A/N: This is a fic based on the trope "The World as Myth", which holds that all universes are fictional in some other universes. This idea was thought possible with Fire Emblem, Familiar of Zero and Stargate all turning out to exist in another universe relatively close to the Supreme Commander universe. Note that Dostya will eventually be very unamused on visiting a world diverging from ours past 2009, where SupCom is a video game and finding out she got used as a "Sacrificial Lion" trope.

For the units eventually mentioned that are not found in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, please consult my SupCom Codex fic which documents all my additions. Any differences in stats are also in the Codex.

In October 2001, Shirogane is a 2nd year Japanese high school student, so Grade 11… that means he was born in 1984.

Chapter 1: The World as Myth

A particular universe was practically banging its head against the wall over the repeated failures of the brat who unknowingly could reset the timeline every once in a while or if he died. Then it registered a probe warping through the barriers between universes.

Hmm… this would do, oh yes…

The universe in question was completely sick of the fact that it was being reset not by a race that could destroy galaxies at will, but by one that was so incredibly weak that dedicated melee weapons still worked against their war machines. Well, it was time to introduce them to the neighbours, so to speak…

Maybe the neighbours could even educate the brat on why wishing he could legally have long-term breeding and cohabitation contracts with multiple females was a bad, BAD idea. Namely, the fact that the universe had to nudge the local galactic plague in the direction of the planet in a particularly long reset to make there be few enough males for polygamy to be legal again.

Then again, that universe mused, it was always hilarious to make some young, stupid mortal God for brief times, just to see how badly they could fuck up in the course of having a "perfect life" in the broad strokes. Still, it hadn't believed it was possible for such a mortal to screw his race over and up THIS BADLY WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT…

…Wait, what was that mortal saying again…

…Hmm, perhaps it was because of the universe's infinite stupidity that it didn't understand the infinite stupidity of mortals…

Well, if even the universe was stupid, then it had to fix this stupidity with overwhelming power… power that this probe and the other-universal counterparts of this dying race represented.

3861, SupCom Universe

"Sir?" Captain White Steele blinked at his (yes, White is an unusual name for a boy, he has heard that N times) superior, not understanding what he'd just heard and essentially asking for a repetition. He didn't do anything as rude as the Elite Four's common habit of pretending to pick at their ears when they heard something completely unbelievable.

"Your name turned up in a search for possible parallels in old fictions during the Mythical World Project. Here, the files you'll need to study properly in dealing with the alien disease we're going to have to exterminate to save that universe." He had a long list on a paper shoved in front of him with a data "disk" as the storage devices were often colloquially called containing said files (despite not involving any disks since long before the Infinite War). "And a briefing on ancient Earth history that will be relevant in the era you land in. You are to confer with Crusader Maya and Group Commander Mica84 in half an hour regarding the details of the timeline you will be punching into. Crusader Maya will be in charge. You gate tomorrow morning."

General Arnold turned off the briefing channel, having made no mention whatsoever that he was going to be gating into the setting of an ancient Adult Game with plenty of remakes over the millennia, one which Arnold himself had been a fan of back in his youth… AHEM! He also made no mention of the not so minor fact that he was shoving one of the few officers who'd spent (as of last week) more of his career in peaceful times than in war (Steele had entered service in 3835) into a scenario that was among the most dreaded of situations for any male in the Coalition.

You see, when the Earth Empire used genetically modified DNA patterns for initial colonist populations, they decided that natural population growth wasn't quite enough, and improved the mental feedback from sex for both genders. Sure, male endurance was greatly improved by reducing physical feedback for men, but the sad fact of the matter is that the average libido level between men and women was a lot more balanced now. When it had been purely biological evolution, where females mating overly frequently didn't have nearly the advantages of males doing so, things had been… not nearly as balanced.

The body size (and average bust size) increase in the name of reducing pregnancy health impacts on women was more than compensated for by improved slow-twitch muscle fibres in the back for females. Men did not have the luxury of additional size and thus leverage, and any man unfortunate enough to be stuck in a relationship with more than two or at most three women without another guy there to help divide the work was pitied for frequent physical fatigue. They also often got the impression of being a living dildo being passed around, but that was neither here nor there.

