The Steamtube family is a vast, primarily British family, who believe that commonly used language is rather inadequate, particularly when describing their exploits and adventures.
To this end the Steamtubes’ started inventing and passing down their own words, recording them in the Family Dictionary, a huge leather-bound tome with a very long and complex title.
The Steamtube family can be traced back though the annals of time from the notable inventor Prendergast Steamtube of Victorian England, to the Viking settler “RØyk Trakt” (roughly translated as “Smoke Funnel”).
Though RØyk first started the tradition, or so the legends say, the Steamtube who established the Family Dictionary was Admiral Bungae H. Steamtube, who upon triumphing in the art of naval warfare (having slaughtered everyone on the battlefield but himself, allies included) Commissioned to have the language of the Steamtube lineage recorded on paper. Thus the steamtube’s precious words ceased being passed on by word of mouth, and “The Steamtube Illustrifuvated Wondermental Wordopedic Chrono-Dictical Cato-phonetic Lexicon” came into being (Referred to as “The Lexicon”, or more recently the “Family Dictionary”. The full Title, as Splendifferous as it is, caused the untimely death of Admiral Bungae, as upon presenting the lexicon to his relatives, suffered a catastrophically flabbergasted Speech box. Hence the foreshortening)
Some of the more famous Steamtubes include;
Prendergast Steamtube, A Victorian inventor based in London, with a penchant for using steam engines in devices far too small to accommodate the technology, the steam powered revolving hat rack for example
Admiral Bungae Horatio Steamtube, The famous admiral responsible for the single-handed destruction of approximately a third of the royal navy and binder of the Family Dictionary. He had an odd obsession with having his men flogged, not only for failure, if for example his chef cooked a particularly good meal, he would have him flogged so he would remember to do it again.
Ignatius K. Steamtube, the celebrated Victorian detective
Squadron Leader Brian Ettington Steamtube, the Second World War pilot, burdened with a missing eye and tin nose. Cursing him with a lack of depth perception but granting him an unrivalled sense of smell, not especially effective in an aerial battle, but able to smell if the enemy is using a slightly dodgy batch of petrol from literally miles away. Brian also claims to have killed sixty three men, two horses and a small dog with his fake nose.
Gregor Steamtube, supposed Mythical Beast hunter extraordinaire, initially started out as a big game hunter, made a drunken wager, that he could punch a lion in the face whilst holding a pint of stout. Finding success fairly easily, he set out to punch bigger and rarer animals in the face, whilst holding a pint of stout. Shortly after punching an albino rhinoceros, Gregor ran out of rare animals, and started hunting mythical beasts instead, Vampires, Sphynxes, Gryphons etcetera. Gregor is currently rumored to be somewhere in Scotland, with a mind to punch the Loch Ness Monster in the face, trying to overcome the fact that you cannot hold a pint of stout underwater.
Keep an eye out for future members of the Steamtube family in future updates, now I have the basic premise on paper I plan to be working much more on Steamtube animations.
