The Airship Admiral: Commanding of Steam-Powered Vessels
Harrison Windborne
Freegulls Publishing House
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The brass chronometer on Admiral Tobias Blackthorne's desk chimed seven bells as the morning sun pierced through the reinforced glass windows of his flagship's bridge. Below, a sea of cotton-white clouds stretched endlessly toward the horizon, broken only by the occasional mountain peak that dared to challenge the domain of the sky. The HMS Sovereign cut through the upper atmosphere with the grace of a whale through ocean depths, her twin steam engines humming with mechanical precision that had taken the Royal Airship Corps decades to perfect.
Blackthorne adjusted his navy blue uniform coat, the gold braiding catching the light as he moved to examine the navigation charts spread across the mahogany plotting table. At forty-two, he possessed the weathered features of a man who had spent his entire adult life in service to the Crown, commanding vessels that sailed not upon water, but through the boundless expanse of sky. His steel-gray eyes, sharpened by years of scanning distant horizons for enemy craft, studied the carefully marked routes that would take his small fleet through the contested airspace above the Meridian Territories.
The brass chronometer on Admiral Tobias Blackthorne's desk chimed seven bells as the morning sun pierced through the reinforced glass windows of his flagship's bridge. Below, a sea of cotton-white clouds stretched endlessly toward the horizon, broken only by the occasional mountain peak that dare...
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