As the British spread across the islands, the natives decided “screw it, if you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em.” So the native tribes united with the Colony of Atlantis as equals in 1755, integrating into the rapidly expanding colony, by 1756, the entire archipelago was united under the Colony of Atlantis, and had a rapidly growing population of about 156,000, with a whopping 78,000 being native.