Sunshine Offensive

"Death from above, right?" - Skycaptain Voll'Toll on the impressive fleet.

At a Glance


The Sunshine Offensive was an armada of 8 airships developed to fight the ongoing manipulation of the world's deities by crossing over to The Astral Sea and killing the gods where they would be unable to discorporate.

History
After the Oghma's disappearance in the mortal world and the destruction wrought by Vecna, the mortal races grew increasingly agitated by the interference of divine powers. Eager to be done with the cycle of death-and-return by the deities, the Eladrin Lord Euris Testidar began to accumulate the bravest and brightest minds in the Republic of Pallanaise. Rather than temporarily hinder a god, Euris Testidar vowed to take the fight to the gods and "slay them in their beds amongst the stars".

Age of Adventure
Assembling the Sunshine Offensive, Testidar prepared an armada of airships to cross over into the Astral Sea and kill the gods and burn their realm. The following is a list of the craft that made up the armada.

The Sunshine Offensive
Public opinion on the Sunshine offensive was mixed. Some members of the Sunshine Offensive belived the assault to be a long-time-coming while others who fought for their nation and people remained pious in secret. For a group of adventurers aboard the armada, the experience proved to be a combative one as they worked their way through the ranks.

Successfully wrangling a clutch of Dragon's eggs, the Offensive pressed deeper into the Astral Sea in search of Bahamut. Killing Korzianalikur, the Offensive lanced into a floating nebula armed with retrofitted eggs that served as small thermonuclear devices.

Finding their quarry in the Eye of Bahamut, the Sunshine Offensive launched their payload against the behemoth Bahamut. Successful, at first, the airship armada was quickly scattered by the deity and his champion Kalryni during a fierce counterattack that destroyed the Sporadic Onslaught, I Saw i First, and We Broke the Last One. Thrown into disarray, the fleet began to scramble with the Githyanki on a collision course with the Abundance of Apocalypse. Refusing to admit defeat, Euris Testidar drew his sword and guided the So Much For Subtle on a collision course with the Dragon God as the last observers plummeted out of the realm.

In the face of defeat, Euris guided Cimmer, Eluna Halidin, and the rest of the fleet out of the Eye of Bahamut and down towards a neighboring landmass where they would arrange an ambush. The retreat took several days of non-stop combat, pressing the entire Offensive to its limit (losing Deranged and Determined in the process). Despite these considerable setbacks, the Offensive was a success when Euris led Bahamut through Droxxos Chasm, outmauevering the massive dragon before deploying the killing blow.

Outside of the realm, the spillover from battle served to re-ignite the rivalry between Pallanaise and Kirkdom when the plummeting Sporadic Onslaught came dangerously close to impacting Salt Gohlin.