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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 7394396" data-attributes="member: 50895">In the updated history of Kaidan, it will begin with the original Kaidan setting, it's founding involving the suicide of an entire imperial house (taken from real Japanese history with the Genpei War, 1180 - 1185 AD), it's divine curse of the Tenmei (Buddhist) reincarnation cycle with the social castes, as an engine of evil where the souls that travel across the reincarnation cycle, to maintain it's dark power. And give an overview of Kaidan that was.The next jump in history will be an analog of a slightly futuristic modern Japan, as a constitutional imperial monarchy, with the Shogun eliminated. This would be much like modern Japan with powerful corporations and a military bureaucracy greatly influenced by the "west" - men were suits, women in western styled dresses and more modern fashion, a rather cyberpunk influence in it's upgraded timeline. However, one powerful CEO, perhaps creating the first real MegaCorp of Kaidan has a dream (calling that subchapter - Matsudaira's Dream) where he sees a return to traditional values, re-establishment of the Shogun, a return to wearing traditional garments of the feudal period rather than the westernized fashions worn in his time. A more fascist and militaristic Kaidan, retaining all high technology, but hidden within a traditional skin of items found in feudal Kaidan. As an aside this CEO loses his hand in a samurai katana duel with a corporate competitor. Rather than choosing to regrow his hand, he chose an early form of cybernetics and thus cybernetics becomes a major component of Kaidan society, as well as the beginnings of a starfaring age.Then 200 years before the current timeline of the setting, the Corporate Shogun of Kaidan makes a deal with a more powerful non-Kaidan MegaCorp, Anomaly Investments Ltd., one of the five largest MegaCorps in the alternate Milky Way Galaxy we chose as the base setting for Dead in Space and it's followup (next year) Chains of Purgatory by Trevor Gulliver. In that universe setting Earth is the human homeworld, but with humans over-mining, ecological abuse, disruption of the climate - the Earth becomes sentient and seeks the expulsion of humankind, to recover and protect itself from future threats. The nation states of the Earth are given a 10 year period to leave the planet and never return. After two great odyssies, a century apart, the nearest starsystems to the Earth become "Corporate Space", then a further expansion beyond Corporate space by those seeking indendence (and a war) from Corporate control as colonized space. The Shogun sought to find a new distant starsystem and habitable world to become the new homeworld of the potential empire of Kaidan. Anomaly Investments is as it's initials might imply, an AI owned MegaCorp, where it's CEO, board of directors and it's stock-holders are all artificial intelligences. Anomaly sent a million probes into deep space searching for investment opportunities, including the eventual homeworld of MegaCorps of Kaidan, the Shogunate and the Emperor. Through a very expensive down payment to Anomaly followed by a century of a percentage of it's gross national product, Kaidan was eventually free. Because Matsudaira's Dream is still a national treasured concept, though they name their homeworld in the system, Kaidan, the system itself is called Mirai (which is Japanese for "dream").The rest of the history will be the next two centuries of war, planetary invasions that are conquered and governed by Corporate Naval Daimyo's ruling the local populations of the other PC races (kappa, kitsune, tengu, etc.) Current politics, rebellions stirring, potential civil war, and another possible oni war weighs in the balance of MegaCorporate exploitation, corporate espionage, and other intrigue, when the Drift Beacon will be turned on allowing non-Kaidanese starfarers to finally find the empire for trade and war opportunities into the future.</blockquote>

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