Craxx Archipelago [Open|Colonial|Sign up|MT|OOC]

[Nova Catania]

Location: Southern Stanter Isles

Also, I would recommend reviewing the current map (found here), as this location claim has already been occupied by another nation for some time. Perhaps the far West of Retrinhes?

Sure, ok

[Stevid]

Big update today because I was indisposed yesterday, so now the map has been updated with the following changes:

• Brutalist Arstotzka added. Yes, I missed you. Yes I apologise
• Fuel resource added to S. Dernel claim
• Kolechia added
• Oneid added
• Nova Catania added
• PUF expansion added
• Lamoni expansion added
• Dernel expansion added
• Original USEFR expansion added. I could not, in good conscience, not give you this in lieu of the very large expansions by Dernel and Lamoni
• Prut Meritocracy acquisition of Grenzaach Island added

Some very big land grabs there. I will permit it, of course, but more fleshing out in RPs will be required for those large colonial players from now on in the same light as I said to United Federation earlier. But fair is fair, you guys are contributing! However, some of these colonies are now the size of some countries and managing them will be a force in their own right. This would include natives and infrastructure building etc etc. So taking this into account, further expansion will be 'difficult', so please keep future expansions either more measures and conservative, or have some juicy writing backing it up.

EDIT:

At some point this weekend I will be setting up a Discord channel for some of the more trivial OOC, politicking and map shenanigans. Official request for territory should still come here though.

Also the map quality is dropping slightly because the map is getting cluttered and busy, and imgur gets too excited about that. In future I may remove roads and f you want sight of them you'll have to view any updated .map file. But we're not quite there yet!

[Neo Prutenia]

Prut Meritocracy acquisition of Grenzaach Island added

Thanks! I don't know why, but it really low-key bugged me OOCly for some reason.

Some very big land grabs there. I will permit it, of course, but more fleshing out in RPs will be required for those large colonial players from now on in the same light as I said to United Federation earlier. But fair is fair, you guys are contributing! However, some of these colonies are now the size of some countries and managing them will be a force in their own right. This would include natives and infrastructure building etc etc. So taking this into account, further expansion will be 'difficult', so please keep future expansions either more measures and conservative, or have some juicy writing backing it up.

Just to make sure I've got the scope and sizes right: 30 000 square kilometres is 4 to 5 hexes, yes? So one hex would be around 6700 square kilometres (30,000/4.5). About the size of RL Brunei plus the Faroe islands. You mentioned South Carolina as a close analogue, but that's 30,000 square miles, or close to 78,000 square kilometres.

Eyeballing it, but I think USEFR's claim might be the largest at maybe 18 hexes, so about the size of 120,060 square kilometres, or North Korea in RL. If it's supposed to be in square miles, then it would be about the size of RL Poland ( 120,733 sq mi or 312,696 km2).

Is my math here right?

[European Federation Reunified]

Prut Meritocracy acquisition of Grenzaach Island added

Thanks! I don't know why, but it really low-key bugged me OOCly for some reason.

Some very big land grabs there. I will permit it, of course, but more fleshing out in RPs will be required for those large colonial players from now on in the same light as I said to United Federation earlier. But fair is fair, you guys are contributing! However, some of these colonies are now the size of some countries and managing them will be a force in their own right. This would include natives and infrastructure building etc etc. So taking this into account, further expansion will be 'difficult', so please keep future expansions either more measures and conservative, or have some juicy writing backing it up.

Just to make sure I've got the scope and sizes right: 30 000 square kilometres is 4 to 5 hexes, yes? So one hex would be around 6700 square kilometres (30,000/4.5). About the size of RL Brunei plus the Faroe islands. You mentioned South Carolina as a close analogue, but that's 30,000 square miles, or close to 78,000 square kilometres.

Eyeballing it, but I think USEFR's claim might be the largest at maybe 18 hexes, so about the size of 120,060 square kilometres, or North Korea in RL. If it's supposed to be in square miles, then it would be about the size of RL Poland ( 120,733 sq mi or 312,696 km2).

Is my math here right?

I think I'm regretting having claimed so much territory when my colony was newly founded. It's just that I don't have the right perceptions of space. I think I will have to resize it.

