#WordWeavers 18: What kind of dragon would your MC be?
The kind who studies for their PPL and instrument flight rating, never flies without an airband scanner, GPS, and transponder, and stays well out of controlled airspace. Also spends a lot of time looking over their shoulder nervously and tries not to fly through clouds in air traffic corridors.
Remember: there are old dragons, and bold dragons, but in the age of 250 ton jet airliners flying at 500 mph there are no old, bold dragons!
@cstross they’d be extinct it wasn’t for the volunteers of ATC Sans Frontières helping to maintain safe predation environment.
“Emerald 457 Scaley you are clear for predation in paddock 27 West. Be advised of helicopter mustering operations to your north. BSE and FMD status of this flock is confirmed green”
@cstross probably the type of dragon that uses my hoard to buy controlling stakes in an air freight business, and then has 1-2% of the freight delivered to my cave as a new hoard.
@jducoeur@cstross I imagine that dragons wouldn't make great venture capitalists... They probably want to enjoy their hoard at some point, instead of just being obsessed with growing it 😁
@mu@jducoeur Yes, but as long as they can lie on a pile of gold bullion they don't care about the bank they own printing paper that claims to be exchangeable for gold if presented to the bank. And nobody sane breaks into a dragon's bedroom to steal the bed the dragon is snoozing on, right?
@angusm To be fair, I think any human-mass or larger dragon strike would most likely be a fatal accident for any plane much smaller than a 747, and a brown-pants emergency even for a wide-body: I've seen photos of what hitting an eagle does to a Boeing, and dragons[*] would plausibly be 1 to 3 orders of magnitude more massive ...
[*] Assuming large enough to carry off a fair maiden, eat an entire cow, or successfully battle a knight.
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