Hapagaza
A large archipelago continent on the planet of Panagia, including a large number of floating islands.
Hapagaza has one of the largest numbers of massive floating islands of any continent on the planet. The scale of this large set of islands is such that the resources obtainable from here are significant enough to challenge other superpower continents. Though it contains natural resources such as iron, the planet is controlled by Harkas who rely on bioengineering rather than traditional technology, so these resources are mostly useless to them. Instead relying on food as virtually their only resource.
Hapagazan nations during the warring era of the harkas mainly relied on aquatic engineered organisms for traversal between the islands, but many water harkas live beneath the waves. These communities rely instead on land based engineered organisms for land traversal. There are also the airborne harkas subspecies who float on the Taidakic Field, who live in and on the floating islands. They are excellent at engineering air based organisms, and became the people who made the first Hapagazan Taidakic field airship. These were used to devastating effect against other nations, but not the water harkas, which made the land based people copy them. The water harkas could be hit if they were in a water-based warship-like creature.
Each island quickly unified mostly due to the inherit dangers of other nations, but fought against each other in order to conquer the entire island cluster. These wars were brutal like other wars on the planet.
However, the Aetherium crystals found on the floating islands would become quite valuable as food for creatures designed to float on the field. If a creature metabolizes enough aetherium and incorporates it, this could give them the ability to float.
The underwater people had no or very few islands and few features to split territory with. They fought similar to other underwater nations, except also having to also ward off the land harkas from attacking them. Sometimes they could interfere with battles between islands, especially when they incorrectly conclude the land harkas invaders are invading the sea. This has led to entire 3 way wars in some cases. This could also lead to the land invaders being given a reason to invade the sea and in some very rare cases land harkas conquest of the sea instead of the original target island. Due to this, they have become more careful about attacking surface ships.
The air harkas can also be effected by a similar phenomenon but to a more rare degree. Some few land nations have conquered floating islands, providing them with a powerful air force and they often gain the ability to airlift units and vehicles between islands. With air superiority, these nations would often go on to become major powers and defeat smaller ones more easily. This widespread use of aerial tactics would go on to dominate their doctrine after they unified, the water harkas at the time also giving them a powerful naval force, although other continents would also have their own naval forces due to the global nature of the water harkas. The Hapagazan doctrine made more use of Taidakic airships, which included flying aircraft carriers and escort ships. These could strike enemy positions from very long range which has allowed this continent's military to cover entire fronts with it.
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