(RFC) The Rising of the Eternal Sun

[trexeric]

I got bored with my other stories...

The Rising of the Eternal Sun

SETTINGS:
Difficulty: Viceroy
Civilization: Japan

Prologue
It has been said that Japan was started by a girl, only eight or so in age, started the empire we know and love today. The girl, Rin, was born in an unknown year, but what we do know of her birth was that it was outside present-day Tokyo (about a mile north, to be exact). Rin was displeased with her dull life, centered around the vast amounts of gold her parents had obtained through slave labor. At age eight she ran away, until coming to a Buddhist monk who traveled from across the sea (probably from present-day Korea). The monk tried to teach the anxious little girl for six months, until he was mysteriously murdered. Rin soon got into the habit of robbing from the rich. She kept this up for ten years, without ever being caught, until a man named Masao trapped her in his house. Rin was able to convince Masao to let her go. However, Masao realized that he was in love with Rin, so he chased after her. Rin told Masao that, if he was able to find ten more able-bodied men and the armor and weapons to equip them, that she would allow him to be leader of them and come along with her in her missions. Masao found four men working on the rice fields (Eita, Ryo, Yuto, and Akio), two men in the small village of Kyoto (Daiki and Kenzo), three men in the gold mines of Rin's parents (Minoru, Ren, and Shin), and only a single man on present-day Mount Fuji (Sora). When Masao returned from his year-long journey, Rin said that Masao had eleven men, not ten, and that Masao would have to get rid of one of them. Masao quickly sent Akio across the sea to present-day China. Rin was pleased, and gave each man a vial of poison, a paintbrush, and orders to coat their sword with the contagious poison (along with founding Japan, Rin also invented biological warfare!). Rin and the 'Samurai' seized the city of Kyoto using their biological weapons and Rin's flawless tactics. Because there was no official government in those days, Rin and the Samurai kept the city in order to ensure the regrowth of the now-ruined city. However, more and more of the town's surrounding farms accepted the rule of the Samurai and Rin. Rin called this new-found culture 'Japan'. However, it was not long until the Samurai started fighting between themselves.

 

[hoplitejoe]

the only excuse for abandoning a story is losing the memory stick which it was on.

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

You don't "abandon" stories. You put them "on indefinite hiatus."

 

[brandon.herren]

Biological Warfare!!! 5 thousand years before WW1

NEW STORY spray is the newest weapon!

Soon... you will all be controlled by the urge to create more stories... (Like I am )

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Nice start! Do you have any kanji in mind for the names?

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Welcome to the forums!

We won't eat you, of course.

If anyone tells you that they are more Epic than I am, they are lying. Especially if the person's name is Tambien.

 

[Tambien]

He isn't new METY.

 

[trexeric]

Bair_the_Normal is.

Anyway, I technically DID lose the save... They are just so far down on the ever-expanding list that I can't find them anymore.

 

[trexeric]

Note: I will be playing 600 AD start to get samurai earlier.

Chapter 1: Council of the Samurai

"'Now it is time to decide the flag. Yuto?'
'I have a really cool one, with a red circle!'
'Why?'
'It obviously looks better than Sora's bunny'"

With the establishment of the government of Kyoto, the Samurai Council of course looked to expand. Rin, Head of the Samurai Council, ordered thousands of people immediately to death, including her parents, Buddhists, sushi chefs, and Koreans. Not all Samurai agreed with Rin's cruel methods, for some of them split. Daiki, Shin, Ren, and Sora all formed their own council (the Secondary Council). The Secondary Council sent a fourth of Kyoto's population north to the small town of Tokyo, and another fourth to Nagasaki. the Samurai Council voted against the Secondary council, so the Secondary Council was short-lived. Rin liked the idea of other councils, so she ordered the creation of two 'secondary councils' The first council, the 'War Council', consisting of Masao, Yuto, and Kenzo, led the military. The 'Domestic Council' consisted of Minoru, Ryo, and Eita. Rin was head of all these councils. Daiki, Shin, Ren, and Sora were punished by not being allowed in council. Rin's perfect dream was infected by the nation's own problems. For example, crime was higher than before the time of the nobles, and hundreds of people were getting killed each day. Rin ordered the criminals to death, but that decreased the population even more. Surely there was some way to stop the bloodshed. Surely there must be a way to unite the Japanese as one. Surely, there must be a way to restore Japan's honor. Then, it struck her.

 

[Lelouch]

Subbed,

 

[MaxWar]

For some reason i feel like...

Spoiler :

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

I've never really liked sushi, but that update was tasty.

 

[trexeric]

Chapter 2: The Men of Iron

"If we remain weak, there will be no future. What we must do is establish a wall of iron men. Otherwise, we will be stoned by those of Korea, torched by those of the west sea, and killed by those of the east sea."

