i am sparticus: The Attempt Of The Explorers

The Attempt Of The Explorers

Piracy's roots lie in an attempt by Christopher Columbus to discover a trade route to India. Rather famously he failed at this and instead discovered two whole continents instead. Peculiarly this was seen as somewhat less of an achievement and, for a while at least, people were quite irritated that these continents were getting in the way of them bringing spices home from India. Eventually someone realised that perhaps this wasn't so much a problem as an an opportunity (remember the post-it notes? and so began the general raping and plundering of the new world. For now the important thing is that eventually these explorers got to the Far East and found spices, noodles and that they'd been beat to discovering every major invention for the last two thousand or so years.

But that wasn't it, because you see, as well as the explorers discovering exciting things, the natives in the Far East discovered that the explorers had discovered lands that they didn't mean to have discovered. Possibly. Anyway, the Japanese (for that is who they were) were slightly peeved that while they'd beaten the Europeans to gunpowder, compasses, decent metallurgy and tasty food they hadn't realised the giant great big series of continents to their East. Not to be out done by the Europeans, the Japanese sent their greatest spies back stowed away on the ships to explore to the new lands for the Japanese. These spies snuck in undetected to the boats and when the eventually reached the American mainland they spread out till they infected every area of the new world. These spies where never seen but soon people began to speak of them, the invisible invaders who had come to destroy the new continents. The NINJAS.

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