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The island of Corubia was at some point inhabited by migratory pre-[[Coscivian]] people, as archaeology on the island has shown a number of artifacts predating the period when Coscivian peoples first made landfall in [[Kiravia]]. It is unclear whether the island was abandoned or invaded by Polynesian tribes, as the first written records of Corubia itself by [[Ancient Istroyan civilization|Istroyan]] historian Heraclus of Peleopolis indicated that the inhabitants had violently repulsed several [[Heaven Ships]] arriving from [[Crona]] between 700-400 BC. Heraclus believed the inhabitants of the island, whom he named ''Kereboes'' after the Istroyan {{wp|Keres}}, exercised power over the other islands north of the primary chain of the Capelrancos. He additionally claimed local tribes were forced to pay tribute to the ''Kereboes'' in the form of slaves or human sacrifices, though this appears to be sensationalized. Around 120 BC, modern Corubia and its peripheral islands were invaded by Taineans from the southern and central Archipelago. After Tainean settlement, the Tainean name for the area, I-ko or Igko ('Northern Reach') came into use. | The island of Corubia was at some point inhabited by migratory pre-[[Coscivian]] people, as archaeology on the island has shown a number of artifacts predating the period when Coscivian peoples first made landfall in [[Kiravia]]. It is unclear whether the island was abandoned or invaded by Polynesian tribes, as the first written records of Corubia itself by [[Ancient Istroyan civilization|Istroyan]] historian Heraclus of Peleopolis indicated that the inhabitants had violently repulsed several [[Heaven Ships]] arriving from [[Crona]] between 700-400 BC. Heraclus believed the inhabitants of the island, whom he named ''Kereboes'' after the Istroyan {{wp|Keres}}, exercised power over the other islands north of the primary chain of the Capelrancos. He additionally claimed local tribes were forced to pay tribute to the ''Kereboes'' in the form of slaves or human sacrifices, though this appears to be sensationalized. Around 120 BC, modern Corubia and its peripheral islands were invaded by Taineans from the southern and central Archipelago. After Tainean settlement, the Tainean name for the area, I-ko or Igko ('Northern Reach') came into use. | ||
The territory effectively ruled itself while paying token tribute to a revolving set of polities to the South for several centuries, and even sent tribute to the [[First Imperium]] (albeit infrequently) after 742. It was not only a key center of piracy along [[St. Brendan's Straight]], but one of the first pirate states in Vallos since at least as early as 1054, being both positioned perfectly to intercept cross-[[Odoneru]] shipping and naturally at the periphery of any organized power projection from the mainland. After the explosion of piracy in the region following [[Aster's Expedition]], pirates based in Igko began to revive the myth of the Kereboes, with the pirate lords operating out of the area eventually declaring themselves under the banner of the Kereboa Fleet. The Kereboas (and other pirate groups claiming to be Kereboas) would eventually become a significant naval force, and were the last military power in the Capelrancos to resist the Kingdom of [[Oustec]]. | The territory effectively ruled itself while paying token tribute to a revolving set of polities to the South for several centuries, and even sent tribute to the [[First Imperium]] (albeit infrequently) after 742. It was not only a key center of piracy along [[St. Brendan's Straight]], but one of the first pirate states in Vallos since at least as early as 1054, being both positioned perfectly to intercept cross-[[Odoneru]] shipping and naturally at the periphery of any organized power projection from the mainland. After the explosion of piracy in the region following [[Aster's expedition|Aster's Expedition]], pirates based in Igko began to revive the myth of the Kereboes, with the pirate lords operating out of the area eventually declaring themselves under the banner of the Kereboa Fleet. The Kereboas (and other pirate groups claiming to be Kereboas) would eventually become a significant naval force, and were the last military power in the Capelrancos to resist the Kingdom of [[Oustec]]. | ||
====Oustec Rule==== | ====Oustec Rule==== | ||
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[[File:A French Ship and Barbary Pirates RMG L9748.jpg|left|thumb|Painting by [[Kratægus Peretin]] depicting Kereboas attacking a trade ship off Aeonara c. 1590]] | [[File:A French Ship and Barbary Pirates RMG L9748.jpg|left|thumb|Painting by [[Kratægus Peretin]] depicting Kereboas attacking a trade ship off Aeonara c. 1590]] | ||
