Introduction

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[edit] Introduction of Airships

A airship is a vehicle made of wood and shaped like a boat. The unit has several masts much like sail boats except atop these large poles are massive propellers. These propellers are similar to helicopter blades. Airships usually have two main masts with very large propellers. Ships can also have a varying degree of smaller masts and even back propellers to give it more push. Airships can have many number of propellers.

The ship itself is much like a galley or a frigate in terms of comparison to normal boats. The insides can have multiple levels depending on the size of the ship but always has a helm to steer and a main deck for the pilot, captain and weapon turrets.

Some innovations in airship construction have yielded massive ships labeled battlecruisers and even colossus sized ships. However, the biggest of the big, the most destructive ship, the grandfathers of the fleet, the Titan. Gargantuan behemoths that dwarf even the dragons in size and sheer might. Only a few of these ships have been built.

[edit] History

The first airships were crude designs that were constructed by a almost extinct race called the Route 9 Dwarves. These types of dwarves discovered a forest where the trees floated above the ground and had their roots exposed. Hey crafted small flying rowboats and canoes to help traverse themselves across plains. They were slow and had no firepower. A race of extraplanar creatures bearing great psionic and physic manipulation potential devised a crystal that could expand the power of the hovering wood 10 fold. They made tiny crystals at first to give the rowboats more lift and speed. All the “airships” up till this point had been completely made from scrap, requiring extensive work to make hulls and carve the fragile wood.

Someone got the idea to enchant one massive crystal and place it in a already made galley. The ship began to float a few feet off the sea! It couldn’t move except by large oars that still had a hard time pushing the ship. The continued to expand on that idea and eventually tore off the sails on the masts. Engineers then placed large sheets of metal atop the masts and connected them to a complex crank and drive shaft to extend all the way down to the massive crystal located in the center of the ship. The trickiest part was trying to construct a way to adapt the crystal’s energies and make the propellers spin. Once that was completed, the ship could be flown. Bi-Plane propellers added to the back allowed extra thrust to force the ship forward. However, in this state, the ship can never land or touch ground. Of course, this was disproved when an airship was seen crashing down into the ground.

The result is the current airship. They are common within wealthy cities. Boats are still used and have a lot of purposes because they can still hold a massive amount of more cargo than an airship and they are a heck of a lot cheaper to build. Current airships can land above water but cannot be propelled. If attempted, it can move at only 5% of it’s maximum speed.