The Cybran Nation's sex ratio is still 60-40 due to the sheer number of (overwhelmingly female) liberated "sex dolls" over the centuries. This is despite births being about 105 to 100, favouring boys. The Aeon Illuminate has an even worse ratio of about 65-35 because females were considered more in tune with The Way and therefore most people wanted daughters. However, cultural values have shifted, and in more recent years, the Illuminate has seen the male ratio at birth rise to about 75 to 100. Polygamy is regarded as a matter of all-party consent in both factions.

The UEF is considerably more conservative, and can afford it as its sex ratio is nearly 1:1.

General Arnold was well known for trolling his subordinates and being a prankster in less than serious times. This? Well, Captain Steele was about to be very, very doomed, especially given the two ACU pilots he associated most with (even though one of them hated him now). Give him a few more moment to re-read the information, and to let it sink in… Arnold thought…

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

…Oh hey, there went the scream that he could hear even through five floors and about ten walls! Then the sound was abruptly silenced. Well, even the UEF General's override on the internal structural integrity fields could only hold so long when the fields perceived a threat due to sheer volume, Arnold supposed, and since the walls and floors weren't well soundproofed beyond the structural fields…

Right About Now…

"AAAHHHHHHH!" White was about to burst out laughing, but barely turned it into another faked panicked shout as he continued running around the room screaming. "AAAHHHHHH!" It's good to see you smile at me again, Mica… It had been years since she'd completely ignored his existence other than professional occasions, ever since his perceived betrayal of asking for a transfer to the UEF to fill out their squad better.

"Is he actually setting the carpet on fire?" Group Commander Mica84 Gamma (it used to be written with the symbol for her last name until the Coalition formed and it was decided to standardize better) was still giggling at the younger man's silliness when she looked over at the Aeon representative of their squad. They'd operated together since the Seraphim War after the then Elite Three proved it a great concept.

Crusader Maya Corbin shrugged as she continued reading the data they had "Yes, I'm suppressing it from actually burning with my mind, while he's heating it with his circuitry and boots for theatrics." She rubbed at her messy purple hair self-consciously. "Mica, you are seeing what I'm seeing, right?" She pointed at the two main female protagonists on the cover.

"Heh, I've known about this series for as long as I existed, Maya. Realizing White looked like this generic harem protagonist in it was a nasty surprise, but I got over it based on him being the kid who helped me out when I was young and just liberated." Mica84 was born an 84th generation sex doll of the "Sumika Kagami" line (hence her choice of name post-Liberation), from an iron womb with the Loyalty Program installed. Although the series they were looking through now was extremely old and obscure, she knew it better than perhaps anyone else alive other than the other survivors of that doll line, or the other line that was perhaps still around… "Are your ancestors from the other main line of dolls? Because the resemblance is uncanny."

Maya snorted "No Impossible Hair shenanigans here, thank you very much." Though she did like to wear a ponytail… and could easily animate her hair with her mind to act like this fictional… uh, not-so-fictional… girl's…

"Yeah, because having it grow almost straight up before falling to the sides sharply under its own weight is totally not impossible hair…" Mica84 pointed at her own reddish hair, then at the purple of her teammate.

"I'm done panicking for your amusement now." White said, dropping into a seat in the meeting room and clearing the space where the holographic projector would have shown things.

"Sounds about right for a man told his counterpart is a harem protagonist and he might be dragged into it, given there are very few men left in that world." Maya noted, waggling her eyebrows.

"I have no intention of letting White get rented out as a living sex doll, we Cybrans have had quite enough of that." Mica84 growled, then realized what she was saying about trying to control others, something anathema to her as a liberated doll. "That is, of course, unless he wants to. My apologies, Captain Steele."

"Thank you for caring, Mica!" White employed the almighty power of the Glomp at this point.

Unfortunately, given he was a grown man instead of a young boy teaching her how to be human one step of development at a time as he'd been the last time he did this sort of hug, Mica84's reaction was a lot less healthy for him than a back rub "Get off me!"

