Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
With this planet’s near-future technology, stuff could be fitted with gyroscopes sensitive enough to keep track of a vehicle’s movement.
Some drift would be inevitable but that could be fixed once the system gets close enough to land to start receiving signals from known stationary transmitters like cell phone towers, airport radar, communications towers and even entertainment radio.
Some places, such as depopulated biohazard continent, this could be a problem.
I boned up on it quite a bit over the last few weeks. For aviation they were using GPS….but unlike here, they never took down the LORAN-A/C systems or the omnidirectional VHF beacons. At one time they had a number of VOR beacons on decommissioned oil rigs and platforms out in the ocean (which were never removed due to cost constraints, and since they pretty much ran themselves, nobody really cared)
The LORAN-A/C systems were left online as a backup to GPS (and since they were cheap to run, they just left them go as well. I mean, hey…the system was already in place, Although in our world, they did start off pretty expensive, and got a heck of a lot cheaper in the late 70’s/early 80’s)
And a backup that was difficult to jam has it’s advantages 🙂
Before GPS there was Loran-C and even other long before them, including the compass. TBH, GPS is an expensive approach to the problem of navigation.
and before that there was celestial navigation. Old School FTW!
With this planet’s near-future technology, stuff could be fitted with gyroscopes sensitive enough to keep track of a vehicle’s movement.
Some drift would be inevitable but that could be fixed once the system gets close enough to land to start receiving signals from known stationary transmitters like cell phone towers, airport radar, communications towers and even entertainment radio.
Some places, such as depopulated biohazard continent, this could be a problem.
Actually, Starfall had working call towers but Miko and Jason didn’t really tap into that system. It wasn’t something they needed.
You would not believe the range of a Loran-C tower array. It definitely has over-the-horizon capability.
I boned up on it quite a bit over the last few weeks. For aviation they were using GPS….but unlike here, they never took down the LORAN-A/C systems or the omnidirectional VHF beacons. At one time they had a number of VOR beacons on decommissioned oil rigs and platforms out in the ocean (which were never removed due to cost constraints, and since they pretty much ran themselves, nobody really cared)
The LORAN-A/C systems were left online as a backup to GPS (and since they were cheap to run, they just left them go as well. I mean, hey…the system was already in place, Although in our world, they did start off pretty expensive, and got a heck of a lot cheaper in the late 70’s/early 80’s)
And a backup that was difficult to jam has it’s advantages 🙂