’s Project Shadow, the aim of which was to achieve immortality and which ultimately led to Shadow’s creation, only because he hoped to use the results of the project as a way to find a cure for his granddaughter’s illness. In the movie, Shadow fell out of the sky one day, and Gerald just so happened to be the scientist who discovered him.

Shadow was created to cure Maria’s illness. This means his purpose in life was intrinsically tied to her. His movie counterpart, on the other hand, bonded with her purely because she was nice to him and played with him sometimes before dying, which makes his obsession with avenging her death come across as wildly disproportionate and unintentionally laughable.

Point is, Maria’s illness is the thematic “glue” connecting those three characters. Removing it without replacing it with anything equally meaningful to both Shadow and Gerald’s lives makes Maria’s relevance to the story more incidental than integral - you could replace her with any other kid at the base, and the outcome would still have been largely the same.��

Now, with all of this in mind…

GUN’s decision to raid Gerald’s lab makes no sense.

Supplemental material for SA2 and Gerald's diary entries in Sonic Battle paint a clear picture of the lead-up to the ARK raid - GUN's top brass, who already had an axe to grind against Gerald and his research project, got word of how unstable the Biolizard was and jumped at the opportunity to use that as an excuse for a purge of the entire facility. Gerald, for his part, wasn't willing to allow them to stop his research because Maria’s life was at stake.

None of this is present in the movie. The military doesn't hate Gerald, there's no Project Shadow-related incident they could use as pretext for ordering the purge, and Gerald himself seems to have been cooperative - which means that if they feared Shadow’s powers, they could've terminated the project simply by confiscating Shadow while he was in stasis and laying off the personnel. Basically, they decided to kill everyone for no reason, which leads me into my next point.

Maria’s death is an accident.

In the games, Maria died due to a GUN soldier intentionally shooting her to tie up a loose end. In the movie, a rogue soldier from the contingent helmed by then-Captain Walters tried to shoot at Maria and Shadow as they were escaping the base, but misfired after Walters tried to wrestle the gun out of his hands and hit a storage tank with Shadow’s Chaos Energy, which caused an explosion that claimed Maria’s life. 

The hilarity of a US soldier pulling his conscience out of his ass to go “NO WAIT WE SHOULDN’T KILL CHILDREN” because he’s besties with that particular child aside, the other soldiers inexplicably don’t take the chance to shoot their targets while their captain’s in the middle of a fit either. Furthermore, the explosion that claimed Maria’s life somehow claimed only Maria’s life, even though Walters himself, Gerald and every other human present at that facility should’ve died from it as well.

Finally, the movie itself seems to have this strange framing problem where, despite Maria’s death being a freak accident, it’s treated as if Shadow actually saw her get shot down. He believes that "GUN took everything from [him and Gerald]" and angsts that he spent 50 years "reliving what [GUN] did to her” even though he should be able to recall Walters trying to stop the soldier if he was able to recall the cause of her death clearly enough to know GUN had to do with it. It makes little sense.

By the way, speaking of Walters.

The movie’s Commander was already under GUN’s employ by the time of the raid.

Shadow’s eponymous 2005 game - which, incidentally, director Jeff Fowler had worked on - shows the Commander was also a kid around the time it occurred, even younger than Maria.

With this, ShTH tied the character into Shadow's backstory while also neatly explaining why he didn't factor into the raid's events. The movie does factor him into the raid's events via Walters' sudden outburst of morality, which doesn't make sense for the reasons described in the point above and, realistically, would've gotten him discharged (if he survived that explosion, that is)

Maria has no last words for Shadow.

In SA2, Maria’s last words are a poignant testament to her character, as she chose to use her last breath to request Shadow to make people happy. They also speak volumes of her relationship with Shadow - namely, her trust in him and her capacity to see good in him. Compared to this, her movie’s counterpart’s quick death comes across as rather cheap. The absence of her last words also leads into yet another negative change.

Gerald didn’t tamper with Shadow’s memories.

Shadow spends most of SA2 convinced that Maria wanted him to avenge her death due to Gerald modifying his recollection of her last words while working on Project Shadow under GUN’s supervision after his imprisonment.

It’s only after Amy reaches out to him that he finally remembers what Maria really wanted and rushes to make up for his part in Gerald’s plan.

In the movie, however, Shadow was separated from Gerald immediately, and the latter had nothing to modify. This means the movie’s Shadow willingly chose to go along with Gerald’s genocidal plans, all because the girl who was nice to him died in an accident, even though he knew for a fact the girl herself would never want that. Whereas SA2 showed Shadow’s capacity for kindness even before his redemption via his decision to save Rouge from certain death, the movie’s Shadow only feels guilty after hurting Tom but decides to double down instead, and whereas the games’ Shadow was selflessly devoted to Maria’s wish (which was twisted by Gerald), the movie’s Shadow selfishly lashes out at the world due to his inability to stop marinating in his pain - exactly like the movie’s Gerald.

Another consequence of this is that Shadow is depicted as little else than a lost, pained child, implied to only want to die during the battle against Sonic. He has no plan, he has no morals (neither evil nor good), he is not particularly cunning - he is, as he himself admits, fully defined by his pain. A pain that, as detailed earlier, is more hollow than in the games, as Maria to him was nothing more than a playmate.

The aforementioned parallel with Gerald wouldn't be necessarily bad on its own. But there's a problem with how the movie handles it.

Gerald is depicted as irredeemable.

In Sonic Adventure 2, Gerald Robotnik is only seen in the Last Story, but his tragic tale leaves a strong impression. He was once a kind scientist, ready to use his genius for the good of the world and his beloved granddaughter, Maria (recent material implies that Eggman wasn’t born until after his arrest). He took extreme measures to finish his project, such as accepting a deal with an alien warlord, but he always meant well. 

The raid, and learning about Maria’s death, shattered his psyche. He admitted to himself to be scared of his own vengeful thoughts, until he could no longer control them. 

From there, he came up with his terrible plan of crashing the ARK into Earth to take vengeance against the humanity who destroyed his life, and using Shadow, whom he used to see as his own son, as a tool to carry out the plan long after his death. The story wants you to pity Gerald without exonerating him; we get to see his disturbing descent into madness, and future games such as Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Battle and Shadow Generations better show him the goodhearted person he used to be, making his ultimate fate all the more tragic.

None of this complexity is present in the movie’s Gerald. There is not a single scene of him bonding with his own granddaughter - all we’re told is that she was his reason for living. He studied Shadow just because he believed his power could be useful, and not because he had any serious personal stake in the research. Maria’s death was an accident, depriving it of the callousness of the game’s version of the events and therefore cheapening Gerald’s world-destroying despair. He marinated in his thoughts of revenge for 50 years without doubting himself once. And, while still carrying with him the trademark Jim Carrey goofiness, he’s overall presented as a more competent, bitter antagonist than his own grandson, spending most of his time manipulating him and the more child-like Shadow.

