Anthill

Anthill
General
Location	Ionian Rise North
Demonym	Ant?
Government
• Consul	Consue
• Consul	nungal
Formation
Foundation date	As Ionia (Renamed Amcar): 18 April 2022 Post-Purge as Amcar: 3 November 2022 Consue Handover: 17 December 2023
Culture
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The Anthill is a settlement located in the Ionian Rise North on the planet Aret. It is currently owned and run by Consue in the nation of Cortesia Del Mar, with the aspiration of one day gaining trade city status.

Anthill was once the settlement Amcar (more formerly Ionia) and served as the capital of the Amcaran Social Republic and New Amcar until their dissolution.

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Entomology

The original name for the settlement was Ionia, based on the name of the territory Ionian Rise North. However Vortexion suggested to NoContextGiven to change the name to avoid unwanted confusion and attention. The name was thus changed to Amcar based on Aret Mining Corporation rooted in the settlements founding lore. Under the Amcaran Social Republic and especially under New Amcar it became increasingly necessary to distinguish the various settlements from the nation and the capital proper. The nickname Anthill was adopted due to the bases location on a prominent mountain, the increasing complex rooms, shafts and corridors and its socialist hard working populace. When Amcar was deemed dead and buried at the end of New Amcar, Consue ratified the name Anthill to maintain its history.

History

Amcaran Social Republic

Main article: Amcaran Social Republic

Ionian Rise North was claimed on 18th of April 2022. The base developed into a modest mining outpost consisting of a landing pad, a plaza, the Troika tower and a mess of tunnels including a bombing panic room and the old consul room where the UN meeting was hosted. A starfigher hanger was later added as a response to frequent bombing runs from Vulnere. The base had the bare minimum of industry, including a haphazard array of power furnaces that players would have to gingerly walk over the bare rock mountain to get to and smaller planet miners. Around this time the beginnings of the Trench was dug out which served as a semi underground hangar and entrance for planet miners, the underside would be continued to be carved out that by spring 2024 over a third under the Anthill was a empty pit. During this time the settlement also experienced a purge on 3 November 2022. In the intervening hours the base was sacked and much of its technology stolen. The settlement also had limited fleet capacity with only 1 or 2 corvettes serving as flagships in the latter months and members mostly fielding shuttles to light freighters.

Near the end of January 2023 Consue joined the settlement and started to make steady changes. She starting to work on a completely overhauled design for the base, this is when the Anthill overall philosophy started to shift into technological efficiency and involved engineering married with visual elegance to the point of vanity. The first of these stages was a overhauled round trip auto sorted storage, a onmi ship printer, new hangars for gunships and corvette and ramped up resource gathering. This was done in tandem with designing newer and larger trade ships earning a signature anthill style to the fleet as well as a plans for a fortress.

A Grouper on the first iteration of the Anthill omni printer, one of the many technologies developed by Consue in order to speed up the development of artistic vision.

-how expensive is coper?

-uh, im not sure. you can check the bazaar and see what its selling for at carthage. they usually keep their prices attuned to the market

-ie is it cheap enouugh to build bases with it?

-no not at all...unless you are very rich

Consue talking to NoContextGiven about drafting up base designs. 27 Jan 2023

The Anthill after construction of the initial fortress. The second version of the omni printer is shown. July 15

While drafting up these plans the political situation at the Anthill evolved. The ASR as dissolved into Orovika to take advantage of the larger nations stations and resources on paper while Amcar remained a solid social community block. Tensions also rose about conflicting plans and commitments which lead to the leave and foundation of Arion. By the end of May 2023 the plans for the central fortress where finalized and ready to be built in survival. In the process of construction Consue became frustrated with the Orovikan material policies and assistance. In the Anthillian perspective, Orovika was nothing more than a louse collation of settlements sharing station benefits and piracy protection pacts, little direct aid came into Anthill from the bloc. The fact that the nation had a non existent presence in regulus (it was the "vipers pit" after all) also lent to the feeling of isolation.

This led to Consue to turn to the Orlandia, neighboring city on Aret managed by Imperial Nova, for aid whom responded with many boons including new warship designs for the settlement (a 4k and and the Kraken) and steady supply of natural resources. However the Novans shaky neutrality policy meant that the Anthill was soon thrust into the Alliance of Regulus-Vega War. The central fortress of the anthill was fully bult by mid of July 2023 but the constant sieges from Vega as a result from the war caused the settlement to enter into a 5 mouth period of dormancy.