Guffingford
29-04-2005, 10:29
OOC: In light of the recent calls for change in RP, I decided to completely redo my national history. Here Guffingford does not start anew completely, I merely consider the chapter of Nazism closed and sealed. The RWC isn’t added into these history annals, because the RWC has not played a role in this version of Guffingford. All pre-RWC happenings are included. It’s not like any of those major alliances have played such an amazingly well role in the history of NS. I am using the same names, just for the hell of it and I’m tired of thinking about new names every single time I RP something new. All of Guffingford’s wars against my former adversaries are included. I have had a great time with the RWC, made a lot friends there. But now I think it’s time to move on. To say it this way: I’ve put my alliance in the fridge. ICly the alliance is defunct, but contact between the ex-members remains. I advise all RWC members to follow this, and let’s go our own way. All this alliance stuff has gotten us nowhere and only created a massive lock nobody is ever going to pick. This story is far from done, because I plan, along with Macabees to combine our national history to make a more realistic recording of what happened, instead of a one-sided story. This is far from done, but it gives you an impression of pre-WW1 Guffingford, Holy Panooly and Theohuanacu.
Enjoy.
Present day Guffingford:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/fruityloops/map2.jpg
The history of Guffingford, Holy Panooly and Theohuanacu
Thousands and thousands of years ago, the only inhabitants on the Guffingfordii Archipelago were dwellers and wildmen from Plánol (now Holy Panooly). They were hunters and gatherers, living off the lush plains and forests. This pattern of living remained unchanged for about four thousand years, when off the coast of the Plánol continent a new tribe emerged, calling themselves the Theohuanacu. They worshipped a new god, called Tlaloc which came from an unknown far-away continent. They were a building civilization, with armies the Plánol could not match, and rapidly colonised the continent of Plánol. But since they weren’t a real seafaring nation they couldn’t reach the Guffingfordii Archipelago. All over Plánol temples were built, stone shrines raised and the religion of Tlaloc was forced upon the people. Because the empire of Theohuanacu was shattered due to corruption and bureaucracy, and their geographical position, the empire fell apart after a short-lived civil war. Written accounts of these events are rare, but they tell a story of bloodlust and some of the first accounts of genocide. Plánol citizens systematically slaughtered the small ruling elite from Theohuanacu, creating hatred between the nations still existing to this day. Theohuanacu pulled out, leaving their vast wealth behind in lost crypts and tombs. That was 941 BC.
Today 90% of these tombs are still not excavated, and their treasuries remain hidden. Theohuanacu has demanded that the found treasures to be returned to Theohuanacu, but the Holy Panooly government subsequently refuses.
After hundreds of years of turmoil and even more wars about resources a stable administration led by Plánol’s first emperor was a fact. His name was Tol-Uhm, he denounced the former religion of Theohuanacu, expelled all foreigners from the surrounding islands and he created the symbol on the flag still used to this day. Tol-Uhm was a wise leader, a brilliant strategist, and he fought several wars with Theohuanacu over ideological grounds, sacred grounds and various other grounds important to Plánol. Each and every time he was victorious, laden down with gold, feathers and ivory he returned to his palace in the ancient city of Ulasem, now lost. There he decided that Plánol is a name not fit for a nation he owned, so he renamed his nation to Panoll, which means victory or victorious in ancient Panooly. However, Tol-Uhm’s rule was ended not because of natural causes, but because of the blade of his brother. Jealous, and bribed by the sly Theohuanacu spies he assassinated his brother on the throne a night before he was going to rally tribal allies to unity his Panoll under one banner. That was 611 AD. Some historians believe if he weren’t killed, then Holy Panooly would be a stable democracy right now. The tribes have always remained divided, and nobody has tried to unite them after Tol-Uhm’s death. Some people have strong doubts about this bold statement, because nobody knows what might have happened even if Tol-Uhm managed to unite all tribes.
Almost ninehundred years later, the history of Holy Panooly is starting to become interesting. Europeans have arrived in the Fruit Island Archipelago, a smaller part of the Imperial Armies region, a name that’s mentioned soon enough by the newcomers. Due to the vastness of the continent, colonies were established with ease. Nobody was in each other’s way, and the few natives who lived there were either put to work on the plantages or killed, whichever the choice of the slavedriver. On Panooly, renamed again by British colonists who had a hard time pronouncing Panoll every time, the native population was deeply interested in Christianity, and followers were gained easily. On the north side of the island, with a tropical climate the British established themselves, while on the south the French made a fortified base. The south is an excellent region to grow grapes, due to the outstanding Mediterranean climate. Between the two major colonies a jungle of 5000 kilometre created an impassable barricade. The two cultures on Holy Panooly still live in separated ways and have not changed since.
