Iron Fic 3-8: Air Superiority
People don't look up in horror movies. Is it because we aren't programmed for it? Ignoring what's above you can be fatal in more ways than one.
On the other hand but not unrelated, man's head has always looked to the skies. Our gods and our heavens are set in the clouds and out in the deepest reaches of space. Airplanes, spaceships, satellite communications and more are all possible because of the dream of controlling that dimension.
Your challenge is to write a story about flight. It doesn't matter whether it's vehicular or unaided, intraplanetary or interstellar. Additionally, you need to show how having air superiority makes a difference in the conflict at hand, whether that be military or not.
You might write a specific encounter between ground and air forces or have a professor explaining the effect airplanes had on conflict years after that war. You might have someone learn the Flight spell, or levitationùcareful of the landings. Or you could have aerial weapons deployed just in time to alter the flow of an encounter. Up to you.
Note that the challenge is air superiority not ôHaha that plane got taken out by a tribal with a rocket launcherö. Play with the prompt in that way and lose points.
And yes, I did just have the Boomers show up to blow Caesar to hell on Hoover Dam.
The challenge is made!
People don't look up in horror movies. Is it because we aren't programmed for it? Ignoring what's above you can be fatal in more ways than one.
On the other hand but not unrelated, man's head has always looked to the skies. Our gods and our heavens are set in the clouds and out in the deepest reaches of space. Airplanes, spaceships, satellite communications and more are all possible because of the dream of controlling that dimension.
Your challenge is to write a story about flight. It doesn't matter whether it's vehicular or unaided, intraplanetary or interstellar. Additionally, you need to show how having air superiority makes a difference in the conflict at hand, whether that be military or not.
You might write a specific encounter between ground and air forces or have a professor explaining the effect airplanes had on conflict years after that war. You might have someone learn the Flight spell, or levitationùcareful of the landings. Or you could have aerial weapons deployed just in time to alter the flow of an encounter. Up to you.
Note that the challenge is air superiority not ôHaha that plane got taken out by a tribal with a rocket launcherö. Play with the prompt in that way and lose points.
And yes, I did just have the Boomers show up to blow Caesar to hell on Hoover Dam.
The challenge is made!
