Caravel
The empire's naval doctrine translates in a surprising direct way to the strategies and tactics of their Korashi landfleets. As it turns out, the vast sea of dunes, open and often featureless, is a close analogue for the rolling oceans. This pleases the admiralty greatly: they can apply their time-proven methods with minimal change, and they can comfortably ignore the indignation of the field marshals.
And in applying the logic of naval warfare, one concludes that a landfleet needs a vessel that can be peeled away from a force's main body, while causing little diminishment in its strength. The small, light craft is then used for objectives such as scouting, baiting the enemy, performing sneaky flank maneuvers, and to ferry diplomats and essential personnel hither and yon.
Thus, the caravel.
With supplies and contact from the homeland inexplicably cut-off, many in the colony's leadership have determined that new importance must be placed on diplomacy, and some degree of peaceable relation with Korash's native tribes (of course, many in the leadership disagree with this assessment vehemently, seeing it as a critical weakening of the fighting resolve of the colonial mission).
This has somewhat raised the status of the humble caravel - a diplomat of colonial merchant arriving in anything more formidable will likely be interpreted by the visited as an incoming act of aggression; early hostilities quickly the Korashi tribes exactly the type of neighbours that Iron Sun would be. Unsurprisingly, attempts to now change this reputation have proved difficult.
Because so many single-caravel excursions take off from the colonial territories, often under the directions of branches diplomatic and mercantile, the admiralty pays less strict attention to the comings and goings of these vessels. As a result, Caravels have also proven practical craft for smugglers, spies, and small groups of colonists seeking things the colony cannot provide: trists with Korashi beauties, the intoxication of mountain hashish, or to escape the colony outright (as not all believe in the imperial mission that brought them to this far continent).
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And in applying the logic of naval warfare, one concludes that a landfleet needs a vessel that can be peeled away from a force's main body, while causing little diminishment in its strength. The small, light craft is then used for objectives such as scouting, baiting the enemy, performing sneaky flank maneuvers, and to ferry diplomats and essential personnel hither and yon.
Thus, the caravel.
With supplies and contact from the homeland inexplicably cut-off, many in the colony's leadership have determined that new importance must be placed on diplomacy, and some degree of peaceable relation with Korash's native tribes (of course, many in the leadership disagree with this assessment vehemently, seeing it as a critical weakening of the fighting resolve of the colonial mission).
This has somewhat raised the status of the humble caravel - a diplomat of colonial merchant arriving in anything more formidable will likely be interpreted by the visited as an incoming act of aggression; early hostilities quickly the Korashi tribes exactly the type of neighbours that Iron Sun would be. Unsurprisingly, attempts to now change this reputation have proved difficult.
Because so many single-caravel excursions take off from the colonial territories, often under the directions of branches diplomatic and mercantile, the admiralty pays less strict attention to the comings and goings of these vessels. As a result, Caravels have also proven practical craft for smugglers, spies, and small groups of colonists seeking things the colony cannot provide: trists with Korashi beauties, the intoxication of mountain hashish, or to escape the colony outright (as not all believe in the imperial mission that brought them to this far continent).
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