Kanal Town

Kanal Town
Kanal Town in 2024, picture by  HyperDray.
About
Founder	SiOtter
Contributors	KomodoDragon108  slicedtomato  CarCrasher13  HyperDray
Category	Cities
Underground?	partly
Fortified?	Yes
Public access?	Yes
Public build?	No
Transport
Road link?	Yes
Nexus link?	Yes
Rail link?	yes
Boat link?	Yes
Portal?	Yes
Location
Coordinates	X=-9255 Y=73 Z=1531
Dimension	Overworld
Map Link

Kanal Town is a city in western Freedonia, in the Great Lakes Province. It was founded by  SiOtter in April 2017. It currently is the one of the oldest active cities on the server.

About

Basic History

Kanal Town is a town started in 2017 by SiOtter. Its a longstanding city that has been consistently active since its founding. The city has a few things to do ranging from public farms, tourism, and administrative centres. The city has grown substantially since 2017 and now has over 100 members and over 30 residents with 10 of whom are active.

Visiting - Things to know

Currency

If you are shopping in Kanal expect to see stores using Gold Ore. Since 2018 this has been the standard currency for small trades in the city. There are multiple currency exchanges within the city limits that allow you to switch between diamonds and gold ore.

Access

There's multiple ways to get into Kanal Town, they are all listed below.

• Kanal Town is accessible via the Great Lakes - 1 Highway (GL-1) both east and westbound from Annaheim and the Blue-2 Nexus.
• You can also boat to Kanal from spawn by following the Slowriot route, New Venice route, Snow Golem Route, and Mushiana Winter Route to the Oak Route into the city centre.
• Kanal Town can be reached via the Nexus at the Nexus Blue 2 Hub, it's the second platform on the left.
• The SCR Great Lakes Line is another way to access the town, you can get into the town via going to Maywell Village, then Oak Town and taking the train into the city.

Public Transport

There are multiple public transport methods within Kanal Town which can make it easier to navigate this old city. The most popular of which is the local railway system (town subway).

• Boats - The town has multiple docks with chests full of boats, this is the fastest way to move around the town normally.
• Kanal Town Subway - the local subway network.
• Spawn Continental Railway - Another local railway that goes to the cities suburbs.
• Walking - Just wandering about on foot.

Specific Buildings List

Tourism

• Rapty Memorial
• Mount Dernal National Park
• The Cube Of Sleepless
• Dernal Mountains
• Empress Statue
• Kanal Town Public Library
• Great Lakes & Kanal Town Museum
• Old Kanal Town Historic Site
• Kanal Town Radio Tower
• Old Kanal Farm
• Kanal Town Theatre (movie theatre)
• Kanal Town Stadium
• マウンテンカワウソの寺院 (Temple of the Mountain Otter - Shinto Shrine)

Administration

• Tomato-made Roads LCC INC
• Freedonia Peace Keeping Alliance Headquarters
• Kanal Town Police Station
• Kanal Town City Hall (closed)
• Dernal BrewHouse
• Sandbar Station
• Kanal Tower
• Kanal Town Hospital

Shopping

• Kanal Town Market & Auction House
•  SnapJaw/Dernal's Die Cafe Dern - A Cafe
• Little Diamond Tower
• CarCrasher13's Bakery
• Kanal Town Bookstore
• CC13 Bakery (Little Diamond Plaza)

Various player made houses.

Farms

• Kanal Town Industrial District
• Kanal Town Greenhouse
• pumpkin farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)
• Pork Farm (owned by  SiOtter)
• New Tree Farm (owned by  SiOtter)
• Old Tree Farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)
• Potato Farm (owned by  Hyperdray, public)
• Sheep Farm (owned by  mirko93s, public)
• Cactus Farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)
• Manual Melon Farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)
• Manual Carrot Farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)
• Some Flowers Farm (owned by  CarCrasher13, public)

Embassies

• Spanish embassy in Kanal Town
• New United States (In Little Ore Plaza)
• The Citadel
• E Town
• Timberforge (In Little Ore Plaza)
• Shackcity

Discord

Kanal town has a discord server if you want to join: https://discord.gg/Bm8yMQxM

Town Administration

• Note: see page Kanal Federation for specifics on management.