[The Qoryx]

Is anyone here who isn't in Greater Dienstad (because I have two from there already) keen on having a plane hijacked in my country and then flown back to your country, where it then is blown up on the airport property somewhere (so the only damage is to the plane and ground it's exploded over)?

We'd be looking at about 120-ish passenger plane, and basically it would be flown to your country normally then they'd hijack it on the ground there, and blow it up somewhere like a taxiway or on the runway or something.

If anyone's interested, let me know via TG! I'd have to approve of which nation, as my country might not even permit travel between our nations, but at the very least you'd get an idea of where our relations stand.

[Lamoni]

I've gotten as much land as I want in Craxx, so will likely not try to expand further, unless presented with a really good reason to do so.

[Drifterica]

Posted a small article, Not claiming the land in the map. Just a plan at the moment. Will post a bigger post discussing the expansion later.

[The Acidspitter Crown Empire]

OOC:

Could someone please advise which areas of the Craxx Archipelago are still open for claims?

[The Qoryx]

OOC:

Could someone please advise which areas of the Craxx Archipelago are still open for claims?

This thread is entirely in OOC, so no need to worry about identifying that. As for your question, on the original post (click here) there is a complete overview of everything including the maps and rules. The map can be directly found here (click here for map)

[Kawaza]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: The Colony of Kawaza
Colony Name: The Colonial Islands of Kawaza (Islands of Kawaza for short)
Capital City: Oceanwaza
Capital Features:
Port [ x ] Fortress/Military Base [ x] Wall/Stockade [ x ] Trade Hub [x ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 50,000 Humans
Location: The Kernig Isles
Size (Up to 30kmi²): 30Kmi
Town Names:
1) Kawaza Inner Forestlands
2) Port Beach
Specific Requests: None right now
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim: The Colonial Islands of Kawaza is a lone civilization located in The Kernig Isles. The first Kawazian People arrived 500 years ago, which then other civilizations were already occupying the precious parts of
The Kernig Isles, which were rich in resources and has everything a civilization needs to be successful. Tensions rises as The Mabibian People refused to diplomacy and immediately fired weapons at Kawazian People.

Disgusted by how violent the Mabibian People had shown to them, they started a civil war that both sides agree, which the Un-clear winner gets to have the rights to the land. Since Mabibian People were strong in military and fighting, the Kawazian Tribes went to build a small temporary shelter and living quarters for them in the other islands, which other civilizations widely agreed and their were no problems using some persuading and some trading.

Since then, civil war broke out between the too, thousands of lives were lost because weapons were simply too strong in both sides. As Kawazian People and the Mabibian People (Disbanded, Sinked into dark history forever) both wanted the lands, suddenly something insane happened.

The next Kawazian People went their to fight their day of war, the Mabibian people wern’t their. First they thought it is some war tactic but as their explored, all the traces of civilization were gone and all teh resources were intact. Myths state that they have been slaughtered overnight, or moved somewhere to avoid war. Whatever, The Kawaza people took the land.

Finally Today, the Kawaza people proudly applies this as their own land, with the history of their ownership evident and they have lobbied to Stevid to award us the land



Map Screengrab/Picture: Will be added on later
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

[The Acidspitter Crown Empire]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: The Dominion of the Acidspitter Crown Empire
Colony Name: The Imperial Colony of Magnea
Capital City: Astacar
Capital Features:
Port [ ] Fortress/Military Base [ x ] Wall/Stockade [ ] Trade Hub [ ] Religious Centre [ x ] (Temple-Fortress of the COJ, Colonial Guard station)
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 1.5 million
Location: Draxaad
Size (Up to 30kmi²): 30KM
Town Names:
1) Lazenna
2) Tarus
Specific Requests: I would like to deploy the 1st Regiment of the Colonial Guard to the new colony.
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim:
(What is it like? Why has your nation come here? What do you want to gain?)

[Katase]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: The Principality of Katase
Colony Name: Miyakajima Island
Capital City: Keijō
Capital Features:
Port [X ] Fortress/Military Base [ X] Wall/Stockade [ ] Trade Hub [x ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 100,000
Location: Kerring Isles
Size (Up to 30kmi²): See the map, tell me if it's reasonable
Town Names:
1) Sakura
2) Tomoyo
Specific Requests:
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim:
Katase is expanding it's reach and influence beyond the waters of GD and hoping to also be neighborly with those in the region as they expand beyond their own natural borders. On top of that, Katase has a large population to feed and the economy has been stagnate over the last few years, only worsened by nations afflicted by the COVID pandemic or other recent natural disasters. Having more land can increase access to trade, resources and inter regional relations beyond the traditional embassy or alliance. The land is intended to be divide up with land based agirculture dominating the southern portions and fishing in the north.



