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=== Steampunk: ===

If Oscilloscope is not quite retro and Digital Chrome is just past its sell-by date, Steampunk is the current too cool-for-school "big thing." All the kids are doing it: brass goggles, clanking mechanical servants, radium guns, and rivet-covered work uniforms are currently all the rage among the postgrads. (The Martian Empire is confused, but happy, that they are now "totally hip"). Steampunk is deliberately retro and it reflects a past that never was: even the geniuses who lived in the Victorian era dressed practically or in traditional fashion, rather than the "brass rivet" look, and many wonders from that era actually affected a Baroque look (which was, in its own time, deliberately retro and reflecting a 17th century aesthetic that also never existed). Steampunk aesthetic is popular in the Peerage, particular among Scholastics. In Lemuria, it has begun to eclipse Ray Gun styles for Etherites.