Vox Pictoral Announcement

[Beta]

Citizens of the World...

It has been some time since Vox's exodus from North Estonia to our new home, and as the painful memories fade to nostalgia, we have come to accept our new land and have put all our energy into building a civilization to be proud of.

To commemorate the occasion, we Voxians have collected a number of 'images' which help tell the story of the Voxodus, and the re-building.

This is our Voxian Pictoral Announcement. ...Beta

1. The voyage is long, very long. Galleys must pass over the full length of the North Coast of Bob and then some, to get to Legos Minor - the land graciously granted to Vox by the noble and generous Legolanders.

A Voxian galley en-route:

(in reality - a picture of a galley taken from a history site called Ancient Worlds. Anybody know anything about it?)

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2. Many Voxians take to the oar banks - Immortals, once on the front line against the Stormians, now toil day after day to speed our passage.

(in reality - a snap shot from a famous 1959 movie)

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3. After months and months of toil, we arrive at Legos Minor - and what's this!!?? Voxians have already arrived and started settlements. How can this be? What form of nefarious wizardry is at work here? We approach slowly, and sure enough, it is our countrymen.

(in reality - a picture of the coast of Mykonos - not one of mine - although I have some fabulous pictures - but taken before I got a digital camera.)

[OPD]

You should mine those hills asap and get a harbour built in that city if you want it to grow at all.

Is that a courthouse?

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4. Meanwhile - on land - the Voxians who arrived at the New Voice via nefarious wizardry, have started to speard out and explore the new land. It has been renamed Voxtavia. Lego did not over-advertise the geography, and for good reasons.

There are a lot of mountains.

(in reality, the Athabaskan Glacier flowing from the Columbia ice field in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies. Photo taken from above the tree-line on the far side of the valley. You are also looking at a triple-continental divide - water from this point flows in three different directions to end up in three different oceans - Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic.)

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5. Undaunted, Voxian settlers head out in all directions. It s tough going, but Voxians are used to a rugged life, and the settlers know that the future of their civilization depends on them. In the distance - more mountains.

It is noteworthy that the industrious Voxian workers have already built a basic road network.

(in reality - hiking up the Yoho Valley - in Yoho National Park - Canadian Rockies)

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6. As these are desperate times - even Voxian Senators are pressed into action. Here Beta - still reeling from the crushing military defeat handed to the Voxian military - heads off to explore for new city sites. As he left the city - he was last heard mumbling - "First we build a barracks, then warriors, lots of them, and then we upgrade to Immortals! Ha!"

(in reality - yours truly on the back from the plain of the six glaciers in Banff National Park. The mountain in the back ground is Mount Victoria, the one in all the pictures taken from the Lake Louise Lodge.)

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and the picture ...

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...to be continued ....

[Konquest02]

Nice pictures Beta! Nice pictures from your trip to Legos Minor... I just hope you managed to get there easier than Ben Hur!

[Rhothaerill]

Been waiting to see this. I like it. DG accurate...plus great pictures.

[Panzer32]

Beautiful pics, esp. of the Canadian Rockies. Makes me remember of last summer...

[Aidun]

oooowwww, pleeease, tie me to that tree overthere, or I might go swimming across the ocean! I NEED TO go to America after seeing these pictures. Man, they're beautiful! Reminds me of Austria and Norway. I love the mountains.

Nice pictures Beta. Do you think there is a home for me on Voxtavia? I must get to there in some way, but I'm afraid the customs won't let me pass without a passport. Did you know that King Togas has forbidden any Spaniard to leave Spain without his permission, to ensure he has enough people to bear arms against the pagan Moors and evil Chinese?

Aidun

[pikesfan]

Originally posted by Aidun
I NEED TO go to America after seeing these pictures.

Those mountains are in CANADA alas, there’s no white to make a flag. You need to go to CANADA instead. Hmmph, we liberated you in the War and sixty years later you confuse us with the Yanks...

[Wittlich]

Well, to give Aidun credit, most of the world wraps the USA and Canada as basically the same thing.
After all, it is the world's longest unpatrolled international border (only controlled in certain locations) ...