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Topic Started: Nov 9 2014, 05:36 PM (745 Views)
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(I'm not too sure where to put this, so if it's in the wrong place, please move it. Thank you :) )

I've read some of the threads for species suggestions, & I've heard various countries (UK, USA, etc.) be mentioned. So do humans exist in this world? And if so, have they colonized Anisia? Because to be honest, if this were real, I could easily say that many civilizations would try to colonize it, whether it's for the goods there, for hunting trophies (because let's face it, many poachers would probably want to take a selfie with them standing on top of some of the megafauna here :/ ), or even for a trading port (If I'm correct, Anisia is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, right? So that's right between various East African cities (& later on, European colonies), the Ottoman Empire, India, China, & Indonesia, which all housed various goods that were valued by Europe during the Renaissance & the Age of Exploration.). Sorry if I was mistaken. :)
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Discovered during the Victorian Era, at the end of the XIXth century. Wejust handwaved the invasive species. The islands were never settled and all of the fauna is protected since 1973.
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Humans are definitely there, since around the mid-19th century. Since somewhere in the 20th century, the islands were under protective laws. However there's no pre-Europeans that appeared on the islands. The Chinese for example didn't reach that south of the Indian Ocean, nor did any other civilisation to that point. The only other people that could of been on the islands were the Malayo-Polynesians, which were handwaved away to actually have large modern animals on the islands.
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Even if any humans managed to land there before its Western discovery, I think the weird animals would have scared explorers away...
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Nov 11 2014, 11:09 AM
Even if any humans managed to land there before its Western discovery, I think the weird animals would have scared explorers away...
I doubt this. There must've plenty of super weird animals in Australia and humans still got there.
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Plus once you reach a land as isolated as this with primitive technology you're kind of stuck there whether you like it or not.
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The world is basically the same as our world, except for the islands - which still haven't had as big an impact on science as you might expect as they have apparently been somewhat ignored, and were mostly explored by rather incompetent people who think everything is a bird and get killed ; )
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Nov 11 2014, 05:32 PM
Plus once you reach a land as isolated as this with primitive technology you're kind of stuck there whether you like it or not.
Well, the local fauna don't like their guests staying long, if you know what I mean.
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Maybe something about the place that makes it very undesirable to humans? I don't know, maybe we have to make all the plants and animals poisonous to humans, or induce some gas that we hate but the animals there are used to, or introduce some really irritating species of swarming biting insect that most of the locals are used to but which the humans can't stand, or just have a common biting insect that's lethal to humans (probably introduces a parasite). Or maybe have the land around the place be rife with shallow coral which the ships could scrape themselves on.
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Or we could do what we've been doing, and handwave it away.
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World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Some reason will just make it look nicer though... At least, that's in my opinion...

I agree with Zorcuspine though... The immigrants (assuming they're Pleistocene-early Holocene Malayo-Polynesians) won't go anywhere (assuming these islands are quite far south), and they'll find it hard to cope, much less freely transform the environment....
In fact, it's the introduced animals, such as the dogs, and hogs that I'm worried about...

@Crookedjaw: None of the animals on Exploration era Australia shares the danger level of the Aoekara, the prosauropods, the thyreophorans, the ctenosauriscids, or the basal theropods on the island...
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Perhaps the alien space bushwhackers and augers came and abducted all the humans, before leaving the islands and going to live in some horrid odd planet called "rejected concepts". :P
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or simply, there are strong ocean currents that have prevented the boats get there.
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