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The Unified Imperial State of Tekisasu
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Name: The Unified Imperial State of Tekisasu
Flag (picture or description):
https://i.imgur.com/FZNOXKi.pngTerritory (picture or description) and Geography:
Major Cities
- Dallas/Fort Worth, aka “Dal’FoW” (Capital/Major City, and the largest city in Tekisasu by current times)
- Houston/Houstin (Major City and Naval Trade/Military Center in Tekisasu)
- New Orleans (Major Trade City, recently conquered within the last few years)
Other ‘Notable’ Locations
- Port Arthur (Notable Military/Naval Base)
- The New Orleans Peacekeeping Forces Region (Area of New Orleans where annexation forces and garrison forces are most concentrated)
- Gainesville (Budding trading settlement on the northern Tekisasu border, a shining example of a place that has successfully modernized and is seeing growth from it by tapping into some of the trade north of Tekisasu lands. It continues to try to promote itself as a good place for traders to come)
- Yette/Lafayette (Minor City, former capital of the Yette Rebellion, and which has been the last area of the nation to modernize before any new expansion was made)
History: The Unified Imperial State of Tekisasu, more shortly referred to as the nation of “Tekisasu” and its people as “Tekians”, is a nation currently composed of an eastern chunk of Texas as well as southern Louisiana.
The origins of this nation began long ago, with the emerging inhabitants of Vault 104. The people of this vault were composed of a variety of races and wildly different backgrounds, and had been raised for generations as lab rats while being extensively used as subjects for a myriad of culture-changing military brainwashing experiments. Such experiments were worked out by Vault-Tec in tandem with the U.S. military in order to gather data, data that would be applied to biological weapons used on “Chinese and Chinese-Amercian citizens” to shift their loyalties to America and even sow seeds of chaos behind enemy lines by mass-brainwashing populations. In the case of this vault, however, the brainwashing experiments for this ‘trial run’ were to make the residents ‘feudal Japanese’ in culture.
When the myriad of descendants of the original residents emerged from the depths of their vault in due time, they brought with them a new and synergized culture alien to that of the various tribals who were living in the ruins of the Dallas/Fort Worth area that the vault had been placed in. With time, however, the mix of the vault dwellers and local people would produce a budding and growing faction calling itself “Tekisasu”. With a feudal-style system of governance, plenty of peasants to work the plant, and a ready warrior class of 'Rangeri" whose ‘lords’ sought to carve out new lands, the Tekisasu began a heavenly path of conquest that would lead them a little north as well as south towards taking Houston and the coast. Conquest and assimilation of various local tribals was the vast majority of anything they dealt with in their first expansionary period, taking more lands and more peasants and uniting them under one banner as their people expanded across the land. Even a good portion of southern Louisiana was eventually taken as the need for better farmland and such grew to support the new nation.
Growing Concerns, Reformation, and the Yette Rebellion
Yet the borders of the Tekisasu could only stretch so far as time went on, their feudal-style system could only support so much land and lords and warriors and peasants, and could only handle so much governmentally before the myriad risks of ‘bursting’ or internal divisions might rear their ugly head. At times, even, such issues were rather narrowly avoided. It would only be a matter of time, however, before a more decisive change would have to be made. Information from well beyond their borders had often reached them of other larger nations and ilk that existed, usually acquired through trade and word of mouth, but not much of details at first. Over time these details about the peoples and groups they’d heard of began to reach them more and more, however, and began to have more and more impact on the minds of the Tekians. Groups of men clad in Power Armor and wielding mighty technologies that outshot them by a country mile. A titanic ‘Bear’ out to the far west that had fought an equally great ‘Bull’ in a great war that outshone any they had seen. A group from before the destruction of all things that had tamed Deathclaws into weapons. Motorcycle-riding raider-traders who sought to travel from coast to coast.
Fears about such mighty peoples and great threats, especially ones potentially turning their eyes towards them in turn at some point, began to spread through the population. From here it rose up the chains of command, the warriors, the lords, and ultimately even a past leader in the form of the Sherrgon at the time would come to be influenced by such concerns. They had subdued many tribals, even pushed back some lesser-armed and smaller raiders, but were such powers to expand near them...the results could be disastrous. While they had pride in their might, to face a ‘modern’ nation as they were would leave them woefully behind. This would result in the current Sherrgon of the time laying out the plans for and beginning what would be called “The Campaign of Reformation”.
‘Foreign’ scientists, those skilled in technology, veterans who had much battle experience, and even vault dwellers with the right expertise would be hired in those following years, brought in by the Sherrgon to help the Tekisasu nation modernize and centralize. Or in other words, the Sherrgon blew his personal wealth and his nation’s treasury in order to modernize and shape up his nation over time into something capable of surviving in the modern world.
At first changes would begin in areas that seemed more accepted, primarily being in the new ‘professional’ military where many of the warrior-class ‘Rangeri’ would acquiesce to being paid to give up old power and take up comfortable commanding positions to help train and direct the swaths of new recruits for their nation’s modernized army. New officials to govern provinces in a new and more stable bureaucracy were put into power, while bribing what old Lords of the realm would ‘retire early’ for a large stipend in return to stepping aside. Better education standards for the common people provided for free all around, and even those more skilled in medical care alongside machines of the old world were imported to improve living standards. More trade routes, as compared to the few the Tekians had ever accepted in the past, opened up and created many wealth-accumulating minor Tekian trade hubs along areas on their borders.
