This is a reimagining of Gate: Thus the JSDF fought there just with different locations, characters and an overall effect on the main story. This is Gate: Rebirth of an empire.
Prologue
In the year 2021 the world had been hit by a recession, it hit harder and deeper than one had done before, creating giant rifts between countries that had money and those that didn't. While those middle class countries that could just sustain themselves, where isolated due to lack of interest from richer nations. The UN was even more useless then before, barely managing to save face during minor incidents and having very few countries to unify. The EU had pretty much disbanded with only the nations that were prospering maintain it, but unable to support the poor nations.
A small island of the coast of Europe that was once an international powerhouse, now laid as a futile state that couldn't be called a shell of its former self, no longer a member of the EU and never sending representatives to the UN. With unemployment at 30%, its highest in memory, creating the final nail in the coffin for the benefits system and the NHS about to get destroyed. The armed forces standing at 55,000 men and women, with the lack of funding to this and the police departments, meaning that in the next couple of years the police and army will merge and create a more militarised police to fight the disorder left with the high unemployment rate. The island now had no military bases in other countries and was no longer a member of a united kingdom, it was just England.
Chapter 1
March 21st 2021
A sunny Sunday morning on the Salisbury plains suddenly turned sour when the sunny day light turned in to pitch black of night, the locals and tourist were scared to see the light disappear, no was moving, waiting to see what would happen next. The sky was lighten up by a flash of light, people were screaming thinking that this was a nuclear bomb going off, a lot of the crowd stay when there was no evidence of a mushroom cloud, a few minutes later there was still nothing. The low rumble of people running was slowly muffled out a more impending noise; onlookers where trying to figure where this noise was coming from, but it soon found them, hundreds of horsemen trampled and attacked the onlookers before they could react, killing or capturing whomever they could.
It was two hours before anyone could get some information about the situation, reports that where being handed to local police misidentified what was going on, instead of an invasion; they thought it was a riot.
At this point the imperial army had marched on Amesbury, surprised on the look of building and strange machines around them. They were still killing and capturing people and had killed an unknown number of innocents. The members of public where completely in the dark about what was happen, some thinking it was a period event or just a mass gathering until it was too late.
The very small police force where overwhelmed and underequipped, having only truncheons and the very small amount of Tasers. Several officers were killed but many were saved by their stabbed proof vests. The police in this area were not use to violent incidents like this.
It would be a long time before England could bring enough of it police forces to counter the invasion force but at the moment they were trying to just save some of their people.
29th March 2021
It was over a week later before the government could get a large force of their police to the area, they still thought that it was a riot due to the lack of information coming out of the devastated towns.
The imperial army had taken Amesbury, Larkhill and Durrington and had started to lay siege on the city of Salisbury, at the moment the population thought the rioters had reached them and wanted to leave them to loot the shops. The imperial army was only using their traditional standing army and not any of their 'special forces', but these where more than enough to conquer this new land.
At the end of the day the English police force had managed to gather five thousands officers and two thousands mounted officers, this had made the rest of the country short on officers everywhere else, but the government had started to use the army as a subsidized police force, utilising them in the wrong way. The next morning a huge offensive would be undertaken.
Before the sun had risen, the police force flow one of the few drones that the army has operational at the moment, the other several hundred being mothballed in the same place that the army had stockpiled in the north with a large horde of other equipment. The drone couldn't identify much within the smoke coming out of the city due to burning buildings and piles created in the parks and open spaces, also noticing a large built up area around Stonehenge, this was all before the drone was shot down by a unknown force.
The collective police force entered by car and van down the main motorway and entered the city before unloading and creating shield walls to repulse the rioters, they found no one until they reached some make shift walls, these wall stopped trespassers reaching Stonehenge around the city, different groups of police where reporting these make shift walls. It was only a matter of moments before the archers on the other side of the wall started to fire at the police, surprising the officers with the attack of unconventional weapons, the shield wall of the police managed to hold against the attacks. Using tear gas and bean bag rounds from shotguns against their enemy; this pushed them from the walls, which allowed the police to push though by ramming the walls with the vans.
The arrested men were put in the vans and sent back to a recently constructed detention centre in Andover, it wasn't long before all the vans had left, making the forces thinking they had most of the rioters, they were about to be surprised. The imperial army had noticed the police forces push so far in while incapacitate a large number of solders, the enemy where using strange weapons and draped in black armour, the commander of this small contingent ordered his horsemen to descend upon the black armoured men, the echo of hoofs against the roads alerted the police forces to the incoming danger.
