After four thousand years of manned flight, the Second Age of Aviation arrived on Balaam when the mysterious Rahkoshans had sent over the radio, secrets of the Molecular Motion Inducer. It wasn't really anti-gravity, but humans treated it as such, and stuck everything they could think of into the air, no matter how unwise or ungainly, up to whole cities! The Molecular Motion Inducer uses a probability sieve to prejudice Brownian Motion into an upward motion only. The birth of ';Probability Physics' had opened new doors to the humans of Balaam. These doors included Telepathy, and 'Solid Wing' defensive shields. True Force Shields and Relative Inertial Frames were theorized, but humans never quite were able to grasp the subtleties of the new branch of math and physics that the aliens had gifted mankind with. A new age had born many technological fruits, like flying cars and trucks, flying cities for the rich and powerful, new weapons and defenses and many odd-ball flying replicas of long gone flying devices. Mirelle's faux-Zeppelin is one of those starnge flying vehicles spawned by the inspirations of that second age of Air flight. Vehicles were needed to supply the flying cities with freight from the ground and ferry people to and fro between the huge flying cities and floating buildings spread across Balaam. Many of the replica airships were slow enough and large enough to carry huge amounts of freight. Not needing helium to lift them, and not needing petro-chemicals to power them, fusion power cells were put in them to power electric drives and MMI lifters. The Air-Trader families were a cultural response to that thought. The truckers of the air could take their whole families with them to ply the skies of finance between the flying cities. They became a combination of long-haul truckers and gypsies with no fixed address or routes, they developed their own sub-dialect and culture. When the Jade Empire collapsed two hundred years ago, they barely noticed. When the Church of the Holy Child took over the world, they acted to look like they conformed, while they secretly thumbed their nose at all flatlanders, religious or otherwise. When civilization collapsed sixty-four years ago, they avoided the worst of the Blight by withdrawing, and restricting business until the most of it had passed. The Air-Traders are a very self-reliant and mostly honorable lot. They stand by their friends and care little for racial or species differences. Getting the job done in a timely and efficient manner is all they care. They aren't blind to what happens in the world of Balaam, though. The worsening environment, the changing governments and more barbaric climate alarms them all. If someone, anyone, could unify them--they'd be a powerful force for change. Media is Poser6, Blacksmith2.2,PSP7 and Wings3d Some people didn't know what Mirelle, Narchi, Jeet, Jin and Neon were tooling around the skies of Balaam in--so here ya go! I thought I had a good shot of her airship already, but I thought wrong! DAMMIT! Original deleted by mistake-this is a reposting.