Igko ultimately submitted to the Kingdom of [[Oustec]] in 1604 due to Oustec's control of Vallosi timber, though the Kereboes operated as part-pirates, part-merchants, part-auxiliaries for the Kingdom and maintained their own paramilitary identity. Kereboas raiders played a large part in the Vallosian slave trade, including cooperation with [[Varshan]] from 1579 onwards. | Igko ultimately submitted to the Kingdom of [[Oustec]] in 1604 due to Oustec's control of Vallosi timber, though the Kereboes operated as part-pirates, part-merchants, part-auxiliaries for the Kingdom and maintained their own paramilitary identity. Kereboas raiders played a large part in the Vallosian slave trade, including cooperation with [[Varshan]] from 1579 onwards. Cooperation with Oustec also came with increased protection from a growing [[Burgundie|Burgundine]] presence in St. Brendan's Straight. Kereboas Fleet ships resisted Burgundine expansion outwards from [[Equatorial Ostiecia#Catavis|Catavis]], including taking part in the respectively failed and successful defenses of [[Equatorial_Ostiecia#Port de Vanse|Port de Vanse]] and [[Equatorial Ostiecia#Pescanice|Pescanice]] in 1621 and 1629. Following the invasion of Pescanice, the Kereboas Fleet were subjected to a period of infighting and contraction as modernization of the Oustec navy and within the port's heirarchy saw Igko come under stronger central rule and its pirates shift towards acting as a professional mercenary force, with slavery and looting being interrupted by scrambles against Burgundine forces as needed. The need to cooperate with the mainland was cemented by a set of skirmishes aroung Igko in 1655, when the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company]] attempted to attack the island and dislodge the Fleet from its only permanent safe harbor. The modern name for Eile Corubia comes from the contemporaneous misinterpretation of Kereboas as the name of Igko's port, rather than the pirate forces operating from it. | ||
Cooperation with Oustec also came with increased protection from a growing [[Burgundie|Burgundine]] presence in St. Brendan's Straight. Kereboas Fleet ships resisted Burgundine expansion outwards from [[Catavis]], including taking part in the respectively failed and successful defenses of [[Equatorial_Ostiecia#Port de Vanse|Port de Vanse]] and [[Pescanice]] in 1621 and 1629. Following the invasion of Pescanice, the Kereboas Fleet were subjected to a period of infighting and contraction as modernization of the Oustec navy and within the port's heirarchy saw Igko come under stronger central rule and its pirates shift towards acting as a professional mercenary force, with slavery and looting being interrupted by scrambles against Burgundine forces as needed. The need to cooperate with the mainland was cemented by a set of skirmishes aroung Igko in 1655, when the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company]] attempted to attack the island and dislodge the Fleet from its only permanent safe harbor. The modern name for Eile Corubia comes from the contemporaneous misinterpretation of Kereboas as the name of Igko's port, rather than the pirate forces operating from it. | |||
Despite repeated Burgundine prods at the island in 1688, 1689, 1699, 1726, and 1780, Igko remained insulated against colonization and played a part in resisting King Abey II's centralization of Oustec in the 1810s. The Kereboas, whittled down through the previous century by a combination of pitched battles, hostile privateering, and competing with the actual navy, were reduced to a criminal operation around the Archipelago. Although privateers working for Oustec at this point were broadly called Kereboas, the Fleet itself had effectively disbanded into smaller companies, of which only a few continued to surreptitiously operate in piracy and slavery outside of royal sanction. Igko nevertheless remained heavily fortified, with shore batteries and a dedicated squadron of warships protecting it as the northernmost end of Oustec's tripwires against foreign invasion. | Despite repeated Burgundine prods at the island in 1688, 1689, 1699, 1726, and 1780, Igko remained insulated against colonization and played a part in resisting King Abey II's centralization of Oustec in the 1810s. The Kereboas, whittled down through the previous century by a combination of pitched battles, hostile privateering, and competing with the actual navy, were reduced to a criminal operation around the Archipelago. Although privateers working for Oustec at this point were broadly called Kereboas, the Fleet itself had effectively disbanded into smaller companies, of which only a few continued to surreptitiously operate in piracy and slavery outside of royal sanction. Igko nevertheless remained heavily fortified, with shore batteries and a dedicated squadron of warships protecting it as the northernmost end of Oustec's tripwires against foreign invasion. | ||
