Between 1788 and 1818, around two million people migrated from all around the world towards Oceanyka. Most of them were English, Scottish and Irish colonists from the British Isles. Although many of these people were skilled workers or volunteer fighters which were taken up by the participants of the Revolutionary Wars, and others homesteaders or settlers which carved out a living in the region east of the Great Dividing Range, the majority were convicts of the Empire, whose labour would redeem them in the eyes of the Crown.