Map Screengrab/Picture: https://i.imgur.com/1Vy0FjK.jpg I marked it by filling with purple i was hoping to grab the whole island but If it's too much, I'm willing to scale back
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

[Cossack Peoples]

The Remainders, dealing with the remnants of the Craxx Empire in the apocalyptic Craxx-Reyes area.

[Galimencia]

I have no plans of expanding my territory in Craxx, because I am more interested in playing a slavery related RP, where the colonists revolt against their imperial powers. There is a possibility, albeit a very small one, that Novae Terrae will break away from Galimencia to form a new independent country. Let's see how the RP proceeds.

[Stevid]

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

[Countesia]

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

Also, am i allowed to use the Craxx in my own nations backstory? Countesia's unification was the direct result of a hard fought victory over a global superpower trying to invade it for its mineral wealth. Craxx would be a cool adversary.

[European Federation Reunified]

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

I believe you must add that my country has reclaimed one of the oil wells in Retrin Basin Bay.

[Cartoonia]

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

DAMN IT! There goes my idea of expanding more lands east of the river (where my original land ends, was planning to expand down south). Oh well.

[Widefolkland]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: United Republic of Widefolkland
Colony Name: Burger's Burgers, Skull Island Factories
Capital City: Factory No. 1
Capital Features:
Port [X] Fortress/Military Base [X] Wall/Stockade [ ] Trade Hub [ ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 10,000 employees
Location: Sea of Skulls
Size (Up to 30kmi²): Whatever the size of the island in the eastern Sea of Skulls is, as that's what I'd like to claim.
Town Names:
1)
2)
Specific Requests: An animals resource marker would be nice.

Description of your claim:
(What is it like? Why has your nation come here? What do you want to gain?)

A little background: Burger's Burgers was founded in 1961 by Fred Bürger, and has stayed in the Burger family ever since. Recently, however, under the leadership of the founder's grandson, Fred Bürger III, having donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Joseph Monroe during his successful campaign for Widefolkland's presidency, the company has started to have greater ambitions.

The Craxx Archipelago offers a business opportunity, all the lands for crops and pastures for beef any hopeful fast food megacorporation could ask for: and all under the company's direct control. More than just burgers will be made here.

Map Screengrab/Picture:
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

[Malandrin]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: Malandrin
Colony Name: Lakinia
Capital City: Parrete
Capital Features:
Port [ x ] Fortress/Military Base [ x ] Wall/Stockade [ x ] Trade Hub [ x ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 1'3 mil
Location: South of Strensall Isles
Size (Up to 30kmi²): 30kmi
Town Names:
1) Tylesh
2) Gragnia
Specific Requests:
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim:
(What is it like? Why has your nation come here? What do you want to gain?)
Seen as an opportunity to enrich himself, Malandrin has established a mining colony here. Our main interests are:
-Gold
-Silver
-Copper
-Uranium
-Neptunium


Map Screengrab/Picture: https://share.icloud.com/photos/018yLpJ ... 7w0KLsw8Nw
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

[The Qoryx]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: Malandrin
Colony Name: Lakinia
Capital City: Parrete
Capital Features:
Port [ x ] Fortress/Military Base [ x ] Wall/Stockade [ x ] Trade Hub [ x ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 1'3 mil
Location: South of Strensall Isles
Size (Up to 30kmi²): 30kmi
Town Names:
1) Tylesh
2) Gragnia
Specific Requests:
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim:
(What is it like? Why has your nation come here? What do you want to gain?)
Seen as an opportunity to enrich himself, Malandrin has established a mining colony here. Our main interests are:
-Gold
-Silver
-Copper
-Uranium
-Neptunium


Map Screengrab/Picture: https://share.icloud.com/photos/018yLpJ ... 7w0KLsw8Nw
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

You might want to review the claims map again (click here) as where you've claimed is already taken.

