" - that's a good point. I think there are a lot of advantages to having work underway on concrete things, though. And we might not have to hold on all that long before we can decisively defeat Osirion in a war - actually, let's have that as a category of project considerations we're tracking separately. What's the size of Cheliax's economic and military advantage, what's the amount of military technology Keltham now holds inside him to unleash fast,how close are we to the state where, if Keltham goes to Osirion, we can just conquer it? If spellsilver's a tenth as expensive, and we get a year's head start, then we can win a war before Osirion has the chance to do any spellsilver refining."

" - that's a good point. I think there are a lot of advantages to having work underway on concrete things, though. And we might not have to hold on all that long before we can decisively defeat Osirion in a war - actually, let's have that as a category of project considerations we're tracking separately. What's the size of Cheliax's economic and military advantage, what's the amount of military technology Keltham now holds inside him to unleash fast, how close are we to the state where, if Keltham goes to Osirion, we can just conquer it? If spellsilver's a tenth as expensive, and we get a year's head start, then we can win a war before Osirion has the chance to do any spellsilver refining."