AN: As requested by Coment9, I'm going to create a wiki for Historia Shoukan. Do note that the wiki will be constantly updated as more chapters came up. I will start by 5 'managers' of Historia Shoukan Dominion, and the first one will be GUF, my rendition of Gensokyo from Touhou Project.
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Gensokyo Union Fighters
Gensokyo Union Fighters
Information
Kanji: 幻想郷連合戦闘機達
Romaji: Gensoukyou Rengou Sentouki-tachi
Type: Inter-Dimensional Union
Core Area: Japan, Prime Earth (Sealed Dimension Gensokyo)
Continent: Asia
Capital: Hakurei Shrine
Leader(s): Zen Captain Yasei Sugaku, First Champion Reimu Hakurei, Sage Leader Yukari Yakumo
Status: Active and expanding Gensokyo (Prime Earth), Active (Shoukan Dimension)
Gensokyo Union Fighters, or GUF in short, is the leading Superpower of Historia Alliance that resides in Gensokyo (幻想郷). The characters 幻想郷 means Land of Illusion/Fantasy, referring to its former status as an isolated dimension prior to Earth-Gensokyo Reunification in 2020. It was also known as Azuma no Kuni (東の国) from Sengoku Jidai until Meiji Restoration in Japan. GUF itself was formed in 2032 as response to an unprovoked attack in Gensokyo by a 'remnant' of an organization that was defeated ten years ago. GUF is one of the 'managers' of Historia Shoukan Dominion, leader of Shoukan Defense Council.
Gensokyo Union Fighters is a longtime ally of United Nations Military.
History and Chronology
Gensokyo was originally a desolate, haunted region of Japan ages ago. The youkai that lived there began to terrorize the surrounding lands, and thus powerful, heroic humans were sent to exorcise and exterminate them. The off and on battle between humans and youkai continued on until 1885 AD, when Gensokyo was sealed off from this increasingly scientific and skeptical world with the creation of Great Hakurei Barrier (which prototypes was already planned as early as Sengoku Jidai). There has been little contact between those societies ever since. Today, the only known gateway between Gensokyo and Earth is the Hakurei Shrine, which stands in isolation along the border on distant mountains of the far east. The shrine later became Gensokyo Capital and a Dimensional Hub that connects Gensokyo with many dimensions they've discovered so far. It's known that the local language spoken in Gensokyo is modern Japanese.
Gensokyo is populated mainly by youkai, but a decent human and rabbit population lives there as well. Some of its inhabitants went there to hide, to escape, to find shelter when no-one and nowhere else would accept them. In 2021, Gensokyo alongside Makai and Abendrot formed Gensokyo Union, which would later be expanded to Gensokyo Union Fighters in 2032 and includes many dimensions that are connected to the Hub. GUF also became one of Historia Alliance Founders in 2040.
As one of Historia Shoukan Dominion managers, GUF is in charge of diplomatic matters, which is shown by how they managed to secure Qua-Toyne Principality (and Quila Kingdom), Fenn Kingdom, an Gahara Thearchy as allies during the first months in Shoukan Dimension. Two of their sanctioned military forces, Magus Trio Joint Forces and Scarlet Defense Army, played a crucial role in defeating Louria Kingdom as one of the Trident's 'teeth', leading to the kingdom's fall in May 2069.
Currently, Historia Shoukan Dominion is in cold war with Parpaldia Empire after the punitive strike on Fenn Kingdom, with Gra Valkas Empire acting as the proxy force of the Dominion.
Military
GUF have many sanctioned military forces as the result of Sengoku Gensokyo, a series of war games initiated by Yukari Yakumo in 2006 and is still maintained to this day. They already made an effort to unify many Gensokyo races into a single force, but the attempt ends up creating yet another one of the sanctioned forces, GUF Joint Divisions (And even then, many of its units have a good degree of autonomy.).
After the transfer of Historia Shoukan Dominion, GUF finally managed to have a proper war game because the bigger space allows them to re-enact several Earth historical battles with several twists in addition of Sengoku Gensokyo tournaments. Currently, they're at 64th Sengoku Gensokyo tournament.
Since GUF now have access to the ocean, they decided to build a single combat ship (Palanquin Super Battleship) plus many wyvern and dragon carriers to adapt to Shoukan Dimension. Because of the constant war games via Sengoku Gensokyo, GUF forces excels at land and aerial battles, especially the latter due to extensive use of aerial infantries (and helicopters in GUF-UNM joint military exercises). It's been noted that GUF wyvern and dragon divisions performs better than their UNM counterparts as well.
