Calling Major Tom! [Int Chk]

As familiar as the city's name sounds to the queen's, there is a reason! Queen Jada is ancient! Not that she looks that way by any means, but she is more so immortal to time and is fortunate enough to not have been harmed deeply enough to cause her death. (She is not immune to physical attack!)



She is calm, collected, and very kind. She rules a prosperous city who adores her as more than a figurehead, but a Queen. She tries to think of the solution that will benefit everyone before herself. If her people are happy, then she is.

[If you want to play this character, feel free to pick a picture of your own or desribe him how you see fit.]

Stanton is the Queen Jada's right hand. Whether it really has anything to do with the militant unit of the city or a large function for the city, he is at her side, or her eyes among the world. For the immortality of Jada's ageless nature is only so long as she is not harmed to death, and therefor he goes about for her as a figurehead and leader. He is the only person she trusts with such a deep sincerity.

In regards to Steampower, Kurek is the most advanced kingdom of Otherworld. The first aircrafts were built here, the first steam-trains, steam-carts, steam-everything. To go there is like going to a live fantasy of mechanical intelligence. Every engineer’s dream is to end up there working for their king.


Riddeon is one of the youngest rulers of the city. At a striking seventeen, his family fell under the tragedy at Tohan Factory, where they were on the verge of creating the latest weapon module for their own aircraft. His parents were great enthusiasts, despite the terrible rule they had over Kurek. They expected their people to be just like them, sacrficing for the advancement of steampower. Hardly eating, hardly sleeping, mainly studying. It was unfortunate for the civilians who lived there and did NOT enjoy strictly engineering. Riddeon has been ruling to fix some of these things, slowly, for 10 years now, but with the aggression from the Woodland Elves...

Faeries suck, plain and simple. They are a chaotic neutral species that build up on karma and do with it which they will. For example: Man helps kitten from tree = 80% Faeries will grant him good luck/fortune. But, Man, on the other hand, decides to shoot kitten in tree? = 80% of Faeries decide he's going to get in rotten times.



But there is always that 20% who have no law, no system, and will do as they will for their own amusement, selfish needs, or.. worse.

2010 - 2350
In the early 21st century the United States of America fell into unprecedented economic hardship. With ever increasing debt and inflation threatening to bring the country to its knees and no politician seeming to have an answer to the problem, it seemed like it was the end for America. With the rest of the world fairing no better in the global depression, the US had no allies it could turn to for aid and support.

Then in 2032 the inevitable happened. Disillusioned with the seemingly broken political system in Washington, General Brougham, a high ranking leader in the US Armed Forces, launched a successful coup against the government and declared martial law, ending over 250 years of Democracy in America. Equally disillusioned and disgruntled with politicians in Washington that could do nothing, the people gave their support to this new President.

Knowing that no purely economic solution was in sight, President Brougham instead turned to conquest as a means to acquire more resources. With the collapse of the British Commonwealth in the years between 2026 and 2030, Canada had been left isolated in the North and was his first target. After that he turned his sights on the Caribbean and Central America, annexing every country all the way down to Panama with there being little any other country in the region could do to stop him.

Meanwhile the in Europe, the European Union had completely dissolved, with its former members now embroiled in an endless series of wars with both one another and with the Middle East over increasingly limited resources. Russia's government had become highly unstable and in 2033 fell to a Communist coup. Seeking to reclaim their former power, this new Communist Russia began to invade its neighbors and conquered them one by one with surprising speed.

Both America and Russia greedily devoured every nation in their path to acquiring more resources to support their ever struggling economies. It was inevitable they would come into conflict and so in 2039 they did and World War III began. Though no nuclear weapons were used, it was a horrible conflict that lasted until 1947 and ended inconclusively, with both superpowers having been unable to gain the upper hand.

Eventually, with the peoples growing acceptance of an authoritarian America, President Brougham declared himself President-For-Life and upon his death in 2077 his son James Brougham succeeded him as "President". By the time of his death, people had begun to think of the President like a Sovereign Monarch rather than a mere politician, and in 2144, his son Henry proclaimed himself Emperor of the "Imperial Union of North America".

