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They were first settled in 1801 AD by [[Coscivian civilisation#People|Coscivians]] from [[Kiravia]] and [[Sydona]]. These early Coscivian colonists were mostly landless agricultural workers recruited by the General Emigration Board to establish a permanent Kiravian presence on the islands and substantiate the Kiravian claim thereto. They made their living primarily by fishing, farming, and keeping sheep and goats. Growth of these early free settlements was limited by the irregular schedule of resupply vessels from Sydona, harsh weather conditions, and a few dropouts. Kiravian occupation of the islands would truly take off with the introduction of penal colonists and parolee settlers beginning in the 1820s. The <strike>forced</strike> migration of convicts and prisoners to the Saxalins enabled the establishment of several new settlements across the arhipelago. These penal- and penal-adjacent settlements were usually located in strategic areas, and the labor of the exiles was utilized for building basic infrastructure, which Kiravian officials hoped would help open up new areas of the islands to free settlers by lowering barriers to entry. Penal transportation was especially important in opening up the southern two islands, Kallak and Perryn, to Kiravian settlement. | They were first settled in 1801 AD by [[Coscivian civilisation#People|Coscivians]] from [[Kiravia]] and [[Sydona]]. These early Coscivian colonists were mostly landless agricultural workers recruited by the General Emigration Board to establish a permanent Kiravian presence on the islands and substantiate the Kiravian claim thereto. They made their living primarily by fishing, farming, and keeping sheep and goats. Growth of these early free settlements was limited by the irregular schedule of resupply vessels from Sydona, harsh weather conditions, and a few dropouts. Kiravian occupation of the islands would truly take off with the introduction of penal colonists and parolee settlers beginning in the 1820s. The <strike>forced</strike> migration of convicts and prisoners to the Saxalins enabled the establishment of several new settlements across the arhipelago. These penal- and penal-adjacent settlements were usually located in strategic areas, and the labor of the exiles was utilized for building basic infrastructure, which Kiravian officials hoped would help open up new areas of the islands to free settlers by lowering barriers to entry. Penal transportation was especially important in opening up the southern two islands, Kallak and Perryn, to Kiravian settlement. | ||
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, serious mineral prospecting and the promise of mineral wealth attracted more emigrants to the remote archipelago. | |||
===[[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance Era]]=== | ===[[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance Era]]=== | ||