Badlands Business - Page 13 Welcome to Griggsby Station, a sleepy frontier town deep in the heart of the Carthagian Badlands. Known as "The Griggs" by locals, the town serves both as a stopover on the Sovereign airship route connecting Capitol City with Restoration Point and a transfer point for travelers continuing north by rail towards the Northern Marches. On any given day, it is common to see haughty Sovereign royalty, savage barbarians, uniformed airship crewmen, exotic Achaemeni Corsairs, wily sky pirates, red fez-wearing members of the Order of The Crimson Meridian, traders, explorers, outlaws, and frontier settlers making their way through town. The town is a Badlands crossroads of sorts and while many travelers pass through The Griggs, few stay. For Lady Olivia Trensch, Griggsby Station is a home, of sorts. A self-exiled member of the Sovereign Royal Family who disavows her heritage, Lady Trensch owns and operates the Corriolis, an old airship freighter, ferrying cargo, and the occasional passenger, between Griggsby Station and the remote settlements scattered across the region. With her First Mate, Clive, she maintains a brisk business conducted far from the Sovereign-patrolled airship routes, trading supplies, weapons, and other contraband to any and all interested parties -- with no questions asked. Making a living in the Badlands is rife with danger and like all airship pilots, Captain Trensch is always on the lookout for dust storms, bad weather, and the region's merciless airborne predators: Sky Pirates. It's a rough-and-tumble existence, but for Lady Trensch the freedom and fortune of this life is far better than the gilded cage captivity of being a Gifted Sovereign Lady in Emperor Frederick's Court. #Steampunk #TheAirshipAndalusia #GriggsbyStation #DieselPunk #WeirdWest #GraphicNovel #OriginalCharacters Story and art by Aaron Hanson © 2021