henrymidfields
Prime Minister of Shoyo 昇陽国内閣総理大臣
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Galar is one of four former kingdoms that now forms the United Kingdom of Saxceltia and Northern Hibernia. From its humble days of starting up as a Roman outpost amongst the native Celtic tribes, the Saxceltian Isles grew into the biggest Empire that the world has ever known, with colonies in almost every continet. And this is reflected on the variety of Pokemon found:
- Many tropical Pokemon, such as Tropius, the Exeggutor line come from various rainforests in India, Malaysia, South Africa and some of the British Carribean Islands. They can be found in a Crystal Palace (or Kew Gardens) inspired Safari Park.
- Kangaskahn and Platypus were first recorded in Antipodia under the Arthur Phillip's band of convicts and free settlers.
- Some past-generation Pokemon that would be found in Gen 1-4 are introduced by Galar advisors to Meiji Poke-Japan.
- Torkoal and its evolution were the first Pokemon to power steam used for the turbines and mills across Galar in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. They were also good indicators of where coal could be found to power the steam engines. They would be used for the iron-making furnaces in the 19th Century, while the steam engine around the same time would be powered by actual coal, and then oil/electricity afterwards.
- Stray Voltorbs and Electrodes were initially introduced when the first mass-produced Pokeballs came into the market around the 1920s. They were employed by both the Royal Saxceltian Air Force and the Luftwaffe from Nazi Teutonia (Poke!Germany) to bomb each other out during the Second World War. Nowadays, however, the stray population of Voltorbs and Electrodes of today are the results of the negative legacy between the Hibernian freedom fighters/terrorists (depending on how you look at the Troubles) vs the Galarians during the mid-to-late 20th Century. Smuggled from the RGAF after WW2, they were used in various terrorist and assassination plots, although some escaped from the scene to go native. What was particularly nasty about them were the fact that they looked like Pokeballs, which lead to many tragic injuries and death on the unsuspecting civilians.
