The Past That Wasn't

# Countries, Factions & Organizations

## Directorate of Eight Nations / Directorate Remnants

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Created as a response to many events in the East, namely the mysterious happenings in the Sino-Mongolian Khanate involving a "green rock that fell out from the stars", the following territorial and colonizing expansion of the Mongols, Persians and Russia, and the last straw was surprising victory of the Imperial Russia against Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the hands of General Mikhail Kutuzov and Marshal Bjorn Sigurdson at Borodino. The European powers as well as the Confederate States of America were feeling threatened by the growing expanse of the three large Asian nations and the Pagan Norse Fylkirate, and after a long and diplomatically costly negotiations and bargaining they formed an alliance which after some time evolved into the Directorate of Seven Nations, comprised of French Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain, German Reich, Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Italy, Kingdom of Spain and Byzantine Empire. After four years the name was changed into "Eight Nations" when the Confederate States were accepted as the only non-monarchic state.

Under the leadership of eight heads-of-government they controlled majority of the world, including the most of the Europe without the Scandinavia and Balkan, much of North America, large portions of Africa, India and much more. Becoming the superpower with a strong animosity with the Asia, they have set their goal of world domination, which involved the conquest, subjugation and enslavement of the Asian people and the pagans, believing to be superior to these which later led to over a century-long state of global war with only a few months being peaceful. Beside this, seeing that the colonization and exploration of the South America didnt went well in the past because of the Incan's technological level averaging that of the Old World thanks to Norse assistance, and the subsequent revolution of the "Tupac Amaru II" who drove the remains of the colonial powers from South America, the Directorate set it as their goal to destroy the "Tawantinsuyu" that was established and claim the southern continent as their own as it should have been, in their eyes.

Since than the Directorate waged many wars with majority of the world's powers, mostly the Russian Tsarists, the Persians, the Fylkirate, and the Mongols/Chinese, in many conflicts, campaigns and skirmishes, for a century, which in most cases were "surprise attack and breakthrough into enemy territory, weakening of the advance and than being pushed back into the previous positions", being stuck in the stalemate situations, as Russians, Mongols, Norse, Chinese or Incans did not desired the war as such, thought the truth was they lacked the resources to do that, even when combined.

The global stalemate remained until the crucial moment of the history of mankind came; the arrival of aliens. Many aliens. It must have been a coincidence, a destiny or prearranged dealing, but Earth was invaded by multiple alien factions at once who decided to settle their disputes on this small world on the outskirts of the small Milky Way galaxy. The Scrin who woke up from their sleep on the orbit of one of Saturn's moons because of a huge (but just a local) explosion of Red Jade in China, the Jovian Fleet of Imilki Ecumene who were chasing the Scrin, the Hierarchy that had hoped to stripe mine the planet, and an alliance lead by the Intergalactic Syndicated Communes; or the Merendi Communes for short, who hoped to check the expansion of the other aliens.

## Uchiwa Shogunate

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With the increased scientific advancement of the China as well as fastening the power of the ruling dynasty, the Empire of Japan, sometimes called "the empire of the rising sun", has seen this happening on the continent as large potential threat and started amassing army and resources and looking for help to the European powers. But when the Directorate was formed and their ideology and intentions became clear, the Japanese expelled all European and North American dignitaries, diplomats and merchants and, with no other world power left that seemed to be "friendly", went into self-exile and began the massive reformation and industrial revolution of their own to become such a power to defend itself for the future, seeing the war with all of its closest neighbors as a matter of time.

Making large army with the use of all available resources they got on the mainland, the Japan began a series of small expansions in the quest of new resources, trying to play by the diplomatic ways rather than military invasions. By these means they have acquired a portion of the Philippines and the northern islands around Kamchatka, but maintaining strict isolation from the major powers, and even more when their expansion phase was finished, turning into "zone of void" to any outside source for many decades. During this time Directorate considered many times military incursions, but with their already grand offensives against Russia and China and the literal unknown the Japan presented the monarchs feared they may join up with the other two, and the ferocity and skills of warfare the Japanese samurai were renowned for in fact scared them to no ends, every time this idea was propositioned.

