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While I'll point people at the web site, Air Marshals and Sky Pirates, I'll do my best to answer questions and fill in some of the background for the game.
I originally was going to let the players choose whether they wanted to be part of the American Commonwealth Air Constabulary or to be a Sky Pirate. But then I thought about it and realized that while being an Air Marshal is all well and good, but being a Sky Pirate, yarr, it be better!
Of course there are two choices even then. You can be a pirate or you can be a privateer. The big difference is that as a privateer, you are more of a bounty hunter, hunting down pirates and doing a bit of commerce raiding against the other nations in the area.
The game takes place in the Rocky Mountains area near where Colorado is now and the area is nominally claimed by the Mexican Empire, with border disputes between the other powers in the region: California, New Russia, and the American Commonwealth. It's a place of mountainous valleys and death around every corner, either from the pirates that ply the skies or from nature herself with her violent storms and landslides.
The players will get their own airship, based on the Santa Maria, and some extra cash to upgrade it. Except for pirates, you're not trying to send other airships burning to the ground, you're trying to capture another ship and make off with their booty.
So post your questions and requests here.