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why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British Emp
Post by lwhitehead   » Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:31 am

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Hi I was wondering why Steampunk settings and fiction is based on the British Empire, I would like to see one based on the Holy Roman Empire and the Imperial Hapsburg family that ruled over.


One were the Holy Roman Empire didn't end, one were they are the strongest German nation, no Imperial Germany.


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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by Weird Harold   » Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:58 am

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lwhitehead wrote:Hi I was wondering why Steampunk settings and fiction is based on the British Empire, ...


Not all of it is. There is a significant amount of Steampunk derived from the American Western traditions, but Steampunk by its very nature requires an Industrial Revolution breakpoint from real-world history. Since the Industrial Revolution began in England, that's where Steampunk starts as well.
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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by Hutch   » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:26 pm

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I am not very fond of Steampunk in general, but I can recommend the webcomic Girl Genius, which is set in Central Europe (albeit the heroine is currently in Paris enroute to London). No reference to the HRE, but you have an "Empire" of sorts and a large number of small, squabbling states in what we would call Germany.
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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:31 pm

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Hutch wrote:...I can recommend the webcomic Girl Genius, which is set in Central Europe (albeit the heroine is currently in Paris enroute to London)....


I can second the recommendation. Agatha's current location does remind me that a lot of Steampunk picks up where Jules Verne left off -- i.e. extrapolations on the French Industrial Revolution.
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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by lwhitehead   » Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:36 pm

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Um I know of that web comic, I want to due a setting based on Holy
Roman Empire, the polyglot Empire of the Hapsburgs.



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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by Weird Harold   » Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:02 am

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lwhitehead wrote:Um I know of that web comic, I want to due a setting based on Holy Roman Empire, the polyglot Empire of the Hapsburgs.


Then you need to start with the Industrial Revolution reaching the HRE and the changes that wrought. Then extrapolate from there.

Unfortunately, the HRE wasn't known for its Industrial strength and/or innovation, so you're still going to be working with (against?) standard Steampunk based on anglophone technology.

You need to find a prominent "Hero Of The Industrial Revolution" in the history of the HRE and extrapolate from there for unique HRE steampunk-tech
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Re: why is steampunk settings and fiction based on British E
Post by lwhitehead   » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:21 pm

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Now I know that the HRH wasn't known for being inventive more for there Baroqueness specially before 1848, since one of the ranks of the HRE was Kaiser of the Germanies I've included German inventions such as,


Diesel, Zeps, Krup, you get the picture.


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