Place
Highwind
The cloud city: a station drifting through a gas giant's storm bands, airships moored at its rings, sky-whales in the bands and kite-birds in the updrafts. Its riggers claim their giant is one of the forty charts that match the Wick's night window, as does every other station on those charts.
Lanes
Connected entries
- inThe DriftA belt of worn settled systems: orbital stations, half-terraformed colonies, and sprawl-yards linked by slow travel, local law, repair culture, and work for hire.
one of forty candidates forThe WickBLACKFLAME's den: a decommissioned relay station in no sector's survey. Those who claim to have been there describe only a mast with the flame burned into its housing, a hot humming rack…
links hereSky-whalesGentle giants that drift in Highwind's gas-giant storm bands, riding the wind and never coming close to the station.- links hereThe kite-mast gondolaHighwind's post: the relay trails beneath the station on a kite-mast, with a gondola at the end of the cable. The flame is painted on the kite's canvas.