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(see warning below) Rising Sun flag replaces emperor's flag upon becoming Imperial Vanguard [FotS]

(been sitting on this for months waiting to hear back for the OG modder of RSM)

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THIS MOD! This mod of mine is simply using one mechanic of the campaign overhaul mod 'Iutland's: Land of the Rising Sun Mod' here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=841893537&searchtext=rising+sun I tried reaching out to the modder but I haven't heard back for many months and they don't seem to have been active since 2020. I claim no originality to the mod, just wanted to use this feature without the overhaul.

I'm not sure if this is compatible with 'The Lost Domains (More regions for FOTS)', you'd have to try yourself or see if anyone has commented on it already. I would imagine it would though to be honest.

REASON FOR THIS MOD:
This mod is meant to better make the player represent the coming of the Japanese Empire as a result of the Boshin War by giving you more credibility to conquer the whole map because you have the official flag of the emperor instead of your clan flag (once you become imperial vanguard) because I always felt it was weird to have nothing but imperial factions left and just randomly turn on your allies. This mod helps make it more justifiable for you to conquer all shogunate factions and then roleplay the samurai (Satsuma) rebellion as one final challenge by declaring war on all imperial factions (as if they rebelled against you), allowing you to conquer the map in a way that makes sense (additional RP disband and don't recruit any more samurai units). Didn't make a mod that changes your faction name to Japanese Empire because 1. That's a lot of factions to make individual mods for and I don't want to, 2. You can't move your capital to Tokyo/ Edo/ Musashi, and 3. If you're roleplaying, then the Japanese Empire shouldn't properly come about until you're the only faction left after conquering the map, and by then there's no point because you've finished the campaign.

WARNING!!!
I'm well aware the Rising Sun flag is basically equivalent to the Nazi flag, especially in the eastern half of Asia, culturally. With that being said, I want to point out that the Japanese Empire did not become fascist until the 1930's via a partial military coup in 1932 and a more overt military coup in 1936 which was solidified in its power after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
But I'm aware that Japan conquered many areas such as Korea prior to the empire becoming fascist, and therein lies the fact that all empires are bad, and we play as them all the time in TW games. I fully understand that there are still people alive today who suffered through the Japanese atrocities and this mod is therefore more touchy because of the living memory of Japan's victims. All I can say is that this mod is of course 100% optional and, if we can play as the British Empire and conquer India, the US and conquer Native America, France and conquer North Africa, the Germans in NTW's Great War mod and conquer Europe, etc., that it's entirely okay to play as an equally bad empire at it's very inception over sixty years before it became fascist. After all, we're already playing said empire, but this just adds their historical flag. And just to be clear, the RTW mod '1942' has the fully fascist Germans and Japanese playable (though I haven't played either of them), so it's not like I'm breaking new ground here.

(I want to keep in mind I explicitly chose not to do this mod for the 'Scramble for the Far East' mod because, along with other reasons, I didn't want to get too touchy with having Japan raise this flag and simultaneously be able to conquer Korea and Manchuria).

*Edit, quick heads up I started Choshu and they have Mori red/white instead of Chosu black/yellow because of this mod (plus agent banner is weird) and idk why. I'll see if I can fix it, but if you face a similar problem, just don't have this active until it's time to become imperial vanguard.