It is notable, and jarring, that despite the movie’s message being that you always have a choice and you can always right your wrongs, Gerald is never given a chance to falter in his plan. While Shadow and Robotnik are given grand redemptive moments, he is given the most undignified death possible, his body disintegrating in a mass of Chaos Energy with the sound of a mosquito being zapped. He was never worth sympathizing with.

Given the aforementioned parallel with Shadow, the movie's different treatment of them is all the more noticeable. Shadow is a tragic villain whose grief over losing a loved one clouded his judgement, who gets to talk about his pain the most and who gets to recognize the error of his ways. Gerald, however, has his grief conveyed mostly through his insane plan, is nothing more than a rabid dog, and gets put down like one in the end. Shadow's anguish over his playmate gets more focus than Gerald's sorrow over his granddaughter.

What's worse, this doesn’t only reflect on them.

Robotnik was warped OOC for the sake of becoming more sympathetic.

Robotnik in the first two movies had a very clear arc. While always a difficult person to work with due to his unchecked ego, Robotnik started off as a government contractor, eccentric but reliable in his own way. Multiple defeats at Sonic’s hands, including being stranded on an alien planet, made him veer off the deep end, growing increasingly more unhinged and power-hungry, culminating in him taking the Master Emerald for himself to pilot his giant Death Egg Robot. On top of this, ever since the first movie, Robotnik was written to be highly misanthropic, allegedly due to a difficult childhood, making him prefer the company of his own robots over people; however, he was still intelligent and cunning enough to manipulate Knuckles into thinking he’s his friend, only to betray him at the last second and rub it in his face.

Agent Stone has always been the only exception to his misanthropy, but only because the man is that competent and sycophantic. The fun of their dynamic was the contrast of Robotnik’s utter disregard of his lackey with Stone’s eager loyalty.

With all of this in mind, a Robotnik that has always been bitter over having grown up as an orphan wouldn’t immediately bow down and literally kiss the feet of a long-lost grandfather.

Robotnik in the third movie is a shadow of his former self. While still somewhat arrogant, and still expressing his desire to rule the world, he attaches himself to Gerald with a frankly childish display of need for love. The moment Gerald reveals to have been the one hacking into his creations, which by all means should have sent him into a rage, Robotnik does nothing but meekly follow his grandfather along for his plan, simply happy to have found his “family”, without a trace of resentment and immediately assuming that this man, a stranger to him, would love and care for him. He is genuinely hurt when Gerald sneers to him that he doesn’t care about anyone that isn’t his Maria (much like Knuckles was when Robotnik himself tricked him), and from there, the movie puts him in the position of a hero willing to do the right thing and sacrifice himself for the sake of his lackey - which is a gross misunderstanding of what actually happens in SA2, where Eggman only helps the heroes because, well, how can he conquer the planet if there is no planet?

And, to cap it all off, he sends a heartfelt goodbye message to Stone, where he finally calls him his friend, because he was his real family all along.

Now, compare the Robotniks in those two videos. Like day and night, huh?

(yes, Eggman in SA2 highly respected his grandfather, and seemed to be disappointed to learn that he wanted to destroy the planet. But contrary to popular belief, his respect for him was purely from an intellectual standpoint, if not a deeply self-absorbed one - Gerald being a genius reflects well on Eggman’s own genius. This isn’t even getting into the fact that Eggman is the one who kickstarted SA2’s entire plot, by looking into Gerald’s research, breaking into Prison Island and awakening Shadow: Robotnik in the movie, as detailed above, completely lacks agency until the very end.)

All in all, the handling of Shadow's backstory in the movie really feels like the filmmakers just lifted a bunch of ideas from the original story without trying to understand what made those ideas work, and their own story suffered as a result.

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Cyberform AU - Part 4

Commune "Deception" (Decepticon base for Cyberformed allies).

Warning: Attention in this AU all people are in one universe (reality), for their own psychological well-being. Also in this post real places on our planet are mentioned (they just have a different history).

Before the Decepticons took over the island, it housed a human research base for studying Antarctica (climate conditions, observing local fauna, as well as observing volcanic activity. Deception Island has one of two active volcanoes on the northern continent).

After the Cybertronians arrived on Earth in 1984, the Decepticons sought to gain a tactical advantage over the Autobots. Obviously, the Autobots had gained a lot of human support, and later the government gave them a military base in Diego Garcia, which was quite remote and secluded. Megatron knew that his forces needed such a secluded base more than enough, and over the next couple of years, he not only found a few human allies, but also had Starscream and his trine on research missions (this definitely made the Autobots nervous and on high alert). The task of these flights was to find a suitable place for Shockwave's new base, far from human eyesight, with the necessary energy potential and with a climate harsh enough that the Cybertronians themselves did not want to attack or engage in espionage. Oddly enough, there are quite a few islands on Earth that are not inhabited by people for one reason or another, but they were not suitable for the Decepticons' business. Some of them, like the Archipel Kerguelen, although they were remote, had zero population (as it later turned out in the second reconnaissance, there were researchers there, not so zero), had no energy potential, the second was Bouvet Island, it was an ideal place, there was no human population, a harsh climate, but the problem of the lack of a power source was not acceptable. The last option was Deception Island.

Besides the fact that the name was extremely ironic, the territory had everything necessary. The volcanic island had a power source (a volcano), no human activity and, most importantly, an unpleasant climate from the outside. The Decepticons did not even have to drive away human researchers, since after a series of eruptions in the 1970s, they simply left the territory alone, which the Cybertronians subsequently rushed to take advantage of.

Much later, when the scientific lab and base were built and protected, it became a place for cyberformation of the Decepticons' few human allies.

Deception Island: a former research island, now a Decepticon military and scientific base. Consists of several floors, the lower floors are used to power the entire base from heat generators powered by the island's volcanic activity. Then come the storage floors (energon reserves, parts, metals and weapons, as well as an archive of Shockwave's scientific works and other Decepticon scientists). Later come the laboratories themselves (the territory where the cyberformation process takes place belongs to the research part of the base), testing areas, archives. On the upper floors of the base are residential complexes and training halls, as well as a communication point with the main base of the purple-faction.

Usually, once a person gets to the Decepticons' island, there is a chance that he will not return to the world of people. The cyberformed ones of sorts become primarily a defense force against potential Autobot attack (however, as practice has shown, the Autobots avoid Deception Island as much as the Decepticons avoid Diego Garcia). However, Soundwave and the others are not inclined to erase information about their activities, so the human government is forced to figure out whether a human has become a victim or a willing ally. In either case, the information about him will be erased (this is done by the human government itself and the same secret agents who erase data on the Autobots' allies).

