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Unfortunately, I've no plans to do so at the moment. I appreciate your interest in it, however!

Per the Core Rulebook (pg. 63 in my copy):
Flying also comes with some risks:

• When flying, characters must move at least 1

space on their turn or begin falling.

• Flying characters begin falling if they become

IMMOBILIZED, STUNNED, or otherwise can’t move.

• Flying characters that take structure damage or

stress must succeed on an AGILITY save or begin

falling.

You don't automatically stop flying at the end of your turn. Note how the Rapid Burst Jump Jets system says You can fly when you Boost; however, you must end the movement on the ground or another solid surface, or else immediately begin falling. , which does explicitly state that you start falling if you don't land, while the Flight System says You may choose to count any and all of your movement as flying. The primary distinction here would instead be between flying and hovering - and the Mitscher/Steichen don't hover because even their "hover mode," given their size and engine power as fixed-wing aircraft, requires them to keep moving a little on the scale of a mech battlefield!

Short version: no, that's not intentional.

My current plan, though this may be subject to change, is that the basic price of the Kickstarter book copy will be $18 USD; itch.io allows me to send emails out to people who own IaM, and Kickstarter allows me to generate links for specific otherwise-hidden pledge tiers, so I have a Kickstarter pledge tier set up that allows people who bought IaM during the draft phase to pledge for the difference between the current draft price (at $10 USD) and the final book price - the link to which I'll be emailing current owners. That way, anyone who buys the book now won't end up paying any more for the final book than people who back the Kickstarter, at a baseline "I just want the book" tier.

Everything will be handled through this page on itch.io even when the Kickstarter completes - I'll just be changing the minimum price and delisting the old versions, as standard.

I hope this answers your question!

Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the read, and that the bad bunch are as charming to others as they were when I was noodling them out.

If people do end up going from the opening shots on New Madrassa onwards, I'll definitely be interested in reading about it.

Correct! You can think of it as similar to Scorch's gas grenades from Titanfall, if you've ever played: the Haber fires a canister of pressurized gas from an underslung launcher or rear-mounted rack, which detonates into a lingering cloud when it hits the ground or in the air.