The age of piracy and war has become an age of peace. Airships soar the skies, and fellowship and amity flourish between nations. Captain Acheron Zeal of the Royal Navy longs for glory, adventure and promotion; his assignment, to hunt down and destroy a new pirate threat, seems a godsend, but how can a sailing vessel hope to capture an airship pirate?


Captain of the flying ship Eschaton, the most vicious pirate of the modern age
Ambitious captain of Her Majesty's Ship Circe, ordered to put the Eschaton's depredations to an end


A man out of time, literally and figuratively at sea in a world that moved on without him