Discovery of a Major Resource Deposit
Arnulf von Thiersee had spent the last few months overseeing the Colony of New Vienna as its Grand Duke. A reward the King of Austria had given him for his years of loyal service. During this time, the small military stronghold on the coast of the New World had flourished greatly.
With the advanced agricultural techniques that Austria had available to it, the fields outside of the fortresses' walls had grown vast and fertile, with mechanized agriculture at their disposable. The Austrians needed very little in terms of labor to operate their farms. Because of this, they used native workers, who had come to the settlement of New Vienna after plague and warfare decimated their tribes.