Space 1889

Space 1889

 

The year was 1870 and the daring expedition of Thomas Edison on the back of his invention, the ether propeller, was able to cross the stars and discover the ancient Martian civilisation. 

For many millennia, this ancient people had fathomed out many a secret, and sadly forgot a good few of them as well. They crossed the skies with flying ships; built cities inhabited by thousand or even millions long; and in the Grand Canals, constructed a planet-wide feat of engineering that would save their civilization from every encroaching desertification. Yet by the time Edison and Armstrong reached Mars, the Martians’ knowledge about their ancestors’ technical relics was lost, and nobody today is capable of building those Grand Canals that the ancient Martians had once constructed.

The setting we're talking about is the Space 1889 RPG and table top wargame, meaning a new venture into the Victorian Sci-Fi genre. In this imagined setting, the great European powers have invented intra-solar system travel and discovered intelligent life and civilizations on Mars and Venus, and begun to colonize and exploit the new territories.

I decided to start collecting the miniatures and necessary scenery to play this setting in 28mm scale - the choice is just much wider and better than compared to 20 mm (1/72 scale) when it comes to fantasy and non-historic ranges. Unfortunately that means the hobby is going to get more expensive...