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The Ever-Floating ships

Structure

The Ships are governed by a central power base in Kyanshen, the Navigator, to whom answer all the Ship Captains of the Kingdom. Those Ship Captains each govern their own ships as they see fit, in accordance with the law of Kyanshen. Kyanshen itself, however, is governed by the Harbor-master, and the Navigator and Harbor-Master work hand-in hand for the government of the Ships. In many cases, and currently, this relationship was both political and romantic, leading the visiting foreigners to understand them as king and queen.

Public Agenda

As with many of the other members of The Draconic Alliance, the original purpose of the union of the ships was to survive the hostile world surrounding them. Today, as members of the alliance, their purpose is to free mankind of the tyranny of dragons.

Assets

The Ships are most probably the wealthiest organisation in the world, financially speaking. Thanks to their mind-numbingly huge navy, commerce and diplomacy was always their first concern. As such, while they don't own much properly speaking, they control practically all the trade routes of the Crescent, themselves used by the Serelion Emporium, tightly close with the ships. Beyond that, they don't have much of an land army, as they don't really need it.

History

When the first men who survived the cataclysm had to survive on separate islands in the southern Crescent, they soon understood that to unite and protect each other was the safest and most viable way. Thus, for around 50 years, the islanders flocked to the Island of Kyan to form a community. When their numbers became too great, they built a bridge and expanded over to Shen, the adjoining southern island. Thus was born Kyanshen, the bridge city.

Around the fifth decade of the city, it was understood that the population was growing too quickly to safely expand on one island. What was once their strength soon became their weakness. Something quite organic happened in response to the problem : the people, who were already hardened mariners and fishermen, started living on the sea more than on land. The ships grew and grew, until a ship the size of a city was built from the mix of many other abandoned ships. So, in 55 OA, the Zenguan was launched, a ship so vast it could hold around, at the very least, five thousand inhabitants. This launching is seen as the birth of the Ever-Floating ships, as 5 years later, the Suwaru followed, a ship twice the size of its predecessor. To this day, most of the population lives on these two ships and in Kyanshen, and the rest preferred to remain on their own personal ships, usually flocked around the bridge city.

Foreign Relations

Just like their neighbours, the ships are now part of the Draconic Alliance, and act as its marine.

On land, United, On Sea, as One

Founding Date
55 Oceanic Age
Type
Geopolitical, Kingdom
Capital
Alternative Names
The Insular Kingdom, The Third Kingdom
Demonym
Mariners, Insulars, Southerners, Third
Head of State
Head of Government
Government System
Monarchy, Elective
Power Structure
Thalassocracy
Economic System
Market economy
Legislative Body
The Assembly of KyanShen, governed by the Harbor-Master
Judicial Body
The Scuttlers, security organization on the ships
Related Ethnicities

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The Oceanic Age

1 NA and beyond

After the cataclysm, the southerners established a kingdom on the sea, to survive their newly found vulnerability.

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Author's Notes

I am keeping this very broad for now, as I'm not yet developing this part of the world, more details will come later.


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