However, the old Lords and those Rangeri who still weren’t compliant or had been barely kept out of the way by their large stipends were alienated more and more over time as the Sherrgon shifted things around. By the time this unrest among these alienated members erupted into rebellion, spurred on by their privileges and stipends being but out entirely, these still overly-confident Rangeri and Lords felt they would be able to swiftly overcome these ‘new ways’ and place a new Sherrgon on the throne who would return things to the ‘old ways’ again. Such was their confidence that, after amassing their forces in the province of Yette (formerly Lafayette, Louisiana), they began a blunt and open march westward with the intent on subjugating and taking down their enemies in a grand show of force. They were supplemented by a few ‘disposable’ (in their minds) raiders groups that, with some bribing and promises, fought for them for the reward of lands of their own if they would but assist in the rebellion.
In return, however, the now-former Sherrgon (now calling himself “Emperor” and known as the “First Emperor”) had been preparing for such an occasion due to suspicions of such unrest forming within his borders. The “New Army of Tekisasu” was rallied into action, alongside some proper mercenaries that were hired up, and deployed tactically to intercept and crush the dissenters in this “Yette Rebellion”.
The Battle of Port Arthur
These forces would meet at their fated battle site, clashing near the coast at a settlement/military base in the now well-known “Battle of Port Arthur”. It was here where a new Imperial military base of operations had been made to act as a bulwark and secondary naval center in the east. The Yette forces came in with a fury against the defenses and defenders, seeking a swift and confident victory to maintain their momentum before the main Imperial Army arrived. Their radstag cavalry swept in from the sides, their sword/pistol wielding Rangeri came in from behind the allied raiders and poorly-armed levies that were charged in first, and the rebel Lords set up a viewing area to look down upon as they drank to witness what they felt would be a sure and decisive victory.
Imperial defenders laid down mostly imported and some locally made mines, scattering them over a few select key areas, and hid behind defenses as they wore proper armor on their bodies. Traps and salvaged turrets were also arranged to help hold back the attackers, among these overall measures formerly considered ‘dishonorable’ to those following the old ways. While rebel forces were hard to keep back, and some outlying areas fell due to numbers, the defenders did perform more than admirably and even effectively enough for the main Imperial force to finally arrive. Soldiers bolstered defending positions as they began to sweep in, before moving through the outlying areas to retake them. Imperial salvaged-and-refitted ships were pulled in alongside steam-powered ironclads to carry in soldiers to the east and get into the bay to fire bombardments at rebel positions,
While close quarters combat and experience were the specialties of the rebel Rangeri, though, the ranged and technological advantages of the Imperial forces combined with the greater numbers proved to be too much to hold back alone. Rangeri and such leaders were also targeted, leading to a loss of morale and the rout of some of the less-than-willing levies that had been raised and eventually the flight of the raiders themselves before land vehicles forces around the edge of the battle ultimately mopped them up.
The watching rebel lords were shocked at how decisive the battle was going against them, and by the time word of their soldiers’ base camp having been destroyed got to them they were already preparing to escape. Rushing in their haste, they were left outnumbered and outgunned as vehicle forces swept over in their direction and surrounded them. Their guards were gunned down, however, before the Lords themselves were pressured to finally surrender.
Aftermath, and Imperial Ambitions
The rebel Lords and Rangeri had their remaining property, wealth, and possessions seized, before it was divided up among those who had been imprisoned for remaining loyal in the Yette province. Those lords who had rebelled were also publicly executed after a legal trial, one which was carried out to the ‘T’ in order to ensure the majority of public support remained behind the action. It was the first military victory of the new Tekisasu, and a major one that cemented its new government as well as the superiority of the modernized world over their old feudal system. This and the battle itself sent ripples through the population, with most hailing the new ways and victory as some wept over the loss of the old ways and formerly-idolized Rangeri warriors.
Despite the decisive victory, the improvement of the military, the vast uplifting of the quality of its citizens’ lives, and overall completion of modernization...the struggles of a nation that had only ‘just’ modernized within the same lifetime of most of its population would without a doubt arise. The Tekisasu had accrued much debt from the very brief war and many years of modernization efforts, their new border trade cities and new economy style were only just barely beginning to gain any real traction in regards to income, the independence of their nation was still a major concern among the population, and frankly speaking the struggle to find a proper outlet for dealing with the very scattered small pockets of those who had once supported the Yette Rebellion. This would lead to the following times being filled with efforts to stabilize these issues, the foremost of them being the Tekisasu debt.
With the city of New Orleans, a wealthy but only semi-stable independent trader city, and lands about it just sitting just a bit beyond their border...they were seen as tempting targets for a first imperial conquest. Too tempting, in fact, as their acquisition would be a very valuable addition to the Tekisasu cause and payments of their debt. At first the offer of a peaceful annexation was made to New Orleans and its inhabitants, however, a proposed deal that allowed complete autonomy and military protection in return for a negotiated payment each month. Not thinking the Tekisasu had anything to offer them in terms of military strength or ‘protection’, however, the people of New Orleans laughed them off and mocked their emissaries despite their at least seemingly good intentions. After all, did these barbarians from the west think they had any good technology? Hah! Yet there would also be the final grand ‘mistake’ that the people of New Orleans would make as well, as when a second set of emissaries was sent again they were beaten up terribly and kicked out of the city.