[Malandrin]

Colony Application
Full Nation Name: Malandrin
Colony Name: Lakinia
Capital City: Parrete
Capital Features:
Port [ x ] Fortress/Military Base [ x ] Wall/Stockade [ x ] Trade Hub [ x ] Religious Centre [ ]
Population (Up to 1.5 mil): 1'3 mil
Location: South of Strensall Isles
Size (Up to 30kmi²): 30kmi
Town Names:
1) Tylesh
2) Gragnia
Specific Requests:
(Really niche resource, terrain change, particular bit of coast, etc)


Description of your claim:
(What is it like? Why has your nation come here? What do you want to gain?)
Seen as an opportunity to enrich himself, Malandrin has established a mining colony here. Our main interests are:
-Gold
-Silver
-Copper
-Uranium
-Neptunium


Map Screengrab/Picture: https://share.icloud.com/photos/018yLpJ ... 7w0KLsw8Nw
(Include claim, roads, city placement if applicable)

You might want to review the claims map again (click here) as where you've claimed is already taken.

Then I would like to get this territory: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0u6Khud ... 8wsukut7CA

[Stevid]

The claims have been accepted and the map has been updated!

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

Also, am i allowed to use the Craxx in my own nations backstory? Countesia's unification was the direct result of a hard fought victory over a global superpower trying to invade it for its mineral wealth. Craxx would be a cool adversary.

Yeah, go for it mate! The Craxx were warmongers, lashing out, raiding, etc. So it would fit quite nicely.

Right then... apologies for the delay. Weekend was tiring, and work has been busy. But enough excuses, there's greedy colonising to be done - and you guys have been busy!!!

Accepted claims and territorial acquisitions have been added to the new map!

The .map file has also been amended to the version 1.10

Changelog:

- Claims from Katase and and Kawaza have both been accepted. Enjoy you new land!
- The claim by Acidspitter Crown Empire has been denied. Reason is there's no detail on how your colony has come into being, so please complete this and resubmit. This RP is supposed to encourage writing from players of any and all abilities; but encouraging participation between players will be difficult if there's no backstory on your colony to work off of.
- Claim by Countesia of the western most island has been added (*Wonder what's going on out there, eh?)
- Drifterica expansion added.
- Imperial Unity renamed "The RE"
- Details added to Lapsil colony
- The Remainers story story RP hub thread for Former Craxx Empire exploration added to the RP list.

A seperate Discord channel is planned and hopefully I will have that up and running tomorrow afternoon (GMT)

If I have missed something or changes are required due to progression in an RP then please let me know!

I believe you must add that my country has reclaimed one of the oil wells in Retrin Basin Bay.

If the claim is in the water itself the claim does not get acknowledged on the map. This is so because, in part, the map does not allow for sea borders to be drawn. But where borders in the sea ultimately fall is always open to interpretation. This also encourages little spats or discussions with your neighbours has to haggle and vie for resources out at sea.

Changelog:

- Claims of Widefolkland and Maladrin added
- Extension of UWO's borders now added... because I missed it off last time.
- Kawaza's claim reduced due to commitment issues as highlighted by the player. Lucky you Cartoonia!

[Dernel]

Well this has slowed down a bit hasn't it? Lets start some shit to get it goin' again.

Is anyone here who isn't in Greater Dienstad (because I have two from there already) keen on having a plane hijacked in my country and then flown back to your country, where it then is blown up on the airport property somewhere (so the only damage is to the plane and ground it's exploded over)?

We'd be looking at about 120-ish passenger plane, and basically it would be flown to your country normally then they'd hijack it on the ground there, and blow it up somewhere like a taxiway or on the runway or something.

If anyone's interested, let me know via TG! I'd have to approve of which nation, as my country might not even permit travel between our nations, but at the very least you'd get an idea of where our relations stand.

Ill take you up on the offer, since no one else seems to have.

[The Qoryx]

Well this has slowed down a bit hasn't it? Lets start some shit to get it goin' again.

-snip-

Ill take you up on the offer, since no one else seems to have.

Apologies to everyone here, work and life has been busy for me so I've been left with little to no time for anything NS-related. Hoping to have a little more time with which to do some more RP'ing.

And thank you! Is there a city you'd like it to arrive at? It would need a bigger airfield to basically engulf/explode while on the runway and away from any other planes. Maybe shoot a TG and we can plan it out.