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Regions transported: Russia (Moscow timezone), Belarus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Donetsk PR, Luhansk PR, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Comoros, Mayotte, French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Scattered Islands exc. Tromelin Island), Prince Edward Islands

For Russia, the transformation from being surrounded by enemies to boundless empty lands ready for Russian colonisation and the odd friendly nation seemed like a miracle. The discovery of the Turks across the Black Sea put a little dent in this feeling, but the Russians didn't let that get them down too much as they set about re-settling the Eurasian wilderness. Turkey also saw the opportunity to regain past imperial glories in under a modern sultan president, pushing into the Balkans, the Levant and Egypt helped by their generous program of offering virgin lands to migrants. The Turks' imperial ambitions didn't go well down in Riyadh or Baghdad, which soon found itself sandwiched between the two rivals. Relations began to warm as though thanks to a mutual agreement not to interfere in each others' backyards, leaving the Turks to sail down the Nile and the Arabians to sail the Gulf.

Things also heated up in Africa as the Eritrean regime saw a perfect opportunity to put their conscripts to work extracting the riches of the former Sudanese coast, while not being too careful about whether their troops ended up on Ethiopia's side of the Atbarah River. Ethiopia for their part tried to resist these deliberate provocations while working with Turkey to establish the Red Sea Republic for those that managed to escape Asmara's clutches, which also handily provided them with sea access again, albeit still not directly. The disappearance of Western and Chinese markets and investment hit Kenya particularly hard, especially as the Somali federal government drove its Islamists southwards into Kenya's territory. A costly civil war soon ignited with a peace of sorts eventually established thanks to Ethiopian, Somali and Tanzanian interventions and the creation of a Somali autonomous government in the north east.

The Indian Ocean saw its fair share of conflict following the Event as Comoros and Madagascar decided to press their claims to the French islands in the region. They however underestimated the French navy and had to settle for the southern Seychelles and Mauritius respectively, while many citizens fled to the African coast, establishing their own makeshift state. The unplanned acquisition of Mauritius proved to be much more than a consolation prize for the Malagasies as they re-found their sea legs and started out on an island hopping journey across the ocean to the Malay Archipelago from where their ancestors had set out many centuries before.

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Regions transported: Russia (Moscow timezone), Belarus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Donetsk PR, Luhansk PR, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Comoros, Mayotte, French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Scattered Islands exc. Tromelin Island), Prince Edward Islands

For Russia, the transformation from being surrounded by enemies to boundless empty lands ready for Russian colonisation and the odd friendly nation seemed like a miracle. The discovery of the Turks across the Black Sea put a little dent in this feeling, but the Russians didn't let that get them down too much as they set about re-settling the Eurasian wilderness. Turkey also saw the opportunity to regain past imperial glories in under a modern sultan president, pushing into the Balkans, the Levant and Egypt helped by their generous program of offering virgin lands to migrants. The Turks' imperial ambitions didn't go well down in Riyadh or Baghdad, which soon found itself sandwiched between the two rivals. Relations began to warm as though thanks to a mutual agreement not to interfere in each others' backyards, leaving the Turks to sail down the Nile and the Arabians to sail the Gulf.

Things also heated up in Africa as the Eritrean regime saw a perfect opportunity to put their conscripts to work extracting the riches of the former Sudanese coast, while not being too careful about whether their troops ended up on Ethiopia's side of the Atbarah River. Ethiopia for their part tried to resist these deliberate provocations while working with Turkey to establish the Red Sea Republic for those that managed to escape Asmara's clutches, which also handily provided them with sea access again, albeit still not directly. The disappearance of Western and Chinese markets and investment hit Kenya particularly hard, especially as the Somali federal government drove its Islamists southwards into Kenya's territory. A costly civil war soon ignited with a peace of sorts eventually established thanks to Ethiopian, Somali and Tanzanian interventions and the creation of a Somali autonomous government in the north east.

The Indian Ocean saw its fair share of conflict following the Event as Comoros and Madagascar decided to press their claims to the French islands in the region. They however underestimated the French navy and had to settle for the southern Seychelles and Mauritius respectively, while many citizens fled to the African coast, establishing their own makeshift state. The unplanned acquisition of Mauritius proved to be much more than a consolation prize for the Malagasies as they re-found their sea legs and started out on an island hopping journey across the ocean to the Malay Archipelago from where their ancestors had set out many centuries before.