Similarly, the Communist government of Russia had taken to calling itself the "Union of Eurasian Soviet Republics" with their newly acquired territory and power. With brutality unseen since Joseph Stalin, they kept a tight hold on their possessions which ranged from parts of China to parts of central Europe and the Middle East.

From here to the present (2355) many more wars between the two superpowers were fought, with many other nations caught in between their eternal warring. Earth was gradually transformed into a depleted and war torn wasteland. At last seeing that their planet was dieing, the current Emperor of the IUNA, Maxwell Brougham commissioned a state of the art starship, the xxx, with the expressed mission of discovering an inhabitable world that the IUNA and it's people could evacuate to and colonize.

In general, Otherworld is a whole new world, hence the name. It has grasslands, it has swamps. It has desserts, it has seas, it has lifeforms, and creatures beyond imagination. Steam powered mechanics and technology is the advancement of the century. Among the many cities, some governed democratically, most of them not, there are three major cities. Kurek, Jadan, and Bernadice. Kurek is in the highest in the running of advanced Steampower; the leader. Jadan is in last place, running upon simplicity and peace through hardwork using natural minerals, a utopia or sorts, etc, and Bernadice runs as a balance between the two, though it is completely lost and hidden in a eternal sandstorm, according to legend.

Though these are the three main cities, do not forget that there are many more to be discovered by the ship crew, just use your imagination. If it's not there already, make it up and let it be discovered!

In the distant past there were two faeries who were exact opposites of each other. Jada, the faerie that can never do wrong, and Bernard, the faerie that can never do right. As a stroke of fate, the two faeries fell in love with each other, but in by doing so angered the elder faeries. as faeries are not allowed to behave in such mortal ways, such as in falling in love.

As punishment, the elder faeries decided to turn both Jada and Bernard into mortals, and banished them from being faeries for all eternity. Jada, however, was able to escape the wrath of the faeries due to her good nature. Bernard on the other hand, was banished to the Soulieria Desert, and was cursed for all eternity.

As time went on, Bernard stumbled upon a magical mirror in the desert, which was able to give him a wife. Sadly, after Bernard's wife gave birth to their only son, Bernard died due to the curse of the faeries. Bernard's son however, grew up to be a man, who was able to establish the town of Bernadice in honor of his father. In the beginning, Bernadice was a thriving city, a center of trade in the desert, as well as a place to rest. The faeries however, did not approve of this and cursed the town. An everlasting sandstorm surrounds the city and denies the citizens any light from the sun.

Because of this, the citizens, especially those of the bloodline of Bernard, were affected. As time grew on, the skin of the citizens grew pale, and due to the lack of sunlight, they are unable to grow vegetables. The bloodline of Bernard, due to their curse, are unable to digest cooked meat, thus they must consume meat raw, or at least still bleeding. In time the citizens of Bernadice learned to gain nutrients from the blood of what they eat, and in desperate times, have even been known to kill any wandering traders and caravans so that they may consume them.

They say that every monster that dwells beneath the surface of the seas is a soul lost at sea, coming back to haunt those who tread over the waters that he never could. Jealousy and rage corrupted these beings into mindless creatures that hated everything.



But it is also said that any woman who falls into the sea is granted eternal life.. As a ghost of melody. A Siren. Who sings the men to her to join her in her home… One that does not greet guests as fine as they intend.
This is why people began developing Aircrafts over the years. Being in a war with someone across the seas was hard enough. Having to cross it and survive was a whole separate problem.

This is where the woodland elves live among the forest fairies. They are keepers of all things nature, and are modern-day ‘hippies’ if there ever were. They live high up in the trees, seemingly ‘tree houses’ to those who indulged in technology and the mechanics of steam, but it suited them fine. They found a natural way to give them everything they could ever need, never having to leave the forest.



If a woodland elf ever left the forest, they were no longer called a woodland elf, but only of elven descent. They were no longer acknowledged for having left the true place, home, in search of better things. Curiosity. It made them more like the humans.And that was something many of them despised for cutting down their trees among other poisonous things they did to the surrounding plants and animals of the kingdom of Kurek, the Kingdom of Steam.