Union Engineer
The UWE Train - The Dauntless
The UWE Train - The Hippogryph
The Union of Wise Engineers
The Union of Wise Engineers (UWE), are the sole controllers of the
railway systems of the entire world (so they claim). At very least
they do control the railway system of your part of the world, and
maintain that control through: a transportation / trade monopoly,
economic pressure, and outright threats / violence. Each item they
transport has a tariff placed upon it based upon its value, these
tariffs are minor for essential items (medicine, food, etc...) and
steep for luxury items (ancient technology, delicacies, etc...). With
the tariffs being applied in these ways, the UWE is largely tolerated
in the communities it serves as being the sole-proprietors of
reliable long-distance transportation... Well, almost tolerated.
There are a number of rogue engineers who work on their own forms of
transportation, in the hopes of breaking the UWE's stranglehold on
trade. These individuals are often stopped through a number of means
available to the UWE, but that does not stop everyone. Even now there
a rogue engineers who are constructing the newest form of
transportation, the airship, that are being captained by brave men
and women looking to undercut the UWE tariffs.
A 'Rogue' Airship
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