Crevasse Crawlers
Haha! Such ingenuity! In contrast to steam-powered machines on mainland Namda, the Frozen Isles rely heavily on clockwork machines, and this vehicle is most definitely the pinnacle of recent clockwork inventions.
Clockwork Ingenuity
Crevasse crawlers are vehicles specifically designed to cross glacial crevasses. Their invention greatly improved the speed and safety of travel across glacial tundra terrain such as the Pallar Icy Fields in the northernmost region of the Frozen Isles.
Their design is in part due to the invention of steam-powered machines, which fast-tracked engineering as a whole. But, steam-power relies on a heat engine, and heat can be dangerous in the icy fields, so instead, the newest techniques were adapted to fit clockwork machinery by the renowned technical horologist Gwent Pew. With these new techniques, she was able to construct a large moving clockwork machine, a breakthrough in technical horology, for big machine had always been stationary until then. Crevasse Crawlers were designed specifically for the Melda Postal Corporation, a transport company that travels across the Ohno Glacier in the Pallar Icy Fields, and crosses the dangerous Melda Crevasse.
The purpose of two antenna-like structures is feeling ahead, looking for unstable snow bridges covering glaciers. Its legs are sturdy and pointed, and because of it, crevasse crawlers do as its name suggests: they can crawl down and up crevasses to get to the other side.
Their design is in part due to the invention of steam-powered machines, which fast-tracked engineering as a whole. But, steam-power relies on a heat engine, and heat can be dangerous in the icy fields, so instead, the newest techniques were adapted to fit clockwork machinery by the renowned technical horologist Gwent Pew. With these new techniques, she was able to construct a large moving clockwork machine, a breakthrough in technical horology, for big machine had always been stationary until then. Crevasse Crawlers were designed specifically for the Melda Postal Corporation, a transport company that travels across the Ohno Glacier in the Pallar Icy Fields, and crosses the dangerous Melda Crevasse.
Structure and design
Crevasse crawlers are vehicles unlike any other. They do not have wheels like carriages and trains, nor sails like ships and sand skiffs. Instead, relies heavily on man power, weights, counter weights and much intricate clockwork. They have six long metal legs. With an additional two antenna-like structures in front, it roughly resembles a beetle in shape. Its body is situated above and between its legs, maximising weight distribution, and can fit two drivers, and cargo or an additional six people.The purpose of two antenna-like structures is feeling ahead, looking for unstable snow bridges covering glaciers. Its legs are sturdy and pointed, and because of it, crevasse crawlers do as its name suggests: they can crawl down and up crevasses to get to the other side.
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