Editing Dystopian Wars (section)

===The Empire===

Currently ruled by the Council of Celestial Emperors, with the Empress of Vietnam being the eldest & thus defacto in charge.

Ok so, some factions are easy to introduce. Like the Crown is the British Empire with Heli carriers, the Union is America with robots. Some factions need a little explanation, like the Latin Alliance is France & its cronies banding together so they aren’t left behind by other Great Powers (somewhat mirroring irl Latin Bloc) after Templars assassinated Napoleon Bonaparte, some factions are like the Celestial Empire…

The Celestial Empire consists of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam & a bunch of other Asian nations. It was formed when the Emperor Ming (not quite fitting Emperor name or title at that era unless it's a Flash Gordon thing) took to the throne & was faced with a conundrum, what to do about the cycle of corruption that was constantly befalling Chinese Emperors as well as every other royal lineage in the world? He was a Great Emperor sure, but his son? His Grandson? Sooner or later the Ming Dynasty would fall into the same decadence & incompetence that had allowed him to overthrow his predecessor. The only thing that could save his Dynasty would be if he himself was immortal. & it’s here when things get weird.

Shortly afterwards Ming is contacted by Tian Shang Warrior Monks who have found “The Celestial Gift” a shard of the Hex (A powerful Space Alien, unrelated to the Watchers which are the aliens that the Enlightened have been studying. The Hex is its own dark Alien god-thing pursued across the galaxy by a religious order keen on snuffing it out & has been broken into a bunch of shards. As Wild West Exodus factions: Hex, Holy Order & Watchers) They had trapped the artifact in a cage of jade which prevented it from communicating with the other Hex Shards, & thus allowed them & later Ming to wield the full extent of its poorly defined powers without the threat of an evil alien worshipping cult showing up to take their god back. Using its powers he brought the leaders of all the different nations surrounding China & brought them in on his plan, using the Powers of the Hex every leader would be psychically linked with one another in a semi-conscious dream-state through which they can instantly plan & co-ordinate their actions as leaders, in this Dream State no one could obscure the truth from their fellow members meaning they are physically unable to lie to one another, ensuring that the members of this Celestial Council would only be able to work towards the progress of the Empire as a whole. Each member state would have its own specialty (I.E. Hunting, The Navy, The Army, Agriculture), though each member state still does non-specialty things to a lesser extent, I.E though Japan is the head of the navy all nations still have a coastal defence force, all of them have an army, only one nation was the Empire’s dedicated breadbasket but all nations practice agriculture to some extent. Officially every leader who sat on the council was equal but in practise the Eldest member was defacto-in-charge, also China is far & away the largest & also houses the Celestial Gift, which probably gives them some extra sway. Since Ming was wielding literal magic, every leader he approached believed him & elected to join his Empire, allowing Ming to move onto step 2 of his Imperial Project: ““Immortality””. 

Basically, every Celestial Council member would tell their subjects that the Celestial Gift” was making them immortal & at the end of their life, their body would be carried to a special chamber where they would lay in state for a day or two before emerging once more; young, alive & rejuvenated for the next lifetimes worth of rule. This was a trick however, as every Council member would groom their progeny to look like them, have the same mannerisms & personality & be essentially a younger clone of themselves, once the Council Member dies, they would be taken into the rejuvenation chamber whereupon they would be carried out through a secret door & cremated by trusted attendants while the Mini-Me takes their place as them. The new leader would sit in the rejuvenation chamber long enough to be officially inducted into the Celestial Council by the other members before exiting & taking over the nation. It can be assumed that the intense mental conditioning required to groom a child into being their parent is assisted by the nebulous powers of the Celestial Gift, as potential Aires are able to sort of enter & perceive the Celestial dream while only the ordained council members can access the magic skype levels of immersion.

'''TL:DR''', the Not!Shaolin Monks captured a bit of an alien god & helped Emperor Ming use this god-bit to create a psychic Skype-call with a bunch of other Asian monarchs that lets them Co-Ordinate a special Empire where every Member-State has it’s own area of specialty & the leaders themselves are pretend immortals because they meticulously groom their children to be little clones of them to take their place on the throne & in the magic Skype call after they die.

'''TL:DR x2''' All the East Asian nations are unified in an Empire. No one nation is “in charge” & they all inexplicably don’t despise one another due to mind control aliens and inbreeding. 

