A case in point has been the incredibly powerful and extremely rare Empire Steam Tank, examples of which have been 'loaned' in the past at back-breaking cost (under close Imperial supervision of course) and had proved unavailable to be purchased outright at any cost. The genius behind the Steam Tank is all but unreplicable at any rate, and such secrets as those known by the Imperial Engineers guarded upon pain of death. So, in recent years, with ever-increasing threats to their city-state growing all around them, the guild-masters of Marienburg sought to do what they had always done and spend their way out of the problem, and as they could not buy a Steam Tank, they would commission something better! Wary of the political ramifications, the Imperial School of Engineers at Altdorf would hav