Machine world concept art

Will technological changes be our salvation or our damnation … or will it be both?

A giant Egyptian automaton helping build pyramids. This painting was created as a promotional image for Clockwork Alchemy steampunk convention 2014, whose theme was "Alternate Empires."

The Institute is a location in the Commonwealth in 2287. The Institute is the hidden headquarters of the organization known as the Institute, located deep underground. The Institute was built upon the ruins of the Commonwealth Institute of Technology.[1] While the college itself lay in ruins for more than two centuries, at the time of the Great War, those present took refuge underground.[1] The Institute was formally founded by the children of the original survivors from the C.I.T., who dug…