Hydrogen Birds

"Gary...turned to look down the table at Chick and her parents. Chick didn't look like she thought she was going to die anymore. Perhaps, like him she was now numb to it all. Eventually, he thought, you just can't take the stress and adrenaline anymore and your body stops reacting, its a defence mechanism for what's happening." Gary Strang has spend the last fifteen years since arriving in the Antarctic Free State trying to avoid becoming enmeshed in its political machinations. He and his business partner Anatoli Dale have built a hybrid hydrogen airship to take passengers and cargo between the state of Tierra del Fuego and the AFS, and that's all they want to do; be businessmen, but everyone else has other plans for them.