Questers
15-11-2005, 20:13
[OOC: this, as you will see, is taking place in my Colony Map but anyone who doens't have a place is fully free to take action/comment]
Calcutta, India, EASCI Docks
The sun was sweltering and the work was hard: the construction of the first new "Colossus" Supercarrier was intense. Drilling and soldering giant titanium plates to the angled hull of the Supercarrier, it's keel balanced precautiously on a long row of iron stands, was not an easy job under fourty degrees centigrade. However, for the poor Indian boys in this dirty, hot, and disease-ridden district of Calcutta the work was the only one they could find that did not involve going down into the coal mines or the sewers. Those were jobs that anyone could be sick at the thought of. The Indians in Calcutta were viciously oppressed by the Hogsweatian whites - the East India Conglomerate controlled literally everything from the making of toothbrushes to the production of huge warships. It was in direct competition with the Indian Peninsula Company and it seemed that every day each would release a new variant of the last piece of household appliance, hardware, or electronic to be sold to neighbouring rich third world countries like Sarzonia, Skinny87, or Stevid. [OOC: Just mentioning you guys, this has nothing to do with the plotline]
The Indians were paid little wages by the entirely Hogsweatian board that controlled EACSI [East India Conglomerate Shipwrighting Industries] and workhours were long. EACSI was making big big money selling military hardware and getting contracts from the Navy, Army, AND Airforce - (this can be expected of a nation that borders a Doomingsland colony) - and naturally, the people at the top of EACSI wanted to be rich. Several held prominent positions in the Crown Colony Parliament at Singapore and it was easy to say the Conglomerate held huge power. They did not, however, reckon with a huge, angry workforce with nothing to lose. In the following months, there would be [i]many changes in Hogsweatian India, and subsequently the other colonies.
[OOC: Gotta dash. Wish I could have gone further than the intro.]
Calcutta, India, EASCI Docks
The sun was sweltering and the work was hard: the construction of the first new "Colossus" Supercarrier was intense. Drilling and soldering giant titanium plates to the angled hull of the Supercarrier, it's keel balanced precautiously on a long row of iron stands, was not an easy job under fourty degrees centigrade. However, for the poor Indian boys in this dirty, hot, and disease-ridden district of Calcutta the work was the only one they could find that did not involve going down into the coal mines or the sewers. Those were jobs that anyone could be sick at the thought of. The Indians in Calcutta were viciously oppressed by the Hogsweatian whites - the East India Conglomerate controlled literally everything from the making of toothbrushes to the production of huge warships. It was in direct competition with the Indian Peninsula Company and it seemed that every day each would release a new variant of the last piece of household appliance, hardware, or electronic to be sold to neighbouring rich third world countries like Sarzonia, Skinny87, or Stevid. [OOC: Just mentioning you guys, this has nothing to do with the plotline]
The Indians were paid little wages by the entirely Hogsweatian board that controlled EACSI [East India Conglomerate Shipwrighting Industries] and workhours were long. EACSI was making big big money selling military hardware and getting contracts from the Navy, Army, AND Airforce - (this can be expected of a nation that borders a Doomingsland colony) - and naturally, the people at the top of EACSI wanted to be rich. Several held prominent positions in the Crown Colony Parliament at Singapore and it was easy to say the Conglomerate held huge power. They did not, however, reckon with a huge, angry workforce with nothing to lose. In the following months, there would be [i]many changes in Hogsweatian India, and subsequently the other colonies.
[OOC: Gotta dash. Wish I could have gone further than the intro.]