The Occupation of New Orleans and Current Times
The Emperor ultimately sent in the military, enraged by the terrible treatment of his people and the rejection of their offer, and it was here the people of New Orleans learned the hard way. The Tekisasu military came in hot and fast, like a furious storm rolling in from the coast as they blew through the very overconfident and lazy-to-prepare local Raider militia like they were tissue paper. By the time the citizens of New Orleans recoiled from the initial shock, most of their city had been occupied by enemy forces and their external defenders were obliterated. The Council of New Orleans, a representative and ruling political body composed of faction/group leaders that actually controlled the city itself, sent a hasty offer of surrender to avoid more trouble. The Tekisasu commander in the battle accepted this surrender, but had those who had beaten up the former representatives arrested and shipped back to the capital to be tried and imprisoned.
Diplomats arrived after this, getting together with the city’s council and arranging a new situation for the city. The council would remain in power moving forward, to avoid shaking up local relations too much, but they would report to and work with a temporary Tekisasu official who would be set over the area and above them during the annexation period to ‘ensure peace’. There would also be the supplanting of the old Raider militia with professional Tekisasu soldiers/guards, at least until such time as tensions cooled down enough and new local militias could be trained standardized and retrained. Then said soldiers would merely retain garrisons around the borders of the city to protect it and its trade from raiders as the lands around the city were annexed as well.
Safe to say, since then many locals have adjusted to the new normal and complied to the new status quo. Wasn’t like the city hadn’t seen its share of ‘leaders’ in the past anywho, and these ones were at least being more merciful and accommodating in some part. Yet there were also the many who have also not accepted the new status quo, including even some far seedier merchants who’d traded with local raiders from without for an extra profit (and said raiders in turn), who still have ideas of an independent New Orleans and want their old status back while bearing a resentment of their new overlords.
Population: 450,000
Government/Domestic Politics: At the head of the government is the Emperor, who rules with a supreme power and whose family are literally royalty among their people. The Emperor acts as the military leader and an absolute authority, though does not have to actively manage the day to day passing of laws despite being able to get involved in this process.
Underneath the Emperor is the Senit (“Senate”), a group of veteran officials scouted out and recruited from all over the nation that are chosen to represent their people. A large political body, it takes care of the passing of nation-encompassing laws and dealing with the vast bulk of the day to day political/economic matters that need sorting out. Records of what is passed and discussed each session are recorded by a dedicated staff as well, and are sent to the Emperor to read over before being archived.
Below these are Goveno (“Governors”), individuals elected by the people to manage their respective provinces. Such individuals require an interview with the Senate, however, before being able to take office. To fail this interview/investigation is to not get the office, and the second place candidate is then chosen and interviewed. If all candidates fail the test, another election is held to find new candidates.
Below these are the Mayo (“Mayors”), aka the local mayors that are elected by the people to manage their own individual settlements. It is illegal to be chosen the mayor of more than one settlement at a time, which was an initial issue that arose before things were finally settled politically. Such leaders are basically just local settlement leaders, albeit united under a better centralized governmental system.
Notable People-
His Holiest Great Emperor of Tekisasu - Walker T. Kartye: The current emperor and “Second Emperor” as of the beginning of the RP. The son of the titular “First Emperor of Reform, Harden T. Kartye”, he has continued his father’s legacy since ascending the throne and taking his place at the seat of government. While he does sit at the head of the Senit, which is composed of officials imperially chosen and promoted from small and actually locally-elected positions all over to represent various areas and help make and pass laws, he also wields his power from the top in order to guide his people to a prosperous future. While being a magnificent presence that is given much reverence by his people, he does seem to genuinely care about them and their wellbeing and a sense of justice for them in the hellscape nightmare of a world they all live in.
He is a man of few words, however, only caring to speak when he feels the time is appropriate and getting to the point he desires to as bluntly as possible. As a military leader he is seen as generally sound, especially after he got personally involved in strategizing the key battle at Port Arthur and even the occupation of New Orleans before his father’s death. An ardent leader to keep his nation safe and to help it continue its recovery from accumulated modernization and war costs, his at least personal goal is to get the New Orleans area to a state of settling down while not trying to overstep and trigger another internal conflict. However, not wanting to repeat the Yette Rebellion, he does seek to keep enough of a military presence to ‘strike’ if he needs to.
Likewise, he wishes to send people out to scout out other nations and peoples to take better note of the grander world he and his people live in. To expand his peoples’ foreign relations is something he sees as a good potential investment for their future indeed, whether to note future enemies or find potential allies, and he is an open and progressive sort of person in this regard. Even so, when it comes to ideas about negotiations he does remain on the more respectfully cautious end of the spectrum when it comes to his ideas of negotiations for trade or such things. No sense in expanding one’s horizons, at least if some deal ends up blowing up in their faces!
His middle name is “Tekisasu”, literally speaking, and is a middle name passed down his family line for generations of Sherrgon even before his father.
