This was not necessarily a bad thing.
Mongo had been ruled by Ming The Merciless (his grandfather) who had united the world of Mongo with the various moons. Ming had eventually faced Flash Gordon and Dale Arden.
Ming had apparently died. Flash and Dale had gotten married and returned to Earth. Ming eventually had the most diabolical revenge ever. He had survived and eventually took power again. Living well was the best revenge.
Ming had finally died back in 1962, sometime after exiling one of his daughters to the very same Earth as Flash and Dale. This was part of a Sinister Plan. After all, if Earth could produce such an exceptional warrior as Flash - then it could also be the ideal environment for one of his own sons to be raised to become a great warrior. Ming's death had actually been quite ironic. After all his faked deaths, last minute escapes, and the dangers he'd faced all his life to unite the moons and world of Mongo under his rule - he'd choked to death on a piece of asparagus while dining.
Not that Dale and Flash did much better. They had escaped the press by coming to Japan under an assumed name only to find that Ming had paid for them to be cursed to never find their way back to Mongo. The sorcerer had done such a good job that they couldn't find anything at all after that and spent most of their lives wandering around lost.
Ming The Merciless, Feared Warlord of Mongo, had been replaced by a surviving son. Wang The Mildly Cross. Wang's rule of Mongo was actually not that bad for the various Moons. As long as they were united under the Emperor's rule they weren't fighting each other and actually didn't have much problem. Wang The Mildly Cross had inherited Ming's tactical genius but had mainly been interested in mixing technology and magic together in feats of great engineering. The robot-golem project had developed the Iron Legion, the Steel Calvary, and the Wooden Brigade - his most successful project and one that provided for his few successes.
Wang The Mildly Cross had assumed the rule of Mongo from 1962 to 1984 and had provided twenty-two years of relative peace and security.
Unfortunately, one of the groups - the Eagle Men - decided enough was enough and to go to war. When Wang had come to see if he could negotiate a peaceful solution, egged on by many of the more peaceful folk of his council, he had been killed and his body put on display.
Wang had been twelve when he assumed the position of Emperor. His successor, Yan The Terror, was forty-three when he had assumed the throne.
Yan The Terror had proven his name when he decimated the tribes of the Eagle Men down to less than a hundred using Wang's robot soldiers. Yan took after Ming and ruled with an iron fist. He held the belief that Wang was killed for being weak, only the ruthless could hold onto power, and he was determined to do just that.
Yan's rule had abruptly been cut off by a small bomb. Mongo had a new enemy, and nobody who could really fill Ming's shoes. Heck, they couldn't find someone to fill Wang's shoes. By the time the scuffles for power had ended, it was clear that the only thing this was accomplishing was that the number of councillors and generals had shrunk considerably - and the enemy was beginning to make inroads on one of the Moons. Worse, the robot soldiers would only obey the orders of the Emperor - and there was still no Emperor.
There was another Emperor, briefly - he lasted two months, but the less said about the ecchi mad scientist who had gotten screwed over (literally) by his own contribution to the robot soldiers, the better.
Which was when somebody had gotten the bright idea about Ming's exiled daughter and the plan to have an Exceptional Warrior.
All of which had brought one Ranma Saotome to a world called Mongo.
The next thing to do was:
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