State of Feudal Dynasty

Dynasty coming from the Heavens

The **State of Feudal Dynasty** (封建王朝国　「ほうけんおうちょうこく」) is a feudal dynastic nation ruled by the Koutei and the Four Lords. The reason for the nation's state name is because the government is a feudal dynasty based on Ancient East Asia. The official name is **Tiencho zo Refous** (ティェンチョウ・ゾ・レフウス (The Dynasty coming from the Heavens, the Fifth Star.)). However, the reason for this naming is unknown and there are no records that pertains to said naming were ever found. The official language is Cantonese.

The unification of Tiencho was completed and was the first to enter space a century earlier than other nations. Afterwards, the king who unified the heavens (space) and the earth (Tiencho) called himself "Koutei" (known to Earthians as "Emperor"). As it went to space before other nations, it also experienced interstellar wars before all other nations.

The only military that belongs to the State of Feudal Dynasty is called the "Dynastic Forbidden Army." The armies that belong to the Four Lords are treated separately from the Dynastic Forbidden Armies as private armies.

The State of Feudal Dynasty has the unique scientific powers to advance into space and wage interstellar wars ahead of other nations called, "Dynastic Sacrifices." The Dynastic Sacrifices is the secret of the dynasty that has been handed down to only the dynastic center. It is also of a high scientific standard that is two centuries ahead of the United Galaxy that had developed on its own since ancient times, unlike the science of the Sacred Religious State.

However, the Tienchoese use wooden oar ships when they have the highest levels of science is the internal situation of the State of Feudal Dynasty has always been plagued by rebelling Lords and generals and a lack of external enemies until the New Space Order War occurred against both Celestia tian Farous and later the Military Empire (Zo Ahous). Worse still is that the problem of the Dynastic Forbidden Army is operated by the lords appointed as generals by the emperor. The imperial family may be among the generals, but it is very rare for them to be excellent generals, and inevitably, the ratio of generals who are excellent in valor is much higher. Ships built with the Dynastic Sacrifices become a double-edged sword that would overthrow the State of Feudal Dynasty should the Lord become ambitious enough to become a rebelling general.

Therefore, in order to prevent rebellion, the Dynastic Forbidden Army had to be "not strong, but not weak," except under the Emperor's banner, which is why the dynasty uses various systems and reasons, such as "tradition" and "style," to bind and control the dynastic sacrifices. In other words, the reason why wooden oar ships are used is because the dynasty has established a tradition of what a ship should be like. This deliberate overemphasis on style is also the reason for the over-decoration of ships, which can reduce their performance. If a rationalistic United Galaxy were to acquire the technology of the Dynastic Sacrifices, they would be able to build very high performance ships. Of course, it's not just about Dynastic Sacrifices. From the relationship between the emperor and the lords, to the operation of the imperial army, to the way of life of the people, the unified dynasty is maintained by binding them to the ancient traditions and styles set by the dynasty. This is reminiscent to the Edo Shogunate before Japan opened itself to the outside world. This is the reason why the nation has less than the same level of military power as other nations, while possessing super-science and national power that surpasses those of other nations.

The wooden oar ship is the result of the circumstances concerning the Dynastic Sacrifices and State of Feudal Dynasty. In truth, it is a spaceship with a length of one kilometer that is not made of wood. Rather, it is made of a special organic aramid fiber-based material that is cured and layered into a wooden-boxy hull that can then be made into a monocoque structure without any dragon bones by joining it into a plate and box shape. The simple box shape has the advantage that it is easy to produce even for ignorant people. Due to both the control of the Dynastic Sacrifices and the Tienchoese people being bound to traditions, the firing process gives it yellowish color and gives it an aesthetic of wood with grain. In addition, the lack of a dragon bone has the advantage of a high available volume ratio for the entire ship and a large loading capacity. The dragon bones are used for palaces for nobles and ritual halls.

