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Prologue - The Modern Age

It was an era of transition, and it revealed every virtue and vice within us. Civilization rendered the steel and bronze monstrosities of the Clockwork Age obsolete, reforging the man-made jungle of pipes, gears, counterweights, and servos into wires and circuitry. As we wielded light and lightning in our very hands, we left few monuments, only then as a testament to our great mechanical experiment. Not just content with the finite bounties of the earth, we harnessed the powers of the seas and of the air. There were many great triumphs and many tragic failures. Surely, a new age was upon us. The ceaseless advancement of technology made ou