Editing Air Marshals and Sky Pirates (section)

====History of the Sky Pirates====
Sky Pirates have their roots in the bandits that used to raid the wagon trains that wended their ways through the Rockies. With the advent of the first merchant airship, the bandits found the pickings thin, until Red Pete captured his first airship. The Raiding Eagle soon became the terror of the skies, swooping in and attacking unarmed airships. Other bandit groups soon followed and the air carnage was massive. That's when the American Commonwealth formed it's first Air Constabulary wing. Two retrofitted airships armed with Nordernfeldt guns and a handful of marines, the newly christened ACS Vigilance and ACS Determination struck out to defend the merchant airships.

The initial battles were bloody and airships on either side where lost. But the tide started turning as the other powers, the New Russians, the Californians, and even the Mexicans, were soon sailing airnaughts and airwarships. And that would have been that, if the governor of the Mexican province of Colorado hadn't been in the pocket of the pirate Don Cesar Verde, his cousin. Soon the province became a haven for pirates and privateers. Since this province held the best routes to New Russia and California, there was no choice but to deal with them. Because the governor, Don Rafael Montero, had claimed sovereignty over the air space of his province and forbade any foreign power to enter into it.

In response, letters of Marque were issued to "privateers" to seek out and destroy any pirate airship they can find, along with some commerce raiding on merchant airship of the enemy nation du jour.