Heavy Sky

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Three and a half centuries ago a Federation probe found a world with floating islands and an EM storm negating modern tech.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unofficial settlers followed knowing life would never be the same: without computers or robots - only steam hand labor and no way back. They built zeppelins tamed giant eagles and forged kingdoms in the clouds. For generations the sky held.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now the Federation has come again to study the mineral that keeps the islands aloft - even if it means breaking them apart. And it has tipped the fragile balance of this world.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the paths of an eagle rider a pilot a fallen noble and a field medic cross their choices will decide whether the sky holds-or falls.</em></p><p></p><p></p>