Skimmer

Skimmers are a class of Magdoran vehicle, known for their wide historical use, and for being an early invention made largely without assistance or guidance from the Titans.

Skimmers are generally wide, flat-bodied vehicles propelled without using wheels or other ground traction-based motors. Modern skimmers are typically some form of hovercraft, but sail skimmers still persist even in the space age. Early skimmers were exclusively sail skimmers, and saw use primarily by the Roving Clans of The Great Wastes, as well as their oceanic neighbours- and in both cases were seen as gentle means of transport over waves and sand, though they would be quickly superseded for long range naval duties, given that skimmers have difficulty reaching the same speeds as other vessels.

Despite this lack of speed, skimmers see preferential treatment in coastal towns, if only due to their relative ease of use and their cultural impact. Said cultural impact is also why modern development programs were put in place when their utility as hovercraft was demonstrated, allowing them to serve as medium-range, semi-airborne transport vehicles in major population centres, where their comparatively smaller size allows them to be more effective than full scale transport vehicles- though they are still of considerable size, prohibiting them from more direct transportation in some cases- without installing a more permanent network like the magrails of Simara.