A Traveler’s Journal: Starships

A Traveler’s Journal: Starships

by Aria on October 9, 2016 at 11:31 PM

Chapter: Mile High Engage

+14

letters from somewhere

Lepidolite Mica

I think “acquire classification of” would be better off just shortened to “classify.”
- Aria
  
  ooh I can see how that part’s confusing, the sentence is supposed to describe STARSHIPS as being difficult to acquire, not starship classification being difficult to acquire. Sorry about that, the journal writing is supposed to feel a little pretentious but I must have overdone it haha. I appreciate it!
Oscar Crooks

Ive been waiting for an explanation on Starstone Ships for ages and now that iv’e got it it’s surprisingly messed up. Still awesome though.
That pirate ship is pretty distinctive with it’s gaping maw, I wonder if it’s going to appear later?
- Aria
  
  I bet it would look even cooler if our journalist was a little bit more of an artist
Joe ST

this is fantastic, thank you for sharing it 😮
- Aria
  
  Thank you for reading it!
Sage

i love the all night diner =) do you think that pirate was happy and just went with it? I hope so
- Aria
  
  Hee thank you. The diner was 100% in no way based on a real all night diner chain, where I may or may not spend a lot of time eating waffles.
A Wild Bird

Well what else is a pirate going to sail? A ship on the sea? What is this? The 1600s?
- Aria
  
  BARBARIC
  - A Wild Bird
    
    Ikr?
Amaaré

Pretty cool, mostly confirming what we’ve learned so far, but some interesting trivia and the fact that there is an industry implies that starstones and their ships aren’t all that rare, just that an un-lobotomised one is.

…”Not Blood!!” well so you say, time for a game of “Blood or Wine?”!
- Aria
  
  Yeah this one was a little bit less New Exciting information and more locking in some of the stuff we’d already picked up on. As much as I like our protagonists they don’t always ask for proper explanations, somebody’s got to consider the audience around here.
Sandman366

I need to resist the urge to crop a picture of just the starstone ship going “Choo choo!”

Uh, “hi” at you? (THE PAPER IS TALKING TO ME THE PAPER IS TALKING TO ME AAAAAA wait does that mean someone killed an Ent to make this paper? TREE CRUELTY!)

Of course no “stone cruelty” has been documented. They’re either too stupid to realize what they’ve done, or they don’t want anyone to realize what they’ve done.
Sandman366

Actually, what’s the structure of a starstone ship supposed to be made out of? If there’s little cost besides the Heart (which could mean the heart’s just that expensive), and the construction is that fast (which could mean the Heart is pulling a Castle Heterodyne and assembling itself using materials that already exist), does that mean that the Heart just, creates the materials as well as the structure? (Making the structure itself a kind of illusion or something, which would explain the mess Phin’s having to trip through to find Hazard.)
- Aria
  
  It’s mostly fabricated by the heart! Once it’s built into being more stuff can be glommed onto it of course, but the material used when the ship is first called into being is created by the stone. About as easy as shipbuilding gets hehe
  - Sandman366
    
    So if you have it create, say, a few trees, could you cut down those trees and use the wood? Or do they just become unmade?
    - Aria
      
      So we established the, like, solidarity of a ship is based on the willpower that made it. A ship sort of has a field around it where its pieces can exist, and the more substantial something is the harder it is to move it away from the heart that made it. So, if a ship with a fairly strong sense of being fabricated a harmonica, you could probably carry it around with you if you stayed within a city’s range of the stone that made it, but you couldn’t take a room off of a ship and dump it somewhere to use as a permanent house after the ship leaves.
      - Sandman366
        
        So even if it looks like wood, smells like wood, and burns like wood, it’s really just a hologram formed by the Heart, basically….right?
      - Aria
        
        That explanation basically covers it! Although, just for pedantry’s sake, as long as it’s near enough to the heart to maintain its form the wood DOES exist as a legitimate object. It just can’t exist too far away from the source.
      - Sandman366
        
        So you can cut the tree down, work it into paper, and write a letter, but try sending it, and you’ll just end up with a puddle of ink as the paper fades from existence?
      - Aria
        
        eeeexactly!
      - Sandman366
        
        And now I want to see someone who tried to do that.
        
        Please say there has been or will be at least one recorded instance of someone doing that and we’ll get to see that because that would be HILARIOUS!
      - Aria
        
        I’m sure it’ll come up at some point! Although with the way things tend to go it will probably be more gruesome than a letter not getting sent
      - Sandman366
        
        Like someone takes a piece of the furniture or wall and stabs someone with it? Then they fall of the ship and it disintegrates and they bleed to death as there’s no weapon to even pretend to stop the bleeding with? Or worse than that?
        
        Or would it just be gruesome comedy and the letter was written in blood instead of ink?
      - Aria
        
        ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
      - Sandman366
        
        where do you people even get these symbols I don’t understand
        
        Is it…supposed to be a cheering face? (I’m so terrible at these…)
Jon Baker

Serious question: are there Space Waffle Houses in space? The all-night diner implies there might be.
- Aria
  
  Absolutely there are
caribouchat

Day 4
Month 2
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after…
WeirdEnby

I love these lore pages!
WeirdEnby

Babe, are you 100% sure that isn’t blood? lol