Traction City, Anchorage by sentinal-5

sentinal-5

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30th Oct 2015

30th Oct 2015

Decimated by a plague, the once beautiful and prosperous ice-town of Anchorage, famous for its Scabious engines and the largest drive-wheel on the ice, is inhabited only by its young margravine Freya Rasmussen and just enough survivors to keep it moving.

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  987tails 31st Oct 2015
  HAH!! therese the one you promised!
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  Awe well thank you. I try my best. :)
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  Qwert_Yuiop 31st Oct 2015
  Sorry to hear that. And you still make way less mistakes than the average person writing sth on the internets.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  *Lord and lol nah, i don't. but thanks :) i make looooaaaadddsss of spelling mistakes any typos XD (IRL i have dysgraphia, basically it's medically diagnosed bad handwriting because my brain doesn't connect language skills to fine motor control)
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  I wouldn't call it steampunk as such.. but it's closer to that than anything else. i think it deserves its own genre "Traction punk" or something like that. steampunk meets diesel punk meets The Lorf of the Rings.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  And then we are left with the world we see in the books. It's the Traction-era, everyone in the trading business flies everywhere in airships (no heavier-than-air has been invented yet) and historians dig up massively advanced old-tech from the 60 minute war, such as Stalkers (human corpses scooped out and filled with preservation equipment and given mechanical nervous, muscular and skeletal systems, using their brain to power an unstoppable robotic humanoid killing machine).
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  Qwert_Yuiop 31st Oct 2015
  I'm not into steampunk (not even enough to tell if this can be classified as steampunk), but that still sounds pretty cool. Like mad max upscaled. Also, you type fast.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  *Darwinism
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  The system of Municipal Darwinisom came to be; larger more powerful cities would eat smaller slower towns and cannibalise their materials and resources, selling their inhabitants as slaves on the trading market. Their lighter-than-air technology far surpassed anything we have developed in our brief experimentation ending with the Hindenburg and became the primary mode of travel between cities.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  they began to farm food onboard the towns and develop social heirarchies and trading systems. the great under tiers stopped being places to live and became the GUTs of the towns where they dismantled the other towns they had eaten and kept their vast engines