Shiuedao Island
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Overview
Shieudao Island is a remote island in the South China Sea home to a community of manimals living there since the 1800s. The island is protected by an electromagnetic pulse field defense system originally installed in the 1960s by a supervillain who resided on the Island, and repaired by the Liberators in the 2010s. The manimal population on this island is currently endangered and must be protected, due to damage to infrastructure and a severely reduced population after two bloody civil wars and a VIPER incursion.
History
The Liberators' Arrival
In 2013, a series of events involving The Liberators would prove utterly transformative to the natives of Shueidao. While on vacation and charting a course over the island en route to another destination, an aircraft (carrying Tony (Swift) Griffins, his wife Raelin, and Vlocke Aerospace Industries' president Roland Vlocke) went down in the ocean just outside of the island, forcing all three survivors to seek refuge. Vlocke, suffering from grievous injuries from the crash was kept in cryostasis thanks to Raelin's ability to control ice, and awaited rescue. Tony and Raelin herself (both anthro-bestia foxes), however, were forced to adapt to the island and mingle with the manimal natives to await rescue.
Their fate rested in the hands of the Liberators responding to the aircraft's transmission data being cut off by a strange signal coming from the South China Sea. All too late, the Liberators found out that this interference was created by an electromagnetic field enveloping the island. Their plane met the same fate as Tony/Rae/Vlocke's, and crashed into the sea just offshore, forcing the Liberators into a desperate battle against the savage nature of the island in an effort to rescue their comrades and find a way back home.
When the Liberators made contact with Raelin and Tony, they were met with suspicion by the manimal natives hosting them, who until recently had never been exposed to the outside world. The elders of the village distrusted the Liberators, but the youth saw the Liberators as a key to escape into the world beyond. This schism would begin to grow into an all-out civil war, fought using weapons and technology seized from the island's central, derelict supervillain base, from which the electromagnetic field surrounding the island derived. While the Liberators worked to deactivate the EM field, the village elders commandeered Cold War-era tanks, jeeps, rifles and mortars, and other weaponry to use against their own people, to subdue them and quell the planned exodus.
When the dust had settled, the population of Shueidao Island had decimated itself. The Liberators had done their best to attempt defusing the situation, to no avail. The only thing left to do, now that the EM field was deactivated, was to simply leave.
