Talk:Nereid/@comment-3302226-20150209000735/@comment-26097222-20150326195329

If he said steam engines and guns, but there is no electricity then my analysis is likely fairly accurate -- if he actually used the words Victorian or steampunk, that's another can of worms. Possibly a dumpster of worms, with regards to steampunk. Victorian covers a fairly lengthy era, including the weapons I described. Guns went through a LOT of changes during her reign, from flintlocks to integrated cartridges, from volley guns to primitive versions of modern machine guns. Steampunk is essentially a mad science genre, which drastically alters the tech level. Even if everybody else is running around with flintlocks, some genius of Science could be toting a laser pistol (probably chemically generated rather than electrically, but you never know with mad scientists). Thankfully for the world, he probably only built one or two. Where they steam engine tech but no electricity being mentioned, the tech level is fairly fixed. But throw in mad science, and the only limits are the laws of physics -- and not even then if you have something like Sparks like in the Girl Genius webcomic.