This Blog will form for me an area where I can drop any and all materials I put together on my Victorian Science Fiction World the Venus Kolonie.
Why "Venus Kolonie"? I want to use the flavour of the actions of the first year of the Great War where the German colonies were picked-off one-by-one by the Allies, as well as events like the cruise of the Emden, the guerilla war waged by von Lettow-Vorbeck. All largely inspired by my historical reading.
The starting premise for Venus Kolonie is that a means was discovered in the last quarter of the 19th Century of getting to Venus. Whether this means is the remnant of a Solar System-spanning series of dimensional gates discovered in the Jura mountains or etheric sailing ships which move by means of the pressure of the ether on their silken sails or both is immaterial - somehow 19th century acquisitive colonialists have found a virgin world and they mean to stake claims.
This Venus is a lush tropical world - the inhabitants speak of a world Forest - which is inhabited by dinosaurs and intelligent bipedal reptiles.
Human colonies and forts and stations are relatively few - the whole Human population amounts to no more than a couple of hundred thousand by the time this series of stories, RPGs and Wargames kicks in around 1900.
I'm going to be pretty flexible as to chronology - I want to involve a number of Great War personalities and technologies well before they existed in reality.
Speaking of reality, were a kind of travel tunnel to be involved, I would expect that the timeline you expect would have shifted subtly every time you traversed the portal between the worlds.
Why "Venus Kolonie"? I want to use the flavour of the actions of the first year of the Great War where the German colonies were picked-off one-by-one by the Allies, as well as events like the cruise of the Emden, the guerilla war waged by von Lettow-Vorbeck. All largely inspired by my historical reading.
The starting premise for Venus Kolonie is that a means was discovered in the last quarter of the 19th Century of getting to Venus. Whether this means is the remnant of a Solar System-spanning series of dimensional gates discovered in the Jura mountains or etheric sailing ships which move by means of the pressure of the ether on their silken sails or both is immaterial - somehow 19th century acquisitive colonialists have found a virgin world and they mean to stake claims.
This Venus is a lush tropical world - the inhabitants speak of a world Forest - which is inhabited by dinosaurs and intelligent bipedal reptiles.
Human colonies and forts and stations are relatively few - the whole Human population amounts to no more than a couple of hundred thousand by the time this series of stories, RPGs and Wargames kicks in around 1900.
I'm going to be pretty flexible as to chronology - I want to involve a number of Great War personalities and technologies well before they existed in reality.
Speaking of reality, were a kind of travel tunnel to be involved, I would expect that the timeline you expect would have shifted subtly every time you traversed the portal between the worlds.
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