Kanal Town Rules

1) No Griefing

2) No Harassment

3) No pvp without consent

4) No leaving builds unfinished

Enforcement

The Kanal Town rules are enforced by Town Staff (above) and by FPKA Officers. When someone is breaking a rule, particularly a pvp rule contact an FPKA officer or Kanal Staff member. If any building or harassment rules are being broken contact a regular Town Staff. The Kanal Town Police Department also patrols the streets enforcing the rules.

Members & Residents

People who have joined Kanal are fit into two categories, members and residents. Members have joined the town but spend little to no time building there after one or two builds. Residents are people who build and live in Kanal nearly full time. Kanal Town residents are given a Passport under the ƒ (ƒederation passport service, also known as "Permanent residency cards") which allows them to build in affiliated & neighbouring towns like Chilliwack that also accept the passports. If a player owns a shop in Kanal they're automatically given resident status.

This is something the town has practiced since June 2018. Passports also serve administrational purposes in keeping track of the number of permanent residents in Kanal Town, which somehow has never dropped below 2. Valid passports have tags signed by either  SiOtter or  Hyperdray.

Current number of residents: 7(+/-3)

List of Kanal Town Staff

The town staff in Kanal Town can invite/kick people from town and enforce the rules within town. And the town mayor can promote town staff while also preforming the duties of the town staff and helpers. Town staff & the mayor operate underneath the towns owners. Below town staff are the helpers who will help town staff with any given tasks. Town staff and helpers can be voted by the community or appointed by one of the two owners of Kanal Town, currently the one criteria for town staff is having resident status.

SiOtter and HyperDray both own 50% of Kanal Town. SiOtter gets priority though due to being the original builder in town. Unless SiOtter has a really dumb idea that Hyper must say no to.

•  SnapJaw - Town Leader/Owner (Active)
•  HyperDray - Town Leader/Owner (Semi Active)
•  CarCrasher13 - Town Mayor (Has the same powers as town owner) (Active)
•  LxMeister42 - Town Staff (Semi Active)
•  ShadowAuraI - Town Staff (Semi Active)
•  Acesrt - Town Helper (Active)
•  FistOfVengeance - Town Helper (Active)
•  internetuser10 - Town Staff (Active)

List of FPKA officers in Kanal

•  Outboardbag
•  SiOtter

List Of Kanal Town Members & Residents

• Note: The following list is not in order of town join date.

Year	Users
2017	SiOtter
2018	SleeplessTheCat	SlicedTomato
Senbonzakura_	Paladin_Heihachi	PsychicWinter
Slime_Tiger	GMDK	TheZer0Gam3r
LadyTako	ILikeSleepless_	TheSprazzler
Flipaddas	IHaveNoIdea145	KomodoDragon108
2019	BaconHunter321
2020	Qokko	Kilosaurus
Wolf_War	MrMcBricks	Freskoo
DoggyDoply45	Beereaka	Jriver_15
_Fafi_	NghiaN	Trinak
2021	4untochrist	HyperDray
2022	N/A
2023	SludgyFern14437

•  DDOZZI
•  _Fafi_
•  Beeraeka
•  DoggyDoply45
•  MrMcBricks
•  jriver_15
•  Raflamar
•  DorpEngineer
•  Wolf_War
•  Trinak
•  harveygee
•  Freskooo
•  Th3Zer0Gam3r
•  BaconHunter321
•  fillipaddas
•  ellisean
•  SadieSadie
•  Ad0lfHitLer
•  4dre
•  XDCLAY
•  MonkeSniper221
•  OGvorva
•  Acesrt
•  holychicken7
•  EpicBaby
•  ShadowAuraI
•  iHaveNoIdea145
•  _MrFib
•  lordsebastianman
•  Ghostis_s
•  Chewy27_
•  McAxolotl
•  CarCrasher13
•  Drayden17
•  Ron_Leggett
•  Wispysnail
•  MrMcBricks
•  goofy_man_lol
•  Flip33r
•  laichuangdeace
•  Cosmic_potato_04
•  OutboardBag
•  Gamernox999
•  Sobble816
•  Bigred_12
•  Lukedoc565
•  Mcaxolotl
•  Lxmeister42
•  2b2tLegends
•  MariosGlik
•  JffmVortex
•  CxMP69
•  GunCat2
•  JCobbler2012
•  ISuxzYT
•  mirko93s
•  932
•  Butteroil
•  SylveonTM
•  MilesPW
•  NinjaOverSurge
•  Lanless
•  DoerOfThings_
•  Doggo_Swimmer19
•  Doggydoply45
•  Deckard
•  cWolf1
•  MrCavern
•  LadyTako
•  TheZer0Gam3r
•  Acedukedagamer
•  SpyDog
•  Jamiepro555
•  red_sporb
•  cheesemaster63
•  motomandd
•  Shuppetauface
•  eleanorsilly
•  _YT
•  HommusMan
•  JHM_Games
•  AndroCubed
•  Faraday156
•  RomoBen12
•  Bartek_kx
•  LinuxHacker101
•  RileyManMassey
•  Chessypickmen
•  Bruhhhhhhhs
•  E6V
•  Moxieskip
•  Steelrain815
•  FuzbolMC
•  IceCold2407
•  xmaragd
•  Chuknuggit
•  oskw
•  PokeyTick
•  cnupdates
•  JensBergenstien
•  chuknugit
•  cosmicdudes22
•  CaptainIceman
•  Geekz0
•  5dre
•  IlumnStar
•  J4V2
•  Bobbinsjunior
•  perrythepee
•  boxzy
•  internetuser10
•  Sweetcorm
•  Orchunter88
•  JWCFive
•  Wintrysummit

