>>26102889Referring to this part in the lore archive: "the use of alternate power sources for use on the ships and allowing complete independence from the sail"
Not ships have been converted/built to be steam powered. One or two frigates are built and there's a steam powered ship-of-the-line planned as well. The thing is although /who/'s navy is supposed to be modeled/influenced by the early US navy irl, /who/ technically is much older than the US even counting the establishment of the 13 colonies or the first arrival of European settlers. Using /morig/'s calculation of the "current year" in Vitubia which is around 1120-1123 VTE, the first use of /who/ can be traced back to ~617.5 years ago. Given in-universe /who/ is supposed to have existed for so long, I found it a little bit unconvincing that /who/ only started seriously going into trade and thus building up their navy in the past couple of decades or century. While I do really want to keep things more grounded and "historical", keeping it at roughly post-Napoleonic, I kinda want to skip the paddle for the warships and jump straight to propellers for the man-o'-wars. The in-universe explanation is that while a couple paddle prototypes have been built, they are limited to riverboats, troop ships and some small coastal defense ships. Since Paddles are unsatisfactory in terms of performance, researchers started to research better forms of propulsion. Propellers are chosen because in models they performed better than paddles.
>>26108256But that also presents a problem for /nasa/. Since their lore suggests that they have only been here for around a couple years or maybe even shorter. So how are we gonna deal with it? The wormhole screwed with time so they technically skipped half a dozen centuries and only crashed in Vitubia not long ago?