The oars are also exterior propulsion engines called "dimensional rowing oars," and the fin at the end of the oar is the propulsion engine, making it the first "Diastasion Drive," which propels the ship by "flowing three-dimensional space itself in any direction." The State of Feudal Dynasty has already developed the technology that the United Galaxy will take two centuries to develop. The reason for the exterior and the rowing during propulsion is because it is a "tradition." The original intention, however, was that the exterior type would be easier to produce and replace in the case of monocoque hulls.

## History

*For more information on the State of Feudal Dynasty's distant past, see Tokupedia's article on Mirai Ninja.*

### Society and the Heavens

Thousands of years ago, there were a series of wars of unifications and divisions until a feudal dynastic nation with an unnamed powerful conquering king appeared and unified an entire planet, who then silenced the Lords' influencers and granted them land and its tax revenues.

After unifying the entire world, despite not having any successor of his own, he won the favor of the population who were tired of war and maintained an everlasting peace.

Suddenly and without any warning, the nation achieved an advancement into the space. For the people, the world was everything and heaven was a conceptualized ideal world. Only a few were able to understand these advancement into the heavens which is an exploit in which technology and culture were separated.

### Exploits and the Koutei

These advancements into space was possible due to the King's encouraging attitude towards science, leading to the acquisition of an advanced space technology by a nation that originally did not fly in the sky.

The origin of a scientific power, which was called the Dynastic Sacrifices and beyond the position of the civilization of this nation, is unclear. However, the King forbade engineers from obtaining the Dynastic Sacrifices and explaining them, instructing them to use it only instead. Those who try to know the origin of the Dynastic Sacrifices were secretly executed without exception.

The related technology was not catching up with the given scientific power. Thus, a special spaceship that can only be seen as an aquatic watchtower vessel appeared and many people were forcibly taken to this spaceship, not knowing that they were taken to the twinkling stars in the night sky. Time flowed like lost consciousness and before long, the Refous State of Feudal Dynasty annexed many planets as their territory.

Furthermore, after several generations, the King reflected that it is the self and its bloodline that dominated the vast heaven and earth that "mortality doubled as three emperors and these achievements is more than five emperors." Being more than a god and feeling that the title, Emperor, is not enough to honor this unprecedented exploit, the King created the title of "Koutei," thus becoming the First Koutei of the newly created state.

### Law and Imperial Decree

Under the First Koutei, a new central authoritarian nation was created by law. These precise laws and bureaucratic organization confined the population in all ruled space sectors and guaranteed their safety. Responding to various circumstances, the First Koutei issued the Edict of the Lords Summons ordering all Lords to return the feudal estates to the Koutei and allow his officials to rule as the Acting Kouteis, forcibly transitioning the nation from a feudal system to a centralized authoritarian rule. The Twelve Lords rebelled against the "forced establishment of the New Space Order" but all were subjugated by the First Koutei.

However, after proclaiming such an edict and suppressing the rebellion, the First Koutei had died. Taking advantage of the situation, the lords went to the Koutei's Star without heart by taking back their feudal estates and ordering the house arrest of government officials who were dispatched by the First Koutei.

### Law and Power

The Second Koutei succeeded the First Koutei. However, taking advantage of the fact that the Second Koutei could not demonstrate his leadership, the Twenty Eight Lords began their own diplomatic and expanding power struggles in various space sectors. He was by no means a fool but fears he will be swept away by a reputation of mediocrity should he be compared to the First Koutei. Thus, War of the Twenty-Eight Lords took place in various space sectors that were barely maintained orderly by the First Koutei's fleet presence. During the Second Koutei's reign, the order that was originally maintained by law's prestige returned to being maintained by power. At the end, the Twenty Eight Lords are reduced to the Four Lords.

### Gem and Soldier

The Four Lords named themselves kings under the cause of protecting the Second Koutei. The Lords later present a set of attractive large gems to the Second Koutei, taking him for a fool, stating they wanted to decorate the palace with them. They state that they acquired them from a large space beast called “Tamateki” which has destroyed numerous of their warships alone, and that they need a sizable fleet of warships to bring it down. This led to a war between the Sacred Religious State of Celestia and the Refous State of Feudal Dynasty. Over time, the Second Koutei becomes obsessed with a special gem containing the body of a beautiful girl who never decays called, "Celestial Gem Maiden."

