Auroa Vanguard Republic

## **History:**

### **Before the New World:**

The sector Auroa, and area in northern New Zealand, is made up of a series of 11 individual biomes including marine estuaries and wetlands, arboreal forests, snow-capped mountains, fjords, and active volcanoes.

80 million years ago, the archipelago first broke away from the landmass that would eventually become New Zealand and Australia. Later its first inhabitants, known as The Kings of the Forest or The Forgotten, vanished long ago, leaving only relics of their ancient civilization. Beginning in the 16th century, the island was discovered by Europeans and they attempted to colonize it with sea forts and trading posts but were eventually run off by the locals. In 1770, James Cook was the first to discover the South Pacific archipelago. In the 19th century, the Europeans came back in force, this time in search of gold, and established more permanent settlements. It would later become a strategic location during World War II and then home to American airbases during the Cold War.

In 1953, the island was leased to the U.S. to sway Soviet influence in the area.

The local population was evacuated, and a military presence was maintained by America until 1996 when they packed up and moved out leaving the Island like that of a ghost town with only relics of previous uses by past communities.

### **Foundation of the Auroa Vanguard Republic:**

In the year 2160 a man by the name of Jasper Hughes who resided in Panama, a Realm member nation, Decided that his Ideas and profits from World War III would be better placed elsewhere. As a result of his thoughts, he looked to where in the world he could reside and form his idea of paradise. A place of technological advancements free of the oppression of religion where no government could control what he did and was not influenced by Neo-Europe.

#### **Finding the Location of Paradise:**

Hughes did further research after the resolve of World War III and found that the people of New Zealand had become poor and uncontrolled after losing trade routes with all other countries through Australia which had become a nuclear wasteland. This was named "Sector U-235" after the atomic number of uranium which was used in all of the nuclear bombs which were tested on the entirety of Australia killing a populace of around 2,578,821 people who were too old, sick or believed that the warnings of Australia's inevitable demise due to nuclear testing was a myth.

##### **The Pitch:**

After Hughes' search for the country, he ended up choosing New Zealand, specifically the northernmost region which had a small area near a mountain called Auroa he thought that having a backing to his idea would be the best way to further his initiative so he sought out the help of a technological genius who could help him make something to pitch to Isabella Fuentes who was the head of social and foreign sub affairs in the Panamanian government.

Hughes had the idea to make the first-ever terraforming machine which would process mass amounts of land using innovations in technology such as plasma sheeting creation and the infusion of specific chemicals and gases while storing the waste into a separate storage area which can be used to power cities. This was all explained to a brilliant woman named Loren Skell. Skell took her time and developed the technology over a period of five months to come up with a miniature prototype that could process small areas of land using the small fortune Hughes had gained through exploiting the system during World War III. With this prototype developed and shown to be working. Hughes and Skell went on to propose the idea of using the terraforming machine to, with backing, form a new Australia while explaining the benefits of the waste produced and how it would not be dumped elsewhere. All was agreed under one condition of how if Hughes was to become the new leader of New Zealand without any external overviewing that they had to in the first few decades: form a trading agreement with Realm countries and promise that one of their first priority projects would be for the people of New Zealand who needed new technologies to pull them from their current disaster state. This was agreed upon and the need for funding and transportation was provided by Nordica to Hughes desired location forming the first of the RAVRTA (Realm x Auroa Vanguard Republic Transactional Agreements).