Sometime between late 1616 CC and mid-1617 CC, the Boreas Archipelago, a group of uninhabited islands located between the First Civilization Area and the North Pole, was quietly claimed by the Holy Milishial Empire and classified as an "Unorganized Insular Territory." Development was swiftly intensified thereafter, with large-scale construction efforts rapidly converting the once-isolated archipelago into JMSC Tarpian Rock, a heavily fortified military stronghold.
Within the Holy Empire's administrative framework, the designation "unorganized" indicates that the territory does not operate under any formal charter establishing a civilian administrative agency, elected assembly, or local government. Instead, the islands fall directly under the Holy Empire's jurisdiction, with no civil bureaucracy, provincial parliament, or autonomous authority. Governance is exercised entirely through military command structures and directives issued from the capital. The archipelago is far from the Civilization Areas, uninhabited, climatically harsh, and economically insignificant beyond its strategic value. There is no native population to administer, no established settlements to integrate, and no commercial infrastructure requiring civilian oversight. As such, the Holy Empire considered it unnecessary to expend political capital or administrative resources on transforming the islands into a full province, nor to incorporate them into the nearest provinces, which were nowhere close to the region.
This approach stood in marked contrast to the Holy Empire's handling of the Sol Islands. Owing to their proximity to Mu and the presence of an established population, the Sol Islands were elevated to provincial status. By incorporating them as a formal province, the Holy Empire was able to install a civilian administration, extend national law comprehensively, and symbolically cement its dominance over a geopolitically sensitive region.
Still, JMSC Tarpian Rock was established to house the Holy Empire's clandestine military operations unit, such as the aerial fleet elements affiliated with various branches of the Armed Forces. However, the Holy Empire's leadership also understood that the scale of construction required to transform a barren subpolar archipelago into a hardened multi-branch fortress could not be concealed indefinitely. Even if access were tightly restricted and supply routes masked under many roundabouts, the flow of information would eventually expose its existence to the broader known world. Anticipating eventual exposure, the Holy Empire prepared to publicly formalize and legalize its sovereignty once discovery became unavoidable, pairing the announcement with coordinated diplomatic engagement and compensation arrangements for neighboring states, plans laid well in advance.
Officials in Runepolis were under no illusion that the revelation would pass without criticism. Observers in Mu and Parpaldia might well regard the move as hypocritical. After all, the Holy Empire had previously blocked both countries' own attempts to claim certain outlying islands. However, the Milishial diplomats were prepared to draw a sharp legal distinction.
In Mu's case, tensions had escalated only when Mu's declared claims of the Sol Islands overlapped directly with pre-existing Milishial survey zones. The dispute had not been about abstract expansion, but about competing demarcations over the same geographic features. From the Holy Empire's standpoint, it had acted defensively to prevent encroachment into areas it already considered within its strategic perimeter. The Boreas Archipelago, by contrast, lay outside any formally declared Muish claim and did not intersect at all with Mu's recognized maritime boundaries.
Meanwhile, Parpaldia's frustration stemmed less from specific island disputes and more from structural obstruction. Through its Island Chain Strategic Diplomacy, the Holy Empire had systematically strengthened and informally guaranteed minor island states along the periphery of the Third Civilization Area. Rather than confronting Parpaldia directly, the Holy Empire's political maneuvers had constructed a wall of enhanced small states that made it very risky for the Dragon of Philades to invade.
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