Ongoing Conflicts Across the World

The thunder of guns echoed in the Ming capital of Beijing, as multiple factions of warlords, despots, loyalists, and any number of ideological factions arose in the civil war. As the bullets whipped past the fact of a young loyalist, he quickly slammed the bolt forward on his rifle and pulled the trigger. In doing so, he returned fire with his 8mm projectile which pierced through his target's chest, and thus claiming the man's life. 

Fighting had broken out all across the Ming Dynasty, and many of its citizens were now fleeing into the surrounding empires to escape the chaos and carnage that came with civil war. It was a disaster that sought to tear the mighty Chinese Empire to pieces.