Qabóri colonization of Polynesia
The Qabóri colonization of Polynesia began in 1812, with the establishment of the Akúsatine Beach colonies, which evolved into one of the longest ongoing colonial periods. The most notable moves made by Qabór during this period involved the establishment of two protectorates; Teschego and the Saukhin Islands, and the subsequent influence of neighboring areas today recognized as commonwealths of Tierrador. Because the meeting point between the Polynesian and the Okatian Seas was a very strategic corridor for Qabóri trade in the Southern Route, the Woqalate sought to maintain influence over the area using the colonies. This endeavor would prove to be successful, as Qabór would establish itself as a trading power in Polynesia and both the North Seas Route and the Southern Route.
The Qabóri Woqalate had been well-known for its land-based empire, maintaining colonial holdings in modern-day Istrenya, Ceylonia, Porlos, Asteria, and Ormatia for nearly a millennium, using these colonies to spread cultural and political values influenced by Abioic civilization throughout the remainder of South Crona. However, as the Woqalate granted more autonomy towards its colonies, it slowly experienced a decline of influence throughout the region. With the loss of Porlos, Ceylonia, and Asteria to Cartadania and Faneria, Qabór's only land vassals were Istrenya and Ormatia, two very unstable regions. Eventually, the Revolution of 1733 and the subsequent Takosenic Wars would force the collapse of the entire Woqalate, transforming it into a group of unstable and trigger-happy nations. Many Qabóri-era traders fled to Polynesia in large numbers in the early 19th century, which began the wave of colonization that continued on once the Woqalate was restored in 1823.
In the 19th century, the Woqalate would establish numerous posts in Eastern Peratra, in what would become known as the Teschego Frontier. Qabóri settlers managed to claim a vast, 1 million square kilometer chunk of Peratra, developing the lands and forcibly connecting the once isolationist indigenous tribes with one another over the course of a century. In the midst of the Frontier, Qabóri settlers also conquered the Kingdom of Tapkoii in the 1832 Saukhin Conquest. Qabór kept its colonial holdings stable, providing resources, education, and funding to the indigenous population. In 1959, Teschego was admitted as the 17th commonwealth of Tierrador, under Pedro Kintón. The Saukhins would follow suit, being admitted in 1975. This essentially made any independence movements by the two dependencies impossible, and they remain under Tierradorian jurisdiction in the present day.
Initial Abioic-Polynesian interactions (16th century to 1812)
Nearly 250 years before Qabór planted its first banner in Polynesia, it began projecting its influence over the region in the mid-16th century, when Woqali Tyma II ordered an independent group of traders to sail south of Sarolasta, assisted by a squadron of Qabóri Navy galleons. While they did expect to find new lands to settle, they did not expect the lands they found to already be settled, therefore once they landed in Oaroa, they chose to coerce the island communities into being admitted as Qabóri vassal states. Qabór's influence over the small islands would eventually incentivize Chief Kauap'aua of the Taseí Island, where Oaroa is located, to unite the islands into the Kingdom of Tapkoii.
As Polynesia became more developed under Qabóri influence, the newly-founded Qabóri Trading Company began to involve itself, and later, the remaining trade companies in Qabór, in international trade through the Southern Route, growing its relationship with the Qian Dynasty, who, in 1675, conquered the nearby Truk archipelago. This created influential competition in the Polynesian Sea, and tensions were very high in Tapkoii. Fearing an invasion by the Qian state, Kauap'aua turned to the Woqalate, whom, under Woqali Qaneli, agreed to provide military resources for the islands in exchange for Tapkoii's integration into the Qabóri tributary system. Tapkoii would continue to pay tribute to Qabór until the Woqalate's total collapse in 1733. From that point on, the Tapkoii islands were still protected by the Qabóri Navy galleons that were stationed in the Port of Oaroa, though they were no longer overseen by a commanding government. This allowed the squadron to unite as one independent militia, using their influence as Tapkoii's main defense to project total control over the Kingdom. This would continue on throughout the Takosenic Wars.
