The Continental Powers

…ss the ocean lies the New World, and within it the colonial establishments that the continental powers have spent two generations constructing. Albion holds New Avalon, a settlement tightly controlled from home: its govern…

…elf, in the ports and settlements and plantations and frontier communities that the continental powers have established on the far side of the Golden Sea. To be born in the colonies is to grow up in a place that the maps s…

…irtue. They are where you began. This chapter is concerned with that formation. The continental powers, their politics, their histories, their ambitions in Mar de Oro, are treated elsewhere, as the forces they are on the w…

…grant, a crown charter, or a company seal that ultimately traces back to one of the continental powers. Stroomdijk's avondrekening system assigns extraction quotas to company agents and accounts for variance with a precisi…