Iime where I was getting ammonia produ set up, the tunnel was fully outfitted with it's sewer and bathroom stops, and one of the teams began digging the unnel I'd designated for them. As I'd previously discussed, they tinued using the level and other tunneling tools, but they dug upward and out from the tral area, perpendicur to the existing tunnels. Ultimately, they transported stone down to the tral area out of their tunnel, and Zeb hired on other demons to haul the stone from the tral area out to our city.

  They've been making quite goress with two 2-foot crystals and a handful of crystal trays at their disposal, but only oeam using them, they're able to work at a faster pace than I expected. Some of that also be put on Zeb having the opportunity to send different stru teams to grind for levels every so often, meaning they generally have more workers with improved stone shaping and rger mana pools on any given stru team.

  They're still only about half of a mile from the tral area, but I'd figured they'd be about half that distan this time, so it leasant surprise. So, I took a few days to use teise to see if there was anything of note, and unfortuhe answer was no. They hadn't made it to yer ge in rock yet, so I'm not really surprised that we didn't find anything.

  Following that, I went back to the research b to do some designing for fertilizer sprayers that the other demons use to spray ammonia on the fields as a fertilizing agent. While a simple watering could work, I figured that we could make the process a little easier for the goblins by using spray nozzles and backpacks. I'd like for the ammonia to get spread onto the fields when the spring rains start.

  I took a month getting the spray systems designed as well as the molds for the various parts that were necessary for them, so we should have a few systems ready before the new year, which is ten days away. I've started to noti appreciable problem with my own memory tely reted to information from earth. I shouldn't be that surprised given I've lived here over three decades, but a lot of the detailed information that I would have previously known is mostly just approximate knowledge now.

  For example, I recall the three major strong acids, nitric, sulfurid hydrochloric, but I 't for the life of me recall any precise numbers for things like enthalpy of formation of various pounds. Redisc those sorts of lists of data would take multiple lifetimes, whifortunately means proper chemical engineering is basically out the window. Any project I work on will either o be reas that I do remember w, or I'll have to tinker with them for some time to find a w model.

  I've sort of started to alleviate some of that work for myself, but I really do o step it up a few notches. I have a few goblins colleg and monit celestial bodies with the telescope and colleg atmospheric readings, others colleg information on the popution's prestige traits, and Tiberius is doing some amount of military researbsp; I had previously intehe b area to be dedicated to research, but it really has ended up as a military-industrial park where we dic value research.

  Teically speaking, all research is strategically valuable, eveudy of celestial bodies, si could give us insight into uping sor phenomenon. However, if we try to monopolize all information, not only does that drive a wedge between us and other tries, it also makes them less likely to share with us. Unlike some people, I'm not opposed to the cept of brain draiher. If we actually formed a true researiversity that attracted talented individuals from other tries, it provides us some amount of prote, as long as their research is publicly avaible.

  Obviously, right now it's practically impossible to reach our isnd from the mainnd safely, but in the ing years that will ge with the pletion of the extra rge mana crystal. There are many examples of things that I'd like to have data researched and tabuted for me that could also potentially attract the best and brightest from other nations.

  We're two retively simple processes away from having access to hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, and nitric acid. Add on our ability to already produce small amounts of sulfuric acid, and ammonia, and we've got the ws for a lot of data colle aied to minerals and chemistry. Being on a volid is mostly downsides resource wise, meaning we o take advantage of what we do have access to effectively.

  Thankfully, what we do have access to a lot of is sea water, atmosphere, and to a lesser extent mana. Those are really all we o produce hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, and nitric acid. I easily make some more stirred mills to be used in a b space, and essentially just let loose some researchers mixing away at various powdered rock samples to see what they produbsp; While the majority of the ro our isnd is basaltic, there are obvious flows that occurred at different times which had other positions. If I live to the point where true teic research be done, I'm very ied in what sort of teic process formed this isnd to allow these different kinds of rock flows.

  Beyond mineral research, just straight chemical research be useful, and having strong acids and a strong base help with that. For example, I do recall that some amount of munpowder is made by using nitric acid and sulfuric acid on cellulose to make an explosive, and that is further treated to make it more stable. From that as a starting point, it'd probably be possible in a few years time with a skilled team to produce a facsimile of munpowder.

  Physics data could be properly collected and tabuted, meteical research could be done, mathematics developments, zoological studies, all sorts of areas of research could be do I just don't have the time to do it. What I do, however, is give valuable insight that ence rapid breakthroughs, while leaving the individual research to others. At this stage, that's probably one of the best things I could do. Finding a proper location for such a grand multi-discipline research facility will be it's own challehough perhaps the port city could also support it.

  Though, there are two far more pressing matters that actually o be taken care of in the couple of years. First, we need a much rger bathhouse area for housing our new crystal when it's finished. The old bathhouse's crystal housing is actually too small to even hahe gargantua we're growing, and with a much rger popution, having a rge bathworks to utilize it even more effectively seems like a good idea.

  The sed problem is something that I'll want to ask both Karsh and Shasta about. In all likelihood, when we install such a rge crystal, we're going to get eagles ba the isnd. My is that we'll attract a lot of eagles, and it could be very bad if we attract a lot all at onbsp; Our previous crystals on the isnd were 8-foot crystals, aracted an eagle or two a year for some time until things stabilized with a single eagle, which eventually left in search of a mate. Once our crystals were gone, so were visits from eagles.

  Besides the coastal region on the dwarven ti, many eagles settled around the dwarven capitol where Par-Tor sits. From descriptions given, Par-Tor seems to be around 14 feet in size. If our crystal is bigger, I'm worried that we might attract a rge group of eagles to our small territory, and they'll fight, and what sort of message that might send back to the dwarves if suddenly a rge amount of their eagles leave, and a few e back after a month or two heavily wounded.

  Basically, I o know how territorial the eagles really are, a aimate of their popution size. Depe on the information I gather, we may o do some prep work for handling the eagles as well. Despite our initial iions with them, I'd prefer that we didn't have to kill more of them.