Jodes Nation
“The sky is home. The ground is where we crash.”
Emerging from the chaos of post-Collapse America, Jodes Nation are the sky nomads — a decentralized coalition of aviators, engineers, smugglers, and mercenaries who turned decommissioned aircraft carriers, zeppelins, and freight haulers into massive flying convoys. Unlike ground-bound nomads like the Aldecaldos or Snake Nation, the Jodes carved their lives from the stratosphere.
Their flagship city, Nimbus-7, is a kilometer-long airborne platform powered by Helios fusion engines — rumored to be a stolen prototype from Helios Orbital itself. Jodes fleets drift between continents, trading oxygen, tech, and contraband between Earth, orbital elevators, and lunar outposts. They operate as both merchants and pirates, depending on who’s asking.
The Jodes maintain an uneasy alliance with the @Lazarus Group, who fund their sky convoys in exchange for covert logistics and stealth drop operations. Their rivalry with @Helios Orbital and Militech runs deep — both have tried (and failed) to ground them permanently.
Every Jodes ship is a patchwork of old tech and miracle engineering. Their culture blends old aviation brotherhoods with digital spirituality — pilots tattoo their flight paths, and their AI copilots are treated like ancestral spirits.
They’re smugglers, freedom fighters, and ghosts in the sky — bridging Earth’s dying cities and the cold machine colonies above.
As they say in Jodes slang:
“If you can see us, you’re already too close.”