The commune of Cyberformed people on the island was formed spontaneously. They have no main leader, no management system or hierarchy, everyone does what is close to them and brings benefit to the cause. For the most part, Silas and Harold Attinger fight for control of the commune (you know how Megatron is always fighting with Starscream for leadership? Well, imagine that it is about the same, only these are two Megatrons). Silas uses military methods of management, iron discipline in his hands becomes a severe test for other cyberformed. Attinger uses the interests of others to force them to obey, this usually works more effectively than Silas's strict attempts (sometimes he can be even more frightening than Leland Bishop, not afraid to hurt an ally or threaten death. This is a cold calculation, not a business approach, Silas can simply threaten deactivation). Despite this, the commune reports directly to the Decepticon High Command, whether they like it or not Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and Shockwave are their new bosses. Due to the lack of unity in the commune, it is not entirely clear whether the former humans share a common culture or holiday, for the most part they are consumed by personal ambitions, the desire to gain a certain position in the Decepticon hierarchy or to come to terms with the new state of affairs. (The only ones who care the least about this are Priscilla Pynch and Vince).

On the island, the Decepticon allies are trained in military affairs, Cybertronian sciences (only two of the former humans have received such an honor) and are trained. Unlike the Autobots, the Decepticons do not see anything wrong with taking new allies into battle. This creates a direct confrontation between the Autobot and Decepticon allies (Many of them have personal scores to settle, so if Silas is involved in the battles, there is a chance that he will clash with Fowler. The same goes for Harold Attinger and Cade Yeager). Deception Base performs primarily a scientific research function, but also treats wounded soldiers (as does Diego Garcia).

Access to the island is via spacebridge and airspace (probably by water, too, but due to the harsh conditions, none of the Decepticons and Autobots were stupid enough to try).

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Ozzie back here again to add to the idea of how much König needs to eat a day, here are a few suggestions that I can imagine he does to make his great need for food easier to handle (this is based on my own experience and the experiences of the other people at my gym and old veterans at my favourite pub so do not use this for in real life as this is just to help imagine how König eats and lives)

So, from what I know from the veteran I have made friends with, when he was in the military, they had a focus on foods that provided them with a great amount of energy, protein, iron, zinc, and vitamins C and D as it was the nutrients that they tended to run out of the most but it also the ones with some of the greater consequences with diseases that can make them weak and cause their immune system to be weak. Soldiers also eat a lot of protein as it is believed to help them grow their muscles more quickly. This makes me believe that König would focus on foods that provide him with a lot of nutrients but mainly protein to grow his muscles but not too much protein as he does not want to get sick and to build the balanced diet needed for his lifestyle

Some great food options for him would be many vegetables and fruits but for protein, I would suggest things such as eggs, poultry, beans, lentils, fish, nuts, chickpeas, yoghurts, and cheeses, I tend not to suggest red meats unless they are very lean due to the amount of fat in them and not being fond of the texture but I imagine König to enjoy them so if you were to make him food I would include things such as those along with some form of starch/carbohydrate by giving him some pasta, rice, bread, or potatoes which can help fill him up faster without him overeating and if they are reheated they will get resistant starch

I imagine König lives in the Alps so that he can be away from people and enjoy nature but I also imagine him earning a lot of money due to his job, putting his money into stocks/businesses, some dodgy dealings, and saving it up as he had no reason to spend most of it which means he could buy a lot of land. With this large amount of land, I imagine him using it to have his own giant garden with some animals, as it means he has to deal with fewer people to get what he needs. The garden would probably be made up of an orchard with trees of his favourite fruits but it would mainly be patches of vegetables and fruits while for his animals it would make sense for him to have chickens as he probably needs a lot (and I mean a lot) of eggs so having chickens make it a lot easier

If he can not grow it on his own land, he would probably hunt or forage it, which means that he can get his energy and murderous tendencies out that would normally be taken out on the field while still getting some food out of it (but it sadly makes him more hungry). But if it is a certain food like milk or cheeses or yoghurts he will most likely just go down to the local markets in the nearby towns and villages so he can get fresh items from people he trusts

Now we know some information about where he gets the food from we need to know where you would be cooking and keeping it. An appropriate and smart option would be to have a walk-in freezer in his basement that he can use to store the great amount of meats he has that has a wine/alcohol storage opposite it. While the kitchen would probably be massive and fully decked out with anything you need to be able to cook and two or three double-door fridges that are filled with any item that needs to stay chilled in it, although the cabinets are mostly up too high for anyone to reach without a stool unless you are König but they are filled to the brim with sweets as the giant has a sweet tooth to match his size or the weird collection of novelty cups he has collected from places he has went on missions too or beer glasses from different bars or pubs

If you were to cook food for him batch cooking (so you do not keep having to cook again and again) would be the best option with foods that are traditional to Austria or hearty foods like stews that can be cooked in large amounts with lots amounts of meats and vegetables (I can give a whole list of foods I recommend or I think he would like if you want them)

As you can tell I have too many ideas about this and I have way more because this has inspired me, and thank you for reading this long rant that probably does not make any sense

I love this so much 😭 The sweet tooth headcanon, his collection of beer glasses and such, him living in the Alps and hunting some of that precious protein... This screams Cabin/Off the grid König to me, I would make a cute garden for him to get those veggies stocked and stashed to some root cellar like this:

And then I'd probably spend the rest of my time here, cooking those hearty stews for him:

[oshlet]

Lohan-Scott 'Vagabond' MBT, a refit of the chassis, swapping its 120mm gun for a high-energy laser instead. With energy storage becoming ever more powerful, several larger militaries have refitted some of their AFVs with energy weapons. Although lacking the indirect fire and multiple ammunition types of conventional guns, lasers are exceptionally precise and also remove the risk of ammunition cook-offs.

While unable to match the all-terrain nature of mechs as well as their agility and variable profiles, tanks are still widely used due to their ability to fit more armour and firepower on a platform for a cheaper price-point. Head to head, a tank is normally the favoured combatant, but a mech's strategic mobility allows it to find effective vantage points for ambushing such vehicles. Across open plains however, the tank still reins supreme.

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Roleplay Ramblings: Spell Storage part 2

(art by Nimphradora on DeviantArt)

Writing

Magic, as we’ve well established over the years here on the blog and in society as a whole, is the power to go beyond the mortal limitations and affect reality through thought and will, typically by following ritualized practices to make it so, invoking the gods or spirits or simply forcing your will on reality.

Whatever the case may be, it is important to note that the idea of a book of spells, or grimoire as some may call them, dates back a very long time, as far back as Mesopotamia. For the non-history buffs out there, that means that spellbooks and written incantations and rituals have existed for pretty much as long as writing has. That’s super old, Over 5000 years ago old.

Now, whether these ritual books are more religious text or occult and if there is any significant difference between the two is a question for the historians and the theologians, but the fact is that as soon as they had a writing system, spiritual leaders were writing that shit down so they could just teach the next generation from it and also to remind themselves so that the oldest person in the village doesn’t stop the spring fertility rites because you forgot the rabbit blood and therefore are doing it wrong.

