Lakany, around Ol'viopol

This completes the rough map provided yesterday for Ol'viopol:

It'll take time, and much progress towards the east, before steppelands become overwhelmingly predominant.  For now, there are enough people that we can imagine there are many more planted trees and protective shrubs in the 17th century than there are today, and that the denuding of agricultural land is far less rampant.  Here's a rough image of today's mapping:

This moves us completely through Vassia for now; we won't see it again until we come all the way round the circle, at which time we'll bump into Kiyev and the Zaporozhians on the Dneiper's left bank.  For now, we're still driving south towards Crimea, bit by bit.

Vassia produced a burst of development that's going to evaporate as we go south; the infrastructure numbers along the bottom indicate that.  Even so, this cluster of villages is far more rural than industrial.  The existence of so many type-2 hexes, however, was an interesting chance occurrence; the generation could as easily produced a bunch of type-1's instead, giving us a different map with more wilderness in it.

That's not important, however.  With so much opportunity for random generation, every kind of pattern's going to emerge eventually.

Be back with more tomorrow.