Ambassador class timeship
Sep. 7th, 2019 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethA long, complicated, rambling dream where we were trying and failing to keep track of a baby or toddler while on the run
segued into a far less stressful bit
where we had a timeship and were not afraid to use it.
Len stole so much stuff. So Much. Like I asked if I could spend a million of it and that wasn't a huge proportion. And we were so far back in history that San Franciso was basically wood buildings and mud? A million is stupendous amounts of money and I have no idea how he could get hold of it then.
But I had Grand Plans for spending it.
In the dream I was setting out search parameters for paired land, townhouse and farm, where one was in an urban area that would be stupendously rent rich by the time I got home and the other could support fifteen people in the event of an apocalypse, with animals and plants and all, which is actually quite a complex proposition.
In the dream I was not concerned about whose land it was or what else was going on at the time, which once awake strikes me as incredibly selfish, so many messes in history, profiting from them is pretty much evil.
Turning the profit into a steady stream of good works, turning short term shinies into long term intervention... still doesn't seem like enough, really.
I had my sights fixed on the bits that were future from now though. Like that apocalypse plan was not expected to be academic.
So I had land on both sides of the Atlantic, more north or more south, places I could get to from many start points. Self sufficient enough to support the timeship crew.
... which is thinking really small but perhaps I was trying to be stealthy?
I could certainly pay Len back his initial investment before we got home. So that was nice.
But when I was asking the ship to sort out a load of stats on economics and productivity and then color maps in and make graphs and such, I asked if it could do it, and the ship was like, of course, I am an ambassador class timeship.
And then dream me apologised for thinking so small, this was tiny compared to diplomatic capabilities.
But now I am awake this is by far the most interesting part, because why would you need diplomacy and ambassadors in a *time* ship? Under what circumstances would you end up treating the past as a literal other country? And how on earth would you figure out the borders?
But that is... a very big set of ideas.
I am currently better suited to happy daydreams about exactly how much money one could make by retaining the freehold to large chunks of modern cities.
And how many heirloom seeds you could preserve, along with farming techniques, if you just bought the land back when...
segued into a far less stressful bit
where we had a timeship and were not afraid to use it.
Len stole so much stuff. So Much. Like I asked if I could spend a million of it and that wasn't a huge proportion. And we were so far back in history that San Franciso was basically wood buildings and mud? A million is stupendous amounts of money and I have no idea how he could get hold of it then.
But I had Grand Plans for spending it.
In the dream I was setting out search parameters for paired land, townhouse and farm, where one was in an urban area that would be stupendously rent rich by the time I got home and the other could support fifteen people in the event of an apocalypse, with animals and plants and all, which is actually quite a complex proposition.
In the dream I was not concerned about whose land it was or what else was going on at the time, which once awake strikes me as incredibly selfish, so many messes in history, profiting from them is pretty much evil.
Turning the profit into a steady stream of good works, turning short term shinies into long term intervention... still doesn't seem like enough, really.
I had my sights fixed on the bits that were future from now though. Like that apocalypse plan was not expected to be academic.
So I had land on both sides of the Atlantic, more north or more south, places I could get to from many start points. Self sufficient enough to support the timeship crew.
... which is thinking really small but perhaps I was trying to be stealthy?
I could certainly pay Len back his initial investment before we got home. So that was nice.
But when I was asking the ship to sort out a load of stats on economics and productivity and then color maps in and make graphs and such, I asked if it could do it, and the ship was like, of course, I am an ambassador class timeship.
And then dream me apologised for thinking so small, this was tiny compared to diplomatic capabilities.
But now I am awake this is by far the most interesting part, because why would you need diplomacy and ambassadors in a *time* ship? Under what circumstances would you end up treating the past as a literal other country? And how on earth would you figure out the borders?
But that is... a very big set of ideas.
I am currently better suited to happy daydreams about exactly how much money one could make by retaining the freehold to large chunks of modern cities.
And how many heirloom seeds you could preserve, along with farming techniques, if you just bought the land back when...