Atomic Dynasty of China

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*China heroically stands in Universe,*

*Extends to the Eight Corners,*

*The famous descendant from Kunlun Peak.*

*The rivers turn greatly, the mountains continuous.*

- "China Heroically Stands in the Universe", Yin Chang
The **Atomic Dynasty of China**, or **China**, is a new faction exclusive to Blue Alert 3 Paradox, designed by Open sketchbook and Kerensky287 and reimagined by The Red Star Rising, Cerventes99, Go123452, Volte Metallic, and tenebrousGuile. The faction features attack-oriented units and strong base defenses, though they are limited by short-ranged weaponry and great need for power. But their MCV can fly, so there.

## At A Glance

 **Motives** | Revanchism, Interstellar Colonization, Resource Gathering

## Background

### The empire, long united must divide

The end of the Chinese monarchy, plagued by corruption, interference from abroad, opium, division, and troubled modernization began with high hopes for a democratic China inspired by all manner of revolutionary principles and thought. Land reform, common prosperity, equality, peace, and development were all dreamed of by Sun Yat Sen and his comrades who hoped to turn the long ailing sick man of Asia into a modern society. This was ultimately not to be however, as the man Sun Yat Sen trusted with ousting the dying Qing monarchy turned out to have far baser aspirations. Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang army took the chance to overthrow the Qing Empire alright, but at a price. Shikai wished to be made president instead, and as Sun Yat-Sen only controlled the southern provinces, he was forced to accede to the request. Furthermore, Yuan Shikai was adamant on alliance with France, Britain, America, Russia, and Japan; all countries that Sun Yat-Sen feared had the means and ability to strangle China with concessions and unequal treaties. Sun Yat-Sen on the other hand, looked to Germany, Austria, Turkey, Siam and others in the growing central powers bloc; believing they would value China as a counterbalance in the far east.

A tepid peace was held between the two factions of the new China; the Kuomintang in Nanjing and the Beiyang in Beijing, but it was not to last. China had seen haphazard but heavy duty efforts to industrialise and modernise, redoubled after the humiliating defeat to Japan in 1895 and the boxer debacle. Industry, railroads, paved streets, and modern cities crisscrossed China, but the powerful Beiyang army was firmly in the hands of Yuan, and the provincial lords own local forces were more loyal to their local strongmen than any central government as part of arrangements made to fight the Taiping decades ago. But the great war would throw a wrench in all of that. All the major nations of the world would be involved, and Yuan Shikai announced that he would raise an army of one million men as an expeditionary force to Europe to crush Germany, and prepare an army of another million to sweep the Thai, Iranians, and Ottomans aside in Asia with two million more to be raised in reserve and even more to be trained.

The ruse could not have been more obvious if Yuan Shikai had it engraved on the moon. These soldiers were never going to Euorpe. They were going to be used to crush all of Yuan Shikai's internal enemies with the pretense of defeating sedition. Even worse was the rumbling that Yuan Shikai desired to start a new dynasty with himself as Emperor, threatening to undo all the work that the Kuomintang had laid out for decades to bring about an end to the imperial age. As Shikai carried himself with all the pomp and circumstance of a major member of the Entente, the government in Nanjing declared war on the Entente and entered the war on the side of the Central Powers. The odds facing them were long to be sure, while they had substantial popularity among the common folk and control of many major industrial cities and important farmland, the Beiyang were seen as the legitimate government by powers far closer to home. Even worse, many provincial warlords would profit from the collapse of central authority by de facto seceding from China to profit as they pleased.

The Chinese civil war had begun and would stretch across much of the rest of the 20th century.