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Princess Gemini T. Kartye: The oldest child and heir of Emperor Walker, she stands in-line for the succession of her father and grandfather’s throne. Raised with the aim of forging her into a great future leader, her education and weapons training and the ilk have been top-tier by post-apocalypse standards. A disciplined and strict individual who is a crack shot with a gun or pistol alike, she has been involved in efforts to continue driving her nation’s military forward and has become involved in her father’s efforts to expand relations in the outside world beyond that of their own nation and ‘neighbor’. Self-driven and dedicated, she is not someone to back down when she’s stuck her heels in about something...more like a stubborn mule that will pursue her course of action to the bitter end if she feels it is right and has taken a good look at her options. Even so, around close family she is noted as being softer, even smiling and laughing around her mother and various siblings.
Being the heir to such a nation as hers, however, has been of some pressure. But it is a pressure that she has vowed to take in order to ensure a brighter future for her family and people. She also bears the traditional sword and revolver pistol of a traditional Rangeri, a sign of respect towards the old ways even as she pursues the future of her people.
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Military (try to be somewhat realistic):
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General Infantry: Rifle, which could be switched out for a salvaged pre-war gun or assault rifle or submachine gun or the ilk. Pistol. Knife. Maybe a grenade. Light metal armor is always worn in a select few key/vital areas, which is normally supplemented more so with leather armor in remaining less-vital sports. While far more numerous than their more elite counterparts, this general body of infantry is the main fighting force and standing army of the Tekisasu Military and the main set of bodies one will find fighting on the ground in any sort of conflict. By the standards of some other groups and post-apocalyptic militaries their training is “strict”, but also rather organized and drilled and streamlined and professional in nature.
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Newku Rangeri: Also known as the “New Rangers”, they are a form of elite soldier who takes inspiration from the warrior-class “Rangeri” of Tekisasu’s past. Each is equipped with a ‘side’ sword (most commonly) or more rarely other melee weapons of some kind (whether it be a metal-tipped spear or a scavenged sledgehammer or machete or a salvaged Ripper or the ilk). Their primary weapon is normally a laser rifle or top-grade rifle, either traded for with the MWBoS or constructed back home or reverse engineered, or even some kind or top-tier salvaged pre-war gun. Their firearm-sidearm is very commonly a revolver, or even locally modified laser pistols arranged to create a rapid multi-shot semi-automatic “revolver” style weapon, and they are pulled from among the ‘best of the best’ in the standard infantry. They receive better armor (especially traded-for or salvaged combat armor and the like) and supplies as well to boot, but in turn are trained and pushed far harder to be the best possible soldiers in the regular Tekisasu Military. They are drilled in stealth, sniping, melee, and unarmed combat. They also learn how to survive in the harsh wasteland/wilderness, and even some first aid in the field among such things. Their training is rigorous and tough to say the least, and those who stand out amidst these tend to get even better gear and equipment at that due to being among the true “elite among the elite”.
While not as numerous as the standard infantry of the Tekisasu Military, who are still trained well and rigorously in their own right, these elite soldiers stand head and shoulders above their peers.
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Imperial Newku Rangeri: There is also an even more elite unit of just 500 soldiers that stands apart from other Newku Rangeri and are selected from it. These top picks of the “elites among elites” are called the “Imperial Newku Rangeri” and also called the “Immortals”. These soldiers act as the most elite troops in Tekisasu as well as being the titular “Imperial Guard” who are solely loyal to the Imperial Family and them alone. They recieve top-grade weapons and armor and equipment even by their other Newku Rangeri comrades’ standards, even wielding the entire stock of what salvaged and repaired power armor Tekisasu has. Loyal to the Emperor and the Emperor’s family alone, serve as guards and tend to remain in the capital or by the side of non-Emperor Imperial Family Members who are traveling about.
On certain occasions, some of these might be sent on a ‘special ops’ kind of mission...or even be temporarily ‘loaned’ to a particular military commander for a particularly important or desperate battle or show of force or other important situation. According to rumor, debatable battlefield accounts, and legends that gained them their secondary name, these best among the best soldiers will keep fighting through all injury and pain and suffering to the point one has to literally dismember them entirely to actually stop them. To manage to kill one is to find another already upon you. To underestimate them is to find a bullet to laser blast piercing one’s skull in the blink of an eye.
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Cavalry: A corp of troops assembled from assimilated tribal groups who possessed such beasts of war, and a former fixture in old-way armies, they are generally used on rougher terrains and are employed in combat before risking more valuable Land Vehicle forces. Originally ranks of Rangeri composed all of the cavalry, but with the incorporation of tribals and even descendants of old world native Americans who possessed mounts of some kind these sorts have replaced the old Rangeri cavalry and number much more than their predecessors did at that. Even the first Emperor noted the potential value in keeping such troops around to continue to supplement land forces...as well as somewhat appease those who look to this revamped but still-present corp as a sign of not ‘all’ the old ways being tossed aside.
Wielding bows and pistols and rifles, usually alongside whatever traditional melee weapons of some sort their people had before or they could scavenge or cobble together, these soldiers stand as pillars of a certain sign of respect for natives and the ‘old ways’ that Tekisasu has maintained despite its advancement. To serve in this corp is to serve with pride for both one’s people and one’s nation, or so they are drilled, and this is the one corps of troops in the entire Tekisasu Military that are not recruited from the ranks of general infantry. Rather, these troops are simply recruited from the population and are drilled in some general tactics and discipline to make them better on the battlefield. Equipment repair is a service allotted to them as well, and if they lack a melee or ranged weapon they get a standard infantry type of armament to supplement.