The nation Theohuanacu however, is a different matter. In the early 17th century when the 30 Years War ravaged Europe Germans who were tired of the bloodshed colonised the main island of Theohuanacu. The British did not care up until 1871 – but that’s a different section. Panooly and Theohuanacu were still fighting with each other even during the time of colonisation; the colonial powers did not care. Neither the Germans nor the French or the British for that matter. Until the Theohuanacu made the grave mistake of killing the British Colonel Belcher. The British suspected the Germans of being behind the attack, because Belcher was known for being very anti German. Diplomatic talks were organised by the French and the two governors made a peace accord. Theohuanacu would become a British protectorate, while the Germans were allowed to move freely about while keeping their colonial sovereignty. This accord was called the Anglo-Deutsche Freiheits Gesellshaft – the Anglo-German Freedom Community. Until the Second Reich was announced by Bismarck the British neglected any German activity. Theohuanacu would remain a colony of the British sector of (Holy) Panooly until 2005 at least. The Anglo-German pact was signed and ratified in 1861.
Jumping from 7000 BC to 1561 AD, the Guffingfordii Archipelago has witnessed no dramatic changes until the first Dutch settlers arrived. Like South Africa, only not. This time there were no British colonists, who wanted to take the land from them. The settlers called themselves Hooglanders, (literally translated: Highlanders) because they grew their crops and cattle on high hills on the northern Guffingfordii island. How the name Guffingford was given to the island chain is unknown, but people think an Hooglander named Andre Gufz. Merrión, a French aristocrat who adapted Dutch nationality, named the islands after himself and his wife from Britain, Lady Hermelyn Ford. Gufford was the old name, but soon it was changed to Guffingford. The reasoning behind this is lost. The Hooglanders adapted the orange-white-blue flag as homage to the land they left behind. They prospered, far away from the war torn European continent. Instead of the pointless ideological wars in Europe, the Guffingfordii archipelago became the most thriving island chain in the region. For more than two hundred years the situation was stable, but peace was not to endure. Because the Hooglanders had a lot in common with the Boers, they became very friendly with each other but a formal alliance between the Boer freestates and the Hooglands was never proposed. The British, present on the north of the Panooly continent, were unhappy with this. Germans, Dutch and French weren’t exactly the people you want to have anywhere near you. Like Europe, tensions began to build up in the Fruit Islands and the Imperial Armies archipelago. That was 1780 AD.
The name Imperial Armies was given to the large group of islands basically as an insult to the large nations colonising the Fruit Islands. Because of the vast amount of soldiers, the tropical identity of the islands was lost, and everything turned into one massive harbour for warships and marines. Though it has never been said, but it was a cold war like situation. No nation trusted each other, while the original population was exploited and abused by all colonial powers. The dawn of the longest peaceful era in the history of the Imperial Armies archipelago. Everybody was armed to the teeth, Bismarck is about to declare the Second Reich a full fact, and the Hooglanders are going to find one major thing that will change the history of Holy Panooly, Theohuanacu and Guffingford forever.
The First Oil War
The first oil war was the first truly major conflict between the colonial powers in Imperial Armies. When the Hooglanders together with German colonists (calling themselves the Süd Deutschlanders or Süd Reich) were exploring the heartland of Theohuanacu when they found the black lakes. After researching this strange site they concluded these lakes were all connected with each other through underwater caves, and beneath them lies a vast underground sea, filled with oil. Due to the Anglo-German pact the British could do little to prevent the Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders from obtaining and exploiting this discovery. The British governor at that time, Lord James Colver Lloyd had no choice but to cede the control to the Süd Reich in an effort to maintain peace. However, the Hooglanders had to leave Theohuanacu, since they aren’t part of the treaty. The Süd Deutschlanders tried to bargain an extra clause to be added giving the Hooglanders a trade post in Theohuanacu (German city of Nord Punkt meaning North Point) but the British refused, since that would jeopardise their northern colony. The Hooglanders were well aware of the situation of the Boers in South Africa, and were eager to exact some revenge on their behalf. The British knew this, and it is logical they refused. But the French were happy to give the Hooglanders some land near their fortified base. The British were not amused to say the least, and they threatened not to give the Hooglanders any land on either Holy Panooly or Theohuanacu. The French did not listen, and they were confident in forcing a breakthrough in this situation. They could count on the aid of the Hooglanders as well as the Germans to fight the British. The French gave the Hooglanders a large island to the south of Theohuanacu, which still is disputed territory. The British took a massive body of land to the north of Holy Panooly, in defiance of a treaty between the French and British colonies signed in 1799. This treaty pointed out that neither was allowed to endanger each other’s – and foreign interests by expanding colonial holdings to gain control over important waterways. The British seized the Sea Straits of Lapincuta, which cut off the small Spanish holdings who established a sea route from and to Mexico and California. The Spanish established a small outpost in the east of Panooly in 1638. Because it was such a small town nobody actually paid attention to them until their Vice-King, Rodriquez Diaz DeNavarra decided to expand his navy – something the British could hardly appreciate.