The Kuomintang struck first, hoping to catch the Beiyang off guard while Shikai was busily preparing his ceremony that would have him "reluctantly" accept the crown of the Hongxian Emperor and before the entente could properly mobilise in support of the Beiyang. Making use of armoured war trains to spearhead the assault, the surprise attack sought to quickly relieve German Tsingtao and control access to the Himalayas to minimise potential avenues of enemy support into China. As the German army rolled into Belgium and France and the armies of Britain and America were brought to the fore by the terms of the Toronto accord, the summer of 1914 brought the thunder of intense artillery barrages. The Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army had been trained and equipped along German lines while its Beiyang counterpart had primarily exercised French military tradition, but the outcome of the war could never be different. The technology for a swift victory simply did not exist. With support from Russia and Japan, the Beiyang army recovered from the initial "hundred generals" offensive, and sought to regain the initiative.

The Kuomintang sought to link with the forces of Thailand and the Central Powers bloc of Turkey, Persia, and Afghanistan, grinding against its Beiyang counterpart and the expeditionary forces sent into southern China repeatedly. Even with the death of Yuan Shikai and thus his short lived empire from complications relating to Uremia following Duan Qirai's decision to abandon the monarchist revival project; the war continued. By the second year of the Chinese civil war, millions had already perished and programs were being put into place to expand and mobilise the citizenry of China as both sides became convinced of the eternal nature of the war to come. The Kuomintang had been making good northward gains, fighting valiantly despite the presence of so many foreign soldiers propping up the Beiyang with the common goal of destroying the Chinese revolution, Sun Yat-Sen even dared to hope that final victory was in sight as word came to him of the collapse of the Russian Empire, drained and exhausted by year after year of disappointment against Germany, Turkey, and China and shortly afterwards the death of Kerensky's pro-entente provisional republic when the people revolted against Kerensky's decision to continue the war and Kornilov's efforts to destroy the Soviets.

Declaring common cause with the Bolsheviks to the muted alarm of his monarchial allies, Sun Yat-Sen pushed the Chinese revolutionaries to link with their russian counterparts to create a Eurasian bloc of revolutionaries who would cast down the old order of the world. The Revolutionary Sun offensive shattered much of the northern Beiyang government's strength, and the Kuomintang cast down the Beiyang five races under one nation flag of the Beiyang and raised the Blue Sky, White Sun, and Red Earth flag over Beijing in celebration. However, the Entente was far from beaten. The monarchist Beiyangists consolidated in Manchuria under the auspices of Japan which quickly redirected forces from intervention in the Russian civil war to stop the Chinese advance and many of the warlords proved to be intractable. Secret societies which had long been a feature of Chinese politics had redoubled their efforts, offering hope to those Chinese fearful of constant war.

And worse yet, the Pearl River Delta campaign had been successful for the Entente as American, French, and British forces supported with tanks and aircraft cut through the Kuomintang soldiers in a rampage across the south. And the himalayas were being lost to nonstop offensives from India, despite the valiant effort of Pro-Kuomintang revolutionaries within India. Desperate offensives in 1918 solidified some of the nationalist government's territory and established ties with Soviet Russia through Mongolia, but the Central Powers were running out of steam. Committed to fighting the revolutionary war alone if they had to, the KMT dug in for the long haul as the Beiyang government regathered its strength and Qirai established his offices in the former territories of the Guangxi. Proclaiming the Kuomintang to be a part of red tyrants, Qirai added an anti-communist flair to his war. Respite for China would come soon however, as the Central powers at last collapsed.

### The Day of the Warlord ((WIP))

The final offensives to break the back of the central powers were ironically something of a boon for the Kuomintang. The sheer scale of forces needed to see the end of the war through required major deployments out of China and so drew down the southern campaigns against China. Furthermore, most of the former central powers were quickly engaged in various revolutions. Some more successful than others. Countries such as Hungary, Turkey, and Iran were joining Russia in socialist fraternity and were redoubling their support to China. And Thailand, which had fought to a peace with honour, was still willing to offer some support in spirit at least to their old comrades. The Kuomintang greatly admired its northern counterpart, and under Soviet tutelage restructured the party along Leninist organizational lines, even if in ideology it was committed ot the three principles of the people, with a fourth principle of internationalism being added following announcements of an alliance with the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Anarchists.