The police moved the remaining car to block the streets around the square they had managed to capture and creating different defensive lines against the rioters, there was a mumble among the officers about the strange uniforms of the rioters, noticing that there dressed as Roman soldiers while using weapons of antiquity.
The horsemen hit the square during night so they didn't see the cars until the last minute, creating a hold up and crushing the front men, the horsemen soon found a way between or over the cars to attack the officers. When the horsemen entered the square they found there enemy in a square formation to oppose them, at the same time the police called over the radio to send in their mounted officers. The mounted officers entered the battle ground though the one exit that the police had, these men charged the rioter with truncheons which wouldn't be that effective against the heavily armoured horsemen.
The fight lasted hours with a lot of causality's, mainly on the side of the police forces, only using non-lethal weapons gave them the wrong gave them the wrong weapons in this fight, it wasn't long before they retreated. The police forces soon found that they had lost almost half their forces and was using the cars as weapons to help the retreating officers get far away enough to regroup; these officers would create a small defensive line outside the town, which would be slowly reinforced in the later coming weeks and months with men from the army.
It wasn't long before the government had herd the bad news of the counter offensive against the rioters, this was going to create a void between the government and the people, the people wanting to see some action to take place, seeing as men and women were getting killed every day while the government wanting to stall while they can afford to do something.
A month went by with nothing happening, the police defence line holding against imperial army, which now employed lethal weapons including heavy machine guns being used by soldiers and a few armoured vehicles. The government had sent representatives to meet with the diplomats of the imperial army; this didn't end well when soldiers turned up and slaughtered the representatives and their body guards. This scared the government and the members of parliament while angering the member of the general public. In the next few month a new party with arise to work with the people to save the people.
This new political party was the Phoenix party, their members included soldiers, doctors, nurses, teachers, police and scientists, they believed that their united professions would create understand of what the population needed. It was created for the benefit of the people life styles and wellbeing due to the recession. seeing that the politicians become even more stagnated then before, caring more for themselves then the job they held, this would be there downfall. Due to the high percentage of people complaining against the government, they have decided to hold an emergency election in fear that not doing this would cause even more social unrest.
The Imperial army had come to a standstill outside of Salisbury, not being able to penetrate the wall that held them there; it would be a few months before they could bring enough reinforcements to breach the enemy's walls. There is also a worry that men might desert due to fear, many vengeful men and weapons where against them.
Within the next thirty days an election would be held, hoping the old guard would still be in place to see this thought. This was a bold move against the growing number of people joining the Phoenix party, creating new jobs just in the electoral procedures showing they were capable of doing the job, also ex-forces member had congregated on the wall to protect English soil.
The general public only had the information that this where a violent uprising against the country as a hold, many fringe theory's ranged from terrorist, nationalist parties, foreign invaders and with some people saying it's all a hoax to institute a dictatorship. The powers that be had found out more information about the situation, the police and government bodies had noticed that these invaders wore armour of antiquity and used primitive weapons compared to what they had. The language barrier had been a burden before the break through that these people where speaking an old variation on Latin, this finally meant that they could know more about the enemy then they had before.
During the elections the current government did next to nothing to try and maintain their status quo, apart from securing the votes with the rich that where most distant from the general public. At the end of the day the election had been finished and a land slide victory would be announced. The Phoenix party would win the highest majority of seats in parliament and win the day. In the coming weeks there would be many new changes in the system to make a more stable and powerful country.
While the election was going a member of the general public had gathered a large following, document the resent incursions upon English soil, collecting different videos and accounts of the attacks and events, Jack Bowman felt that he needed to chronicle these unsettling times.
Bowman had a lot of contacts in different parts of the public sector including the police, army and other emergency services which gave him useful insight. The slow trickle of revelations was giving the general public the right information about the situation.
It had been revealed that these attacks hadn't been contributed to an outside nation so a large portion of the population believed it to be an internal confliction, but because of Bowman leaks it was slowly being believed that these where from an outside source.
Pictures and videos where being released from Bowman's website showing the solders wearing uniforms and armour of antiquity which confused a lot of people, but as time went on more and more of their atrocities were revealed, including the mass fire pits in the towns the they had conquered, that turned out to be burning bodies.
Kermitor