“Space 188 -” what?baron_wasteMay 25 2016, 18:50:35 UTC
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES
More than a single world, an entire solar system, swimming in the Aether, that embraces the romance and simplicity of the past, while coupling it with the hope and promise of the future. Giant, ironclad, steam-powered aether-flyers ply the skies between the worlds. Cultures vie for power and resources in an age of colonization and expansion…
Oops. Well, hey, GDW is gone and their game is in limbo, so why not. If they come up with an air pirates setting, they might get away with that also, for much the same reason.
Re: “Space 188 -” what?baron_wasteMay 25 2016, 19:35:10 UTC
One of the ideas Space 1889 tossed off that adheres to Bellisario's Maxim (“Don't examine this too closely”) was something that a free-flying rocket would never encounter or be sensible of, but the captains of aether flyers had to take into account: Turbulence. As planets trundle along in their orbits they generate rolling shock waves in the luminiferous aether that can grab an unwary ship by its propeller and shake it apart or rip the engine right out of the hull!
It does not do to consider that turbulence = energy, that if the planets are encountering the equivalent of air resistance and thereby transferring momentum to the medium surrounding them, then in a million years or less they'd all have come to a stop and dropped straight down into the Sun. The idea itself was interesting.
Wherefore Art Thou Steampunkbaron_wasteJune 1 2016, 02:10:00 UTC
… I mind the time we used to serve a broken pipe wi' tow. Ten pound was all the pressure then - Eh! Eh! - a man wad drive; An' here, our workin' gauges give one hunder' fifty-five! We're creepin' on wi' each new rig - less weight an' larger power: There'll be the loco-boiler next an' thirty mile an hour!
Thirty an' more. What I ha' seen since ocean-steam began Leaves me no doot for the machine: but what about the man? The man that counts, wi' all his runs, one million mile o' sea: Four time the span from earth to moon.... How far, O Lord, from Thee?
Kipling, “McAndrew's Hymn”
A fascinating discussion at a con I attended asked why steampunk and its related -punks are so popular. Surely we've progressed beyond Jules Verne's technology? The answer was, Yes - too far beyond.
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EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES
More than a single world, an entire solar system,
swimming in the Aether, that embraces the romance
and simplicity of the past, while coupling it with
the hope and promise of the future. Giant,
ironclad, steam-powered aether-flyers ply the
skies between the worlds. Cultures vie for power
and resources in an age of colonization and
expansion…
Oops. Well, hey, GDW is gone and their game is in limbo, so why not. If they come up with an air pirates setting, they might get away with that also, for much the same reason.
Reply
One of the ideas Space 1889 tossed off that adheres to Bellisario's Maxim (“Don't examine this too closely”) was something that a free-flying rocket would never encounter or be sensible of, but the captains of aether flyers had to take into account: Turbulence. As planets trundle along in their orbits they generate rolling shock waves in the luminiferous aether that can grab an unwary ship by its propeller and shake it apart or rip the engine right out of the hull!
It does not do to consider that turbulence = energy, that if the planets are encountering the equivalent of air resistance and thereby transferring momentum to the medium surrounding them, then in a million years or less they'd all have come to a stop and dropped straight down into the Sun. The idea itself was interesting.
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… I mind the time we used to serve a broken pipe wi' tow.
Ten pound was all the pressure then - Eh! Eh! - a man wad drive;
An' here, our workin' gauges give one hunder' fifty-five!
We're creepin' on wi' each new rig - less weight an' larger power:
There'll be the loco-boiler next an' thirty mile an hour!
Thirty an' more. What I ha' seen since ocean-steam began
Leaves me no doot for the machine: but what about the man?
The man that counts, wi' all his runs, one million mile o' sea:
Four time the span from earth to moon.... How far, O Lord, from Thee?
Kipling, “McAndrew's Hymn”
A fascinating discussion at a con I attended asked why steampunk and its related -punks are so popular. Surely we've progressed beyond Jules Verne's technology? The answer was, Yes - too far beyond.
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