May I most humbly bid you welcome to this, the webpage of the Project: Steampunk development team. This page is intended to enlighten you, kind reader, as to the purpose, proposed activities and outpourings of said team as they proceed towards entering their modification of the computer game 'Unreal Tournament' into the 'Make Something Unreal' competition in the year 2009.

The sobriquet of this modification (or 'mod' as it is more vulgarly known) is to be "Conduct of War" and it shall be a depiction of the conflict and skirmishes which troubled this, the 19th Century of our Lord, as the empire of Her Imperial Majesty, Empress of All India, Queen Victoria and the Tri Tsarstva or three tsardoms of the sons of the assassinated Nikolai I: Alexander, Konstantin and Nikolai II fought for supremacy on the fields and in the skies of Europe and beyond.

Following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1825 by British troops using the revolutionary new steam-powered auto-musket the technological arms race between the British and Russian empires matched apace their ambitions for influence and territory in the heartlands of Europe and, as now has been seen, could only but lead to a new and terrible form of warfare between the forces of Victoria and those of the 'Three Tsars'.