Awakening of the Brass Citadel

1971-set pulp: When an excavation in the Sahara shatters a sealed bronze temple, the carved machines within cough to life — colossal, gear-lined colossi that feed on combustion. As cities see smoke-stained horizons, rival airarmadas — repurposed zeppelins and rickety piston fighters — rise. Veterans, radical students and a vacuum-tube scientist race to decode radio-etched glyphs before governments weaponize the titans. Psychedelic newsreel montages, brass-scorched skies and a synth-organ score frame a desperate sky war where ancient engineering collides with Cold War hubris.