Contrary to what people think, none of the major powers started the war, but it was the Spanish who fired the first bullet at the British. Angered by the arrogant Lord James Colver Lloyd’s and his position and not willing to talk about it, the Spanish sent a fleet of 23 cannon barges, 17 frigates and 15 warbarges to block the Straits of Lapincuta. This took the British by surprise, and they hastened to their warships to break the blockade and they partially succeeded as they planned it. However, this was all done without the fiat of Lord James Colver Lloyd, so this started off illegal - something that would have dire consequences in the near future. The French, Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders were extremely unpleased with the Spanish and British skirmishes. In absolute secrecy, the French, Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders signed a triple pact against the British to drive them off the Panooly continent and end their supremacy in this region. But there would be no fighting until the Germans defeated the French in Europe in 1871, founding the Second German Empire. This created tensions in the Triple Pact, but the French soon realised that starting to fight the Germans to get even wouldn’t get them anywhere – the British had to be defeated.
The joint strike on the British city of Coranto (disputed territory nowadays along with the whole northern continent) marked the beginning of the First Oil War. This attack wasn’t a surprise for the British but due to the failed breakthrough of the Spanish blockade; the city couldn’t be reinforced in time. The British managed to destroy the first Spanish barricade near Keeley’s Bend (the southern entrance of the Straits of Lapincuta) but the British couldn’t breech the southern passageway, knowing the Spanish managed to fortify the shores before the British could arrive there. Normally the British would take the short northern route but due to the extreme weather conditions it was impossible to risk the lives of men and the fleet to be there sooner. This gave the Triple Pact members a significant advantage, and the city was taken within one week. By no means this meant the surrender of the British or even demise of their holdings, on the contrary. With renewed vigour the British began an attack on the Süd Reich near the city of Nord Punkt. Because the Süd Deutschlanders had the bulk of their forces stationed near Coranto to maintain peace they were taken by surprise back in Nord Punkt. The civil militias fought like lions, but it was impossible to win. After a siege, which lasted a month, the British finally took the city and named it North Point. Today the Süd Deutschlanders still lay claim to this city and its important natural harbour.
A few weeks after the city North Point was taken and Coranto became the capital of the short-lived Freistaat Zealand, a combination of independent British farmsteads, Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders. Both the French and British were upset about this, the French because they didn’t played a role in the new state and the British seeing the Independents (independent farmers) as collaborators. These former British colonists began to “Germanise” IE they alienated from their British ancestors, and grew closer with Süd Deutschland. The outcome of the First Oil War is unclear, mainly because of the limited battles. The Spanish left the Panooly continent, because it was their presence that triggered the war. The oilfields themselves remained unclaimed territories, and skirmishes between the British and Germans continue to happen to this day. Freistaat Zealand collapsed because of the lack of infrastructure and organisation. This meant the end for organised settlements on the most northern disputed territories.
In 1895 the British lost their backing force – the British Empire. The First Oil War also passed very quickly because the British threatened to send a messenger to London to send help, but because an direct attack on Spanish sovereign soil was made, while the Lord knew of it, he endangered British assets in the area. This act, along with the general attitude against other colonial powers, especially the French and the Independents prompted the British Empire to excommunicate their colonial holdings in the Imperial Armies archipelago. Furthermore, a bigger underlying reason was also used: a major naval force can only defend the Imperial Armies archipelago, something not available in times so close to WW1. So the British were slowly passing away into obscurity, and the rest could do whatever they wanted. In 1901 when Queen Victoria died only twenty seven percent of the British holdings was left, either dumped to gain favour with the local tribes, or to keep the Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders from taking more important parts of their country. The British had no choice but to sign a most humiliating peace treaty with the Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders. That was 1910.