They are also useful for larger scouting parties, as well as sending out as standard-level scouts to observe and track enemy movements among other things.
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Land Vehicles: An amount of general vehicles and recovered pre-war APC’s have been recovered (and scavenged and cobbled together in new post-apocalyptic designs), at least within reason, and maintained by the Tekisasu Military. This fleet of vehicles can carry simple weapon mounts for soldiers, or if heavy/large enough carry a small cannon or two or a mortar or two on the other end of the spectrum, and are generally used to harass enemies, attack vulnerable groups of enemies, ride down fleeing foes, and carry soldiers to and from the battlefield. Even some bicycles, and some motorcycles at that, have been restored or scavenged or assembled in some post-apocalyptic design to carry messengers or certain types of ‘elite scouts’ around and allow them to quickly report back with vital information about enemy encampments and the ilk.
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Train Forces: A powerful technology in the post-apocalypse, part of the industrialization efforts of Tekisasu included the restoration of many old tracks to ‘be usable’ and building of ‘new’ tracks to stretch to new important locations. Likewise came the creation of new steam-powered locomotives or the salvage of pre-war steam engines that had been left in old train museums. A swift tool for moving supplies, troops, and people across their territory as they seek to expand and develop it, this technology has proven to be a very effective and key for this newly industrialized nation.
However, while trains for trade and moving things is one thing, there have also been armored trains built and mounted with gun turrets. Such are used mainly for helping move troops into or close to dangerous areas, to watch over workers where new tracks are being laid and placed down, deal with bandits/raiders, and even to pull cars full of cargo when security concerns arise in a given area of the railway. They are a powerful tool, usually mounted with very simple gun placements for soldiers to use, or some kind of small cannon or two placed in top-mounted turrets, or even individual mortars mounted on to provide suppressive fire to a battle or position close enough to the tracks from afar. Albeit, due to their features and use such armored trains are naturally slower than their unarmored counterparts.
Due to the value of a railroad in this current day and age, the railways of Tekisasu generally will always be kept watch on and maintained.
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Naval Forces: A once large tradug hub for the USA within the Gulf of Mexico, Houston Harbor became the Tekisasu naval center for trade and even naval military matters (with Port Arthur becoming a secondary area for this). It and areas along Tekisasu controlled coast was ultimately just a myriad of better or worse condition civilian ships, ranging from former personal boats to cargo ships left over from pre-war times and the ilk. Whether docked or washed up on the beach or half-sunk next to the shore, whether they were useful as scrap or could be repaired/repurposed in some fashion, they were inevitably put to use regardless for some kind of use.
Some smaller surviving watercraft were converted into a small fleet of fishing boats, to supplement the food supply, and others were made into other boats with or without guns on them that were used for trade. Those that remained were repurposed into military craft for use against pirates, as well as being used for carrying soldiers and crew and supplies to battle areas close enough to the coast to be useful. The Battle of Port Arthur and the Battle of New Orleans were two instances in which the naval military ships were actually at their most relevant, to give an example, and the ever-present threat of pirates affecting Tekisasu trade and coastal territory has also necessitated the use of such watercraft as well over time.
Faster and lighter steam-or-sail-powered lighter plated ships made by hand compose the majority of ships in the Tekisasu navy, however, and act merely to supplement what little pre-war civilian ships were able to be reused in various areas. Among these a very small about-handful of scrap-forged ships are actually Ironclad ships, ones which are armed well enough to be a real threat in this day and age but are also just mainly used in major enough or important enough military situations at sea or around the coast. They are not deployed often due to their costs, but are always stored away well and are stocked with veteran crews and sufficient support whenever they are actually deployed.
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Deputai: The ‘sheriffs/police’ and effectively ‘military police’ of Tekisasu lands. Responsible for acquiring/making their own weapons and armor and firearms, or otherwise buying them from the government if they want something ‘better’ at a cost out of their own pockets, they are hired on from among the local population and at least receive some proper military training for free before being assigned to an area to help police. In the end, however, they work for the government and are basically assigned across all of the settlements and cities in Tekisasu Lands to keep the peace and ensure the law is enforced.
These officers roam the territory they are sent out in, and meet up at “Deputai Offices” located in each settlement (or constructed there if not already there) in order to coordinate themselves as well as jail prisoners in a prison portion built (or designated an tweaked in the case of a reused pre-war building) underneath these buildings.
While a certain sense of ‘competition’ does arise within this police force, seeking to put down threats before another can or doing sabotage to keep out a competitor in order to get the pay bonuses designated for those doing a ‘superior’ job, a military official is set at the ‘head’ of managing local police forces and ensuring their job gets done ‘right’ despite this. If the local Deputai get too in-fighty or are causing notable trouble or the ilk, this official from the military is there to reign them in and even call upon help from nearby settlements or the government if needed. There is enough incentive to keep in-line for the good pay and prestige locally that these individuals do generally keep in line, but beyond that a certain “Code of Standards” has formed around this group naturally due to their influences and inspiration from ye olde samurai and the former Texas Rangers.