Even though she'd mostly been just flailing at him instead of actually trying to hurt him—you still consider me a friend… maybe this mission will be what gets you to see what Mom had seen years ago…—White still ended up flying off her and hitting the other wall "…Ow…"

"I don't think the briefing session was meant to injure any participants." Maya thumbed over at the sign by the door, proudly announcing this room to be War Room #55, right next door to the Elite Four's preferred room, War Room #54. "I get this feeling there is some ancient cultural reference to be made about no fighting being allowed in the war room, but I know not what that reference is…" She went back to perusing the data on their upcoming mission, and the other two took the hint and also settled down to read more.

Maya had one hand grabbing more documents off the table when she froze in place, with that hand still clasped around the edge of the table. Then half the coffee table turned into cut crystals of, effectively, perfectly cubic sand and fell to the ground, where it scattered after impact.

Mica84 and White shared a look, the woman not bothering to remember that she wasn't talking to the man and hadn't spoken to him outside work for years. It seemed Maya had gotten to the part where her counterpart and Yui's had been separated for superstition… Wait, why were the Psi Disruptors inactive until they picked up her discharge and stopped it cold?

…Really, General Arnold? You know, I think if you spent all this effort on paperwork instead of trolling the subordinates, whenever you're on rotation, you'd be a lot happier… White thought, sighing.

"It looks like I'll be destroying a rotten aristocracy soon for Yui's sake… this will be too easy." The gleam of Maya's teeth as she grinned too broadly was less than reassuring.

Yui Corbin had been jailed after the Seraphim War for not having defected from the Order until after Maya had gotten their parents and siblings all killed. This had been after the Quantum Rift was closed, hence her allegiance to the Aeon was at best in doubt. It was only thanks to Maya's reputation and influence that Yui's constructing Psi Disruptors on Seraphim-occupied worlds was overlooked enough to be demoted to a jail sentence cut off from the Way. Given this was considered crueller than cutting a Cybran off from access to the Cybran Network (read: a public place to whine) and she really didn't know what she was doing exactly anyhow (and "accidentally" left some blank spots on each planet for souls to congregate in)… Not too much harm had been done, but like the other late-defecting Order commanders, she'd still gotten a relatively long jail sentence, and Maya was not allowed to visit her older twin.

For such a separation to occur just due to superstition…

Crusader Maya didn't earn the rank of Crusader by being so nice that after the Infinite War ended she was recognized by the Loyalists as one of their best propaganda chips and promoted. This was unlike one former Templar Fran who she was a Fran-girl of… and yes, the guy did have enough reputation for his fans to make that lame pun. Maya had earned her rank in the final days of the Infinite War by piling up gigadeaths from the populations of the UEF, Cybrans, and, during the Seraphim War, the true believers of the Order of the Illuminate.

Never mind the fact that she was more than old enough to be her and Yui's counterparts' grandmother, she was going to ensure the sisters got the right to an unshackled life. Those who got in her way had better pick a god and pray!

A/N: I need a vote by review on where they should enter the timeline. Preliminary planning is to have Shirogane reset into the living quarters of his counterpart's ACU right after Steele arrives.

I read a crossover on Sufficient Velocity and SpaceBattles that made my brain hurt with how underpowered they made Coalition tech. Hence I'm slapping this up as an announcement that eventually this is going to be written.

Expect this to (once I actually write it) be one big steamroller, complete with crack, a whole LOT of crack (and cracking). BETA started moving toward Niigata from Sadogashima at 0620, and they arrived on the coast at 0648. That is 28 minutes for at least about 32 km, or if they surfaced where the city of Niigata used to be, about 43 km. So underwater speed is between 69 and 92 kilometers per hour, or 19 to 26 meters per second. A goddamned FATBOY moves faster than that (at 35m/s), and a Seraphim War era Cooper can fire 1.2 torpedoes per second while kiting the BETA at 120m/s on the surface. 28 minutes underwater is enough for ONE Cooper Tier 2 torpedo boat to kill over 2000 BETA with torpedoes alone, and that's if they spread out enough to avoid the concussive splash damage which would tear anything sans structural field apart. Add to that how Supreme Commander never does ones or twos of anything but Battle Enders…

Make no mistake, I'll be going through and finishing all these things I started eventually, I'm just laying them out in relative position so I don't get confused when cross-referencing.