World War 1
The First World War marked a turning point in the history of Guffingford, Panooly and Theohuanacu. Instead of nations fighting each other, several major civil wars occurred. Because the three nations (also named The Three Sisters, because of their close relation to each other) have became a patchwork of independent republics, freestates, feeholds and small colonies the nations didn’t have time to fight each other. The following happened when Archduke Ferdinand was shot:
Panooly’s major power (the French) picked the Allies.
Theohuanacu remained neutral.
Guffingford’s major powers (Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders) allied themselves with the Central powers.
And here ends Part I. To be concluded...
Enjoy.
Present day Guffingford:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/fruityloops/map2.jpg
The history of Guffingford, Holy Panooly and Theohuanacu
Thousands and thousands of years ago, the only inhabitants on the Guffingfordii Archipelago were dwellers and wildmen from Plánol (now Holy Panooly). They were hunters and gatherers, living off the lush plains and forests. This pattern of living remained unchanged for about four thousand years, when off the coast of the Plánol continent a new tribe emerged, calling themselves the Theohuanacu. They worshipped a new god, called Tlaloc which came from an unknown far-away continent. They were a building civilization, with armies the Plánol could not match, and rapidly colonised the continent of Plánol. But since they weren’t a real seafaring nation they couldn’t reach the Guffingfordii Archipelago. All over Plánol temples were built, stone shrines raised and the religion of Tlaloc was forced upon the people. Because the empire of Theohuanacu was shattered due to corruption and bureaucracy, and their geographical position, the empire fell apart after a short-lived civil war. Written accounts of these events are rare, but they tell a story of bloodlust and some of the first accounts of genocide. Plánol citizens systematically slaughtered the small ruling elite from Theohuanacu, creating hatred between the nations still existing to this day. Theohuanacu pulled out, leaving their vast wealth behind in lost crypts and tombs. That was 941 BC.
Today 90% of these tombs are still not excavated, and their treasuries remain hidden. Theohuanacu has demanded that the found treasures to be returned to Theohuanacu, but the Holy Panooly government subsequently refuses.
After hundreds of years of turmoil and even more wars about resources a stable administration led by Plánol’s first emperor was a fact. His name was Tol-Uhm, he denounced the former religion of Theohuanacu, expelled all foreigners from the surrounding islands and he created the symbol on the flag still used to this day. Tol-Uhm was a wise leader, a brilliant strategist, and he fought several wars with Theohuanacu over ideological grounds, sacred grounds and various other grounds important to Plánol. Each and every time he was victorious, laden down with gold, feathers and ivory he returned to his palace in the ancient city of Ulasem, now lost. There he decided that Plánol is a name not fit for a nation he owned, so he renamed his nation to Panoll, which means victory or victorious in ancient Panooly. However, Tol-Uhm’s rule was ended not because of natural causes, but because of the blade of his brother. Jealous, and bribed by the sly Theohuanacu spies he assassinated his brother on the throne a night before he was going to rally tribal allies to unity his Panoll under one banner. That was 611 AD. Some historians believe if he weren’t killed, then Holy Panooly would be a stable democracy right now. The tribes have always remained divided, and nobody has tried to unite them after Tol-Uhm’s death. Some people have strong doubts about this bold statement, because nobody knows what might have happened even if Tol-Uhm managed to unite all tribes.
Almost ninehundred years later, the history of Holy Panooly is starting to become interesting. Europeans have arrived in the Fruit Island Archipelago, a smaller part of the Imperial Armies region, a name that’s mentioned soon enough by the newcomers. Due to the vastness of the continent, colonies were established with ease. Nobody was in each other’s way, and the few natives who lived there were either put to work on the plantages or killed, whichever the choice of the slavedriver. On Panooly, renamed again by British colonists who had a hard time pronouncing Panoll every time, the native population was deeply interested in Christianity, and followers were gained easily. On the north side of the island, with a tropical climate the British established themselves, while on the south the French made a fortified base. The south is an excellent region to grow grapes, due to the outstanding Mediterranean climate. Between the two major colonies a jungle of 5000 kilometre created an impassable barricade. The two cultures on Holy Panooly still live in separated ways and have not changed since.
