Corvette
Ah, the corvette - the 'line-engine' of the Iron Sun expeditionary forces. Swift, formidable, and robustly armoured.
The plan was to disassemble a sizeable portion of the modest seafleet that bore the early colonial forces, converting transport- and cargo-barges directly into the machines necessary for survival and conquest in the new world. Indeed, such barges built specifically with this in mind - an ingenious multipurpose design that allowed each to be promptly dissected, before reassembling their cleverly shaped pieces into landcraft.
Sails where not part of that plan. Why, the navy had abandoned sail propulsion a century ago! In this modern age of industry only fisherman and leisure yatchers maintained sailcraft. And yet what at first seemed ridiculous - native peoples traversing the sands with sail - was gradually, hesitantly, realised to be an ingenious modification.
Thus, the corvette is as it now stands - a landcraft designed back in grand Tordassia, modified with the clever, keenly adapted windcatching arrays of the new world's peoples. The results worked seamlessly. While harnessed wind provides significantly less power than the craft's thunderous engines, the extra momentum, savings in fuel, and ability to run on a near-stalled engine give it a dependability never accounted for by its original designers.
Rule, Tordassia! Tordassia rules the dunes!
The plan was to disassemble a sizeable portion of the modest seafleet that bore the early colonial forces, converting transport- and cargo-barges directly into the machines necessary for survival and conquest in the new world. Indeed, such barges built specifically with this in mind - an ingenious multipurpose design that allowed each to be promptly dissected, before reassembling their cleverly shaped pieces into landcraft.
Sails where not part of that plan. Why, the navy had abandoned sail propulsion a century ago! In this modern age of industry only fisherman and leisure yatchers maintained sailcraft. And yet what at first seemed ridiculous - native peoples traversing the sands with sail - was gradually, hesitantly, realised to be an ingenious modification.
Thus, the corvette is as it now stands - a landcraft designed back in grand Tordassia, modified with the clever, keenly adapted windcatching arrays of the new world's peoples. The results worked seamlessly. While harnessed wind provides significantly less power than the craft's thunderous engines, the extra momentum, savings in fuel, and ability to run on a near-stalled engine give it a dependability never accounted for by its original designers.
Rule, Tordassia! Tordassia rules the dunes!
Image by Bagus Adi Iradwan
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