EventAcross the pillars

Target Area Welcomes Migration Waves

golden_century_events.13

Our efforts to push the colonial frontier have borne fruit. The decree we issued to welcome settlers across Target Area has spread far beyond our own harbors, drawing families from as far away as Target Origin Province to seek a new life under our banner.

They arrive with more than empty hands. Some bring the habits of neighbors long accustomed to living beside strangers, some the tools and trades of their old workshops, and others simply their numbers and their hunger to build. Whatever they carry, Target Ruler would see them settled well, for a frontier peopled is a frontier held.

Fired by
Major trigger
At least one of
  • All of
    • Target origin country 1 exists
    • This: Target origin country 1
  • All of
    • Target origin country 2 exists
    • This: Target origin country 2
  • All of
    • Target origin country 3 exists
    • This: Target origin country 3
  • All of
    • Target province 13 destination 1 exists
    • This: Target province 13 destination 1Owner
  • All of
    • Target province 13 destination 2 exists
    • This: Target province 13 destination 2Owner
  • All of
    • Target province 13 destination 3 exists
    • This: Target province 13 destination 3Owner
Exact conditions

  • Ordered known countrywhere
    • This: NotRoot
    • Religion group: RootReligionGroup
    • Is NOT a Subject (or below) of Root
    Add to list: golden_century_events_13_list
  • If
    List size
    • Name: golden_century_events_13_list
    • Value > 0
    Then
    • Random in list
      List: golden_century_events_13_list
    • If
      List size
      • Name: golden_century_events_13_list
      • Value > 1
      ThenRandom in listwhere
      This: NotTarget origin country 1
      List: golden_century_events_13_list
    • If
      List size
      • Name: golden_century_events_13_list
      • Value > 2
      ThenRandom in listwhere
      This: NotTarget origin country 1orTarget origin country 2
      List: golden_century_events_13_list
    Otherwise
    • Ordered known countrywhere
      • This: NotRoot
      • Is NOT a Subject (or below) of Root
      Add to list: golden_century_events_13_list
    • Random known countrywhere
      Has > 3 Province
      • Random in listwhere
        This: NotTarget origin country 1
        List: golden_century_events_13_list
      • Random in listwhere
        This: NotTarget origin country 1orTarget origin country 2
        List: golden_century_events_13_list
    • Target origin country 1
      • Ordered province (up to 10, highest population first)
        Add to list: target_origin_country_list_1
      • Random in list
        List: target_origin_country_list_1
    • Target origin country 2
      • Ordered province (up to 10, highest population first)
        Add to list: target_origin_country_list_2
      • Random in list
        List: target_origin_country_list_2
    • Target origin country 3
      • Ordered province (up to 10, highest population first)
        Add to list: target_origin_country_list_3
      • Random in list
        List: target_origin_country_list_3
    • Target area
      Ordered province in areawhere
      Owner
      At least one of
      Add to list: golden_century_13_destination_list
    • Random in list
      List: golden_century_13_destination_list
    • Random in listwhere
      This: NotTarget province 13 destination 1
      List: golden_century_13_destination_list
    • Random in listwhere
      This: NotTarget province 13 destination 1orTarget province 13 destination 2
      List: golden_century_13_destination_list
    • Target province 13 destination 1
      Add to list: golden_century_13_chosen_list
    • Target province 13 destination 2
      Add to list: golden_century_13_chosen_list
    • Target province 13 destination 3
      Add to list: golden_century_13_chosen_list
    Exact script

    • If
      • Target origin province 1 exists
      • Target province 13 destination 1 exists
      ThenAdd migration: Owner: Target origin country 1 · From: Target origin province 1Province Definition · To: Target province 13 destination 1Province Definition · Months: 2
      Amount
      • Value: Target origin province 1Population
      • Multiply: 0.05
    • If
      • Target origin province 2 exists
      • Target province 13 destination 2 exists
      ThenAdd migration: Owner: Target origin country 2 · From: Target origin province 2Province Definition · To: Target province 13 destination 2Province Definition · Months: 2
      Amount
      • Value: Target origin province 2Population
      • Multiply: 0.05
    • If
      • Target origin province 3 exists
      • Target province 13 destination 3 exists
      ThenAdd migration: Owner: Target origin country 3 · From: Target origin province 3Province Definition · To: Target province 13 destination 3Province Definition · Months: 2
      Amount
      • Value: Target origin province 3Population
      • Multiply: 0.05
    • One of these, at random
    Exact script

    Requires 1

    Grants 3

    Triggered by 1

    Scripting 1

    type = country_event
    category = situation_event
    image_list = "golden_century_illustration"
    title = golden_century_events.13.title Target Area Welcomes Migration Waves
    desc = golden_century_events.13.desc Our efforts to push the colonial frontier have borne fruit. The decree we issued to welcome settlers across Target Area has spread far beyond our own harbors, drawing families from as far away as Target Origin Province to seek a new life under our banner.

    They arrive with more than empty hands. Some bring the habits of neighbors long accustomed to living beside strangers, some the tools and trades of their old workshops, and others simply their numbers and their hunger to build. Whatever they carry, Target Ruler would see them settled well, for a frontier peopled is a frontier held.
    historical_info = golden_century_events.13.desc.historical_info A cédula de población was a royal charter by which the Spanish Crown sought to settle the thinly held reaches of its empire. Colonists willing to cross the ocean were promised grants of land, relief from taxes and duties, and the standing of loyal subjects, so that distant claims upon the map might become farms, towns, and ports able to pay their way and stand in their own defense.

    The most celebrated was the Real Cédula de Población granted by Charles III in 1783 for the island of Trinidad, long claimed by Spain yet scarcely inhabited. It welcomed Roman Catholic settlers from abroad and awarded land in proportion to each family and the number of enslaved laborers they brought, so that within a single generation a near-empty outpost became a crowded plantation colony. It remains the boldest expression of the Bourbon ambition to make the neglected edges of empire yield their worth at last.
    outcome = positive
    major = yes

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