Last updated 23/6/2024

Rule breakers watchlist

• These players are not outright banned from the town, but are not overly welcome and will have a more difficult time joining town in the future.

•  Oneight Reason: Raid
•  Hatoshi Reason: Raid and Majour grief
•  Wulf_359 Reason: Attack on  DicedTomato in chat and raid
•  speedPocok5 Reason: Biggest raid in Kanal Town and New Kanal Town history
•  Serrano07 Reason: Helping  speedPocok5 in Kanal Town's Biggest Grief
•  NekoFlen convicted raiding of chests (and being api lol)
•  NedHuman assault of town members
•  NickolasDiamond murder of  Lxmeister42 on spruce dock
•  Ownagecat Assault of town members during Freedonia Bankers Institution meeting

History

Beginnings

welcome to depressingville xD - SnapJaw

Kanal Town found its start when  SnapJaw first asked the admin  Ted1246 to be teleported to the "edge of the map" on April 16th 2017, which put him on a hill in west Freedonia (near the edge of the spawn continent/disk). On this hill he built a small cabin with a canal, which would be the foundations of the town. Some time later, in May of 2018, SnapJaw invited  Komododragon108 to visit the budding settlement, who then claimed a nearby mountain, naming it Mount Rifty.  Psychicwinter was known to also have contributed in Kanal Town's early days.

DicedTomato

im dicedtomatos alt so i have the right!! - dicedgarlic

Later in 2018,  DicedTomato became the third member of the town, which in turn inspired Snapjaw to invite  SleeplessTheCat, his friend from a factions server. DicedTomato worked on the town on an alt account, causing a ruckus in chat when  AlphaAlex115 and  mk59apr came to investigate.

Mount Dernal

time too finish mount dernal - SnapJaw

Around this time, Snapjaw began work on Mount Dernal, although he encountered difficulties gathering enough resources and willpower to complete it. With the help of  mk59apr and  Slime_Tiger, it was eventually completed.

Hatoshi

i think i broke a torch sorry - Hatoshi

One day in September, a user named  Hatoshi asked to come to Kanal Town, but began to repeatedly kill SnapJaw and steal from chests. Eventually, he stomped the towns crops and left. He would later grief Kanal Town more thoroughly, which would eventually lead to his ban.

New Kanal

so why is it called new kanal town what happened to the old one - doodlebird

After the ban of Hatoshi, Snapjaw and DicedTomato would begin a rapid expansion of the town, building several docks and new buildings away from the main Kanal Town. An apparent desire for a fresh slate led SnapJaw to declare the newly built portions "New Kanal Town," walling up the oldest builds and turning them into a monument.

Serrano07 and Speedpocok

i hate snapjaw. snapjaw evacuated me - SpeedPocok5

A user by the name of  Serrano07 came to the town one day and killed everyone there. He would frequently visit, often killing SnapJaw.

Speedpocok was a new user, invited to join Kanal Town by DicedTomato. After a series of misunderstandings, Speedpocok was evicted from Kanal Town and killed by SnapJaw. Angered by this, Speedpocok would go on to grief Kanal Town before being caught by  Anna_28.

Snapjaw and other town residents would be forever resentful of Serrano, and were often caught up in the drama surrounding him.