The nation Theohuanacu however, is a different matter. In the early 17th century when the 30 Years War ravaged Europe Germans who were tired of the bloodshed colonised the main island of Theohuanacu. The British did not care up until 1871 – but that’s a different section. Panooly and Theohuanacu were still fighting with each other even during the time of colonisation; the colonial powers did not care. Neither the Germans nor the French or the British for that matter. Until the Theohuanacu made the grave mistake of killing the British Colonel Belcher. The British suspected the Germans of being behind the attack, because Belcher was known for being very anti German. Diplomatic talks were organised by the French and the two governors made a peace accord. Theohuanacu would become a British protectorate, while the Germans were allowed to move freely about while keeping their colonial sovereignty. This accord was called the Anglo-Deutsche Freiheits Gesellshaft – the Anglo-German Freedom Community. Until the Second Reich was announced by Bismarck the British neglected any German activity. Theohuanacu would remain a colony of the British sector of (Holy) Panooly until 2005 at least. The Anglo-German pact was signed and ratified in 1861.
Jumping from 7000 BC to 1561 AD, the Guffingfordii Archipelago has witnessed no dramatic changes until the first Dutch settlers arrived. Like South Africa, only not. This time there were no British colonists, who wanted to take the land from them. The settlers called themselves Hooglanders, (literally translated: Highlanders) because they grew their crops and cattle on high hills on the northern Guffingfordii island. How the name Guffingford was given to the island chain is unknown, but people think an Hooglander named Andre Gufz. Merrión, a French aristocrat who adapted Dutch nationality, named the islands after himself and his wife from Britain, Lady Hermelyn Ford. Gufford was the old name, but soon it was changed to Guffingford. The reasoning behind this is lost. The Hooglanders adapted the orange-white-blue flag as homage to the land they left behind. They prospered, far away from the war torn European continent. Instead of the pointless ideological wars in Europe, the Guffingfordii archipelago became the most thriving island chain in the region. For more than two hundred years the situation was stable, but peace was not to endure. Because the Hooglanders had a lot in common with the Boers, they became very friendly with each other but a formal alliance between the Boer freestates and the Hooglands was never proposed. The British, present on the north of the Panooly continent, were unhappy with this. Germans, Dutch and French weren’t exactly the people you want to have anywhere near you. Like Europe, tensions began to build up in the Fruit Islands and the Imperial Armies archipelago. That was 1780 AD.
The name Imperial Armies was given to the large group of islands basically as an insult to the large nations colonising the Fruit Islands. Because of the vast amount of soldiers, the tropical identity of the islands was lost, and everything turned into one massive harbour for warships and marines. Though it has never been said, but it was a cold war like situation. No nation trusted each other, while the original population was exploited and abused by all colonial powers. The dawn of the longest peaceful era in the history of the Imperial Armies archipelago. Everybody was armed to the teeth, Bismarck is about to declare the Second Reich a full fact, and the Hooglanders are going to find one major thing that will change the history of Holy Panooly, Theohuanacu and Guffingford forever.
The First Oil War
The first oil war was the first truly major conflict between the colonial powers in Imperial Armies. When the Hooglanders together with German colonists (calling themselves the Süd Deutschlanders or Süd Reich) were exploring the heartland of Theohuanacu when they found the black lakes. After researching this strange site they concluded these lakes were all connected with each other through underwater caves, and beneath them lies a vast underground sea, filled with oil. Due to the Anglo-German pact the British could do little to prevent the Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders from obtaining and exploiting this discovery. The British governor at that time, Lord James Colver Lloyd had no choice but to cede the control to the Süd Reich in an effort to maintain peace. However, the Hooglanders had to leave Theohuanacu, since they aren’t part of the treaty. The Süd Deutschlanders tried to bargain an extra clause to be added giving the Hooglanders a trade post in Theohuanacu (German city of Nord Punkt meaning North Point) but the British refused, since that would jeopardise their northern colony. The Hooglanders were well aware of the situation of the Boers in South Africa, and were eager to exact some revenge on their behalf. The British knew this, and it is logical they refused. But the French were happy to give the Hooglanders some land near their fortified base. The British were not amused to say the least, and they threatened not to give the Hooglanders any land on either Holy Panooly or Theohuanacu. The French did not listen, and they were confident in forcing a breakthrough in this situation. They could count on the aid of the Hooglanders as well as the Germans to fight the British. The French gave the Hooglanders a large island to the south of Theohuanacu, which still is disputed territory. The British took a massive body of land to the north of Holy Panooly, in defiance of a treaty between the French and British colonies signed in 1799. This treaty pointed out that neither was allowed to endanger each other’s – and foreign interests by expanding colonial holdings to gain control over important waterways. The British seized the Sea Straits of Lapincuta, which cut off the small Spanish holdings who established a sea route from and to Mexico and California. The Spanish established a small outpost in the east of Panooly in 1638. Because it was such a small town nobody actually paid attention to them until their Vice-King, Rodriquez Diaz DeNavarra decided to expand his navy – something the British could hardly appreciate.
