Island Interaction On Terra!

[Kyle]

(For the record, I was tempted to post this in TRTANT, but some mysterious and violent force swayed my actions.)

It's common knowledge that almost every town within the Legends series is located on the surface of a small island, but what if there was something more? What if there was a singular location containing several main towns bordering one another. It doesn't have the be like Nino, as there is such a thing as an archipelago. 

I always thought it'd be an interesting idea to have multiple digger communities/factions try to get along with one another in the post-Master System society. Sharing or hiding lucrative ruins, trading for supplies, etc. The Digger's Guild would only be acting as a neutral advisor to all islands. You rarely get to see anything like that, since most islands are never shown to interact with others. What do y'all think?

[Dashe]

(Good. We need more people thinking like that. Go mysterious force. Go.)

That'd be pretty cool. I remember in the concept art of Klickelan you had Teomo City on the east side, and then this little settlement down by the south end. It'd have been neat if they had a sort of rivalry going where the outskirt settlement had these really hardcore diggers living there and kind of looking down on the guild-registered diggers in Teomo, or even anyone there with a license. That'd probably include Mega Man, too.

I've always seen the guild as sort of something you'd either love or hate if you lived in that world. It seems like something that'd be a major political issue in some places. If every settlement just allowed the guild to regulate their ruins I'd be surprised.

[satoh]

I always just assumed each island was a single community, too small to have multiple cities, and also that there were no mainlands left.

In fact the idea that there could be any sort of larger interconnected society in the world seems totally ludicrous to me.
Ludicrous like a Lv. 99 Rare Wavemaster's weapon.

[Buster Cannon]

It's been indirectly hinted that there's some sort of inter-island communication going on, at least between the more prominent ones. The Digger's Guild for one regulates ruins throughout Terra, to the point that there's a universal license system restricting users from entering. There's probably trade going on too. A smaller example would be the fact that the Nino Junk Store owner has the Kattelox Curator's old Kattelox Bell and Old Shield. That would imply that either the owner traveled to Kattelox and bought them at some point (or for all we know he used to live there), or the curator has stepped her game up and is now selling her art on a global scale. Then you have the issue of food, where I'm sure they ship certain meats/veggies to other islands that don't have them grown natively.

[ZEROrevive]

I always viewed the islands as little "states". Much likes states in the US and such, each one has their own rules and regulations (Like Kattelox requiring an ID card to get within the city walls, for instance). Some states may specialize in things others do not. Trade and such would form from that easily. And of course, each island has its own historics that may attract others to travel to it.

Its a simple way of looking at it, but its a amusing comparison to the real world.

[satoh]

Oct 19, 2013 13:27:45 GMT -5 Buster Cannon said:

It's been indirectly hinted that there's some sort of inter-island communication going on, at least between the more prominent ones. The Digger's Guild for one regulates ruins throughout Terra, to the point that there's a universal license system restricting users from entering. There's probably trade going on too. A smaller example would be the fact that the Nino Junk Store owner has the Kattelox Curator's old Kattelox Bell and Old Shield. That would imply that either the owner traveled to Kattelox and bought them at some point (or for all we know he used to live there), or the curator has stepped her game up and is now selling her art on a global scale. Then you have the issue of food, where I'm sure they ship certain meats/veggies to other islands that don't have them grown natively.

Ok, that's a fair point. But I still feel that each island is sort of its own country. (And before anyone dismisses this comment, think about the fact that there are more countries that no one has ever heard of, than the number of cereal bits in your breakfast bowl.... provided you eat cereal with bits, they are also quite small normally. US states are actually incredibly large to be only fractions of a country.)

*Ahem* anyway.
About the food thing, that I can corroborate, as MoTB has missions where you in fact steal shipments of food bound for oceanic voyages....

Which leads me to wonder if perhaps Tron caused several famines...

[Kyle]

Oct 19, 2013 14:04:47 GMT -5 satoh said:

Ok, that's a fair point. But I still feel that each island is sort of its own country. (And before anyone dismisses this comment, think about the fact that there are more countries that no one has ever heard of, than the number of cereal bits in your breakfast bowl.... provided you eat cereal with bits, they are also quite small normally. US states are actually incredibly large to be only fractions of a country.)

Depends on the island, really. Sure, you've got places like Nino and Kattelox, but think about Manda and Calbania. Whilst the former two have legitimate cities, complete with infrastructure, the latter do not. I'd wager that your average Katteloxion would have more national pride than a Calbanian.