However, this alienated a number of warlords who made good on threats to secede, as well as landlord lead secret societies who continued to plague China from within; often operating under the mysterious sigil of the scorpion or the black sun. The civil war continued on, as it only could. China's population continued to grow wildly as everyone sought to raise the larger army. The Kuomintang, CCP, and general union of chinese anarchists certainly had their work cut out for them, particularly with the Beiyang recovering their strength to the south and the genuflections towards monarchism in Manchuria under the Fengtien as Pu Yi and Zhang made amends under the auspices of Japan, but they were committed to the fight. They reaffirmed the four ideals, Nationalism in the sense that China would never again be bullied by foreign powers, Tutelage to educate the Chinese people and allow them to organise and learn under the guidance of the tripartite alliance's structures, Socialism so that the great wealth of China would be shared amongst the people and its long suffering citizens may be free of exploitation within and without, and Internationalism to spread the revolution and bring brotherhood to all.

The Beiyang decreed their own platform. Free Enterprise; so that all Chinese may enrich themselves, Nationalism; so that all peoples of the Chinese nation would be under one banner free from foreign domination, Order; so that China would at last know unity and peace under the guidance of the Beiyang, and Strength; so that China would have the power to exert across the world as a great nation rather than a decrepit shell. Qiuri made his pacts with Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting and also reached out to the Ma family cliques in western China. While the Americans were content to support either side, the French and British were committed to supporting the Beiyang as China's one true government, and Qiuri hoped to install a unitary government in the mould of France with a powerful, imperial presidency that would give him great control over China. And with this in mind, the Beiyang Army moulded its tactics around the doctrine of mass, rapid, assault. Reasoning that with the carte blanche support of the great empires of Europe his soldiers would have all the equipment they needed and so should strike as if their supplies were unlimited to seize as much ground as possible.

Many warlords however felt sympathy to neither government. Not only were there the monarchists in the Northeast, but Yan Xishan and a number of other northwestern warlords instead developed the coalition for a righteous China. Organised into the greater Xishan clique, this collection of warlords sought to create a fortress for their model of China, opposed to both tbe Beiyang and the Kuomintang. But beneath the surface, secret societies stirred within China. Contacted by the mysterious Epsilon division and Scorpion cult, these societies considered the territories of the self styled "Shangqing Tianguo" to be their centre and devoted themselves to an esoteric religion. One that demanded absolute loyalty to the mysterious figure of the "great teacher". And so this five way civil war interpsersed with ample banditry that brooked no discrimination in targets would devastate China for years on end. Sun Yat-Sen's potentially destabilising death to cancer was thankfully averted thanks to mysterious medicine offered by an enigmatic group of Falconers, but the 20s seemed to be bound for further disappointment for China.

America's attempts to deflect the onset of the depression through massive purchase of Silver caused substantial economic harm to China's silver based currency, but good news would soon come from America as the May revolution took place. Sun Yat-Sen and his allies Wang Ming and Liu Shifu followed word of the revolution closely, virtually obsessively asking

### In the middle of a kingdom of war

It would take divine intervention to prevent the victory of the Socialists, and divine intervention was what happened. Massive invading forces from Indochina and the Raj pushed into China to draw away the red Chinese who were preparing for the final assault. The Yunnan and Guangxi were overrun, and the out of position forces of the Revolutionaries were forced to move with all due haste to counter the enormous enemy assault, allowing for Ma, Jiang, and Kung to link up with the Alliance forces. As Wang assured the rest of the Communist International that China would be a unified country by the end of the war and that the invaders would be defeated and even speculated about the end of European colonialism in Asia, Jiang promised to Fuller and the others that "not one red bandit will be present in China by the end" and offered promises of striking from the Soviet Union's Asian flank once the fighting was done to put an end to Red Russia.

