4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. š
Thorondor āIanā 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 doesnāt 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 Erechās Clocktower District. For those people who have rpgād in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheronās. 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 š
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.
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 š