It was rare to find an entire sheet of fabric left, so most balloons were pieced together. That’s how most things have been rebuilt, scavenging parts and fixing them together with whatever tools and bits were close by.

Once ballooners set out between cities, they discovered countless shipwrecks that had been buried where once there was water.

The ship graveyards had opened up, exposing their dead for all to see.

After all artificial forms of energy had been depleted on earth, the winds began to blow, hot and relentless. Though the heat and dust made it hard to breathe, we did manage to harness it to revive an old mode of transportation.

With the resurgence of the balloons, we could once again travel long distances relatively unhindered.