Perched on Sumerian Eyrie: The Cloud Crusade
The sky was supposed to be freedom. Now it has become a battlefield.
The Skyhome revolution has succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. Across the atmosphere, airborne communities have multiplied into a vast, interconnected civilization-self-sufficient, mobile, and increasingly independent of the nations and corporations below.
That independence has made them dangerous.
Aerocorp, a multinational power threatened by the rise of the airborne society, launches a covert campaign to bring it down. Cyberattacks corrupt navigation systems. Disinformation spreads through the network. Critical infrastructure fails without warning. Then a catastrophic midair collision proves that the attacks are no longer merely political.
People are dying.
Harry Atkins and his seven partners must find a way to protect the civilization they helped create. Oscar Moreno and Kathie Caldwell develop an advanced IoT-driven defense network capable of detecting threats and responding autonomously-but the technology carries a terrifying price: whoever controls it could control the skies.
And the enemy is no longer only below.
Alix Crane, once an ally, rises as the charismatic voice of a growing rebellion within Skyhome. He argues that freedom has become weakness, decentralization has become chaos, and survival now demands a single authority with the power to command them all.
As Aerocorp unleashes drones, electronic warfare, political pressure, and sabotage, Crane's followers fracture the airborne community from within. Harry is forced toward an impossible choice:
Centralize power to save Skyhome-or risk everything to preserve the freedom that gave Skyhome meaning in the first place.
When the final assault sets the heavens ablaze, survival will depend not on one command center, one leader, or one weapon-but on thousands of independent Skyhomes learning whether they can still act as one.
The Cloud Crusade is a sweeping science-fiction adventure and political thriller about technology, rebellion, loyalty, and the dangerous boundary between security and freedom.
And beyond the wounded skies, another frontier is already waiting.
Orbithome.
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