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By around [[1920]], life in Rapa Rapa had changed significantly. Modern roadways connected the five villages in the preceding decades, and Rapan people began to live outside their villages for the first time. Levantine people began settling on the main island - largely in the spaces between the villages - in the early 1890s, and the main island began to take on a new urban cosmopolitan character. Construction began on a major port on the main island in [[1925]] to correspond to the naval base and port infrastructure on Navy Island, which was completed in [[1929]]. Although foreign goods had become available via trade on Navy Island begnning in the 1860s, by the late 1920s Rapa Rapa was undergoing a cultural revolution as building materials, foods, clothes, and other outside goods became widely available for the first time. In the years immediately preceding the Second Great War, the island was undergoing a major transformation.

===Second Great War===

The beginning of the [[Second Great War]] and subsequent conflicts between Urcea and [[Daxia]] introduced hardships to the island not present in the preceding decades. Though the atoll was never directly invaded, it was subject to occasional Daxian naval bombardment, aerial bombing, and blockade, and generally speaking supply by Urcea to Rapa Rapa was difficult due to the presence of superior Daxian forces in [[Truk]]. Daxian agents were captured on Rapa Rapa on four different occasions between [[1935]] and [[1937]] attempting to foment rebellion among the indigenous Rapan people. As Urcea and [[Burgundie]] gradually established global naval supremacy during the conflict, the supply crisis eased by around [[1938]], but rationing was still in place for years after the war. The war also saw the Urceans construct a [[Royal Air Force (Urcea)|Royal Air Force]] airfield on the atoll in [[1934]], and this base helped prevent significant attacks from Truk on Rapa Rapa. The shared hardship had the effect of easing decades-old tensions between those of Levantine-descent and the indigenous Rapans on the atoll. Contemporaries noted that the Daxians had a poor reputation on Rapa Rapa prior to the arrival of the Urceans, and that the presence of a common Daxian enemy solidified bonds between the Rapans and Urceans in a way that a different enemy would not have.

===Modern period===

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 By around [[1920]], life in Rapa Rapa had changed significantly. Modern roadways connected the five villages in the preceding decades, and Rapan people began to live outside their villages for the first time. Levantine people began settling on the main island - largely in the spaces between the villages - in the early 1890s, and the main island began to take on a new urban cosmopolitan character. Construction began on a major port on the main island in [[1925]] to correspond to the naval base and port infrastructure on Navy Island, which was completed in [[1929]]. Although foreign goods had become available via trade on Navy Island begnning in the 1860s, by the late 1920s Rapa Rapa was undergoing a cultural revolution as building materials, foods, clothes, and other outside goods became widely available for the first time. In the years immediately preceding the Second Great War, the island was undergoing a major transformation.
 ===Second Great War===
+The beginning of the [[Second Great War]] and subsequent conflicts between Urcea and [[Daxia]] introduced hardships to the island not present in the preceding decades. Though the atoll was never directly invaded, it was subject to occasional Daxian naval bombardment, aerial bombing, and blockade, and generally speaking supply by Urcea to Rapa Rapa was difficult due to the presence of superior Daxian forces in [[Truk]]. Daxian agents were captured on Rapa Rapa on four different occasions between [[1935]] and [[1937]] attempting to foment rebellion among the indigenous Rapan people. As Urcea and [[Burgundie]] gradually established global naval supremacy during the conflict, the supply crisis eased by around [[1938]], but rationing was still in place for years after the war. The war also saw the Urceans construct a [[Royal Air Force (Urcea)|Royal Air Force]] airfield on the atoll in [[1934]], and this base helped prevent significant attacks from Truk on Rapa Rapa. The shared hardship had the effect of easing decades-old tensions between those of Levantine-descent and the indigenous Rapans on the atoll. Contemporaries noted that the Daxians had a poor reputation on Rapa Rapa prior to the arrival of the Urceans, and that the presence of a common Daxian enemy solidified bonds between the Rapans and Urceans in a way that a different enemy would not have.
 ===Modern period===

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