AlphaLeap

In 4108, Paba lost its war against the Gold Empire. Paba and Subumpam, along with a few outlying territories such as Sulasali, were taken over and assigned to the Naman nation of AlphaLeap (native name Nisundusa). AlphaLeap renamed their new colonies Halasala and focused especially on Paba, both because it was the easternmost and thus closest to AlhaLeap, and because Paba had for 3000 years had a reputation of being easily exploited.

AlphaLeap saw that Paba's people had become the world leaders in education for over a thousand years and had lots of knowledge to share with the world. AlphaLeap promised to erase that record, and immediately converted all of Paba's schools into detention centers. They said that under the Leaper government, Pabap children would be given no education at all. Anyone, child or adult, caught reading a book not written or approved by the Leapers would be killed immediately.

Leapers were fond of harassing Pabaps and making them feel helpless. They knew of Paba's people's 3500 year old preoccupation with the height gap between Pabaps and all other peoples, and that it had actually gotten more severe over time as more of the taller Pabaps married out. They thus created new furniture and home goods only in extra large sizes, intending Pabap adult males to feel embarrassed when they realized they could not get around their own buildings without assistance and put up less resistnace against the Leapers. However, embarrassment was a very weakly felt emotion among Pabaps generally, and they turned instead to anger. Moreover, AlphaLeap soon realized that Paba and Subumpam were both largely run by women and had been for a long time.

Meanwhile, in Subumpam, things were not greatly different. The Crystals had been running Subumpam for most of its recent history, and they were a Feminist Crystal party, meaning that women were in control of men in every area of life and even the idea of a man asking permission to speak in a conversation about him was unthinkable. Women in Subumpam were generally taller than their men, which meant that, like Paba, AlphaLeap's attempts to emasculate the native men by making them feel powerless failed because they were already emasculated by their own women. The confused Leapers did not understand the diversity of Subumpam and simply referred to all Subumpamese people as "Crystals", and later began to use this term for Pabaps as well.

First years under the Leapers

The Leapers handled their slaves badly. Despite the high birth rate, so many people died each day that the population actually fell during some months. Many Halasalans became convinced that the Leapers were guilty, for various reasons, of abuse of their powerful position, as they had been killing far more Halasalans than they needed to accomplish their goals. Most of the time the Pabaps who saw others around them being killed repented in fear and tried their hardest to obey their orders, but when they saw even the most Leaperistic of people tortured and killed for mistakes that weren't their fault, there began to rise, among some of the better educated Halasalans, people who, out of pure anger, publicly and fearlessly objected to this often blatantly sadistic misleadership. So in the late 4110's, a few of the Halasalans who were given positions of authority by the Leapers began to make independent decisions that went against the will of the Leapers. The Leapers did their best to frustrate these rebels, even to the point of kidnapping and torturing them. The rest of the Halasalans took this as a sign that the Leapers did not respect Halasala, pointing out that many Leapers seemed to actually enjoy watching the unexplainable accidents that seemed so frequently to take the lives of Halasala's children.

Revolt of 4123

In 4123, some Subumpamese slaves set fire to the plantations in the far western area of Halasala. Thousands of Leapers died trying to stop the fire from spreading, even though thousands of Subumpamese also died. One third of the Leaper governors moved to the center of the fire to stop it from spreading, and one female slave decided to close the gap and entrap them entirely in fire. When AlphaLeap found out what had happened, they disowned the Leaper government of Halasala and let Halasala become independent. Thus almost the entire Leaper population was dead and the Halasalans were free from oppression after only fifteen years of torture.