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Glimpses of the Island
Prologue
Isla Del Sur, known simply as the Island to its inhabitants, was first discoveredin the 16 th century when a Portuguese merchant shipbound for Japan went off course after rounding Africa. Lost in the Indian Ocean,the ship stumbled across the uninhabited island group. The captain marked iton a chart, refreshed his supplies of food and water, and headed due west,eventually finding the African coast, where he continued on his way. Upon hisreturn to Portugal the chart of the new discovery was forwarded to the RoyalArchives and became one more state secret among many. It was lost until the19 th century when a minor clerk checking old archivesdiscovered the well-preserved chart with the hand-written notes detailing howthe islands were found. He immediately recognized the worth in what he hadfound and sold the secret to an English businessman, one of the many who cameto Portugal each year to buy port wine.
The islands had no obvious value. The archipelago was too far off any shippinglanes to be of use. There were no natural resources to exploit, and the locationhad no strategic or military significance. What it did offer was isolation.The largest island, Isla Del Sur, had enough land and fresh water to supporta settlement. The businessman knew of many dissident groups looking for someremote area to colonize and escape repression in modern Victorian society.He had bought the location purely on speculation and did manage a modest profitwhen he sold it to the founder of the League to Preserve Tradition.
The League was a loose organization of people who had not prospered fromthe Industrial Revolution. They managed to raise enough money to buy a shipand set sail for their new homeland. Like many great social experiments ofthat era, the hoped for agrarian utopia fell victim to a combination of poorplanning, infighting and homesickness which resulted in the abandonment ofthe colony after only a few years. Isla Del Sur was uninhabited for nearlya century until rediscovered by one of the ancestors of the original Leaguemembers, when going through papers inherited from an estate. This man was alsoa misfit of sorts, but he had the resources and contacts to make better useof the Island.
And so began the modern history of the Island, when a freighter arrived withthe first of a brand new set of colonists. But these were no ordinary people.As with the League so many years ago, they were unhappy with the way modernsociety was evolving and looked for a place of their own, where they couldescape to a more traditional way of living.
Over the course of years a small town was built up, along with homes scatteredacross the largest islands. The backers were men of power and influence whohad access to resources to build a modern infrastructure including electricity,water, roads, communications, and commerce. The Island became a vacation andretirement community for them, a place where they dictated the law of the land,with no outside interference.
The closed society that grew from their efforts appeared to be a small sliceof modern life to the untrained eye, but there were some crucial differences.The founders were strong powerful men, men who chose to lead rather than follow,men who desired and sought out a certain kind of woman, one willingly submissiveto their authority. As the outside world struggled to erase gender-based roles,the Island moved in the opposite direction, striving to preserve the sharplydelineated positions of man and woman in society.
With the advent of satellite mapping the existence of the Island could nolonger be kept secret. The leaders recognized that without some form of nationalsovereignty they could not prevent a land grab by any nation with even a modestnavy. Isla Del Sur could not remain independent, nor could its unique culturebe maintained as a territory of any major world power. But the inhabitantswielded immense economic power and used that influence to develop alternatives.After some internal debate the community sought out and eventually became aprotectorate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
There were no troops, no military bases, and no naval warships to protectthe Island. Instead there was the much more powerful threat of an oil embargoagainst any belligerent power. And behind that the indirect threat of interventionby Saudi allies. The future of the Island culture was secure, and the Saudikingdom benefited from the goodwill of some very powerful newfound friends.Technically Isla Del Sur operated under the Saudi legal system, but this presentedno problem to the inhabitants. A few even joked about how it was too liberal.
The island group does not appear on maps or atlases. There are no encyclopediaentries, tourists are not welcome, and the inhabitants do their best to ensureno publicity about their life appears in the outside world. Media stories arequietly killed with a few words between friends, or in extreme cases by pressureon stock prices. Visitors are few and by invitation only. The only way to getto the Island is by sea, and the handful of ships that do go there are ownedby the residents. It is closed to outsiders and free of the need to answerto world public opinion.
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