Both promises would prove to be impossible to keep. The Socialist Federation of China rallied its defenses and built up formidable layers of defense in depth that gradually sucked away all momentum from the Alliance attacks and received ample assistance from the Solar Empire of Japan and its allies who removed the threat from Korea with the assistance of far eastern forces and toyed around with slower moving Alliance forces, but the massive numbers of Alliance forces committed to China could not be fully dislodged. Counter-attacks became increasingly rare towards the end of the second world war, and instead a grim stalemate began to ensue. Some of the world's largest battles would be fought, then refought constantly for the same pieces of land in a farcical contest of two immovable objects.

The years of large scale warfare had turned both Chinese armies into battle hardened instruments of war with seasoned generals and thoroughly mobilized military industrial complexes. The enormous scale of war called for equally enormous scales of industry and soon both sides increasingly turned to their own native industries as their benefactors had to focus on their conflict with each other. Desperation and enormous amounts of resources were sunk into developing ever newer and ever more fantastical weapons and the war became the primary focus of the two Chinas. The first satellite images of China taken during the space race begun in the second world war would show vast trench lines and crater fields and ever growing industrial machines. Whenever there was a pause, anything that had fallen would be recycled for the next wave of operations.

When victory seemed like it might come to the Red Chinese as the Alliance began to falter towards the end of the war, the slow advance creeped the border ever forward. Hope was returning to many as they prepared for the dream of one united China. Day after day brought the frontlines forward, sometimes by even more than one kilometer at a time. The exhaustion of the Blue Chinese army after continuous massed assaults and the need for the Alliance to commit resources elsewhere had brought them tantalizingly close to finally ending this. Some intelligence reports had even suggested that the Blue Chinese were on the verge of breaking, that if they could just shatter their lines they would be able to sweep in and bring the whole of China into their patrimony in a rapid campaign.

But the second world war ended in a truce and with that truce came the end of the Alliance's need for all possible resources to be sunk into defending itself. Once again they could put blood and treasure into propping up the Nationalist Republic. The lines slowly crept back north as the blues rallied before finally coming to a near complete halt just north of Shanghai as stubborn Red Chinese defensive lines refused to budge any further. With neither side able to force the other to concede anything beyond minor territorial gains, the conflict became a nightmare stalemate to make even the first world war's worst years seem like a pleasant picnic. Soon, all hopes of a united China disappeared, replaced with only the endless war.

### Incineration of the four kingdoms

The Chinese Civil war would soon become known as the war without end. By 1957 it had been going on continually for thirty years and the Solar Empire of Japan and Epsilon both left their own new contenders in the war; the Neo-Qing Monarchists and the loyalists of Yan Xishan's heartwashers. The monarchists who roamed around in their great sky palaces were deadset on returning China to the Imperial days of yore, while the Heart Washers lurked beneath the Earth to strike when least expected. They were as their counterparts; utterly determined to win the war and impose their vision on China. Behind the lines, all the industrial and scientific genius of China was turned towards one single, solitary purpose; destruction at any price. The weapons being wielded in the war became increasingly bizarre and fantastical. Ray guns, cyborg super soldiers, clones, radio carried suggestions, teleporters, scramblers, energy shields, matter printers and more.

For twenty six years, the world would come to China to fight out its problems. The Blues with their great numbers, the Reds with their stoic lines, the Whites with their mighty air forces, the Yellows with their underhanded trickery. "Volunteer divisions" and "Advisors" would continually arrive in China to help China fight this endless battle, always reporting back to their superiors on the increasingly horrific carnage ravaging the country side. Many even advocated for a negotiated truce, but it is supremely doubtful as to whether anyone involved would have countenanced anything less than a total victory at this point no matter how far away it seemed. If one or the other side gained control of China, the pivot of Asia would be firmly in their camp, such a prize could not be allowed to fall into the enemy's hands.

