Recaps

East Africa used the World Expo and wartime prosperity to expand its industrial reach while planning new regional development and forcing hundreds of thousands of Black people into neighboring colonies. The arc ends with East Africa occupying Darfur, facing British and French protests, and beginning the relocation of villagers for the Xingguo Reservoir.

• Wang Hailong described East Africa’s electrification and concentrated investment, while Chief Zhang praised its progress and learned that East Africa still considered itself semi-industrialized because of its low urbanization rate.
• Karls opened the East Africa World Expo, where Morgan explored Jia Chu Company appliances and wealthy foreign buyers purchased more than four hundred automobiles on the first day.
• Far Eastern tea merchants found a promising East African market, while Svit and Ernst argued that the Expo could build overseas influence and protect East Africa from postwar competition.
• Anton and Mars reflected on Benguela and Falta New District’s growth as East African forces transported Black people to Lomé and then drove them across the border into British and French colonies.
• Ernst announced Fourth Five-Year Program plans to develop the Great Lakes Region and the south, while East African steel leaders pursued higher output, broader exports, and overseas sources of raw materials.
• Farsheng and Hela invaded Darfur, captured Zalingei, and took Fashir after East African artillery broke the city’s defenses and Sultan Alidinar surrendered.
• Farsheng confronted British Second Lieutenant Johnson at Fashir and deterred an attack, while Ernst responded to British and French protests by planning to expel the remaining Black people and denying further ambitions in Sudan.
• Majin and Tarolin began relocating Yablon Village residents for the Xingguo Reservoir, which Herag explained would support water storage, farming, industry, electricity, and the Great Lakes economic belt.

East Africa expanded its water and power projects as war and unrest shook Europe, then engineered a crisis with Siam that secured territory in the Kra Isthmus. The arc ended with residents fleeing or arming themselves as East African forces prepared to take control.

• Tarolin’s villagers moved into new homes at Anton Leo Town as East Africa prepared Xingguo Reservoir and a wider network of water and hydropower projects.
• Robkets oversaw Bell Port’s dredging and expansion while Great Lakes cities competed for industrial and transport development.
• Tarolin’s squad captured a Serbian scout, and Moss ordered increased border patrols amid fears of a Serbian offensive.
• Klee urged Bulgaria and the Central Powers to exploit Russia’s weakness, while Russian soldiers led by Ilya launched a mutiny in Vinnytsia that the government suppressed.
• Ernst proposed securing the Hohenzollern dynasty’s future through overseas kingdoms, while East African officials pushed to expand East Kalimantan’s population and German-language use.
• East African agents provoked a clash at Jiawen Chinese School, and Siam accepted East Africa’s demands for compensation and territory after negotiations.
• Ande pressed Rama VI to cede the Tapi River Plains and other southern lands, but Sir Claire opposed the demand and talks remained deadlocked before Siam ceded territory that East Africa named the Kra Isthmus Territory.
• East Africa established Phuket as a naval base as Pattani residents fled, Delagong’s village considered moving north, and local forces prepared to resist the takeover.

East Africa strengthened its position in Nanyang by planning the Kra Isthmus Territory and buying strategic islands from the Netherlands. As Russian defeat and unrest deepened, Ernst moved to secure Russian talent and arranged for refugees to be transferred to East Africa’s colonies.

• Ande and Cristiano assessed the resistance East Africa might face in the Kra Isthmus Territory, while Cristiano outlined how veterans would train incoming forces and the territory would support East Africa’s Nanyang strategy.
• Fingel presented plans for railways, ports, plantations, tin production, oil refineries, and timber development, and Ernst called for ecological protections and the settlement of at least two hundred thousand immigrants.
• Freer negotiated with Keppel for fourteen Dutch islands and Dutch cooperation on the Sunda Strait route, and East Africa and the Netherlands signed their treaty on December 7, 1916.
• Prince Maxim showed Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei Rhine City and its industrial infrastructure, while the visitors compared East Africa’s development with conditions in Russia.
• Morin warned Ernst that Russia faced military collapse, growing strikes, and a possible Ottoman attack, and Ernst ordered him to extract money and recruit Russian talent and skilled workers.
• Ernst learned that Nicholas II had abdicated and received his request to keep Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei in East Africa, then asked whether Nicholas II would seek asylum there.
• Karl processed refugees at Basra and led a convoy of Ukrainians to Fao, where Fassi told them they would sail to Nanyang and settle under East African rule.

As Britain and France tried to keep East Africa neutral, East Africa rejected both camps’ offers while seeking leverage in the Indian Ocean. Russia’s revolution then endangered the Romanovs and gave East African agents and the Berezovka Gang an opening to seize the Kazan Treasury and capture Kazan.

• East African workers disinfected the Russian refugees, and Kumoyev and Leblya boarded the Liberty before the convoy carried them to Davao for acclimation and work training.
• David’s cabinet debated Britain’s worsening position, and Winston urged concessions to East Africa and offers to the United States to keep East Africa neutral and strengthen Britain’s allies.
• French diplomats discussed offering colonies to East Africa, while Ernst decided the Empire would remain neutral unless the Central Powers gained a clear advantage in Europe.
• Freer and Thomson agreed to closer cooperation, and France offered East Africa several Indian settlements and Rodrigues Island as potential footholds in the Indian Ocean.
• Freer urged East Africa to contain India’s future power by supporting divisions and separatist movements, and Ernst approved using the French settlements to spread East African influence without provoking Britain.
• After the Russian Labor Party overthrew the Provisional Government, Alexei, Maria, and Anastasia sought Baranov’s help, and Ernst promised to shelter them and try to rescue Nicholas II and his family.
• East African security agents began evacuations and joined Berezovka’s forces in a raid that removed about one hundred tons of gold and valuables from the Kazan Treasury.
• The Berezovka Gang captured Kazan, and Berezovka ordered his army to control the city and expand while keeping its troops away from the East African force guarding the Treasury.