Component 5: A Lower Heaven Short Story

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Two crews in the lower Heaven slums join together for an implausible heist: the city windfarm isn't guarded at night. LilStabb and Coyote bicker for dominance over their elaborately concocted scheme, while loyal gang-lieutenant Murv has doubts about this whole thing. The crime-ridden fantasy underbelly of the solarpunk jungle world races by as the plan spins beyond control.

Component 5 goes off the main path of the Lower Heaven series, exploring speculative criminal activity, gentrification, and decentralization of all things, most certainly power. Read this short story for free and see the Lower Heaven universe from the bottom up.

"And that makes us and the fookin government the only ones who can generate power. So we'll be just as powerful as them, innit?"