I can't believe how blind you all are. Here's you answer.
Orphans.
There is nothing steampunk that can't be solved via the application of sufficient amounts of orphans. Need a major crime ring in central London? Orphans. Need small hands to get into your steam powered giant robot's Marvellous Mechanised Mobility Mechanism and remove a broken spar so your plans of world domination go unhindered? Orphans. Need a plucky hero? Orphan in goggles.
So, having cracked the fundemental building block upon which the revolution is built, let us apply it to the problem.
Now, I'm sure there are people out there who ould be disapointed with me, irate even, should I suggest burning orphans as fuel, so I shall avoid that discussion (although I think it is the most realistic). So, what we do is harness their power in a selection of lage tradmills at the bottom of the ship, somewhere below the bilges. These treadmills, of course, feed straight into the generators that power the Elyctrical elements that heat the water. The best thing is? Runs on gruel and whippings!
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asenathwaite
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Date: 2008-06-21 12:16 am (UTC)Orphans.
There is nothing steampunk that can't be solved via the application of sufficient amounts of orphans. Need a major crime ring in central London? Orphans. Need small hands to get into your steam powered giant robot's Marvellous Mechanised Mobility Mechanism and remove a broken spar so your plans of world domination go unhindered? Orphans. Need a plucky hero? Orphan in goggles.
So, having cracked the fundemental building block upon which the revolution is built, let us apply it to the problem.
Now, I'm sure there are people out there who ould be disapointed with me, irate even, should I suggest burning orphans as fuel, so I shall avoid that discussion (although I think it is the most realistic). So, what we do is harness their power in a selection of lage tradmills at the bottom of the ship, somewhere below the bilges. These treadmills, of course, feed straight into the generators that power the Elyctrical elements that heat the water. The best thing is? Runs on gruel and whippings!
A perfect solution to a simple problem!