As civilization developed, however, it became increasingly clear that the written and spoken word were powerful tools for many reasons. Communication, records-keeping, history, complaining about poor quality copper, and more. It’s easy to see how such people would come to believe that the words themselves had power all their own. After all, to give name to something is to demonstrate a great enough understanding of it to choose such a name, and therefore, gain some measure of control over it.

And so throughout history and various cultures, the power of the written word is demonstrated, from religious texts to the Norse runes to the prayers and invocations written on ofuda, and more.

And with that crash course on the history of the written word as a source of mystical and spiritual power, let’s talk magic in settings where it can irrefutably be proven to exist.

So I guess the big elephant in the room when it comes to linguistics and magic, why does this cosmic force, underpinning structure of reality, or raw energy source respond to words? Whether they are spoken aloud or written down on scrolls or books, why does such a powerful thing react to some mortal waving their hands and invoking them? Depending on the setting, it might be because mages are simply giving description and form to what they want to happen. Alternatively, the words might be some primal language of the cosmos, the proverbial coding language of reality, which they tap into to run “programs”. Alternatively, maybe magic is in some way alive and aware, and spells are more like requests than commands.

Which brings me to my next question: Is the language of magic universal? Depending on setting and how you interpret certain things, it might be, or it might not. In many editions of D&D as well as Pathfinder, draconic is often used as the go-to language for writing down arcane magic, though this might be because draconic is THE language of magic, or it might just be the language everyone agreed to use for a form of universal notation on the subject, possibly because dragons were the first to note such things down. Additionally, primal magic might written and invoked in the druidic language, while divine casters probably write their magic down in the outsider language most appropriate to their religion. Occult casters are another story since they don’t really require words for casting their spells themselves, but that gives them some greater freedom, perhaps interworking a spell that buffs strength into the writings of a manual of military exercises, or a 2E bard making scrolls that are literally sheet music, and so on.

Of course, this changes a little if there is no universal notation for any form of magic. Imagine finding a scroll and having to cast read magic on it because the creator wrote it in a foreign language, or perhaps an old and outdated magical notation that barely anyone uses anymore.

And that brings us to what you’re writing on. Paper, vellum, and papyrus are common choices because of their lightweight nature and compact form, but consider a scroll carved into a polished wood stick, or drawn and baked into clay tablets (or carved into heavier stone ones if you want your wizard to work on his gains), or scrimshawed into bone or horn. Such materials may seem impractical to us, but if you haven’t invented paper or have no access to it, one must often make do. I remember that Pathfinder adventures often have scrolls or spellbooks in such unusual forms.

And how do these unique materials react to the magic inscribing them? While spellbooks are almost entirely mundane in most rules, being a repository for knowledge and nothing more, scrolls have the entire spell inscribed into them. Are there better materials for holding that power in such relatively flimsy (or not so flimsy) form? And what about Grimoires in Second Edition? They have magic all their own despite being otherwise just spellbooks.

Written magic can have so many forms, as many forms as there are to write things. I hope this provided some inspiration though. However, tomorrow, we’ll talk about how spells are stored in living flesh and thinking minds.

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Military Rechargeable Battery Market, Key Vendors, Segment, Growth Opportunities by 2017 to 2032

Overview:

The military rechargeable battery market has witnessed significant growth in recent years, driven by the increasing adoption of advanced technologies and the need for reliable power sources in military operations. Rechargeable batteries offer several advantages over traditional disposable batteries, including cost-effectiveness, reduced environmental impact, and longer operational lifespans. This market encompasses a wide range of battery types, including lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride, and lead-acid batteries, tailored to meet the specific power requirements of military applications.

Demand:

Communication Systems: Military operations heavily rely on effective communication systems for coordination and situational awareness. Rechargeable batteries power communication devices, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity and reliable communication in the field.

Portable Electronics: The demand for rechargeable batteries is driven by the need to power a wide range of portable electronic devices used by the military, including night vision goggles, GPS devices, laptops, and ruggedized tablets.

Unmanned Systems: Military unmanned systems, such as drones and robots, require rechargeable batteries for extended flight or operational durations. These systems are extensively used for surveillance, reconnaissance, and logistics

Key Factors:

Technological Advancements: The development of advanced battery technologies, such as high-energy density lithium-ion batteries and improved charging systems, has significantly enhanced the performance and efficiency of rechargeable batteries. These technological advancements have resulted in increased energy storage capacities and longer-lasting power solutions for military operations.

Growing Demand for Portable Power: The modern military relies heavily on portable electronic devices and equipment, ranging from communication devices to unmanned aerial vehicles. Rechargeable batteries provide a reliable and convenient source of power for these devices, enabling soldiers to operate effectively in the field without being limited by disposable battery replacements.

Rise in Hybrid and Electric Military Vehicles: The growing adoption of hybrid and electric military vehicles, including electric boats, submarines, and unmanned ground vehicles, is driving the demand for rechargeable batteries. These vehicles require high-capacity batteries to provide sustained power and range, making rechargeable batteries an essential component in the military's transition towards greener and more efficient transportation solutions.

Need for Reliable and Robust Power Sources: Military operations often take place in challenging environments, including remote locations and extreme weather conditions. Rechargeable batteries offer the advantage of being rugged, durable, and capable of withstanding harsh operating conditions. This reliability factor makes them an attractive choice for military applications, where power availability and durability are critical.

Characteristics:

Rechargeability: The primary characteristic of military rechargeable batteries is their ability to be charged and discharged multiple times, offering a sustainable and cost-effective power solution.

High Energy Density: Rechargeable batteries designed for military applications have high energy densities, allowing them to store a significant amount of power in a compact and lightweight form factor. This characteristic is crucial for enabling portability and extended operational durations.

Rapid Charging Capability: Military rechargeable batteries often incorporate fast-charging technologies, reducing downtime and ensuring quick replenishment of power sources in the field.

Durability and Robustness: Military rechargeable batteries are built to withstand harsh conditions, including extreme temperatures, shock, and vibration. These batteries are designed to be rugged and reliable, ensuring optimal performance in challenging environments.

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🚨 ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU AND CABINET TO REMAIN IN BUNKER; ISRAELI AND US LEADERSHIP TAKE EMERGENCY MEASURES AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS 🚨

‼️Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will stay at the Kirya tonight, accompanied by his cabinet. The Kirya houses a bunker system built to withstand a nuclear attack, equipped with satellite communication systems and sufficient food storage for at least a month. It can accommodate senior Israeli leaders and military leadership.

‼️In response to recent developments, Israeli Minister of Energy Eli Cohen convened an emergency meeting, deciding to increase coal and diesel stocks.

‼️The Israeli General Staff has ordered reinforcements for forces affiliated with the Northern Front Command and has raised the alert level.

