Through a Mirror, Darkly - A Clockpunk/Steampunk Game - Prethread

[thomas.berubeg]

I'm considering something on the Yucatan Peninsula. Could we chat about the situation in Centramerica sometime soon?

Sure! Sunday?

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Sounds good! I'll try to make myself somewhat informed of the area before then.

 

[Civ'ed]

don't' forget that I can also be asked about some yucatanny stuff :3

 

[KaiserElectric]

Empire of the Great Ming
Ming Nanjing

Spoiler :

History: Following the collapse of the Mongol-established Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, in 1368. He was succeeded by his grandson, the Jianwen Emperor, who attempted to curb the power of his uncles, established as feudal lords by the Hongwu, only for Lords to rally under the rule of Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan, and rebel. The rebellion collapsed after Zhu Di was killed during the siege of Jinan, and in the aftermath Jianwen abolished the feudal system and centralized power in the Imperial court for good.

After the succession crisis, Jianwen began an extensive series of reforms, addressing weaknesses in the army and government revealed by the rebellion as well as purging reactionary and corrupt interests within the new Ming government. Jianwen and his successors were also great patrons of the arts and sciences, sponsoring academies, great architectural and artistic projects, and even explorations of Oceania and the New World. This led to an era of unprecedented stability and prosperity, as Ming China came to be a great trading power, with Nanjing becoming a great center of learning comparable to Oxford or Sankore. The Ming used their great wealth to establish the famous Turtle Fleet, named for a new type of armored warship based on the Turtle Ships designed by Admiral Yi Sun-sin during the Japanese invasion of Korea, as well as establishing great armies with advanced gunpowder weapons as well as early precursors to clockwork-based technology.

This new technology allowed them to defeat the Manchu invasion of China and despite some territorial losses and the shaky ascension of a female to the Imperial throne, the Hongju Empress, Ming China continues to thrive as a great bastion of trade and center of learning, eagerly exploring the uses of the newly discovered Ether.

 

[Terran Empress]

Tawantinsuyu​

Inca Empire

Core:

Spoiler :

History: Tawantinsuyu ("The Four Regions" in the native Quechua) is the most powerful, oldest, and first of the native empires in the New World. Founded in 1438 by Pachacuti, after reforming the Kingdom of Qusqu (spelled Cusco in most european languages) into Tawantinsuyu. Known as the Inca Empire after it's absolute monarch, the Sapa Inca, which is the equivalent title to an Emperor in Europe. It went to conquer much of the western coast and interior of the Southern continent of the New World, and it had no rivals until roughly the European year of 1480, when The Great Ming came into contact with the Empire.

The Chinese were shocked upon seeing Inca society, as they were the most advanced of the people's they had met before on the New World, and compared them to her own neighbors, specifically Korea and Japan. The Inca on the other hand were dumbfounded by the Chinese, and their technology, especially their horses and their ships. Like all other Chinese expeditions, trade was started, and and in exchange for some Incan gold, among other goods, which the chinese took as tribute, the Inca gained some chinese weapons, and horses.

With the introduction to Horses to the Sapa Inca's court, the Inca's military would become the greatest on the continents, at least until the arrival of the European and Moroccan powers, and by then the Horse was fully integrated into the Incan military, and even way of life, providing a great advantage to farming and other aspects of life.

After the initial contact with china however, Inca-Sino relations were not always peachy keen, and for many years the Sapa Inca Huayna Capac refused to send the tribute the chinese demanded, because why would a living god send tribute to an emperor who only rules in heaven's name? However after a little while, and a small but strong show of force by the Chinese, tribute was established, and trade commenced, and the Inca began to "Easternize" and by the time Europe came they were already armed with horses, very simple guns (though european guns were still more advanced), and some resistance to old world deseases (some parts of the empire had yet to face against these terrible microbes but others had already suffered and were beginning to recover), and when Pizarro came a knocking, the Inca knocked back, hard, and strong. Taking Pizarro's guns and any surviving men as prisoners and slaves, the Inca reversed engineered the european weapons, easily crushing a rebellion in the southern province. Every attempt by Europe to conquer the Inca was met with failure, they either sent too little, or were bogged down fighting in the mountains, or got embroiled in their own petty squabbles, allowing the empire to recover from the plagues, and reassert herself as the strongest nation on the Southern Continent.