Since Sengoku Gensokyo also encourages "Knowing Your Enemy" doctrine, GUF excels in gathering information about their adversaries' fighting capabilities, and they will send appropriate force in response. This particular doctrine is greatly enhanced after Kokusho Void Legion joined the Union in 2065 and adding the Shadow Division to the fold.
Technology
GUF currently boasts the most advanced technology in both Historia Alliance and Shoukan Dimension. This is in big part because they integrated many technologies from dimensions that are connected to Gensokyo Hub. Their crowning achievement is the successful creation of an artificial Gensokyo called Luna Nights by using 'The Seed' program written by Kayaba Akihiko and combining it with the know-how of dimension sealing from the experience of creating Great Hakurei Barrier. The Union also tends to 'technologize' many of their Fighters' abilities as well, although only UNM that know how far they pushed it. This relentless drive also allows them to surpass the Lunarians in a dramatic irony.
On the military side, many weapons that Marisa Kirisame created shows superior performances even when compared to Earth weapons, and due to her relentless pursue of 'Superior Firepower', it's very unlikely that UNM will beat GUF in this branch. For their armored forces, Rika is responsible for the creation of the tank forces concept, which spurs many Gensokyo factions to create their own tanks, to GUF advantage. For note, they also acquired many old UNM arsenals (aka Allied/Soviet/Yuri arsenals in vanilla RA2 and YR expansion) and tailored it to suit them.
Not only that, GUF also received many technologies from Humanity Military Force, a NGO Superpower originated from an alternate Earth that already reached 22nd century, further increasing their tech levels.
Of course, all of these technological wonders are kept secret from the rest of Shoukan Dimension (not even Shoukan Defense Council and Gra Valkas Empire knew about this) until Ravernal Empire returns, in which GUF will unleash all of their might.
Foreign relations
GUF have diplomatic relations with their fellow Alliance Superpowers and the Protectorates.
Despite GUF best effort to exert Historia Shoukan Dominion's influence by creating 'Zeroth Civilization Area' and Shoukan Defense Council, the Dominion often being looked down upon by hostile countries and few superpowers in Shoukan Dimension simply because the Dominion isn't located in First, Second, or Third Civilization Area. They managed to somewhat raise the awareness about 'Zeroth Civilization Area' after securing diplomatic relationship and alliance with Gra Valkas Empire, who respects them because they're aware that the Dominion is technologically more advanced. In addition, both of them came from war-torn worlds and have militaristic culture as a result.
To the countries in Zeroth Civilization Area (former Outside the Civilization Areas), the Dominion is favored by them because this gave them a sense of identity and pride. Moreover, only the Zeroth Civilization Area countries that have witnessed the Dominion and Gra Valkas' power during Fenn military festival that is being interrupted by Parpaldia Empire's punitive strike.
Historia Alliance
- United Nations Military
Following Earth-Gensokyo Reunification in 2020, Gensokyo and UN forces agreed to respect each other's territorial jurisdiction. And since both of them live at the same planet (namely Earth), this paved a way for their joint military exercises. One major reason for this is because Gensokyo helped them by recommending Sumireko Usami to join the front-line following the discovery of psionic forces among the invaders' ranks in 2015. And their faith isn't misguided, since she managed to gain victories in every battles she participated in. Notably, when the Reunification happened, she shows up on Gensokyo's side.
What made the Reunification possible is the fact that one of Gensokyo group leaders, Yasei Sugaku, managed to beat his sister, Iseya Sugaku, in a duel. The latter shows up on UN forces' side, and after her defeat, she then reveals a hidden UN project that involves both Sugakus, and muses that their separation in 2004 must've been the work of some deities. Considering that the reveal of Gensokyo basically proves that supernatural does exist, Iseya isn't that far-off. She then decided to stay in Gensokyo until Historia Alliance formed in 2040, and she's promoted to UNM Field Marshal. In 2055, she's promoted to her current rank, UNM Grand Marshal.
As said before, UNM is a longtime ally of GUF, and one of two leading Superpowers in Historia Alliance since they boast the largest military presence.
- Lunar Capital Force
Earth's actual first contact with the Lunarians is somewhat shaky because Yukari lead a force of youkais to take over the moon, which ends up in failure because the superior technology used by the Lunarians. Following this, the Moon became vigilant in case anything that threatens them approaching. The increase of space activity near them in 20th century vindicated their approach. What made them alarmed is the fact that the Soviet Union managed to be the first Earth nation to flew a human into space via Vostok 1. True enough, just 8 years later, United States became the first Earth nation to successfully landed humans on the Moon via Apollo 11, and the Lunarians responded promptly.
