In a Secret Lab Somewhere…
WELCOME. Welcome to an anywhen of Mad Scientists and daring Skyway Robbers, a neverwhere in which Airship Pirates play a deadly game of cat and mouse with Air Admirals of Her Majesty’s Royal Aeronautical Corps; a Victorian(ish) Era that could have happened had history taken a different turn. Welcome, in short, to Steampunk. Imagine Verne hopping into his horseless carriage (perhaps like the one invented by Oliver Evans) and picking up Babbage along the way to an engagement. Wells and Tesla meet them at the door; inexplicably, they both had arrived much earlier than expected. Evidently, Edison’s invitation was somehow lost in the post. They all meet at Arthur Conan Doyle’s flat for tea and a chat. About an hour into ...
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