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10/27/2018 9:43 am
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I've been designing a world named Bornea for some time now and I plan to add a whole new section in the west (new chunks of course). I want to use it with my upcoming server later this year. The theme is in a pirate/colonial era where boats are a must for travel and the only thing that keeps you alive is your wits and will to press further into the world. The northern section of the map is a cold taiga climate (Alaska). While the southern section is a tropical maritime climate (Gulf coast).

My challenge to you as a community member is to come up with a story (however long you feel is necessary) about how and why the north and south settle their differences. (peaceful or hostile) As long as you keep those two rules you are free to bring anything else you deem worthy of mention to make your story come to life.

I am doing this because I want a story line within the server that way it is easier to design. So here are some facts that might help you get going:
  • Pirates generally reside in the south while Colonists generally reside in the north.
  • Custom ships are able to be crafted and sailed anywhere in the ocean (with the help of movecraft)
  • Colonists tend to... well.. colonize. Therefore, they have more numbers and wealth. Whereas pirates run few in numbers; however, some live lavishly.
  • Pirates are typically better at combat than Colonists.
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Thank you! I look forward to seeing your stories.
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10/27/2018 9:43 am
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A long time ago, a woman called Borea was born in a family of merchants and sailors. With her noble status she got a well education about geography, physics and more but also learned about the sailors job. When studying texts from ancient time in an old library she read about a mad idea - the world is supposed to be globe. But the physical explanation was logical and has no error.
After five years she found enought people to fund her an exploration over the large deep blue ocean. A fleet of 3 small but fast and modern ships undocked their home port and sailed to a place where noone has been before.

The journey needed about a year when the crew finally found land; an archipelago of seven island with animals and planets that no man had seen before. When first crew member left the ship to explore the islands they also found expensive resources like iron, gold or a new kind of wood.
When the fleet returned home, the crew spread rumours about tons of gold and delicious spices - just a few month later a new fleet of people from all social classes search for wealthy and adenventure or a new safer home crossed the deep blue ocean to the mysterious islands now called as Bornea. This people founded Port Noverum as first settlement on the islands and collects resources for them self or the new upcomming trading route to the home land.
But soon Port Noverum became a problem - the prospery mines and fields had not enogth (cheap) workers so the econmy could not grow fast enogth. The king at the home land needed to do something so all criminals were deported to Bornea and Port Noverum became a prison colony. These men and women were treated like slaves, while the other colonists - even the lowest - got more and more wealthy.
While that other explorers found some more islands in the Southern Parts, but these had not enogth resources to be colonized aswell and were just ignored by the people. Because of that some prisoners, who were able to escape from the mines, found themselves a way to the Southern Islands and founded their own town Port Libertas. But Port Libertas is not a wealthy town with a well working local government and law. Its ruled hardly by a very few men and women that were more brutal than the others - but beside them everyone were able to built up their own live and will not be bothered by other people aslong they don't bother them. Crime is everywhere, because there is no police but because of that everyone tries to do crimes aswell. Port Libertas was and is just a perfect anarchy.

The Liberatae (that is how the people from Port Libertas calls themselves) hated them neighbours, because of their past, and were also jealous about their prosperity so they started to raid the colonies and their trading ships years for years. The King - angry about the missing trading ships - sent a navy force to find and destroy the priate's port. After one year the Libertas was captured by the royal forces and became another colony.

5 years later the Kingdom was in trouble. Revolution! People for lower and heiger classes - especially merchants, who have become rich trough the new colonies, were not able to accept the royal leadership anymore and started a civil war. Mercenaries from the colonies (especially former pirates) and other countries hiered by the rich people figthed togther with civil militas to take down the Royalty - at the home land and at the colonies. After 7 years of bloody civil war a peace was made. The Revolutionary, who captured all colonies, the former capital and minor parts of the home land seperated themselves from the old Kingdom and became and independent republic. Thankfull for their assist in war time the Liberatae have become their independence back from the Republic, which has closed the prison mines in the colonies aswell.

The Liberatae migth be free again, but they are still poor. Their Islands hold not much resources and they have no collected prosperity or industry that could use for an own glorious future, so they started to pirate again. Today the relationship between the Northern & Southern Islands are cold and pirates make the sea unsafe but there is no war - for now.
-----------------------------------------Hope you like it; its inspired from the history of Testuda, a pirate city state I started to work on my own RP-World,
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07/30/2018 1:43 pm
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DinowCookie
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Do you have a deadline for this challenge? Will a winner be chosen? Also, may entries be submitted a s a blog-post as well?
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07/30/2018 7:46 am
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How's this:

Bornea. An inconspicuous archipelago in the middle of seemingly nowhere, circled by the vast ocean. As dull as it may seem, a legend has been passed on for centuries by the local tribes, the legend of the people of the sea.


The myth speaks of wandering soulless bodies who hadn’t received the proper ritual, thus being unable to proceed to the afterlife. These corpses haunted the living and invaded boats years after their own death, hoping to drag them into the depths. Of course, this was just a legend, and these creatures were merely a way to convince children the sea was dangerous.


Four years ago, two groups of people came to the archipelago to settle themselves. On one hand, the colonists, in search of new land, gold and precious spices. On the other hand, pirates, willing to be at home far from the eyes of authorities, somewhere that was unheard of. The war lasted for weeks, neither side backing down. Anyone who got out of their ships to get to the land was immediately shot down by the enemy. Eventually, both sides, tired of fighting and out of food and water, agreed to take one side each.


The colonists, preferring land, took the north, rich in resources. The pirates, more fond of the sea, took a smaller but warmer set of small islands to the south, where they could hide treasures, open a business or hide.


More recently, the tension being almost totally gone, the two sides began to communicate and started selling things to one another, the colonists selling raw materials, cattle and produce, while the pirates gladly gave gold, various other riches and maps in exchange.


However, since a few days ago, there have been numerous disappearances throughout the sea, boats that never reached destination nights with a clear sky, shipwrecks washing up with no signs of corpses anywhere, people claiming to have heard strange noises when sailing. Each side blames the other, resulting in small conflicts here and there, some people refusing to leave the coasts. Left and exiled somewhere to the west, the locals seem to be the only ones to know what’s going on.

(the creatures are obviously the drowned)
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07/25/2018 8:19 am
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mouse36
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What's "lore"?
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07/25/2018 8:19 pm
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_Huffmanbran
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Like a story.
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07/26/2018 8:31 am
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mouse36
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I can do that!
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07/25/2018 5:31 am
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LimeInABush
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Do we enter our stories by replying here?
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07/25/2018 8:18 pm
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_Huffmanbran
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Yes, or you could pm if you'd like.
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