They didn't knew that their actions would made United States and Soviet Union enter the detente earlier and actually made a joint space project code-named "Apollo-Soyuz", specifically to monitor them! The reason for this? Apollo 13 mission failure nearly kills the crews, but they managed to survive. Turns out, the Lunarians are the one who botched the mission, but the sheer tenacity of the Americans won out in the end. They sure as hell won't let Moon kill one of their own. Best summarized by this: "We are NOT losing those men! Failure is NOT an option!"
Ironically, these same tenacity is what ended up saving them, since a group of elite Gensokyo fighters led by Reimu Hakurei managed to force Junko and her forces out of the Lunar Capital. To note, this isn't the first time Reimu visited the Capital. In fact, she was taken as prisoner shortly after Gensokyo's defeat in the Second Genso-Lunar War in 2007. In all honesty, the entire Genso-Lunar War is part of a ruse (First and Second) or follow-up of the now-infamous Lunarian Invasion in 2015 (Third).
Even though their influence diminished since Earth managed to survive the Third World War, it's undeniable that the Lunarians are a major driving force in the Alliance, and ever since the Third Genso-Lunar War in 2019, the Watatsuki sisters decided to take a careful approach. As result, they're allowed to keep their base in Gensokyo. This also allows them to stay in contact with their mentor, Eirin Yagokoro, who decided to stay in Gensokyo since centuries ago.
Due to long history between Gensokyo and Moon, LCF is one of the Superpowers and Founder of Historia Alliance.
- Martian Defense Force
- Humanity Military Force
- Mugenri Socialist State (GUF Protectorate)
- Reformed Saderan Empire (UNM Protectorate)
Zeroth Civilization Area
- Gra Valkas Empire (second strongest country)
Historia Shoukan Dominion managed to secure alliance with Gra Valkas Empire in July 2069 after flaunting their fleet and showing their technological superiority to Gra Valkan western fleet. The Gra Valkans actually respected the fact that the Dominion didn't hesitate to show that they will fight to protect their sphere of influence, which is the newly-created Zeroth Civilization Area, and the Empire ended up following the Dominion's lead because the location of Gra Valkas mainland is also within their jurisdiction. It certainly helps that Gra Valkas managed to acquire multiple videos that shows how the Dominion defeated Louria after the two fleet contacted each other. Eventually, both decided to create joint naval exercises due to the abundance of water body.
Both Historia and Gra Valkas recognize that they both are transferred states. This only strengthen their alliance, to the point that the Dominion is comfortable enough to tell Shoukan Defense Council that Gra Valkas also have advanced technologies compared to the rest of the known Superpowers and they even assisted the Empire in subjugating Leifor by sending Palanquin Super Battleship (which is owned by GUF) to support Grade Atlastar Super Dreadnought, creating the legend of the Twin Sea Fortresses.
Gra Valkas Empire aren't a member of Shoukan Defense Council, but they agreed to help protecting its members from any hostile countries.
- Qua-Toyne Principality
They are the first country that the Dominion made contact since the transfer to Shoukan Dimension. After the visit on the mainland, both of them sign a treaty and they start to respect the Dominion further after they succeed in defending Gim and bringing King Hark Louria XXXIV into custody. The Dominion relies on the food sources from Qua-Toyne and in exchange, they will be protected.
Qua-Toyne Principality are one of the founding members of Shoukan Defense Council.
- Quila Kingdom
They are the second country that the Dominion made contact since the transfer to Shoukan Dimension, and while their relationship with the Dominion is rarely mentioned, it's thought to be good and friendly. Although they have little in terms of farmland, they have a huge wealth of ore deposits and more importantly, large crude oil deposits.
Quila Kingdom are one of the founding members of Shoukan Defense Council.
- Fenn Kingdom
The Dominion opened relations with them at the same time they opened relations with Qua-Toyne and Quila. While the technological level of the nation was inferior, the Human Guards were impressed with Fenn in their military prowess and cultural aspect. They reflected that it was a living example of true Bushido, a philosophy that had been long forgotten in Gensokyo and Japan since WW2.
Fenn Kingdom are one of the founding members of Shoukan Defense Council.
- Gahara Thearchy
Just like Fenn Kingdom, the Dominion opened relations with them at the same time as well. The reason is because Gahara have Wind Dragons, which piqued GUF interest. Kasen, one of GUF Sages, even commented that this allows her to do joint exercises between true dragon riders. Gaharan Wind Dragons even ended up respecting Rashomon, an Ancient Flame Dragon, after he beat them.
Gahara Thearchy are one of the founding members of Shoukan Defense Council.
