Battle Stations

A bird in hand make it hard to blow nose.

—Confused philosopher, Jade harbour

A flash-based online game, with the concept of the player as an airship captain out to make their way in the world. Despite having functional airships, most settings and items in the game are portrayed as being low-tech. Offers multiple styles of gameplay, five classes, and a wealth of equipment.

The game was designed as a social networking application. Started out on Facebook, but has since been added to Myspace and Friendster. Notable in having deeper gameplay than most social networking games. Facebook version is the best supported, with the developers being active in the Facebook community.

The Facebook version can be played here.

For the trope about being called to battle stations, see Red Alert.

Tropes used in Battle Stations include:

Anti-Poopsocking
Bribing Your Way to Victory
Character Customization
Character Level
Cool Airship - yours. At least after you build up some gear.
Cosmetic Award
Cozy Catastrophe - in the background of the story, and implied to be the reason why airships were neccessary in the first place.
Family-Friendly Firearms - in the later levels.
Fan Dumb - rammer vs. cannonneer arguments.
Fan Service - Lots.
Floating Continent - the neutral city of Aeros.
Gaming Clan
Grim Up North - Land of Frost is currently the highest level area.
High Altitude Battle - all of them.
Hyperspace Arsenal - sometimes players manage to mount up to 7 rams on the same bow.
Instant Win Condition - clan war objectives.
Item Crafting
Joke Item - pie launchers, pew pew guns - generally given as gifts on holidays.
Meido - With some of the outfits and the stock store owners.
Melee a Trois - frequent and hectic.
Mighty Glacier - most clan war defenders
Schizo-Tech
Shout-Out - the Giga Drill Breaker and Gunbuster in the store
Sky Pirates
Steampunk
Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors
The Siege - the game's clan war system, incidentally the most popular element in the game.