It was clear the only way to internal peace was external war. The War Council, which was established in 650 AD (approximately 30 years into Rin's life), was becoming more powerful and influential than the separate Domestic Council. Thousands of slaves, acquired throughout the Japanese lands, were working the hills and mountains north and northeast of Kyoto, searching for a metal harder than the current standard (talcmetal - a very weak metal discovered in 439 AD by an old Korean named Bo Bi Ba Bololo). In 660 AD, a slave man found a shiny spot in an ancient cave. (On a sidenote, that cave had been closed off since 9932 BC, when it had collapsed. There were colorful paintings of mammoths and cave bears upon the shiny spot.) On closer inspection, Japanese scientists discovered the metal to be much stronger than talcmetal. They named the metal 'iron', after the lead scientist, Li Iro. Iron was found in greater extent in mines that sprouted off of that crucial, ancient cave. In 661 AD, thousands of pounds of iron was hauled to Rin in Kyoto. Rin, still looking to unite the Japanese and keep the citizens occupied, ordered all able-bodied men of the Kyoto area join the military. She gifted the iron to Masao, who was currently training troops of swordsmen and instructing the building of a barracks in Kyoto. Wood from the 'Hills of Iron' sped the production of this important building. Masao used this iron, along with 70,000 gold to pay the troops and recruit expert trainers, to make the petty swordsmen into what Masao called samurai. This was the first appearance of the non-political samurai. Around the same time, the Domestic Council established a common calendar (which was technically just adopted from a western missionary who had gone off course on his way to China). This calendar not only established time for the people at the time, but it also lets us know from Japanese text what time important events took place. With the samurai, Rin and Masao planned to invade, and invade hard (well, maybe not the next chapter...).

 

[hoplitejoe]

Happy to see this still alive

 

[Tycho]

Watching closely, looks interesting.

 

[Tambien]

Great!

 

[trexeric]

This would have been done an hour ago, but then Google Chrome stopped working.

Chapter 3: The Rin Dynasty

"I see it fit to establish a single ruler, instead of the quarreling councils. Speaking of which, the secondary councils have been abolished to make the Samurai Council secondary to me, Empress Rin."

The councils were not working. The Samurai Council was quickly decreasing in power, while the Domestic Council was decreasing even faster. The War Council, on the other hand, was becoming almost as powerful as the Samurai Council. This was clearly a problem, so what Rin had planned to do was destroy the secondary councils. This would make the Samurai council much more powerful and establish a more common government across Japan. However, by the year 663 AD, this was seen as even more harmful, for what the public saw was Rin beginning her ultimate take-over of Japan. The secondary council members themselves saw this as an offense to Japanese society, and Ren even quit the Samurai Council to protest. Crime had increased to twice it was before. Rin, with the help of Masao and Eita, wrote the Code of Laws to replace the old one. Rin had, in fact, seized control. She had proclaimed herself empress, and temporarily suspended the Samurai Council (the suspension was later lifted in 670 AD). The Code of Laws had stated three important points:
The ruler of Japan will always be in control of the military.
The majority of slaves will be turned into soldiers to enforce control
The economy will be controlled by the important citizens
Rin enforced her control over the military by crushing citizen rebellions. The rebellions became so numerous, however, and they turned into an all-out revolution. The beginning of the Rin Dynasty was ultimately marked by the First Japanese Revolution, or the Act of Military Supremacy. Many citizens had hired paid assassins, called ninjas, to kill Rin and the Samurai Council. Only one succeeded in killing the previous member, Ren. Empress Rin saw the advantage of ninjas, and she killed many leaders of the revolution by hiring the ninjas as counteragents. By 680, after approximately 17 years of revolution, and around 50 years of Rin's life, the citizens finally succumbed to Rin's rule and they once more allowed the masons to be masons, and the artists to be artists, and the men to be men, and the women to be women. Quickly, the building of the barracks commenced, and the science once more flourished, and the population once again grew.

 

[trexeric]

Chapter 4: The Korean Invasion

"Korea has opened a door for us."

In 724 AD, Rin died of a serious disease called Merachnial Arminiat Disorder. The Samurai Council was in disorder while they tried to find out who Rin's successor would be. Rin had no children, nor had Masao, so Eita, who helped write the Code of Laws, was chosen. Eita had one son (Eita the Younger, alternatively known as Eita the Greedy for his later actions). Emperor Eita's rule was short-lived, starting in the summer of 725 AD and ending in the spring of 741 AD. In that time, the barracks of Kyoto was finished. Eita the Younger murdered Eite the Elder (at the age of 97) and earned the name Eita the Greedy. Legally, Eita became the emperor. His cruel slavery treatment also gave him the name Slave-Killer, even though slavery was outlawed in the time of Rin. He ordered a boat to be made in Tokyo called 'the Eita'. Emperor Eita II was overthrown in 780 AD by the Samurai Council and the Japanese. All of Eita's sons were killed and Yoshi, youngest son of Masao, eliminated the part of the Code of Laws in which the loyalty to the Emperor must be present in the military (which was later replaced in 786 AD). The non-political samurai immediately turned on the tyrant, and he was driven to Korea in shame (where he established the Eita Dynasty in a great battle against the ruler at the time, Wang Kon). In 783, Katsu, older brother of Yoshi, inherited the throne of Japan. As 'the Eita' (which was renamed 'the Tyrant') was finished, so were a batch of new, freshly-trained samurai. The samurai boarded 'the Tyrant' and set sail for Nagasaki. The samurai that Masao had trained boarded 'the Tyrant, and they set sail for Kyoto. By 850 AD, Kastu had died. His daughter, Aya, became Empress. Aya, twenty years into her rule, ordered the invasion of Korea. The farmers of the south of Korea were quickly captured by Japanese samurai. The samurai on the south invaded first, catching the guards off-guard and they were able to slaughter many of Eita IV's soldiers. The other half, from the east, quickly moved in and destroyed the seige weapons, thus capturing the city and making Korea a mere tributary state. It is unknown if this would be considered a 'war', a 'conflict', or a mere 'skirmish', but most scholars consider this the 'Korean Invasion'.

 

[hoplitejoe]

No turtle ships to save you this time Korea

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Update <3. Where are you getting your japanese names?