Soon enough, in 1969 during the Chinese New Year after twelve years of war, a strange crystal fell from the sky into the Yangtze river and was immediately scavenged. It is unknown who reached it first, but the properties of the crystal known as JADE would not go unnoticed. The four Chinas rushed to grab whatever samples of the crystal and used it to enhance their technology to lethal degrees, developing even more bizarre and dangerous weapons in the space of a few months before refining what they had built into ever more lethal war machines.

The start of the third world war in 1982 barely got a blip of attention from the Chinese. By this point all four war machines had become almost entirely self sufficient, using their own technology or adaptations of their allies' war machines, and the potential of attacking any of the sides' strongholds through China had long disappeared. If anything, the withdrawal of volunteers to fight for their own armies in the third world war actually decreased the degree of carnage being experienced in China to some extent. However, now the Empire and the Dominion felt that they had a free hand to openly support their chosen sides without needing to avoid tipping their hand; leading to the Allies and Comintern stepping up their own technological and technical support.

The Chinese Civil war had thus entered its most destructive phase as disorder reigned supreme. The free for all in China tore apart the cohesion of every side and the ensuing maelstrom of war would reap an unfathomable death toll as the war became even deadlier than it used to be. In those four years, more than a hundred million would die. The Blues and the Reds refused to countenance any alliance against the White and the Yellow, and so a Red Chinese army could fight the Blues one day, then have to defend from the Axis while it was itself, being attacked by forces loyal to the Dominion before the blues recovered and attacked all three other factions. Such madness and bedlam was ill suited to stability and by the time the peace negotiations for the third world war began China's fate was already sealed.

Believing that in the aftermath of the chaos that they could now win the war with ease as the weaponsmiths of the Chinese hellscape began setting their sights on the ultimate prize. The atomic bomb was long thought to be something of a fantasy. Everyone had given up on it for different avenues of military technology, and with the mobile nature of production bases the value of a city killer weapon was often scoffed at. But the green crystal, the JADE as they called it, readily underwent fission and could be used for weapons of terrible power. It isn't known who started the final descent into hell, but soon enough one bomb would detonate, and soon nuclear rockets, artillery shells and bombers would be dispatched across China by all sides and in the space of a few hours the civil war would finally be ended by mutual destruction as most major cities and military installations were laid to waste.

More than a half century of war had lead to all sides losing equally.

### The empire, long divided must unite

Despite the sudden deaths of a very substantial fraction of China's population, all sides planned to exploit what they presumed to be the destruction of the other faction and sweep into power as the one true leader of China. But such was not to be, for a mysterious radio signal from someone who called themselves the "viceroy of the Imperial Atomic Dynasty of China" was heard. Many who were sick of the devastation and in need of any hope that could be found flocked to the signal and its roaming bands of vehicles and offers of shelter in pristine, newly developed cities with untainted food and water to be had. A great cloned army would soon emerge from many unknown bases in China, with bizarrely designed vehicles and weapons at their command. With all four sides crippled by nuclear warfare this new Atomic army was able to sweep into control over large swathes of China.

Bases belonging to the other factions were overrun, or defected en masse. Many others simply went renegade and became warlords or bandits or pursued their own vision of their prior ideals. Such suited the Atomic Chinese as they called themselves, just fine. If their enemy's house was divided, they could not hope to stand against their ever growing legions of clones and defectors. The Viceroy's offers continued to tempt more and more of China, and the Dynasty soon came to lay de jure claim to vast swathes of China. One advantage for the Atomic Dynasty in particular was its refusal to ally with any bloc, indeed it actually declared war on them all; for all had seen China's fall and had profited from its misery. Communists, Allies, Imperialists, Dominionists; all were the enemies of China. As soon as they established a border with each of the blocs, they began to launch attacks, though they held back their nuclear bombers due to the Viceroy's command that these weapons never be used against civilians or without the officer commanding their launch having seen their targets with their own eyes.