During the Takosenic Wars, the lands formerly controlled by the Qabóri Woqalate were essentially an unstable mess. The Las Rozas Militia, commanded by power-hungry dictators Tesío Takosenia and later Aphío Kostari, quickly established itself as the dominant state during this period of warring states. Many Abioic tribespeople sought to escape the horrors of the Takosenic Wars by jumping ship to Castadilla, at the time a viceroyalty of Pelaxia. One of these instances included the former QTC trade vessel Yotales, captained by former Soqweux naval officer Tuuno Taâkanen, left the port of Sačia en route to present-day Almadaria. Violent winds blew the ship extremely off-course, to the point where the vessel had did a complete 180, traveling southwest rather than east.
The journal of Qabóri sailor Satolo Istoma revealed the ship landed in the northeastern tip of Olašico island in November 1812, the beginning of the southern hemisphere's spring season. The ideal conditions in the new area allowed for the settlers to hunt and fish, and being able to survive in the new area for the next few months, until they were able to return back to South Crona. By the beginning of 1813, the settlers eventually decided not to return to the mainland, instead focusing on building up a much more peaceful colony in the southern subcontinent. This new colony would come to be known as the Akúsatine Beach Colonies, and quickly grew to become a fully-fledged city by 1815. As settlements in the Olašico island grew, so did the popularity of the colony to the rest of South Crona. Tierradorian migrants began to enter the island in massive numbers over the course of the 1810s, and the island became a popular destination for those hoping to escape Kostari's regime in mainland Tierrador.
Establishment of Apin Tascaí, New Akúsatine, and Wapu'ana'asi (1823–1829)
While the Olašico colony had grown significantly in numbers, there was only so many resources around the island to maintain the colony. The solution to this overpopulation problem was to set out to find the Peratran mainland, which had been charted by Tierradorian colonists though never permanently settled, as it was believed to be a territory of Daxia. Regardless, in February 1823, a group of about 270 colonists, led by Kapolo Takani and Naro Katabas, set course for mainland Peratra. The journey was quick and smooth, and the colonists were able to reach the mainland by March, towards the end of the southern hemisphere's fall season. Splitting off into two missions, the colonists quickly discovered the land had not been settled by Daxia, instead the tribespeople from the A'ulele tribe in the southern landing spot and the Kaeoto tribe in the north. These tribes were not as aggressive as the Qian conquerers, instead welcoming the colonists with open arms in both areas.
Both tribes were primarily isolationist, knowing of each other's existences though not engaging in commerce or political relations. The Tierradorians managed to earn the trust of both tribes and incentivized unity between them both, especially with the growing increase of Daxian raids against the tribes. Later on that year, A'ulele and Kaeoto warriors would assist in toppling Aphío Kostari's regime and reinstating the Qabóri Woqalate as the dominant power in South Crona. Woqali Aipasía began to direct more funding towards building up the newfound settlements in Peratra, noticing a great amount of potential for economic and political influence in a new, resource-rich region. Qabóri settlers quickly established the first modernized settlement for that time, known as Apin Tascaí, with its nomenclature being the Qabóri translation for Good Colleagues. The good colleagues in question were the A'ulele tribespeople, who were mostly treated with respect by the Qabóri government.
Meanwhile, in the northern landing zone, the Qabóri settlers were met with skepticism from the Kaeoto tribe. They were initially banned from entering Kaeoto settlements, instead electing to establish their own settlement just 10 miles to the west of the main Kaeoto population center, what would become New Akúsatine (today Tataía). Beginning in 1826, Apin Tascaí would be connected via dirt roads to New Akúsatine, beginning the Teschego Frontier. The Qabóri colonial groups began to expand their influence further west during the frontier period, and in 1829, they established their next major population center, known as Wapu'ana'asi.
Teschego Frontier, Capture of Tapkoii, and Southern Route operations (1826–1909)
Wapu'ana'asi had been located on U'uqalik tribal lands, situated mostly around Lake Wapu'ana'asi. The mountaineering tribe had faced the most violent of the annual Qian raids, being located just across the Tula'au o Tina mountains from the Daxian colony of Timbia. Qian raiders regularly sacked U'uqalik towns, kidnapped their tribesmen and tribeswomen and kept them as slaves, with U'uqalik officials not being able to stop them, due to the Qian state being much more developed and powerful. So when Qabóri settlers arrived in 1829, the U'uqalik people were very quick to accept their teachings and funding to develop into a much more stable society. U'uqalik was officially annexed into the Teschego colony in 1830, and based their colonial government in Wapu'ana'asi.
