First Contact

The term **First Contact** refers to the first meeting between a nation originating from 21st century planet Earth, namely Japan, and a native nation of the New World, in this case the Qua-Toyne Principality. Fortunately, the contact between these two communities, previously unaware of each other's existence, proved to be peaceful and fruitful for both sides and ushered in a period of friendly cooperation and prosperity. This meeting marked the moment of Japan's entry into the international arena of the New World.

## Events leading to the First Contact

Japan had been transported to another world after it was engulfed in the unknown chaotic storm of the world. They had lost contact from other countries in the Earth.

Because of its poor food production and previous reliance on imports from other countries, Japan faced a food shortage crisis. To slow the effects of starvation from its populace, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft explored the surrounding area and found a land mass about 1000 kilometers to the southwest - the continent of Rodenius.

## Landing in Rodenius

One day, an unidentified flying object arrived at Qua-Toyne Principality’s airspace. The dragon rider Maarpatima who was on a patrol mission in the northeast region of the principality witnessed an unidentified flying object and reported to the headquarters with a magical communication tool. After reporting to the base, the Base Commander ordered 6th Flying Dragon Squadron to be dispatched. The knights located the object and attempted to pursue but their dragons were unable to keep up with the object despite their training. They reported to the base that the object was outrunning them and heading towards the trade city of Maihark

On the wall of Maihark, Captain Ine assembled her men to prepare for a possible attack by an unknown flying object reported by the 6th Flying Dragon Squadron. Upon spotting the object her unit was unable to respond as it flew at a speed they couldn't follow, leaving them wondering what they saw was real.

The unidentified flying object circled the air over Maihark a number of times, then speed off to the northeast.

The unidentified flying object defied the Qua-Toyne’s common sense. But that unidentified flying object was just a harbinger of something even more shocking.

## First Contact near the Port Maihark

Commander Nouka in the Maihark Defense Command Room received a report about an unknown flying object that invaded Maihark's airspace. When he received another report about an unknown large ship affiliation sighted in the open water outside of Maihark, he sent Midori leading the 2nd Fleet warship Pima to engage the unknown ship that was nearing Port Maihark. After being stunned at the size of the carrier vessel, Midori came aboard on the JMSDF Izumo-class helicopter destroyer and met the Japanese diplomat, Tanaka.

Then Nouka received a report from one of his subordinates that Warship Pima have made contact with a large ship from Japan and there's a diplomat on board. He decided to report it directly to Prime Minister Kanata and the government about Japan.

## Governmental Meeting

At this meeting of various heads of state, Prime Minister Kanata was worried. In yesterday’s incident, with regards to the defense of Qua-Toyne, the military reported that an unknown object invaded Maihark's airspace, circled the city numerous times, and then left.

It was so fast a dragon couldn’t give chase, and it invaded from a superior altitude. Its origin was completely unknown. There were red circles drawn on the craft, but no country in the world had such a national flag. The government officials believed that there were reports of an emerging power to the far west of Mu and the outside the Second Civilization of the Eighth Empire.

At that moment, a young official from foreign affairs burst into the meeting and gave his report, which was as follows:

This morning, off the north coast of Qua-Toyne, a giant ship 230 meters in length appeared. According to the navy, they met an envoy from a country calling itself “Japan,” who communicated that they had no hostile intentions. After thorough investigation, the following was recorded. These are statements from the envoy.

* *The country known as Japan was suddenly transferred to this world.*
* *Having lost all contact with their original world, they sent out a patrol aircraft to scout. On this occasion, this patrol discovered a nearby land mass.*
* *In the course of the patrol, they unlawfully entered your country and invaded our airspace. They offer their most profound apologies.*
* *They would like to propose diplomatic talks with Qua-Toyne.*

After hearing this outrageous story, everyone in the meeting room appeared incredulous. However, it was undeniable that yesterday there was an invader in the city’s airspace, and they also could not ignore the independently verified report of the unbelievably enormous 230-meter ship off the north coast.

Regardless, the power held by the country of Japan was already confirmed, the government officials must meet their envoy.

## Diplomatic Negotiation

Prime Minister Kanata and his foreign officials met the Japanese delegation led by diplomat Tanaka who apologized for violating their country's airspace which Kanata accepted their apology. He asked what Japan wants from initiating diplomatic relation with their country. He got his answered that Japan foremost wants is food.

