Stellar's Imperial Japan

Stellar's Imperial Japan was an empire based on the Japanese archipelago. The empire consisted of 5 dominions by the time of its disbandment: Japan, the main archipelago, the Shanghai District, which was the remnants of New Ming Empire before it was re-established, the Japanese Pacific States, a Japanese colony spanning the American west coast, Taihoku, which consisted of the islands of Taiwan and Luzon, and a planned German puppet state, which would integrate the 4th biggest nation at the time, Germany, into the Empire of Japan.

## Brief History

The town of Daishutoken was founded on December 12, 2020 by StellarSamurai (now Kouhashi) after being invited to the server by LandonHM08. At the time, Daishutoken was the first town in east asia, and as such, attracted quite a fair bit of visitors. The first building in the town was a Japanese style house made of just oak and spruce wood. This later served as the nation's spawn until being moved to a large castle made of wood, stone and some concrete. This castle also contained a museum with artifacts such as unique items and first items, like the first bamboo or the first chorus fruit. The nation was mainly known for its blaze grinder, which was the most efficient up until its dismemberment when the town fell, and the first public villager trading post. Ironically, Imperial Japan was a neutral nation and expanded through settlement and negotiation. The conflicts Japan was involved in, however, consisted of the Kyiv skirmishes, the chorus fruit disputes, and the SiegeWar conflicts.

## Expansion and Diplomacy

After Daishutoken, the next town settled was the town of Seoul on the Korean peninsula. Soon after, the town of Taihoku was established by THEF2PN00B. Daishutoken also had 2 outposts, 1 being in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and the other engulfing the island of Shikoku in southern Japan. Imperial Japan's 1st colony was the Japanese Pacific States, ran by TechSB. The Japanese Pacific States was the most established and active dominion, with its own infrastructure and administrative region. The Shanghai District came to be when the Emperor of New Ming Empire, Fladoodled, became inactive and the nation was transferred to Coomrade (now StellarKira), who promptly sold it. New Ming Empire was disbanded and integrated into Imperial Japan as a dominion. Near the end of the empire, the leader of Germany had proposed to merge into the Empire of Japan, but since the plans for disbandment were already under way, both nations agreed to disband instead.

### **Kyiv War**

Japan was a relatively neutral country, solving most its issues through negotiation. However, in some circumstances, fighting was seen in and out of Japanese territory. The first and most notable one was the Kyiv skirmishes, where the town of Kyiv had grown distasteful towards Japan after a light battle taken the wrong way by them. In retaliation of Japan owning towns in Europe and for the battle, Kyiv had made a one chunk town in Okinawa. This event, among others, sparked the Kyiv war, when the whole server had declared war on the town of Kyiv. Afterwards, Okinawa was recognized as part of Imperial Japan because it had agreed to join through negotiation but was too inactive to do so.

### **SiegeWar Conflicts**

The second major conflict was the SiegeWar conflict, which saw most the server battling against each other over control of inactive towns when the SiegeWar plugin was still active. Imperial Japan had began sieging towns in east Asia and Australia to further strengthen its claims in the east. However, Britain wished to build an empire similar to the one it held irl and threatened Imperial Japan when it sieged Australia. A few minutes earlier, however, Britain declared war on Germany for the same reason, and Imperial Japan threatened back that they would join Germany against them, so Britain backed off.

### **Chorus Fruit Dispute**

Chorus fruit first came to be when an event was held where players had to look for a structure that contained a chorus flower. The nation that had obtained this block was New Ming Empire, which later sold another to the nation of Kodiak and refused to lower the price. Due to Japan's economic policies, StellarSamurai had thought of a way to use an exploit to distribute chorus fruit server-wide, and that he did. Kodiak and New Ming Empire demanded these exploited flowers to be deleted, and after some discussion with the server owner, they were. This was not the end, however. when Coomrade sold Shanghai and moved to Daishutoken, he had brought chorus flowers with him. These flowers were replanted and redistributed completely within server rules, and therefore could not be deleted by moderators. This led to the declaration of war by Kodiak on Japan, with Greater Moravia also threatening to declare war. No fights were seen though on account of Imperial Japan being disbanded around 1 week later.

## Dissolution

Some time in early April, evidence had come out that a server's admin and later owner, EmreYeten, had been participating in questionably legal actions. This had many of the players on the server disturbed and were conflicted on what to do. Stellar was outraged and refused to talk to Emre. The leaders of Germany had also been disturbed and wanted to leave the server, so they came to Stellar asking to integrate Germany into Imperial Japan. Stellar instead agreed on disbanding with them, and soon after, the nation of Imperial Japan and the town of Daishutoken was disbanded. Over several days, the remaining towns on the Japanese archipelago were also disbanded, as were other German cities. Landon took advantage of the chaos and used mod perms to absorb the remaining nationless towns and Kodiak into his Texican Empire. Approximately 2 weeks later, the town of Tokyo was made by 1ett in the ruins of Daishutoken, which eventually became modern day Japan and the crowned successor of the Empire of Japan. The banner of Imperial Japan is still flown today by Japan and other nations, and many of the old structures still remain to this day.