Chinese Revolution
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The Chinese Revolution
???? to 2185 (official end of hostilities)
The Chinese Revolution represented a period of cataclysmic destabilization in the nation of China. During this period of time, the politics and philosophies which would eventually lead to the modern era of the Robot Wars were established, and political organizations changed significantly.
The precise cause of this destabilization is a major cause for debate, and the leading theories on the subject are entirely contradictory.
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Potential Causes
Economic Bloat: Some believe that with the remission of Russia and the United States as major superpowers in the early twenty-second century, following the second Russian Revolution, allowed for China to gain a place of prominence, challenged only by the economic power of its neighbor Japan. However, the Chinese government supposedly increasingly lost control, and its attempts to crack down on the growing independence of its emergent, free populations resulted in a general loss of confidence and the eruption of countless violent attempts to establish new government orders.
Intentional Destabilization: Figures such as General Yusef Vasquez and Dr. Landon DeVry indicate that several outside figures had attempted to gain control of Chinese interests, which may have been assisted by destabilization in the region. Some also believed that Japan, or elements of the US or Russia were behind attempts to crack the newly emergent super-power.
Nebula: Some theorize this shadowy organisation to be behind the chinese revolution.
Factions:
The period of the Chinese Revolution was, even to the most fastidious scholar, a time of near perpetual chaos. Several factions reigned during the chaos.
The United Nations
The eventual victor of the conflict, the United Nations found themselves forced to abandon diplomacy for actual warfare: An event which eventually led to the death of the UN as a mere ‘rubber stamp’ organization, a change which would eventually lead to the establishment of the Repliforce.
UN Forces attempted stabilization efforts during the early stages of the revolution, but for the most part were considered nothing but another foreign warlord within the chaos of rival factions. UN forces typically had their major points of control along the southern border, although as they defeated the various ‘main’ warlords they were able to make further inroads and eventually return China to some semblance of order.
Neo-Boxers
Led by a council of heretical Buddhist monks, the neo-boxers claimed that China had long suffered the predations of other countries and would need to make a name for themselves by eradicating all of the invaders to the nation. Fiercely nationalist the Neo-Boxers were perhaps the most numerous of the warlord forces in China. The UN and the Neo-Boxers clashed nearly constantly. The battles of Beijing, Nanjing and their attempted invasion of Japan are all well documented. Eventually the Neo-Boxers were crushed after the UN Air Battleship fleet eradicated their ground forces in a battle in the surroundings of the southern Yangtze, the surviving Neo-Boxers lost cohesion and were absorbed by other warlords.
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Dr. Landon DeVry
DeVry’s faction was one of the smallest, but one of the most dangerous. Based around the area of Suzhou, he maintained several armed camps. He scoured the countryside for living stock to use in his research until his death. DeVry’s primary military contributions consisted of the creation of countless biological warfare agents, tailored drugs, explosive devices and combat cybernetics which he provided to a series of vassal warlords. These vassal warlords were used by DeVry as speed-bumps between him and the UN forces, which eventually required a specialized assassination team lead by Otto Venkman to be sent to deal with DeVry. On DeVry’s apparent death his segment of the war crumbled, allowing for the UN to capture and re-stabilize the region. On his death however, the remaining warlords took the majority of his biological weapons. Tactically DeVry was more interested in the less tangible ‘resources’ as opposed to land holdings.
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The Traitor UN
Yusef Vasquez, General of one of the unified UN peacekeeping forces out of Europe, was an exceptionally charismatic man. He succeeded in convincing the majority of his forces to work on establishing their own ‘world government’ in the tumult of the Chinese Revolution. His intents were made clear when he seized the Chinese government’s remaining stockpile of nuclear arms. Vasquez and his forces were decimated by DeVry’s, when the Doctor used a drug-addicted assassin to infiltrate Vasquez’s facility and caused one of the nuclear warheads to detonate. Vasquez supposedly survived the initial explosion, crawled across the Chinese landscape until he reached the UN’s line, surrendered his sidearm, and promptly died of radiation exposure.
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Zedong Initiative
Emboldened by the brief re-emergence of communism in Russia, this force of Russians and loyalist socialist Chinese worked on attempting to ‘purge’ and ‘cleanse’ "evil capitalistic" and foreign elements from China. After the defeat of DeVry, they were the last hurdle to re-stabilizing the region. The Zedong initiative was noted for its military discipline and skill, with a standard battle tactic being to absorb defeated warlord forces into itself, it was also noted for its genocidal ‘join us or die’ tactics, and made heavy use of brain-modifying cybernetics purchased from DeVry, in exchange for slaves and occasionally less then motivated soldiers, in order to ‘ensure loyalty.’
Major Battles of the Chinese Revolution
(Coming soon)
Aftermath
Elements of the Chinese Revolution still remain, and several older characters either served in the Revolution, or as adjuncts (doctors, assistants, protesters, supporters). Marvin Thackery in particular is known to have served with distinction in the conflict.
Various segments of the now quiet and relatively placid chinese wilderness still bear scars and marks that indicate the scale of the conflict. Nuclear blast areas still remain quarantined, and the occasional town is built around the ruins of an armed camp or crashed and abandoned heavy air battleship.
Captain Beard's ship The Balrog, formerly the UNAS Balrog, was concieved during the Chinese Revolution as a heavy bombardment battleship, but did not see production until after the war had concluded.
