The first courrier route to be used linked Berneem to the newly-founded colony of Lemiit. The 140 rides-long trip took 18 days to cover by messengers.
The Continental Postal Service
GYIL od KOREER
-3 > 171.I
The Guild of Courrier was the ancestor of the Continental Postal Service. It had been designed early in mankind's expansion to be the bearer of official communication and linked the great capital Berneem to emerging provincial cities.
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First route of the mail
Technological achievement -
circa 30.I
Voay
FoundingVoay started as a lone trail post, as a lot of theme had been built along the Guild of Courrier's routes. With time, it grew to be a small active city, isolated in the eastern woodlands.
Location
Eastern Woodlands
DE CHELOOD od KOREER
171.I > 480.I
The privately-owned company of courrier inherited the Guild's function. It stretched its services to commercial transportation, making profit and expanding to all parts of the colonized continent. But the fifth century's crisis would eventually kill the company's activities.
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171.I
The Company of Courier
Political eventThe old Guild of Courier cut its ties with Berneem's government, to meet the demands of provincial cities. Its privatization allowed it to grow freely to a continent-wide transportation service for mail and goods.
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459.I > 484.I
Recession
Geological / environmental eventThe year 459.I would not have a summer. A volcanic cloud would ruin the year's food production in the Blue Sea, and the famine was followed by a 25 year-long financial depression.
The Guild of Postal Courier
480.I > 722.II
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482.I > 488.I 32 Ploeeii
The Transcontinental roadway
Construction beginning/end -
920.I
Seaborne freight
Technological achievementThe appearance of ships able to cross the Sea of Fire and the open ocean killed the profitability of the guild's land-based freight transportation.
Continental Postal Service
722.II > today
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722.II
A Service
Political eventThe Service's creation would mark a new era for postal transportation. Needs global coordination on a military level made the postal service a vital component of the military effort.
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780.I
Publicisation
Political eventThe third war comes to a close, and people's lives are rerouted. The CPS reopens its civil mail service, to accompany them into the present, for reliably making the link between cherished ones.