NASSAU - December 22, 2062 - After weeks of skirmishes between the robotic forces of US-backed Hartz corporation and the Colombia-based combine TG Communications, the islands that compose the former Commonwealth of the Bahamas have been officially acquired by Hartz, pending a successful request for enfranchisement. Interest in the Bahamas, newly re-emerged since polar ice reconstitution caused global sea levels to recede, was sparked by Bahamanian beaches' rich deposit of aragonite, a mineral used in the chemical scrubbing of water-based pollutants.