### Strange Gem Rebellion

During the war with the Sacred Religious State of Celestia, it became custom to bring home a huge amber gem as a trophy of victory. This is due to the amberization process; in which the covered vacuole increases in protein concentration components and gradually become amberized. Then as time further passes, the master (Mustel) is put in an asphyxia state as the covered vacuole hardens and becomes a huge amberized gem which plays a role in protecting the operator from external hazards. When it is finished, the operator would not wake up unless an ESP signaled reset is sent.

Because of the reset signal, many of the Celestian Mustels wake up in the Refous State of Feudal Dynasty territory which inadvertently caused mass panic, leading to the Strange Gem Rebellion.

During this rebellion, numerous Feudal Dynastic nobles are killed in another one of the usual gem returns, a logical conclusion to all the mass panics of the past. Since then, the Second Koutei has issued a prohibition on acquiring amberized gems, and most of them are returned to the Sacred Religious State by the Dynastic Private Armies. Though official dynastic records claim they have all been returned, some of them – considered the most beautiful – have been hidden by the nobles, the most famous being the red and blue gems Kangyoku (Red Gem) and Ensei (Blue Gem). They were unprecedented and were found by chance, and therefore were hidden for rarity.

### Imperial Decree and the Throne

Eventually, the Second Koutei dies and is replaced by a long period of time by Kintora, the Third Koutei. After taking office, he crushes the palace's first gem and buried it in the Second Koutei's tomb. He then declares that the gems are no longer worth the arms buildup and orders an end to the ship productions in the name of Tamateki hunting, depriving the Four Lords of their cause of the arms race.

During his reign, he orders the Dynasty to use the Red Kangyoku Gem and Blue Ensei Gem to revive its respective Celestian Mustels, Cain (Feudal Dynastic Name: Keinyo/Kangyokukei (Wise Orange Gem)) and Curia (Feudal Dynastic Name: Kyoushi/Enseikyou (Blue Gem Home)), both of whom elected to stay in the State of Feudal Dynasty and support Kintora well into his later days, never returning to the Sacred Religious State.

In a bid to ensure peace and tranquility for the Dynasty, Kintora issues the **Royal Decree**, a decree that formally recognizes the Four Lords as Kings and rulers of their territories. The King Ki, who was promoted from self-proclaimed king to a formal king, visited the Koutei’s palace himself and thanked him. King San and King To only sent messengers to thank him in return. When it reached King Shin, he killed the Koutei’s messenger. The Shin family considers the decree an insult of invalidation since their cosmic territory, which was fought hard for three generations ago and supported the war against the Sacred Religious State of Celestia during the Second Koutei era, would become the Koutei’s should their King be recognized.

This act sparked the Four Lords Warring States. The United Galaxy's Department of Asylum and Immigration accepts refugees due to the ongoing civil war. In order to keep the Galaxians from getting involved in the ongoing civil war, they kept their Hakke ESP abilities; they also change their names, undergo training, and receive citizenship. The fate of the State of Feudal Dynasty remains unknown.

## Trivia

* On Twitter, Hisaharu Tago confirmed that the State of Feudal Dynasty is the distant future of Mirai Ninja.
* During the development of the State of Feudal Dynasty's theme, Linda AI-CUE considered adopting the Phantomilian Dictionary as the nation's language but soon dropped it because it wasn't suitable for said nation. Thus, Tohru Takahashi and Linda AI-CUE settled on using Cantonese as the State of Feudal Dynasty's official language.
* The names of various ships are derived from Ancient Chinese ship names.
* The names of the Tienchoese defense satellites are based off the Five Elements Theory of Celestial Classification.
* The 28 Lords are a reference to the 28 Mansions used in Chinese Astrology.
* The Japanese artist who did the design for both the Military Empire and the State of Feudal Dynasty is Paganheart's XEtton.
* The State of Feudal Dynasty's hand to hand combat tactics was inspired by Giant Robo OVA.

## References

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