Very cool, love not getting hit with things when I'm in a building or a tent.
Point one, definitely hit up some mages. We're thin on the ground with official Research members, though you can check with Porthmeus. The seneschal is technically in Diplomacy, but if I remember right he has a facility with force magic; he might come try to bash some stuff into shields if you ask nicely. And Strange, of course, but I keep assigning him things and he's probably got his hands full, to be honest.
As far as funding goes, I can give you a chunk of discretionary funds to get your started once I take a look at the schematics. But lyrium's expensive, so I'll probably need to clear any bigger outlay of funds with the other div heads if you're planning to scale. That said, once you've got a prototype, we should probably be looping the Commander in anyway, so.
Can you evaluate it on a camp-sized setup without costing us several months' research budget? I don't know how much your prototype would need.
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Point one, definitely hit up some mages. We're thin on the ground with official Research members, though you can check with Porthmeus. The seneschal is technically in Diplomacy, but if I remember right he has a facility with force magic; he might come try to bash some stuff into shields if you ask nicely. And Strange, of course, but I keep assigning him things and he's probably got his hands full, to be honest.
As far as funding goes, I can give you a chunk of discretionary funds to get your started once I take a look at the schematics. But lyrium's expensive, so I'll probably need to clear any bigger outlay of funds with the other div heads if you're planning to scale. That said, once you've got a prototype, we should probably be looping the Commander in anyway, so.
Can you evaluate it on a camp-sized setup without costing us several months' research budget? I don't know how much your prototype would need.