Great Warring Island
Great Warring Island (Hurmu Norse: Stoora Striðaroy) is the largest island of the Warring Islands. Its main settlement is Hempton Bay. Hemptonwic is another important settlement. In 1699, the Sea-Reavers occupied the island following the collapse of Nova England during the Warring Islands Conflict. Ordered by the Government of Hurmu to incorporate the island into a District of the Warring Islands united with East Barrow Island, the Minister for the District of East Barrow Island, Jamshid-e Osman, and the Commissioner of the Peace, Hans Danielsen, recognised the folly of attempting an act so far beyond the means of the Hurmu Peace Corps detachment in the region. Instead of rejecting the directive, Jamshid travelled to Chryse and presented himself to the Congress assembled there. Having secured an audience with the city's Archon, Ayesha al-Osman, in her residence on the pleasure island of Botha, he was able to secure a significant loan on generous terms in return for the bestowal of his favour. With this consideration, in the form of a letter of credit from the Congress addressed to the Society for Benevolent Investment, Jamshid was able to purchase the services of the reaver-bands established on the island through a conference held in the town of Hemptonwic on 13.III.1699 AN. Four days later, County Inspector 3rd Class Kálfr Espenson of the Hurmu Constabulary, at the head of an eight-man detachment from the Overseas Auxiliary Squadron, went ashore from a tramp-steamer anchored in the fjord of Hempton Bay and raised the flag of Hurmu from the tallest intact structure in the settlement, with the whole spectacle being watched with great amusement by the reaving warbands who had assembled on a nearby headland with a good vantage point from which to observe. On 17.III.1699 AN Jamshid travelled to New Blackstone, the colony with the nearest functioning Panopticon Node, and arranged for a message to be sent confirming that his forces were ashore on Great Warring Island with "excellent prospects of success".
