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In [[1705]] [[Kiravia]]n [[Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company|Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company (NAAC)]] received an order to establish a permanent colony on the on the northern coast of the [[Isle of Farmandie]]. The assigned fleet arrived to the island in late [[1707]] and got ashore by the mouth of [[River Vænd]]. Soon after the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] government learned about the freshly established [[Kiravia]]n colony on the island and urgently placed an order to establish a competing colony on the island. A fleet from the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company (BRTC)]] stationed on the island of [[Submoll]] got assigned for the task and arrived to the northeastern coast of [[Isle of Farmandie]] in summer of [[1712]]. They got ashore on [[Point St. Matheus]], claiming the territory as a satellite colony of [[Sudmoll|Sud Moll Colony]]. After few days of scouting the area surrounding the [[Kiravian_settlement_name]] and the mouth of [[River Vænd]] the commander of the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|BRTC]] fleet ordered the settlement to be built on the opposing bank of the river. At first the [[Kiravian]] settlers were very suspicious about the sudden appearance of the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] on the island and what their intentions might be. The commander of the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|BRTC]] fleet [[Hercule Bahanor]] demanded to have a meeting with the commander of the [[Kiravian_settlement_name]]. He succeeded in persuading the the peaceful nature of [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] intentions and concluded an agreement of ? with the [[Kiravian_settlement_name]]'s commander [[commander_name]]. For months the relations between the two colonies stayed peaceful and included mostly trading of goods. Language barrier induced disagreements and distrust between the two ethnic groups caused the relations to turn hostile and after [[certain_escalation_event]] freguent and deadly skirmishes and ruthless competition of the islands scarce resources between the two colonies were common. Referred as the [[Trade War of Farmandie]].

The [[Trade War of Farmandie]] spanned from [[1713]]-[[1748]] and was the precurser to its neglect (from [[1745]]) and self goverment period (from [[1748]] to [[1788]]). The seas around the island were rich in {{wpl|Whaling}}, and [[Seal]] but the cost and expense to extract, process them, and transport them safely was not worth the price. This was especially true of [[Kiravia]] whose nearest colony was [[Sarolasta]] through the [[Polynesian Sea]] leaving them vulnerable to [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] commerce raiding before they came into the protection of their own fleets protective range. Alternatively, the [[Burgundie|Burgoigniacs]] could hug the coast until they reached [[Sudmoll|Sud Moll Colony]] and then [[Equitorial Ostiecia]] and their respective colonial fleets. [[Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company]] didn't fully abandon their colony on Farmandie until both nations were forced to focus elsewhere in the [[1740s]] but the [[Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company|NAAC]] put less focus on the island than did the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|BRTC]]. Both colonies forming naval militias but the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|BRTC]] garrisoned 100 troops and a small but permanant naval presence on the island in [[1719]], a cost the [[Nevisar Austral & Antarctic Company]] did not feel was justified.