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[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Cortwade Cortwade] established claims for the Federal Republic of Acadia on Civclassic on March 10th, 2021<ref>Claims of Acadia on CivClassic: [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/m2fuow/claims_of_the_republic_of_acadia/ link] (reddit post)</ref> and the Acadian parliament officially voted in favor of the migration on April 4th.<ref>Conclusion of the vote: [https://imgur.com/a/f9adlXk link] (imgur of discord message) Note: display of April 5th instead of April 4th is due to time zone difference</ref> The migration finally took place on April 22th.<ref>Final announcement of the migration: [https://imgur.com/a/ZXdm7CV link](imgur of discord message)</ref> A key player during this transition was [[juniorTideJuniorTide]], a player from Javaya who had left CivUniverse earlier already and established himself in [[Icenia]]. A large number of other Javayans joined Acadia as well, though from the Javayans only juniorTide[[JuniorTide]], [[LightningBerk]], and [[Egi]] would remain active in Acadia. The area chosen as the new homeland for Acadia, in the largely empty [[+,-|+,- quadrant]], had previously been part of the [[Chanseatic State]], before it was annexed and eventually unclaimed by [[Mir]]. To the west of the original claims of Acadia lay the old, heavily griefed ruins of [[Holy Tree (CivClassic)|Holy Tree]], and the Chanseatic town of Vanhoover, and many remnants of the past, including swastikas, wehrmacht flag banners, and Chanseatic State banners, were found here. Located in the deep northeast, a mostly undeveloped region of the map, Acadia originally had no close neighbours other than the aesthetic city of [[Gondolin]] to its south and a Mir exclave to its north, and Acadians began to lean even more into 'frontierism' as a key aspect of their identity.

With a sizable lake island in the middle of Acadia the choice of location for the new capital, New Turing, was easily made, and in a first wave of development a factory building, and a few residential and commercial buildings were quickly build, as well as the Acadian National Arena, and the prominent Perseverance Square, ofwith Perseverancea fountain built by [[SpacemanSpleef]], which would become the heart of Acadian life. However, unlike on CivUniverse, this time Acadia decided to be a federation with internal states and territories, and after the Capitol District with New Turing, the Territory of [[Babbage]] was quickly founded by [[Owain X|OwainX]] with state capital Lovelace, as well as the Territory of Kanava with the eponymous capital city of Kanava, and many more would follow. While much progress was made at the very beginning, further development stalled as people increasingly began to work on their own projects, with one Acadian building a private ore smelter before a communal ore smelter had been established, another working on private xp production, and others working on personal build projects away from New Turing. To a degree the fragmentation was encouraged with the Acadian Constitution granting a voting representative in the Senate, the executive body of the Acadian government, for every group of three or more people with their own State, which was later overturned during [[Kannon]]'s term as Prime Minister. Unfortunately, few settlements outside of New Turing ever became more than personal build projects and those that did never managed to keep activity up for long, which resulted in there being a large number of ghost towns sprawled throughout the previously mostly untouched landscape.

One of the most loved and respected builds was the '''Acadia Grand Central Station'''. It was the main transportation hub in Hyperborea, linking all settlements in Hyperborea with each other, and linking the continent to the rest of the server with a direct line to the motherland, Javaya. Built in typical traditional old Turing architecture with brick and stone brick, it's the main representative build of this style. The '''Aston Tower''', built by Cortwade, largely followed these same architectural conventions like most buildings in old Turing. Housing a number of newfriend apartments, it was the tallest building in all of [[Hyperborea]] for several months, until becoming the second tallest after the completion of Iceton Tower in the [[Republic of Lunalia]] , dominating the old Turing skyline. It represented a move towards urbanization as old Turing was growing quickly in its latest weeks. Another landmark came from the same urbanization rush; the '''Supreme Tribunal''' building by [[Huntwolf]], an example of Acadia's occasional flirtation with quartz. It was the only Acadian government building that was ever finished.[[File:New Turing screenshot.png|thumb|342x342px|The Community Center and the Columbian embassy in New Turing]]

The '''Rainbow Row''', built by Bloof, was one of New Turing's most successful residential and commercial projects. As New Turing sat upon a large height difference with the surrounding lake, waterfront development was a challenge; however; the Rainbow Row's visibility ensured its inclusion in commercial traffic. It eventually became associated with the later rainbow hot air balloon and the gaybar as monuments to Acadia's LGBT+ community. Another important landmark was the '''National Arena,''' designed by Owain in antiquity inspired architecture, the first major break from traditional Acadian architecture. Situated between the early settlements of New Turing, Lovelace, and Kanava rather than in the capital, it was a monument to Acadia's federalism on CivClassic. Unfortunately, perhaps partly due to its remoteness, it was never put to use. Another building that never quite hit its goal was the unfinished '''Capitol Building''', designed by [[Seekinq]] and central part of Cortwade´s vision for New Turing. As time went on the building became a controversial symbol of inactivity, and it began to highlight struggles with city planning as it clashed with the skybunker and the boulevard descending to the building clashed with kick-back traps. Right before the announcement of the end of the server, a plan for urban renewal was formed which would have had this entire area removed and rebuilt. Symbol of the same wave of urban renewal was the new '''Community Center''' with factories and large communal storage, built by Uniter, and the tallest building in New Turing. Finally, one of Acadia's most controversial buildings; the '''Vegan Steakhouse''' by Spleef[[SpacemanSpleef]]. Due to its lack of aesthetic value and the fact that it was hardly ever stocked, the Acadian government wished to derelict this building. However, given Acadia's strong property rights, which did not allow for confiscation as long as the owner objected on Discord, and popular disapproval of what many saw as 'government overreach', the building led to one of Acadia's biggest storms of e-lawyerism.<ref>Debate on the Vegan Steakhouse and derelictions: [https://imgur.com/a/tNiiwBz link] (imgur of discord messages)</ref>