Utopia

Founding Through Piracy an the Words of a Queen
* Pirates posed a major security threat during and after the Imperia Wars. In 961, a large pirate fleet attacked Greyborough while the main fleet was fighting an Imperian Fleet near the Verian Coast. Helena herself was nearly killed in the attack, and vowed vengeance.
The final Imperian fleet was waylaid by the Cholobaghi and surrendered in May, ending the wars. Immediately after the Gretian fleet returned to port, received repairs and reprovisioning, and with Cholobaghi reinforcements, began to assault any pirate ship they found.
In late 961, Captain Horace Jade of the G.S.S. Alliance found hard intelligence on the location of the pirate fleet in question’s headquarters. They were in a well defended and ironically named place called Utopia Bay
Utopia Bay had served the Hybretian Navy as a place of refuge in the North in the centuries before the War of the Mad Emperor. In the Canadian-Excaliban War, the Corinthian Sovereign Republic (later the basis for the Knight’s Templar with the Hellebori) used it as a place to hide their fleet. As the Mad Emperors war raged a thousand years ago, the Corinthians once again hid their fleet behind Utopia Island, successfully defeating a Sidonian fleet before being destroyed themselves. In the centuries since, it had changed hands between pirates numerous times.
Helena ordered the fleet to attack Utopia Bay in the dead of night, in order to catch the poorly organized pirates off guard. The operation successfully destroyed the Pirate Fleet and the pirates were dispersed or killed. Castle Grey had captured Utopia Bay, which was now rightfully theirs. 
In celebration, Helena declared that the bay would house a new Gretian city, to account for the large increase in population and to provide a cleaner, improved life for all. When asked for a name, she stated “Utopia, for now”. The name stayed.
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