The Martial Unity

Just like the Republic of Gorteau and the Britannian Empire, the Sekigahara Confederate was also displeased by the return of the Emperor of Harmony for their own reasons. They were the most ideologically opposed and antithetical to the Emperor of Harmony.

While they respected his capacity in war as the supreme commander of the Kandrian Military, they deeply abhorred the philosophy that had come to embody his politics.

"The Emperor of Harmony," the matriarch of the Tsukishi Clan grumbled. "Coming back and calling for a C16 meeting from the start. Who does he think he is?"

"…It's just like him," the patriarch of the Kenjin Clan narrowed his eyes. "Of the four powerhouses, he was the one who initiated cooperation the most."

The Republic of Gorteau sought war for profit, while the Britannian Empire simply sought war because it was a state that was led by Martial Artists who needed physical conflict to grow.

The Sekigahara Confederate was in a similar position.

In addition to Martial Artists needing war for growth, war was also baked into the blood of its culture.

Not just its culture, war was baked into the business model of the state. The state was reborn during the Martial Revolution three hundred years ago after the fourteen clans took over from the Sekigahara Empire and rebranded to a confederate of fourteen powerful clans.

Since then, the powerhouse had been sustaining itself through war.

There was a reason that North-East Panama was the most war-stricken area in all of East Panama.

rather simple and was a time-and-tested

infiltration, coercion, propaganda, and other population manipulation tactics to create civil hotspots across all of North-East Panama. These were small regions, often smaller and weaker states, and entirely vulnerable. The Sekigahara Confederate would covertly create civil unrest, escalate it to civil dissent,

race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and sex, they tapped into the worst of humanity

a war was created, naturally, the

the Sekigaharan Clans would swoop in and supply the Martial Artists in demand in

their own market

warred against each other in these civil hotspots on opposing sides. Yet, that was entirely normal and even considered healthy by

form of competition and sport, with

and foreign affairs were both thoroughly characterized by deep disharmony. It sustained their

why they hated everything that the

entirely antithetical to

represented an existential threat

was allowed to spread across Panama, then their way of

were the most firmly

the patriarch of the Kaze Clan narrowed his eyes.

meeting. The C16 was the platform upon which intergovernmental policies that would impact the future of the nation were agreed upon. Should the Sekigahara Confederate abstain from partaking in the C16 meeting, they would be unable

detriment, unfortunately. The business model of the Sekigaharan Confederate was unstable because it depended on how much war they

far East," the patriarch of Enken Clan snorted. "All that funding we poured into Prince Randal's campaign during the Kandrian Throne War was useless from the very beginning if the Emperor of Harmony