however, if you combine it pentimento (WotD from the 10th), it gets really interesting. this is defined as:
1.
the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.
Together, I like this - its the idea of the remaining evidence of human things in a world being actively re-made by the invading species.
Trains were a big thing when the aliens attacked, but they are easy targets, so humans avoided trains and their tracks in the early years post-invasion. But 30 years later ... maybe there are clusters of survivors huddling in a railway tunnel in the Alps. Maybe the rails through the Florida swamps are the only source of scrap metal for local survivors, and the supply is dwindling.
And what might the heavy machinery of a steam engine become if combined with alien technology?
Moustufad the Mad was a desert raider in Morocco, set to be hanged by a rural colonial governor the day the invasion happened, in part of a celebration of the North African Empire Line reaching the area . He escaped, and since has reclaimed enough alien tech to outfit the abandoned locomotive with antigravity hoverpads and advanced tech. He has not cut his moustache since the day of the invasion.
George Pullman is rumored to survive somewhere in the forests of Appalachia, the Lord of a colony of engineers covertly building anti-alien tech-steam dragon mechs.
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