User:Izanami/Project YUI

Project YUI is a new canon set in 2022 in a semi-apocalyptic world, after the BETA landed on Ordis in 1990.

Backstory Dump
At the end of the Second Escar-Varunan War, Arshavat and Kuiju were invited to the Wanshu Peace Conference, critically ending the war early. Kuiju was not partitioned and was forced to cede the demanded territories to Arshavat, and remained a poor and devastated monarchy. Yamataian Nanyokuni was partitioned farther north than IRL, eventually evolving into the rival states Dai Hoa and the Song Republic. As these states were more evenly matched, the Dai Hoa Unification War did not happen and Dai Hoa was kept largely as a client state of Arshavat.

In Yamatai, the military dictatorship was not disbanded by Okabe Nariakira in 1957, and remains in power to this day, though it has liberalised somewhat.

Though the ideological divide still occurred, due to the lower potential for conflict, tensions in the world were not as high. This allowed for greater resources to be devoted to space development by both the capitalist and collectivist blocs, and the space race replaced the heightened military tensions of the mid-20th century. In 1961, Arshavat launched the first man into space. Zusea launched the first space station in 1965, and a joint Zusea-Chisei-Yamatai mission landed on the moon in 1969 and established a permanent base. More moon bases soon followed, and many countries soon collaborated to build moon bases, with Yamatai also developing Lunar Manned Maneuvering Unit mechas for operations in space.

In 1988, unidentified aliens suddenly emerged from a crater on the moon, later designated as the BETA (Biomorphic Extra-Terrestrial Adversaries) by the OL. Fighting against the BETA soon raged across the moon, and some militaries soon began to seek ways to combat the creatures out of fear that they would invade Ordis. In 1993, the first Tactical Surface Fighter is developed in Chisei, the Funmyo T-4 Karura.

On 19 April 1994, the BETA made landfall on Ordis, landing in central Arshavat and in Achtotlan, which immediately destroyed their hive with a nuclear barrage. Arshavat refused foreign assistance, seeking to monopolise the alien resources from the Yedisehir Hive, and launched a conventional attack against the hive. 19 days after the start of the mission, Laser-class BETA emerged and completely eradicated Arshavati air superiority, causing the operation to fail and the BETA assault on Ordis to begin rapidly.

By 2022, the BETA have taken control of almost the entire Ordamphia continent, with the BETA largely limited by their inability to cross the oceans en masse. Amphia is still holding onto mainland lines, but the forces of Escar have been pushed entirely onto the various island nations in the region. The world population is now only about 1 billion people. The Arshavati government-in-exile is now operating from Sahil.