Monday, November 19, 2012

Just Glue Some Gears On It And Call It...Electrical?

I was reading back on an old journal post about Sea, and saw I'd mentioned how I wanted it to be authentic Steampunk - that is, to make sure that steam was an integral part of the ship, and have all the props built around steam as a power source.

Then I was told the Nautilus was a nuclear sub. Then Kyle started reading the book again, and realized the ship was actually electrical. Plain ol' boring electrical. Well, not boring for THEM - Arronax marvels that Nemo has found a way to use electricity as a lasting, multi-use power.

So, while there are amazing, never-before-seen items of incredible wonder aboard, they're all run by electricity. That's all well and good, but to spice things up, we decided to write in a plot device that also allowed for the use of power crystals to run some thing on board. This was, we could use some cool LEDs and cultivate a little bit of sci-fi feel to the Nautilus.

I've shown the lamps for Comm Ops before, but Gogas recently outfitted them with LEDs, so here's a little video of them in action.


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