EventAcross the pillars
The Mule Trains of the Isthmus
The season's last recua is still on the trail — a long train of mules laden with Silver from the Pacific side, winding its way across the fever-ridden isthmus of Panamá toward the coast. Word comes that cimarrón raiders, escaped from the plantations and living wild in the jungle, are shadowing the trail and mean to fall on it before it reaches us.
The silver can still be brought in, but only if we act to see it safely down to the water.
Fired by
Galeones de Tierra FirmeExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Mentions 1
SilverDesc
Triggered by 1
- Galeones de Tierra FirmeEach month
Scripting 5
Grants 2
- gf_mule_doneAs soon as it happens
- Treasure CargoOption 1, Option 2
Uses 1
- change_gold_effectscale = -2Option 1
References 2
Script Values
- prestige_weak_penaltyOption 2
Variables
- Treasure CargoOption 1, Option 2
type = country_event
title = gold_fleet_tierra_firme_events.15.title The Mule Trains of the Isthmus
desc = gold_fleet_tierra_firme_events.15.desc The season's last recua is still on the trail — a long train of mules laden with Silver from the Pacific side, winding its way across the fever-ridden isthmus of Panamá toward the coast. Word comes that cimarrón raiders, escaped from the plantations and living wild in the jungle, are shadowing the trail and mean to fall on it before it reaches us.
The silver can still be brought in, but only if we act to see it safely down to the water.
The silver can still be brought in, but only if we act to see it safely down to the water.
outcome = neutral
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_overland_caravan
}
immediate = {
}
historical_info = gold_fleet_tierra_firme_events.15.historical_info The silver of Peru reached the Caribbean only after an arduous overland crossing of the Panamá isthmus by recuas, mule trains that carried the bullion from Panamá City on the Pacific to Nombre de Dios and later Portobelo on the Atlantic. The jungle trail was preyed upon by cimarrones — communities of escaped slaves who had taken to the interior — and in 1573 Francis Drake famously allied with them to ambush a silver train and carry off a fortune. Guarding the isthmus crossing was a perennial and costly concern for the Spanish crown.