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<blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 4286492" data-attributes="member: 29558"><p><strong>Pandak Kaswitikan, Dwarven Engineer/Architect/Embassador</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[sblock=For Alban & Hennett]I can identify plants, I can move through them like a ghost, and I can tell you what plants belong where depending on climate and soil, but I can't grow them worth a flip so I'll be little help as far as what crop plants to take with us. Hennett is a far more able guide in that area than I. As to a forge - I have a portable smithy of very high quality that I'll be taking along. It's too small to serve the needs of an entire community, but will do very well for making a larger smithy for the colony. A better use of space on the ship would be for raw materials. We have no inkling what sort of ores we'll find - we may find none at all - so I'd recommend we carry as much high quality steel as we can cram in, as well as iron and silver. Once we're there and can get a sense of the raw materials available we can decide the best use of the metals we take along. If there are indigenous creatures that are susceptible to the effects of cold iron or silver we can use these in the forging of weapons. If not, the iron will do nicely for implements and construction materials that don't require the quality of steel. The architectural books are an excellent idea, but my suggestion would be to focus more on works dedicated to architectural and engineering theory that would go to the library and be used for the school. We have some very capable engineers in the group - myself included - that can handle immediate design needs. However, we'll want to be able to train more for long term sustainability and with the books we'll have a nice combination of school learning and on the job training through apprenticeships.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maidhc O Casain, post: 4286492, member: 29558"] [b]Pandak Kaswitikan, Dwarven Engineer/Architect/Embassador[/b] [sblock=For Alban & Hennett]I can identify plants, I can move through them like a ghost, and I can tell you what plants belong where depending on climate and soil, but I can't grow them worth a flip so I'll be little help as far as what crop plants to take with us. Hennett is a far more able guide in that area than I. As to a forge - I have a portable smithy of very high quality that I'll be taking along. It's too small to serve the needs of an entire community, but will do very well for making a larger smithy for the colony. A better use of space on the ship would be for raw materials. We have no inkling what sort of ores we'll find - we may find none at all - so I'd recommend we carry as much high quality steel as we can cram in, as well as iron and silver. Once we're there and can get a sense of the raw materials available we can decide the best use of the metals we take along. If there are indigenous creatures that are susceptible to the effects of cold iron or silver we can use these in the forging of weapons. If not, the iron will do nicely for implements and construction materials that don't require the quality of steel. The architectural books are an excellent idea, but my suggestion would be to focus more on works dedicated to architectural and engineering theory that would go to the library and be used for the school. We have some very capable engineers in the group - myself included - that can handle immediate design needs. However, we'll want to be able to train more for long term sustainability and with the books we'll have a nice combination of school learning and on the job training through apprenticeships.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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