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Iron Empire Boats
Iron Empire boats are metal-hulled and powered by large engines
that make them typically quicker on the water than Jade Kingdom
sampans. The boats carry powerful weapons such as auto-cannons,
rocket launchers, fixed cannons and mine launchers. Ped always
advises Shadow Clan raiders like yourself to avoid the Iron Empire’s
heavy weapons and instead outmaneuver them on the water, rather
than fight them head-on. He also urges staying
aware of areas in which they may have
placed water mines. As a final note, the
Shadow Clan recently seems
to have figured out a way
to come up with unpredictable
and decisive victories, so
Ped advises you to
proceed with caution.
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The Iron Empire
Only recently, militaristic warlord Shao Lung has
pulled together small, splintered, and independent
feudal provinces located in the far northern lands
and declared himself a khan. These provinces
formerly lived in the Jade Kingdom’s shadow.
Separated by an impassable mountain chain and
extensive river systems and gorges, this mysterious
group refers to itself as the Iron Empire. Before
Shao Lung Kahn, it was known as the Northern
League—a loose confederation of small feudal
provinces with linguistic and cultural similarities,
each ruled by its own prince, duke, or khan. It was
Lung who made alliances with some of the khans and
then destroyed the rest of them, dividing the lands
between the warlords who cooperated with him. Silently and swiftly,
Lung has equipped his new Iron Empire with boats conquered and
commandeered on the high seas. He now plagues his Jade
Kingdom neighbors and is a formidable enemy.
Shao Lung Khan has left a legacy of treachery, deceit and death in
his wake and seems intent on destroying everyone in the Gulf of the
Moon who has not been absorbed into the Iron Empire. Unlike the
Jade Kingdom, the Iron Empire doesn’t seek to capture Shadow
Clan men or loot their ships, but prefers to send them to the bottom
of the sea with little warning. His ultimate goal remains a mystery.
It is also rumored that the Iron Empire has somehow acquired
a powerful mystical weapon.
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