Editing Tenchi Muyo RPG (section)

==Story==
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="100%">
The Tenchi Muyo tabletop game relies mostly on the canon for the OVA, although references are made to Tenchi Universe. The OVA canon will be relayed here, although players are obviously more than able to pull from any Tenchi universe they want. 
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
:'''Choushin'''
In the beginning, there was three god entities called the Choushin. They were called Tsunami, Washu, and Tokimi. They wielded supreme power as far as they knew, and created the multiverse (within the same OVA reality, not the multiverse as in "all Tenchi Muyo works" which are standalone and don't have anywhere near this level of development) made up of 22 different dimensions, with subordinate beings that watched over them, then set it all in harmony with itself. 
What the sisters did during the time before the four dimensions of our reality began isn't known (or likely understandable by us), other than at one point they realized there was a being above themselves which they called the "Kami" which had created them. Since the being was as far beyond them as mortals are to the Choushin they had no means of approaching it or understanding it. Unable to progress further in understanding the Kami through harmony, each of the Choushin then attempted to discover more about the being by creating chaos (not THAT [[Chaos]]) in the multiverse in a different way. Tsunami and Washu chose to focus on the third dimension, while Tokimi remained a multi-dimensional being. 

:'''Tsunami'''
Tsunami created life by seeding a planet that would later be called Jurai with her own life force and most of her divinity, then created a giant tree called Tenju and collapsed in it's branches exhausted. In time the first "humans" which called themselves Juraians evolved, and one day a Juraian man found her by climbing Tenju while looking for his sister Masaki after an argument between them. Despite him being a former pirate and a general scoundrel, Tsunami recognized greatness in him and believed that one day the Kami would be born in mortal form as one of his descendants. She then reformed her body into a tree and gave him her seeds to grow what she called the "Royal Trees of the Imperial Family" for his people to use for all things. She also blessed him and his family with the ability to call on her divine power, which manifests in energy called "Light Hawk Wings" that are so powerful the third dimension can only have ten active at one time before it will collapse on itself. Tenju grew to become the palace and in time capital city of the planet Jurai. 
Thus satisfied Tsunami grew her roots deep and became known as Tsunami-no-ki (which, for clarification, is a magic tree that sometimes granted visions to members of the royal family) and waited for the day when she would merge with one of the man's descendants and find the Kami as her distant relative. The firstborn trees surrounded her in the royal arboretum and each, like herself, had the power to merge with descendants of the man who had found her which would become a ritual for nobility to be recognized by the court of Jurai. He became the First Emperor of Jurai, although he did not want the power and instead planned to crown his sister Masaki instead. Masaki knew his plans and instead took one of the Royal Trees that had grown on a ship and flew it into space (becoming the first mortal being ever to invent space-travel). She crossed the stars until she found a place to settle and enjoy the solitude, which she then (MANY years later) established officially as a colony of Jurai called Earth. She had children with the few brave colonists who answered her call and became what we know as the Mitochondrial Eve. At some point she attempted to leave the planet and crashed her ship into the moon, and although she died her soul remained and haunted it's surface where she watched over mankind.

Juraians, the purest form of sapient life, are very long-lived and their genetics are strong enough to resist almost all disease or mutation...as well as be able to fuck their half siblings without hemophilia or webbed toes appearing in the family tree (no pun intended). Humans on the other hand suffered greatly from lack of contact with Tsunami, and we became weak and short-lived. Earth was forgotten by the Juraian people as soon as contact with the colonists was lost, and the Terran Juraians had to relearn and rebuild. It's been said some of Earth's governments are in contact with Jurai although how, when this occurred, and how Earth is perceived in the galactic community (other than being sneered at by many Juraians) is unknown. 

:'''Tokimi'''
Tokimi influenced the universe in subtle ways, shifting galaxies, causing energy to pool or dwindle, and otherwise mucked up and sabotaged the peace she and her sisters had created. Although much of the results of her actions can be characterized as "evil", she did not do so out of malice. Her perspective was that of a classical polytheistic god where the concept of mortal suffering is beyond her understanding or awareness. She simply wanted to bend the fabric of reality, shake it up, and see if there was light shining through from behind more or less. For much of the history of...everything, Tokimi continued this and watched with disinterest as each new thing that appeared followed the same formula (usually just madmen and dictators, blackholes and supernovas, and the like). More and more she wondered about her sisters as they had changed beyond recognition to her, and as time went on she became more and more interested in reuniting with them to hear what they had learned (which happens during the OVA, after which she becomes a much more benevolent being). 

