The Flight

The final check lists were completed.

From the launch field, the airship pointing toward the wind, gracefully and slowly lifted into the sky. It was a massive ship. There were only eight crew people onboard and no passengers except for a dog named Mike.

While taking off, the propellor driven wind bounced on the stretched fabric of the airship and made deep low drum vibrating sounds that could be heard pulsating down the valley where it echoed further against the cliffs.

Their hard work and research paid off. It was a great success. It must have been a magnificent sight to see the huge airship flying across the horizon.

The auto-logs show the dirigible’s performance was excellent until it wasn’t. During an early stage of the flight, the airship abruptly changed course and headed west. Then after 187 minutes of communication silence, one last ping. The ship was never seen again.

The Saboteurs

A line of 15 ground-node satellites were found stretching from Lubbock to East Texas. They were placed in the countryside before the flight and unknown to Paladin. As the airship approached the ground-node satellites, it was diverted to its fateful crash.

We will post some of the descriptions soon. It is currently unknown who the saboteurs were.

He felt it

A young man in a bowler hat reported to the local newspaper what he had witnessed. He did not actually see the airship because of the low clouds. But he felt it. The airship’s propellers were so large that they rotated slowly around with a thumping sonic-sound that could be felt on the ground. Whop, whop, whop. He raised his arms into the air in a sweeping whop, whop way.