Campaign: Skyjacks

Jonnit Kessler decides to use his eye to track down latent killing intent within Sorrow's End in hopes of finding likely targets for The Butcher. His search leads him back to the Bar where he meets Bayless Gell, a debtor who is very concerned for Arielle.

Jonnit struggles to regain control of the battlefield after barely surviving getting into the air and being shot at by enemy riders. Orimar and Tarvis battle Rowdy Rs trying to use surprise to overcome being outnumbered. Gable continues evasive maneuvers diving to skim above a river delta in order to create distance between the Uhuru and The Silver Bullet. Pliff and Jane take a big risk in order to help Jonnit in the air and it has disastrous consequences (predictably for Pliff.)

In an effort to secure some extremely sensitive information from The Reference Desk, Gable offers an extremely sensitive story of their own. Jonnit realizes he has to duck out of the mission to infiltrate the pigment factory, leaving Carlos to invite Carmen for one of their classic adventures. However, there are unintended consequences...

Jonnit pulls away from the enemy griffin riders as they chase The Uhuru and sets his sights on a counteroffensive against The Silver Bullet. Pliff through sheer determination to help the rest of the crew, pulls himself back into the ship to face the Rowdy Rs. Gable plays a dangerous game to bait the bullet into a lower altitude battle and use the dangerous waters of the river delta to their advantage. Travis and Orimar wor to pursue the Rs and their leader Rocco into the aviary...

Jonnit and Bayless try to follow Arielle's trail to one of the collection sites at the edge of Red Feather Territory. They find a chaotic scene as workers are already gathered reacting to the disappearance of someone else. While Jonnit worries about The Butcher, the workers worry about the Ralé people.

After suffering a devastating blow to their furnaces at the hands of saboteurs who coordinated with the Rowdy Rs manipulation of the crew schedule to sneak into The Uhuru's sails the crew scramble to recover. Gable works to keep the ship aloft while giving Nodoze the chance he needs to aim the grapple. Travis continues to put down Rs while revealing more features of his Japanese! (Italian) gun. Orimar chases Rocco to the cargo room in order to claim his revenge...

Jonnit tries to prepare Bayless for what could be a very tense situation. Orimar tries to bite back the rising tide of killing intent after his meeting with Truss. However, his anger burns attracting unwanted attention. He soon finds himself face-to-face with The Butcher.

Jonnit tries to right himself after dealing a devastating blow to the Silver Bullet, but the fight still isn't over as the Rowdy Rs have managed to push the remaining Civility featherweave out of The Uhuru's cargo doors– and deployed griffins to capture it. Thankfully Jane and Pliff have finally managed to launch Flea and Lucas to join the fray. Orimar is now surrounded by Rowdy Rs who realized they have no exit. Thankfully as the captain, he can call for backup.

Even with the enemy ship disabled, the battle is far from over. Jonnit, Jane, and Pliff square off against the last wave of birds sent by The Silver Bullet in an attempt to capture the featherweave jettisoned by the Rowdy R's. Meanwhile Orimar and Travis battle the remnants of the Rs in the cargo hold. Even with reinforcements, battle is uncertain and good people can lose their lives. Gable steps in to save their precious baby birds.

After rallying from a coordinated surprise attack and mutiny to an overwhelming victory, the Captain's Council of The Uhuru and Orimar Vale specifically, have an important decision to make: What should they do with their contoured adversaries? This was a calculated attack, Uhuru lives were lost. They cannot appear weak. At the same time, The Silver Bullet is a corsair ship, even if they are not with The Tempest Armada they attack with less malice and brutality than Red Feathers...