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Mod Josie:
Colonel Raphvitz von Gersch was a madman of his time. He proposed that men take to the skies as do birds because he was short on intelligence and hydraulic balloon gas pumps. He suggested outfitting ships with retractable aerodynamic surfaces that could be used to create lift without the use of lighter-than-air gas. He tested his idea by launching a retired Goldfish class navy runabout off the top of the wreckage of The Leviathan. It had no balloon, only these new-fangled 'wings' that everyone was so suspicious of. The goldfish reached its top speed in the air but fuel was scarce. Sadly, the pilot was unaware of the workings of these wings, and so reversed his engines to a stop. He promptly fell out of the sky to a very bumpy landing.

Roll-tacking.

Dr Pantaleon:
When Jean-Jacques Fiz d'Eau first presented his new invention, riggers and ship's carpenters all across the known world drank to his health and thanked whatever gods they prayed to for their kindness.
Fiz D'Eau's Roll-Tacker was a tool that allowed sailors to quickly join together large sheets of cloth, a process that up to this point was done by hand and with needle and yarn. Crewmen would often be busy for days after a battle, simply trying to put the envelope of the balloon back together. The Roll-Tacker shortened this time down to a matter of a few hours. Urgent repairs could now even be undertaken in the heat of battle.

The fantastic device actually looks quite gruesome. A large, curved magazine feeds small tacks onto a rotating, vertical wheel. The engineer using it holds the two grips of the tacker and pushes the wheel along the seam of the fabrics that are to be connected. The tacks are punched into the cloth via a spring-powered mechanism and a supporting awl curves the pins once inside to secure their position.
The only power needed for the contraption to work is provided by a spiraled spring which has to be rewound every two minutes, but savvy mechanics quickly modified the tacker to run on steam, petroleum or voltaic current. The resulting machine could easily work five times as fast as the original, but devices "improved" by less gifted mechanics could just as easily stud the utilising swabbie with dozens of curved nails in a matter of seconds.



Callipygian Purple

Shadak Shademore:
Callipygian Purple is a special dye used by those of the order of the Callipygian, a flower though which many aliments could be healed with various parts of the plant. The order of the Callipygian wear robes dyed this particular shade of purple as a way to show their royal background. For to join such a illustrious group of people you must be able to trace your ancestry back to a royal house of the Old Times. Of course many people within the order are no more that ordinary people who have procured fake documents of the royal lines.
Callipygian Purple dye though does possess another odd trait... its growing nature can cause the fabric to stick together or even to the person wearing it. Indeed the leader of the Order cannot remove the cloak due to wearing it for 2 weeks straight. It also turns the skin a bluey purple tinge which only adds fuel to the royal fire as to having blue royal blood in their veins.


Carpicular Tranperigan

Mod Josie:
A Carpicular Tranperigan is a revolutionary type of drivetrain that changed the world of airship engines practically overnight. Before its invention, conventional engines had very tempermental methods of power delivery. This often resulted in two engines outputting significantly different amounts of power while on the same throttle setting. This would cause airships to drift off to one side. The Carpicular solution, invented by Chung's Choice, unified the power delivery into a central gearbox which was then applied through a differential.
This type of drivetrain became a matter of controversy within the world of power units. The advantage of this new Tranperigan were obvious and engine manufacturers fought to acquire this new technology. It was eventually leaked when George's Curiosity captured a Pyramidion class airship that carried engines concealing the new power delivery system.


Engelpin.

Shadak Shademore:
The Engelpin was a invention of chance. During the early years of the war several ships were wreaked on the rocks of the northern fords. One of the sailors, First officer Edward of The Guardian, waited for rescue watching as other ships began to crumble under the constant barrage of the harsh weather. He began work on a way to link ships together to strengthen what little was left and perhaps join the ships together. Although he could salvage a lot of materials but he couldn't put them together in a way that was flexible to withstand the weather but strong enough to keep it together...

That day the Englepin was made... a double ended linking pin system that allowed any material to be attached together. Using the mechanism he managed to rebuild a ship to flyable condition and save the other stranded sailors.

The name was made due to the shape of the pin being like that of angles wings and the initial of the creators name and thus the Englepin was made.

Quental Horsaline

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