The colonizers built this capital on the ashes of the native’s coastal city that they had burned down and destroyed. The new city drew in, by fortune or force, people from across the world. As an attempt to make this region theirs, the colonizers built their new settlement in the likeness of their capital on the continent from where they came, formed with gridded straight canals. Even the meandering river was straightened. This time, it was even designed to be rectangular, similar to a military camp. They mainly used these canals as drainage, and also waterways, thus ships could enter the city to load and unload their goods. The apparent difference was that these canals were unbridged. Their very purpose was segregation instead of connection. Digging canals and removing the accumulation of sediment from the canal bed was a never-ending task. The strong-smelling vapor, nothing like the scent of rose, lingered. “Certainly this work is not suited for the dignified citizens of the city,” they said. The city committee forced the chained, enslaved people to work to their bones. Meanwhile, the dignitaries sat under the tamarind trees enjoying the breeze, sipping drinks served by the domestic enslaved women.

This fortified city was surrounded by tall walls made from large scales of coral stones taken from smaller islands within reach, to keep away those whom they considered as the most lowly humans, most prone to revolt. The colonizers had commanded the natives of the archipelago to complete the harsh task of digging up and hoisting the corals from the bottom of the sea. Many of them originated from the eastern islands. They were the defeated sides in kingdom wars or they were the last remaining survivors of massacres perpetrated by the colonizers. The divers' eyes were in constant pain due to having to keep their eyes open whilst collecting those corals under the salt water. Those colonizers knew that looking into another’s eyes should be based on equality, and that was not what they wanted. They would never want to look into the red, agonized eyes of those people. Out of sight, away from their skin. The colonizers mined corals excessively to continue building their city. As a result, those islands vanished. All these efforts were done to maintain their racial dominance, so they could own more and more.