Its sheer size would suggest that the content of the shell wasn't helium / hydrogen, but something only somewhat less dense than air - thus requiring a large volume
The fact that "accidents" were arranged as an excuse to make the airship extinct suggests they were something else entirely
Which brings me to this - a staged photo from World War I - you'd think that by this point cannonballs would be long out of production
And yet here they are, doing something with them
At this point I'd like to remind you that plasma toroid weapons are very real, and they are of tremendous power - and the smoothbores of the mid-19th century were exactly that
"Cannonballs" then must have been the power source
There's also this, supposedly first conceived in the 17th century - but never having moved beyond paper proposals
As usual, I believe the System has things completely upside-down
Instead of being cumbersome and inefficient, airships were advanced tech - and if equipped with plasma toroid weapons - they could easily turn vast areas to rubble in very short time
If put to civilian use, they could provide cheap and comfortable air transport for the plebs
So, naturally, they had to be made extinct
The serfs must live in squalor - and they must not know of the terrible weapons the Parasites keep stashed
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"Soviet authorities forbade them to keep vereyas in their original design and forbade them to make portable vereyas (because it could be easily turned into a powerful weapon)"
It also mentions the surviving Old Believers being hunted by the Soviets and reconstructing a devastating 19th century weapon - which looked remarkably like a certain chess piece
Said chess piece is still called "cannon" in South Slavic languages