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The Anglean Republic
Skymonger:
But y know,the secrets of the past are simply buried under a mile of ice.
Its definitely within the realm of farming if angleans got creative with the equipment they dig up.
Ancient engines to power and warm their homes.
Crude automaton to brave the blistering and perilous Blizzards that rock anglea day by day.
Ancient weapons and metals that no one knows how to recreate anymore.
Whose to say that making a habitable biome for plants isnt possible with the miracle tech that comes out of the ground?
Raiding keeps the family well fed, but the excavations could slowly eliminate such needs.
Helios.:
nobody is really well fed in anglea though, everyone is just barely holding on, suffering is very common (without suffering is the closest translation in anglean for our word 'happy') so its not like they are finding miracles under there, they are holding on barely at all times. the raiding is what allows them to survive. even if they managed to keep their greenhouses warm, it still doesnt mean that the sun is going to come down directly enough to grow very much, especially if you have to be underground to grow it
HamsterIV:
I would compare the Angeleans to the Valhallans of 40K. Their over world is cold not toxic. They could have cities in giant glacial catacombs where ancient mirror arrays funnel light from the surface through a transparent ice ceiling to the habitable chambers below. Crops could be grown in these chambers as well as livestock that has evolved for a subterranean life style. Due to the limited space the population could never expand beyond a certain point. Fortunately the Angeleans have found a perfect solution for that, War.
Every child but the first born enlists in the fleet or army and goes off to win glory for The Republic. Raiders live off the supplies they raid or get killed, either way they don't drain the limited resources of the home territory. Particularly successful raiders are allowed to return home and live lives of wealth and acclaim. This is done to extol the benefit of raiding on the next generation.
Slaves are rarely brought back to the home cities unless they posses skills useful to the Angelean population to warrant their room and board. Instead they are dropped off at satellite colonies so isolated from the outside world they have to stay put and gather/harvest food just to survive. The Angeleans don't administer these colonies so much as raid them for their food surplus at random intervals.
Periodically other factions discover Angelean Satellite Colonies and try to rescue the inhabitants. However, considering the extreme danger of flying ships overladen with noncombatants through Angelean territory, such rescue missions are so infrequent that they has not cause the Angeleans to rethink this practice.
Helios.:
people keep equating raiding with slaving... Given what we know about the scarcity of resources in the anglean cities, whether they be above or below ground, and that we know they have some kind of clockwork automotons to do labor and the fact that they already HAVE the most advanced archeotech, and the people who best understand it, it would be absurd to steal people that they would then have to feed... livestock: yes. people: no point.
Silver Corsair:
Maybe they don't feed their slaves.
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