Sky Texas

Sky Texas is a large landmass in the shape of Texas currently floating a couple dozen miles above the surface of the earth.

Originally, Sky Texas was just a large nameless expanse of land connected to the southern portion of the Northern Continent, roughly where Los Angelocos is today. It is believed that during the War of Gods a strong god tried to beat another gods deadlift personal record by lifting up a chunk of the Northern Continent and left it floating there.

Ever since the Crunch, Sky Texas has been slowly descending back to earth at a rate of ~12-15 feet every day.

## Origin

Sky Texas was not always floating in the sky. Once it was a large expanse of deserts, forests, and grasslands that connected to the southern part of the Northern Continent. During the War of Gods, during a dispute between two gods, it was lifted up off the rest of the continent, with water flowing into where it once was. Ever since that point, Sky Texas would be more or less isolated from the rest of the world until about 104 years prior to the crunch.

## Isolation and development

Being so high up, naturally Sky Texas was isolated from the rest of the world for a very long time, allowing cultural and technological development to somewhat go its own paths without influence from the outside world. Unfortunately, the people who lived in the area originally were not really organized under any leadership, with a code of conduct usually being the name of the game. This lead to a somewhat wild and lawless nature to rule the landscape, with small towns having to defend themselves from desperados and banditos.

That is not to say that the entirety of Sky Texas is undeveloped and lawless. The largest city, Houston, is a heavily industrialized city ruled over by the three most powerful barons of Sky Texas working in tandem to form what is known as The Triple Barony; Elmer Montgomery the Oil Baron, Graham Fredrickson III the Railroad Baron, and Belvedere Von Rosselstein the Steel Baron.

Outside of the developed areas, most of the landscape is made up of small semi-independent settlements that work with each other to defend their sovereignty from the expansion of the Triple Barony. In addition to this, there are a handful of bandit settlements that almost entirely work independently of each other except in very dire circumstances.

## Factions

Sky Texas is more or less ruled by three factions, The Triple Barony, The Bandit Enclave, and The Free Sky Texan Sovereignties.

At first, when Sky Texas was lifted, all that existed were various small independent settlements that engaged in small amounts of trade with one another. Naturally, soon gangs of bandits and evildoers began organizing to rob and take advantage of the weaker settlements. This lead to the creation of The Bandit Enclave, which was a body that allowed the various gangs to work out territory disputes and establish common rules.

Then, over time, as the technological level of Sky Texas advanced the various rich deposits of oil, coal, and iron gave incentive for small settlements to merge and grow. The first of the settlements to combine created what is now known as the largest city in Sky Texas, Houston.

Once cities began to crop up across the landscape, it was only logical that large companies and industrialists would crop up as well. Soon, through ruthless business practices, the Triple Barony emerged as the leading economic and political power in all major cities in Sky Texas. It was determined early on that the three major monopolies should work together to enforce their positions and ever since then The Triple Barony had been the de facto leadership in industrial Sky Texas.

Once The Triple Barony began imposing its will on the cities, it also tried expanding outwork to collect more resources. To defend themselves from utter destruction, the various independent settlements throughout the landscape agreed to work under a defensive pact. This pact, known as The Free Sky Texan Sovereignties aims to protect each and every small settlement from The Triple Barony and The Bandit Enclave, while maintaining the freedom of the settlements from an organized leadership.

## Sky Trivia

* Currently, the only way to get to Sky Texas without flight technology is the Sky Train, whose last stop is the town of Houston