In the year 2011, a small expedition of explorers from Kanto came across a massive new island after being blown off-track by a storm. Finding themselves in a land filled with Pokémon like they had never seen before, all seven scientists of the expedition lost their life to the island's fierce wildlife, but word of their discovery reached Kanto eventually when a search party found where their ship had crashed.

Quickly nicknamed 'Faero' and 'the savage lands', the fact that the island itself and the landlocked masses of water contained Pokémon never found before, and did not seem to contain a single Pokémon that had previously been discovered in one of the other regions, interest in the island grew tremendously in the span of weeks, despite the inherent danger. If these creatures had been isolated for so long it could be a revolution in the understanding of how Pokémon had developed after all.

It wouldn't be until early 2012 that the massive undertaking of Legara city was completed, a masterwork of technology that would become the starting point of expeditions further into the land. The scientists quickly came to two conclusions; which would later shape the ground rules of the expedition.



No Pokémon native to other islands could be brought to Faero, as this would risk endangering the native flora and fauna of Faero by introducing foreign threats.

Because of the inherent danger of unknown and unpredictable Pokémon that were larger, stronger and faster than those seen back in Kanto, only qualified adults that had passed a series of tests were allowed to head to Faero, primarily those with militaristic or scientific backgrounds.



With the ground rules for the expedition set in stone and a suitable stock of the less dangerous Pokémon captured for study, it was time to put the word out. Only time could tell what marvels of science studies in Faero could unearth.