Distorted Gears and Living Steam

The "Neo-Victorian" Era. Huge steam towers pierce the fog-filled sky, gear-driven difference engines process the empire's complex data, airships shuttle between the steel jungles, and low-level workers struggle with the roaring factories and the arrogance of human industrial civilization and blind exploration of the unknown horrors of the universe, touching the sleeping, indescribable ancient existence. It is not a simple mechanical failure, but the "living ore" that is mined contaminates the steam core, water source and even the air, distorting machinery and biology.