This “Code of Standards” determines what “is” and “is not” acceptable to do, and indeed has been eventually formalized and compared to the tenants of the old warrior-class Rangeri in turn. Civilians have tended to look upon such officers more or less favorably due to how well they adhere to this code of honor/discipline, and entire families of Deputai have formed in local areas that seek to maintain their prestige and strive for a very high excellency of service and skill to the people of Tekisasu and their Emperor. Such families deal in strategic marriages, trades, alliances and rivalries, and the ilk between each other over in order to claw towards the top...but even this is held to a certain standard. Two families having a large war in all the streets or trying to divide a town in half between them could very rapidly devolve to military intervention and a loss of any status, property, life, and the ilk (literally everything) they once had.
This class of individual can also be assigned to more strictly government-possessed or government-guarded areas, acting a proper military police and being more tightly ‘on the leash’ in return for a better paycheck and retirement. Only a few veteran members of this corp are also present in New Orleans, all newly re-assigned and equipped to try to help keep the peace in this city...at least as the military continues to work with the locals and tries to transition things there well enough to eventually pull out. From there the plan is to pull in more Deputai as the military transitions out, in order to maintain local order and adjust locals to things in a more easy-going and natural manner.
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Other: Other than the use of agents and a myriad of smaller specialist corps for things such as infiltration and sabotage and the ilk, there are also a few experimental concepts and ideas being worked on by Tekiasu.
One of these is a still-experimental airship project that has been in the works for some time, an idea ultimately conceived and based on the remains of a crashed Brotherhood airship found years ago near their territory. While the ship seemingly had no survivors, aboard, its wreckage was hauled back and taken to be studied and analyzed. Though still in the experimental phase, the project heads hope to engineer something that could at least help move goods and supplies from place to place...if not also maybe troops and guns mounted on it and such things as well in due time afterwards.
Likewise, there are experiments to create a heavily armored land vehicle that can carry guns and handle front line combat. Something that could ultimately shield infantry, perhaps, or tackle approaching enemy positions while cutting down on potential infantry casualties. Or in other words, Tekiasu is experimenting with creating a proper tank of some kind.
There also exists an 'elite' kind of agent employed by Tekisasu beyond their usual agents and spies and such...the Ninjeck. Wearing black balaclava masks and learning a variety of tactics like assassination and spying and sabotage and sneaking and infiltration, they are known for their dangerous martial skill and highly versatile skillset ranging from wilderness survival to explosives making and poison/medicine creating and the ilk. They are taken in and trained from a very young age, from childhood, to take down the enemies of Tekisasu and loyally serve the Emperor and the government. Many an orphan or lost child with nowhere to go has found a place here, male and female, and have been employed since the time of the Sherrgon and old Rangeri. They were formed by the Sherrgon of old, and other than a wider inclusion of skills and better discipline/training/resources have otherwise seen little to no changes from modernization.
Economy: The Tekisasu Economy is in a state of growth, having been reformed and refounded during the lifetime of the First Emperor and his campaign to modernize his nation. There are many facilities for manufacturing and the ilk that have arisen, and things like old mines and new locations with resources have been transformed into standardized resource-gathering operations to fuel a modern nation. Scavenging ‘companies’ can also be found, sending people out or sifting about within Tekisasu lands to gather parts and materials and information and the ilk. These are things that, for these salvaging groups, be sold to their own government for a better profit if rare/valuable enough or at least to manufacturing areas and foreign traders and the like.
Beyond there, agriculture and farming and fishing feature as the top three largest ‘industries’ in the entirety of Tekisasu due to their need. Agricultural practices have been improved distinctly after old Vault 104 hydroponics were eventually returned to and analysed/queried to try to improve food output aboveground. The catching of mutated fish, Mirelurks, and the ilk from the sea has also proven to be a boon to feeding a growing population and fueling a modern nation. Likewise, caring for Brahmin herds and even a few rare Radstag Ranches help provide another source of food to support a now more steadily growing population.
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***MWBoS (considers Tekisasu ‘decent trading partners’; trade done by riverboats down the Mississippi River; MWBoS might be interested in their shipbuilding capabilities. In exchange, they'd be willing to sell armor and weapons, although nothing fancier than combat armor or laser rifles. Or if you need building materials they could trade stuff like limestone, cement, and lead.)
***80s (Beyond far-traveling mercenaries and traders from this group that appear for hire or trade respectively, a trend that has continued consistently through current times, there was a time period where a presence from the 80s was more notable for Tekisasu. This time period of ‘peak’ trade with the 80s was between the years of 2180 and 2240, under the guidance of a past road chief by the name of ‘David Son’. The man’s road name Son and the clan name was David [Jewish 80s could be a thing???] He had made the long journey south to Texas back in the days, until his small empire crumbled after his death/split under his sons who soonish either became fully local or died as well. Due to this, after David Son’s passing interactions and trade declined until they finally leveled out to their current state.
However, those 80s who had been left in Texas were ultimately assimilated into local culture, albeit standing apart in their own way and becoming their own distinct and potent percentage of the Land Vehicles Forces of the Tekisasu Military as time has gone on. They live along a length of the I-20, and with Tekisasu modernization have become matured settlements and a people who’ve adopted an identity that takes pride in their past but join together with the modern and moves towards the future. Dubbed “The 80-20s”, both locally and among their own, they desire to one day be able to send people to travel the sacred I-80 once more to walk the ways of their ancestors as they proudly take their position as proud citizens of Tekisasu and fight for their new homeland. The current leader of this break-off faction from the 80s is called “Manche Wilder”, his road name being Wilder and his clan name being Manche [his clan being formed from descendants of former Comanche Indians].)
