This era seems particularly interesting.
Very steam. Not so very punk[1].
Which I suppose might technically make it Gaslamp Fantasy, a subgenre with which the Era of Steel and Steam would be proud to be associated.
But yes, from around 720 the combination of superior metallurgy and the POWER OF THE ATOM, not to mention a conspicuous lack of an equivalent to the Dark Ages, enabled them to progress from the purely clockwork automata of earlier ages on to the mighty nucleonic steam engine, the Stannic cogitator (Babbage-type calculating engines), and true steam clanks (steam-clockwork robot precursors).
Not to mention more massive nuclear-powered steam trains, clockwork legionaries, coilspring serpents, centurion spiders, Palar flyers, five-furnace dragons, pneumatic mail systems, airships, mechanical telegraphs, giant industrial mechanicals, friendly home automata, inadvisable alchemy, undersea conservatories, mighty ironclads, cogwork toys, and so on and so forth that you could shake a wrench at.
It was an age of dreams! An age of Progress! An age that validated technepraxic once and forevermore!
What a glorious world!
Since if anything gets grittier than Raygun Gothic, the Ministry of Exquisition stamps it out tout suite. ↩︎
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Awesome! May you please elaborate on the centurion spiders and Palar flyers?
An eldrae non-cynical version of I.G.Y. plays in the background
Standing on the edge of the morning tide
The blueprint’s open, the gates are wide
We’re not just dreaming of a distant star
We’re building ladders to where they are
The air is clearing, the grid is green
The finest minds that the world has seen
Are wired together in a common cause
To mend the spirit and the nature’s laws.
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Are the centurion spiders akin to the clockwork spiders featured in the Rise of Legend?