Steam Elephants

London, January 1903 — The World of Steam Elephants

As seen through the projecting kinetoscope

King Edward I and VII is in his 60s, after a reign almost as long, having been unexpectedly elevated to the throne as an infant when the traitor John Francis slew his mother. Over six decades, the world is greatly changed.

Although horse-drawn vehicles are still most common, they share the streets with the chariots of progress. Larger towns have steam or electric trams, and steam elephants have almost universally usurped the role of beasts for heavier tasks. Man has taken to the skies by aeronef and dirigible (or for a few, widely considered crazy, projectile travel). For long journeys, aerial transport is still challenged by the railways on land, chain ships on rivers, and steamships and steam wings at sea. It is even possible that space will be conquered by the recent development of the experimental æthernef.

Such waxing mastery of road, wave and air heralds the Twentieth Century, a new dawn grown from the Golden Age of Science, in which we may finally expect to be relieved all of war, poverty and disease.

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Background

Inspiration

Rules

Summa Vitae (Character)

Getting Started

Regardless of their background, a character in Steam Elephants will have the advantage of schooling (though perhaps not the formal sort).

About

Steam Elephants originally ran between 2007 and 2009, with events taking place in 1902; someday it may run again!

Wikis are always a work in progress; this one still has issues, but there should be more content and fewer gaps if you come back later.