Dipping a Toe in the Kava

Historical higration patterns across Polynesia as derived from genetic and cultural data:

![Polynesian migration](/images/dipping-a-toe-in-the-kava/migrate.gif”>

Very early draft of a potential board based on that:

AoS Polynesia

I’m deliberately excluding Australia as a non Polynesian participant (not strictly true but good enough for this game’s purpose). I’ll possibly make some routes directional based on migration routes. This doesn’t make great sense however as once an island was discovered communication was bidirectional. Still, some link directions very difficult doe ocean currents and the prevailing trade winds. I’m probably also going to do some route adjustment to give a reasonable balance of islands with various numbers of connections (I’m especially concerned about odd/even balance). Will see. I want to play with the graph for a while and see how the things flexes…