Creature:Tragnon/Transportation

Tragnon Transportation
Land Transportation The Tragnons don´t have very advanced technologies on land transportation – because they simply move in animal wagons or on animals, and because they can run very fast on small distances, even faster than some animals, and they also can run huge distances, even through craggy mountain hills, without being especially tired. Tragnons use often animals as carriers of rocks and metal ores in the mines too. Water Transportation The Tragnons are known to be skilled in ship building, what is useful, when you need to transport goods from higher places on mountains, lower to the valleys, but mainly as primary transport on huge distances. Ships are often used as transportation in gentle rivers flowing through cave complexes connected to mines, what is useful, when you want to transport really huge amounts of goods and rocks. After that, they are getting to higher floors of mines using rope elevators, often propelled by water and waterfalls, steam, or sometimes(in small mines), only by animals. Tragnon trade fleet is well known over whole northern part of the continent. Largest ships are more than 90 m long, and are used only on huge and slow rivers, like Grand Mountain river, and a Grand River of Koldenwelt, and on further seas. Tragnon trade ship fleet counts more than 300 ships, what are located mostly in huge docklands built on the coast of Lake Oetes. They can carry up to 8000 tons of goods, mostly mountain granite, metals, and rare gems. Largest ship, called King Atheotos(old Tragnon king), is more than 350 feet long, is entirely made of wood, and it is one of the greatest wonders of Tragnon. It can carry more than 200 tons of goods. Air Transportation It is not very well known, that the Tragnons have Air transportation too. Often used are „artificial wings“, what are very similar to modern rogalo´s, but are constructed of wood and canvas. They are used as very fast transport of one person from one city to another, but it is not very reliable, and for that many Tragnons use more often only own legs, to get to another places. It is slower, but safer too. Tragnons also use air transportation in mines – hot air balloons. They use it in the large and deep vertical tunnels, where the rocks and metals can´t be easily transported by elevators, because they are simply too deep, and it is almost impossible to build a elevator like that, with Tragnon technologies, and if yes, still it is very unpractical and expensive. So, on the bottom of each vertical tunnel is special facility, where are huge stoves what produce hot air, what is after that pumped to the balloons. After that, they fly up, and up, after couple of minutes they will reach top of tunnel, are fixed, and material is transported further using normal ways.