In the early days of Atelian exploration, when there was a massive rush for the valuable resources in the mountains of the east, the Protectorate funded an ambitious project put forward by the Kathos engineering company Fieron Industrial.
Fieron Industrial said they could build a series of massive floating platforms; mobile mining bases which could not only extract the minerals from Atelia, but process them as well. They called these Skybore Platforms. Initially, the project went well and a number of small prototypes were produced -- many of these are still serving as observation and staging posts for patrols in the Teltos Straight between Rahmos and Kathos.
