Which is funny, because it doesn't have a title yet. *grins* Or...any words written. At all.
Oh, but the thing is that the Athenians managed it back in the day, and there have been Greek colonies forever, so you don't really need THAT significant of a tech advantage. I'm kind of playing with the idea of bringing in a little bit of magic, too -- I'm not sure how much, though. Maybe just the Scott Lynch amount in The Lies of Locke Lamora -- little things, some odd combinations of magic and science, etc. And then the locals are nonhumans? Although in some way that seems to be giving in to the cliches about colonialism, that the natives are lesser beings than the conquerors. *winces* But it's interesting.
I am aware of the Sharpe series! I am slowly working my way through them. And Temeraire, yum. I haven't read the fifth one yet; I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback so that my set will match (and also it will be cheapter), but I tore through the first three VERY QUICKLY when they first came out, then the fourth one when that followed.
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Oh, but the thing is that the Athenians managed it back in the day, and there have been Greek colonies forever, so you don't really need THAT significant of a tech advantage. I'm kind of playing with the idea of bringing in a little bit of magic, too -- I'm not sure how much, though. Maybe just the Scott Lynch amount in The Lies of Locke Lamora -- little things, some odd combinations of magic and science, etc. And then the locals are nonhumans? Although in some way that seems to be giving in to the cliches about colonialism, that the natives are lesser beings than the conquerors. *winces* But it's interesting.
I am aware of the Sharpe series! I am slowly working my way through them. And Temeraire, yum. I haven't read the fifth one yet; I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback so that my set will match (and also it will be cheapter), but I tore through the first three VERY QUICKLY when they first came out, then the fourth one when that followed.
...homework?