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During the opening month of the [[Odurian War]], Igko was attacked in a daring night raid and subsequently put under blockade by Burgundine warships. The marines present could not take the island, nor did the quick succession of invasions of mainland Oustec by Caphiric and Urcean forces allow for a prolonged siege. It was at this point that Faneria's Royal Western Squadron, at the request of the South Levantine Trading Company, took over the blockade and the duty of intercepting returning Oustec warships. In exchange for sending forces to serve as a rearguard and free up ships for the wider war, ''Rih'' XXXX would gain a personal claim to the island. | During the opening month of the [[Odurian War]], Igko was attacked in a daring night raid and subsequently put under blockade by Burgundine warships. The marines present could not take the island, nor did the quick succession of invasions of mainland Oustec by Caphiric and Urcean forces allow for a prolonged siege. It was at this point that Faneria's Royal Western Squadron, at the request of the South Levantine Trading Company, took over the blockade and the duty of intercepting returning Oustec warships. In exchange for sending forces to serve as a rearguard and free up ships for the wider war, ''Rih'' XXXX would gain a personal claim to the island. | ||
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While Fanerian forces operated in theory under Burgundie's umbrella in the Oustec War, the Fanerian Throne purchased the rights to Igko and its surrounds after the war's conclusion for a single pound of silver. Under the Port d'Corubia Colony Charter, Corubia and d'Horizon Ardent were renamed and became a direct posession of the ''Rih''. The remainder of the port of Ikgo was leveled, and vacation estates, a naval coaling station, and public housing for the population were constructed for the influx of laborers and colonists brought in to Fhainicize the main island, while the locals (over half of whom had died of starvation alone during the last month of the siege) were forced to move to the northern end of the island opposite the colonial settlement or accept deportation to Equatorial Ostiecia. | While Fanerian forces operated in theory under Burgundie's umbrella in the Oustec War, the Fanerian Throne purchased the rights to Igko and its surrounds after the war's conclusion for a single pound of silver. Under the Port d'Corubia Colony Charter, Corubia and d'Horizon Ardent were renamed and became a direct posession of the ''Rih''. The remainder of the port of Ikgo was leveled, and vacation estates, a naval coaling station, and public housing for the population were constructed for the influx of laborers and colonists brought in to Fhainicize the main island, while the locals (over half of whom had died of starvation alone during the last month of the siege) were forced to move to the northern end of the island opposite the colonial settlement or accept deportation to Equatorial Ostiecia. | ||
The colonization of Corubia allowed for the independent support of merchant convoys to and from [[Asteria]] and [[Orastir]] (check dates - if ast gone, then in planning for future retaking) without relying on foreign ports, increasing the control of the Throne over its colonies' economies and serving as a stop for regular antipiracy and antislavery operations. The establishment of a Fanerian colony on Corubia was reported in the press in Levantia as ending the capture of Fhainnin mariners by Varshani raiders, though in reality the closer settled populations of the Cronan colonies had made the Varshani slave trade a lesser part of the waning piracy around St. Brendan's Straight decades prior. | The colonization of Corubia allowed for the independent support of merchant convoys to and from [[Asteria]] and [[Oráistír|Orastir]] '''(check dates - if ast gone, then in planning for future retaking)''' without relying on foreign ports, increasing the control of the Throne over its colonies' economies and serving as a stop for regular antipiracy and antislavery operations. The establishment of a Fanerian colony on Corubia was reported in the press in Levantia as ending the capture of Fhainnin mariners by Varshani raiders, though in reality the closer settled populations of the Cronan colonies had made the Varshani slave trade a lesser part of the waning piracy around St. Brendan's Straight decades prior. | ||
The territory of Eileada served as an outpost of Royalist power after the victory of the Republicans in the [[Fhainnin Civil War]]. | The territory of Eileada served as an outpost of Royalist power after the victory of the Republicans in the [[Fhainnin Civil War]]. | ||
====Burgoignesc rule==== | |||
