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"Everything up to standards, m'lady?"

"Quite, captain. Beautiful and terrible, just as was planned."

What do you think, passenger or shipowner?

KateNicholas: You may be singularly responsible for perpetuating my daughter's obsession with steampunk.

Well, my fanciful vision has her as the owner, but to each her own!

Marvelous, Kate! I may need to reserve my suite on this fine Aether Ship now!

I suspect she's a ship of war, and so has no suite up to your standards, I fear.

Ooooh, who's she going to be fighting?

I suspect TheRedRose would be at home sitting at that Gatling gun, provided the right target were in sight.

KateNicholas: A ship of war owned privately by a woman! She sounds like my kind of Lady. dkronfeld - Right you are!