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** [[spoiler:Said civilization, or at least other Mesoamerican city-building peoples with which trade is possible, seem to be around ten years later to trade with Nantucket. The damage done by the mumps epidemic may have been less extreme than anticipated in the first book]]
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They were not trying to take over Nantucket for all their political disagreements. They were manipulated into an attempt to ransack the armory in order to give the Olomecs a fighting chance against Inevitable European Colonization


* ObsoleteOccupation: One of the major factors fueling Lisketter's Revolt was the fact that Pamela Lisketter and her fellow activists realized that a bunch of environmentalists weren't going to have much influence in a world where the environment wasn't in any particular danger yet. As the new government forms, she and her followers find themselves increasingly displaced in favor of more useful people like Captain Alston (an experienced Coast Guard officer) and Jared Cofflin (a war veteran and police chief), and thus try to kill Alston and kidnap Cofflin's wife in an attempt to stop what they see as a military takeover of "their" island.
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* ObsoleteOccupation: One of the major factors fueling Lisketter's Revolt was the fact that Pamela Lisketter and her fellow activists realized that a bunch of environmentalists weren't going to have much influence in a world where the environment wasn't in any particular danger yet. As the new government forms, she and her followers find themselves increasingly displaced in favor of more useful people like Captain Alston (an experienced Coast Guard officer) and Jared Cofflin (a war veteran and police chief), and thus try to kill Alston and kidnap Cofflin's wife in an attempt to stop what they see as a military takeover of "their" island.
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** The king of Bablyon undergoes a milder one, assuaged by assurances that Nantucket's advances were only possible with thousands of years more time than the Babylonians had had to work with, and the foundation that Babylon itself helped to build. [[spoiler: It's these assurances, diplomatically wielded, that establish Babylon as the first really powerful ancient civilization with which Nantucket is able to forge an alliance.]]

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** The king of Bablyon undergoes a milder one, assuaged by assurances that Nantucket's advances were only possible with thousands of years more time than the Babylonians had had to work with, with and the foundation that Babylon itself helped to build. [[spoiler: It's these assurances, diplomatically wielded, that establish Babylon as the first really powerful ancient civilization with which Nantucket is able to forge an alliance.]]

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* SwapTeleportation: The Event includes the entire island, a couple of small nearby islands, and a substantial volume of surrounding ocean. An aerial survey right after the Event finds that the past-ocean and transported-ocean are different colors, allowing them to figure that the Event swapped out an elliptical area roughly 23 miles long and 5 miles wide. They never know how high or how deep underground/underwater it went.



* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic of Nantucket. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much or more land directly or indirectly as our timeline's British Empire.]]

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* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic of Nantucket. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers Nantucketers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much or more land directly or indirectly as our timeline's British Empire.]]
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* HufflepuffHouse: The Shang Dynasty of China is the only major power that is completely uninvolved in the various wars of the trilogy. It's only mentioned in an easy to miss way as a world power that other characters are starting to trade with.
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* AntiClimax: [[spoiler: The third book mostly involves the Republic of Nantucket fighting against Walker's allies and auxiliary forces in order to access his Achean holdings. Right as the time seems right for a climactic final battle where Walker will be defeated for good, a palace coup takes overthrows his rule of the Achaean state and he is assassinated.]]
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The first book of the main trilogy of ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'' by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.

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The first book of the main trilogy of the ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'' by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.
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A trilogy by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.

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A The first book of the main trilogy of ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'' by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.

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* PerfectPoison: Averted in the somewhat prolonged deaths of [[spoiler:Walker, Hong and their entourage at the end of the third book]]. Not that they didn't have it coming.



* SeductionProofMarriage: Played with in ''Against the Tide of Years''. Marian Alston and Swindapa, a married lesbian couple, visit a war chief and are offered a woman as part of the SacredHospitality. Alston, who takes marriage very seriously, has absolutely no interest in the girl, but Swindapa, who comes from a culture in which polygamy is the norm, is intrigued, even though she doesn't take advantage. This is somewhat par for the course in their relationship; throughout the book, Swindapa is rather shameless about her wandering eye, even though she never does anything more than look and occasionally enthuse.
-->"I promised to be monogamous, not blind."



* StarbucksSkinScale: A mixed race child is literally referred to as having "café-au-lait skin."



* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The second book features a scene where Swindapa and her Fiernan peers converse in their own language. Their conversation is presented in English, but even ''that'' requires a further translation, because the Fiernan language is loaded with metaphors and figurative language.

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The first book, ''Island in the Sea of Time'', covers the first couple of years, from the Event up to the Battle of the Downs, where Walker and his local allies meet the expeditionary force from Nantucket and their local allies.

The second book, ''Against The Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

The third book, ''On the Oceans of Eternity'', brings with it the end of the war.

There is also a short story, "Blood Wolf", set in the same milieu, but about a generation later.

The series is tenuously connected to the Literature/{{Emberverse}}, which covers what happened in the world Nantucket left behind.

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The This first book, ''Island in the Sea of Time'', covers the first couple of years, from the Event up to the Battle of the Downs, where Walker and his local allies meet the expeditionary force from Nantucket and their local allies.

The second book, ''Against The Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact This book is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

The third book, ''On the Oceans of Eternity'', brings with it the end of the war.

There is also a short story, "Blood Wolf", set in the same milieu, but about a generation later.

The series is tenuously connected to the Literature/{{Emberverse}}, which covers what happened in the world Nantucket left behind.
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* [[spoiler: AntiClimax: The third book mostly involves the Republic of Nantucket fighting against Walker's allies and auxiliary forces in order to access his Achean holdings. Right as the time seems right for a climactic final battle where Walker will be defeated for good, a palace coup takes overthrows his rule of the Achaean state and he is assassinated.]]

