EventAcross the pillars
Target Area Welcomes Migration Waves
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
Issue a Cédula de PoblaciónActionFrom effect · right away
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
Requires 1
Colonial NationAs soon as it happens
Grants 3
- Harmonious UnderstandingOption
- New Tooling TechniquesOption
- Shared ProsperityOption
Triggered by 1
Scripting 1
References 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.
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.
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





