The World of Anareyt
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When you come to Anareyt, you have to bring a map!
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This is a world that was populated by mariners. They used simple names for places, often the names of their own home towns.
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The first travelers to be caught in the portal from the Atlantic Ocean to Anareyt, were a group of monks and a few families who followed St. Brendan the Navigator to sea in about 570 A.D.
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The first inhabitants were sailors, so they named the mainland masses "Mainlands." To the west was Westmain, to the east, Eastmain. It makes sense if you think about it.
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Anareyt is a massive planet, over one hundred times larger than Earth. But, the habitable portion is limited to the several thousand mile temperate belt around the equator.
Anareyt is divided politically into city-states and the lands they rule. Much of the land is wild and without government.
Pirates
Several pirate ships transited the portal in the 1600's, hailing from the pirate haven of Tortuga just north of Haiti. Though they eventually became civilized (mostly to maintain their accumulated wealth), there was always a hint of lawlessness about them.
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These pirates founded the city-states of Tortue, Boucan, and Port Royal.
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Enjoy your visit to Anareyt!
How (Some) Things Worked...
Water is superheated in the boiler
How the flying sailboats' wings work...
Steam pushes the piston assembly
The longitudinal pushrod motivated wing drive gears
An eccentric cog wheel transformed rotating power to bilateral power by pushing a riser box up and down on rails
Pushrods from bilateral riser box caused wings to rise and fall
Pushrods were attached to wings at pivot points
NOTE: Wings are represented at 1/4 their usual scale relative to the other parts of the system for presentation purposes.
In Mendilon, the fisherfolk use flying sailing ships like this one for their fishing. In times of conflict they arm them with a mystical type of weapon.
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In the ocean, these are elegant sailing ships, but in the air, they come truly alive.
The Cyprionet Fuel System...
Cyprionet Marble Fuel. Cyprionet is a wood native to Anareyt with unique combustion properties. When used as fuel, it was saturated with corn oils to facilitate ignition, and then mechanically compressed. In this way, the marbles ignited quickly but burned efficiently. The marbles were exactly 1” in diameter, glossy in appearance, and smooth to the touch. These systems were used in cars, ships, biplanes, and even motorcycles.
How the steam-powered Monroes worked...
A Typical Fuel Storage Bin
To Boiler Firebox
Sliding Fuel Release Hatch
The Cyprionet Fuel Firebox...
How did the fuel marbles stay in place? The marbles were spherical to facilitate their movement from the fuel bin to the vehicle firebox. Inside the firebox, the marbles were injected from a metal tube with a variable-force spring system. This ‘shot’ the marbles out to various positions on the grid, distributing the marbles equally. The grid was sized so that the marbles would settle into a cell and not move unless there was a violent disturbance.
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As the marbles burned and turned to ash, they slipped through the grid but were soft and no longer rolled. As hot embers, they continued to provide heat in the base of the firebox.
Wooden "marble" fuel pellets rolled from tanks
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Fire heat was transferred to water tank through pipes
Water was heated in boiler
Super-heated steam collected at top of boiler
Super-heated steam was transferred to piston
Piston moved crankshaft and car moved
Heat and smoke exhausted through chimney