Great Han

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Background / History

Origins and Imperial Institutions

Great Han's historical divergence includes Cao Cao's victory over the Sun–Liu Alliance at Red Cliffs in Imperial Year 208. After unifying north and south, he institutionalized the chancellor's administrative authority eight years later. The Son of Heaven retained supreme standing in dynastic order, ritual, and legal legitimacy, while the chancellor and his government conducted actual administration 7.

Cao Pi inherited this arrangement, formally established the Great Han Imperium, moved its capital to Luoyang, and expanded the palace into the Forbidden City. By Lin Cuo's arrival, the imperial tradition had endured for nearly two thousand years 7 61.

Grand Eunuch Rule and the Luoyang Coup

At the beginning of the story, the Grand Eunuch Council controlled Jiang Lihua's regency. Although appointments, military oaths, and edicts invoked her authority, she controlled neither the treasury nor the army, could not freely appoint officials or marry, and directly ruled only the Forbidden City and a few royal estates 2.

Lin Cuo gained entry into the court by professing loyalty to the eunuchs and offering to become Zhao Hao's adoptive son. His appointment as Commandant of the Army in the Western Garden Army gave him responsibility for doctrine, equipment standards, KMF training, and experimental weapons 3 4.

The East Sea Peace Conference became the setting for a struggle over the regency. The eunuchs proposed Jiang Lihua's future marriage to Britannian Prince Odysseus in exchange for recognition of their government. They also secretly permitted a larger Britannian security force into Luoyang as insurance against domestic opposition 30 32.

During the coup, Li Xingke's Shen Hu defeated Lancelot, and Clovis ordered Britannian forces out of the fighting. Jiang Lihua stripped the regency council of power, while Lin Cuo initiated executions and seizures of the defeated faction's financial networks 34.

Centralization and the BETA War

The new government pursued internal consolidation alongside foreign agreements. Li Xingke's southern campaign combined military pressure with restored wages, renewed personnel registration, and standardized communications. Within a month, the Southern Front expanded from 130,000 to 210,000 troops, with most of the increase coming from absorbed local formations 50 51.

The BETA landing at Kashgar pushed previously hesitant military districts toward common defense. Jiang Lihua offered provisional guarantees preserving commanders, unit names, civil administrations, and reasonable autonomy; Li Xingke protected professional dissent and established mission-command principles. Full wartime double pay helped bring northwestern formations into the battle 93.

After the campaign, Jiang Lihua publicly announced Great Han's victory while acknowledging destroyed Indian formations and unresolved casualty lists. Her broadcast rejected both surrender and the idea that emergency authority made its holders inherently superior to others 123.

Government and Institutions

Great Han combines a command economy with regulated markets and treaty-based regional autonomy with centralized military authority. The system classifies it as highly militarized and externally “Non-aligned,” but cannot calculate a consistent ideology for its wartime government 108.

Imperial Credibility

• Luo River Oath: Jiang Lihua and Lin Cuo guaranteed that India's autonomy and future political choices could not be revoked unilaterally. The system assessed the cost of a violation by the Regent as extremely high 61.
• Recorded precedent: The Court of Imperial Sacrifices maintained records of earlier Luo River oaths and fulfilled promises; most emperors who invoked the oath had honored it 61.
• Limits on personal diplomacy: Following damage to Lin Cuo's credibility, Li Xingke recommended requiring the sovereign's countersignature and Secretariat filing for all external commitments 137.
• Institutional distinction: The system rated Lin Cuo's personal diplomatic and treaty credibility extremely low while still recognizing the validity of the imperial lineage and the Luo River Oath 137.

Territory and Member States

The Liaodong Military District controlled the Yellow Sea, the northern East China Sea, and the waters west of Area 11. Its proximity made it Great Han's principal route for maritime aid to Area 11's resistance 21 39.

Society and Economy

Wealth Equalization

• Traditional guarantees: Rationing, relief, allocated posts, and lifetime employment were intended to prevent unemployment, famine, and community collapse 10.
• Bureaucratic stagnation: Over time, procedural approvals became more valuable than production. Factories could satisfy reporting requirements while producing little, and initiative could expose workers to punishment for bypassing procedure 10.
• Ethnic legal status: Great Han traditionally endorsed roughly equivalent legal standing for its constituent ethnic groups and movement of people, technology, and commerce within the Federation 45.
• Minimum political protection: Registered inhabitants were not legally designated an inferior race. Great Han had no equivalent of Britannia's “Honorary” citizenship status 111.
• Food-security accountability: Officials could be corrupt or ineffective, but allowing an entire registered population to starve and revolt remained grounds for serious central intervention 76.

Wartime Economic Reform

• Professional pay: Engineers, test pilots, and officers gained stronger financial incentives. Some specialists earned five or six times ordinary workers' wages, improving retention and productivity while increasing visible inequality and grassroots discontent 56.
• Asset seizures: Purges included inspecting shareholdings, freezing financial instruments, replacing boards, converting mansions into military-family housing, and turning valuables into wartime bonds 56.
• Preserved technical workforce: The old welfare system kept unemployed engineers housed, fed, medically covered, and connected to technical education rather than permanently dispersing them 137.
• Industrial return program: The national focus “Bring back those who left their posts” targeted misallocated specialists, fragmented procurement, suppressed professional wages, and technical officials absent from productive work. Its benefits were projected rather than already completed 137.
• Fiscal tradition: Great Han had long financed wars, relief, railways, and fleets through loans from nobles, merchants, commanderies, and kingdoms; some compulsory “loans” differed little from levies 11.

