This here is just a placeholder to link to the introductionary video of Tehuioy.
I tried my hands at Cinelerra, a professional industry-class editing tool, and must admit:
Next time I use something more simple.

The video is, for your viewing pleasure, here:
( Best to download it and use VLC to view it )

http://aries.homeftp.net/publish/we.....uioy_intro.mp4


Tehuioy is a small fortified town of the Allied Sultanates. Just 500 years ago it was nothing more than a fortified outpost to protect a crossing of several caravan routes.
With the huge success of the fennekim-amazone alliance, trade intensified so much that soon the capacity of the garrision had to be extended to harbour several caravans at once if needed.
The vicinity of a navigable river which provided additional means of transport as well as making the land around it's circuituous route quite fertile, meant that with the growing demand of the garrision, with the massive constructions works of extending its fortifications, many workers came and stayed, requiring the extension of the fortification into a full fortified town of 2000 to 3000 people within the next 300 years.

Within the centuries a tiny but constant tiger enclave formed, which provide additional reason for travellers to pass through the towns gates:
Male and female tigers looking for a mate amongst the widespread, but small population inside Sultanates.

When about 150 years ago rich iron and coal veins were discoverd deep under the city, Tehuioy turned from a pure trade and waypoint town into a mining and manufacturing place.

70 years ago, during a temporary and short lived siege by a large band of raiders, a small spacecraft crashed near the town.
The Stratega of the town ordered a sally out of the towns main gates to beat the raiders to the "shooting star".
Amazones are well accustomed to shooting stars, and know that shooting stars don't usually slow by zig-zagging before hitting ground, so they guessed correctly that this was something different.

Though arriving only after a small band of raiders, they found most of the raiders dead or incapacitated, plus two dead and one pretty much dead human outside the vessel.
Inside they found about 40 human kids of varying ages.
All of them heavily bruised due to the crash, but in good health and slowly awakening from an artifical hibernation.

In the long run:
The humans settle in, and although they have their own issues to fit in, the few things that were with them in the spaceship help them - and the Sultanates - a long way ahead.
A microfiche library, seeds of dozens of plants, spices and herbs, fertile, close to hatching eggs of chicken, geese and turkey, a handful of bunnies and some more items soon enrich the list of ressources available to the Sultanates in general and Tehuioy in particular.