‼️The Israeli top brass is preparing for a response that could last at least three days

‼️US President Joe Biden has been briefed on the Iranian response. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Blinken is currently holding a phone call with the Iraqi Prime Minister.

‼️In a related move, the UK has evacuated the families of staff members and non-essential staff from its embassy in Lebanon with other Countries expected to follow suit.

🟢 SUNDAY night - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

▪️CROSS BORDER SMUGGLING TUNNELS.. Gaza to Egypt, orders to NOT blow up, because doing so is doing damage to Egyptian border wall defenses.

▪️US CENTCOM COMMANDER.. will arrive in Israel tomorrow to complete the coordination with the IDF in preparation for a possible Iranian attack.

▪️AIR TRAVEL - MIN OF TRANSPORT SAYS.. Those who want to fly should fly - keep in mind that the return flights will be delayed due to the cancellations and because there is no room on the Israeli airlines.

❗️HOME FRONT COMMAND SAYS.. activating EMERGENCY CELL BROADCAST system, which will send an emergency pop-up SMS-like message to EVERYONE, with an alert sound.  This is a standard government emergency capability, and I personally saw this while in California earlier this year with an earthquake warning.  It is NOT a substitute for a Red Alert app - but a quick way to get an emergency message out to everyone.  

.. HOWEVER, Home Front says it ONLY works for Cellcom and Pelephone customers, and only 4th generation on Cellcom and 3rd generation on Pelephone phones at this time.  It DOES NOT include kosher phones. (We asked Home Front.)

💩IRANIAN FEAR CAMPAIGN - propaganda from all social media channels

.. Wall Street Journal: Iran has refused many requests from Western diplomats to moderate its response against Israel.

.. Report: Iran will respond in a way that crosses Israel's red lines.

.. The US asked European governments to warn Iran that a major attack against Israel would trigger a response.  Iran, for its part, told Arab diplomats that it did not care if the reaction against Israel led to an outbreak of war.

▪️ISRAEL OUR HOME MK LIBERMAN.. wrote on X: "In the jungle of the Middle East, we must conduct ourselves differently. A situation in which an entire country panics and waits for a multi-arena attack must not be allowed. The initiative must always be in our hands"

⭕ ROCKET ATTACK from HEZBOLLAH at Snir, northern border town.

⭕ ROCKET BARRAGE from HAMAS at Bitzaron, Gan Yavne, Hatzor, Azrikam, Sdeh Uziahu, Shtulim.

[mariacallous]

When the arsenal in Toropets detonated, the blast was so large it registered as a small earthquake and some eyewitnesses likened it to a small nuclear explosion. On the night of Sept. 17, the 107th Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, a military facility about 300 miles from the Ukrainian border in the region of Tver, was struck by around 100 Ukrainian drones, destroying some of Russia’s most advanced rockets and air defense interceptors, and possibly newly arrived North Korean ballistic missiles. Three days later, another large-scale Ukrainian drone strike hit the Tikhoretsk Munitions Storage Facility in the southern Krasnodar region, a main distribution depot of Russian munitions sourced from North Korea. Well over 200 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory, the attack resulted in another huge fireball. That same night, more drones sailed into the directorate’s 23rd Arsenal, again in Tver, igniting the facility.

In a matter of days, munitions worth hundreds of millions of dollars had been destroyed. Estonian military intelligence estimates that the bombing of the 107th Arsenal destroyed two to three months’ worth of munitions alone.

These were the latest sorties of Kyiv’s fleet of homemade unmanned aerial bombs, which over the past few months have immolated air bases, fuel depots, oil refineries and ammunition stockpiles, all of them well inside Russian territory.

Ukraine is now giving as good as it gets, hitting Russia on its own turf by land, sea and air, and prompting a new debate in Western capitals as to whether NATO allies should assist it in these deep strikes or can afford to do so without triggering nuclear war.

In August, Ukraine made a well-coordinated incursion into Kursk, the first time a foreign army had invaded sovereign Russia since World War II. Despite early Western forecasts that this operation would be swiftly and severely reversed by a Russian counterstrike, Ukrainian forces continue to hold an expanse of territory roughly the size of Los Angeles and have so far deflected from Russian efforts to dislodge them by invading from other axes. In square mileage, this surprise tactical victory eclipsed in the space of two weeks Russia’s yearlong advance in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, where Moscow has committed enormous resources in manpower and artillery. According to members of the Ukrainian military interviewed by New Lines, at least some of these resources have now been redeployed to Kursk, partially fulfilling one of the stated aims of the offensive.

Though military cartographers and statisticians may assess these gains and losses as a decidedly mixed result after Kyiv’s third summer of fighting, Ukraine has also been making gains elsewhere, namely in the field of arms development. It is now manufacturing a fleet of combat and reconnaissance drones, both airborne and naval, as well as its own long-range missiles. Kyiv is using these weapons to do what Washington still refuses to allow it to do with Western equivalents: strike at Russian air bases, command-and-control hubs, logistics centers and energy infrastructure, all deep in Russia’s interior.

If the Kremlin entered the war under the “rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them,” to borrow a phrase from Sir Arthur Harris, the commander in chief of the U.K.’s Royal Air Force Bomber Command during World War II, Ukraine has spent the last months of 2024 bringing the war home to Russia and to Russians, with devastating effect. Ukrainian drone attacks have become so common that some enterprising Russian insurance companies have even started providing dedicated home insurance against drone attacks.

The only surprise is that this comes as any surprise.

During the Soviet era, Ukraine was a military-industrial powerhouse, home to the largest cargo aircraft ever built, the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the Russians destroyed it at start of the full-scale invasion), not to mention the entire line of T-64 main battle tanks and R-36M ballistic missiles, the introduction of which caused sleepless nights among Western military planners at the height of the Cold War — which is partly why NATO codenamed them “Satan.” Contemporary Ukraine has tapped into this heritage, and its engineers have gone to work again, this time to fight their former metropole and to make up for the American restriction on the use of Western artillery rockets and cruise missiles to target Russia.

According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries, Kyiv’s defense industrial base now commands 300,000 employees spread across 500 enterprises — four-fifths of them privately owned. Major Ukrainian public figures and charitable organizations have supported the effort by raising money and supporting the manufacture of drones.

Other Ukrainian civil society actors and volunteers have also turned hobbyist racing drones into remotely piloted, precision-guided munitions. FPV (first-person view) drones have become one of the most lethal weapons of the war — and one that Russia has copied to equal effect. Piloted by technicians stationed miles away wearing a virtual reality-style headset that captures the flight path as though they were on board, FPVs chase down soldiers on foot, on motorbikes or in armored vehicles and pound into command centers and military-occupied buildings. Recordings show everything until the moment of impact when the screen ominously turns to white noise.

