Trains? Last I heard, some guy was trying to figure out how to build one that would go from island to island, but it's... Nobody thinks it'll actually work.
[But in the future, apparently things have changed. It's a span of several hundred years, though, so maybe that's not really a shock, but he's realizing that he has no benchmarks for how quickly technology should progress.
His original point about commonalities between sailing ships and this ship-in-space will have to be put aside for the moment.]
So is Amestris... An island? A kingdom? What sea is it in?
[It's entirely possible Ed is from a world that doesn't divide into seas the way his does, he's aware, but might as well ask since it's the natural way for him to place where something might be on a globe.]
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[But in the future, apparently things have changed. It's a span of several hundred years, though, so maybe that's not really a shock, but he's realizing that he has no benchmarks for how quickly technology should progress.
His original point about commonalities between sailing ships and this ship-in-space will have to be put aside for the moment.]
So is Amestris... An island? A kingdom? What sea is it in?
[It's entirely possible Ed is from a world that doesn't divide into seas the way his does, he's aware, but might as well ask since it's the natural way for him to place where something might be on a globe.]