*The Hypetrain has reached his next destination*
On February 29th; All of Belgium expect for the Province of Namur, The Luxemburgian Province of Luxemburg, the Dutch Provinces of North-Brabant, Gelderland and South-Holland as well as Zeelandic Flanders, the German state Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Regierungsbezirke of Freiburg & Upper Bavaria, the Austrian states of Salzburg, Upper Austria and Carinthia, the Italian Regions of Veneto, Fruili-Venezia Guilia, most of Tuscany and the Provinces of Rome, Napels and Salerno, the French regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Ile-de-France and the departements of Moselle, Haut-Rhin, Landes, Pyrenées-Atlantiques, Haute-Pyrenées, Pyrenées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Gard and Bouches-de-Rhône, the Spanish Provinces of Girona, Barcelona and Tarragona, British Greater London, Kent, Somerset (+Bath), Oxfordshire, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Powys and Gwynedd, Slovenian Ljublijana, Upper Carniola, Coastal Kast and Croatian Istria,Prmorje-Gorski Kotar, Dalmatia (including the region of Mostar of Bosnia and the Montenegrin Bay of Kotor) were transported to a Virgin Earth.
A continuation of the EU was quickly established between Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Belgium, Southern Netherlands, 'Luxemburg', Moselle/Haut-Rhin, Basel-Stadt, Freiburg and Nordrhein-Westfalen; quickly joined by the UK who send military scoutgroups through the surviving Eurotunnel and immediately opened up relations, did a rudimentary 2nd brexit-vote and after a 'stay'-victory this time became a member again. Representatives of the Nations met once every 6 months in Brussels to discuss reclamation of 'new land', which prompted the decision to expand Eastwards and to gift some of the Western areas of 'Germany' to nations that would be limited in their expansion by 'Germany' seeing that the Germans would be compensated with lands in the East. The Netherlands were allowed to claim Lower Saxony and Luxemburg was allowed to claim the Trier Region. Belgium being so certain of annexing Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the future decided not to ask for land from Germany,and gifted Arlon to Luxemburg while at the same time deciding to split Limburg with the Netherlands.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais briefly began negotiations to unite with Belgium but that stopped when 9 months after the Event it was discovered that Ile-de-France was transported as well. Who immediately joined the EU and Claimed the old territory of France. It sparked conflict however with 'Germany' because Haut-Rhin and Freiburg had united 2 months before and both Countries claimed the united lands. In the interest of keeping the peace Belgium headed negotiations between the 2 where it was decided a "Belgium-style", bilingual country would be established called Swabia. 1,5 years after the event Basel-Stadt expressed their desire not to reinstate the Swiss nation but rather to join the newly created Swabia. Around the same time the UK discovered that Oxfordshire had been transported to this new world as well.
Not long after that the paddlesteamer Hohentwiel, who got transported while being docked at Konstanz during the event, met with Austrian troops near Ingolstadt while being on patrol along the Danube (before you ask it was docked in a drydock and transforted as far as was possible by train). Doing so the EU learned that Upper Bavaria and 3 neighbouring Austrian States were transported as well and in thinking they were alone united together. The Austrians told them about the Italian Regions to their South and their decision to unite with Istria and neighbouring Slovenian regions, however less voluntary in some areas. Within months communications was established with the 2 nations and they soon joined the EU, beginning discussions with Germany about Bavaria which was quickly resolved by deciding to split the region between the 2.
Roughly 2 years after the event British expeditions reached the West Country and brought Somerset and Bath into the hold. They ran into conflict however when they reached Wales, at first contact was friendly but turned sour when the Welsh not living in Cardiff seemed not to be interested in reunification with the rest of Britain or being part of the EU. Cardiff however seemed to be okay with the idea of reunification and thus became the starting point of an (albeit small) armed conflict which the Welsh won.
The 3rd year after the event saw Zeelandic Flanders being given to Belgium as a gift because of their position of not being able to expand anymore. In the same year the surviving Danish europarlementarians who had been looking for Danish Nationals (mostly tourists, bussinessmen and a small number of exchange-students mostly from Oxford) being in the areas transported, filed their motion to the EU to recreate their country; which they were allowed seeing they had the required 500 nationals. They went by train to Minden where they transferred onto sailboats to continue their journey down the Weser, along the coast, up the Elbe to where Hamburg would be and there they reconstructed Hamborg. When the town was fully functioning small groups sat out to reconstruct Kiel, Flensborg and Lybaek. The story of their succes prompted unauthorized groups of Scots and Irish to go and reclaim Edinburgh and Dublin.
In the 4th year after the event the UK, Belgium, France and the Netherlands established a small Navy comprising of newly constructed wooden steamers and set off for an expedition of the Western coasts of Europe. This initiative was started when a Venetian flotilla of sailboats returned from a expedition throughout the Mediterranean which it had embarked on during the first months after the event. It reported back that most of the Dalmatian coast had transported as well and banded together in peace, Napels and Salerno was transported as well essentially being ruled by the Neapolitan Maffia who are claiming all of Southern Italy and Malta and had been succesful in reconstructing Reggio di Calabria and Messina, the most part of Tuscany had already bonded together with the Province of Rome and was headed by the surviving Italian Government... Apparently the Vatican has left on Sailboats to go and reconquer the Holy Land after several bishops had visions from "Angels", believing in their isolation the Departements in Occitania had united with the Catalonia provinces and Catalan is now the language of Government (Occitan dialects are accepted but French is not allowed in public life) and the small Spanish communities were allowed to go and restart their country, which they did in where Cartagena would be. At the end of year 5 only the Italian state had reopened communications with the EU and the Rovigo Province opted to return to Italy.
Meanwhile Ljublijana has managed to survive just barely and has made no efforts of expanding (excluding the farmland outside the city) and the Departements Landes and Pyrenées-Atlantique have fallen into civil war between Basque-speakers, French-speakers and independent villages. Both of them think they are the only ones left in the world.
Resettlement has so far only not been executed by Swabia and Catalonia/Occitania. The Welsh have reconstructed Newport and are building to connect Cardiff with the rest of Wales while also resettling Conwy and Anglesey. They have also landed on Lands End where they have a small base/weather Station which acts as a justification for claiming Cornwall. the UK has resettled the area between Oxfordshire and London as well as Thurrock while from Somerset they have resettled the Bristol area. France has been working towards the Loire and has reconstructed Chartres and Orléans while also resettling the farmlands of the Valois valley, while from Nord-Pas-de-Calais their are resettling around the Somme and have reconstructed Abbeville. The Netherlands have resettled Zeeland, Haarlem and Amsterdam and is currently reconstructing Amersfoort, Belgium has mainly been busy resettling Namur but has however already reconstructed Maastricht, Germany has focussed its attention on seizing control of the Rhine, and Luxemburg is mainly resettling towards the Moselle although it has pushed a bit into the Ardennes to provide the 'European flotilla'-project with wood. Austria has been expanding all over the place with no real concrete plan, but do have reconstructed Augsburg and Passau. Italy has resettled the area between Tuscany and Rome, the rest of Tuscany and from Rovigo they have resettled the other side of the Po River. Venice has begun a steady push inland and Dalmatia has resettled the Coastal areas.
