The Kingdom of Amazon Lily lay in the Calm Belt, unaffected by storms of any kind.
But the waters surrounding the island were packed with the nests of enormous Sea Kings. Ordinary sailors could not venture in or out recklessly, which kept the island free from outside disturbances.
Judging by the island's vegetation and the Kuja Tribe's excessively breezy clothing, this was a summer island, with temperatures above twenty degrees all year round.
The nation's cultural environment was also rather unusual.
Its literature and arts resembled those of ancient China, with elements of the Kingdom of Women from Journey to the West mixed in.
Its architecture was predominantly Japanese-style imitation Chinese.
Its citizens' clothing and martial culture resembled those of Amazon warriors.
Several months earlier, Sephiroth had brought Marguerite back to the Kuja and briefly exchanged blows with Empress Hancock.
Afterward, because he helped the Boa Sisters remove their Celestial Dragon Hoof Marks, Hancock had agreed to cooperate.
For this nation, the Great Angel had originally been one of the rare men granted permission to enter Amazon Lily.
And now...
-December 22, 1517.
Rockfield Bay Shore, Kingdom of Amazon Lily.
This place lay on the outskirts of Amazon Lily and had no harbor facilities, though its location was ideal for a port.
By now, a medium-sized harbor and a standardized Titans overseas base had been built along the bay.
The overseas bases under Sephiroth's command usually followed the Titans style, mainly to avoid unnecessary trouble. Titans was an affiliated nation; Babylon was not.
But the base here among the Kuja had been built to Babylon's standards. After all, what Hancock had accepted back then was Babylon, not Titans.
Aside from a few Birka Female Knights or female Shandia warriors, the personnel normally stationed here were almost all robots and female-shaped