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My
name is Goyo, and I am going to describe the island of Araujo to you. It
was first occupied by Lyon Linear, a Portuguese sailor who served as a
loader/sponger on the lower gun deck of the Prize Mary. Linear, a
Frenchman by birth and a Portuguese citizen because of his parents' relocation
when he was five, was older than many of the others when he signed on to the
ship, at 28. When landing on SI, he gazed out over the horizon and studied
the other islands and became enchanted with the proposition of exploring
them. He volunteered to lead a group through the array of islands to see
what he might find and whom he might meet on each. Captain Everett Shopp,
leader of the settlement, put the idea to a vote, and it was unanimously
approved.
Linear
and six others, Granville Nomeh, Benjamin Roslin, brothers Odin and Belford
Russel (each spelled their family name, Russell, differently), Victor Tyson and
lastly, Bayard Amarante, spent almost a year and a half exploring the islands
and making crude maps. This group was also responsible for assisting in
the relocating of the ladies of the forecastle to Loveladies. As a result
of this logistical assignment, Bayard Amarante and Catt (Jocelyn Catlin)
decided, on a particularly bright, full-moon night, to spend the rest of their
lives together on Loveladies. They did so, but no children were born to
their union.
Linear was an adventurer from the first and was noted for his sailing prowess
which he exhibited regularly on the small sailing trader, Mimi, that used to be
the skiff aboard the Prize Mary, to ply the waters of the Island Group.
His instinctive sailing abilities and sense of absolute direction saved the
small boat and its crew of seven during a particularly crippling squall in
1789. Linear was also notoriously loyal by nature, and lent his person to
anyone who needed him. Linear suggested the name Araujo in honor of the
family that befriended his family in Portugal upon their arrival there.
The elder Araujo, a prosperous merchant, was also considered to be Linear's
mentor and adopted uncle. The prime town of Araujo is named in his honor,
Mario.
Araujo is known for its involvement in
communications. The island is the site for our transmission and receiving
devices as well as home for our theater arts, music, as well as, movie
production. Once the technical side of communications became too involved
on Shoppolis East and West, the technology and its participants chose Araujo as
its headquarters. All Internet communications as well as TV and radio are
on this islands. To be close to their chosen fields, many of the
inhabitants are involved with telecom. The Araujo School of Creative Arts
has its home in Mario and features majors in Music, Art, Communication, Theater
and more.
This island houses most of our movie-making
facilities, processing centers, communications pods, towers and other
telecommunications stations. SI-Radio transmits from Impostor, and our
newsletter is written and produced in Bluewater, Araujo's small but busy
headquarters village of around 500 residents.
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