Aw, hell, I just read the last few pages and realized that Aaron already claimed pretty much the entire region. I was thinking his cossacks were more in the western part of Siberia, closer to the Urals, leaving the eastern half mostly free for my weird monks, but I guess that's not the case.

If he's alright with me operating in the region, though, I'm fine with having to deal with China invading. I think some really interesting shit could be written about the conflict between the borderline-theocratic group I'm working on and the (I assume) godless communists coming from the south. Worst comes to worst, I will never get bored of writing them becoming Orthodox Russian Al-Qaeda and forcing the Chinese to fight a counter-insurgency for a decade or so, a la the War on Terror (maybe this is where the doomsday cult stuff comes in?).