I would just go “Through the advancement of technology, survival skills and Magic, a group of government funded explorers have discovered this new landmass once previously believe obliterated or forever lost after the sundering.” There, simple and straightforward all while accounting the current progress of Azerothian people.
I believe this is better than having endless landmasses that are conviniently veiled by magic and whatnot when the Xenedar in Orbit could quite frankly pull all of this off but everyone has to pretend that it doesn’t exist and thus the possibility of the Alliance being the only force with the most advanced means of planetary scouting being denied.
Its based on the fact that multiple expeditions to the west of Eastern Kingdoms(or east) were organised by they never returned.
Granted, this was from the time when Kalimdor used to be the continent shrouded into the thick, unnavigateable, mists by the Druids. But that went out of the window as quickly when WoW launched
Can’t see I disagree with you either.
Hell, I rather have them create a full on underground zone, like the Nerubian Empire underneath Northrend, then have them pull continents like Avaloren out of their behinds!
Alas.
So; the Xenedar. It should be able to percieve through all magical illusions, drop any army everywhere on the planet, and blow armies to bits now?
I do not wholly disagree with you; but bringing the Xenedar into the occasions; when all its ever been able to do was blow a tiny, people-sized, hole into a very thick door, does not mean its actually, immensely, powerfull in any capacity!
I refer back to my argument of technological and magical progress, especially for a species that was once hailed as the most advanced one in the Dark Beyond to the point of attacting the attention of a God. Anyone who’d come up with the argument that they can’t build as they build on Argus would have a hard time convincing me since they managed pretty well on Draenor and Azeroth with the materials they found on the new planet.
I’m not saying that they have been militarising and updating it all this time in the background even though they could upon being urged to, after all bleh in Legion, I’m not sure anymore of the Xenedar was a back office project over their time on Azeroth or did they really just put it together under a year in Legion.
Having a codeborne black hole in the barrens would mesh well into our fake reality becoming undone after revealing our gods are just robots, though. Simulation failure in action.
Something tells me the next expansion will see some human factions return as well as a pirate faction, i base this of 2 heritage quests and a book on a boat in the dragon isles that follow up on one of the 2 heritage quests in which a faction seeks to build the biggest fleet.
Also must come back to this with the simple answer of just place a demon hunter on the ship since those guys have true sight so Illusions should be technically a non-issue lorewise (Until Blizzard decides it is).
Also still the best piece of technology in the Warcraft setting. Like it travels at great speed, can sustain armies and a functioning society in the vacuum of space so long as the Naaru batteries are not in the void state and maybe even without since Xe’ra threw her heart out there and was only fully reactivated upon getting it back and has cloaking field. The only two shaky points I can think of when it comes to all the -edar ships is their inconsistant level of punishment from one hit leading straight to crashing to being able to take some punishment from Legion siege weaponry upon full upgrade. The other one is the laser beam, I don’t intend to write for Blizzard here so I’ll leave it be.
My point is, maybe from our omniscient PoV it’s not that impressive but lore wise, nobody else comes even close to that and best we got respectively being the sky breaker and the Horde counterpart.
oh my god can they write anything without hypothetical night elf fans that exist solely inside people’s heads not getting upset it’s literally just an idea for a pirate expansion
Good to see there are more out there. who see the Xenedar as nothing more than a very effective Troop transport. and not some orbital cannon that should have levelled Orgrimmar in BFA. (i am not being hyperbolic, those were genuine statements made by people back in the day)
Nah, blizzard doesn’t know what to do with the fact that a society stuck in semi-medieval warfare suddenly has air power and sci-fi guns. That which would revolutionise war(craft) forever is simply not used.
What’s there not to know? As it is, Warcraft is two steps from Shadowrun. All it takes is giving a kick to the already-ongoing industrial revolution, and there we are. Cyberpunk with magic.
