ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Captain” Robert Brown is the founding member of Abney Park. For over 20 years he has written the songs of Abney Park, each song a small window into the world of The Airship Pirate Chronicals. In addition to writing, Robert also creates an unending supply of Steampunk instruments for the band, from Guitars, to Keyboards, to “hornpipes”. He plays a pile of odd instruments, like Bouzouki, Darbuka, and Diatonic Turkish Accordions. Is he a captain? Well, he has flown small planes, he owns a boat, and he has in fact spent more time in an airship then anyone you likely know (but thats not really saying much, is it?) Yes, he drinks rum, and he knows how to fight with a sword. He does in fact own a chainsaw, and he rides a motorcycle, owns a shot gun, and grew up equally confortable in tropic jungles of asisa and chilly rain forests of the northwest. At the moment, he is sitting in his leather wing-back, under a Edison-bulb chandelier, smoking a pipe and thinking about putting on a pot of tea.