EventAcross the pillars

Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo

gold_fleet_shared_events.4

The Overlord's fleet has arrived in our harbor, and its factors are already in our warehouses, tallying what is owed. Bar Silver, coin, hides, and colonial goods — all of it is carried out under armed guard and loaded aboard for the crossing to Spain.

Our own Burghers keep careful accounts, and they know to the ounce what leaves the quay today. It was months in the gathering, and Country will feel its loss until the next season's harvest.

Fired by one of
Trigger
Does NOT have Variable: gold_fleet_cargo_notification_shown
Exact conditions

Event chain

Each event is fired by the one it is nested under; the line below it says which choice leads there and when.

  1. The Wealth of New Spain
  2. Dividing the Fleet
    ↳ Option A “Wait for the convoy and fill holds with Silver and Dyes.” · right away
  3. The Detachment Returns
    ↳ Option B “Detach a squadron to Secondary Port and wait for its return.” · 45 days later
  4. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo
    ↳ Option A “Take the cargo aboard. The fleet sails on together.” · right away
  5. The Detachment Rejoins Near Cuba
    ↳ Option C “Detach a squadron to Secondary Port; sail on to Rendezvous Port.” · 45 days later
  6. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo (see above)
    ↳ Option A “Take the cargo aboard. The fleet sails on together.” · right away
  7. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo (see above)
    ↳ Option A “Wait for the convoy and fill holds with Silver and Dyes.” · right away
  8. The Silver of New Granada
  9. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo (see above)
    ↳ Option A “Wait for the full convoy and fill every hold.” · right away
  10. Dividing the Fleet
    ↳ Option A “Wait for the full convoy and fill every hold.” · right away
  11. The Detachment Returns
    ↳ Option B “Detach a squadron to Secondary Port and wait for its return.” · 45 days later
  12. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo (see above)
    ↳ Option A “Take the cargo aboard. The fleet sails on together.” · right away
  13. The Detachment Rejoins Near Cuba
    ↳ Option C “Detach a squadron to Secondary Port; sail on to Rendezvous Port.” · 45 days later
  14. Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo (see above)
    ↳ Option A “Take the cargo aboard. The fleet sails on together.” · right away

Exact script

Exact script

type = country_event
title = gold_fleet_shared_events.4.title Overlord's Fleet Loads Our Cargo
desc = gold_fleet_shared_events.4.desc The Overlord's fleet has arrived in our harbor, and its factors are already in our warehouses, tallying what is owed. Bar Silver, coin, hides, and colonial goods — all of it is carried out under armed guard and loaded aboard for the crossing to Spain.

Our own Burghers keep careful accounts, and they know to the ounce what leaves the quay today. It was months in the gathering, and Country will feel its loss until the next season's harvest.
outcome = negative
trigger = {
NOT = {
}
}
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_default
}
immediate = {
}
historical_info = gold_fleet_shared_events.4.historical_info The colonial ports existed in a state of enforced commercial dependency on the metropole. All colonial trade was required to move through licensed channels, and the merchants and creole elites who produced the silver, hides, and dyestuffs saw the bulk of the profit flow to the crown and to the merchant houses of Seville rather than to themselves — a structural tension that deepened across the colonial centuries.

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