Rusky Hoskin

Rusky in 1901 (Age: 49)

Rusky Hoskin was one of the founders of The Island in 1896. He imposed Alternative Western ideologies on to his people, and created one of the worst societies of the 20th Century.

## Early Life

Russel Birkham Hoskin was born in 1852 in Lerneship, Westernia. He was abandoned by his parents at the age of 4, and grew up around the docks. His clothing had the name "Russel Birkham Hoskin" stitched into it, which was assumed either him or his fathers name, as there was no known Tailor by this name. He was given the nickname "Rusky" by the local barman, who used to give Rusky free drinks as a child. Rusky grew up stealing food in order to survive. In his teenage years he began committing more serious crimes such as rape, and robbery. Rusky committed many murders during his adulthood, as well as rape and theft. Towards the turn of the century the political angle of Westernia began to change, allowing women with more rights, and harder laws on crime. Rusky did not agree with these ideas.

In 1888 Rusky was sentenced to 5 years in prison for Rape and Burglary. While in jail, Rusky met James Richardson, who's political idea aligned with him. In 1895 Rusky met up with James, and discussed about sailing away to start their own civilization under the ideas they believed, as James had experience sailing. Rusky searched for a navigator around the docks before finding Lewis Nicholson who had studied navigation for years, but never had success joining a crew. A man named Nicholas Sampson over hear Rusky and James talking and offered his assistance, as he had experience working in factories and building. Rusky accepted Nicholas request.

## Island Discovery

On December 21st 1895 Rusky and the crew departed The East Coast city of Lerneship, and sailed east. A 15 year old boy named Darius Young sneaked aboard the ship with the assistance of Nicholas before departure, which Rusky was not happy about at first, but decided that the kid could be useful. After 1 week out at sea, the ship entered extremely dangerous weather, which made Rusky request for them to return home. They were not able to turn back and were dragged further out. On January 4th 1896 they landed on an island known as Sywater. The indigenous people of the island were not welcoming. Rusky along with James, and Nicholas, went around killing them all, as well as raping the women. Lewis was disgusted by the actions of his fellow crew mates and wanted to return home. Rusky would not allow Lewis to return home. After 3 weeks on Sywater, Rusky decided this was not where he wanted to start his new civilization, and told the rest of the crew they were going to continue looking. This is the point where Lewis documented in his journal that he refereed to the crew as pirates. Rusky took 4 indigenous women with him as slaves, as they continued to travel east across the seas. Unknowingly to Rusky, Lewis secretly was trying to navigate them back to Westernia. The ship was heading west under Sywater back towards Westernia. The weather became so bad that they began to travel south as directed by Lewis. 2 Women jumped off the ship and died at sea trying to escape.

On February 11th 1896, the pirates landed on the north "The Island". They started a settlement at this area and created a warf. They named it North Point. The two women from Sywater were Talimia Marersha, and her daughter Miriksha Marersha. The women were slaves and were raped. Rusky took Miriksha as his own slave. Lewis did not agree with the pirates behavior and helped the women when he could. After a few months on the island, Rusky decided the land was perfect. At this point they had not even explored any further than the foothills above, and Rusky seemed to be cautious of possible natives. Rusky decided for James to go back to Westernia to try and convince people to come to his new civilization. on July 15th 1896 James traveled alone to Westernia, as they did not want Lewis alerting authorities. Rusky impregnated Miriksha, while Nicholas impregnated the mother Talimia. After 6 Months on The Island, Rusky decided to explore over the foothills to which he discovered flat plains. Rusky brought the settlement to this area. Nicholas and Darius helped build shelter. Rusky named the place Rusty Village. In April 1897, James had returned to North Point from Westernia with 60 people. 23 men, 30 women, and 7 children. Many of the men were brought to work, and many opposed the political views of Westernia. All the women were tricked into believing they were coming to a different type of system, and were all kept as slaves. Rusky ordered JamesRichardson to convince some men to sail back and spread the word to people to come, but he made a specific to only tell them about the island once they had shown they agreed with his views.

Rusky's daughter Lily was born in 1897 by Miriksha. As more people started coming in Rusky became cautious of made James in charge of the Warf at North Point. Rusky became attached to Sylvia Dupree, a women who had fathered a child of James at sea. Rusky found the way she stood up for herself as attractive. He decided to marry her, and freed her from being a slave. Sylvia was revolted by Rusky, but knew it was the only way to live her best life on The Island. by 1898 the population of The Island was 300. North Point with 90, and Rusty Village with 210. Nicholas had an idea of his own to start an underground civilization. He started off with mining to gather resources to build, and Rusky was fine with this as he needed the resources. Rusky wanted to explore the land further to the west but was unable to due to a dangerous terrain. He sent Darius and a few other men to find a way to get there. After months of trying they eventually were able to get there. They set up Western Town, but were not able to get back around. Nicholassuggested his mining ideas to get to the other side where the dangerous valley was. They eventually were able to create a path to the Western Town ground. Ruskys wife Sylvia had become pregnant. Western Town started to gain more people as its location had more vegetation and water networks present.

In 1899 Sylvia gave birth to Ruskys son Corbert Hoskin. Nicholas created a mining area south of Rusty Village, where the first factories were built. Rusky gave control of Western Town to 18 year old Darius. In 1900 Ruskys second child with Sylvia was born, which was a boy named Princeton. Rusky's vision was coming to life and the population of his civilization kept growing. In 1902 Rusky had realized that Lewis had freed some women and escaped Rusty Village. He sent Nicholas and 4 other men to search for Lewis and kill him. One of the men returned a few days later and alerted Rusky about people of a foreign race on a ship killing Nicholas and the other men. Rusky was also notified that Lewis had been killed. Rusky gathered as many men as he could to fight against the attackers. A war began as more and more ships of Easterners arrived on The Island. Rusky's wife Sylvia was kidnapped by Eastern men, and was believed to be killed. Later in the year, Rusky had another child with Miriksha, a girl named Panie. Rusky killed Miriksha soon after, out anger because she wasn't Sylvia. War intensified and Rusty Village no longer was livable. Rusky retreated to Western Town and assumed power from Darius. Over the next 4 years 70,000 people had died from the war. The Easterners had claimed land in the desert. Darius fleed Western Town towards the far west as he did not want to participate in the war, which was negative for Rusky. Rusky saw that he was losing the great society he had envisioned for himself. He became a heavy alcoholic. The only children of his he would see were Lily and Corbert. Corbert spent much of his time on the streets, and Lily would get abused by Rusky. Rusky raped 13 year old Rebecca Marersha, the daughter of the late Nicholas and late Talimia. Rebecca became pregnant, later giving birth to Daughter Saline. By this time the entire South, Central, and East of The Island were occupied by the Easterners, and they were gaining in on the North.

## Death and Aftermath

On November 7th 1912 Rusky was killed by his 15 year old Daughter Lily in Western Town. After his death many people became sick of the way of living that was imposed by Rusky, and also did not want to fight a war for his cause. Many people surrendered to the Easterners. The war came to a halt in 1915, but major violence between the groups continued.

Rusky is viewed as one of the most infamous people to have ever lived on Earth.