it is well into the third decade of the 21st Century and Lighter-than-air-Craft of the Celestial Emperor Xi using revolutionary "Steam-Hydrogen" transverse the ether to gain a penultimate advantage over the Hegemonic North American Dominion!
Stop the Presses! Just off of the Trans-Atlantic Cable: Dominion "Sparks" have conceived of and fielded their own helium filled Aerostats, "crewed" with electro-mechanical "artificial brains" to conduct Espionage upon the peace-loving peasants and Mandarins of the Silk Empire!
