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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Whiskers" data-source="post: 1253809" data-attributes="member: 6941">A few things - the description of the cities plus steampunk made me think of the early Industrial Age, especially the slums of England, as well as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. At the same time this was happening, the scramble for Africa was occurring (which was the last act in the whole colonization bit). You want established cities, but also wildlands, which again led me to sub-Saharan Africa and the &quot;lost continent&quot; idea. Sounds like I took these points in a different direction than you were thinking of.For something along the lines of urban decay, one source is Asimov's Foundation series, especially the stuff on Trantor. Imagine Trantor, centuries later, only there were no Foundations to limit the barbarism that followed. You could design a city so large that it's essentially it's own continent, with different nations, city-states, or whatever, but with certain shared infrastructure that requires cooperation among the various groups.Just thinking out loud...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sir Whiskers, post: 1253809, member: 6941"] A few things - the description of the cities plus steampunk made me think of the early Industrial Age, especially the slums of England, as well as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. At the same time this was happening, the scramble for Africa was occurring (which was the last act in the whole colonization bit). You want established cities, but also wildlands, which again led me to sub-Saharan Africa and the "lost continent" idea. Sounds like I took these points in a different direction than you were thinking of. For something along the lines of urban decay, one source is Asimov's Foundation series, especially the stuff on Trantor. Imagine Trantor, centuries later, only there were no Foundations to limit the barbarism that followed. You could design a city so large that it's essentially it's own continent, with different nations, city-states, or whatever, but with certain shared infrastructure that requires cooperation among the various groups. Just thinking out loud... :) [/QUOTE]

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