one they hatch, but die before Claude can determine a suitable mode of nourishment. At length he realises that they require human blood, and he feeds the single remaining creature with his own blood. Two of the crew go missing, rousing Jasper’s suspicions, but Claude sedates him again when he discovers that the doctor has been feeding the monster with them. When Jasper revives, he is chained to the wheel and Claude tells him that the whole crew is under sedation, waiting to be fed to the creature. Jasper, without a choice, guides the ship towards home. He deliberately rams the ship into an iceberg, killing Claude. The film ends with Jasper, left alone, attaching a blood-sucking machine to his arm to feed the last creature. Knowing that he may not survive, prior to reaching home, Jasper reassures his wife that he will be, with "The great company of souls, riding the borealis to eternity" (a reference to his previous observation, of such a sight). "Perhaps," he muses, "they will require a navigator". Characters Captain Otto H. Griswald – Aeronaut Captain, 7th Class Mr. Jasper Morello – Navigator, 3rd Royal Cartographers, Difference Engine Operator 2nd Class Engineer Kemp – First Engineer of the Ironclad RES Linesman Kovacs – One of the crew aboard the dirigible Mr. Emile LeBrun – The ship’s cook Dr Claude Belgon – Royal Academy Member, Electrical Aerologist 12th Class, Doctorate of Cloud Biology. KP, RTS, q-23P.g.k.o. Amelia Morello – Jasper's wife, a nurse in Gothia among the Plague victims Animation style The short film is set in a world styled after mid-Victorian England with steampunk style iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, where giant mechanical airships are the main mode of transport. The characters are animated in the style of Wayang (Indonesian shadow puppets), best described as silhouettes. The visual style of the characters is similarly compared to that used by the 1926 film The Adventures of Prince Achmed (one of the oldest-surviving animated feature films). The animation production style was essentially "", using anything that served the purpose. Scenes featuring characters were composed out of a variety of materials, including card cut-outs which were then scanned and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, and also various found objects. The backgrounds are actually 2D, consisting of many layers to simulate 3D. These background layers were later selectively blurred in the compositing application, to simulate distant views. Certain sequences