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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 7899707" data-attributes="member: 52734">Yep, the Shou are FR’s equivalent to China’s warring states.[spoiler]The Shou philosopher Pan Hu had a fascination with astronomy and was extremely vocal that the Shou people should “reach for the stars”, defying the conventional wisdom of the time that the heavens were the perview of the gods themself.  After being denied a royal grant to build a vessel to travel to the heavens and viewing a fireworks celebration at the capital, Pan Hu developed his own vessel to make a trip to the skies above.  Strapping 99 rockets to a sturdy throne-like chair, he launched himself into the predawn sky as the moon loomed high above him.  Pan Hu’s brazen flight allowed the chair to escape Amber-Toril’s orbit, but the rockets were not of sufficient power for him to reach the nearby moon.  He had come prepared though, and escaped the pyrotechnic destruction of his seat via a bamboo kite he brought along for just such an emergency.  However, he had not accounted for the severe cold beyond the safety of Aber-Toril, and had a passing Giff vessel not been attracted by the pyrotechnic display, he would have frozen before he could be safely returned home.  Upon his return, he took his findings to the Emperor, who then bestowed a grant upon Pan Hu to continue his research, which eventually led to the first Spelljammer Helm, based on his rocket-chair design.  Gond, the wonder-maker, was so impressed with Pan Hu’s work that he passed the knowledge to western Toril, where Spelljamming Tradesmen were devised, with rocket-propelled throne-like shuttles became popular ways to travel between ship and surface[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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