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==History== | ==History== | ||
The Saxalin Islands have no native population, remaining unpeopled for millennia due to their remoteness and the harsh conditions of the surrounding ocean. | The Saxalin Islands have no native population, remaining unpeopled for millennia due to their remoteness and the harsh conditions of the surrounding ocean. All modern inhabitants are thus descended from Kiravian settlers and {{wp|Criticism of welfare|immigrants}}. | ||
The islands were officially discovered by the Kiravian navigator Magloir Korentin of [[Ilánova]], one day before the vernal equinox of [[1772|1772 AD]]. Korentin authorised a landing party to make landfall on what would turn out to be the largest of the three main islands and claim it for the [[Marble Emperor]]. | The islands were officially discovered by the Kiravian navigator Magloir Korentin of [[Ilánova]], one day before the vernal equinox of [[1772|1772 AD]]. Korentin authorised a landing party to make landfall on what would turn out to be the largest of the three main islands and claim it for the [[Marble Emperor]]. | ||
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Later, one a better network of ports and roads had been established by these trailblazing jailbirds, serious mineral prospecting and the promise of mineral wealth attracted more emigrants to the remote archipelago. Indeed, the development of the Saxalins' previously agrarian, low-output economy became intertwined with resource utilization that led to rapid growth. Kiravian settlers were drawn by the promise of steady, relatively high-paying work in the mines of the interior, as well as by similar promises of good and valuable employment in the timberlands and fisheries. The extraction of natural resources played a major role in shaping the locations of settlements and driving the development of further infrastructure, especially in the interior of the islands, which were otherwise quite sparsely populated and thitherto used only for stock grazing, where at all. | Later, one a better network of ports and roads had been established by these trailblazing jailbirds, serious mineral prospecting and the promise of mineral wealth attracted more emigrants to the remote archipelago. Indeed, the development of the Saxalins' previously agrarian, low-output economy became intertwined with resource utilization that led to rapid growth. Kiravian settlers were drawn by the promise of steady, relatively high-paying work in the mines of the interior, as well as by similar promises of good and valuable employment in the timberlands and fisheries. The extraction of natural resources played a major role in shaping the locations of settlements and driving the development of further infrastructure, especially in the interior of the islands, which were otherwise quite sparsely populated and thitherto used only for stock grazing, where at all. | ||
[[File:Pringlea antiscorbutica.JPG|thumb|''Pringlea antiscorbutica'']] | |||
===[[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance Era]]=== | ===[[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance Era]]=== | ||
For the duration of [[Kiravian Union|Kirosocialist rule on the Kiravian mainland]], the Saxalins would remain under the control of the Æonara-based Federalist government. The Kiravian Union had designs on capturing the archipelago by means of a naval assault from Sydona, but these plans never came to fruition, as the government had other priorities, but the threat of invasion was credible enough to force the Federalists to divert a substantial share of resources to provide for the islands' defence. Occasional interdiction of seaborne trade to and from the islands occurred until the stabilisation of relations between the Federalist and Kirosocialist governments in 211YY. | For the duration of [[Kiravian Union|Kirosocialist rule on the Kiravian mainland]], the Saxalins would remain under the control of the Æonara-based Federalist government. The Kiravian Union had designs on capturing the archipelago by means of a naval assault from Sydona, but these plans never came to fruition, as the government had other priorities, but the threat of invasion was credible enough to force the Federalists to divert a substantial share of resources to provide for the islands' defence. Occasional interdiction of seaborne trade to and from the islands occurred until the stabilisation of relations between the Federalist and Kirosocialist governments in 211YY. | ||