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As the world went to Hell (or as Hell came to the Earth, to be more accurate), humanity took to the skies to avoid the hellscape that once was their home.
That was 50 years ago.
Back then, it was regarded as the end of times. Demons and monsters overran the cities, spilling out from the cracks with magma, destruction in their wake as major cities were reduced to rubble. Within three days, of the seven billion humans, only a few hundred thousand people were left alive.
Humanity acted swiftly. In response to the mass genocide, engineers and governments did their best and did the only logical thing: if demons were coming from below, they would go up. Everyone alive was rounded into enormous blimps and planes, and went up.
Since then, the surface has become a fiery sea of lava and fire, where demons and monsters roam. Humanity has grown to accept that they would not be able to return, and many developments towards making life in the air was made.
Over the 50 years, humans had changed. Scientists' rapid and not always sanctioned experimentation had caused a good deal of the population to develop what can only be described as 'latent magical powers', being able to do things such as throw fire or fling sparks from their fingertips, though this power was often weak among those who had them. New laws and governments came into effect, regulating what could be regulated where they could with the rapidly changing life, as some blimps floated off towards the unknown. Dirt and food become scarce, and water become a common good from the clouds. Blimps were traded for floating cities, some populated by criminals and corrupt officials alike, others by the pompous bourgeoisie. Sky-ships became the new cars, being much safer than planes and more efficient than planes.
And with the ships, the new frontier, the laws and scarcity, came the pirates. Those who were starved, who were exiled, or were seeking revolution or adventure. A new age of piracy had arrived.
Sky-pirates.
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