@PatrikiosDesiderius

No apologies needed! I actually sometimes love these questions because it forces me to expand on my writing!

1) I have no knowledge or information about Lochiwian aircraft designs or existence of them, it was just written by the primary author for Lochiwa's (@OverlordPrime) to base off of, much like how the Pawston Port Massacre was written by the head author for me to base off of. So I don't really have access or have any direct contributions to Lochiwa's written history except through collabs, I just team up and coordinate with him when needed like how the Second Great War ends, the One Hundred Felino-Lochiwian War which causes extreme racial tension between Humans, Lupari, Felinors and any 'non-humans' (derogatory term,) within Lochiwa and beyond!

Sidenote 1: It's not a formal workspace, or even a workspace at all, it's just a group of people who chose their respective countries and they can expand the history of said chosen nations lol

1a) Nekoshima did double down and never backed out on defense (e.g.: Nekoshima holding out against the Allies from 1938 to 1946,) so they don't have any outright 'aggressive' capabilities even to this day —or 2014 if following Universe rules because the writing strictly ends there for all of us, we literally can't write beyond that year.

2) I was basing my history from an 'unreliable' in-universe book —that I wrote :P— named "History of Nekoshima", and I do believe it was an exaggeration of numbers and casualties by historians before the book was written at the time. Technology also kinda ran differently for the Imperium, from 900s to 1500s —as usual,— they were predominantly melee-based fighters. And by the 1600s and 1750s, Lochiwians may have (unconfirmed by author,) had firearms and black powder while the Imperium was lagging behind in technology with their lack thereof of guns.
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3) Overextended conflicts can bring famine, and in turn, sickness. There're two sicknesses that plagued the archipelago, one was caused by the famine, and the other was caused by invading Lochiwians in the 1750s. The first one, caused by famine, let's call it the 'Tailfall Sickness of 1687' because of some records of tails falling off of sick people, was not only caused by hunger, but also a mix of viruses contracted from feces, rats, floods, etc. it's one of the major factors for the 1711 protests. The 1750s Lupari Plague was brought by invading Lochiwian lupari soldiers who came with humans to fight the Imperium, it was a contributor to the high, albeit exaggerated deaths at the end of the war and didn't stop until long after the surrender and collapse of the Imperium Felinis.

4) These events were written by the head author and I have no written records yet on how it happened, but since it was there I included it into the book. I haven't fleshed them out yet but I think it's less about being related or relevant to the real life events (Boston Tea Party and Massacre,) like the Pawston Harbour Massacre or the Burning of Salmon Bay, and more of a parodical name referencing the events that occurred in real life. So....yeah, it's separate.

Sidenote 2: I might rewrite some stuff in my document so I can hard canon these errors and exaggerations.

Me note: This actually forced me to start writing for Nekoshima again. Before the questions I didn't have any written in populations for Nekoshima so I subconsciously wrote "population went from millions to thousands" because I lacked foundation written before that was written. Amateur writer moment. Thank you.

@BoredDeffy Thank you sincerely for your answer, but I have raised more questions. Please forgive me for asking too many questions and speaking too much, such as what aircraft did the Lochiwian people use for bombing in 1915? Is it similar to the Ilya Muromets aircraft? I think they had developed the aviation industry in the 1910s and were able to independently develop heavy bombers (perhaps airships?) like the Ilya Muromets, which could quickly destroy a country's defenses and occupy cities (perhaps they had the earliest paratroopers who could take down defenses from the sky under the cover of planes, and the nekoshima people would definitely build a large number of defenses and concentrate on the coast after experiencing multiple wars). Another thing is that I think the data that Imperium Felinis, as an island nation, had nearly a million combat and non combat casualties during the transition from the phalanx era to the line infantry era, but only a few thousand remained is somewhat exaggerated (perhaps due to historical exaggeration?). If Imperium Felinis The population is similar to that of Britain around 1700 (5.1 million in England and 1.2 million in Scotland in 1700, I'm sorry that this problem cannot refer to the population of Japan in 1700, because the contemporary Britain is more in line with the living conditions of the war, the plague, civil unrest and famine it brought and the description of "millions of people before the war"). In my opinion, the remaining population may be at most between 1 million and 3 million (the population of Britain was reduced by only one third during the Hundred Years War, the peak population of Britain before the war was about 4-6 million, and the remaining 2 million after the war. This is based on the conditions of reducing about 2-4 million people, but most of these people died of the Black Death and famine. Perhaps Imm Perium Felinis also suffered from famine and plague at the same time? I think we can refer to the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the Famine of 1690? ）. The Pawston Port Massacre and Salmon Bay Burning Incident seem to be named after the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. The former may have been a massacre of the Nakoshima people by the Lochiwan people, while the latter may have been a protest by the Nakoshima people against the Lochiwian people?

@ijntaihou44 Thank you very much! That means a lot to me! It was the result of a month or so amounts of work and collaborations with friends!

@PatrikiosDesiderius
Good Morning! Apologies for not replying as soon as possible, I forgot about people actually asking questions regarding my writing (moreso busy playing a certain horse game) lol

1. I haven't the proper or sufficient knowledge regarding that. But! I think they occur not just because of culture, but also because of many factors like religion, beliefs, traditions, social structures(?) etc. Now, I think they sometimes (if not rarely) conflicts (hence why there're few examples of,) occur is because of many factors as well. Some prefer staredowns, some prefer fighting. There's also the large bodies of water —or bodies of water in general— separating territories or islands. The capabilities of making boats or ships may be limited. Or, in modern day, the high cost of such a conflict.

2. Splendid question! (Thanks for asking!!) There has been significant conflicts between Lochiwa and Nekoshima, specifically the Imperium Felinis. Little loredump: "The Imperium Felinis is a thalassocratic empire founded by a coalition of catfolk Felinor tribes and states in 943 from Nekoshima and Uojima."
   The conflicts (currently written, probably not all of it) are:
   A. One Hundred Felino-Lochiwian War (1643-1753)
   1a. A war between the Imperium Felinis and the Lochiwian Empire that spanned from 1643 when "the Imperium invaded the Lochiwian Empire, its goal to expand into the Eastern continent and establish a colony."
   2a. To 1753, when: "After the successful invasion of the empire by the Lochiwian Empire, the number of Felinor imperialis, the main population of the Imperium Felinis was reduced tremendously from millions to thousands, the empire's government collapses, leaving the archipelago in chaos and eternal war."
   B. The Great War (1910-1920)

   • Although a minor power during the war: "In 1915, the Lochiwian Empire and their allies invaded Nekoshima, robbing them of their resources and cultural treasures, upheaval and unrest heightened, causing the government to collapse in less than a year of occupation."

   1b. "26 January 1915, The country of lochiwa, After more than half of a year of mobilization would rain down troops on Nekoshiman soil. Capturing the island and pillaging as many cities as they could, Warcrimes would run rampant and the major event of The Pawston Harbor Massacre and The Burning of Salmon Bay."
   2b. Until: "30 May 1919, As the former axis nations of Arvia, Vecia and Lochiwa left the war. The Island country of Nekoshima was freed by the Dragonborn of Poloskia and the people of Lucida. Freeing more than Four hundred thousand people in Nekoshima, Prisoners of war and Civilians alike. Causing the largest Coffee celebration ever recorded in history."

3. Going from established lore from the Nekoshima, as a nation, was recovering from The Great War. In 1915 Lochiwian troops rained down (idk how, planes innit,) on Nekoshima and essentially blitzed through the country because it had little to no factories made to build tanks, armour, or aircraft at the time to counter the invading forces, with the government collapsing in a year or so. So, by 1921, the Second Republic of Nekoshima emerged and pacified the whole archipelago (that was dominated by warlords, independent provinces, and cities,) both militarily (foreign aid and domestic militia) and diplomatically, after the complete unification of the Felinor Archipelago, they did NOT want another air invasion or another governmental collapse, so they began their reindustrialisation. With help from foreign countries like Lucida, they learned aircraft building (though Nekoshiman aircraft were literal paper maché with engines then,) and in the late 1930s, the country specialized in that department. The Navy itself was literally abandoned with only few ports and ships, as stated in the description of the NT6, they had an aircraft carrier, but couldn't build more. So their Navy sucked, they knew it, they abandoned it for pure air power.

One of the best planes I've downloaded. It can get really fast, maneuvrability is excellent.

Most importantly though I think, the plane "feels" good to handle. Not exactly in how the performance is excellent, but with all the other details it has. I don't think, for example, that I've used a plane in this game that actually had the varying amounts of health for each part. Made the WW2 dogfight with the two Mustangs kinda hard, but it was really fun. Plus the guns! I appreciate it so much that you just had different machine guns with different damage, from what I can tell, instead of splitting it in MG and "cannon" armament, which often I've noticed doesn't work that well in fights, either because using both is tricky, especially from a phone, or because cannons are just weird against aircraft in this game, I don't know why. Along with that, the flutter of the control surfaces and the wings, once again adds to the feel of the whole plane, along with the fact that the actual wing control surfaces are visible and aren't just shoved into a fuselage that looks like a wing, it gives it a more "normal" compared to others. The detail on the cockpit was also nice, along with the actually relatively useful gunsight.

And to top it all off it doesn't doesn't hinder my phone in the slightest, very mobile friendly.

Seriously, you did an amazing job, keep it up.

Hello, sorry to bother you. I have looked at your answers to others and I have some questions about this worldview. I am curious about why ethnic conflicts occur in archipelago countries? Is this ethnic conflict similar to the ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia? There seem to be very few examples of ethnic conflicts in archipelagic countries, and I can hardly find them (except for some examples in Indonesia, such as Ternate and Tidore people or Sundanese and Wandan people). Are there any conflicts between the Lochiwan and Nekoshima people in modern or ancient times? I am not familiar with this worldview, but I hope to learn about it. Why does the Necoshima people, as a seemingly small island nation, have a mature aviation industry to independently build aircraft, and are there any related reforms?

@Yourlocalhuman it's not furry I swear lmao it's just a mask!!!

Not the furry airforce 🥀🥀

@ThomasRoderick I think the Lochiwan would decide on what to do with their aircraft, but I do believe it would be a BnZ with focus on speed.
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Yes! Tail codes of the aircraft are [Region A.Base/Carrier no.]-[Aircraft No.] for simplicity!
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That and Nekoshima was more focused on reconstruction, recovering from the First Great War and cafés than warfare pre-1938, they were—and still is—known as the Café capital.
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Yup, even wrote up an entire history of Nekoshima without magic because it was forgotten by the author lol

@BoredDeffy
Lemme guess, the new Lochiwan plane is one of those B'nZ flying beer kegs with a vaguely canine name?
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TIL Nekoshima is the not!-Japan with a Nordic/Chinese defense model, aka defense in depth using littoral waters, esp. air bases built into local archipelagos .
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Also, yeah, makes sense that Nekoshima was worse off compared to Imperial Japan, given their aviation industry would be closer to interbellum Sweden/Poland/Romania than the Axis powers.
Addendum: more like interbellum France in general preparedness I guess?
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Eh, for me the inclusion of magic just meant more things to balance and make sense of. Certain factions might favor magical shields while others would favor physical armor, certain factions may favor chemical engines while other may favor magical counterparts, certain factions may favor chemical guns while others may favor magitek blasters, etc.; one of my key ideals of speculative worldbuilding is "just because *some* laws of nature is different doesn't mean *all* of them are", so...

a6m and FW 190 combination

@ThomasRoderick Lochiwans (they might post soon I hope) are predominantly human and Lupari (dog version of Felinors, four ears again yes but they are significantly taller and perhaps larger than average humans—especially—felinors) Lochiwa is absolutely massive but was separated by a massive ocean. The was between the two began in Feb 17, 1938 with the Lochiwans attack on Purrl Harbour (I'm not ashamed of that name lmao) and then was attacked again in Dec 8 1940, which is when Nekoshima began fortifying.
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Nekoshima had the advantage of being defensive and not having to dump their money on carriers because their archipelagos are significantly safer and more familiar compared to the open ocean, and Lochiwa only began their invasion mid-early 1940s, with their first attempt in 1943.
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I can also relate with writing things and making them logical and grounded, so I end up forgetting the universe they are set in is fantasy, with magic and stuff so I just facepalm when I go the lengths of researching for realistic stuff and then realise I can do whatever cos there's magic.

@BoredDeffy
Eh, as far as non-furry beastfolk go I'd personally prefer those with both animal and human ears.
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A small nation with a tiny carrier (that pushes 25kn tops) fending off an enemy for four years? Either they got copious amount of foreign aid or Lochiwa isn't that much larger than Nekoshima.
... and which species is Lochiwa again? Using real-life biology as reference, both rodents and avians would have some serious amount of grudge against cats while both canids (esp. those of the canis genus) and avians (large birds of prey) are known to prey on cats, so...
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... yes, I'm even worse of a nerd and also a worldbuilder, too bad I'm too stuck in making *everything* in my worldbuilding as logical and consistent as possible so...

@ThomasRoderick Tbh the human ears are —again,— an accident when I made the species so I just doubled down on it and said: "Ah screw it, they have four ears now" and kept it lol

They are indeed based off the Imperial Japanese but less so with imperialist tendencies as Nekoshima is a Republic under attack by Lochiwa, not the other way around (Nekoshima is also tiny btw,) so their war isn't really 'Second Great War', it was moreso 'Nekoshiman War of Survival' because the Lochiw(i)an attack was premeditated and racially (more a grudge) driven.

The sole Nekoshiman carrier in the description was asked off the Hoshō-class carrier because it was more fitting for their economy and stuff.

~Deffy being a lore nerd again lmao

@BoredDeffy
IIRC in most works involving cat-humanoids the presence - or lack thereof - of their human ears are rather Schrödinger-y, aka hidden behind their hair and tend to remain a mystery untill someone/something proves either to be true.
The joke about Nagoya dialect came from its tendency to use "-ya" sounds so Nagoya folks are often jokingly said to "speak like cats".
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.... Tom's Overthinking Time™: the Felis as a genus are great ambush predators but rather poor pursuit predators, so Boom-and-Zoom designs may play better into their strengths than dedicated turn fighters.... granted, given the cats in question are based off *Imperial Japan* them winning might not be great for everyone else involved....

@ThomasRoderick They are the typical cathumans seen in anime but they have four ears, cat and human. Also, Nagoya accent sounds rather adorable, TIL there is a Nagoya dialect lol

The Hayabusa canopy and specs was a coincidence though, similar to the intake. I thought the Zero's intake was part of the cowling and I didn't even see that one, she was based fully on the Zero but lighter and possibly more fragile and explosive, but she does end up sharing more stuff than I thought with the Ki-43 Hayabusa!

I guess coincidences, no matter how many, can be more than surprising!

@BoredDeffy
Oh, oops, duly noted.
.... BTW, are they actually feline humanoids (colloquially "catboys/catgirls") or are they humans with Nagoya accent and weird hats?

Also... Hayabusa specs and canopy with an A6M oil cooler intake?

@ThomasRoderick Noooooo..! They're not furries!! :')

Furry Zeke?

@NavalGunnery you didn't forget huh TvT

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