Vessels of Wood of Earth by Iker Raile
It is the turn of the 20th Century, and the entire US Melah Airship Program has been grounded, due to the unmitigated disaster onboard its flagship vessel The Centennial, leading to its destruction. A young Melah tech sergeant is tasked with seeking out a disgraced and reclusive civilian professor, whose knowledge and expertise with hydrogen-alternative gasses may be the military’s only hope to restarting the program. Aided by a band of lower-ranked enlisted soldiers, and a retired Melah lieutenant with a dark past and mysterious present, the tech sergeant and her unlikely research team suddenly find themselves confronted with an emerging adversary, whose goals of conquest include even the enslavement of The Honorable Madam President of the United States herself. Can this small group of misfits turned resistance fighters thwart the plans of this determined new enemy? And does the Fountain of Youth Geyser truly exist? (Inspired by 2 Timothy Chapter 2) Iker Raile’s...