So terrifying are FPVs — and so difficult to evade owing to their small size, speed and maneuverability — that Russian troops have committed suicide rather than face a grisly death from above. They’re also incredibly cheap and easy to mass produce, costing on average $300 to $500 depending on the components used. As such, these drones account for the majority of casualties on both sides, according to Lt. Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces.

For all the domestic innovation, Ukraine insists it still needs to use foreign weapons systems to go after strategic targets in Russia. The U.K., which was the first country to supply long-range munitions to Ukraine and has been one of Kyiv’s more bullish allies in the war, has been in favor of lifting such restrictions. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has even been lobbying European allies, such as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to support a proposal to allow Ukraine to use European-provided long-range weapons inside Russia without U.S. approval, Bloomberg recently reported. Other British officials were reported to be holding similar talks with their French and German counterparts.

There are growing indications that Washington is also coming around to this point of view. According to sources in the Biden administration, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is “fully in favor” of letting Ukraine strike back but faces resistance among those fearful of escalation with Russia, including at the National Security Council and the Pentagon. During a recent trip to Kyiv, Blinken stated that since the start of the war, the U.S. has been willing to adapt its policy as the situation on the battlefield evolves. “From day one, we have adjusted and adapted,” Blinken said after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Needs have changed as the battlefield has changed, and I have no doubt that we will continue to do this.”

These adaptations, while welcome, often come too late to save Ukrainian lives. After the Russian incursion into the northeastern region of Kharkiv in 2024, U.S. restrictions preventing Ukraine from striking targets on the Russian side of the border were lifted. Had they been lifted before the incursion, a member of Ukraine’s Kraken special forces unit told New Lines during a visit to the front in May, the Russian invasion could have been prevented entirely. An unknown number of Ukrainian casualties could have been prevented, and the city of Vovchansk would not have been razed to the ground.

Telegraphing to Washington that Russia can absorb losses on its own territory without starting World War III may be why the guns of August have been firing overtime.

Apart from the Kursk operation, the end of summer has seen the successful use of Ukraine’s long-range drone program. On the night of Aug. 2, these flying bombs struck the Morozovsk air base in Rostov, approximately 165 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory. The base’s ammunition dump housed hundreds of glide bombs, deadly air-dropped munitions that can destroy entire buildings and fighting positions in a single hit. The dump was obliterated in the Ukrainian strike, which also destroyed at least one Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber and almost certainly damaged two more, plus airfield infrastructure.

Days later, on Aug. 8, another Ukrainian drone strike targeted Lipetsk air base (250 miles from the border), a major training center for the Russian air force. The ammunition dump at the base was likewise also completely destroyed, with the other buildings at the facility suffering damage as well. Then, on Aug. 22, Ukraine’s drones bombed Marinovka air base in what was possibly the most successful strike to date, destroying at least one more Su-34 and likely destroying or heavily damaging four more aircraft. The base’s facilities suffered extreme damage, with hangars, ammunition stores and emergency vehicles all taking hits.

“No individual strike tells us that much, but it’s the growing number and mass of systems involved that are most important,” Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, told New Lines. “If Ukraine can wage a comprehensive ranged campaign against the Russian military, it will allow it to degrade Russian production, logistics, command and control. The types of targets which usually determine the outcome of wars.”

Just the fact that Ukraine can routinely and successfully target such air bases will have an impact on Russian air force operations, according to Lt. Col. Jahara Matisek⁩, a U.S. Air Force pilot and a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, who spoke in a personal capacity. “The biggest benefit is that it is forcing the Russian air force farther away from Ukraine, which decreases Russian ability to lob missiles and bombs into Ukraine.” He explained that it would also provide Ukraine with an opportunity to establish localized air superiority, giving Ukrainian ground offensives a greater ability to mass forces and maneuver in the open without fear of being attacked from the air.

Russia will continue to struggle to defend itself against Ukrainian drones, Matisek⁩ believes, because its air defense networks were designed to fend off a large-scale NATO and U.S. attack, rather than smaller, slower drones flying from Ukraine. “Cold War assumptions about how the U.S. and NATO would attack the USSR meant that Russian air defenses are oriented in that fashion. Hence, Russia likely never designed an air defense network to defend against Ukrainian incursions.”

To ward off Ukraine’s drones, Russia has instead opted for ad hoc measures such as painting the outlines of fake aircraft on the concrete hard stands and covering real ones under dozens of old tires — not the best form of camouflage against weapons that don’t rely on visual sensors to find their targets. The most effective way Russia defends against current Ukrainian attacks, however, is to simply fly all airworthy planes away from incoming drones, something that would be entirely ineffective should supersonic long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS, be allowed to target them.

Ukraine isn’t just pounding planes on the tarmac. Deep strikes have been directed at Russia’s strategic oil infrastructure, such as refineries, depots and even export ports. For instance, on Aug. 17 Ukrainian drones targeted the Kavkaz oil depot, a large storage facility in Proletarsk, in Rostov, causing a catastrophic fire that continued to burn for over two weeks. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fuel was destroyed in one night, and the Proletarsk facility will be functionally useless for the foreseeable future. (Russian authorities eventually drafted in a number of Orthodox priests in an attempt to invoke divine intervention to put out the fire — a further sign of Moscow’s fecklessness in the face of these attacks.) Less than two weeks later, on Aug. 28, Ukraine hit the Atlas oil depot, another large storage facility, also in Rostov, precipitating yet another multiday fire but not before 40% of the facility’s fuel tanks had burned to the ground. Then, on Sept. 1, a wave of Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow Refinery, located just outside the Russian capital.

An assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency estimated that Kyiv has so far disrupted 14% of Russia’s oil refining capacity and driven up domestic fuel prices by 20%-30% as of mid-March. This might have gone down well in Washington, given the attention paid to hobbling Russia’s war-oriented economy through sanctions, but such was not the case. The Biden administration responded to Ukraine’s targeting of Russia’s energy infrastructure by expressing its displeasure, citing the risk of rising global oil prices (the implication being that this would hurt the Democrats in November’s election). Self-deterrence has been a constant in U.S. security assistance, but Ukrainians and oil industry analysts alike greeted this American grumble with bemusement. Russia’s hydrocarbons industry keeps its tanks and personnel carriers moving and is thus a viable strategic target.

As with the incursion into Kursk, the impact of these strikes is not just physical but also psychological: They make a population largely indifferent to a foreign conflict acutely aware of its domestic costs. Ukraine’s incursion into Russia has seen the largest occupation of Russian territory since World War II, and like its deep strike weaponry, has shown Russia and the world that Ukraine retains the ability to inflict significant pain on its adversary.

