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"You want to build a Floating City?"
Annan sat slumped on the carpet, his hair a mess and the light gone from his gemstone-black eyes. "Yeah..."
Alice understood Annan's lack of security. After Star-Moon Bay, where he had poured all his energy, had fallen, he wanted his New Star-Moon Bay never to fall.
“The expensive part of an Arcane Power Core has never been its price. It's the upkeep,” Alice told Annan. “The smallest stable Arcane Power Core costs about six hundred thousand Gold Narls, and it can only lift a manor. Every seven years, maintaining a running Arcane Power Core costs enough to buy a new one. To keep your Floating City from breaking apart on its own, you'll also need foundations reinforced with smelted mountain Copper. A Floating City is both safe and fragile. You must be strong enough to protect the Arcane Power Core, or the city will fall and everyone in it will die. Only then will you have the beginnings of a Floating City.”
"Now you have a floating Territory with beautiful buildings on it. Next come resources and Tax Revenue. You have no established foundation, so you'll need to cultivate farmland on the ground. You have no established foundation, so no Noble will live in your Floating City and pay you taxes. And given the security risks, even letting Mercenaries into the Floating City would be dangerous."
If Floating Cities were easy