As better-trained Cronan and U'uqalik Militiamen piled across the border of the Tula'au o Tinas, a smaller number of Qian raiders attempting to sack Wapu'ana'asi towards the beginning of 1831 were immediately obliterated by the coalition, in what became known as the Wapu'ana'asi Massacre. Qabór was not nominally aligned with the Qian state at the time, and this massacre created rising tensions between the two states. This further culminated in a sharp rift in relations between the Tapkoii and Trukese archipelagos, as they were under de facto control by Qabór and Daxia, respectively. Tapkoii did not wish to engage in conflict against Truk, directly conflicting with Saqula I's influential ambitions in the Polynesian region and the Southern Route. In response to this, Saqula I ordered the Saukhin Conquest, a 21-day island-hopping campaign throughout the archipelago. This resulted in King Wapahunea relinquishing his total control over the Tapkoii Kingdom, and it being admitted as the second Qabóri colonial holding.
Daxia responded to the conquest by conducting more raids against Peratran tribes, nearly all of them failing after being met with much more violent resistance from the Qabóri colonial militia. The Cronan/U'uqalik coalition took full advantage of the harsh mountain winters surrounding Lake Wapu'ana'asi and pushed the Daxians much further past the Tula'au o Tina Mountains. Despite the advantages of the Teschego colony against Timbia, the Qangreč refrained from authorizing ground mobilizations against Timbia, instead opting for the border between the two dependencies to be drawn perfectly down the middle of the mountain range. The Porvaos Convention, which occurred in 1840, finalized these borders, and relations between Daxia and Qabór cooled. By this time, the entire northern half of Teschego was defined as Qabóri territory, with the four corners of the colony being as follows: Tellenets in the northwest, established 1833; Akúsatine Beach in the northeast; Kakori in the southwest, established 1840 by the Porvaos Convention; and Apin Tascaí in the southeast.
Because the east-west reaches of Qabóri Peratra were already well-defined, southern expansion in the mid-19th century became more straightforward. Woqali Aipasía III introduced the colony to rail travel, funding deep expansions of early Qabóri rail infrastructure to Peratra. This resulted in an agricultural boom for the colony, as the colonial governments were quickly able to establish livestock, crop harvesting, and mineral extraction hubs connected by the extensive rail system, which were then connected to the Qabóri mainland through the various corridors that connected South Crona to the Southern Route. This, in turn, increased Qabóri resource exports to Burgoignesc holdings in Audonia. In the 1860s, the Qabóri central government began to scale back funding of the Woqalate's influence in Polynesia because of the Qabóri Succession War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in Tierradorian history.
During the Qabóri Succession War, many A'ulele, U'uqalik, and Kaeoto tribesmen were forcibly conscripted to fight for the House of Havqanoq, which caused a stagnation in all three tribes' populations and economic activity from the 1870s to the 20th century. During the war, cowboy culture in Teschego rose to an all-time high, as tribesmen who were not conscripted into the Qabóri Militia were often required to work in livestock towns as an alternative. After the war had ended in 1874, the House of Woqelee replaced the House of Havqanoq as the ruling imperial house in Qabór. The first Woqelee Woqali, Tataía I, sought to improve economic conditions in the colonies, while also further integrating them both into the Woqalate. In the late 19th century, the Teschego gold rush had occurred in the southern settlements of Ashburn and Atalokaliq, and had drastically improved economic activity in the colony.
20th Century
Southern Teschego Development Incentive
Contemporary operations (1989–present)
Immediately following the Woqelee Reinstatement in 1989, independence movements in both Teschego and the Saukhins eventually cooled off, and both dependencies began to cooperate more with the Imperial Government of Tierrador. Today, both commonwealths serve a major role in Tierrador's economy, boosting its agricultural, mineral extraction, industrial, and tourism industries. Tierrador remains one of the few global powers to maintain overseas colonial holdings, often the source of criticism from progressive and anti-colonial outlets.
A March 2025 poll revealed that 75% of combined Teschego/Saukhin residents wished to remain under Tierradorian jursidiction, owing to the economic prosperity caused by Abioic influence.