A broken man, Offizier Balthazar Nast found the luxury aeroship, Paradise's Reach, hoping to ease shattered nerves. He searches for solace, and finds it in a night of passion with a young woman named Melony Wentzel. Their night comes to a crashing end when men and women storm their room with blade and blunderbuss. Offizier Balthazar Nast must now set aside his own anguish if he hopes to save anyone on board and stand against a fabled sky-pirate captain.....