It took a great deal of afford and research in the upcoming decades, but by the time of 1960s it was found out what was happening in the empire of the hidden rising sun. For the first two decades the empire was building its industry from the ground, gaining large financial and labor support from the imperial family and feudal lords, supporting the scientists, researchers and inventors to work on new technologies, industrialists to construct factories and facilities that will offer more working opportunities to common people, raising their wages to give them means to send their children into schools and give them education to in turn have more scientists, engineers and businessmen to repeat the whole process. The military was also growing. With a higher budgets at their disposal, new training regimens and reforms were taken into effect, making it a requirement for everyone, including women, to gain a basic training in the combat arts, employing the samurai senseis to share these knowledges to the common people while training their own elite professional warriors for the feudal lords and the emperor himself. However, one major issue has began rising in the process, and that there was not a unified leadership aside from the emperor, who did not had the complete lists of assets from each prefecture at his disposal. This lead into the similar state like during the Edo period, only less bloody.

### The Fight of One

Some of the alliances fought over the lands, some fought by their industrial mights, and some were employing shinobi to take out the key players of their opponents to gain supporters in other's camp and eventually take over the land. The situation was continuing like so for five decades until young samurai prefect took the initiative to make a change to this. His name is Mitsuharu Uchiwa. Th meaning of his name, "honey spring", has been a point of many jokes on the head of this man, but he never bothered himself by this, and by the time people started holding respect towards him. Being born in the samurai clan, Mitsuharu received rigorous training in the arts of combat, but along with that great talent in politics, economics and great charisma. This made him a good candidate to become feudal lord's advisor and liaison to his and other samurai clans. Serving faithfully to his master, Uchiwa earned himself a lot of respect, gaining allies and, by the time of his thirties, followers, accumulating power that did not exceeding feudal lord's, but was not indifferent.

In 1947 the feudal lord died, but in his testament and last decree he named 29-old Mitsuharu Uchiwa his successor. The lord having no offspring of his own, the Tottori Prefecture Council (his prefecture of birth) had no objections and Uchiwa clan gained control over the prefecture. Mitsuharu started a series of reforms that globally increased his standing, as well as started gaining more supporters and allies among the other feudal lords. His biggest advantage was when he fell in love and subsequently married a daughter and heir to the Akemomiji Zaibatsu (the largest conglomerate in the Japan), Nogiku Yasunari.

With this trump card of industrial potential Uchiwa had the capability to defeat all other opposing leaders in Japan as he could produce more weapons than them and overpower them. In 1952 Mitsuharu managed to unite the Japan under his rule, and one of his first acts was when he visited Imperial Palace and made an oath to the Emperor that he will always protect the Japanese people and culture from everyone, doing everything in his powers for the best of the Main Islands. The other act that followed was the formation of the Shogunate, picking the many former rivals in power and allies, as well as recruiting many experts in all fields of life and science, and began the long process of reformation to make the living of his territory the standard for all, as well as strengthening the military, particularly the infantry forces and navy.

### The Coming Empire

The discovery of nanomachines made the process of physical reformation of the Japan a much more easier and faster process, switching the wood and paper for paper-like polymers and materials, steel being assembled into shaped best fitted for the project, and the samurai swords and weapons were shaped by the nanomachines into the level of sharpness that not even a iron plate could stand against the blow. The development of new technologies, particularly the use of plasma-propelled Kinetic-burst weaponry which made the case of producing weapons and its ammunition a much easier task in terms of mass, making more than they would do with standard firearms and guns. The vector jets also greatly helped in the use of rockets and, making of flying machines as the spies in China found out was a new thing in the world. With that, the new Navy have created the new aircraft carriers, thought the voice of Traditionalists demanded that the large battleships shall stay in service.

The largest controversy have been the technology of "robotics". The Traditionalists only accepted it as a "supportive addition of working process in the factories", but anything else was by them "disruption of the traditional long forged by their ancestors" or the traditions of samurai, same with the tanks. Many discussions were made, taking it two years but finally in the end the opposing groups come into conclusions and compromises. The tanks were accepted into service as the Traditionalists couldnt dismiss their importance in the modern warfare as the world developed it, but the robotics are mostly used only in the factories, shipyards, and in medicine. The only military application is in the form of "Master Kenshi", a huge sword-wielding samurai mecha comparable to Pradoxbranch's King Oni. The preparations for the return of the empire of the rising sun were finally coming to its end.

## High Andean Lordships

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*Main article:* High Andean Lordships

## Merendi Communes

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