Borb

The borbs are suborbital gliderjets that fly from the Astrocities to the edges of the inhabited world. There they release and sweep up cargo and passenger fanoses. The released fanoses float down to the basha they are heading for, using airjets to course-correct, or they float up to a parking formation where they wait to be hooked by the next borb. It is a quick and easy way to get to the equatorial artery without going overland. Borb pilots are the swashbucklers of the younger group. The Voted Most Glamourous at any time tends ot be a borb pilot, with ice explorers comign in a close second. The borbs themselves are young aigos in a bioai, and they tend, like their human partners, to be drawn to risk, hazard and high odds. But that in itself is no hardship: our world has plenty of arenas that will absorb their energy without even burping. There does come a time in the life of the teenagers when they just have to save somebody, let along the loved ones when they feel called upon to make a heroic gesture.