Arucian Gates
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• Golden Isles
• New Aurean
• Île d'Émeraude-Îles des Saints
The Arucian Gates (Gaullican: Portes Aruciennes) is a historical and geographical theory developed by Carucerean historian Debi Brocardi to refer to the maritime choke points of the Arucian Sea, and their importance in Asterian history. She first outlined her theory in the 1993 book "A Brief History of the Arucian Sea" before expanding upon it in the 1994 article "The Gates of Great Sea".
The theory highlights four major "gates", or maritime choke points, of the Arucian which allows those who controlled land adjacent to the "gates" to wield control over these waterways and the maritime traffic within it. The four gates are the waterways between the Golden Isles and the mainlands, the New Aurean Strait and the islands of Arucian Satucin, and the waterways north and south of Île d'Émeraude and the Îles des Saints. These gates are able to control, secure, or restrict oceanic travel not only within the immediate vicnity, but across the wider Arucian Sea. Since the 1920s, historians have acknowledged that Gaullican control of these choke points allowed them to dominate the Arucian and that Gaullican colonial policy in the region was focused on maintaining control of these choke points. However In her original work, Brocardi aruged that the Arucian Gates played a far greater role in Asterian history than just the colonial era by providing several examples from the West Arucian trade network in the pre-colonial era, to piracy in the West Arucian during the 17th century, and the battles for naval control of the Arucian during the Great War and the Solarian War. In her second work she expanded on her theory, describing the unique characteristics of each gate and the cultural, political, and economic role each gate played in history.