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Prelude: Siege of the International Legations

As the Ruthenian Empire's internal affairs were about to raise their ugly head, things were tenser on the other side of the world, specifically at the Hanese Dynasty's capital, Beijing.

As an all-out civil war between four factions raged on across the country, vying for supreme control over the nation whose motivation is fueled by the ideology that was the foundation of their party, which now results in more than a thousand deaths, foreign nationals living inside the Beijing International Legation are scrambling to evacuate. 

Beijing International Legation is a legation that was built in the 1860s after the defeat of the Han Dynasty against the Britannia Empire in the second opium war. Its primary purpose is to house diplomatic representatives of the western powers. 

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