Introduction

Welcome, Pilots, to the beautiful Southern Provinces!

Set within an alternate history of post-war Italy, a new type of bomb invented during the Great War has left Europe covered in a thick and dense layer of sulphur gas, anything below 1000 meters above sea level is now completely uninhabitable. As a result, mankind has moved into the vast European alps, settling on every high enough mountaintop they can find in order to survive. Now, 200 years after the event, each mountaintop serves as its own community with villages and societies. Due to the properties of this new world, the art of air travel thrives, and pilots have become society’s most well-respected individuals. Among these pilots, some rise above the rest in terms of skill, perseverance and finesse: The Falcons. Fearless mercenaries without a cause and revered by all, the Falcons travel all across the alps in search of fame and fortune, completely untied from anyone but themselves and their plane.

Background

The Great War

1914 marked the start of the Great War, a global conflict that originated in Europe between the Allied Powers (The British Empire, France, Russia, Italy, among others) and the Central Powers (The German Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Austria). The Great War, also aptly named "the war to end all wars", came to a sudden halt in 1917 when Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor of the German Empire, issued the production of a new kind of weapon: the Sulphur Bomb. The bomb, when triggered, created a shockwave of poisonous gas capable of killing an entire city's population within minutes.

The Calamity

The Calamity is the name for the period that followed the creation of the Sulphur Bomb, leading into and past the end of the Great War. In 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm II used his new weapon on the Allied Powers, starting with Paris. Within a day, most of the Allied Powers werer destroyed and the war was ended. However, an unforseen side effect previously unknown to the German scientists that built the bomb occured as the poisonous gas reacted with the minerals in the soil, creating a new, denser agent that quickly spread across the surface of Europe like a rolling flood. A state of emergency was called across Europe as the sweeping cloud of gas was deemed unbeatable and a world wide evacuation plan was set in motion, now known as the Great Migration.

The Great Migration

The One Percent

The foundation of the first settlements

The Age of Flight

Present day

The White Death

Falcons