Vilous | The History of Train Technology on Tal - Part 1 [Pre-reading the Raw Concept]

This is part 1 of detailed lore focus on Planet Tal's Train Technology. I am considering expanding upon these lore details in the future if my patreon membership increases in the future!


Tal's people have always been heavily reliant on animal or human power for moving and transportation for a long time. Since most of them have excellent travel speeds on their own, they were not in need of things like bicycles as a necessity. Wheels were often hard to use on Tal's rugged, untamed lands as is. In most of the cases, cars and bikes had always been used as auxiliary tools, providing horsepower and manpower to their tasks.

In Gold Ring, cars were generally used in daily life, but the usage of electric trains on the deserts Salt Road were impossible. Because of the nature of the Salt Road, they needed a very long distance to travel whilst avoiding extensive, deep sandy fields and possible blowing sandstorms, it was next to impossible to create a railway there whilst avoiding these natural obstacles. Thus, the Eltus use caravans with carriages for transport across the desert in the meantime.

The very first trains appeared in Reono after the war. The battered Shigu and Reono were in need of rapid reform and reconstruction. The Agudner engineers then set their sights on the tunnels of the Lyvank mountains which were already previously dug out. They had designed a trolley train to Shigu from Reono and then immediately laid down a line. Albeit quite clumsy in initial design, it worked well as a means of transportation.

In the early stage, those trolley trains had been used for transporting materials, but they noticed Shigu lands have many wild elements in their lands and plains like the Astna. To avoid miasma that seeps in from the shallow and plain forests, trains for people had been developed on Shigu's civilized area mainly.

Agudner engineers had been desperately pressed and considered a way to construct a line which connects Shigu to Reono and then Gold Ring, by using similar technology, but all of the existing means of transportation via the Salt Road that have already been thought up could not be changed easily, so instead, Gold Ring relies on it's tramways to connect it's towns.

Subnote: Unfortunately, the technology for subways was never developed.

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タルにおける鉄道の歴史

従来、タルの人々は移動手段を人力や動物に頼ってきた。優れた移動速度を持つ彼らは、自転車程度のものはそもそも必需品ではなく、起伏のある地面では車輪はそれほど有用でなかった。車やバイクは移動手段としてよりも、馬力・労働力の補助として使われる事が多かった。

ゴールドリングでは車は使われたが、最も長距離を移動しなければならない「塩の道」に電気が使われる事は長らくなかった。というのも、砂布団を避け、砂嵐の吹き荒れる長い道に線路を引く事は現実的ではなかったからである。馬車を使ったキャラバンが長く用いられた。

鉄道車両がその姿を歴史にあらわすのは戦後のレオノで、荒廃したレオノとシーグは速やかな復旧を必要としていた。アグドナの技師たちは、すでに開けられたリベンクのトンネルを用い、レオノからシーグへのトロッコ列車を設計し、引いた。それは武骨なものであったが、よく機能した。

トロッコ列車は物資の運搬を行っていたが、やがて彼らはシーグの地がアスタナをはじめとした、荒野・平原地帯が多い事に気づく。浅く平たい森からにじみ出る瘴気を避けるように、人々を載せる列車はシーグを中心に普及していった。

技師たちは同様の手段を使い、なんとかシーグ・レオノ・ゴールドリングを繋ぐ線路を構築できないかと考えたが、すでに考えつくされた塩の道の渡航方法は簡単に変更できるものではなかった。その代わり、 ゴールドリングでは市内を結ぶ路面列車が出来ている。

なお、地下鉄の技術は誕生していない。