[The Clockwork Century 1.50] • Tanglefoot · A Story of the Clockwork Century

The Clockwork Century

Stonewall Jackson survived Chancellorsville. England broke the

Union’s naval blockade, and formally recognized the Confederate States

of America. Atlanta never burned.

It is 1880. The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades,

driving technology in strange and terrible directions. Combat dirigibles

skulk across the sky and armored vehicles crawl along the land.

Military scientists twist the laws of man and nature, and barter their

souls for weapons powered by light, fire, and steam.

But life struggles forward for soldiers and ordinary citizens. The

fractured nation is dotted with stricken towns and epic scenes of

devastation–some manmade, and some more mysterious. In the western

territories cities are swallowed by gas and walled away to rot while the

frontiers are strip-mined for resources. On the borders between North

and South, spies scour and scheme, and smugglers build economies more

stable than their governments.

This is the Clockwork Century.

It is dark here, and different.