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'''Eilada''' is an overseas possession of the [[Faneria|Republic of the Fhainn]] located in [[Vallos]]. The modern territory consists of two islands, Eile Corubia and Eile d'Horizon Ardent, and several {{wp|shoals}} and islets within their {{wp|Exclusive Economic Zone|Exclusive Economic Zones}} near the terminal end of the [[Capelranco Archipelago]]. Of the two, Corubia is the larger and the only permanently inhabited island in the territory, as d'Horizon is a low-lying {{wp|atoll}}. Eilada is predominantly centered on Port d'Corubia, the only major settlement on the main island, which hosts a large shipping port used for commercial rest and refuel as well as the Eilada Army Naval Base, which is the permanent post of the [[National Army Naval Forces (Faneria)|National Army Navy's]] Eastern Hemisphere Squadron. | '''Eilada''' is an overseas possession of the [[Faneria|Republic of the Fhainn]] located in [[Vallos]]. The modern territory consists of two islands, Eile Corubia and Eile d'Horizon Ardent, and several {{wp|shoals}} and islets within their {{wp|Exclusive Economic Zone|Exclusive Economic Zones}} near the terminal end of the [[Capelranco Archipelago]]. Of the two, Corubia is the larger and the only permanently inhabited island in the territory, as d'Horizon is a low-lying {{wp|atoll}}. Eilada is predominantly centered on Port d'Corubia, the only major settlement on the main island, which hosts a large shipping port used for commercial rest and refuel as well as the Eilada Army Naval Base, which is the permanent post of the [[National Army Naval Forces (Faneria)|National Army Navy's]] Eastern Hemisphere Squadron. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
==== | 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 paid 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]]. | ||
====Oustec Rule==== | |||
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 [[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. | |||
====Oustec War and Fanerian Colonization==== | |||
During the opening month of the [[Oustec 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 in exchange and duties intercepting returning Oustec warships in exchange for a claim on the island, serving as a rearguard and freeing up ships for the wider war. An attempted breakout by Oustec ships in July of 1959 failed, with the brand new Fanerian armored steamers ''Seba'' and ''Gwaeron'' playing a pivotal role in the battle and proved their survivability against cannon; after this point, sporadic and indiscriminate shelling by the two ironclads became a regular feature of the siege. The conditions on Igko worsened significantly after a fire caused by one such bombardment burned down several warehouses and gutted the western side of the port. On October 4th, 1859, the island's governor formally surrendered the island. Despite this, the remaining population on the island, particularly the garrison, continued to fight, forcing a landing by Fanerian naval infantry. | |||
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. | |||
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In the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]] Eileada was a remote outpost of the much-reduced [[Equitorial Ostiecia]] and continued to be left to its own devices. In the 50s and 60s the island became more of a backwater and less of 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]]. | In the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]] Eileada was a remote outpost of the much-reduced [[Equitorial Ostiecia]] and continued to be left to its own devices. In the 50s and 60s the island became more of a backwater and less of 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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==Population and Politics== | ==Population and Politics== | ||