What is now universally known as TDCorp territory started out as one of the first "colonies" carved out around the time of the discovery of Nova vexillium, a.k.a. the New Continents; one of the best known results of this is New Armatirion, which at first actually was bigger than the mother country, and which has a big part in Vexillian modern history as the cradle of today's Westria. It was with no small degree of surprise that the international community as it then was received the news that St. Kilda, heretofore an unassuming mercantile republic best known as an offshore tax haven, announced its intention to participate in this, the first of the "land grabs" which have peppered our world's history. Not only did Phillip, the Gingach (Chief of Government) of pacific St. Kilda, suddenly rev