:'''Washu Hakubi'''
Washu believed that it was not beyond the ability of the Choushin to understand the Kami, but that they had become too set in their way of thinking through their otherwise omniscient power and knowledge they would never discover the means. Washu chose to seal away most of her divine power and knowledge in three magic gems. She floated through the cosmos still possessing a degree of godlike intelligence as a giant woman the size of a large planet trying to find some inspiration for new perspective somewhere. Early Juraians, not knowing what to make of her since their mythology only included a Juraian-sized woman who became a tree, attacked and sealed her within a planet-sized research facility. There they managed to convert the three gems into living children through experimentation, and after one fell in love with a young man at the facility the others fought her in a massively destructive battle. Tsunami, partially awakened by the destruction they caused, sent a shock that killed all three beings before returning to hibernation. After the facility was abandoned and deteriorated for 100,000,000 years, Washu was able to break free and reclaim her gems. 

Washu believed the failure of her experiment was the result of the only partial surrender of her divinity. This time Washu sealed away all of her knowledge and power other than her immortality within the gems and reverted her body to that of a three year old which was teleported a Juraian monastery planet called Kanemitsu. 
Not knowing her origins, and not quite caring either, Washu grew up as an assumed orphan of Juraian descent and took the surname Hakubi, and after becoming interested in science during her mortal childhood set out to become the greatest mind that the universe had ever known. She began her research on life (not knowing it was her sister's power she was learning about) and on her own gems at a nearby academy where she met a fellow student named Naja Akara. They developed artificial methods of creating life, from constructs to AI that ran on divine energy and had limitless form. In time she and Naja became members of the faculty and peacefully seceded the academy planet from Jurai control, keeping it as a neutral entity between Jurai and the other governments of the universe which had removed themselves from the Jurai Empire in rebellions. 

Some time after this event, Washu met and fell in love with a man who claimed to be called Mikamo Niwase, who in reality was heir to the second most powerful royal line in the universe after the Juraian Emperors, Mikamo Kuramitsu. Kuramitsus were dark-skinned and light-haired (yep, a ganguro race), and their people were militaristic and isolationist. Not long after Washu gave birth to a son named Mikumo, the Kuramitsu Emperor who had pushed for opening their civilization to the others died and Mikamo's father, upon taking the throne, immediately closed their territory to all outsiders and ordered all Kuramitsu people to return to their homelands. Washu, thought to be merely a Juraian peasant orphan, was left alone as Mikamo suddenly revealed his true identity and took their son to the Kuramitsu homeworld. Enraged, Washu spent years gaining entry to the royal palace to steal her son back, although upon seeing him having grown to an adolescent age without knowing her the desire to take him from the only home he'd ever known died. She left her son, who would one day marry the daughter of his father's Kuramitsu wife. Many generations later the Kuramitsu people would make peace with the rest of the universe and form what is essentially the galactic United Nations, with the former Kuramitsu military becoming the police of the universe (called the Galaxy Police). 

Washu's sanity began to slip after this, and she reshaped her body into that of a very young girl while retaining the ability to take on adult form if needed. This kept all connection with others on terms she could dictate fully while keeping future suitors from trying to seek a relationship with her. 

:'''Kagato'''
Naja attempted to steer Washu in a more constructive direction and their attempts to create new lifeforms focused on humanoids. They succeeded in creating two beings grown from single cells of Mass, a mysterious aquatic lifeform that they had discovered. Mass were made of base elements and could take a variety of shapes for self-defense. The experiments grew into the bodies of humanoid infants, although both exploded before "birth" creating permanent craters on the academy planet (needless to say this didn't help Washu's mental state). 
At this point, after 15,000 years of friendship, Naja was said to have been killed (although no body was found) by space pirates while trying to evacuate the facility they were raiding. 
Washu, inexperienced with grief, attempted to clone Naja and accelerate the clone's development, then installed memories from Naja in it. Washu then encouraged the clone to continue working on the project that she and Naja had been working on; creating new lifeforms that could harness the powers of Washu's mysterious gems out of Mass. The clone was careless however and accidentally came into contact with a male humanoid body that the pair were attempting to shape the Mass into. The clone of Naja and the male body merged, and the resulting being called itself Kagato and was possessed with fantastic power and perception somewhat on par with a demigod. The remains of the female body reformed into a small girl, which Kagato sealed away as it disgusted him. The girl would later be known as Noike, and thanks to a rip in space and time would escape her prison in the far future. 

:'''Ryoko Hakubi'''
Now mourning the loss of her friend, the reconstructed version of her friend, and her son and husband, Washu became cold and cruel with Kagato's personality taking after this state as well. The two openly made games of attempting to kill each other, and while Kagato devoted his time to studying the gems Washu's research into creating life took on a new meaning; replacement. In time, she used one of her own egg cells and inserted it into fragments of Mass then utilized energy channeled through her gems to shock it into a new state. The Mass developed into a fetus, which grew and took the shape of a girl. Washu also managed to shape additional Mass into a creature that could fold itself into raw potential and shapeshift, with it's active form being an EXTREMELY powerful spaceship while also having a neutral form resembling a small animal (yes, Washu made a housepet that can turn into a fucking battleship). The knowledge gained from the animal/ship was applied towards the creation of a massive cruiser called the Soja, which served no purpose other than to be another amusing doomsday device in Washu's collection. 

Although finally with her own child, Washu was no longer capable of being a loving mother. The Mass girl, named Ryoko, was subjected to a life of cruel and painful experimentation without any form of social contact at all. Ryoko only knew Washu as a mysterious bringer of pain and as a bizarre godlike being (ironically enough), without any motive or sympathy. The small animal/ship, called Ryo-Ohki, was telepathically bound to Ryoko as an experiment and Ryoko took advantage of this to escape with Washu's gems. Ryoko became the biggest pirate in universal history, feared everywhere. Washu, no longer interested in the project, continued on with her research using data obtained from Ryoko. 
However, Kagato had begun to suspect the powers of Washu and Tsunami, and he sealed away Washu within a pocket dimension on Soja. He then took credit for her life's work, and [[Grimdark|turned the academy into his personal laboratory where he studied the nature of life and the divine]]. After realizing that he needed to study the secrets of the Jurai royal family, he captured Ryoko and used Washu's gems (at this point more a part of Ryoko's life force than simply power-boosting magical talismans) to control her. He used Ryoko as a living weapon for 5,000 years, wiping out entire chunks of the universe in pursuit of artifacts to aid in attempts to uncover the location of Tsunami. 

:'''Azusa Masaki Jurai'''
Here, the story branches back to Jurai. 
A young woman named Amame Yotsuga of House Masaki, a prominent noble family of Jurai, fell in love with a young Galaxy Police officer named Kazuki Yotsuga after helping him defeat a gang of thugs intent on beating him to death after he rescued a young woman from several of its drunken members (in that era part of the Galaxy Police graduation ceremony was to do something similar in a staged event, but this turned out to be quite real). She trained him in the Juraian royal fighting style to aid him in his line of work as he had told her he was not fond of guns (something she found endearing), and wound up falling in love with him. The only way for a member of the nobility of Jurai to marry below their station was to plant the tree bound to them from their personal ship in non-Juraian soil which forever rendered it's connection to Tsunami dead, and after doing this she and her new husband left for a new Juraian colony where they had a child named Azusa. Meanwhile the political situation on Jurai was heating up; the Emperor's adopted daughter Seto Kamiki Jurai, the last survivor of a colony destroyed by space pirates (where does that sound familiar? Beyond vidya references however, it's been implied by the author in various places that Seto was an amnesiac Naja who survived the space pirate attack) was pulling the strings of the entire civilization. Seto had wielded the power of the court for many years, obliterating space pirates with the Juraian military and controlling the families and marriages of every noble on Jurai one way or another, sometimes intentionally creating [[A Song of Ice and Fire|chaos]] for mere amusement. 

Seto reached out to Amame, simply informing her that House Masaki lacked leadership and the boy should be groomed to take on the role of its patriarch. Although initially unwilling, Seto had manipulated him into trusting her by patiently becoming a resident of the household and a motherly figure towards him, and after space pirates attacked the colony the powers granted by Tsunami's blessing of his royal lineage enabled him to fend off a small attacking group which gave him the desire to defend the innocent of the universe. He was schooled on Jurai by Seto in every way, and her manipulation was so perfect that even him running away to play rather than learn to dance was another test and lesson. In time, House Masaki was restored and Azusa was among the nobleman who were candidates for Emperor. While Azusa roamed the universe, Seto manipulated his journey so that particularly nasty space pirates were continually in his path to give him a hatred of their ways. At one point, Kagato attacked his ship and used Ryoko to counter its Light Hawk Wings defenses. The energies unleashed in the engagement almost tore a rift in reality until Tsunami's spirit stirred and broke up the fight, causing the wounded Azusa to land on the nearby planet Earth (which was still in a primitive state of mankind's development). A young woman from pre-feudal Japan named Funaho nursed him back to health and he fell in love with her, defeating a band of space pirates planning on using Earth as a base before returning to Jurai with her. He met the ghost of Misaki on the moon on the way back although he did not recognize who she was. Upon returning, he found that the current Emperor had died of old age with no legitimate heir and the election cycle for the next Emperor had begun. 

Through Seto's manipulations, Azusa should have been a sure win although when he introduced what was essentially a neanderthal woman from a planet with no civilized life (as far as Juraians were concerned) her plan began to fall apart. However, Azusa brought Funaho to the place where Juraians are bound to Tsunami's tree descendants to extend their lives and become their future personal ship against all logic (as they only bond to Juraian nobility) in hopes of giving her a Juraian lifespan. When a tree, furthermore a second generation tree rather than one of the recent ones, chose her it was discovered that Earths Juraian-like inhabitants were the descendants of Masaki, which made Funaho (and indeed all of humanity) not only Juraian but of royal blood. With this legitimacy, Azusa was elected Emperor of Jurai and several years later Seto convinced him to take her young daughter Misaki as his second wife. 

:'''Yosho Masaki Jurai'''
Funaho would give birth to a boy named Yosho while Mitsuki had two daughters, Ayeka and Sasami. Funaho being human had made her something of a non-entity in the court and subject to much mockery when Azusa was not around, and Yosho grew up feeling ashamed of his blood while also protective of his family. Misaki on the other hand was very fond of both Funaho and Yosho, and saw him as her own son. Early in Yosho's puberty he had begun to form an attraction to this step-mother, and realizing the political danger of what could happen Seto convinced Asuza to send Yosho to the Galaxy Police Academy to learn discipline. 
Here he became close friends with a woman named Airi who came from a planet called Airai which worshiped the Choishin and hated Juraians for keeping the connection of Tsunami (believed to be the singular supreme creator by Jurai) out of their hands. Airi became pregnant with Yosho's child, which she kept a secret due to the fact she would be forced to abort it by her family. She had it medically removed and kept in stasis so she could return home and renounce her claim to her planet's throne, then return and have it placed back within her to bring to term. Both she and the child she gave birth to became pawns of Seto, who manipulated them into positions of power within the Galaxy Police. 
Yosho, unaware he had a daughter, had returned to Jurai where he was engaged to Ayeka through Seto's manipulations. Although he was fond of Ayeka he really did think of her as a sister (as we understand it, not as Juraians do) and not a potential partner, and like the other notable members of his family had no desires to lead their people or the Masaki house despite Seto grooming him as Azusa's heir. 

It was around this time that Kagato had become desperate for SOMETHING he could use to find the essence of Tsunami, and so he commanded Ryoko to rain destruction on the planet Jurai. In a massive bloodbath she killed much of it's population and destroyed both city and landscape alike. As the planet defenders rushed to their doom, the young Sasami had wandered into the room containing Tsunami-no-ki while trying to find her parents and fell to her death near its roots from a quake caused by an explosion outside. This awakened Tsunami, who's soul left the tree and entered into the body of the princess, reviving her. Their souls began a process of learning and growing with each other until she becomes a fully grown woman and the two souls will finish merging into one completely.
 
