Sky Pirates

Chicago. 1931. The First World War was averted when the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was thwarted by a suit of magnetic repulsion armor commissioned from inventor Nikola Tesla. The stock market crash yields a Great Depression, and efforts to tame the American Dustbowl through Orgone Energy have left much of the American Midwest an single continuous roiling storm. Prohibition has left the nation thirsty, and illegal imports from Canada, Mexico and South America are smuggled daily in huge quantities by sky pirates. Airships, biplanes and heavy artillery pieces rule the sky, while decreasingly veiled collections of supernatural monsters stalk the earth.

The Arc Angel is one such airship, crewed by a questionable motley of strange creatures, they run a wildly successful operation out of Chicago Il. However, the European warring states are heating up, and the question of whether a British-Canadian invasion of the U.S. is around the corner is becoming less and less vague and distant.