Maglev
The Magically Levitated Train (or simply Maglev) is a series of connected vehicles that run along a leytrack for transport of people or freight.
Maglevs currently use the old, above ground rail infrastructure to some degree. It was a monumental effort of a Great Work to set up the system and enchant thousands of kilometers of leytrack. The process was still ongoing as of 2492.
Leytracks are identified easily enough by the lines of steel that criss cross the landscape. Elevated into concrete half circles with full circles encasing the line every few kilometers. The steel has a faint hum that it gives off nearly inaudible to regular hearing, but the enhanced hearing of many animals and spirits makes it so they stay away. Sign postings to note the danger of the incoming Maglev exist for those without such sensitive hearing.
Origin The designs for the Maglev were taken from Pre-Burn designs of advanced locomotives. Though the capability to use the full technology of the Pre-Burn locomotives eludes modern day engineers, adaptations have been using magitek and the abundance of aether in the Post-Burn world.
How It Works With the surfeit of aether in the landscape, enchantments are laid within the steel itself. By drawing in the ambient environmental aether it becomes a self-fueling system that levitates matching enchanted steel runners which are attached to the bottom of the Maglev engine and train cars. This keeps the train levitated off the ground, reducing friction and increasing speed to which the Maglev can accelerate at incredible speeds which is highly useful through the wild and dangerous landscapes of the ruined ecumenopolis.
The Maglev itself then uses conventional magitek enabled steam engines to generate propulsion from thrusters built into the bottom and sides of the train engine and cars. Aether circuitry is embedded within the cars and connect via wiring at the connectors between cars.
Maglevs currently use the old, above ground rail infrastructure to some degree. It was a monumental effort of a Great Work to set up the system and enchant thousands of kilometers of leytrack. The process was still ongoing as of 2492.
Leytracks are identified easily enough by the lines of steel that criss cross the landscape. Elevated into concrete half circles with full circles encasing the line every few kilometers. The steel has a faint hum that it gives off nearly inaudible to regular hearing, but the enhanced hearing of many animals and spirits makes it so they stay away. Sign postings to note the danger of the incoming Maglev exist for those without such sensitive hearing.
Origin The designs for the Maglev were taken from Pre-Burn designs of advanced locomotives. Though the capability to use the full technology of the Pre-Burn locomotives eludes modern day engineers, adaptations have been using magitek and the abundance of aether in the Post-Burn world.
How It Works With the surfeit of aether in the landscape, enchantments are laid within the steel itself. By drawing in the ambient environmental aether it becomes a self-fueling system that levitates matching enchanted steel runners which are attached to the bottom of the Maglev engine and train cars. This keeps the train levitated off the ground, reducing friction and increasing speed to which the Maglev can accelerate at incredible speeds which is highly useful through the wild and dangerous landscapes of the ruined ecumenopolis.
The Maglev itself then uses conventional magitek enabled steam engines to generate propulsion from thrusters built into the bottom and sides of the train engine and cars. Aether circuitry is embedded within the cars and connect via wiring at the connectors between cars.