The Shogunate

The Shogunate is a faction that arose out of the lawless no-man's land of southern Honshu after the Great War.
== History ==
The Shogunate was founded in Nagoya by a charismatic leader and skilled military tactician believed to have originally been named Taro Oda (or Oda Taro by Japanese naming traditions), who was known to have been very interested in samurai history and martial arts. He had also collected numerous pre-war books on the subject.
At some point in the 2220's, Oda led a successful defense of a community of survivors in the city of Nagoya against a gang of raiders, and subsequently used that momentum to wipe out the base of the raiders, who had suffered a significant loss of manpower after their defeat. Oda subsequently won more victories over various raider groups, gaining a large following in region. It was around this point that Oda first claimed to be the descendant of 16th century daimyo (feudal Japanese lord) Oda Nobunaga, and that, like Nobunaga, he intended to unify Japan. Oda used Nagoya castle, the birthplace of the Nobunaga, as his base of operations, and quickly took control of the greater Nagoya area. He would begin carrying an old katana he found in the castle, which he claimed belonged to Oda Nobunaga (though this claim is doubtful).
In 2234, Taro Oda, by this point going by the name Oda Nobunaga, declared his intention to succeed where historical predecessor had ultimately failed (Oda Nobunaga was assassinated at Honno-ji in 1582, before he could unify Japan, though he ultimately laid the foundations for the Tokugawa Shogunate), and declared himself the rightful shogun of all Japan, stating that both the Free Japanese State and the Communist Party of Japan were the lackeys of foreign invaders who had brought nothing but ruin on Japan. Soon after this declaration, Oda displayed a tsurugi sword he claimed to have found in the Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, said to have been the resting place of the legendary sword Kusanagi, said to have once belonged the Shinto goddess Amaterasu and the legendary warrior Yamato Takeru, though it was not on display prior to the war and its whereabouts were unknown during the post-war period. Oda claimed that this sword was indeed the legendary Kusanagi, and that it cemented his right to claim the throne of both shogun and emperor of Japan, declaring himself the rightful ruler of the entire country. The Shogun would later claim, in addition to descent from Oda Nobunaga, to have been a number of Japanese mythological and historical figures, including past emperors, shoguns, and military leaders. Among those he claimed to have been reincarnations of include the first Emperor Jimmu, Yamato Takeru, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Oda Nobunaga, the Emperor Meiji, and admiral Heihachirō Tōgō.
By 2246, the Shogunate controlled the Kansai region, including the ruins of cities of Osaka and Kobe, as well as Kyoto, which escaped nuclear destruction in the Great War, easily defeated their less organized adversaries and seizing the city, which the Shogun declared his new capital. In the 2240's and 2250's, the Shogunate expanded east, taking control of the southern and western part of the former Gifu Prefecture, as well 'as the western part of the Fukui Prefecture and the entirety of the former Shiga prefecture. At the same time, other campaigns expanded west, taking control of the northern as western parts of the Hyogo prefecture. As of 2255, the Shogunate ruled the southern coast of Honshu from Kosai in the east to Himeji in the west, and from Tsuruga to Maizuru on the north coast.
In 2256, the Shogunate's expansion brought them into conflict with both the postwar Japanese State and the Communist Party of Japan. The conflict with the CPJ began first, in April, 2256, at the battle of Awaji-shima, in which a Shogunate attempt at an amphibious invasion of Shikoku (the two bridges on either side of Awaji-shima, connecting Honshu and Shikoku had been both been destroyed in the war) was thwarted by CPJ naval and air forces. Later that year, in July, the Shogunate fought their first major battle against the Free Japanese State at the Battle of Lake Hamana, when FJS air and naval forces defeated Shogunate forces attempting to attack Hamamatsu by crossing the lake by boat (once again, the pre-war bridges had long since been destroyed), while the Free Japanese Army forces halted a Shogunate Army advancing north of the lake. From 2256 until the 2270's, three major factions that controlled Japan would remain in a stalemate, with the mountains separating their territories proving a major obstacle to major offensives and preventing major territorial gains on either side.
Category:Post-War Factions