Phillip was the CTO of the largest mechanical engineering firm in the world. One morning, on his way to work, he died in an accident—only to awaken in an alternate Earth as the third son of the Duke of Wellington in the United Kingdom.

But this new world was devoid of modern technology. There was no indoor plumbing, no electricity, no power grids, no appliances, transportation still relied on horse-drawn carriages. To a mechanical engineering genius, living without these conveniences was unbearable. If they didn’t exist, he would build them!

Yet innovation never comes without cost. As Phillip begins introducing modern technology, he finds himself entangled in webs of politics and conspiracy. How will he protect himself from nobles who seek to use him for their own ambitions?

The ink had barely dried on the Queen's decree naming Phillip Wellington Baron of Shropshire when the world came knocking.


It began quietly enough—letters sealed in foreign wax, arriving under the pretext of "commercial inquiry." But soon, the dispatch room of Imperial Dynamics' London office became a battlefield of languages and crests: Fonseine lilies, the double-headed eagle of Granzreich, the red cross of Orosk, and the golden sun of the Iberian Union.


Within a week, Phillip's desk was buried in correspondence. Some were polite overtures; others were veiled demands. All wanted the same thing: the secret of the rails.


By early October, London's fog had grown thick, curling between lamplights like smoke. Inside the polished halls of the Royal Engineering Exchange, Phillip and Henry Carter stood waiting as the first of the envoys were escorted in under the Union Jack.


Chapter 27 - The World Take Notices