Partial Decay

Kanal Town is dead - SleeplessTheCat

Around October, many members left the town, with SnapJaw declaring the town closed. None of the users with perms built anything new, and whatever new visitors the town had were wandering explorers and looters. Snapjaw would later be banned for the grief of  NekoFlen's house. His ban appeal would be rejected on December 10th, 2018, leaving the town's future uncertain. SnapJaw gave ownership of Kanal Town to  SleeplessTheCat and mayoral duties to  Scarclaw72 until he would return. During the year 2019 Kanal Town had a storage facility made in the industrial district for town members to put their "junk" items in. In May 2020 following his return, SnappyJaw_ was given ownership of Kanal Town again.

Nexus

the short revival that kanal town had was fun - ElFrooosk

On the 18th of May, 2020, SnapJaw appealed again, with a vouch from  NevadaDream and a community service sentence. Kanal Town would briefly enter the Bedrocco Empire to help revitalize it. Old and New Kanal were also rejoined during this time. As people began contributing again, SnapJaw requested a Nexus link, which was approved by  Stromhurst and a link was added by  jimmyd93. A little later, on May 23rd, 2020, the residents of Kanal Town voted on leaving Bedrocco, making it independent once more. However, SnapJaw would quickly sink into inactivity once more, making Kanal Towns revival very brief. It would have 2 permeant active residents living in the town until early 2022 when one of them would quit.

Ghost Town

Oh and I remember the void body pillow in Kanal Town, we do not talk about that. - SiOtter

In 2021 Kanal Town was managed by  SleeplessTheCat. A few residents lived in town at this time, it was definitely the lowest point in town history. When these residents finally all moved out in 2022 Sleepless and SiOtter got back into proper contact and Sleepless's 50% town ownership was given back to SiOtter.

Revival

Anal Town - Luigifan100

During 2022 SnapJaw made a couple of appearances to clean up addition grief in Kanal Town. Later in 2023, SnapJaw started to play MCO again, under the new username  SiOtter. Kanal Town opened its own museum, and it joined the Newport Empire. On May 29, 2023, it also joined the New United States as its third state. On August 4th 2023 it was voted that Kanal Town would leave both the New United States and Newport Empire. This resulted in a mysterious man who watched the vote take place kill  SiOtter the next day.

A time of policy changes and... pvp?

SiOtter placed end crystal traps all around kanal town to win - NedHuman

Kanal Town would be the first town in to open a currency exchange in 2023 under the management of Freedonia Bankers Institution. This exchange expanded trading options within the town allowing for more diverse prices to be set within town. As a result of  NedHuman (unsuccessfully) headhunting town residents, the users  SiOtter,  Acesrt, and  Outboardbag set the town up for Crystal PVP which scared ned off. The town saw exceptional growth June 2023 - present with an average of 4 new players a month. On September 19th 2023 the Great Lakes & Kanal Town Museum turned 5 years old. The town also saw the addition of the "No unfinished builds" rule to combat and begin removing incomplete builds after 3 months of inactivity.

Chilliwack, Maple Ridge, and true cityhood

why these [Censored] don't even know how to grife - LordFollower

Kanal Town would be griefed for a 3rd time at the end of September 2023, it was without a nexus connection for one day. Kanals expansion would see some changes need to be made ontop of the bandaid fixed being done on occasion. This was done with the construction of Kanal Tower, a new administrational building and archive for the town. Kanal Tower is the towns first high-rise (skyscraper). The town also incorporated the neighbouring communities of Maple Ridge and Chilliwack into the city management structure. During October the city would reach 10 residents when  IsuxzYT and  mirko93s joined the town. Mirko built a the city a sheep farm. The SCR would also open its Kanal Town connection on the Great Lakes Railway Line around the same time. Kanal Town was now connected to both its suburbs (Maple Ridge & Chilliwack) directly.  CarCrasher13 also built a giant arena in the north of town which  SiOtter helped modify for CrystalPVP and spleef use.

Promotions, Christmas, going into 2024

Found him in a cell under Kanal Town :) - Krenath

Winter 2023 opened with the start of the Kanal Town Christmas Celebration, followed by  SiOtter making a bookstore to sell books at and  CarCrasher13 building a cafe below it. On December 11th 2023 Kanal Town got its very own hospital and a shinto shrine; both on the towns southern side.  HyperDray the co-owner of Kanal Town made a rare visit to Freedonia to help check in on town and to approve  CarCrasher13s promotion to deputy mayor.  cozmicdudes22 attacked  CarCrasher13 after being killed by  SiOtter in a duel resulting in CarCrashers death, followed by OutBoardBag killing SiOtter due to a miscommunication. The town had its second mall open with Little Ore Plaza being expanded into two towers.

