You can call in if you wish, we are probably in the canteen playing cards, just knock three times and tell them Boris sent you.
*sails into port*
Ahoy!
*knocks three times* Boris, are you in?
We are traveling across the many regions of NationStates, and thought this region looked promising. Hope you don't mind a visitor!
Hello Welcome, come and have a hand of cards and a hot toddy, I think it's the third time we have refounded here, at one time a group of nationstates ships used to call by, they telegrammed and asked us to put the coordinates in the factbook before they would come lol, they seem to have died out now, it was a fun idea.
We are very loosely based on the film/book Ice Station Zebra.
Ah, a hot toddy...haven't had one of those in a long time. Nothing better on a cold winter night than popping into a bar for one.
I love hearing the stories behind the various regions, and the one you've relayed is a very good one :) Great idea with the coordinates in the WFE, very fun. Wish I could've seen some of those NS ships sailing around.
Do you remember around when the original iteration of the region took place? I just checked on the Wayback Machine and it captured activity back in 2008 (looks like some of the traveling ships were in-port at the time):
https://web.archive.org/web/20080528083606/https://www.nationstates.net/region=zebra_ice_station
I'm going to have to check out that film -- looks like just the kind of thing I enjoy. I see Patrick McGoohan is in it, and I recently watched all of the "The Prisoner" which starred him, and loved it.
Thanks very much for that, I managed to retrieve one of the original factbooks
It's amazing reading the old conversations there seem to have been other travellers here apart from the ship's, I didn't remember it being that active, I think it was founded again between 2008/9 and now but not so active the second time, I can't remember the very first founding date.
I liked Patrick McGoohan I used to watch him in a series called Danger Man don't know if it's still available in the archives anywhere
Yeah, I don't quite know how the Wayback Machine functions. So how and when it chooses to take a "capture" of a site is beyond my understanding. Perhaps it has to do with a certain amount of activity that triggers a capture? I know that if there have been no captures on the address you enter, it gives you the option to manually take one.
Yeah, I noticed some that were just "arctic" themed. I wonder if it was a popular destination for the Travelling Region?
Were you involved with the earlier iterations of the region? I see your nation's age is quite young, but perhaps you had other nations at the time?
I'm very pleased to have stumbled upon this place. I really love when I discover yet another small but wonderful corner of NationStates that I didn't know even existed :)
What made you re-found this latest time?
Ah, I'm into the card game in a big way :)
Got any collections that you're trying to build?
In the first series I collected everyone in regions I had puppets in now I just keep anything interesting to me nations and regions you didn't know existed can pop up, I came across one moderator a while ago (can't remember which) who didn't have a card for either season despite being an old nation that seemed weird.
Yes, the card game is a great way to discover new nations and regions. I've come across many that way.
Was that moderator "Sedgistan"? (didn't want to ping him by linking to his nation). If so, he only just revived his nation recently, after some number of years being CTE (maybe four?)
Ah yes it must be, I had forgotten the name, that would explain it.
I still have a nation in Arctic and its odd we were talking about nationstates ships, one just turned up there Hmhs brittanic there still seems quite a few ships about.
Hey, that's pretty cool. I didn't even know about the NS ships before coming here. Glad the tradition is being kept alive.
I presume you guys in Arctic have a rivalry with Antarctic Oasis?
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I suppose it's time for me to be shipping out. So many more regions out there to visit.
Thank you so much for the hospitality and excellent conversation! I hope to stop by again sometime. And I'll be sure to pass on the coordinates for this place to any other passing ships I may encounter.
You can call in if you wish, we are probably in the canteen playing cards, just knock three times and tell them Boris sent you.
Hi 
Tribute4rt- welcome we are alive but we only stick our heads out every few days normally.
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