***Legion (Legion Frumentarii have been a problem in regards to their chem selling and spying work. In fact, their presence and rumors of their home nation became part of the kindling that stoked the fires of fear about larger nations to the West and ultimately helped lead to Tekisasu modernization. While counter-intelligence and counter-agent efforts have been undertaken to secure the Tekisasu borders in general, between rumor and Frumentarii they do approach things in a very cautious manner about the Legion at large. Especially with a lack of information on them to boot.)
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General Military Organization - There are commanders over different amounts of soldiers, similar to that of the Roman military actually. There is a commander set over every 10 soldiers, a commander over 100 (10 units of 10), and even a commander set over each 1000 soldiers (10 units of 100) and so forth. The Emperor sits at the very head of the military to boot, being the highest military official in the nation.
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Rifles - Among the types of ‘traditional’ rifles and ammunition in use by the Tekisasu Military, .30-30 Carbines, .45-70 Carbines/Revolvers (including “Forager” rounds), .50-110 Carbines, and .357 Carbines/Revolvers are featured in varying degrees as some of the most notable models in use. Most of these such carbines are lever-action, while only some are bolt-action.
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Emperor’s Bodyguard - The Samumanche - There exists another elite unit that is still ‘part of the Imperial military’, but also acts solely as the bodyguards and personal soldiers of the Emperor (formerly Sherrgon) alone. Warriors recruited from lands far distant from Tekisasu’s own, rumored foreign lands said in legend to be filled with peoples who war and shout and wield weapons and worship a strange deity never seen before. Donned in mighty top-grade armor and wielding odd weapons (like giant electrified or heated saw-like blades they can swing around and wield very easily with one arm) fusing local tradition and Tekisasu technology, these very tall darker-skinned warriors that hide their faces behind the metal masks are an imposing force to be reckoned with as they stand in their silent vigil. Adorned with a myriad of body-covering tattoos, at least according to local rumors emerging from the royal palace in the Tekisasu capital, these odd people are even said to never speak...perhaps having taken a vow of silence? They even stand at an imposing height, as tall as Super Mutants at the very least!
In battle it is said they are “like demons”, and that they roar in this situation with the force and crackling boom of a radstorm.
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The Immigrants - Marco-quetza - The stock of people the Emperor’s bodyguard seem to come from, all the same kind of super-tall and odd foreigners like them who have ever since immigrated and come to live in the various cities and areas along the coast of Tekisasu. Others have migrated further inland from there, though the biggest concentration of these live outright in the imperial capital itself. These people can kill creatures with blowgun-style weapons, are good at construction and often hired for this throughout the empire, are known as great workers with stone and making seemingly perfectly square/rigid types of statue/sculpture, and are capable farmers/fishers in their own rights. In terms of non-native populations that have appeared in or immigrated to Tekisasu, they are the largest by far. They have, however, over the years most definitely assimilated into areas alongside natives and others and become yet another of the proud people of Tekisasu.
Some have adopted local culture, some have adopted a mix, and even others have retained a certain distinctness in their ways retained from whatever mysterious and rumored home they came from. Another better-known fact about them is a celebration each year (sometime in October) they call the “Moztlati”: a tradition that celebrates the “sparing of the world” from annihilation and preservation of their people from utter destruction. Those participating prepare dishes from “poor” and very common ingredients locally, and eat a humbly made but splendid feast of various dishes with friends and family and visitors while recounting the orally-passed-down story of mankind’s deliverance from total annihilation in their homes.
They are known as hard workers, and their food tends to make use of big soups and stews and long-lasting cakes imbibed with various foods and meant to survive long-term storage.
They have introduced the unique farming aspect of deriving a grow-able source of water from a strange type of ‘mutated cactus’ present in the desert. It takes in radioactive water and produces reserves of fresh water inside, ones that can be safely tapped into for use by adding a simple turn-on-able spot on the end. Apparently a similar plant existed back in their unknown homeland, or so some immigrants say.
Likewise an odd form of grain once brought in by them has mixed with local razorgrain and formed a unique species that has been since more and more commonly farmed in Tekisasu in certain kinds of crop rotations. No examples of the original grain remain, however, save for maybe a rare area near Galveston rumored to have some. Perhaps mixed with a kind of stunted mutant corn, this foreign crop hybrid produces long ‘cobs’ along the mid-shaft of the plant’s stalk along with a number of hardy seeds. Such seeds can be harvested along with the plant when ready, but if left for too long the seeds will ‘explode’ a tiny internal reserve of water and oil mixture in them that scatters the seeds over an area around the mother plant.
These people have also brought an odd and unique language, which to any pre-war-familiar groups like the Brotherhood might potentially be able to recognize it as some kind of Nahuatl-Spanish-English mixed language (more dominant influences of each respective language going from left to right) the locals in Tekisasu have dubbed ‘Marco-quetzan’.
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The Rangeri - The Rangeri of old, the former warrior class that existed within Tekisasu and kept order in the land. They wielded three weapons in the beginning, that being a scrap-made sword, a wakazashi made out of small pieces of broken metal or things like sharpened rulers for if they needed to commit soup-puku, and a revolver pistol. Each lord of old would promote and grant land to their Rangeri within their area of control, and the Rangeri were responsible for keeping order and peace and productivity in their respective slices of land. Often the Rangeri would then on a local scale gather up some locals to serve them as retainers, as well as local extensions of them in enforcing order and law, who would be given small boons or certain advantages such as a smaller stipend of caps. Some would even invest in local projects or art to impress their lord, if not the locals, in order to help maintain their status and significance.