## Delegation Mission to Visit Japan

The Qua-Toyne government and foreign affairs bureau decided to delegation a diplomatic mission to inspect Japan. Yagou and his four delegates from the foreign affairs bureau and General Hanki from Military Affairs traveled on the white cruise ship with Tanaka. They sailed 1,000 kilometers from the Qua–Toyne Principality to Japan in two days at sea.

In two days later, they arrived on Hakata Port which Yagou and Hanki were surprised to be seen from the deck. The streets were lined with high-rise buildings, and the city bustled with activity. They rode shuttle bus to the New Nikko Hotel.

Yagou, Hanki and their four delegates learned all about contemporary Japan around the cities where there were the traffic light system, vending machine, railway and subway system, high-rise buildings, and advanced science and technologies.

Next day, they visited to Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Tsuiki Air Field to watch the air show. Yagou and Hanki were shocked and speechless to saw F-15J Kai quickly faded from view and climbed up high into the sky. It was extremely fast. Tanaka told them F-15J Kai was a fighter aircraft with a maximum recorded speed of Mach 2.5 in eight hundred and fifty kilometers per hour. They realizes Japan's true strength that combat aircrafts certainly were powerful to surpass and destroy the wyverns and use protection against the Louria Kingdom and other enemy of the great civilizations.

At this point in time, before they walked to the bullet train at the station, there were nearly half of all the car accidents in Fukuoka involved taxis. The injured woman began to lose focus as she weakened. Yagouu rescued a wounded Japanese woman. He uses his magic to healed woman. He found out that magic itself did not exist in Japan where people never use magic. Japan only use science everything by knowledge and technology. The delegates all believed they had just learned an important discovery and national secret that could drastically affect Qua–Toyne’s development. If there was no magic in Japan, then Qua–Toyne had a very good position from which to export their national magical skills and tools.

In Tokyo, Yagouu, Hanki and their delegates negotiate with Japanese officials about exporting food to Japan which total amount needed per year is fifty-five million tons. Yagou replied that it would be difficult to export resources and some items were not possible by medieval level of technology. In exchange, Japan offered them infrastructure development program provided by the Office of Development Assistance for infrastructure.

## Aftermath

After the visit of Japan, they officially established diplomatic relationship between the Principality of Qua–Toyne and Japan. The cooperation agreement between the Qua–Toyne Principality and Japan consists of the following terms:

* *Qua–Toyne shall export the required amount of food to Japan.*
* *Japan shall expand the port of Maihark and develop infrastructure between Maihark and the granary region. This shall be funded by Japan.*
* *Japan and Qua-Toyne shall continue relations in order to establish diplomatic ties.*
* *The currency exchange rate shall be established with urgency.*
* *In exchange for receiving food in bulk from Qua–Toyne, Japan will maintain the infrastructure (water, electricity, gas) in Qua-Toyne for one year. After that period, food will be purchased using the established exchange rate.*
* *Japan and Qua-Toyne shall discuss the establishment of non-aggression treaties.*

The Qua–Toyne delegation had obtained extremely favorable trade conditions while also establishing a harmonious relationship with Japan. After this, Japan and Qua–Toyne would forge an unbreakable bond and share a common destiny as they challenged the torrents of this world. Also Japan made establish diplomatic ties with the Quila Kingdom for the resources.

After two months, Japan submitted requests for an absurd amount of food, but Qua-Toyne, who already could provide good food for even their livestock, was able to successfully fulfill those requests. Even the Quila Kingdom, with its barren, unproductive lands, was a treasure trove of resources, according to Japan, and they began to export to Japan as well.

In return for these resources, Japan began exporting infrastructure - for example, methods for connecting large cities with flat, seamless roads, a step beyond cobblestone; and large-scale distribution systems like railroads.

All kinds of modern technologies were requested as well, but Japan had passed a new law called the “New World Technology Outflow Prevention Act” to safeguard their core technologies. The export of weapons also came up, but that was already considered illegal, so nothing could be done.

## Outline Map

1. January 24th: Japanese P-3C flight path
2. February 3rd thru February 7th: Travel route of the Qua-Toyne Principality delegation
3. March 8th: Working-level Consultation (Tokyo)