London 1888 -Switch-

Earth, London, 1888; All the inventions from 1800 to 1930 are already done in a mind blowing pace. Steam-Punk Ray-Punk a hint of Diesel-Punk all there.This combined with Victorian style and even some Art Deco, all in gritty fog like Metropolitan surroundings. The UK is turned into a urbanized country, large cities and polarized rural setting with untamed forests. In those cities The TecKn Guilds, the Old Noble Crown Families, and Religion are almost openly fighting for power. While the outcast Green Court (Farmers/ fisherman) is trying to get a foot hold into the city and defending the countryside and its inhabitants. This is not only a local issue for the GUK, but the rest of the world is having -mostly- the same problems to deal with. Because of this inward explosion of scientific prowess, in the rest of the world there are still a lot unknown territories. Indians still have a great deal of North, Mid and South America, parts of darker Africa are not revealed. The same with Russia and the far East, Australia is just discovered and small towns are founded. Antarctica is not on the map and the North Pole is something which your compass point at with ice cold precision.   The rest of the world is divided by the Old World Colonial Empires, the big ones from Europe, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, France, Austria to the East with the Russian Empire, the Ottomans boarding to Alps. Furthermore in the middle East, the Kazaks, Qajars (Persia) and the Najibs in North Africa. with the Qing-dynasty (China), and some rest of Indonesian states and left overs of the Former Dutch Colonial Kingdom. America is for the France, Brits, Spain and to the South with the Portuguese to split.   Life for most is hard, the day is filled with hard labour and even so dangerously. The big companies, run by the TecKn, rule your body. The Crown your Birthright, and the church your heart and afterlife. The only freedom you experience is in the pub with songs and laughter, local theaters. All under vigil watch of the SEQK armed forces.   Tales of horror are to find in the harbor taverns and on the country side campfires. When the streets of the greater cities, the unknowns are to be marginalized as folk and superstitious fairy tales. But the Cross, Christ & Church are then to turn towards. Newspapers are tumbling over each other to prove otherwise eagerly. With well drawn illustrations and blood chilling first hand witnesses.