Why Are There So Many Airship Pirates in Steampunk?
With this article, I'll be continuing the series I started with my recent plague doctor article. That is, examining tropes that may at first appear to not fit into Steampunk. Obviously the airship pirate never existed in real life, as we never really experienced the age of airships the way that we imagine it in Steampunk. Still, when we imagine an airship pirate, their outfits are usually based around the sort of look we see in sea pirates, as that's our closest analogue to an air pirate....
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