Timeline for How can a Dragon keep humanity in check?
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| Mar 12, 2022 at 4:01 | comment | added | bytepusher | There's a cyberpunk RPG called "Shadowrun", which has dragons in modern times. The most successful found their own corporations. Gives you access to the best security money can buy - which, turns out, is pretty good ;) | |
| Oct 17, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | Matthew | At some point, the whole "tourism" thing might get dangerous, but as noted, that's why you have staff. And live in a cave under Las Vegas. (Pro tip: casinos are great investments. -- "Management") | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 13:06 | comment | added | Pingcode | @YasharPourMohammad Perhaps, though one might also point out that wealthy people (draconic and otherwise) are not, as a rule, terribly easy to kill. In any case the tipping point in the 1900s already assumes all physical advantage is lost and plans accordingly; the finer details of how to keep mad hunters with .50 calibre rifles at bay is left to Mr. The Dragon’s capable staff | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 11:16 | comment | added | Yashar PourMohammad | I don't think it would work. You followed the scenario up to current moment in time. This story will fail after this point: Some humans will also manage to gather much wealth. Which will surely start to compete with the wealth of the dragon one way or the other. The dragon also looses all points of physical advantage after a certain point and can be killed almost as easily. The dragon will eventually turn out to be just like another wealthy human. Hence become mortal in effect. It will be only a matter of time until some curious human wants to find out what a dead dragon looks like. | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 16:22 | history | edited | Liath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | corsiKa | Burning man festivals? Because, right, he's a dragon. Who goes around burning things. Specifically people. | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 22:08 | history | edited | Pingcode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2018 at 18:22 | vote | accept | Nick Dzink | ||
| Jan 18, 2018 at 4:34 | history | edited | Pingcode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 22:09 | comment | added | Pingcode | Fundamentally this strategy is about managing that risk by reducing your threat profile while increasing the cost of trying to kill you as humanity advances - the tourist thing is really a form of PR attack the dragon transitions into once it's gotten its war chest. It's hard to maintain fear when you've got a farmer from the next village over talking about how the dragon showed up last month and paid a good price for a spot in the field and to have his wife roast a sheep for its dinner. I'll add some details on the meat of how you manage the transition | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Michael Shopsin | @NickDzink dragons have a bad rep in the west, in the east they are considered divine. Perhaps our dragon should spend some time in medieval China instead. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Nick Dzink | The tricky part would be surviving in the period between when the weapons capable of killing the Dragon appear and 'tourist' becoming applicable to him and an international lawbase can provide actual safety. I would say it's too much of a risk to take, especially considering that the Dragon is already ingrained in all of mankind's myths as a malicious force of destruction. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 7:55 | comment | added | Pingcode | Investing (or at least credit) has been around since at least 3500 BC so you can start pretty early into recorded history if you set your mind to it. Besides, these things happen (and are sometimes your fault) and are why you diversify. Sure, Carthage burned down with all those masons (you were so sure! Rats.) but that salt maker you'd helped get started on a whim... who knew humans wanted so much of the stuff? | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 6:27 | comment | added | Gnudiff | Investing presumes safety of property rights. Something that has not been the case for most of human history. Invest in a castle only to have it burned down in the next war humans wage among themselves. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 20:48 | comment | added | Pingcode | Well yes they're going to covet it. That's why you have it! It's how you get them to come to you wanting to sell you nice things, or convince you to invest in their business ideas. Both of which, noticeably, are much easier than figuring out how to a) kill a dragon and b) loot its diversified portfolio of investments. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Lurker Larry | This works if you can trust humans to acknowledge your wealth without covetting it. Ever. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 11:26 | comment | added | Sebastian Lenartowicz | +1 for the "Yes, Prime Minister" reference. Totally didn't read it in Humphrey's voice. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 3:06 | history | edited | Pingcode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 1:52 | history | answered | Pingcode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |