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== Laszlo Szilveszter ==

Laszlo Szilveszter was born in 19th-century Europe during the height of the industrial revolution, an era he regarded as humanity’s great awakening. Fascinated by engines, pressure systems, metallurgy, and electrical experimentation from childhood, Szilveszter quickly gained recognition as a brilliant — if eccentric — inventor and theorist.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he believed steam technology had barely begun to reveal its full potential. While others pursued incremental industrial improvements, Szilveszter envisioned enormous mechanical civilizations powered entirely through advanced pressure systems, thermal transfer, and perpetual energy generation.

He considered electricity unreliable.

Chemistry inelegant.

And later technologies? Mere shortcuts for lesser minds.