Eileada
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Eilada | |
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Military Administrative Territory | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 73 sq mi (190 km2) |
| Population (2025) | |
| • Total | 29,255 |
| • Density | 400/sq mi (150/km2) |
| Postal Code | FH-O2 |
| Area Code | 68-916 |
Eilada is an overseas possession of the Republic of the Fhainn located in Vallos. 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.
History
Burgundine Exploration
Carnish Rule
Purchase and use by Faneria
Great Wars
During and after the revolution in mainland Faneria, Eilada played no significant role; while the last king, ______, passed through on his way into deeper exile, the island itself accepted the new government rather than request annexation by the Burgundines or possibly the Pelaxians, both of which the officers of the garrison has considered. THis brought it into a perilous position during the Second Great War; while during the first, the island was a safe haven for shipping, the island would not survive determined assault by a hostile power, regardless of the troops and local population working to fortify the island against a landing. Eilada remained a shipping station for aid being sent to the Capetian resistance throughout the war, but was not able to repair ships at any significant pace alone; as a result, it was not considered a point of interest for the HLE and Allied forces, which were much more focused on the Caphirian supply line to Faneria and Deria through Maristella.
Burgoignesc rule
Eileada was sold to Burgundie in 1913 and administered by the province of Equitorial Ostiecia until 1968, when it was sold back to Faneria.
During the 50ish years of Burgoignesc ownership, the predominant event that characterized this period of Eilaeda's history was the Second Great War and the Second Fratricide, from 1934 to 1943. It loomed large over Government of Burgundie's interaction with the locals. The latter half of the 1910s was focused on updating fortifications and port facilities. During the 1920s Cassava, tropical hardwood, especially Mahogany, and sugarcane cultivation and harvesting was industrialized. The 1930s and 40s were obviously focused on the prosecution of the Second Great War. The island was garrisoned with a small contingent of coastal defense troops but was otherwise left to its own devices. It served as an important coaling and dispatch station until the end of the war, but was never the focus of any focused action.
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.