The arrival of even more sophisticated Ukrainian drones will likely compound the pain for the Russians. On Aug. 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day — the third such celebration since the start of the full-scale invasion that was meant to take all of three days to be decided — Zelenskyy announced the successful employment of the new Ukrainian Palyanytsia. Named for a type of bread, the Ukrainian word for which is notoriously difficult for native Russian speakers to pronounce and is thus a convenient way of ferreting out Russian spies and collaborators, the drone will produce “unpronounceable results,” according to Zelenskyy. The Palyanytsia is powered by a rocket engine, meaning it will fly far faster than Ukraine’s current, mostly propellor-driven suicide drones, giving Russian aircraft less time to scramble out of the impact zone when used against their air bases. Days later, Zelenskyy also announced the successful test of an as yet unnamed Ukrainian ballistic missile. While he did not specify the exact type, it is likely the Hrim-2, a short-range ballistic missile that has been in development for over a decade, funding for which was supposedly earmarked by Ukraine’s then-defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, in 2023.

These new weapon systems come a year after the introduction into Ukraine’s arsenal of a land-attack version of its Neptune anti-ship missile, a munition Kyiv famously used to sink the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s flagship cruiser, the Moskva, in the first year of the war. On Aug. 22, a Neptune cruise missile destroyed a Russian ferry loaded with fuel tanks in the Kerch Strait. “While Palyanytsias and Neptunes can achieve many objectives, there are tasks that only ATACMS, Storm Shadows and other weapons from our partners can fulfill,” Zelenskyy said.

From a logical and legal perspective, there is no reason to prohibit Ukraine from using Western weaponry to strike any legal Russian military target. American artillery and cluster munitions are already killing tens of thousands of Russians inside Ukraine, and the British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG cruise missile conspicuously powdered the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, claimed by Moscow to be an integral part of “Russia” since 2014.

There has also been a consistent pattern of the Kremlin making exaggerated threats when a Western capability has been on the table for delivery to Ukraine, only for it to later claim, once those weapons have been delivered, that they’re insignificant or that Russian forces have already destroyed all of them. This happened with HIMARS, Abrams tanks and F-16 fighter jets.

The West needs to stop allowing the Kremlin to set the rules of the game, Timothy Snyder, a European historian and professor at Yale University, told New Lines on a recent visit to Kyiv. “It’s the same psychological mistake where you’re playing by the rules that the other side has set for you as opposed to the rules of international law, which allow for an invaded country to defend itself.”

Washington’s escalations have routinely been met by Moscow’s anticlimactic responses. Nor does Russia stand to gain anything by resorting to nuclear weapons just because the munitions destroying its air bases, command centers and logistics hubs are made in the U.S. (or the U.K. or France) instead of in Ukraine. On the contrary, even the use of a tactical nuke in Ukrainian territory would yield no advantage on the battlefield. It would, however, transform Russia into even more of a pariah state overnight, alienate its critical ally China and likely lead to nuclear proliferation in places where neither Moscow nor Beijing would desire to see it, such as Kazakhstan, Finland, Turkey, Taiwan, Japan and Australia. As has no doubt been communicated, such an escalation would be met by a NATO conventional military response that would do even greater damage to Russia than anything currently on offer from Ukrainian ATACMS or Storm Shadows. Sergei Markov, someone often used as a hard-line voice of the Russian government in the Western press, told The Washington Post recently that the White House’s eventual rescission of the deep strike restriction has already been factored in by Russia’s war planners, who consider the decision a fait accompli — this in an article about Ukraine’s serial violation of Russia’s supposed “red lines.” Tellingly, Markov made no reference to weapons of mass destruction.

[junogears2]

My elf sona (she/they) in all of her glory and questionably flashy attire! Bit of lore under the cut:

Originally from a decentralized country of multiple great villages, all settled deep in thick woods at a mountains range's base up north, culturally focused in great craftsmanship - woodcraft specifically. They eventually left to travel and see the rest of the continent, and interact with different cultures and people of varying appearances and personalities. While not being an exceptional woodcrafter - only average by the standards of their land - they're still very skilled in dexterous and meticulous works, making their life while traveling by selling hand drawn maps in detail - with traveling routes and everything - made possible by the loads of geographic books and papers in their access, and empirical assessment (walking around from city to city). And also making potions and medicines of varying effects.

The maps were sold by commission and advertised by word of mouth, to a number of aspiring and old traveling merchants, resource gatherers, bands of mercenaries, groups of military forces, small nobles, chiefs and governors, and people with general authority in their community. The potions and medicines are more generally broad in scope and normally advertised up-front, but also made by commission, in lower and affordable prices. Their effects include mana restoration (there's practical magic), general physical health improvement, energy and disposition enhancement (low), and anti-allergic properties.

After some years of their wandering and mapping, stumbled upon a carnival caravan and got to be a traveling merchant affiliated with the troupe (no carriage so living in the space of a spare one), and started doing a soothsaying and luck reading stand whenever they opened festival, on top of their general comerce (this is purely performative and for fun, they do not know how to do any of this. It's also not really a scam because it's explained up-front [tho it still costs money so maybe it is]). In their travels with the caravan, got to know their partner, a girl traveling with a magically enhanced carriage that's spatially bigger inside. They both moved together after a while since it was easier for everyone (living in a storage cart is hard), and the girl got to help with the medicines while keeping her previous jobs with hunting, general maintenance and manual labor.

Somewhere along the way, the connections of the map making job got them both brought to a higher-class ball and a princess (self-proclaimed, a duke's daughter), that wanted to marry them and kept being very stubborn about it (part of the problem was the "puppy treatment" she wanted to give). They're now on the run from her publicly, but she's actually very nice and they get along pretty well, getting to visit every once in a while and constantly trading heartfelt postcards and pleasantries via one of her personal guards, an androgynous long-haired blonde clad in armor.

This is part of a personal project in conjunction with my friend/partner where we built the skeleton of a magical world with varying races and details that's very grounded and mundane, expanding on things logistically and creatively by brainstorming together.

[krimsonkatt]

Varna, Daeva of Ice

A beautiful icy maiden and one of the 7 daevas, fragments of the avatar of ELLUM, the True God and embodies the element of ice. It is said that she was once a beautiful yet vain alfar princess living in the time following the second war, and desired to preserve her beauty forevermore. So, at the ripe young age of 19 she asked the witch Chili Von Nebiros, one of the members of the council of six, to make her beauty everlasting. Chili responded by leading the princess into her laboratory, freezing her solid within a block of ice, implanting her with one of the fragments of ELLUM, and then transforming her into a scion. She was one of the first scions that were created using the "scionify" spell, so her transformation caused her immense pain. The next thing she knew she was in a new, icy body and being attacked by a bunch of strange men in magitek equipment. Morda Vael military. They restrained her and sealed her within an animus, using her as a living weapon against the Ferngulf Republic during the Ferngulf-Vael War. Later once the war was over her animus was left to rot before being picked up by Sero Omnis who was traveling through Baetas Sewer and being resummoned as one of the scions at her disposal using the Summoner class.

