Greater Yamashiro Empire

The **Greater Yamashiro Empire** (Japanese: "Dai Yamashiro Teikoku") was a nation formed by the surviving Japanese peoples following the following the Terran Diaspora in 2130.

## Homeworld

The planet of Yamashiro is 0.9 earth radius, 1G gravity, water/land
ratio is 75/25. The terrain is kind of like a very big Japan. It is a
dynamic scenic land with mild levels of volcanic activity. It is a world
 of grassy plains, scenic snow covered mountains, volcanoes, and hot
springs, decorated with forests of bamboo and cherry blossom trees
flowering all year round.

## History

Understanding the history of the people of Yamashiro must be seen from
the two perspectives of the two races which make up the population. The
original natives of the planet: Kitsune, and those who would eventually
find a home there: the humans.

### The Kitsune of Yamashiro

The original native population of Yamashiro are the Kitsune: humanoids
who look almost identical to humans, but including fox-like ears and a
bushy tail tail which can grow between 3ft - 5ft in length. Their
strength is slightly weaker than that of a human, however they have
incredibly fast reflexes and hand-eye coordination. Traditionally they
make great ninjas and swordsmen. By nature they are a curious folk
always willing to stick their noses arounds and look out for interesting
 news. Kitsune are quick to learn and display an intelligence level
similar to humans. They are also religious, temple complexes dot the
land dedicated to their religion which is a form of nature worship with
similarities to the Shinto religion.

In days past before the appearance of humans the Kitsune lived in a
highly ritualised society which was roughly equivalent to that of
Tokugawa Shogunate era feudal Japan. The Kitsune were divided along
strong clan lines each with their different leaders. They spent their
days living as normally as a normal society would do, making
friendships, enemies, war and peace in their Eastern fairy tale of a
land. However this peace was not to last.

One day disaster struck them. For from the stars a race they had not
encountered descended upon Yamashiro. This alien invader race identified
 themselves as Mongorians, they were a race of aliens which looked
largely like muscular 8 feet tall humanoids, but with a head resembling
that of a horse. Sort of like a minotaur from earth legend, but horse
instead of bull.

### Mongorians

The Mongorians that the Kitsune encountered were people traffickers, and
 appeared with the main goal to capture them and sell them to the slave
markets across the galaxy. The Mongorians would show up above Kitsune
settlements with their starships to round up the Kitsune. Those who
resisted were killed, the old and infirm who had no value were executed,
 the children and young adults were captured, and villages were looted
of any riches and burned to the ground. They stood no chance against
these advanced slave traders, as though these were only a bunch of
traffickers and not an army, their advanced weaponry was too much for
the swords and bows of the Kitsune. No part of Kitsune life was left
untouched as the Mongorians continuously returned to raid villages and
castles for peasants, queens and princesses alike just the same. The
feudal society of the Kitsune collapsed, and they lived in terror at the
 increasingly common visits of these horse like raiders. The problem got
 so bad that the Kitsune population started decreasing, with historical
estimates putting the all time low at around 20 million.

Then their salvation - as they saw it - came from a divine wind sent from the gods...

### The Humans of Yamashiro

The Titan War as it became known had wrecked havoc on Earth. In the
aftermath of that fateful day governments fell overnight, nation states
and borders ceased to exist. It is said that 'the enemy of my enemy is
my friend', and with the human race fighting for it's very survival
former rivals and enemies threw away their differences to fight the
common foe. In such an environment new political entities emerged...but
there were exceptions.

Japan was an island nation separated from the rest of the Asian
continent. There were no artificial borders there for the Titans to
break down. Being abandoned and isolated in their own closed slice of
hell with no allies, far from having their sense of nationality diluted
the Japanese survivors clung onto their culture harder than most. As
they hid in the many mountain ranges of Japan, parents would tell their
children about their former greatness. They spoke of things such as the
great samurai warriors of the Sengoku Jidai warring states era, the rise
 of imperial Japan, the miracle economic growth of the late 20th
century, the great South China Sea War of the late 21st century and so
forth.

