The island sadly has limited resources. What high tech stuff they have is left from their creators. to make new stuff like that they lack the materials. In theory can copy such stuff with light magic, but it takes so much energy it is not used in mass
… so, not enough metal ores. Hmmm … ok, the island IS rather small. And they can’t leave it before making the ocean safer … catch-22. Mining operation with transferring everything by air would be rather impractical, even if it wouldn’t consume too much energy.
So the lack of minerals is almost certainly a solveable problem. There are monsters out in the rest of the world, sure, but you know where there aren’t monsters? SPAAAAACE!!! (The one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism XD )
Where there just so happens to be a whole bunch of rocks lying around which are probably chock full of minerals. I mean the Dreven Belt looks like it was probably formed by the breakup of a much larger moon, for reasons unknown, and is closer to the planet than Armagon (which is listed in #473 as under an hour’s flight away, so my guess would be that it got too close to the planet and was ripped apart by tidal forces). Assuming that it’s a standard moon made of original solar system material (rather than formed later like Luna was – an anomaly that as far as I’m aware is unique amongst the hundreds of moons in our system) there should be a relative abundance of metals, practically right on the surface rather than buried under kilometers of worthless silicate, or even utterly unobtainable at the planetary core.
So, Fairy’s need the minerals but can’t go into space without significant cost – almost certainly too high a cost for mining on any reasonable scale. Nihallaks can go to space at negligible cost, and can almost certainly turn their tentacle appendage nano tools into mining equipment. Nihallaks don’t need metals though, they need energy. Energy which the fairies have in abundance. A simple trade system of fairies supplying energy in exchange for metals could easily be set up – god knows there should be enough pinks who would happily volunteer for free.
I think the Dreven Belt was not there before the war. Still, there would certainly be minerals there – and the belt has much bigger surface than any moon, definitely :-).
Ordinarily, with rockets and similar technology, the cost of getting to orbit and back would be bigger than cost attached to mining itself, but reactionless engines like mentioned nihillium-based anti-gravity can solve THAT problem.
Other problem with colonization is that the Magic Cave can’t be moved (as far as we know) and colonies don’t tend to last if they can’t grow their own population.
On Earth, most colonies had considerably higher immigration than locally born children. Was logical result of fact that there was much more men than women there.
Sure, eventually they would need to build another Magic Cave in the colony, but not immediately.
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There is VERY good reason to leave the island. You are vulnerable if you are just on one spot.
there are many more monsters out in sea. to many for even stars to deal with now. but yeah they will need to move
Are there monsters capable of attacking steel battle cruiser? They are sailing in too small ships.
(Actually, looking at page 219, there probably are, but I don’t think they would last long against high-technology fleet.)
fairies don’t have big tech fleet
They don’t. But what’s stopping them? Seems that not having big tech fleet is just decision the star council made.
The island sadly has limited resources. What high tech stuff they have is left from their creators. to make new stuff like that they lack the materials. In theory can copy such stuff with light magic, but it takes so much energy it is not used in mass
… so, not enough metal ores. Hmmm … ok, the island IS rather small. And they can’t leave it before making the ocean safer … catch-22. Mining operation with transferring everything by air would be rather impractical, even if it wouldn’t consume too much energy.
yeah – the many problems stars know of but keep hidden from most of the fairy population
So the lack of minerals is almost certainly a solveable problem. There are monsters out in the rest of the world, sure, but you know where there aren’t monsters? SPAAAAACE!!! (The one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism XD )
Where there just so happens to be a whole bunch of rocks lying around which are probably chock full of minerals. I mean the Dreven Belt looks like it was probably formed by the breakup of a much larger moon, for reasons unknown, and is closer to the planet than Armagon (which is listed in #473 as under an hour’s flight away, so my guess would be that it got too close to the planet and was ripped apart by tidal forces). Assuming that it’s a standard moon made of original solar system material (rather than formed later like Luna was – an anomaly that as far as I’m aware is unique amongst the hundreds of moons in our system) there should be a relative abundance of metals, practically right on the surface rather than buried under kilometers of worthless silicate, or even utterly unobtainable at the planetary core.
So, Fairy’s need the minerals but can’t go into space without significant cost – almost certainly too high a cost for mining on any reasonable scale. Nihallaks can go to space at negligible cost, and can almost certainly turn their tentacle appendage nano tools into mining equipment. Nihallaks don’t need metals though, they need energy. Energy which the fairies have in abundance. A simple trade system of fairies supplying energy in exchange for metals could easily be set up – god knows there should be enough pinks who would happily volunteer for free.
Did you heard about the Ferengi?
I think the Dreven Belt was not there before the war. Still, there would certainly be minerals there – and the belt has much bigger surface than any moon, definitely :-).
Ordinarily, with rockets and similar technology, the cost of getting to orbit and back would be bigger than cost attached to mining itself, but reactionless engines like mentioned nihillium-based anti-gravity can solve THAT problem.
Maybe that wouldn’t be that bad idea …
Other problem with colonization is that the Magic Cave can’t be moved (as far as we know) and colonies don’t tend to last if they can’t grow their own population.
On Earth, most colonies had considerably higher immigration than locally born children. Was logical result of fact that there was much more men than women there.
Sure, eventually they would need to build another Magic Cave in the colony, but not immediately.
yeah, fairies not being able to reproduce without the cave is big problem for colonization