>>5191424Chills in the sort of "wow, I like it when I'm watching it", but when I think about it afterwards...sheesh.
Goosebumps for a new "Duel of the Fates" remix, pure WTF at the Grand Inquisitor's design, painful eye-roll at helicopter lightsabers...pogged at Vader's breathing at the end. Impressed that they brought back Uncle Owen's actor from ROTS. Cautiously optimistic, but man am I just tiffed with helicopter lightsabers.>>5191453See pic related for a hastily done map in Wonderdraft that is tenuous at best when it comes to both placement, landmass and spheres of influence. Expect future maps to may or may not be vastly different and some islands to have extensive reworks.
>>What happened to Europe and AfricaBarring the Alps, most of Europe is just gone. There's a concentration of islands where the Eurasian/African plates met/erupted near where Gibraltar used to be. Africa has a bit more landmass, with the Al-Murad Caliphate settling islands that sprouted out of the Red Sea where the African/Arabian plates meet, as well as polities that survived near Kilimanjaro and Drakensburg.
>>How much do they interact with each other?The Scourging (coronal mass ejection) knocked out a significant portion of satellites/space stations out of orbit, and completely fried whatever didn't burn up in atmosphere, on top of the entire electrical grid. Shortwave radio is the primary method of communication, with longwave being experimentally deployed.
>>Was there an "Age of Sailing" when trade/communication picked up again?After the Dark Winter and the Thalassic Calamity that saw the ice melt and flood the planet, there was an "Age of Sail". Not quite "wooden ships and iron men", but definitely a new Age of Discovery. Some took to ships to chart out the world and look for survivors, while others decided to focus on internal development. Trade and communications did pick back up, eventually, but it's currently still at pre-WWII levels. That is, if they aren't busy shooting each other for land, resources, etc., but things are mostly peaceful around the New Atlantic.
In-universe, there is no "complete" map of the Flooded World. Satellite/GPS are kaput for the next few decades until Babylonia figures out how to reinvent spaceships, and no-one's really done a circumnavigation of the globe. While you guys have access to the map, the folks in-universe don't, and have more than their fair share of "fog of war" and "here there be monsters" on their maps. The Babylonia Cartography Guild pays sailors very handsomely for new bits and pieces of data, but there aren't that many who venture that far beyond the known out for fear of pirates, electromagnetic storms, or worse: raiding parties of the Toghril Khanate.
And for all you guys know, there might even be some islands that I didn't put on the map. I haven't nearly figured out how to mark a migrant/mobile fleet's sphere of influence. Another thing on the list.
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