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DoomRavager · 2012-07-12, 05:51

@MisterTerrorist

It's a little unclear, they sort of skirt around exactly what happened to end up with their current situation. What we know from the game is that "in 1867, to resist the threat of European and American domination, the shogunate family and anti-shogun daimyo united for a common cause and established the restoration of imperial rule."

The Emperor does hold absolute power, but appoints a Shogun from one of the five regent houses Koubuin, Ikaruga, Saionji, Kujo, and Takatsukasa to govern the country as leader of the "元枢府", translated in the fan translation as "Central Department", the government's highest administrative arm, and delegates authority over all state matters to said Shogun.

So it sounds like the Meiji restoration ended with some sort of compromise instead, and probably Tokugawa still got the boot.

Either way, after their WWII, most of the Shogun's power was taken away and placed in the hands of the democratically elected Diet, leaving the Shogunate as mostly a figurehead position, thanks to the post-WWII treaties and occupation policies.

As for relationship with the rest of Asia, Japan doesn't seem to have the empire in Asia that it wanted in our WWII, so for lack of concrete information they presumably did the whole WWII "invade China, bomb Pearl Harbor, invade South East Asia, lose" thing. The retaking of the Japanese mainland after it completely fell in 1999 was done by a UN task force lead jointly by the Unites States and COSEAN (the Coalition of South East Asian Nations), though.

@encia: The main advantage of a neutron bombs would be somewhat diminished considering the whole "unaffected by radiation" thing. Meanwhile Hive infiltration units do carry S-11s, the yield of which is comparable to a tactical nuke, intended to be set on the ground and set for a delayed explosion for use against a Hive Reactor or as a suicide bomb if need be so there's that. On the surface, though, firing off tactical nukes results in said nukes getting lasered anyway, which is a fairly big issue. They could probably deploy them if they could somehow clear away all the lasers from the battlefield, but that happens all too rarely since the BETA do make an effort to protect laser units, and when it does happen they generally start conventional bombing runs and ground strafing with planes and helicopters rather than going crazy with nukes.

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DoomRavager Senior Member Join Date: May 2010	@MisterTerrorist It's a little unclear, they sort of skirt around exactly what happened to end up with their current situation. What we know from the game is that "in 1867, to resist the threat of European and American domination, the shogunate family and anti-shogun daimyo united for a common cause and established the restoration of imperial rule." The Emperor does hold absolute power, but appoints a Shogun from one of the five regent houses Koubuin, Ikaruga, Saionji, Kujo, and Takatsukasa to govern the country as leader of the "元枢府", translated in the fan translation as "Central Department", the government's highest administrative arm, and delegates authority over all state matters to said Shogun. So it sounds like the Meiji restoration ended with some sort of compromise instead, and probably Tokugawa still got the boot. Either way, after their WWII, most of the Shogun's power was taken away and placed in the hands of the democratically elected Diet, leaving the Shogunate as mostly a figurehead position, thanks to the post-WWII treaties and occupation policies. As for relationship with the rest of Asia, Japan doesn't seem to have the empire in Asia that it wanted in our WWII, so for lack of concrete information they presumably did the whole WWII "invade China, bomb Pearl Harbor, invade South East Asia, lose" thing. The retaking of the Japanese mainland after it completely fell in 1999 was done by a UN task force lead jointly by the Unites States and COSEAN (the Coalition of South East Asian Nations), though. @encia: The main advantage of a neutron bombs would be somewhat diminished considering the whole "unaffected by radiation" thing. Meanwhile Hive infiltration units do carry S-11s, the yield of which is comparable to a tactical nuke, intended to be set on the ground and set for a delayed explosion for use against a Hive Reactor or as a suicide bomb if need be so there's that. On the surface, though, firing off tactical nukes results in said nukes getting lasered anyway, which is a fairly big issue. They could probably deploy them if they could somehow clear away all the lasers from the battlefield, but that happens all too rarely since the BETA do make an effort to protect laser units, and when it does happen they generally start conventional bombing runs and ground strafing with planes and helicopters rather than going crazy with nukes. Last edited by DoomRavager; 2012-07-12 at 06:10.