On the domestic front, the new dynasty amassed any defectors it could, with an eye for the unmutated or the talented, or preferably those who were both. The Viceroy needed scientists, engineers, military commanders, civilian administrators and more to complete his new vision for China. China's future he said, no longer lay in the Earth that had seen it reduced to ash but in the stars; and they must with all haste prepare to leave the boundaries of Earth and escape onto spaceships of Chinese design onto a new home. But first, they must ensure that those who had brought China's ruin the first time around would not be able to follow by wreaking a terrible vengeance upon them. China would bring war to the entire world, not to conquer it; not permanently anyway, but to despoil it for technology, resources, and for simple revenge before they could leave the Earth behind.

This message resonated powerfully in the wartorn wasteland; Safety, food and drink, and revenge. And so millions of people would come to live in the heavily defended dome cities and tunnels of China, or in the rapidly expanding Star Fleet above connected to the Earth by a series of massive space elevators and stations launched into orbit by nuclear engines. With breath-taking speed, the Atomic Dynasty amassed a war machine fit for a superpower with global aspirations and made a great many political and military thinkers around the world very nervous. Something that had survived and even freely wielded the power that once destroyed China and had so rapidly climbed up from oblivion into something that could take the fullest effort of a superpower to take down was something to be terrified of even if they neither had nor desired any allies.

The Alliance and the Comintern both insisted that the remains of their client states in China were the true government of China; and not a single government in the world extended recognition to the Atomic Dynasty. Such was of little consequence, armies did not need recognition to achieve what the Viceroy had sought to do. Now that China had brought the world together in fear, the world suddenly cared very much about the plight of the Chinese and tried to offer them anything they could to mollify them. All were rejected, the only demand that the Dynasty made was that the rest of the world burn. No negotiations would be accepted, there would be only war. But with the Atomic Dynasty's armed forces being so newborn and ramshackle and the Viceroy not wanting to tip his hand fully, so far the Atomic Dynasty's war with the world is somewhat limited while he bides his time for China to be strong enough to achieve his vision. And if the world decides to unite against him; so be it, the Planar walls are very high and the turrets have been built just for the occasion.

## Gameplay mechanics

### Build Mechanic

Space Elevator makes units in little bundles. Only one production queue is accessible at a time, secondary cycles through them. Units arrive in amphibious boxes allowing you to build sea vehicles at a land-based Elevator and vice versa.

Orbital Command Vehicle puts down Planetary Assemblies (which deal with the structure side of the tech tree) and can transform irreversibly into Space Elevators (which deal with the unit side of the tech tree). The current plan is that you start with an Elevator and an OCV, letting you choose between enhanced unit production and early expansion ability. OCVs will probably arrive via a protocol unlocked by a mid-level structure.

Planetary Assemblies are ore refineries that also build your structures. Some structures are just for base management (Superweapons, power plants, tech building) and some deal with your defensive game. The structures designed for defense each have a production queue with room for a single turret at a time - if you want to make defenses at any reasonable rate, you can make extras, but it'll get expensive quickly.

### Tier Mechanic

The Atomic Dynasty of China uses the Starfleet Database building to purchase the tech required for higher-level units and structures.

### Special Abilities

Vehicles require power in order to function. These vehicles consume units of power when built, and are shut down if you enter a low power state.

## The Jade Army of the New China

### Low-end Turrets

Unless oherwise stated, the upgrade removes the coverage restriction on a Chinese Low End Turret.

### Construction Vehicles

 File:IconChina.png | Orbital Command Vehicle | Capable of flying while undeployed, the OCV must still land in order to become a Command Yard and place its Planetary Assembly structures. While landed it also has the option to transform into a Command Yard, but once this decision is made it cannot be taken back. It cannot transform back into an OCV once it has landed

## Behind the Scenes

China's latest revamp was intended to make them play more like the Tower Defence games you often see online. The wide variety of walls allows you to pipeline enemy units where you want, the turret variety allows you to use plenty of cheap turrets or a handful of expensive ones, and the superweapons give you something to *"hold out"* for, making it easier to just outlast your opponent.