Space1889 is a Steampunk Tabletop Roleplaying Game by Frank Chadwick, and published first in 1988 by Game Designers Workshop, then by Heliograph Inc. It is set in an Alternate Universe Victorian era, where the scientific theories of the day are true; a luminiferous aether fills the depths of space, which is what people use to travel from world to world in Cool Airships. Indeed, the game describes itself as Victorian era science fiction. This being an alternate-Victorian era, all the great powers have colonies on the other planets. This show provides examples of: