Jack of Harts

The Republic of China Navy died defending Taiwan in the last days of that nation, except for the old destroyer ROCS Kee Lung and a handful of surviving frigates and submarines. They led a rag tag fleet of civilian and military transports to Japan, and then on to North America when that nation fell to the Chinese advance as well. They found a new home in Vancouver, and slowly rebuilt in the decades that followed. They soon transitioned into space as humanity expanded into the solar system and beyond, and have maintained an impressive fleet for such a small nation in the centuries since. China has always been quick to attempt to absorb Free Chinese settlements into Greater China, so Free China is quick to shoot them. This alternating cold and hot war between the two Chinas continued until The War came upon us all. And then it turned hot indeed. The Free Chinese had a bone to pick with their cousins, and they supported the Western Alliance campaigns with gusto. And I cannot overestimate how much it helped us to land on a conquered Chinese world with the Free Chinese military at our sides.