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''A gentleman’s club where foreign office staff, East India board members and grand old military men can make the true and terrible decisions of Empire.'' | ''A gentleman’s club where foreign office staff, East India board members and grand old military men can make the true and terrible decisions of Empire.'' | ||
*'''Little India''' / The Scapegoats of Strangeness | *'''Little India''' / The Scapegoats of Strangeness | ||
| − | ''A de facto ghetto comprising only a few blocks near the London docks, this humble area is the center of Indian immigrant life in London in 1860, the first foothold of an ever-increasing population. Its residents are by-and-large arrived within the last 2 years, and so have brought much of their home life -- their food, their mores, their religion, and their gods -- with them. | + | ''A de facto ghetto comprising only a few blocks near the London docks, this humble area is the center of Indian immigrant life in London in 1860, the first foothold of an ever-increasing population. Its residents are by-and-large arrived within the last 2 years, and so have brought much of their home life -- their food, their mores, their religion, and their gods -- with them.'' |
*'''Mister Peng's Exotica''' / A Republic of Dope-Fiends | *'''Mister Peng's Exotica''' / A Republic of Dope-Fiends | ||
| − | ''Situated in the heart of Chelsea, this modest storefront masquerades as a purveyor of exotic trinkets from China; its primary source of revenue, however, is a high-grade opium much favored by 'enthusiasts' from all around London. Its 'private viewing rooms' in the back are, in their way, every bit as democratic as the Kerberos Club itself, where bohemians, otherwise respectable ladies, underclass hoopleheads, and gentlemen of 'refined' tastes congregate. | + | ''Situated in the heart of Chelsea, this modest storefront masquerades as a purveyor of exotic trinkets from China; its primary source of revenue, however, is a high-grade opium much favored by 'enthusiasts' from all around London. Its 'private viewing rooms' in the back are, in their way, every bit as democratic as the Kerberos Club itself, where bohemians, otherwise respectable ladies, underclass hoopleheads, and gentlemen of 'refined' tastes congregate.'' |
*'''The Calculation Mill''' / The dark mill cares not whether you're good or bad, but grinds out its calculations... | *'''The Calculation Mill''' / The dark mill cares not whether you're good or bad, but grinds out its calculations... | ||
''A row of factories of Babbage's Analytical Engines (steam-engine processors that receive punch-card input and output to an electrostatic printing device) daisy-chained together from teleghraph cables to record, audit and predict the financial records of an empire.'' | ''A row of factories of Babbage's Analytical Engines (steam-engine processors that receive punch-card input and output to an electrostatic printing device) daisy-chained together from teleghraph cables to record, audit and predict the financial records of an empire.'' | ||
