>>8545306Knowing nothing of the collapse of plastic civilization in their home region, Farteam 51 continued on their mission, confident they would soon again be receiving signals from Imperial command.
But as the weeks and months passed, and still no signal came, the men of Farteam 51 began to lose hope. That their radio was functional, they were certain. Perhaps some strange field, interspersed between them and the home region, interfered with the signal. Still, they continued on their mission, there was nothing else, and Imperial Command had sent them no new orders.
The months turned into years, and the team surveyed and mapped many new houses and lands, most of them barren and empty, some of them hostile, all of them strange. Reports of their progress they dutifully transmitted over the boosted radio, hopeful that someone, back home in the Empire, was listening.
But finally the radio broke down beyond the team's ability to repair it. Stranded far outside the edges of the known world, Farteam 51 now resolved to accomplish its secondary mission: found a colony to add to the glory of the Jaypean Empire.
The house they had arrived at seemed ideal; almost no non-toy-soldier toy life to threaten them, and a core of toy soldiers including some technologically backwards Reds—a rarity in the old Empire—and some even more primitive Brown savages. With their advanced weaponry the Farteam had little difficulty assuming command of the Reds and subduing the Browns. From this power base the Imperial Colony of Jaypean Ellicott arose.
The Farteam instituted a vast program of improvement and growth directed at the natives, training them in Imperial military and manufacturing methods, and soon upgrading their weapons and technology almost to basic Imperial standards. During this time they also fought several small wars of conquest, easily bringing in other technologically inferior tribes of natives to their ranks.
