Wow - that's a beauty! What's the large round device at the rear?
I'm sure it took years to build because you had to source such a massive amount of Martian Liftwood!
No liftwood in this one (The British had an exclusive monopoly on the stuff for over three decades, before Dejah Carter III led the revolution against Colonial rule in 1936.) The device at the stern is "the Leher-Lobachevsky Gravity lens, invented by Natalia Lobachevsky, John Brainerd, with some assistance from Naught Yo
1 in the closing years of the Science Pirate Syndicate. Lobachevsky ultimately stole the plans and formula
for the device and absconded back to her native Russia, naively believing she could use the device to overthrow the Czarists. Alas, she was promptly co-opted by the notorious 'Siren of the Skies', Olga Romanoff.
2.
1. The name given to the Yith-possessed body (from 1873 to 1898) of Wen Yo, the notorious "Dr. Yo" of the University of the Southern Arctic,
the Pulps, and the Secret World War, to say nothing of the Sekrit Yo Navy.
2. Detailed in two novel by George Chetwynd Griffith,
Angel of the Revolution, and
Olga Romanoff, or the Syren of the Skies.
(Both these books actually exist, and were republished by Heliograph Inc. in the early aughts. Sadly, they make no mention of Lobachevsky
or the SPS.
)
