Dragon State (1983: Doomsday)

DoomsDay:

the People's republic of china was not expecting a strike from the USSR, and as such, suffered incredible losses as more than thirty nukes rained down on their major cities. other bombs destroyed military bases, in particular those suspected of having nuclear capabilities, and took special care to throughly radiate the common border between the two nations. China quickly collasped into massive chaos, as cities tore themselves and the countryside for food in a terrifying free for all. The province of Anhui was no exception. while its two largest cities were not among those nuked the military base in the mountains of Huangstan, a suspected nuclear arsenel, received a bomb.

the first few weeks

suprizingly, the leader eventual ruler of the region was a chineeze military officer off base who survived the blast due to his location on the other side of a mountain on an extended training excercize. Hong Chow, later known as Hong Long, led his men into a nearby village, where citizens emerging from their homes found their communications to the outside world cut off. Hong Chow promptly pulled off a coup, took control of the local rice supply, and drove to the next village, and repeated the pattern in four or five villages, in each case declaring himself to be the new "government" and taking controll of the rice for the purposes of "rationing and safe keeping" Hong and his men afterwards retired back toward the mountains. Before doing so, Long let his men know that "while we are in the shadow of the bomb, none will aproach us, and when we are sheilded, the bomb is no threat." Chow required an oath of absolute fealty from his troops, then tried to figure out which ones he could trust to do his absolute bidding. the ones he decided he could, he sent ahead to massacre a town not visted yet, and the soldiers he decided against constructed temperary shelters against the poisonous dust falling from the sky. the small army spent the next eight weeks in the bomb shelter of the destroyed village. due to fallout, over 60% of them died, including most of the soldiers Chow did not trust, sending them out for water and other duties on occasion. Hong Chow surivied, and began his quest in what he considered a zero sum game.

The Dragon arrises

by the time that Hong and his men emerged from the ruins of the village, most of the chineese population was dead, either by fallout,suicide,violence, or starvation. Hong assumed that at least some people would still be alive, and determined to find and destroy them before they knew of his existance. There were several militant groups in the area, but Hong was able to keep his own existence as well as the location of his base a secret, and as he had not been involved in the early fighting, his supply of bullets was greater than any other group. As losses of men and particuarly food reserves grew, Hong's troops gained the title "the dragon" and Hong took up the title with pride, becoming "Hong Long". in a few months, Hong's tactics, along with onset of winter, cleared the area of outside human presence. Hong began to accept small additions to his army, but gave them menial jobs and did his best to expose them to fallout.

The building years 1984-1992

In the spring of 1984 Hong began to accept "refugees" who he essentially turned into slaves, did not reveal his bases to, and kept in small communitees his men constantly spied on. In order to protect these slaves, Hong expanded his extermination campaign, picking his men, he slowly expanded his forces. Several of his slave communities were destroyed on occasion, but the "Dragon Troops" as they called themsleves, were never caught, and their main hold in the radiactive mountains was never discovered. after the repair of a munitions factory in 1987, Hong began a rapid expansion of his forces, and minions, Expanding the "Dragon Lands" to dominate the the Yangtze river valley

Establishment of the Dragon Kingdom Febuary 13 1993 (new year's day)

In 1993, Hong and his top officers wrote down the "laws" for the "Dragon Kingdom", provinces and villages of the kingdom were set up, mostly to restrict travle within the kingdom, the military was regularized, with an incrediable amount of officer control, Slavery was instituted for most people, and Hong received the lofty title of "The Dragon Emperor". The Capital's location remained a secret, becoming known as "the hidden city".

The Dragon Kingdom 1993-1996

the Dragon Kingdom increased the aggressive policies of emperor Hong. He maintained the security of his own holdings by establishing a giant no man's land around his kingdom. anyone found outside of certain areas was killed, or, if his forces felt particuarly confident, enslaved. while the small area of the Dragon kingdom slowly filled in, the no-man's land around it swelled in size. Emperor Hong remained the terror of his neighbors, whom he kept agitated until his death in 1996

Emperor Zheng 1996

Emperor Hong died at the age of 38 of cancer due to his residence in the fallout zone of the Haungstan mountains. Ming Xu, his appointed succesor, changed his name to Zheng Long "The Just," or "Proper Dragon" and reigned as Emperor Zheng. He shifted from the survival based policies of Emperor Hong in favor of Building a strong State. He continued the policy of expanding the no man's land, but began to expand the slave village zone or as he called it the "sphere of civillization"