Contrary to what people think, none of the major powers started the war, but it was the Spanish who fired the first bullet at the British. Angered by the arrogant Lord James Colver Lloyd’s and his position and not willing to talk about it, the Spanish sent a fleet of 23 cannon barges, 17 frigates and 15 warbarges to block the Straits of Lapincuta. This took the British by surprise, and they hastened to their warships to break the blockade and they partially succeeded as they planned it. However, this was all done without the fiat of Lord James Colver Lloyd, so this started off illegal - something that would have dire consequences in the near future. The French, Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders were extremely unpleased with the Spanish and British skirmishes. In absolute secrecy, the French, Süd Deutschlanders and Hooglanders signed a triple pact against the British to drive them off the Panooly continent and end their supremacy in this region. But there would be no fighting until the Germans defeated the French in Europe in 1871, founding the Second German Empire. This created tensions in the Triple Pact, but the French soon realised that starting to fight the Germans to get even wouldn’t get them anywhere – the British had to be defeated.
The joint strike on the British city of Coranto (disputed territory nowadays along with the whole northern continent) marked the beginning of the First Oil War. This attack wasn’t a surprise for the British but due to the failed breakthrough of the Spanish blockade; the city couldn’t be reinforced in time. The British managed to destroy the first Spanish barricade near Keeley’s Bend (the southern entrance of the Straits of Lapincuta) but the British couldn’t breech the southern passageway, knowing the Spanish managed to fortify the shores before the British could arrive there. Normally the British would take the short northern route but due to the extreme weather conditions it was impossible to risk the lives of men and the fleet to be there sooner. This gave the Triple Pact members a significant advantage, and the city was taken within one week. By no means this meant the surrender of the British or even demise of their holdings, on the contrary. With renewed vigour the British began an attack on the Süd Reich near the city of Nord Punkt. Because the Süd Deutschlanders had the bulk of their forces stationed near Coranto to maintain peace they were taken by surprise back in Nord Punkt. The civil militias fought like lions, but it was impossible to win. After a siege, which lasted a month, the British finally took the city and named it North Point. Today the Süd Deutschlanders still lay claim to this city and its important natural harbour.
A few weeks after the city North Point was taken and Coranto became the capital of the short-lived Freistaat Zealand, a combination of independent British farmsteads, Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders. Both the French and British were upset about this, the French because they didn’t played a role in the new state and the British seeing the Independents (independent farmers) as collaborators. These former British colonists began to “Germanise” IE they alienated from their British ancestors, and grew closer with Süd Deutschland. The outcome of the First Oil War is unclear, mainly because of the limited battles. The Spanish left the Panooly continent, because it was their presence that triggered the war. The oilfields themselves remained unclaimed territories, and skirmishes between the British and Germans continue to happen to this day. Freistaat Zealand collapsed because of the lack of infrastructure and organisation. This meant the end for organised settlements on the most northern disputed territories.
In 1895 the British lost their backing force – the British Empire. The First Oil War also passed very quickly because the British threatened to send a messenger to London to send help, but because an direct attack on Spanish sovereign soil was made, while the Lord knew of it, he endangered British assets in the area. This act, along with the general attitude against other colonial powers, especially the French and the Independents prompted the British Empire to excommunicate their colonial holdings in the Imperial Armies archipelago. Furthermore, a bigger underlying reason was also used: a major naval force can only defend the Imperial Armies archipelago, something not available in times so close to WW1. So the British were slowly passing away into obscurity, and the rest could do whatever they wanted. In 1901 when Queen Victoria died only twenty seven percent of the British holdings was left, either dumped to gain favour with the local tribes, or to keep the Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders from taking more important parts of their country. The British had no choice but to sign a most humiliating peace treaty with the Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders. That was 1910.
World War 1
The First World War marked a turning point in the history of Guffingford, Panooly and Theohuanacu. Instead of nations fighting each other, several major civil wars occurred. Because the three nations (also named The Three Sisters, because of their close relation to each other) have became a patchwork of independent republics, freestates, feeholds and small colonies the nations didn’t have time to fight each other. The following happened when Archduke Ferdinand was shot:
Panooly’s major power (the French) picked the Allies.
Theohuanacu remained neutral.
Guffingford’s major powers (Hooglanders and Süd Deutschlanders) allied themselves with the Central powers.
And here ends Part I. To be concluded...