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This is so friggin' cool! 8D If you go to their displays page, you can hear some of the graphs!

I lean hard into firefighting, which I have a slight knowledge about because I live somewhere that catches fire every year. :D And yeah, most years it's bad but manageable or nothing happens, and then you get that one memorial for the 14 firefighters who didn't make it because of one bad day. o_o

The fics I'm thinking of in particular are The Regicide by Astrokath and everything by Mawgrim (especially Threadfall). These are both fantastic fics and I love them but oh my god the constant deaths and maiming in Threadfall made me want all of Pern to be eaten out of frustration at times. XD

I think it's in Dragonquest but from what I recall, a fall lasts 6 to 8 hours and each Weyr can expect to be fighting one every three to seven days for 50 years (except during winter).

More Pern thoughts, tl;dr: Threadfall is probably not as exciting as people think, proper Wing formation is like goose flocks in flight, and I think writers who kill a bunch of dragons in every Threadfall and Weyrling class have things waaaaay wrong.

Honestly the most efficient way of fighting it is probably pretty boring to watch. It falls from a static height and the aim is to catch as much of it as possible as high up as can be done. To do that effectively, you really just need to have your Wings flying in a more or less steady formation that forms a line along that leading edge. I imagine it's a lot more like forest fire fighting than any sort of aerial combat.

Regarding how the Wings are structured, I have always assumed they fly in a V formation. The reason geese do this is so that the lead goose generates lift for all the geese behind. So you put a bronze and a few more bronzes or browns at the point of the V to fly most of the fall, with blues and greens fanned out to the side and staggered behind to take advantage of that lift. Your strongest, most agile, most successful dragons make up the topmost Wing with as many other Wings below them to catch anything that's been missed. Instead of high action flying, it's more like 6 - 8 hours of firefighter dispatch meets airport traffic control. Which I think is cool but I'm just Like That. :D

Also! There is no way in hell a Weyr looses a bunch of dragons in every training and every Fall. That would be a failed system in every way and unsustainable. Even one serious injury that puts a dragon out of action every Fall would decimate the ability of the Weyr to do its job. I think a lot of fan writers got too excited about the drama of loosing a fighting pair or a number of Weyrlings without really thinking things through. Todd McCaffrey absolutely did. If your max fighting force is 600 dragons (and I think that's an overestimate on how many one weyr can hold), you are going to need every one of them you can get to keep the spores that eat everything in a 200 foot radius upon landing from hitting the ground at all. Come to think of it, to really do the job well, there probably needs to be a few teams flying scout at a distance to send general reports to the riders on the front line.

Also I don't think a dragon is going to bond with someone who will get them both killed the first time they try to go between. If they can smell your gender pheromones and tangle their consciousnesses with an alien species via eye contact, I think we can assume they're cognizant enough to Impress someone who will maintain their survival when using one of their most basic, innate abilities.

SHOT AND CHASER page 164 is up! Forgot to post the update notice here. It’s a transitional page though. Really looking forward to posting this coming Tuesday’s pages.

Quick sketch commission for Blaze of their awesome Zarel. :) Taking a few more of these if anyone is interested. $15, PayPal, single characters only, nothing overly complicated please.