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So, 
Cybercat is someone I've actually known for a while even pre-FurAffinity, though admittedly I haven't interacted with her a lot lately. (Partly because I don't buy adopts often unless I already have a specific shaped hole in a story idea.) But when a few slots opened up for shaded half-body sketches, I couldn't resist jumping in.
Since Jenora was drawn twice already by this artist, and since it was for a greyscale shaded sketch anyway, I figured I'd go with Sara, and I gave the artist a choice of which of the versions of Sara to go with. Obviously, she decided to go with Pirate Sara for the vibe, and this bit of standing proud is the result.
Cybercat is someone I've actually known for a while even pre-FurAffinity, though admittedly I haven't interacted with her a lot lately. (Partly because I don't buy adopts often unless I already have a specific shaped hole in a story idea.) But when a few slots opened up for shaded half-body sketches, I couldn't resist jumping in.Since Jenora was drawn twice already by this artist, and since it was for a greyscale shaded sketch anyway, I figured I'd go with Sara, and I gave the artist a choice of which of the versions of Sara to go with. Obviously, she decided to go with Pirate Sara for the vibe, and this bit of standing proud is the result.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Skunk
Size 1000 x 1500px
File Size 263.2 kB
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Most of Sara's crew are 'rescues', admittedly... though, honestly, you do actually have the sorts of skills that she often saves people for...
The backstory here is that this version of Sara invented a time machine, and discovered she couldn't actually change the past with it, at least not in any way that could be witnessed or proven. Annoyed after several failures at preventing a major fire, she instead went back in time to just as the fire was starting, and looted a museum in the area that had been destroyed in the fire so she could at least save the items inside. They had been supposedly destroyed and nobody had seen them since then, so she figured she might be able to get away with that... and she did. She then discovered that she actually liked the challenge of having to plan out a caper while dealing with the security systems and a rather brief time span before the fire destroyed the place, and started planning similar schemes elsewhere.
Her ship is basically a TARDIS, much bigger on the inside than the outside, and she has a massive collection of thought-to-be-destroyed books, artwork, and other artifacts inside it. She never sets the fires or does anything that would cause the disasters in the first place (that would breach her ethics) but as far as she's concerned if nobody has any reason to believe the item exists anymore there's nothing preventing her from taking it.
Her crew mostly consists of archivists and curators who also were thought to have died in the disasters, along with a few robots of her own devising.
The backstory here is that this version of Sara invented a time machine, and discovered she couldn't actually change the past with it, at least not in any way that could be witnessed or proven. Annoyed after several failures at preventing a major fire, she instead went back in time to just as the fire was starting, and looted a museum in the area that had been destroyed in the fire so she could at least save the items inside. They had been supposedly destroyed and nobody had seen them since then, so she figured she might be able to get away with that... and she did. She then discovered that she actually liked the challenge of having to plan out a caper while dealing with the security systems and a rather brief time span before the fire destroyed the place, and started planning similar schemes elsewhere.
Her ship is basically a TARDIS, much bigger on the inside than the outside, and she has a massive collection of thought-to-be-destroyed books, artwork, and other artifacts inside it. She never sets the fires or does anything that would cause the disasters in the first place (that would breach her ethics) but as far as she's concerned if nobody has any reason to believe the item exists anymore there's nothing preventing her from taking it.
Her crew mostly consists of archivists and curators who also were thought to have died in the disasters, along with a few robots of her own devising.
Sara: "No, not yet... that one's going to take research before I even attempt it, and one of the flaws of this mode of time travel is that since I can't actually change the past, it's also next to impossible to try again if I mess up too badly. Right now I can't even properly read or speak the particular archaic Greek they would have been using in that time, much less any of the other languages, and I'd like to at least be able to figure out what I'm grabbing before I go back to grab it. And, of course, part of the planning involves leaving behind enough stuff to look like the proper ruins. Now, granted, with books, it can be easier to just make copies and leave the originals behind, if you're more interested in the contents, though given that the Library of Alexandria usually confiscated the originals of books and gave back copies to the travellers, a number of the books in there would actually be]/i] the first ever copy of a book. Or scroll, really, since the modern idea of a 'book' hadn't really been developed yet. As a result, just getting information on what materials were [i]used for the scrolls back then would be of interesting historical value...
... So, yeah, still planning to do. Just because I have a time machine doesn't mean I have an unlimited amount of time once I get there."
... So, yeah, still planning to do. Just because I have a time machine doesn't mean I have an unlimited amount of time once I get there."
Well, yeah... there are huge numbers of Greek books of that era where there are no surviving copies, but we know they exist because other books from the same era referred to them. Not to mention most of the books we actually have from the height of Athenian power some 300-400 years before then we only have copies of because the Arabs kept copies after Rome fell.
Actually, looking at the Wikipedia article, the destruction of the library was a multi-stage process:
- Ptolemy VIII expelled most of the researchers there because they'd supported Ptoemy VII around 145BC
- Julius Caesar burned part of Alexandria which probably didn't destroy the library proper but one of its storehouses in 48BC
- Emperor Aurelian (re-)conquered Alexandria and destroyed most of the part of town that housed the main library in 272AD
- Arabic forces captured the city later and (admittedly politically motivated) sources claim Caliph Umar ordered the destruction in 642AD.
While the second of those events is what people usually think about with the burning of the library, the first was what really started the downfall anyway by expelling the people who knew what they were doing, and by the time the third happened the legendary Library of Alexandria wasn't the most prestigious library in the world anymore, and may not have even been the most prestigious library in Alexandria.
Though that might actually make some of the looting easier, if part of what we want to get is actually just the contents of one of the storehouses near the waterfront during Caesar's siege; most of the people would have been in the Library proper rather than the storehouse, meaning less possible observers and interference.
Actually, looking at the Wikipedia article, the destruction of the library was a multi-stage process:
- Ptolemy VIII expelled most of the researchers there because they'd supported Ptoemy VII around 145BC
- Julius Caesar burned part of Alexandria which probably didn't destroy the library proper but one of its storehouses in 48BC
- Emperor Aurelian (re-)conquered Alexandria and destroyed most of the part of town that housed the main library in 272AD
- Arabic forces captured the city later and (admittedly politically motivated) sources claim Caliph Umar ordered the destruction in 642AD.
While the second of those events is what people usually think about with the burning of the library, the first was what really started the downfall anyway by expelling the people who knew what they were doing, and by the time the third happened the legendary Library of Alexandria wasn't the most prestigious library in the world anymore, and may not have even been the most prestigious library in Alexandria.
Though that might actually make some of the looting easier, if part of what we want to get is actually just the contents of one of the storehouses near the waterfront during Caesar's siege; most of the people would have been in the Library proper rather than the storehouse, meaning less possible observers and interference.
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