Despite my life’s best efforts to sabotage progress, the project has reached 25% translation! In celebration, here is a short history of Kud’s homeland and it’s real-life inspirations. Most of this is extracted from and based upon the encyclopedia entry Riki reads on the fourth day of the game.
I don’t consider anything in this spoilers because knowing about Kud’s homeland will not spoil any of the games in any way. The name Tebwa was not in Little Busters (2007) because the back story of the island had not been developed yet. It was first named in EX but not given any significant background until Kud Wafter.
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Commonly called The Republic of Tebwa or simply Tebwa.
In this alternative history, the USSR wanted control over the ocean but when the League of Nations divided the Southern islands, they were split with America and the USSR ended up only with this small equatorial nation in the middle of the pacific.
Tebwa was abandoned by the USSR when the economy crumbled. After that it became an independent island republic. The domain comprises of volcanic islands, coral islands, atolls, and surrounding reefs. The Tebwa islands include thirteen archipelagos covering approximately 800 square kilometers of land. The largest archipelago is the size of Tokyo’s 23 wards (622 square kilometers).
After the 19th century it became unstable from colonization and a regional support plan is moving towards political stabilization. This group, the Pacific Rim Economic Organization found success with a large scale bank project. Presently, the primary industries of Tebwa are space exploration, tourism, fishing and agriculture. However in recent years, valuable underwater metal deposits have been found and mining has commenced.
- The capital of Tebwa is Город Звезды (Gorod Zvezda) Officially translated as Zvezeda City but more loosely as Star City.
- The official languages are Russian, English and a local dialect of Gilbertese.
- The population is half Caucasians from Russia, Europe and America with the remainder split between the natives and other Asians.
- One of the islands was used to test hydrogen bombs during the cold war.
- To travel between Tebwa and Japan requires both air and sea travel for a total of one week.
Real Life
The Republic of Tebwa is based on the Republic of Kiribati. Tebwa Island corresponds to the Tarawa atoll where the majority of the Kiribati population lives. Tarawa was controlled by the Japanese during World War II until US Marines seized the island.
The Makin Islands are in the same region of Kiribati as Tawara. One of the Makin islands, Tebua Tarawa disappeared underwater in 1999. It is from this island that the name of the fictional nation is derived.
The Republic of Kiribati also controls Kiritimati/Christmas Island. Kiritimati was the site of British and US hydrogen bomb tests during the cold war and Japan once planned to build a spaceport on the island for the failed HOPE-X project.
Though the Russian name is different, there is also a real Star City in Russia. It is the home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. There is also a statue of Kud’s namesake, Laika, in the city.
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February 8, 2013 at 8:33 pm
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February 9, 2013 at 7:56 pm
ThreeTimesFast
Yay for progress! 😀 Thanks so much for your hard work! 🙂
February 10, 2013 at 11:28 am
xKstar
Wow!! 25%! That’s so awesome! Thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work! *cheers* 😀
February 25, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Viracide
hi i got a sort of selfish question, after you’ve made the Kud Wafter patch are you going to patch another game or somthing?
February 25, 2013 at 1:30 pm
jyuichi
I haven’t decided, it depends on how this goes and how my life develops after grad school
February 26, 2013 at 1:22 am
Viracide
Well if you do could i request somthing?
February 26, 2013 at 11:00 am
jyuichi
Honestly, probably not but what title are you thinking of?
February 27, 2013 at 3:21 am
Viracide
I was hoping that you could do Gothic Delusion, VNDB says it’s only 2-10 hours long, no one else seems to be doing it, so…..
February 27, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Viracide
It’s up to you just a request
February 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Kanpachi
Are you going to translate the all ages edition?? 😀
February 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm
jyuichi
If it is released for PC I will.
February 26, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Kanpachi
The PC all ages version is coming out this year
February 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm
jyuichi
Oh I see the announcement was hidden on the LB laptop site.(oh key…) Yes I will support it, however new content translation will be handled after the original is complete
June 9, 2013 at 10:27 am
Scarlethill
Eagerly awaiting the finished translation ^^
I want more Kud and Waffooo~ and of course the story also :3
Keep up the good work and thank you for doing the translation ^^
July 23, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Guest
Reading the translation are step-by-step getting closer completion really brought a banana smile upon my face, I really hope and think this game will be as good as the original game and I wanna give you a big thank you for spending your time to make fans like me who can’t read a single word Japanese also being able to play it. 🙂