The Empire is famous for its “Alkahest” a Universal solvent that essentially acts as green-super Napalm. Presumably it’s made from Hex-Goo similar to the Rj-1027 produced by The Enlightened, though The Empire is keen to keep it all to itself. In battle this green fire is employed by all sorts of incendiary weapons & munitions, these Alchemical weapons cause extra disorder to ship they hit. 

'''China'''

You may think that if Japan is the country in charge of the Empire’s navy, then they would be the main faction considering this is a Naval combat game. You’d be wrong.
China is the “Main” faction of the Empire, but Japan is a very close second. They both have the same amount of Ship models; more Japanese ships are planned while China has test rules for “Sky Fortresses” which have yet to be released. 
China uses Paddlewheel ships mounted with massive flamethrowers in the front, favouring Alchemical rocket batteries & flamethrowers to stack disorder tokens on their enemies, pretty flexible in what they want but the paddlewheels make them slower & more agile than other ships. Also bring flying Dragon mechs which are neato.

'''Japan'''

As the head of the Empires navy, you’d think Japan would have by far the biggest navy but at the moment they are tied with China for number of ships (planned released & test rules none-withstanding). Japan is going more for Quality vs Chinas Quantity, with every vessel having good stats, elite crews & better deployments abilities, also having more types of ships doesn’t mean you have more ships total. Essentially the Empire’s other major nation the Japanese favour more aggressive ships with good stats, they don’t spam flamethrowers & rockets like the Chinese do instead relying on normal weapons with the odd Alkahest shell. Also use regular ships instead of Paddleboats just so you know they’re serious. The old Blazing Sun aesthetic of train-ships is a little toned down, so they look like actual warships. They look very imposing & advanced without looking like Knock-Off Enlightened. As is fitting of their Elite nature. Notably their Fleet-Carrier launches “Exo-Subs” instead of planes, what makes a flying submarine not a plane is unclear & the distinction may actually be entirely political (see Korea).

'''Indonesia'''

The Madjas are also here. Every faction has 3 different static “ocean platform” units for mission types that involve them. One big gun platform, one regular gun platform & one support platform. For some reason these are all being given to a random minor power that only exists in game as the crews of these immobile platforms, & in the Empire this is Indonesia’s job, tbh with The Empires weird delegation of different parts of warfare to different nations Indonesia manning every nation Sea-Platforms & little else makes more sense than it does in other factions.

'''Korea'''

Korea was originally the head of Hunting & Hunters when the Empire started (why an entire nation needs to be in charge of Hunting & Hunters is anyone’s guess) but when Planes were invented Korea managed to snag the fucking sky as their responsibility. Literally all planes are flown by Koreans for that reason, even Japanese carriers launch Korean planes with special Korean rules for the planes (hence why the big Japanese carriers launch Exo-Subs instead). This is probably the reason no-one else in the Empire has large aircraft carriers that launch actual aircraft. Pretty mad about China building its Flying Dragons & Sky Fortresses as it feels that’s its domain, but at the same time Japan is mad at Korea for building a bunch of Carrier Fleets because they feel aggressive forces like those are its domain.

Anyway, every aircraft carrier in The Empire carries & launches Korean aircraft but aside from that the Koreans don’t have any models of their own. A Korean fleet is planned presumably consisting of Carriers & Flying ships & Flying Carriers & maybe really big planes that function as small airships. But it only exists as rumours which have been confirmed on the official Discord though, so don’t expect a Korean box for a while.

The nebulous boundaries of how big a navy/air force/army a nation can have without overstepping its boundaries is as much of a grey area in lore as it is outside of it & the different member states quarrel about it endlessly. China having a massive navy for the Army-Nation is probably as much of an overstep in universe as it seems to be, only China’s sized & ownership of the Celestial Gift is giving it a lot of sway. Is Korea even the custodian of the sky or is it just in charge of planes? Who knows?

'''The Others'''

The rest of The Empire don’t have China’s size, Japan’s naval traditions or an interesting gimmick like the Koreans, so they are yet to get a Navy & probably won't for a long time. 
The Queen of Vietnam is currently the oldest Council Member making Vietnam the de facto leader of the Empire, but Emperor Ming is second oldest & he is aggressively calling for war. So, when the Vietnam lady “gets rejuvenated” the Empire's stance might get a bit more violent.
The other nations have done nothing interesting yet.

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