North Island.
As the Federation's capital, this was the largest and most prosperous island in the southern seas.
Although its population was only a little over ninety thousand, it housed the Federation's largest heavy industrial base and shipyard.
Including the destroyer Glory, which had already sunk into the sea, nine of the Federation's thirteen vessels had been built here. The remaining four submarines had been built at submarine factories on Anle Island and in Coral City.
After seizing control of the Presidential Palace and Naval Command, Charas declared himself the new president with the backing of the Federation Marines and delivered his inaugural address over the radio.
"...It is with deep sorrow that I must tell you all that our president committed the unforgivable crime of treason."
"Even as our fleet held an absolute advantage and stood on the verge of final victory, he intended to overturn the verdict on the crimes committed by our enemies! He sought to use fabricated and distorted evidence to destroy the unity we had fought so hard to achieve."
"I will never allow such a thing to happen, even if that man was once the person I respected most."
"Hunger, disease, forced labor, suppression of dissent... as long as they wore those blue coats, everything was legal. Ask your fathers and grandfathers what those hermit crabs used to look like! Ask them! Who built the artificial islands completed in Year 50 of the Wasteland Era? Was it those things that suddenly appeared half a century later, or us, who had lived here from the very beginning!"
"They were merely lucky enough to be born in shelters, and suddenly the Prosperous Era became theirs. Everything built with the tools of the Prosperous Era became their patent. Meanwhile, we survivors, who endured generation after generation of