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Frostpunk refugees
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frostpunk refugees

Episodes of cannibalism, however, went beyond the pale and caused a religious backlash. To survive the first winter of the Great Frost, the restoration of the institutions of both indentured servitude and racial slavery was immediate. The government initially called itself a Republic, but its takeover by military elements after the evacuation of Houston reduced its own name to simply a public fantasy. By the time the Second Secession Convention was held in Austin, local militias in cities and towns throughout Texas were already locking down border towns and hoarding food. Religious zealotry reached a fever-pitch and was mixed frequently with promotions of white supremacy. As news of sharecropper's revolts started to come in from the Eastern Seaboard, the rebellion of the poor whites in Texas seemed only logical, despite the fact that sharecropping wasn't as prevalent in the state and there weren't even that many black-skinned freedmen in the state at all.Įarly "New Confederates" dressed in their former uniforms or the regalia passed down to them by their fathers and grandfathers. The reality was that the economy, based on trade and agriculture, had collapsed and refugees were incoming from all directions. Workers were seizing workplaces, landlords were being lynched and riots were engulfing entire cities from Charleston to Houston before the Cleveland administration even began to formulate serious plans for national survival. Many crops were destroyed by early frosts, driving precarious communities of white debt peons, former Confederate soldiers and restless sharecroppers even deeper into the poverty that was still widespread in the region ever since the end of the American Civil War. The Great Frost wreaked havoc on the climate and economy of the American South for a long time before the bureaucrats in Washington DC and the northern industrialists also began to panic. Largest Settlements: Freetown, Kingston, Lagos, Nassau, St. Much of their attention is on maintaining British control of Eastern Iceland as well as investigating whether their former countrymen in the "United Territories of New London" intend to be friends or foes. Additionally colonies overseas have been planted in Australia, Brittany and Southern Africa. Meanwhile, new Commonwealth colonies have been established in Old London and the Great Northern Coalfield to begin the resettlement of Great Britain.

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The first explorers and diplomats have suggested new technological wonders and thriving settlements in this region. Contact was re-established with British Iceland and even the Glorious City of New London. With the beginning of the Great Thaw and the further retreat of the sea ice in the equatorial regions, trade and migration has increased dramatically.

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Slavery was officially re-abolished shortly thereafter, with full emancipation taking several years. Representatives met during the 1894 Inter-Colonial Conference to hammer out the Lagos Declaration for a Provisional British Commonwealth. Eventually, through extreme depopulation and the development of industrial agriculture, the territories began to produce enough food to maintain population growth. Trade facilitated the import of new plants and animals from the North which assisted with ecological redevelopment. The Royal Navy was still intact, though, providing significant military and technological assets. Cannibalism, indentured servitude and slavery became routine. When radio contact with the British monarchy was finally lost, these survivors, still clinging to life, remained in contact with each other. The most successful administrations ruled with a quick and firm authoritarian impulse. In general, abuse of native populations, inter-colonial violence and starvation was widespread. Colonial governments in Africa, the Americas and Australia were already responding to the Great Frost in a number of ways, some shutting down migration, some rapidly making use of the new labor while it was available.

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However, as chaos and lawlessness spread in the empire and at home, the first emergency decrees prioritized the protection of refugee fleets sailing to more tropical destinations overseas. Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland paid every expense in secret, even auctioning away the Crown Jewels, to design and build the Generators in the Russian far north should evacuation of Britannia become necessary.














Frostpunk refugees