[DIPLOMACY] Revolutionizing Transportation.

[u/thesixwalkingfarts]

"Is Nibenay not positively lovely Dralsi?" Mita questions as the duo strides down the hallway. She scratches her nose, an artful hoop dangling from her left nostril. "Just absolutely stunning, and everyone is so colorful, and the weather is so nice," Mita says as they pass a woman in her finery, a draping silk stola trimmed in red. The Queen of Ashes donned similar attire, appearing as a woman of Nibenay rather than a goddess of the Dunmer people. "The very air is perfume."

Mita bursts into the council room of the White Gold Tower, maps in hand, her head held high. Jewelry clattered as she walked. A tattoo snaked down a single bare arm. After a humid morning in the city, mostly filled with Mita at the smoky inn where a demonstrative Dunmer man prodded her arm, Mita is ready for this meeting. She spreads the maps out on the table in haste.

"I'm sorry, I won't be able to engage in pleasantries, I have to be ready to depart for Firsthold tomorrow morning." Mita smiles, her enigma captivating the room as she points. "This, my friends, will revolutionize transportation, streamline trade, we will carve Tamriel in half," Mita begins her presentation, "A trans-Tamrielic canal. Goods from Vvardenfell can be in Cyrodiil within the week whereas it takes months to traverse the waters now. Hammerfell? mere days. Auridon? Two weeks. There is nothing but benefits here, gentlemen," Mita straightens.

"We'll start at the conclusion of the Strid River near Anvil and we'll cut through to right below Lake Rumare. Then from the Corbele we'll dig through the Shadowgate, draining the rivers around that and rerouting them to the Thir River, which, in turn connects to the Inner Sea, expediting the journey from both Skyrim and Vvardenfell, respectively. And then, from the Thir, we'll go ahead and move out to the Padomaic Ocean. Effectively cutting the continent in half." Mita smiles, her presentation over. "Undoubtedly, it will be costly, but the benefits are obvious and the investment will come back over tenfold now that Tamriel is at a state of... Peace."

"We can even bring the canal down by Bravil," Mita gestures the the route in a lighter red, "But that would be something best left to the Nibenese to decide. There are so many opportunities that this would bring about, esteemed councilors."

Mita halts her blabbering, beautiful wine colored eyes lined in kohl training on the men that sit around the table. She takes a deep breath, wondering what Dralsi made of it, as Mita hadn't told her exactly what would transpire until this very moment.

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tl;dr : a canal through Tamriel. Costs could probably be slashed by dredging out existing rivers. Red is the Cyrodiilic branch, Green, in theory, would be the Resdaynian branch, and the purple and orange would be alternate routes.

[u/cthulhuh00p]

Cost: $85,000,000

The NPCs agree to the idea, but refuse to pay for it.

[u/thesixwalkingfarts → u/cthulhuh00p]

Holllllyyyy shit. Timeframe?

Edit: also, what about trade modifiers?

[u/cthulhuh00p → u/thesixwalkingfarts]

A few decades?

[u/thesixwalkingfarts → u/cthulhuh00p]

That's a real bummer

[u/GOOD_GUY_GREG_2810 → u/thesixwalkingfarts]

It's not too bad, it'd take so long that if we did do a reset it would not be done by then, but 20 years (that's how long the Royal Canal took so I figured it was a good number) doing yearly payments is only 4,250,000 a year, split between a couple of people, that's very manageable

[u/thesixwalkingfarts → u/GOOD_GUY_GREG_2810]

Yeah, that's the thing. And, with the time frame it would take like 4 irl months. An insane project.