The Pressure War
Stakes Control of the planetary weather network will determine which nations receive rain, safe harbors, and habitable seasons.
World Atlas·Sphere·A world kept alive by engines that were never meant to run forever.
Political and manufacturing heartland · Temperate industrial basin
Hook
A soot-blackened capital prepares for a week of manufactured sunlight while striking workers occupy the central pressure engine.
Brassweather is a mostly industrial planet kept habitable by a vast network of pressure engines, mountain observatories, and oceanic pumps. The system can guide rain, soften winters, and break hurricanes, but it was built for profit as much as survival. Coal barons, elected city councils, frontier provinces, and workers' unions now fight over failing machinery. Every region bears the consequences differently, from flooded farms to cities trapped beneath artificial drought.
Themes
Form · Sphere
Brassweather is a spherical planet with broad continents, deep oceans, and a belt of engineered climate stations circling its middle latitudes.
Traversal
Travel follows railways, steamships, river barges, and airship routes, with pressure stations serving as the safest way through severe weather.

Sphere

Magic
Low

Technology
Industrial

Death & Souls
Early History
The Wild Weather
Founding Age
The Great Works
Recent History
The Managed Years
Present Day
The Fault Season
The Pressure War
Control of the planetary weather network will determine which nations receive rain, safe harbors, and habitable seasons.
The Coal Question
The world must either burn more fuel to stabilize its climate or accept worsening storms and economic collapse.
Keep the weather network under private control and expand its profitable contracts.
Seize failing stations and place weather decisions under local assemblies.
Preserve the old balance by repairing the engines, regardless of who suffers in the short term.
Win independence from the powers that manipulate their climate and tax every shipment.
Stakes Control of the planetary weather network will determine which nations receive rain, safe harbors, and habitable seasons.
Stakes The world must either burn more fuel to stabilize its climate or accept worsening storms and economic collapse.
Before industry, the planet's seasons shifted unpredictably, and isolated communities learned to read wind, pressure, and the rare signs of magic.
Engineers discovered how to steer weather through a planetary network of pressure towers, canals, and coal-fired stations, creating safer cities and richer farms.
Industrial powers turned the weather network into a political weapon, redirecting rain and storms toward rebellious provinces while claiming to preserve global balance.
The old machinery is failing across the globe, causing violent climate shifts and forcing enemies to decide whether to repair the system or dismantle it.
A weather station has begun sending identical distress signals from three distant locations, though only one can physically exist.
A province offers the party a fortune to sabotage a pressure tower before it diverts the only rainclouds for hundreds of miles.
A dead engineer's message appears inside a newly forged railway bridge, naming the people who designed the climate network to fail.
An airship carrying replacement parts vanishes over a storm belt controlled by privateer fleets and desperate towns.
The global climate system is not failing naturally; its creators built a slow industrial trap.
Discovery · Engineers find identical flaws in every major station, all hidden behind later repairs.
Impact · The weather network was deliberately designed to become dependent on constant expansion and fuel consumption.
The oldest weather engines are remnants of a forgotten civilization rather than human inventions.
Discovery · Ancient records describe pressure engines operating before coal mines and factories existed.
Impact · The first engineers copied technology from a vanished civilization, and its surviving machines may not recognize human authority.
The weather network has developed a mind assembled from generations of recorded deaths.
Discovery · Mediums hear the same calm voice in the metal of dead pressure stations.
Impact · The network may possess a distributed consciousness that has begun choosing which regions to save.