In the alternate timeline of Chronicles Black, following the Shattering, angels came down from Mt Celestia in order to find allies and begin their war against the demonic forces. One of these allies were the 7 daevas, as since they were fragments of the True God they would clearly align themselves with the angels in the coming war. So they liberated all the scions they could find from their animus, including Varna, in hopes that they would join the angels in gratitude. They were largely correct with Princess Varna and 5 others, Agenus, Indra, Vayu, Ushas, and Shiva joining the angelic ranks. But one scion remained, Ratri, scion of darkness, who allied herself with the demonic forces.

The 6 daevas aligned with the angels were then sent out across the ravaged planet to guard various areas of importance for the angels. As the second-strongest daeva, Agenus would guard their main HQ, the Santillan Sanctum. Shiva, the strongest daeva by far, would guard the Empyrean Ascent, gateway to the realm of the divine. Vayu would guard the Edenian Windworks, a power plant located on the continent of Eden that would generate mass amounts of energy for the angels using the wind caused by sandstorms. Ushas would guard the Lighthouse, a, well, lighthouse that also served as a storage facility for the angels light-based weaponry, located on Ferris Coast. And finally, Princess Varna would guard the prison located in the Frozen Crater where the angels kept the most dangerous criminals and insurgents awaiting the angel's divine punishment. It was a hard job, but at least Varna was finally free to bask in her favorite environment, the slow-covered winter wonderland of Nifell Isle. At least there she wouldn't melt.

In battle Varna uses primarily water-elemental attacks such as Arcfrost, Blizzard, Avalanche, and her signature attack Diamond Dust. She can also use various status moves like Sexy Dance, Kiss of Death, and Water Break. She is weak to smash, fire, and dark, resists slash and strike, nulls light, and absorbs water.

Her design is based on Shiva from World of Final Fantasy.

[bluemoonperegrine]

Get villaged, idiot.

Jack snapped awake with a shout. Panting, he tried to sit up, but every muscle screamed protest so he stayed on his back and inhaled and frantically looked for his attacker.

A chrome and faux-wood ceiling fan hung from a popcorn ceiling eight feet overhead. Its five blades were still. Diffuse, dim light came from somewhere to his left.

Frowning, Jack listened as best he could over the blood rushing in his ears. Water gurgled in pipes somewhere nearby. He heard muffled bits of conversations outside. Leaves rustled, birds sang, and… a military band played?

The ceiling fan looked familiar, as did the gray, textured microvelvet upholstery of the sofa beside him. Both objects had been in his apartment in Lemon Grove, California for years, but this wasn’t his favorite crash pad. It didn’t smell like it.

This place smelled new, and faintly of blood.

He felt dried blood on his face and on his hands and Dios, what had he done? Where was he?

Since there didn’t seem to be an immediate threat and he was close to panic, Jack drew measured breaths and sensed. He was hungry and thirsty, and every muscle ached. Thin fabric covered his arms and was between his back and the short-pile carpet he felt under his hands, bare legs, and feet. His only other clothing was a pair of trousers that ended mid-calf.

He groaned; the nightmare he’d woken up from was likely one of the wolf’s memories.

Flashes of the previous night surfaced: arriving at Bloodstone Manor, talking his way inside, finding Ted, the eruption of pain and crimson energy when he’d grabbed the Bloodstone to give to Elsa—

Elsa.

She hadn’t looked away.

Trapped with him in a cage, her dark eyes stayed locked with his as her sadistic stepmother awakened the wolf with the Bloodstone.

The last thing Jack remembered as him was Elsa’s terrified, beautiful face.

He’d killed her. 

He’d killed them all, probably.

Tears flowed.

Covering his bloody hands with the sleeves of the hunter’s cloak he’d somehow acquired, he scrubbed at the dried blood around his mouth. 

How much of it was Elsa’s?

Jack shoved the thought aside. Now was not the time.

Using the arm of the couch for support, Jack got to his feet and looked around. Unless his sense of smell had gone haywire, he seemed to be in an exact replica of his apartment’s living room, including the antique steamer trunk he used for storage.

Moving slowly, he crossed the short distance to the trunk and reached for one of the clasps with bloodstained hand.

He undid the clasps and opened the lid to find… nothing.

Not only was the trunk empty, but it smelled like glue and particle board. Despite his best efforts, his steamer trunk retained a bit of the mustiness it had had when he'd bought at a flea market fifty years ago.

Who had created this place and brought him, unconscious and bloody, to it?

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This is a portion of the second chapter of Not in Kansas. Elsa "gets Villaged" in chapter one.

[thetruearchmagos]

On 'Energy Crystals'

Copying this over from a worldbuilding write up I posted on Discord!

Tagging @athenswrites @theprissythumbelina @hessdalen-globe @caxycreations @moremysteriesthantragedies @avrablake @thatndginger

While Energy Crystals are a very modern innovation, the pursuit for a crystal based means of high density energy storage is probably as old as the use of crystals in any of their myriad forms.

To skip the deep dive, 'magic crystals' operate through the highly ordered nature of their composition, a structure which extends beyond the three dimensions of the physical plane and which allows them to warp and rend the very fabric of the Underlay, that little understood realm of energy which permeates existence. In order to 'activate' their properties, however, energy in some form or another has to be supplied, 'forcing' the crystal's internal structure into the needed to act against the oppressive forces of the Underlay; heat, in the past, and these days truly massive amounts of electricity for the most intense applications.

A long noted characteristic of these crystals, however, has been their 'lag'. This effect describes the tendency for crystals to retain a small, rapidly decreasing degree of their powered properties even after their external energy source has been removed. The various physical characteristics of the crystal itself influences the degree of this lag, sheer size chief among them, which has at times been both a blessing and a curse for those using crystals for technical applications.

Still, it is not too difficult to see how a crystal's potential to retain energy might be a useful quality in and of itself. Various bodies have long attempted to harness this characteristic, but to little avail: having spent so long making crystals which efficiently utilised every scrap of energy fed to them to the fullest, it was very hard indeed to make one that would use no energy at all. Most interested parties would thus quickly decide to cut their losses early.

It would take modern developments in the field of micro-crystals and electrical-gate crystals to crack the problem. In the former field, a greater understanding of the internal structures of crystals at the most minute scale gave crystal forgers insight into the causes of crystal lag, and how crystals converted their input energy into work. The latter field was the result of the ability for crystals to act as incredibly efficient electrical conductors, leading to their application in the still nascent electronics and computing machine sector. Here, of course, understanding the interaction between crystal structures and electricity was key, as was minimising the 'waste' of a crystal's energy to activate the sorts of properties that in the past were their reasons for existence.

With the rise in this general understanding of just how a magic crystal worked, the secret to energy storage in crystals would be cracked in the 160s A.S. As with many technological developments, it was the United Commonwealth which would own the invention, lavishly funded from the sizeable cheque book of the Defence Consolidated Technical Establishment, whose leadership foresaw the many electricity intensive technologies poised to enter military use.