Military and Technology

Doctrine and Organization

• Combined-arms direction: KMFs serve mobile assault, difficult-terrain combat, anti-armor operations, and rapid response. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles provide cheaper mass formations, while artillery, rockets, and missiles supply sustained firepower 44.
• Logistical foundation: Railways, engineers, and standardized trucks support deep operations. The doctrine is intended to remain effective even without air superiority 44.
• Western Garden Army: The capital's imperial rapid-response force divides palace, city, and outer-ring defense among its commandants, with separate responsibilities for firepower, logistics, rail mobility, aerial security, and equipment development 4.
• Internal security: The Capital Internal Affairs Purge First Corps fielded 5,612 personnel. The system rated its firepower as militia-level but its organization as elite 34.
• Regional integration: Central Army pay and benefits helped turn local troops against commanders resisting reorganization, notably in Jingzhou 51.

KMFs and Armored Equipment

Standardization and Communications

• Persistent incompatibility: Even after reform began, Great Han retained seventeen Gao Hai power interfaces, nine military-district communications buses, and six categories of noninterchangeable joint assemblies 135.
• Joint standards commission: Representatives came from the Luoyang Testing Facility, Liaodong Military Industry, Hexi Armored Vehicle Factory, Southern Ocean Ordnance System, and Goryeo Common Defense Equipment Bureau 135.
• Uneven electronic integration: After roughly six months of data-link reform, only a few elite central units had completed integration. Many formations still used wired communications, voice radio, optical observation, and manually plotted maps 95.
• Elite formation advantage: At Kashgar, Anxi elites entered with effective defense near 1,380 and organization above 75 after their rail journey, compared with an Indian heavy division's effective defense below 400 after nine hours of combat 93.

Aviation and Planetary Defense

• Aviation decline: After Imperial Year 2000, KMFs diverted budgets from fighters, bombers, engines, and pilot training. Transport, reconnaissance, missile deployment, and limited high-altitude platforms remained 144.
• Reconstruction program: Lin Cuo called for shielded interceptors, missile carriers, heavy transports, early-warning aircraft, aerial tankers, and aviation systems operating alongside KMFs 144.
• Space competition: Great Han challenged Britannia to a nonlethal contest involving rockets, satellites, orbital warning, lunar and Martian probes, and interceptor weapons, with minimum shared BETA observation data 120.
• Cross-world recruitment obligations: System-mediated military contracts could require Great Han to accept transferred personnel and civilian families, preserve identities and intellectual property, provide postwar citizenship or resettlement, and assist their original civilizations if contact resumed 75.

Medicine

• Advanced treatment base: Sakuradite technologies supported medical imaging, neural tracking, precise prosthetic control, and microfield stimulation. Great Han combined these with traditional Han medicine and Takemi Tae's treatment methods 111.
• Military health management: Li Xingke's treatment involved the Royal Medical Academy and palace physicians, followed by preserved tissue samples, genetic screening, and long-term monitoring 54.
• Nationality and access: Area 11 soldiers, Great Han railway workers, and a Britannian technician could use the same medical registration counter without nationality automatically determining an inferior treatment queue 111.

Foreign Relations

• Area 11 / Heavy Sakura — Great Han recognized its continuing sovereignty, royal family, institutions, assets, and national identity, reversing the former regency's unauthorized acceptance of Britannian rule. It supplied an enclave, arms, medicine, training, and officer education in exchange for unified military standards and financial cooperation 39.
• Area 11 Government-in-Exile — Fourteen resistance groups signed the Luoyang Declaration establishing the Exiled Administratum and joint oversight of the exile army. Its weapons remained its property; treaty mechanisms included audits, supply suspensions, fund freezes, and veto protections against Great Han 40 51.
• Six Kyoto Houses — Contributed overseas assets, Sakuradite channels, and covert sea routes to the joint war effort. Kaguya later warned that future Great Han leaders might reduce support despite existing treaties 39 111.
• India — Accepted military integration and industrial cooperation in return for autonomy and a future referendum. The Luo River Oath reinforced the agreement, after which India announced mobilization plans for 302 divisions and more than 5.3 million recruits 48 61.
• Holy Britannia Imperium — Rivalry shifted toward limited cooperation against the BETA. Cornelia supplied two KMF brigades, artillery, engineers, and medical support at Kashgar under restrictions on operations and data access; the subsequent space contest retained strategic competition 89 120.
• E.U. — Technical observation efforts became entangled in coercive diplomacy. After the E.U. revoked Leila Malcal's mandate and immunity, Great Han detained and separated her delegation; guards beat her while interrogators threatened her colleagues 125 134.
• Smilas's military government — Great Han recognized Smilas as the E.U.'s de facto authority. Lin Cuo simultaneously detained tribunal judges and planned for Leila to lead their escape, return to the E.U., and demand early elections against military rule 155.

Notable Quotes

“But that does not mean the strong may treat the weak as toys.”
— Jiang Lihua, responding to Britannia's argument that humans are born unequal 123

“If one day those powers are used only to prove that the people holding them are nobler than everyone else, they will have lost their reason to exist.”
— Jiang Lihua, on emergency authority 123

“Great Han will never surrender!”
“Humanity will never surrender!”
— Jiang Lihua's post-Kashgar broadcast 123