How is Asura technology so advanced?
Magic changes reality. Their tech is based on magic. Thus a lot of the “needed” steps for Terran technology can be comfortably sidestepped.
Malegryne (Sylvari Mesmer), Lannka (Asura Thief) – Ferguson’s Crossing: [PRD/BRB/OMFG]
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
Brain power and magic. But they’re really not that far ahead overall, but are quite ahead in a few key places.
Surprisingly they haven’t capitalized on it much.
Surprisingly they haven’t capitalized on it much.
I’d say this is due to rivalries between krewes (or even individual krewe members) meaning that one krewe does not share their research with another, crippling the ability of the Asura to build on each other’s discoveries. Instead, we have a situation where Krewe A is not talking to Krewe B because the krewe leaders hate each other, even though the research conducted by Krewe B could lead to a breakthrough in Krewe A’s research (and maybe that’s the precise reason Krewe B is not sharing!)
And then the Inquest catch wind of the research, come in and kill both krewes and steal the research data for their own use.
And then a band of wandering adventurers heads to the Inquest lab as part of a Heart, slays all the Inquest, destroys all the equipment, and all the research is lost for another 10 years until another new krewe researches it all over again from scratch. :P
I say we let the Inquest do everything for us while we kick back and relax.
I’d say this is due to rivalries between krewes (or even individual krewe members) meaning that one krewe does not share their research with another, crippling the ability of the Asura to build on each other’s discoveries. Instead, we have a situation where Krewe A is not talking to Krewe B because the krewe leaders hate each other, even though the research conducted by Krewe B could lead to a breakthrough in Krewe A’s research (and maybe that’s the precise reason Krewe B is not sharing!)
And then the Inquest catch wind of the research, come in and kill both krewes and steal the research data for their own use.
And then a band of wandering adventurers heads to the Inquest lab as part of a Heart, slays all the Inquest, destroys all the equipment, and all the research is lost for another 10 years until another new krewe researches it all over again from scratch. :P
Perhaps the rivalries are what keeps the Asura occupied at the moment, but there had to be a time when the Inquest wasn’t as big a thorn. I mean, the Asuran gates went up, right, connecting capital cities and other places of interest.
And they let people travel through them essentially for free. The Asurans never exhorted money/goods/favors/the world from the other races in return for the gates, did they?
Maybe the other races are beneath them when it comes to Machiavelli machinations. :P
I say we let the Inquest do everything for us while we kick back and relax.
You’d think that would be a cool idea, but you’d never get your place back if you let the Inquest have what they want. You’d have to kill them all…
And they let people travel through them essentially for free. The Asurans never exhorted money/goods/favors/the world from the other races in return for the gates, did they?
Actually, they DO charge people for using the gates. You can hear proof of this in Lion’s Arch where a Charr merchant is complaining to an Asura about extra fees for oversized baggage. It’s just that, for some reason, they don’t charge players for using the gates. (Perhaps the Orders have an arrangement with the Asura where their operatives can use the gates for free in exchange for an annual subscription.)
I say we let the Inquest do everything for us while we kick back and relax.
You’d think that would be a cool idea, but you’d never get your place back if you let the Inquest have what they want. You’d have to kill them all…
So true..
I say we let the Inquest do everything for us while we kick back and relax.
You’d think that would be a cool idea, but you’d never get your place back if you let the Inquest have what they want. You’d have to kill them all…
But murder is wrong!
I say we let the Inquest do everything for us while we kick back and relax.
You’d think that would be a cool idea, but you’d never get your place back if you let the Inquest have what they want. You’d have to kill them all…
But murder is wrong!
When it comes to the Inquest, it’s a case of, “kill all you want, we’ll make more!”
Seriously. I hate those guys. Almost as much as I hate their respawn rate.
The Inquest are people too!
Think of all the families you’ve devastated. Think of all the children that you’re orphaning.
The Inquest are people too!
Think of all the families you’ve devastated. Think of all the children that you’re orphaning.
They’ll just respawn. Puns are their own reword.
Think of all the families you’ve devastated. Think of all the children that you’re orphaning.
Asuran children think their parents are holding their genious back and would probably have killed them themselves at some point anyway.
As old Oola would say if he were still with us, other races use magic. We Asura are magic. It also doesn’t hurt that we’re the first race on Tyria to discover the scientific method, nor that we integrated it into our educational system at all levels. And, yes, that we were the first race to learn to govern ourselves via merit-based adhocracy gives us a nimbleness that the other races can only envy.
But it also must be said that all of the rest of the Tyrian “sentient” species are, compared to us, as dumb as a box of rocks.
Any sufficiently advanced magic/technology is indistinguishable from stupidity." – Master of Chaos, The Breakers of Things, on world ending research.
Surprisingly they haven’t capitalized on it much.
There’s no profit in the Eternal Alchemy.