CONTENT WARNINGS: violence, discussions of death

Though the original settlers did, for a time, use their own ships to ferry the hellstone they first found back to Earth, the Company's intercession soon shut down any private or personal spacecraft in the airspace over Antarras—at first through violence, and then, as their first major demand in the Ostenberg Agreement, as a matter of policy. When you really look at the maps, at the paperwork, the Company doesn't have jurisdiction over all that much land on the planet; what it has is the sky. Because when the people buying hellstone are a month by ship away, owning the sky is all you really need to do.

This week, on Ruin's Gate: Debts paid.

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