# How steampunk was steampunk-era Eliéra? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 28, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505 "2025-12-28T22:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elise](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/elise/32/427_2.png) [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/1 "2025-12-28T22:15:23Z")
This era seems particularly interesting. ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/2 "2026-01-08T23:44:22Z")
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! * * * 1. Since if anything gets grittier than Raygun Gothic, the Ministry of Exquisition stamps it out tout suite. ---
**Author:** ![Elise](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/elise/32/427_2.png) [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/3 "2026-01-10T11:34:37Z")
Awesome! May you please elaborate on the centurion spiders and Palar flyers? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Dougan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/john_dougan/32/79_2.png) [@John\_Dougan](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/John_Dougan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/4 "2026-01-14T14:18:55Z")
_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._ ---
**Author:** ![Elise](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/elise/32/427_2.png) [@Elise](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Elise)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 6:08am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/5 "2026-02-08T06:08:43Z")
Are the centurion spiders akin to the clockwork spiders featured in the Rise of Legend? ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 3:32am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/6 "2026-03-17T03:32:52Z")
> [@Elise](#): > > May you please elaborate on the centurion spiders and Palar flyers? Palar flyers is something of a generic term. (The Cestian kingdom of Palar was _obsessed_ with flight in all its forms from its earliest days.) The most successful ones were the first steps into airships (zeppelin-type), but there was a lot of experimentation with mini (backpack-sized) mini-zeps, gliders of various forms, even attempts at ornithopters and early fixed-wing aircraft in various combinations. > [@Elise](#): > > Are the centurion spiders akin to the clockwork spiders featured in the Rise of Legend? That’d be a fair approximation of later, heavier models. Earlier ones were more like spidery versions of RoL’s clockwork men (because the spidery drivetrain was easier to make functional than solving the balance issues of bipedal automata). Having all this additional practice with arachnoid designs, incidentally, is why the emblematic robots of later eras are all the many variations on the utility spider. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Kenny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/scott_kenny/32/226_2.png) [@Scott\_Kenny](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Scott_Kenny)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/how-steampunk-was-steampunk-era-eliera/3505/7 "2026-04-04T02:52:58Z")
The spidery drivetrain is so simple you can actually solve it with a mechanical gearbox and legs that do not flex at all! Some of the FX critters from Arachnophobia were just that: a gearbox with legs made from IIRC chenille pipe-cleaners.