Anareyt Innovation

Faced with unique challenges, the settlers of Anareyt came up with ingenious and sometimes outrageous ideas.

This page highlights some of the unique inventions and processes one might see on Anareyt.

There Were No Fossil Fuels

The absence of fossil fuels led the people of Anareyt into a world of steam--primarily fueled from a wood name Cyprionet. As the culture entered the mid-20th century, conveniences like automobiles were common--but they were steam powered. This meant that the vehicles were not generally as powerful, and that the users needed to allot time for things like warming up the boiler.

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.

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 egnited 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.

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.

In the ocean, these are elegant sailing ships, but in the air, they come truly alive.

A Typical Fuel Storage Bin

To Boiler Firebox

Sliding Fuel Release Hatch

How the steam-powered Monroes worked...

Wooden "marble" fuel pellets rolled from tanks

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

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 ‘shoots’ 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.

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.

Armament

It is an awkward truth that military conflict often leads to innovation and breakthrough. The same is true in Anareyt. Here are some of the unique weapon systems in use in Anareyt in 1963.