Polynesia

## Summary

Polynesia is an archipelago continent in the rough centre of the Pacific Ocean. The continent is mainly comprised of small oceanic islands surrounding the main landmass of Anahera. The continent was discovered by the Polynesian explorers in the early 1000s B.C and was settled by these people.

## History

### Early History

The continent was settled in the early 1000s B.C by Polynesian explorers from Formosa. The continent soon splintered between the settlers as the population grew and more settlers arrived. In 483 B.C the first Polynesian Kingdom was established by Amataga Atamai I. the empire quickly expanded throughout the island of Anahera and the island had been unified by 154 B.C. The kingdom's navy grew significantly between 154 and 34 B.C which, in 10 B.C launched for the island of Camerhari, the second largest island in the continent. The navy continued its expansion of the Empire, formally declared in 1 B.C into the remainder of the continent.

Many islands remained unconquered by 70 A.D, including the kingdom of Comos, which had consolidated resistance against the Polynesian Kingdom through the 100s and 200s. The two kingdoms had claimed most of the ring islands by 256. In 278 the First Polynesian war began. The cause of the war is unknown, though it resulted in the two kingdoms clashing for 39 years. The kingdom of Comos eventually gained lordship over a small part of Anahera and liberated many small southern islands from Polynesia.

The two kingdoms remained in relative peace for 47 years. In 364 the Formosa Rebellion began. The rebels traced their lineage back to the island of Formosa and sought to unify the two kingdoms under the common heritage of their settler society. The rebels captured many key cities along the Brishan river, flowing through Anahera, cutting the island in two. Both Comos and Polynsia lost control of many of their cities in the Southwest of Anahera. The rebellion continued gaining speed until 384 when the island of Anahera had been unified under Formosan Control. The kingdom of Comos reclined to the Southeast and west islands. The eastern islands of Vivalou, Sealu and Aristu each staged individual rebellions against Comosian Leadership.

The continent found peace in 391, with the Formosa Rebellion forming the Taipan Empire, consolidating on Anahera. The continent entered the medieval age in peace, with many of the southern islands forming kingdoms. The continent saw the splintering of Taipan in the 900s, with the coronation of King Rasputu I as emperor of The Comouan Dynasty. The continent saw the Comouans and Taipan become rivals into the 1000s. Anahera remained divided until 1457 when Shelou XVIII The Conqueror invaded Comouan, unifying Anahera for the first time since 297.

### Discovery and Exploration

In 1465 'King' Colu I discovered the Hawaiian Empire in the far southwest of the Continent. In 1498 he sailed a great fleet of catamarans Maru, Kariu and Shingur east and discovered the Ming Dynasty and a splintered Japan. The discovery of Asia heralded a new age of trade and prosperity for Taipan. The Taipan Empire grew and formed an alliance with the Hawaiians and continued an age of discovery until 1704. In 1705 the Empires leader, Emperor Formas XIII agreed to marry the daughter of the King of Indonesia. During her transit to Polynesia she was shipwrecked. The king of Indonesia blamed the Taipanian navigators for her death and sent his fleet to invade Taipan. The Taipanians failed to repel the invaders, who captured most of the eastern continent. Taipan, having lost its trading ports and most economically valuable land, consolidated in the west the continent, rebuilding former Comosian infrastructure and cities.

In 1745 the British Crown offered to establish trading ports in the kingdom. Three ports were established along the southern bay of Anahera. In 1765 the Indonesian kingdom collapsed from dutch pressure and its leadership fled to Anahera. With assistance form a British fleet the Taipanians reconquered their lost territory in exchange for the establishment of British trading ports in the West of the continent.

### Empire Period

In 1834 the British Empire, in exchange for the return of their trading posts, took control of many sparsely habited islands in the east of the continent, namely Ohou and Aleu. By 1890 the Polynesians, capitalizing upon the lack of British naval presence in Ohou and Aleu, invaded the two islands, as well as many smaller uninhabited islands from the British Empire, which, by the time the islands had fell, couldn't have even mustered a force to repel the invaders from Canada.

After the capture of Ohou and Aleu from the British, the military, newly enlarged, staged a coup against what they saw as a weakened Taipanian Government that lacked initiative. The Polynesian Empire was established in 1897 by Admiral Ataranga Chellai and many high ranking officers within the Polynesian military.

#### Pacific Wars

In 1891 the United States incorporated Hawaii into their Federation after the Spanish-American War, which saw many naval engagements off the coast of Polynesia. In 1894 the Polynesian Empire declared war on the United States, seeking to capture Hawaii with the newly built two armadas of ships. Succeeding relatively easily in the capture, and with the Americans weakened from the war with Spain, ceded Hawaii to Polynesia in what would become known as the Hawaiian War.

Despite the recent success of the Empire, in 1910, the United States, with their newly built Great White Fleet and Marine Force, invaded Hawaii, swiftly retaking it. After twenty years of suffering under the brutal dictatorship of the Empire, the Americans were seen as liberators, and beloved by the Hawaiian public. These ideas soon spread to Aleu and Ohou, which were soon after invaded by the US. The American Navy crushed the old British pre-dreadnoughts fielded by the Empire. The 'Free Forces' as they soon came to be known, jumped off of Aleu and captured a part of Comorotan. Despite this, Polynesian Forces repelled the invaders from the main island, and signed the Treaty of Oahu, ending the Polynesian-American war in 1911.

After the defeat at the hands of the Americans, Grand Admiral Chellai II, son of Ataranga Chellai, after gaining power from his father in 1917, established the country as a fascist regime in 1918. The Free Polynesian Empire rapidly began industrializing and urbanizing the continent.