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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Weirdsound]

B

Optics for telescopes of course

Suggestion: Now would be a good time to invest money towards expanding our glassworks. Increasing glass production so that both our artists and scientists have a supply should be well within our means.

If that is not an option, B. We just gave the artists an edict.

[Hotfire90]

B

[omada]

B

[mightymushroom]

B

[helmacon]

B

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

B

[Maximum Spin]

B but also yes to Weirdsound's suggestion.

[Haspen]

You decide to grant audience to the scholars first.

"Greetings, Empress Ruberta!" Their delegates, all with beards of varying lengths, bow their heads in respect. "We have begun an ambitious project to determine whether the Pantheonist books about stars and heavens are correct. There are just enough discrepancies in calculations that we cannot help but question the mechanics of the night skies. For this, we wish to create large instruments that will allow us to see further into the skies by use of lenses. For this, we need gemstones of best quality as well as dedicated glassworks that would be able to provide us with materials."

"We would place orders on the glassworks every few yearss, and would only take clearest and largest of gemstones per year."

A) Of course we will provide! For science!
B) You're asking for too much. Shoo!
C) Oh, I can sell you these if you want. But no freebies.
D) Interesting! Tell me more about your 'celestial mechanics'!

[Rockeater]

D

[birdy51]

D I mean, we're going to say yes anyways, but we may as well hear em out! If it all goes well, maybe we can get other free wheeling nobles to buy glass too.

[mightymushroom]

D

I like the idea of selling to them. This sounds like fairly advanced science for the setting, it probably wouldn't slow us too much to spend the university budget on supplies instead of experiments every few years. (For comparison it feels like the Fireblood experimenters can take decades to get anywhere meaningful.)

[Imic]

D
Speaking of which, how long has it been since we've gotten anything meaningful from the fireblood factories?

[Harry Baldman]

D

[crazyabe]

D.

[Blood_Librarian]

D
Speaking of which, how long has it been since we've gotten anything meaningful from the fireblood factories?

We get a maintained and heavily armed military-industrial complex that supplies us with munitions for our soldiers.