Triple Digits & Drama

Time to do a boat purge on kanal town : - CarCrasher13

 _Daata and  SiOtter begin to make the Kanal Town Golf Course and plan to host a tournament at it. The Empresses Tomb dungeon would open for occasional playtesting in February 2024. The town would have a members census done to find that there were 95 people who are Kanal Town members. The town subway would officially finish its first phase in February with a direct rail connection into Dernal National Park. SiOtter would reach out to  CaptainIceman about the city joining the United Mistralian Federation (now known as the Freedonian Commonwealth) to help repopulate the Spawn Continent.  Faraday1056 becomes the 100th player to join Kanal Town! For the first time since 2018 a Kanal Town member was evicted and lost permissions to the build.  RileyManMassey would make an embassy for The Citadel in Kanal Town in mid march 2024.

More Changes as Kanal Turns 7 (spring 2024)

Kanal Days 2024 would start in the spring as an event to celebrate Kanal Towns 7th birthday. The Kanal Town Subway' Crasher Line would also be completed by  BomBardyGamer.  HyperDray would also host a 1 and a half hour long game of tag for town residents in April 2024.  SiOtter stepped back from his super active role in the city in the spring to pursue other builds.  CarCrasher13 became the cities first new mayor in 4 years.

Summer Games 2024

The city would be worked on over the summer, with slight changes in town staff.  KomodoDragon108, one of the founding members of Kanal visited the town for the first time in a few years. Multiple spleef games and climbing competitions were held in and outside the city aswell. Although, the main event over the summer was the return of Mechas Hunt which brought in a large wave of visitors into the city. Kanal would also become host to a large ice boat track for racing called the Kanal Circuit.

Gallery

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  First wiki screenshot of Kanal Town (2018).

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  The new visitor center (2018).

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  The visitors Center.

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  The Mountains.

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  Looking over Kanal Town.

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  Mt Dernal halfway through construction.

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  Finished Mount Dernal.

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  Mount Mosasaur Construction.

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   fmxstick informing  Snapjaw about Hatoshi's ban.

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  Birch Dock (2018).

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  Making of spruce dock.

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  Dernal talking to speedPocok about moving her home.

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  Snapjaw seeing the grief after being AFK.

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  Dernal Brewhouse .

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  The brewhouse again (different angle).

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  Brewhouse after 95% of the grief is fixed.

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  SnapJaw seeing the grief and laughing at Sleepless.

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  Dernal Brewhouse render from 2018.

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  Kanal Town Staff in 2023 after voting for independence from Newport Empire and New United States.

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  The most notable part of the 2023 grief - the signs left by salty player(s) pretending to be  Githis.

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   JCobbler2012,  Kendon,  SholQut and  SiOtter shenanigans.

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  Freedonia Bankers Institutions first ever meeting in Kanal Towns currency exchange.

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  Peace talks between Cakeville and Bunker City being held in Kanal Town.

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  Part of #TEAMKANAL after winning Capture the Flag on the eve of Freedonias 13th Anniversary.

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   4dre helping  SiOtter build Empress Statue.

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  SiOtter on the incomplete empresses tail.

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  The Empress Memorial and part of the former Rapty Memorial (floating sword, lefthand side).

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  SiOtter writing a book.

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  Very old photo of the construction of Spruce Dock in 2018.

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  FPKA Headquarters in 2018 right after being completed.

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  Kanal Towns Nexus opening in 2020.

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  Photo taken in the Dernal Brewhouse during its construction, note: the fort that was converted into HypderDrays house is in the background.

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   Cosmic_potato_04 in the マウンテンカワウソの寺院

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  Multiple people inside the Kanal Town Bookstore

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  Kanal Town's Co-owner,  HyperDray and his house.

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  Map

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  Kanal Town in 2021.

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  Enderman on Birch Dock, 2021.

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   HyderDray (formerly  Drayden17) gets the death message "fell out of water". (2021)

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  A remake of the first Kanal Town screenshot from 2018.

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  Another HyperDray photo of the town.

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  The Empress Statue shortly after completion.

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  "It's over Oskw, I have the high ground!"

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  Kanal Days 2024 Poster.

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  Photo is from  Komdodragon108

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  Photo is from  Komdodragon108

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  Photo is from  Komdodragon108