The Bat Beam Over Verdun

A Tale of Experimental Weaponry Over WW1 Verdun Skies

In this gripping Dieselpunk war story, a Tesla-powered weapon threatens to shift the balance of World War I—not just between empires, but within the hearts of those ordered to deploy it.

Verdun, 1916. Beneath the smoke-draped skies of the Meuse, Lieutenant Louis Carrel climbs into the freezing night with orders to intercept a German bomber wing. But his payload isn't shrapnel or gas. Slung under the wing of his aging Voisin is a weapon born of secrecy and lightning, a beam device too unstable for doctrine, too powerful to control. Command calls it progress. The crews on the ground call it a curse.

Surrounded by drifting observation balloons and flickering signals from the void, Carrel must navigate not only the chaos of the battlefield, but the growing dread that every coordinate he plots may spell disaster for the very men he’s meant to protect.

As lines blur between enemy and ally, science and faith, survival and sacrifice, one man rides the edge of the map in a war that no longer follows rules. The storm is gathering, step into the shadows now.