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Regions transported: Brazil (Atlantic islands), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

One day the boats and the planes stopped calling at the Brazilian Atlantic island of Fernando de Noronha. For several weeks the island was gripped by confusion, with no contact from the Brazilian mainland or in fact any other country. Then a signal was picked up from the naval base on the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago, several hundred miles away. The small team stationed there had been expecting to be rotated out and back home, but no relief crew had arrived. Similar reports soon followed from the station on Trindade to the south. With the dawning realisation that they were alone in the world, and that the search groups who had departed for the mainland would find nothing, the municipal administration in Vila dos Remédios took the necessary steps to transform itself into a national government. The Brazilian naval bases on the outlying islands were brought under Noronhese control, forming the new nation's military and services previously provided by the federal and state governments were established both in Fernando de Noronha itself and the coastal settlements. Of course the process was not cheap, and with no tourist income, the only option was increased taxation, as well as a reliance on goodwill: something that was not received well by all. While many grumbled and moaned, one man named João Vale took possession of Trindade, declaring himself to be King João I of the Kingdom of South Trinidad. While "King" João's declaration was not recognised by the Noronhese government, they had bigger fish to fry establishing order on the mainland and as such the Kingdom of South Trinidad was tolerated as long as João and his subjects kept themselves on their rock.

Far to the south of South Trinidad, on the island of South Georgia another group were stranded on their rock, only not through choice. When the boats had stopped, the temporary residents of Grytviken had been forced to ration what supplies they had, but even these had long dwindled leaving the island's seal and penguin populations as the only food source. After surviving what they though would surely be their last Antarctic winter, by sheer chance what appeared to be a ship was spotted on the distant horizon and radio contact was established, leading to the mounting of a rescue mission to bring the bedraggled scientists and researchers to Fernando de Noronha. While the South Georgians physically recovered and the station at Grytviken re-manned and re-provisioned by the Noronhese navy, for some of the survivors the psychological trauma would not go away, leading to suicides and a small group, unable to integrate into Fernando de Noronha's Brazilian culture and climate, to establish the settlement of New Georgia on the Rio de la Plata estuary, the ironic significance of the location not escaping those who remembered the world before the Event many long years previously.

Description
Regions transported: Brazil (Atlantic islands), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

One day the boats and the planes stopped calling at the Brazilian Atlantic island of Fernando de Noronha. For several weeks the island was gripped by confusion, with no contact from the Brazilian mainland or in fact any other country. Then a signal was picked up from the naval base on the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago, several hundred miles away. The small team stationed there had been expecting to be rotated out and back home, but no relief crew had arrived. Similar reports soon followed from the station on Trindade to the south. With the dawning realisation that they were alone in the world, and that the search groups who had departed for the mainland would find nothing, the municipal administration in Vila dos Remédios took the necessary steps to transform itself into a national government. The Brazilian naval bases on the outlying islands were brought under Noronhese control, forming the new nation's military and services previously provided by the federal and state governments were established both in Fernando de Noronha itself and the coastal settlements. Of course the process was not cheap, and with no tourist income, the only option was increased taxation, as well as a reliance on goodwill: something that was not received well by all. While many grumbled and moaned, one man named João Vale took possession of Trindade, declaring himself to be King João I of the Kingdom of South Trinidad. While "King" João's declaration was not recognised by the Noronhese government, they had bigger fish to fry establishing order on the mainland and as such the Kingdom of South Trinidad was tolerated as long as João and his subjects kept themselves on their rock.

Far to the south of South Trinidad, on the island of South Georgia another group were stranded on their rock, only not through choice. When the boats had stopped, the temporary residents of Grytviken had been forced to ration what supplies they had, but even these had long dwindled leaving the island's seal and penguin populations as the only food source. After surviving what they though would surely be their last Antarctic winter, by sheer chance what appeared to be a ship was spotted on the distant horizon and radio contact was established, leading to the mounting of a rescue mission to bring the bedraggled scientists and researchers to Fernando de Noronha. While the South Georgians physically recovered and the station at Grytviken re-manned and re-provisioned by the Noronhese navy, for some of the survivors the psychological trauma would not go away, leading to suicides and a small group, unable to integrate into Fernando de Noronha's Brazilian culture and climate, to establish the settlement of New Georgia on the Rio de la Plata estuary, the ironic significance of the location not escaping those who remembered the world before the Event many long years previously.