Steampunk Expedition NZ 1888

Royal Airship Pegasus was constructed in the Brunel Engineering Yards, Bristol, between 1877-1880. The frame is an especially alloyed aluminium, while the skin is of titanium. Pegasus is powered by steam, with heat supplied by an enormous crystal-electro dynamo supplied by the Telsa Laboratory. This dynamo instantly vaporizes water condensed from the atmosphere under extremely high pressure into steam which is then utilized to operate the various mechanical devices which propel the Airship and power its various facilities. Below - Pegasus under construction:  Below - original working blueprint :   Flammable hydrogen gas is not used for levitation of the Pegasus. Lift is instead achieved by using an enormous basalt crystal and ultra-sonic soundwaves. Basalt is both crystalline and magnetic. Gravity is really a frequency, part of Einstein's Unified Field. When crystallized blocks of basalt are resonated at the frequency of gravity (10x12 hertz - the frequency between

The crew of the Airship is gathered from around the world and are rotated in and out of duty as required according to their skills.
Instant personnel transfer is carried out by the Patented Haylon Particle Transfer Generator.  Below - engineers Lucrecia and Barbarella at work: Felicia Cummings - Moa Hunter: Professor Calibrator: Naturalist Sophie descents over Mount Terror: Professor Adlington with Moa bones and Egg: Professor Galvani conducts an electrical experiment: Herr Professor Franz adjusting levitation voltage in the control room:

Despite an exhaustive search using the most sophisticated detection equipment the "Pegasus" Expedition did not find any living Moa anywhere in New Zealand.  It was concluded that, unfortunately, the species had been hunted to extinction by the Maori by around 1450. Below - Moa Skull photographed by electron spectroscope (chick of the South Island Giant Moa ( Dinornis robustus ), found in the midden of a pa beside Lake Never Never - Fiordland): Below - Moa Egg - South Island Giant Moa ( Dinornis robustus ) Found floating in a small lake beneath the mountain "Lady of the Snows" - NW Fiordland: Moa eggs varied in size according to the species - the largest (above) being over 30cm tall. All Moa eggs had extremely thin shells, which made them easy pickings for the Polynesian rat (kiore) which accompanied the Maori migrations. Since the Moa were slow-breeding and only laid one egg at a time, aggressive egg predation greatly hastened their extinction.

 While in New Zealand the naturalists aboard the "Pegasus" recorded a great many native species of flora and fauna. New Zealand's native species evolved for 80 million years without any mammalian predators - this allowed some of the native animal species the perfect opportunity to grow to enormous size. This is termed "gigantism".  Below: Giant stinging Beetle - Steampunkus Prodontria zealandia   Below - Giant Sandfly - Steampunkus ungulatum zealandia Below - Giant Stinging Cicada - Steampunkus amphipsalta zealandia   Below - Giant Cave Spider - Steampunkus cavernicolia zealandia   Below: Giant Stag Beetle - Steampunkus Somarakone zealandia   Below: Giant Weta - Deinacrida heteracantha    

Below - he Particle Generator for crew-transfer: Below - a Moa Stun-Gun Below - Crew's Formal Dress-Jacket Below - Steampunk Outfit (female crew) Below - Steampunk Waistcoat - Unisex

Letter From Governor Grey to Lord Rothschild (the financier of the Pegasus Expedition): https://toposterestante.blogspot.com/2020/06/letter-governor-grey-to-lord-rothschild.html