Professor Edmund Richardson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Professor Edmund Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They've been
They defeated the great king of Persia.
They looted more money than any Europeans in history.
They ought to be able to be back home, spending money which would last them for generations.
But here they are hauling rocks, getting made fun of, getting killed, and just months and months into the siege.
And Tyre still seems hundreds of meters away.
It still seems incredibly far.
But then things start.
to change and the siege starts to turn and events start to go alexander's way what how does diodes play a key role in that turn one is luck and one is skill and the one thing that is luck
is that Alexander starts to get some ships.
A lot of the cities further up the coast, which had previously surrounded to Alexander, had had their fleets out fighting for the great king of Persia.
When they realized that the city back home has gone over to Alexander,
The commanders defect as well.
Alexander manages to round up a fleet of several hundred ships.
He's able to get naval supremacy.
He's able to essentially bottle the Tyrian fleets up in the harbor, or at least temporarily.
And he's able to sort of stop the raids on the promontory.
So that helps a lot.
Then Diades comes up with a new catapult.
It's a version of this torsion catapult, which you mentioned earlier, Tristan.
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