Frontier towns like Śaṅkhapattana, where the tribals have been integrated into the stronghold and are voluntarily living together, are very rare because the number of towns selected as footholds for immigration in the continent is more than 30 locations. Given that the island continent is nearly 10 million kilometres in size, with a population of barely a million, it's really not uncommon for there to be no humans for thousands of kilometres at a time. So, apart from maybe four or five other places where the integration was going on, the rest of the places were without any natives.
Mid-May 1663
The immigration offices throughout the empire are filled with people. Chandrashekhar Gupta, a middle-aged lean man, stood in the long queue of the integration office with some expectation on his face.
