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At the end of the first season, when Ai-chan meets Akatsuki, she says that
Salamanders work to keep Aqua warm by fighting one another inside the floating
building seen in the series.

However, I can't really believe that Salamanders just fight one another all
day and night to keep the planet warm. So what is it Salamanders actually do
and why does Ai-chan think they fight one another? (because Akari can't have
been the one to put that in her head.... right?)


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How do Salamanders keep Aqua warm?


From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_\(manga\)#Terms):

> Salamander (火炎之番人 Saramandā)  
>  A person working at controlling the weather and adding heat to the
> atmosphere as part of terraforming Aqua. Salamanders live in floating
> islands tethered at high altitude.

Basically, the Salamanders live up in large floating islands and use some kind
of technology to regulate the weather of Aqua. Since Aqua used to be Mars,
it's naturally colder than Earth (Manhome), so regulating the weather mostly
comes down to adding heat to the planet. Akatsuki, the only Salamander we see
in the show, lives up in Ukijima, which floats above Neo-Venezia.

We see the technology used by the Gnomes, who regulate Aqua's gravity, in
Volume 2 of the _Aria_ manga, but I'm pretty sure we never actually saw how
the Salamanders create heat; we just got a few oblique references to their
role when Akari met with Akatsuki.


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