The games that inspired me to create Sky Empire!

About Sky Empire, from BoardGameGeek:

In the skies over planet Dopheus, players will take on the role of a Doppler, a salamander-like creature with one mind and two bodies, in a quest to find the crystals and reactivate the monolith defense to thwart the invasion from the evil sentinels! Take part in this epic adventure, in more than 30 different airships, to find the crystals and stop the invasion - and become Emperor over all of Dopheus! Sky Empire takes place over several game rounds, where players place their Dopplers either in the Council to take Council actions, or on the board for character unique abilites. Or both! You have two bodies! To take actions on the map you activate the tiles with an initiative token, and that allows you to move to this tile, explore, produce, construct and/or battle opponents! To win the game, you must collect the four crystals, activate a monolith, and ascend to the position of the Emperor of Dopheus!