First off, it claims these people did no go extinct in the 16th century - but instead existed on the shores of the Baltic until recently - when they were forcibly relocated in Ryazan due to losing a great war - which no history book speaks of
Our history is all scrambled up, there really is no point in paying any attention to it
Where you might find some pieces of truth is in small communities that don't like outsiders - except I don't think they'd tell their stories to someone they can't trust
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Its sheer size would suggest that the content of the shell wasn't helium / hydrogen, but something only somewhat less dense than air - thus requiring a large volume
The fact that "accidents" were arranged as an excuse to make the airship extinct suggests they were something else entirely
Which brings me to this - a staged photo from World War I - you'd think that by this point cannonballs would be long out of production
And yet here they are, doing something with them
At this point I'd like to remind you that plasma toroid weapons are very real, and they are of tremendous power - and the smoothbores of the mid-19th century were exactly that
"Cannonballs" then must have been the power source