What Is the Future of Global Commerce?

William Patterson was a young Scotsman who spent his youth traveling. He thought that if he established ports on both sides of the Ismos, then hauled goods overland, you'd be in control of this global trade artery. If Scotland controlled Darianne and established a colony there, it would soon become fabulously wealthy from all of the trade levees going through because ships loaded down with Pacific goods would no longer have to go around South America.