Descartes Isle (Emerald)

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Descartes Isle
Favicon.png Descartes Isle on the Emerald Ocean
Large island in the Pelican Archipelago
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Information
Controlled by   Narya  
Governed by   Prometheus
Navy color   Violet
Pets
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Location
Outpost Medium Large
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Descartes Isle is a large island located in the Pelican Archipelago. There are two known routes from the island: Cook Island and an inter-archipelago route to Kashgar Island in the Tern Archipelago.

Natural resources

This island spawns stone and sugar cane. These resources can be bid on at the market

Buildings

Apothecary 
Quadratic Formula (bazaar)
Bank 
Absolute Value
Commodities market 
Des Shopping Cartes
Distillery 
One Fifty One Proofs (bazaar)
Estate agent 
Distributive Property (upgraded)
Furnisher 
Derivative Interiors (bazaar)
House
Rho House (left-facing row house)
Riemann Slums (right-facing shack)
Inn 
Multiplicative Tables
Iron monger 
Distinguished Points (bazaar)
Palace 
Rule of Signs (upgraded)
Shipyard 
Convex Hulls (bazaar)
Wave Forms
Tailor 
Taylor Series (bazaar)
Weavery 
Haarrr Weavelet (bazaar)

Government

Descartes Isle is currently controlled by Narya.

History

Descartes Isle is named for French mathematician René Descartes.

Descartes Isle was originally located on the Sage Ocean. On a stone to the east of the market reads, "This island were fashioned by Mnemosyne".

The Descartes Isle navy was initially named "Somerset Navy" rather than "Descartes Navy". The name was changed in the first few days of the ocean.

Along with Lincoln Island, Greenwich Island, and Wensleydale, Descartes was one of the original four colonized Sage islands.

When Sage originally opened, there was no direct route from Descartes Isle to Kashgar Island (the route was from Cook instead). This was changed around March 7, 2006.

Descartes was transferred from Narya to Death's Banner on September 15, 2006 in preparation for the "Who wants to be Hades' Governor?" event.[1]

There was a Distillery building, which has since dusted: Brimstone Brewery.