[quote=@Cyclone] Wait, I reread this and now even I'm a bit confused on what's going on. I originally put contested because the natives were obviously still fighting me, Yamatai had laid claim to some of the islands, and other nations presumably might not recognize Tin's ownership over the islands. So to be clear, now: 1) Yamatai is not a part of this now; Voltus won't be controlling them as they compete with Tin over the islands as was first planned 2) The natives are still resisting colonization attempts and fighting invaders 3) The PRK is arming the natives to help them fight the Tinite invaders 4) Now the elves are also colonizing some islands and Tin is getting pissed 5) The Communists are bombing colonies on both Tin and elven controlled islands, in an attempt to get them to go to war for some reason? This is a really complex situation and we should probably figure out what's going on (and what the backstory/motivations for everything is) so that we're all on the same page. [/quote] Nah, you basically just summarized it. It's your basic, super-tense-on-the-edge-of-world-destroying-war situation. Everyone wants a piece of these apparently really good islands, and the communists want to liberate the natives. Everyone is gonna start pulling allies and such in and soon the war is less about the islands and more about the ideals: Communism v. Capitalism, Monarchy v. Democracy, Old-style v. New Advancements. Just like the cold war was less about Russia versus America and more about the whole ideas of Communism versus Democracy and Capitalism. At least, that's the way I got it.