OH:City of Harlon

Harlon is the capital and main city of the server, also serving as the spawn point for all new players. It is from this city that the server also got its name.

Being the capital city of the country, the city servers all government functions of the nation, such as the Harlonian Parliament, the HQ of HCS Staff, Spawn and the Resident Application. It also has many culturally significant landmarks of the server such as Parliament Square, Sergels Square and Stenford Bay.

History

Founding

In April 2017, the first parts of the City of Harlon were constructed at South Avenue, a few hundred blocks south of the Harlonian river. Quickly however, development moved to the north site of the river where the first houses still remaining can today be found just next to Victoria. The original builders of the city were Antlucl, Optimized_, quickly after followed by KarWe and then SeeItSayItDoggo, the latter of which would go on to become the server's main developer coding for example the Go2-Card. The city originally expanded west from Victoria to St James's Park, an area which KarWe would later become the mayor of. From St James's Park, the development then sparked northwards up towards Green Park. This section, whilst making up a smaller proportion of the city's size today, was built in the period from April 2017 to the fall of 2018. During this time, the city had also seen it's first public transport services; with the District and Queenvic lines commencing operation as well as the TramLink, with the latter being the first piece of public transport infrastructure in the city.

The big boom

In the late autumn of 2018, the rate at which buildings were constructed at exploded, originating one evening in the Earl's Court area when multiple houses were built. The growth quickly moved on to move back to where process had previously stalled at Green Park; keeping the area going northwards up to Sergels Square, as well as the city now expanding eastwards from Victoria to Parliament Square, where the Parliament of Harlon was constructed in the early spring of 2019. Whilst Parliament Square itself had been constructed much earlier already in 2017, none of the houses surrounding it nor the buildings between Victoria and Parliament Square were built.

The boom continued moving eastwards on to Habton, Eastgate and Upminster