Franklin's Lost Ship

Blackbeard was the most feared and infamous pirate of his day. In the early eighteenth century, the former British privateer trolled the shipping lanes of the Atlantic, capturing, plundering and terrorizing all vessels in his path. From the deck of his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, he commanded the seas and inspired fear in all who crossed his path. In 1717, he even blockaded the city of Charleston, cutting her off from the world and threatening to strangle her budding tobacco economy.

Lost Universe se centra en la pelea entre las fuerzas de la luz y la oscuridad, representadas por nuestros protagonistas (Kane Blueriver, Canal Vorfeed y Millenium Feria Nocturn o Milly) y sus enemigos (Nightmare, Stargazer & Co.). En este universo alterno hubo una civilización que creo los Lost Ships, los cuales se alimentan de la energía psy que sólo seres especiales pueden manejar.

Of all the stories of ships lost in what has come to be called the "Graveyard of the Pacific," that of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Francisco, bound for Seattle with 108 passengers and some sixty-five crew members aboard. Owing to bad weather and the captain's mistakes, the ship struck a reef eleven miles off Cape Beale on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. Rocks gashed open the ship's hull, and a series of further missteps soon compounded the tragedy a hundredfold. Only thirty-seven people survived, largely because of a lack of lifesaving infrastructure in the rugged area where the Valencia ran aground.

"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. … Bound's account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday Times