Everything Jules Verne could have written.... 

Everything H.G. Wells should have written.... 

Everything A. Conan Doyle thought but never published because it was too fantastic!

Space 1889: After makes it a reality!

Space 1889: After is the next iteration of Space 1889—the popular steampunk tabletop game—with new rules, new possibilities, and new stories to tell. 

The Victorian Age in Space 1889 was marked by astounding discoveries that opened the strange, inhabited worlds of Mars and Venus to exploration and colonization. Space 1889: After takes place ten years later, after war and disaster separated the worlds for a time. Now, adventurers must risk the perils of space to explore other worlds and fight new enemies that lurk in the ether. 

Space 1889 appeared at the dawn of the steampunk movement. The boilerplate hulls of aerial gunboats and the hardy ethernauts who braved the dark reaches of space developed in parallel with the aesthetic so many know and love. In many ways, Space1889's iconic art helped define the genre’s aesthetic!

You'll find no magic here, rather science behaves as the eccentric geniuses of the period imagined it did. Combined with the influence of ancient alien technologies, almost anything is possible. As original designer Frank Chadwick puts it:

"this is science as the Victorians saw science."