Eilada remained a Royalist posession during the [[Fhainnin Civil War]], and while it played no role in the war itself, Corubia served as a holdout for the Rih's government after the fall of the mainland. [[Antaine I of Faneria|Antaine Lohr-Martainn]] resided on the island from 1909 to 1913, at which point his lifestyle required the sale of the territory and the remnant government moved to [[Orastir]]. Eilada was sold to [[Burgundie]] and administered by the provincial government of [[Equitorial Ostiecia]] after its purchase. The largest events of Burgoignesc rule were the [[Second Fratricide]] and [[Second Great War]], which lasted from [[1934]] to [[1943]]. While tensions with the settled Fanerian population caused concern during the war, fortifications uptaded and added in the 1910s, local jobs added by the import of {{wpl|Cassava}}, tropical hardwood, especially {{wpl|Mahogany}}, and {{wpl|sugarcane}} for industrial cultivation and harvesting kept Corubia preoccupied. Eilada served as a coaling station with a smal garrison during the war, and did not see any significant action aside from being one of several points of weapons smuggling to the [[The Cape|Capetian resistance]]. After the war, the much-reduced [[Equitorial Ostiecia]] and further development of the mainland and other islands eclipsed any need for the facilities in Eilada. As a result the 1950s and 1960s saw the islands relegated to a backwater and become a liability, rather than an asset, to the Burgoignesc crown. With rapid expansion of the wars in [[Alshar]] and [[Audonia]] that would later become [[Operation Kipling]], [[Burgundie]] welcomed an offer from [[Faneria]] to buy the island back in [[1967]], the formal handover taking place at the close of the federal fiscal year Sept 30, [[1968]]. | |||
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Port d' Corubia underwent significant expansion beginning in the 1980s after the development of Faneria's space program, with a military presence in place for security reasons. Corubia National Exolift Center and the Eilada National Army Base, the two largest government properties on the island, were developed on the island's less developed agricultural areas, and a greater emphasis on the island's position as a time-saving measure for the St. Brendan trade route became a key factor in encouraging economic renewal on the island. In 1983, inhabitation of Eile d'Horizon Ardent ceased entirely after a tropical storm swamped the atoll and created a minor humanitarian crisis. | |||
==Population and Politics== | ==Population and Politics== | ||
====Government==== | ====<s>Government</s>==== | ||
As an overseas Territory of Faneria, Eileadan residents elect a county-level government with a county Taesteach and municipal council; however, the island does not have political representation in the [[National Assembly]]. Territorial administration is managed by a Military Governor appointed by the Secretary of the Army, and permanent residence of non-military families on Corubia requires approval by the Military Governor's office. | <s>As an overseas Territory of Faneria, Eileadan residents elect a county-level government with a county Taesteach and municipal council; however, the island does not have political representation in the [[National Assembly]]. Territorial administration is managed by a Military Governor appointed by the Secretary of the Army, and permanent residence of non-military families on Corubia requires approval by the Military Governor's office.</s> | ||
====Foreign Bases==== | ====<s>Foreign Bases</s>==== | ||
In addition to the Corubia Army Naval Base, ports and land on the island have historically been leased to a number of foreign governments and corporate entities. Since 1965, the largest plot of land on the main island is a rest and refuel station jointly owned by [[Targaidt Prìse|Target Price]] and [[O'Shea Corporation|O'Shea]]. The commercial docks cover roughly sixty percent of Corubia's port space. | <s>In addition to the Corubia Army Naval Base, ports and land on the island have historically been leased to a number of foreign governments and corporate entities. Since 1965, the largest plot of land on the main island is a rest and refuel station jointly owned by [[Targaidt Prìse|Target Price]] and [[O'Shea Corporation|O'Shea]]. The commercial docks cover roughly sixty percent of Corubia's port space.</s> | ||
<s>The only foreign nation with a current lease on the port is [[Arcerion]], while [[Kiravia]], [[the Cape]], and [[Burgundie]] have military docking rights at the CANB. Several nations and companies maintain smaller local consulates for merchant mariners.</s> | |||
It is a small island with a population of about ten thousand, and is heavily developed, hosting the Eilada Aerospace-Naval Base and corporate and state-owned dockyards for handling and transferring cargo, as well as refueling. It is the main stopping point for the Fhainnin merchant marine in the southern [[Odoneru Sea]], the [[Tainean Sea]], and the [[Polynesian Sea]]. | <s><br /> | ||
It is a small island with a population of about ten thousand, and is heavily developed, hosting the Eilada Aerospace-Naval Base and corporate and state-owned dockyards for handling and transferring cargo, as well as refueling. It is the main stopping point for the Fhainnin merchant marine in the southern [[Odoneru Sea]], the [[Tainean Sea]], and the [[Polynesian Sea]].</s> | |||
====Ethnic Groups==== | ====<s>Ethnic Groups</s>==== | ||
====Quality of Life==== | ====<s>Quality of Life</s>==== | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||