Yosho, both wanting to punish Ryoko for her attempted genocide (as the fact that Kagato was behind Ryoko's attacks was unknown) and to get away from his destiny, launched in pursuit of her. He engaged her repeatedly in battle and finally dueled her on Earth, where he defeated her and removed Washu's gems forcibly from her body. Ryoko was left in a state as close to death as can be imagined from their removal, although Yosho was unwilling to deal the finishing blow as at some point he had realized she was a victim rather than a monster. He inserted the gems into the object he used to form the energy of Tsunami's divinity as a weapon, a wooden sword hilt which he called the Tenchi-ken. During the battle he had rescued a woman named Kasumi, who was his cousin. 

He took on the name Katsuhito Masaki and became the local priest (possibly beginning the Shinto faith based on the truth of the universe), and used his position to fabricate a story that a nearby cave was home to an ancient and horrible demon that long ago a hero had defeated. In reality, he had left Ryoko naked and wearing a demon mask in a pool of water with his sword hilt (disguised by having a metal blade paced in it) in a chamber that only a Juraian of royal blood could open. Here she would remain alive, although she would waste away to a skeleton and be unable to harm anyone. Unbeknownst to him, Ryoko's growing madness in the claustrophobia of the cave while her body rotted down to bones severed her soul and freed her from Kagato's control, allowing her to wander as an astral being and observe the landscape further and further the longer she was trapped. After planting his royal tree at the shrine to renounce all claim to the throne of Jurai, he married Kasumi and had four children, one of them beginning a family line that would include a boy named Nobuyuki Masaki. After Kasumi died, Yosho married his first love Airi and had a daughter named Kiyone sometime in the 1700's (Earth years). Jurai would not hear of the Masaki family or Yosho for many years, each child taking on false identities when leaving Earth as adults. At some point during Kiyone's youthful adventures in space, she found an artificially created woman named Rea who was adopted into the family as a servant. 

:'''Tenchi Masaki'''
Nobuyuki journeyed to become a member of the Galaxy Police where he was decorated, and eventually retired home where he married Kiyone and had a daughter named Tennyo. During the 1970's, Nobuyuki and Kiyone had a son named Tenchi (yep, we finally get to him). Due to their similar appearance and the fact both used illusions to keep humans from suspecting they were actually the same people surviving multiple generations of humans, both Tennyo and Kiyone would pretend to be each other and raise Tenchi without him ever knowing he had an older sister until much later in life. Neither were exceptionally kind to the young Tenchi, as both were addicted to practical jokes and while not neglectful were not emotionally supportive (drawing "I am stupid" on your 2 year old baby's face in marker and intentionally scaring him are not exactly marks of being a good parent). During this time, Ryoko's spirit had fixated on Tenchi. She observed his entire childhood, almost never leaving his side (as a spirit that is). Kiyone finally died at the (young, for a Juraian) age of 248 during Tenchi's childhood, and Tennyo immediately left Earth to maintain the facade of the family being humans. Rea stepped in and raised Tenchi as best he could before departing as well in his adolescence, and as an adult Tenchi wouldn't recall his actual mother but instead mixed Rea's mothering with his few memories of the appearance Kiyone/Tennyo (Tenchi would later discover the truth from Rea directly because after asking for more information about her, his father and grandfather told him horrifying stories leading up to how she seemed to die before at the end she would survive through her Juraian powers, all of which came from a script that she, Kiyone, and Tennyo had writen as part of her will many years before). In time, Nobuyuki would marry Rea as his second wife. 
At some point Airi died, and Yosho/Katsuhito decided to stop prolonging his life and allow the Earth to take him through age rather than use his Juraian lifeline any longer. Although still using an illusion to appear as an old man (when in reality he barely looks out of his 20's), in time it would become reality. 

The OVA series begins with Tenchi Masaki being completely unaware of ANYTHING outside of what a normal human boy would know; he's an average high school student, his mother died while he was young, his father is an architect in Toyko that's especially fond of Pioneer brand electronics (the company that paid for the OVA to be produced, which got PLENTY of product placement in the series), and he works at his grandfather's shrine where the two practice sword-fighting a lot. 
Throughout his life Tenchi was always FASCINATED by the cave that his grandfather had always told him held the corpse of the demon known as Ryoko. One day during a sparring match he managed to steal the key to Ryoko's tomb (in reality Yosho had allowed him to take it, thinking that Tenchi could calm Ryoko and that the event would be a good way to let him in on who he really is), and he immediately went and explored it. 
</div>
</div>