Chapter 1 Scene 6

Chapter 1 Scene 6 (V1.0)

The Gentlemen Rankers leave Deolali by airship.I don't suppose that there can be a steampunk story without an airship. In this scene I have mine. In the previous scene Kitchener mentions looking at the German positions from a balloon and this has confused some readers. He did this in 1870 not in 1914. He was a volunteer medic with the French army at the time. These Victorians certainly got around.

I expect that steampunk balloons owe much to Jules Verne's Phineus Fogg, shown rather splendidly in this pic. Actually he never used a balloon in the novel only in films based on the novel. But these are engraved in everyone's memories.

I want to include a pic of David Niven here - an actor who would truly have enjoyed a steampunk movie and the only one, as fas as I know)  to portray a gentleman ranker. (In the Guns of Naverone).