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Mar. 29th, 2006 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn*pinches bridge of nose* Dear Brane, regardless of how appealing a thought you find it...
...you are not allowed to cross Reign of Fire with Due South and have the community of Inuvik, NWT be one of the survivor communities of Canada when the Burning Times finally end.
Mind you, I'm willing to allow coastal communities in the Arctic, I could see that happening- hard for the dragons to destroy sea life, you know? And it's not like you don't get people practising subsistence living in places like Bethel, AK, so there's probably coastal Inuit villages that'd qualify. I don't think the dragons much care for cold, so coastal Arctic communities are likely to be pretty good refugias, rather like the way the shoreline coves were during the last glacial period. Oh sure, the dragons show up regularly, but not nearly as regularly as if it were a few hundred or thousand miles further south.
But the image I have is of a Benton Fraser in his sixties, seventies, whatever, still smiling and wearing his old uniform, proud as can be, as the survivors make their way out. Having successfully kept the place civilised the whole time.
THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR HAVING O CANADA ON MY MP3 PLAYER.
...you are not allowed to cross Reign of Fire with Due South and have the community of Inuvik, NWT be one of the survivor communities of Canada when the Burning Times finally end.
Mind you, I'm willing to allow coastal communities in the Arctic, I could see that happening- hard for the dragons to destroy sea life, you know? And it's not like you don't get people practising subsistence living in places like Bethel, AK, so there's probably coastal Inuit villages that'd qualify. I don't think the dragons much care for cold, so coastal Arctic communities are likely to be pretty good refugias, rather like the way the shoreline coves were during the last glacial period. Oh sure, the dragons show up regularly, but not nearly as regularly as if it were a few hundred or thousand miles further south.
But the image I have is of a Benton Fraser in his sixties, seventies, whatever, still smiling and wearing his old uniform, proud as can be, as the survivors make their way out. Having successfully kept the place civilised the whole time.
THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR HAVING O CANADA ON MY MP3 PLAYER.
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:23 am (UTC)...you are not allowed to cross Reign of Fire with Due South and have the community of Inuvik, NWT be one of the survivor communities of Canada when the Burning Times finally end.
That sounds brilliant.
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 02:32 am (UTC)Actually, 'Ring of Fire' made me think of Eric Flint's 1632 et seq., which transports a WV mining town to Germany in the middle of the 30-years-war. Things get a bit ... messy.
So where in history might Inuvik wind up? Say ... the north coast of Scotland, right around the time of William Wallace?
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Date: 2006-03-30 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 04:42 am (UTC)DO IT. It is far, far too spiffy not to. And that would totally happen.
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:25 am (UTC)If you were using any source other than Reign of Fire I would helpfully point out the possibility of ice-worms. I mean, if you're going to have massive improbabilities winging their way about, who cares if they're cold blooded or not?
Oh, and I know there have been some significant climate shifts since the Jurassic, but they have found tyrannosaur bones on Baffin Island.
The weather in the north becomes quite bearable in the summer, what with all those hours of sunlight. An embarrassment of mosquitoes, because of all that surfacewater, but not much in the way of cover once you get north of the treeline. I haven't been to Inuvik, but I have been to Yellowknife, and I must point out that there probably aren't many suitable structures for fortification. Also, what with the permafrost, no basements or cellars to hide in.
I don't know if I'm dissuading you or cheering you on.
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 05:36 am (UTC)Northern Canada is probably something of a picnic for them, too. Mmmmmmm tasty herds of wildlife that can be scorched to ash without getting shot at, you know? As for Inuvik, the travel brochure I have for them makes it pretty clear: obviously Benton Fraser convinced the entire community to move downriver to the sea somehow. Otherwise they're all dead. Not like there's more fortification out that way, but they'd at least be able to hunt more often. I'm sure he'll think of something.
...the bastard.
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Date: 2006-03-30 12:39 pm (UTC)It still amazes me that anyone likes Arctic winters. Is cold, and dark, and long, and I can only deal with two out of three.
Oh, and quick research reveals that Inuvik is just barely south of the treeline, which should not have surprised me if I remembered anything from high school geography. Getting around would be much easier in winter, when there are established ice roads to smaller communities like Tuktoyaktuk (and there are always dogsleds!) but in summer you'd have to navigate the waterways or fly bush planes. Sharing the skies with winged beasties looking for a roast caribou brunch is perhaps not the best idea in anything but an emergency, and fuel would swiftly become scarce.
Shoot, I'm going crazy with you.
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:17 pm (UTC)Because he would have.
Oh, do write it! Cause we *like* crack-fic, yes we do!
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Date: 2006-03-30 08:26 pm (UTC)OTOH, metal architecture in an area that's been scoured clean is not going to provide much ash, so if there's a way to hide the smell of organic life, the dragons would mostly fly over, snag something out of the sea, haul it somewhere, scorch it, and eat it without pestering the villagers...
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Date: 2006-04-01 04:50 am (UTC)And if, as the glancing research I've done on the film suggests, their 'flame' trick is biochemically based rather than just being 'magic', they likely wouldn't go around using that without a good reason, either, if only because of how many calories it must cost to, er, excrete the neccessary petroleum products...
Heheh. Sorry, I'm a compulsive worldbuilder, and running with that seems like the best way for me to go about enabling your Brane. ^_^
Ja, -n
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Date: 2006-04-01 04:55 am (UTC)Biochemical flame, yeah. And they do use it for good reason; God help me, but canonically, the dragons eat ash. Not meat, although they're capable of biting and swallowing. Ash. I assume this is the equivalent of rabbits having to eat their poop so that they can properly reprocess it.