Gaming Signal: Steampunk: An untapped market?

Steampunk: An untapped market?

Over at SFSignal, JP wrote a post up about some really nice looking ray gun replicas created by Weta (the folks behind the special effects in Lord of the Rings.) When combined with the release of Bioshock has got me thinking about the genre of science fiction steampunk which would be inspired by the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and Larklight by Philip Reeve. Games like Arcanum and World of Warcraft both have steampunk elements, but these are much more black-powder fantasy. For me, there is a difference between this and steampunk. Now don't get me wrong, I am sure there are some who say the two are much closer together, but I want something more science fiction based. Anyways, that is not the purpose of this discussion...

A single title would be great, but I would rather see a collection of titles that all work in the same universe. In this universe, all the planets of our galaxy are inhabitable. There are jungles on Venus and unknown entities in the rings of Saturn. If you have read any stories of this nature, you can get an idea of what I am talking about. Now with this, we can build an RPG where your character embarks on a quest to recover some object of worth from the far reaches of our solar system. Your journey is fraught with peril, and only through overcoming these through the judicious use of your blaster and pithy wit can the forces for good can be victorious. Another possible title would be a first person shooter (FPS) where the blasters (notice a theme yet) and clockwork items are used to do battle with some galactic evil!!!! Heck this evil could even be a modified version of nazis (of the undead time traveling variety.)