When having a dispute over something to the point they'd come to blows, if not when they might have a dispute their with lord, the traditional thing to do for Rangeri was a "Duel at Noon" rather than make a mess of things. Such duels became storied among the Tekians, where two would meet down a long open street and battle until one was dead or surrendered. The victor would then get not only his side taken in the dispute by his lord, and locals, but would get compensation paid by the loser's family as well as take a slice of the loser's land. A big price for such a duel, and when they'd turn lethal the standard thing to do was take in the loser's family and land as one's own and treat them well out of respect.
Likewise, while they did lord over the locals in their territory the Rangeri also took to protecting them as a matter of pride as well. It was their duty, their job to not only serve their lord...but above and beyond so to further ensure the safety of their lands and the overall territory of the Sherrgon. Some stories tell of honorable and mighty Rangeri who took great care in their duties to the people and Sherrgon, whilst there were at least a few examples of the opposite occurring and the myriad problems that came with it as a warning to other Rangeri and their lords and peoples.
The main sword of a Rangeri was also considered part of themselves, an important piece of their status and a symbol of their might that they were to care for. They practiced with it and their revolver, held in a similar regard, very often in order to hone their skills. There were even schools in the capital where they could go or send their future heirs to go learn, study, and practice both martial skill and academic skills. Whilst original Rangeri swords are mostly gone between the civil war and modernization efforts and the ilk, a few rare ones made of just scrap have been well-cared for and repaired and passed down and maintained even through current times by descendants who keep them to 'honor the past'. Meanwhile more the better-made and more recent Rangeri swords survived, or were gathered from those who died in the civil war, and were passed onto either living descendants/kin (if there were any) or given as gifts to new higher officers to merely as gifts and symbols of their position in the new modern army. The one the heir to the throne of Tekisasu currently wields is actually a custom-made blade, forged from the finest steel Tekisasu money could buy and forge.
Families of the Rangeri would be kept at their lords' estates, staying there as well-treated hostages in case any Rangeri got ideas of rebelling or something of the sort. This kept the system in-line, but when modernization occurred many of these were bought out by the first Emperor and adapted to the new modern army system that arose. It not only freed their families from the lords, but with the people already liking them it gave them greater prestige and better pay to boot. Those who resisted, however, claimed that such change was uncouth and frankly endangered their livelihoods and status.
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Minority Chinese-Descended Population of Tekisasu & The Yangtze - The Yangtze and its lone captain were eventually assisted by another traveling passer-by who went to investigate it, albeit this mysterious kind soul eventually died from radiation sickness and wounds sustained from feral ghouls in the ship after helping Captain Zao fix it. The captain helped bury the body of this kind friend before heading out on his voytage to try to go home, but got as far as the Gulf Coast and Texas despite his attempts to 'stay safe' by keeping closer to the shore. It was here he was eventually run across by others off the coast of Galveston.
It was here he found some other Chinese ghouls and even Chinese-descended people all from the same crew of another Chinese sub that 100 years ago beached near the old Galveston drydock due to a myriad of issues. While it had since been kept in once piece by the Chinese ghouls and some of the descendants of those from weren't dead or ghoulified by then, mainly just to keep the on-board reactor from causing issues, this sub remained rather strongly seaworthy still. Yet the First Emperor had given them special permission to keep maintaining it, as well as gave them special payments for all among them who could be pulled in to help the nation of Tekisasu modernize and teach others at least some things. A scrap-forged dry dock had been built by this time as well as part of a larger payment for technical knowledge, at some cost out of the Emperor's personal finances to boot, in order to better isolate and allow it to be maintained and preserved for research and safety reasons. Likewise, these descendants had been allowed to spread out into the general population and now formed part of the populations along the Tekisasu coast as well as in some areas farther inland to boot.
Finding some of the old ghouls still there to be from Zhongguo as well, and after realizing that his sub could not make it home due to other travel issues his former comrades pointed out, decided to stay and live with his fellows. Putting down the feral ghouls inside, and doing further repairs to The Yangtze, the old ghouls and those living who could assist gave Zao a sense of comfort as well as took their knowledge of their sub to repair his to a better condition (at least) than it had been when he was leaving Boston. Likewise, parts and ammunition from the other old sub could be used to restock The Yangtze if it was used. To this end the Second Emperor has even paid the ghoulified submarine captain to work for his nation and prosper with his people in his lands.
While it is only one sub, with limited supplies for restocking its lesser armaments and ilk, it does exist as a part of the Tekisasu Navy as its most key and prized piece of them all. The single most advanced thing their navy has, money has since been funneled and resources channeled to keep it in as best as shape as possible...if not try to return it somewhat closer to its 'prime' state. It also still contains the failed and useless ICBM within it, which to this day still cannot be fired and does not contain a nuclear warhead due to that being used as fuel.
On another side note, some of these people form a distinct area in the capital. Albeit a rather new and growing area alotted to them, it has been dubbed with the name "Ya'ang" by locals and "Yang" by those from that area.