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* [[spoiler: AntiClimax: [[spoiler: The third book mostly involves the Republic of Nantucket fighting against Walker's allies and auxiliary forces in order to access his Achean holdings. Right as the time seems right for a climactic final battle where Walker will be defeated for good, a palace coup takes overthrows his rule of the Achaean state and he is assassinated.]]



* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Marian Alston and Swindapa.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: Swindapa.
* BreakTheHaughty: Pamela Lisketter.

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* DepravedBisexual[=/=]BondageIsBad: Dr. Alice Hong, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Lady of Pain]].

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* FightingIrish: Patrick O'Rourke of the Nantucket Marines.

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* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]: John Martins, oh so much.
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* HotScientist: Doreen Rosenthal.
* HotSpringsEpisode: In the third book, oddly enough.

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** And at one point Alice Hong mentions that she enjoys the taste of "long pig" [[spoiler:and "long veal steak" - the implication being that she has killed and eaten]] ''[[spoiler:children.]]''

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** And at At one point Alice Hong mentions that she enjoys the taste of "long pig" [[spoiler:and "long veal steak" - the implication being that she has killed and eaten]] ''[[spoiler:children.]]''eaten children.]]



* LadyOfWar: Raupasha of the Mitanni.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Walker, very much
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Most of the Sun People fall into this category.

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* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on. [[spoiler:The absolute peak of this comes in the third book, with three person chariot teams (driver, loader, gunner) using breech loading rifles]]

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* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on. [[spoiler:The absolute peak of this comes in the third book, with three person chariot teams (driver, loader, gunner) using breech loading rifles]]rifles]].



* TheRepublic: The Republic of Nantucket, of course. To outsiders it's unimaginably progressive and alien, with women given full rights, a mixed gender armed forces, assimilation for even complete strangers, and the executive and legislative branches chosen by direct (soon to be representative) democracy. The Republic is already a superpower thalassocracy by the second book. However, to its rivals and enemies it might seem more like:
* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much or more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* TheFederation: On the other hand, most of the citizens of Nantucket have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation from the bronze age outside world had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least straightforward.
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* TheRepublic: The Republic of Nantucket, of course. To outsiders it's unimaginably progressive and alien, with women given full rights, a mixed gender armed forces, assimilation for even complete strangers, and the executive and legislative branches chosen by direct (soon to be representative) democracy. The Republic is already a superpower thalassocracy by the second book. However, to its rivals and enemies it might seem more like:
* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic.Republic of Nantucket. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much or more land directly or indirectly as our timelines timeline's British Empire.]]
* TheFederation: On the other hand, most Most of the citizens of Nantucket have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands island's population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation from the bronze age Bronze Age-era outside world had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire. The Republics anti-slavery Republic's anti-slavery, pro-democracy feelings views do give it a strong moral high ground ground, and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least straightforward.
* TheRepublic: The Republic of Nantucket, of course. To outsiders it's unimaginably progressive and alien, with women given full rights, a mixed gender armed forces, assimilation for even complete strangers, and the executive and legislative branches chosen by direct (soon to be representative) democracy. The Republic is already a superpower thalassocracy by the second book.
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* TheWisePrince: Kashtiliash qualifies.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen ''and'' Women. Part of the SchizoTech. Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.

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The second book, ''Literature/AgainstTheTideOfYears'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

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The second book, ''Literature/AgainstTheTideOfYears'', ''Against The Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
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The second book, ''Against the Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

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The second book, ''Against the Tide of Years'', ''Literature/AgainstTheTideOfYears'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Republic of Nantucket takes a very dim view of slavery, as shown by the fact that almost all of its major warships are named after Civil War heroes or abolitionists. Given that one of its most prominent citizens is a former slave, this probably shouldn't be surprising. Naturally, the BigBad, of the series, William Walker, heavily employs slavery in his empire.
** Although for Walker personally, it's more of a means to an end than because he specifically likes it. As he notes to Alice Hong in ''Against the Tide of Years'';

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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Republic of Nantucket takes a very dim view of slavery, as shown by the fact that almost all of its major warships are named after Civil War heroes or abolitionists. Given that one of its most prominent citizens is a former slave, this probably shouldn't be surprising. Naturally, Naturally the BigBad, BigBad of the series, William Walker, heavily employs slavery in his empire.
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empire. Though for Walker personally, it's more of a means to an end than because he specifically likes it. As he notes to Alice Hong in ''Against the Tide of Years'';
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well. [[Spoiler: She escapes the toppling of his regime and travels into Central Asia along with one of Walker's first Alban allies. Her only goal in life is revenge on those who killed her father, starting by creating a great empire as far from the sea as possible.]]

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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well. [[Spoiler: She [[spoiler:She escapes the toppling of his regime and travels into Central Asia along with one of Walker's first Alban allies. Her only goal in life is revenge on those who killed her father, starting by creating a great empire as far from the sea as possible.]]
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well. [[Spoiler: She escapes the toppling of his regime and travels into eastern europe along with one of Walker's first Alban allies. Her only goal in life is revenge on those who killed her father, starting by creating a great empire as far from the sea as possible. ]]

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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well. [[Spoiler: She escapes the toppling of his regime and travels into eastern europe Central Asia along with one of Walker's first Alban allies. Her only goal in life is revenge on those who killed her father, starting by creating a great empire as far from the sea as possible. ]]
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* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much more more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* TheFederation: On the other hand, most of the citizens of Nantucket have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation from the bronze age outside world had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not straightforward.

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* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketeers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much more or more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* TheFederation: On the other hand, most of the citizens of Nantucket have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation from the bronze age outside world had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not straightforward.

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