The giant propeller sliced through the leaden clouds, churning up chunks of fog as the engine spewed scalding steam. The colossal aerial fortress "Ivan the Terrible" was cruising through the sky like a mechanical leviathan.
Its top was equipped with a peculiar coil-like device that would occasionally unleash a devastating arc of electricity upon contact with the cloud layer.
Ivan the Terrible was Tsarist Russia's most advanced war machine, hailed as a "space air carrier," with six small fast airships hidden in its belly. Its armor was robust, and it was bristling with gun turrets, living up to its name as an aerial fortress.
The "Tesla Coil" mounted on top was a new experimental device personally crafted by the exiled Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla, a top-secret weapon not even shared with Tsarist allies.
