Ancient Japan!

I am a big no vote on this. I LOVE feudal Japan. But this is not Ancient World of War and Crafting.
Until we get a Moon Zone, Modern comic book themed Atlantis (not an ancient mystical swords and sorcery atlantis please) and any other modern comic places I really think Cimerora is enough on the ancient.

I love this idea... The Original Post (as it currently appears, as it seems to have been updated repeatedly to account for good suggestions) details an excellent zone that I would love to see and play in. I forget if the OP was updated to include the jungle and dinosaurs bit, but that should be there too.

I've been wanting to see some Asian culture in this game that's more extensive than a few underused oriental contacts, and that period of a few months many years ago where this seemed like City of Ninjas. I'm all in favor of a "Chinatown" or something similar being added to Skyway or maybe IP, but the Ancient Feudal Medieval Japan-inspired custom Island is great, just so long as it actually has a lot of stuff going on in it, as opposed to being nothing more than a home for a TF and two sides of a story arc.

IIRC it was mentioned that Official Propaganda aside, there were some areas outside of Praetoria that were not infested with Devouring Earth, and one of these was Tokyo. So how I'd like to see this go down is to accept that "some part of Japan or a nearby island" is successfully fending off hostilities from Hamidon and Praetorian forces, for now at least, and protecting some powersource that's keeping Tokyo safe. They're holding up under the relentless onslaught (of level 30-40 content) by drawing upon resources from both the past and future, using multi-origin time-portals to reach two other distinct periods of temporal significance, both in the Feudal past and a cybertropolis of the future.

There would also be a Primal Earth version of the zone set in the contemporary timeline. Here we will find that Rose Star has opened a rift to Praetoria during an attempt to damage Emperor Cole's war efforts through infiltration and subterfuge, against the wishes of W.I.S.D.O.M.'s team leader Foreshadow. (Oh wow, there are Asians in City of Heroes) She and Spark Blade failed to check in however, and Foreshadow went after them... Now he's missing, and Mirror Spirit seeks your help in finding her lost team.

Story arc ensues. Foreshadow is dead, but that's ok, because in the futuristic zone, he's been reborn as a bad guy, and he's running the Syndicate. Spark Blade is stuck in the past, acting as Genbu's primary Lieutenant, based on Genbu's promise (lie) to help him find and save Rose Star, who he lost track of during a great battle between the Four Lords of Kamijima. She actually ended up back in Modern Praetoria, and got captured by Cole's forces... but instead of killing her, Cole intends to brainwash her, remaking her in his image, thinking that she'll be a superior heir compared to his granddaughter, Praetor Duncan.

All 4 versions of the zone use (approximately) the same geometry, even if the appearance is drastically different. This is done via phasing technology, so as players advance through storylines associated with the zone, they end up in the time/dimension they need to be in (preventing the need to zone back and forth repeatedly). It also opens up options to alter the potential outcome of the storyline, and the fate of the zone, based on the choices players make during the storyline, leaving the potential for

1) Feudal Kamijima to end up in the hands of any of the Four Lords, or remain at war,

2) The potential for Praetorian Spirit Island to continue resisting or fall to Praetorian leadership, or even be destroyed by the Hamidon,

3) For Cybertropolis to be the future world capital, or to never have existed at all, being nothing but overgrown ruins populated by Devouring Earth monsters and a few hard pressed surviving tribes fighting for their survival.

4) Primal Kamijima could remain at relative peace, or the rift to Praetoria could shatter, leaving the island to be overrun by warring factions between the past, present, and future.

and 5) Any member of W.I.S.D.O.M. could end up dead or of different alignment by the end of it all.

you could even take a page from Rifts where the center of power for one faction in Japan was a massive yggdrasil style world-tree

in this case, you could have two factions in Praetoria Japan...one a naturalistic/traditionalist ancient style Japan and the other a mecha and gundam cyber-Japan

where they exist in a sort of uneasy truce of "dealing with bigger issues" due to Praetoria and Hamidon...and maybe other things

@Starhammer:...Me Gusta. This is a great idea, and a great expansion on my own...I think I'll add it in! Also impressed that you knew what Kamijima meant.

As a lifelong gamer, I've learned a lot of bits and pieces of other languages, and "kami" has been a part of many Japanese character names. I had to look up Jima though, but it was pretty obvious when I started seeing Iwo Jima pop up. (I probably know more Japanese than any other non-English language, except maybe Mandalorian, mostly from preferring to watch my anime in Japanese audio with English subtitles. It's not perfect, but it's a good starting point. I couldn't even come close to holding a conversation in Japanese though, or probably even asking an intelligible question.)

Also, thanks for the praise, it's nice to have my imagination appreciated

Well since there is ancient japan armors in the midnighters club, I figured we'd probably get it in the future anyway, like how there is roman armor and medieval armor.