User blog comment:Bouexic/Tal Naga Collective/@comment-24882568-20170103144910/@comment-24882568-20170103194458

Well, I've been back since last night, but you know, typing stuffs.

Ok. So just some faction allied with the SRD. I'm fine with that. Not sure the SRD would be happy with that, but ehhhhhh....

The 4th planet(probably going to have the same name as the system name for the Srikrirn...) is mostly water, on the surface. There is a few large land masses and quite a few islands, but otherwise, most of the surface area of the planet is covered by water. Sure, they can fly to another place, but it's much less energy intensive to take a boat across the ocean. I never did say they don't use surface ships: They just aren't as common as the flying ships. There is a few key advantages to surface ships RP wise: Surface ships, by and large, are cheaper to build and maintain, easier to maintain and operate, and do not require anything special in construction or anything like that. That, and easier to build and generally easier to prettify than flying ships, IG. It's not like on Earth, where the operating cost is null and void due to using stuff which will run practically forever, such as fusion engines. The Srikrirn don't use powerplants like that in each and every ship they can put it in. They still mostly use fuel burning based engines, with fusion engines(or fission. Probably that, on more ships than fusion) put into the largest of ships where it can be afforded. You can't keep a ship permanently in the air on fuel engines, and they will have a limited range without refueling. MIght just make it fission reactors, but I think fuel engines sound more fun to have...

K.