M Fnord Wrote:I get the idea of the basic layout of the city - the Scarlet Tower as the "castle" in the center of town with the rest of the city arrayed out in a radial pattern. It's a little brief, though, especially in the description of the architecture; if we're calling Helium one of the crown jewels of Fenspace, then we ought to wax lyrical about what the soaring towers look like.Okay, so I'm on the right track. Now I can start filling in some of the details - the purple prose comes later, once I know what we're talking about.
(And we'll have to move the Opal Exchange if Helium's leaving Valles Marineris... Need to come up with another high-end business to take its place.)
M Fnord Wrote:In the case of the Lowel-to-Hellas canal, the answer is "giant space laser." No, really - I stuck that in as a nod to RGB Mars, in which a Grand Canal is carved using a giant orbiting mirror that melted a channel from Hellas to Isidis, IIRC. The Fen canal is actually a lot dumber, since Airy Crater is way up in the southern highlands with no access to water that isn't underground. So yeah.We'll just have to use that giant frikkin' laser... er, giant space laser to carve out a few more canals, then.
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Rob Kelk
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