The Gilded Plains

Far into the future where mankind has trapped several thousand of itself on the planet Venus, leaving those stranded there with only one hope of getting home. The ship name ERIMOV CV0029, a cargo spacecraft capable of holding two thousand people at the most.

With people forming cults and religions, and factions, the small fraction of Venus they can survive on, divides itself into five major groups of five vastly different people. Nova Iris, a higherup of the great towers by blood right, soon to be their ruler, driven mad from withdrawals of drugs, throws himself into the unknown world below. Being dragged from place to place, and fending for himself, while learning to just fit in, Nova has to decide what he wants to do in this world and more importantly, how can he escape it.

Alongside Nova, is a young girl of eight, Lilith, rescued from a city encased by a wall. and Reilek, an adventurer-turned storyteller, who knows far more than he may seem. Altogether, the world and its rulers will influence and sway their people to force, and slave them to get them home. But why has it taken over six thousand years, and no one has left yet? Why is it that the rulers take their time with their people and expeditions? Only a few know the answers of which the rest of the world seeks.Nova ir