As a member of the Imperial Court of the Great Qing Empire, you will be tasked with balancing domestic grievances, conservatives, reformist, and foreign influences. Faced with immediate pressures from the Eight Nations Alliance in the form of highly modernized militaries against your sword-wielding boxers, the glory of the Empire is dependent on how you choose to influence the court: will you choose to take this chance and force reforms? Or will you choose your own well-being over the nation? The fate of a 5000 year old civilization is in your hands.