What emerged from the rubble after the Titans left was a group of highly
 militarised and nationalistic people who had been alone without outside
 help on their island hell for 2 decades. Putting all their efforts into
 the colony ship Shigure, 5 million of their best were selected as
humanity's last ditch effort to save their race gathered pace. Shigure
would launch with the hopes and dreams of those who would be left behind
 to die on the shoulders of those colonists.

After a long cold sleep in the reaches of deep space, the humans encountered a habitable planet, and it was Yamashiro.

### The Divine Wind

The humans were automatically awoken by the colony ship systems, and
were able to land upon Yamashiro without issues. They had fortuitously
done so during a lull when the Mongorians were not present, otherwise
the landing might not have been so straightforward. It would be weeks
before they even encountered the Kitsune who had hid from the new
travellers from the sky. their society had been shattered, and the first
 Kitsune the humans encountered would try to flee in terror, when
finally cornered they would cower in fear. It took months for the humans
 to convince the Kitsune that they were not there to harm them.
Initially they were never able to get them to trust humans.

That all changed when the Mongorians raiders returned.

The Mongorians started doing their usual thing of rounding up Kitsune.
But they had not reckoned on there being new guests on the planet.
Seeing the plight of the Kitsune mirroring their own struggle on earth,
the humans - militant veterans of the conflict against the Titans, took
up their weapons from the previous war on Earth to fight back on the
behalf of their hosts. The Mongorian raiders were ultimately small in
number and had been relying on advanced technology and the fear factor
up until this point. They were convincingly outmatched by the more
numerous human colonists with weapons which did pose a danger to them.
The Mongorians raiders were driven off... and the next set or
raiders...and the next set...and so forth until they didn't bother
returning.

To the Kitsune of those times, these new foreigners who descended from
heaven had delivered them from great evil. Kitsune and Humans saw in
each other kindred spirits of having survived alien invasion. The
Kitsune offered Yamashiro as a new home to their saviors and asked the
humans to lead them and teach them so that they would never again be
oppressed. The humans at the time, well they were just grateful to have
some alien friends who weren't trying to kill them and agreed to the
terms.

And so a new unified nation of Yamashiro was born, with Kitsune and Humans working together.

## Modern Society

In the year 250AC roughly 8 generations after that fateful encounter
between the colony ship Shigure and the planet Yamashiro, much has
changed. The Yamashiran population has grown hugely from tens of
millions to billions. Humans and Kitsune have in those centuries largely
 intermarried and integrated with one another. Some inhabitants who have
 more Kitsune DNA still retain the fox ears and tail, whilst those who
have more human DNA still look human.
 Pure blooded humans and pure kitsune are a minority now, 10% and 20% of
 the population respectively. Most of the Population of Yamashiro are
now effectively hybrid kitsune/human to some sort of degree. The split
between those who do and don't have physical fox features is roughly
50/50.

The original human colonists were largely from Japan, militant, and
nationalistic. The original Kitsune culture was also very similar to
that of Japan so the humans and kitsune were able to meld to each others
 base culture fairly easily and form a hybrid which to humans would be
recognisably oriental. The humans have adopted a religion which is a mix
 of shinto and the kitsune's pagan worship of nature. The current
government is a Constitutional monarchy with the Emperor or Empress as
head of state, which replaces the feudal clan society of the
pre-humanity kitsune culture. Despite being a constitutional monarchy,
the monarch retains significant powers of an absolute monarch and is the
 final, most powerful authority on Yamashiro.

Just last year the previous emperor was tragically assassinated. He was
the target of the infamous ninja who calls himself Zetacius who hid in
the ceiling above a toilet. When the former emperor appeared to relieve
himself, Zetacius struck by cleaving his head off with a beam katana.
Thanks to the efforts of the imperial guard Zetacius was cornered and
not able to escape. Unfortunately before he could be arrested Zetacius
commited sepukku rather than be captured. Currently the Late-Emperor's
daughter sits upon the Chrysanthemum Throne at Himeji Castle as the new
Empress.

Using the reverse engineered human/Titan hybrid tech as a base, the
people of Yamashiro have advanced greatly since two and a half centuries
 ago. In the year 250AC the space fleets of Dai Yamashiro Teikoku are
now ready to expand and explore the stars under the new reign of 16 year
 old Empress Kaguya Horaisan of Yamashiro.