The Shattered Sky

Two thousand years after the world ended, four great cities — London the banker, Moscow the zealot, Rome the faithful, Prague the free port — circle each other in a cold war fought by hired privateers, each starving for the glowing Hydrium that keeps their armored airships aloft. You're nobody: a dockhand mechanic on a forgotten waystation, watching London's collectors bleed your town dry, with savings under a floorboard and a dream too big for the mesa. Then a stranger limps in on a battered skiff, carrying an old chart and a name spoken like a prayer — the Gravelight, a ghost dreadnought lost in the dead air, still burning silver lights no one's dared chase. Find it. Survive it. Tip the war. The sky is broken, and it's yours to take.