Today the empire is a hodgepodge of Quechua, with Chinese and various European influences, their religion reveres the Sapa Inca like a god, similar to how in Ancient egypt the pharaoh was worshiped, or the Japanese emperor is in Shintoism, however the Inca religion has long been relatively syncratic, and they have taken many concepts from Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and even Islam and melded it into her own practices. Their military is home brewed, but has many european and chinese influences, and with clockwork technology coming to the forefront, and the Ether beginning to be researched, the Sapa Inca is doing all in his power to fund new advances in technology and grow his power, and the power of his empire.

 

[tobiisagoodboy]

I'm a newbie but I hope I could join and try here.

Molluck Empire

Spoiler :

Empire :

Spoiler :

History :

Founded by a small port city on Sumatra, which had the joy of making first contact with a portugese ship, which ended with several dozen dead europeans and several new shiny technology for the city.
They copied the simply guns the ship they had taken and soon expanded throughout all of Sumatra.
They worked as an shield for Indonesia and Indochina against erupean expansion, since neither Portugal nor the netherlands had enough power to break them.
They established trade relations with several other european nations and were able to get there hand on early clockwork-technology from Great Britain, which gave them the power they needed to expand beyond their home island.
Expansion has just started and the empire was able to establish footholds on mainland Asia, Borneo and Australia and soon more land will follow.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Welcome to IOT, Tobi!

 

[gay_Aleks]

Visit IOTChat! Or don't.

 

[Civ'ed]

Spoiler :

PHASE 1 is hereby complete!
next up is PHASE 2 - colonies. Everyone can have a total of 4 colonies around the coastline of an area away from their core territory. They can be connected by land. That is all. 4 colonies. Be reasonable, and don't expect all of the Sahara and Congo to be instantly open to you.

 

[Seon]

Excuse m but I did join as Orleans/Normandie.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I would like Japan, Hawaii, the gold cost, and Madagascar, please.

 

[Civ'ed]

Excuse m but I did join as Orleans/Normandie.

didn't get a map

 

[Gurra09]

In the 1770s, the Bering Republic expanded westward by reclaiming the port of Okhotsk, from where Vitus Bering departed on his first expedition to Kamchatka and Alaska. Beyond the Siberian mainland Bering outposts include the island of Sakhalin, the Aleutian archipelago, and two Alaskan settlements recently founded on Kodiak Island and Baranof Island.

Spoiler Bering Republic colonial claims :

(If this is too many I can drop Sakhalin.)

 

[christos200]

2 Russian colonies in Siberia approved by cived.

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[Terran Empress]

4 Incan colonies waiting to be approved/cleaner boarders, order of want is

Orange = Yellow
Gold
Pacific

Spoiler :

 

[Seon]

Alright, will I be accepted if I draw a map then?

 

[Nuka-sama]

Is it too late to join?

Nation Name: Heavenly Empire of Glorious Japan (Dai-Nippon for short)
Flag: [incoming]
Religion: Neo-Shintoism "Man, nature, kami and gear shall live in harmony"
Government: Shogunate
History: Pending approval of nation
Claims

Spoiler :

Dark Red: Glorious Japanese homeland
Light Red: Korean protectorate
Yellow: Philippines protectorate
Orange: Indochina protectorate
Pink: Manchuria settler colony

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Dammit, nuke, I'd claimed Japan as a colony

 

[Nuka-sama]

AND I CLAIMED IT AS MY HOMELAND! >: (

rawr

 

[thomas.berubeg]

AND I CLAIMED IT AS MY HOMELAND! >: (

rawr

It's mine! Japan has been part of, first, the morrocan then baaidi colonial Empire for centuries.

It is heavily arabicized.