The only piece missing is that I don’t think the game said much about indigenous people of the continent where the game is set.
Le Caillou was settled twice before white settlers arrived, but the first culture there died out during the neolithic without leaving much of a trace and the Semenese only settled there temporarily and left for other parts of the archipelago “thousands of years” before Occidental settlers got there (the ingame source for the latter part is Measurehead, so maybe we should take that with a grain of salt). Revachol practiced settler colonialism during the Souzerainity and competed with the Occidental colonizer nations it had spawned from until the turn of the century revolution kicked off and ended the monarchy and its enjoyment of exploiting other parts of the world for apricots and magenta cocaine. But Le Caillou wasn’t violently colonized itself until the Moralintern invaded and slaughtered every communard they could find.
Yes absolutely. I do think that the “this huge habitable continent had nobody living on it when we came here” is a bit much, though. I guess it could be an oversight but I would also suspect it is a bit of poetry to have an untrustworthy narrative about how nobody knows if any indigenous people were there when settlers arrived, and maybe it was empty, just waiting to be colonized.
tbh i have no idea how huge the island of Le Caillou is. Joyce calls it “a pebble”, but she also claims that the entire island is able to sustain 200 million people, and Revachol is a metropolis with an “80 km radius” (that’s slightly larger than LA, even if we assume that radius doesn’t apply equally in all directions).
But yes, it seems unlikely that something that large wasn’t settled permanently for thousands of years when it’s part of an island continent with several ancient seafaring cultures.
Le Caillou was settled twice before white settlers arrived, but the first culture there died out during the neolithic without leaving much of a trace and the Semenese only settled there temporarily and left for other parts of the archipelago “thousands of years” before Occidental settlers got there (the ingame source for the latter part is Measurehead, so maybe we should take that with a grain of salt). Revachol practiced settler colonialism during the Souzerainity and competed with the Occidental colonizer nations it had spawned from until the turn of the century revolution kicked off and ended the monarchy and its enjoyment of exploiting other parts of the world for apricots and magenta cocaine. But Le Caillou wasn’t violently colonized itself until the Moralintern invaded and slaughtered every communard they could find.
Yes absolutely. I do think that the “this huge habitable continent had nobody living on it when we came here” is a bit much, though. I guess it could be an oversight but I would also suspect it is a bit of poetry to have an untrustworthy narrative about how nobody knows if any indigenous people were there when settlers arrived, and maybe it was empty, just waiting to be colonized.
tbh i have no idea how huge the island of Le Caillou is. Joyce calls it “a pebble”, but she also claims that the entire island is able to sustain 200 million people, and Revachol is a metropolis with an “80 km radius” (that’s slightly larger than LA, even if we assume that radius doesn’t apply equally in all directions).
But yes, it seems unlikely that something that large wasn’t settled permanently for thousands of years when it’s part of an island continent with several ancient seafaring cultures.