Tyranomaster

  It was easy to describe what I wao do with the eagles, but actually getting it all id out is airely different story. I had to wait twenty days until the snow thawed before I could climb high enough on the mountain to find the old eagle s. It's been a signifit amount of time now since we've had any eagles on the isnd, so the few s that existed were very derelibsp; However, there was enough simirity between the few sites that I found that I could at least piece together an idea of where the eagles prefer to build and what their s look like.

  I was surprised that all the s were above the snowline, and after awenty days of expl to find the few ed s, I returo the city to ask Shasta about how the eagles handle snow. le stayed through winters and its was above the snow line. Apparently, they do a good job of keeping their clear of snow, despite it being a built on the ground. There have been a few is where strong, long sting blizzards resulted in some eagles freezing to death in the highest s, but those situations are rare on the mainnd, and practically unheard of on our isnd.

  As for location, the eagles like to find ledged areas that overlook a cliff that is at least a hundred feet tall, and then build their back from the cliff a little ways. Their s sist of both tree trunks and rger branches, resulting in something that looks remi of a beaver dam rather than a . They also seem to break the trees between their and the cliff, as there were shattered tree stumps leading the way to the cliffs.

  Which means building out areas for the eagles is going to be a real pain. The areas are exceptionally remote and by their nature difficult to travel to. That makes the idea of hauling one of these giant eagles while keeping it unscious all the more difficult. Further, getting all of this, a diethyl ether facility, and the bathhouse area ready in the wo years before the crystal is done is all really stag up to be a difficult endeavor.

  However, I think that with clever use of the popution, we make something work. I'd already expahe workforce that was in charge of making trails, colleg dowree limbs, and building rock dams. I think that robably quadruple that workforce, and have the existing demons train the new ones with this new directive. Then, after a year or so, split them into two departments, ones in charge of managing the new eagle areas, and the inal workfor charge of managing our forests and valleys.

  Sihe existing forest ma group is more familiar with the general terrain of our isnd, it should be easy to describe the sort of areas we want to build artificial ing grounds at. I'll try to vince Zaka to lend a few of our stro military soldiers to assist occasionally with downing the trees and building the s. Sihe locations are somewhat remote, it'd be best if the the s be built quickly, so having incredibly strong individuals who break down a tree in a single blow, and help move it to the ing location will speed things up drastically.

  I expect I'll probably o spend a bit over a month or so to get all this set up, but then I should be able to move my attention to building out the necessary facilities to make diethyl ether.

  It was easy to put an application out for the workers I wa city hall, the issue was that the sheer number I requested was very high, and there is a lot of flig and fusing information floating around the city reted to the eagles. Most of our popution now has never seen an eagle. A very small portion remembers the initial eagle fights we had, a rger portion remember our singur eagle that we kept around for a number of years, and most have heard stories from both of those fas and folk tales from the dwarves about the eagles.

  In other words, to most of the popution, the eagles are an enigma, seen more as a force of nature rather than an animal that be tamed. So getting new employees willing to work oly that problem was difficult. It ended up taking just uwo months to actually get the workforce filled out. For the first few weeks, I worked with the existing forest ma demons to show them what I had pnned. They actually had better insight than I did oing locations and what seemed to be the eagle's patterns a shape.

  The ground birds also build s on the ground, and most of the forest ma goblins have a quite deep, if instinctual, uanding of nature. The majority of my time w with them was mostly spent on describing how I pnned on managing the eagles long term, and reying the info I'd learned from Shasta.

  Apparently, I'm not the first to do re-ing on the isnd. The forest ma goblins have been re-ing ground birds for a while. The ground birds apparently like building their s on shallow sloped areas, but they get fused when small pools form near rock dams, and build their s near by, despite the slope being higher than normal. While the forest ma goblins occasionally just hunt some of the ground birds that do this, they've also started relog s to more appropriate areas.

  What they found is that the best way to do it is to fully relocate the entire , and the bird will just reize it's ow again, and as long as the area is somepropriate for it, it'll stay there instead. Obviously, the eagle s are too big to mahat way, but they suspect that bringing along the dowhers from the eagle will probably work, and that they'll experiment with some ground birds to see how effective it is.

  Since I was clearly out of my depth when it came to these subjects, I left it to them to do most of the projening. I wasn't quite ready myself to go off to work on the first stages of my project, so I worked with Zeb, Shasta, and a couple of the forest mao determihe best pce to set up the eagle feeding area. Acc to Shasta, each mountain around the dwarven capitol has it's own feeding station, so we probably only need one.

  They have dozens e carved bowls for the eagles, along a slope, and fill the bowls in desding order. Apparently, they've built a stone building alongside the bowls so that the dwarves carrying the food aren't able to be easily attacked by the eagles, with the bowls being partially covered by the building. For solo eagles along the coast, a simple pad sufficed which is what we used previously, With so many eagles in one pce though, things get a little more dangerous, especially during mating season, so you want to keep the food hidden until it's time to eat.

  Basically, we'll need a whole facility for st the food that the eagles 't break into, and then a path for us to put the food in the bowls without the eagles being able to attack whoever is in charge of feeding. Ultimately, the locatiotled upon is iher valley. We'll build a ne the mountain off the existing road, and build the facility there. I asked Shasta how many eagles live on any particur mountain around the capitol, and she said anywhere from five to fifty, it just depends on the size of the mountain and it's proximity to the city. In other words, we'll want to prepare for even more than fifty, just in case. It's an astronomical amount of food, sihe eagles tend to eat about ten times as much as the average demon, though I suppose if we have that many eagles on our isnd, it's basically a way of verting our excess food into powerful, albeit unreliable, military defense.

  I'd gathered everything I o begin my stru project shortly after we'd finally filled out the workforce for building artificial eagle s. I had copper tubing made, along with plenty of copper cable and other pos. What I'll be attempting to redevelop is the Birknd-Eyde process, which is a method of usiric arcs to gee nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide. From that, you then produitric acid, but you also use the nitrogen dioxide as a catalyst in the lead chamber process to produce sulfuric acid. It isn't very energy effit, but it doesn't require any rare catalysts, so it should be a little more straightforward to build.

  If I get it w, and roduce both nitric acid and sulfuric acid, the sulfuric acid be used as a reat with ethanol, and that should let us produce ether readily. As an added bonus, we could also produce ammonium nitrate using the ammonia and nitric acid, which would also open up nitrous oxide as a better ahetic to use. The ether will be useful to initially kno eagle out, but nitrous oxide will be safer to use for the actual transport process. Even if this fails to be useful on the eagles, I wao produce both nitric acid and sulfuric acid, so this project is a definite win if I get it w.