Tianchao

The grand imperial palace located in the capital Lengshan

Tianchao (Chinese: 天朝, English: Celestial Dynasty) is a nation on the PrikPack v16 server that was formed out of an economic union between the Commandery of Cool Mountain, New Scathia and Herobrine Industries.

History

Following the Massacre on Midway, the two largest nations on the server, the Magical Kingdom and the Scæþing Republic, were dissolved, leaving their players to spread across the world and form nations of their own. Wikaros established the Commandery of Cool Mountain in the southeast of the spawn continent, Cflip_ established New Scathia from the remains of the Scæþing island, and Kjolt947 moved south of Scæþing to form Herobrine Industries. During this time, the international economy of the server flourished, with emeralds becoming the de facto international currency. The three western nations planned to establish their own currency using constantan coins in order to inflate and control the economy. This economic alliance was called the Western Economic Zone (WEZ).

Restoration of Scathia

During the Massacre on Midway, Cflip_ stored the Scæþing Republic's disk drives containing all of the nation's goods deep underground in order to protect it. The computer and infrastructure needed to access the items from these drives were destroyed in the war, however the disks themselves remained safe and came back into Cflip_'s possession after the peace treaty. Furthermore, jusipat's iron factory was left intact despite the bombings, and it was rediscovered and restored by Cflip_. jusipat claimed this factory to be his intellectual property and attempted an air bombing, but gave up after several unsuccessful bombing runs and blamed it on kjolt947.

Consolidation of the Empire

For about a week, the nations of the WEZ had remained relatively dormant and inactive. However, Wikaros began construction of a massive palace, which inspired the rest of the faction to play on the server again. It was at this time that the three separate nations of the WEZ decided to unify under the single nation of Tianchao. Wikaros, who had the title of Heavenly General, eventually declared himself emperor of Tianchao with no qualms from the other members of the faction.

Lengshan, the capital of the empire, became the sole focus of the economy and all resources and attention went into improving the capital. Because of this, the other provinces were mostly abandoned, partly because the nation did not feel ready to defend three separate locations in the event of a war. The forest to the southeast of the palace was completely cleared out to make room for new industry, prompting the empire to expand its claims to the southeastern coast as well as the plains to the northwest of the palace. Due to rapid construction of both the palace and other industrial buildings, frequent trade for limestone and other building materials with Lûl was opened up in order to meet demands.

Tianchao Imperalism

As Lengshan developed, it became clear that to compete with Lûl, Tianchao would also need to build a village. At this time, it was believed that the known villages across the world were completely depopulated, however a village located on the west side of the main continent was discovered with many villagers. Tianchao constructed the village of Da Pingtan and began shipping villagers from across the ocean to populate the newly founded town. Another village was also found on a continent across the southern sea, and the villagers from there were also relocated. Nearly all of the islands throughout the seas surrounding Tianchao were claimed, and to the south a villager processing station and vacation spot was built on one of the islands.