The Mother isles
Before Uji
Before Korainians fled to Uji, they settled on the Mother Isles. The Mother Isles, an archipelago of ecologically complex islands, is on the opposite side of the planet to the sloped rocky island of Uji. The Mother Isles are home to the origins of The Colony Outlands on Uji; particularly the Mountu, Sandya and Volcanis isles.
From In The Water, Chapter three
"It was my Geography of Uji classes that had taught me The Colony Outlands, the first settlements on Uji, were divided into territories for each kind of scale...
Read Chapter threeThe islanders
The islands are known to those on Uji as being far more fruitful than the rocky Mainland. While all individuals on the planet regard themselves Korainians, those from Uji refer to the Korainians known to have traversed the archipelago of their origin as ‘Islanders’ (comparatively referring to themselves as ‘Ujians’).