Caspian Island

**Caspian Island**is an uncharted island located near India on the Pacific Ocean. Discovered in 1933, the island remained relatively undisturbed, until the 1950s, when the island was targeted by the Soviet Union as a weapons testing site for the Soviet military.

## History

### Human settlements

The island was inhabited by humans since the last Ice Age, with early humans having immigrated to the island over 10,000 years ago. The first group of people to arrive on the island was a tribe known as the The Rising Crow Clan, originally from Asia. Over thousands of years, the people living there hunted, farmed, and fished to their heart's content. However, when Europeans came to the island during the Age of Exploration, the natives grew hostile to the European tribes and began attacking European settlements, perceiving the Europeans as invaders. This initial hostility eventually ended at the end of the Age of Exploration. As time went on, relations between the natives and the Europeans grew significantly friendlier. However, things got hostile during the Age of Imperialism, when Europeans began to do things that the natives believed were against their culture, as well as forcibly "indoctrinating" the natives with Christianity. This led to the Crow Wars, in which the Rising Crow Tribe fought the Europeans for their independence. When the Age of Imperialism ended, the Crow Wars ended as well and eventually the Rising Crow Tribe started a new country, known as Caspia, which was formally recognized by the Western World by 1845.

During the American Great Depression, some Americans went to Caspian Island when stocks crashed, hoping to find a better life there. The natives welcomed these American people too. In the early 1930s, with the help of the Americans, Caspia became a technologically advanced nation, on par with the United Kingdom, France, and the United States of America at the time. By the Cold War, Caspia had become a superpower.

### As a Soviet military base

In 1951, the Soviet Union invaded Caspian Island, with the intention of using it as a military base. In 1954, it was used as one of many operating bases for Operation Iron Wolf. The island nation of Caspia responded by declaring war, starting the Soviet-Caspian War. The war raged from 1953 to early 1979, where the Soviets were forced to pull their troops from the island and reroute them to Afghanistan for the Soviet-Afghan War that same year.
With the USSR gone, Caspian Island was free from foreign oppression.

### Atlas Biomedical arrives

In 1986, Atlas Biomedical opened up some new offices on the southern side of the island, far beyond the borders of Caspia. On the surface, Atlas Biomedical was creating new drugs and medicines to cure diseases. However, Atlas Biomedical had a dark side; they were secretly conducting illegal experiments involving the creation of bioweapons, which would be sold on the black market.

### Home of Apex Corporation

In 2015, Apex Corporation, following negotiations with the Caspian government, opened up a new office on Caspian soil. By 2020, Apex Corporation had set up numerous research facilities across the island, turning it into a technological haven, while at the same time not harming the well-being of the island natives.

## Ecology

Caspian Island has a series of ecoregions, each of which contain distinct ecological communities of plants and animals in a specific region. To the north and south, Caspian Island contains snowcapped mountains similar to the European Alps. In the middle of Caspian Island is lush jungle and the southern and southwestern portion of the island contains deserts.

## Fauna

An estimated 50 million species of animals live on Caspian Island. Each section of the island contains a variety of different species of animals, both land and aquatic. The island also has an invasive species problem, thanks to Soviet citizens bringing their own livestock to the island alongside military soldiers that "colonized" the island to use it as a military base.
An interesting note concerning the fauna on the island is that a majority of the animals there have undergone island gigantism, which makes them dramatically larger than their mainland counterparts. Examples include the Reaper Louse and the Caspian Wolf.

## Known animals

The following is a list of animals that are known to live on Caspian Island.

### Mammals

* Caspian Bear
* Red Deer
* Whitetail Deer
* Caribou
* Giant Elk
* Blacktail Deer (invasive)
* African buffalo (invasive)
* Jaguar
* Woolly Mammoth (resurrected)
* Caspian Goat
* Mouse
* Caspian Mountain Lion
* South American Jaguar

### Sea creatures

* Dolphiranha
* Devil Crawler
* Reaper Louse

### Reptiles

* Komodo Dragon (Invasive)
* Tyrannosaurus Rex (resurrected)
* Velociraptor (resurrected)
* Allosaurus (resurrected)
* Camarasaurus (resurrected)
* Brachiosaurus (resurrected)
* Ankylosaurus (resurrected)
* Saichania (resurrected)
* Tarbosaurus (resurrected)

## Gallery

### A helicopter flying towards the mountains of southern Caspian Island, 1993A helicopter flying over Caspian Island, 2020Crashed World War II bomberApex Technological CenterEduardo's Lagoon, Caspian IslandApex Corporation research facilityDecaying treehouse on Caspian IslandCaspian Island rainforestPuffin Lake, Caspian IslandCamp KodiakCaspian Island beachOutpost on Caspian IslandCaspian CityA view of Caspian IslandCaspian Island found on Google EarthFauna

Brown bearAsiatic Black BearPolar bearTyrannosaurus Rex (resurrected)Velociraptor (resurrected)Ceratosaurus (resurrected)StegosaurusAnkylosaurusPachycephalosaurusNigersaurusMuttaburrasaurusOuranosaurusApatosaurusDilophosaurusSaltwater Crocodile (invasive)Hippopotamus (invasive)American Bison (invasive)Nyala (invasive)Plains Zebra (invasive)Komodo Dragon (invasive)African buffalo (invasive)