And we are back with chapter 30! I'll be honest, I didn't think it would go this long but you guys really have shown your support with this one so I couldn't not keep going. Though I was surprised by the rather…small amount of reviews the last chapter got, I know that I don't get a lot with this story but come on, that was low. Please if you read the chapter and have an opinion of it, whether you want to give suggestions, criticise something I did or compliment my work, I'll appreciate if you take the time to write a review, how else am I supposed to know your thoughts? Now that that's out of the way, the coming chapter. This one will have the aftermath of the last one as well as other new developments both in Japan and abroad.
JCarrasco: I plan to, this is only the first in what I hope is a trilogy of stories, kinda like the original and prequel sequels.
tf330129: Thank you.
Vien Bloodborne: OH yes, what was supposed to be a simple raid/surprise attack digressed into a bloody battle with both sides leaving with new scars. Cornelia will handle it as well as you would expect, seeing how it was Guilford who got her out of her funk over Andreas death, now they might have to send two more coffins with the remains of their friends back to the homeland. Though with the way things are going, the sisters will learn the truth soon.
Blaze1992: And it have certainly gone a hell of a lot better for the BK as well. The point was that no-one walked away being or feeling like a winner. Like when two guys get into a fight over a girl and she sees them, finds out why they're fighting and tells both of them to f*** off, leaving them bruised and sad.
Chapter 30: Welcome to the Starship Sakura
16th November 2020 a.t.b. /3 9688 BBY:
Unknown Region:
Milky Way Galaxy:
Earth/Sol-3:
Area 11:
Kanto region:
Black Knight Kanto Command
"So to sum it all up," Zero stated as he stared down both his old friend and his personal unit. "The ambusher got ambushed."
"Afraid so, we can safely assume that the train was a decoy and we fell for it, hook line and sinker." S.K. reported as they had just finished giving their report on the earlier incident between then in the imperials.
"What were our losses?" Nunnally asked, seeing how the repot didn't give any numbers, only using the word 'severe' which was never a good sign.
"Equally dreadful." Tierra stepped back to answer. "Of the sixty infantry that were sent on this raid mission, 24 are dead and 19 wounded. In terms of knightmares we lost 8 of the 15 we had with another 3, including damaged and in need of repair." He finished as he gave a near non-existent look to S.K. whose unit was in need of a new shield seeing how the last one was on its last legs.
"Were the enemy models that impressive?" Zero asked, leaning forward to pay extra attention. They had foreseen the enemy upgrading their gear but they didn't think it would happen this quickly. Perhaps their continued successes was getting to the colonials.
"Yes, here is a clip taken from my unit." The strict member of the Zero squad replied a he played them all a clip of the units in actions. Even the ones when their own machines were defeated and destroyed. "You can clearly tell they were based off the Lancelot, and have skilled pilots."
"From radio communications from the battle, we can safely assume that those pilots are the Glaston Knights, who are down one member thanks to Kallen." Lie Mei stated as he was quite entertaining to piss those boys off as they fought, even if they didn't slip up in their anger-it was always entertaining to get under someone's skin like that, at least in her opinion.
"Good job rookie, you're first real kill." She went on as the clip changed to the one taken from the Guren's database, the one showing her roasting one of the new units.
"What the hell does that mean?" Kallen asked her, an angry tick forming on her forehead from having to deal with this annoying women on a day to day basis.
"It means," Lie Mei dragged it out, clearly enjoying how angry the only other female of the squad looked right now. "That it was the first time you beat a known ace and took their lives, the fodder in sunderlands don't count."
"Moving in, the real kicker was this one." Tierra just ignored them and continued on with the report. This one playing exclusive footage taken by S.K. unit when he fought the Knight of Nine. Unlike before, she was actually pushing his unit back and dealing some heavy blows with their axe of hers.
"It has signs of the Lancelot in its looks but it is drastically different to the unit. It was piloted by the Knight of Nine." Tierra said as Zero noted that the machine bared a slight resemblance to the GINN, it wasn't obvious but as one who was there when the unit was being developed and field tested on Mars, he could tell. The only other person in the room to pick up on this resemblance was Rakshata, who for once, didn't have her faithful assistant with her as she lounged on a sofa that was put in the meeting room for her convenience.
"Nonette? She really has moved up in the world, got herself a state of the art frame?" Zero stated as he started to think of all the ways he could break this new unit just like the old one. 'I wonder how easy it'll be to crush this one, certainly bigger than the last one.'
"So the enemy is wising up and beginning to field better units then?" L.M asked/stated as she reviewed her own terminal video. The engagement proved to be a bloody stalemate from what she could see.
"Still, I can't see them having a lot of them, our spies would have picked up any large number of them which means they are only those few and maybe another 10, 11 in the country." Warwick said as they couldn't have been a large number in the country, someone would have noticed something and shipping schedules hadn't changed, so there was little chance they were imported.
"Based on the fact that the ACEES unit is based here along with the brains behind the Lancelot, it would be fair to say that they were produced here." Alleujah cut in as he changed the terminals to show what they knew about the rather eccentric Earl. They knew a lot about his time studying thanks to Rakshata but personal life and work info was less forthcoming. Being a member of the ACEES made his files difficult to get to.
"So Lloyd is getting to work maybe new models already?" Rakshata spoke up as she took a drag from her pipe, something Zero didn't kind as the room as well ventilated and temperate controlled seeing how it was deep underground.
"That would appear to be the case Ms. Chawla. Would it be possible for your team to go over the combat data and analyse them?" Tierra asked of her, being his formal self as to go so far as to use her last name rather than her first like everyone else.
"No problem at all, it'll help with the upgrades I'll be planning with Kaya." She replied, showing her won mirth at the fact that she finally got clearance to meet his mysterious inventor/engineer.
"Oh yes, you'll all scheduled to finally meet the rest of the organisation, correct?" Zero asked as he thought to when he approved this. It was a tough call but he was confident she wouldn't be a problem. He really didn't want to have to kill her.
"Indeed. But I must say, finding out my new partners have an installation on Mars was quite the shock, how long would it even take for us to get there?" The Indian super genius asked her masked partner, who felt the rest of the room eyes on him.
"Well we'll be traveling using a Transport ship, which if it flew like a normal Earth space craft, around…." Zero answered as she did the math in his before coming to his answer. "113 days."
"And if it doesn't fly like a normal space ship?" Alleujah asked, not keen to spending one third of his year in space.
"Then the journey will be much faster, about an hour if we don't rush and take our time." Zero answered without fail. Now if anyone else had told them that, they would have ignored them or called them crazy but after everything they've seen from this man, including him using telekinesis to strangle a person to death and rip the guns out of multiple targets hands…..they had learned to take his word for it.
"…I might not be the best authority on space travel but even I know that bragging about cutting a trip that would take mouths by normal methods to a mere hour or so is big news." Lockon stated with a chuckle, though he was excited, what kid didn't want to go to space when they grew up and sure, he wasn't a kid but it was still going to be quite the experience.
"As I said in the past, Earth is on the lower end of the technological and medical spectrum." Zero repeated what was spoken during their meeting with Kyoto. "Moving on, while we are way, operation will not cease, in fact, Warwick found us an interesting target to hit." He gestured to the drinker of the group who nodded his head.
"Oh, tell us more." S.K. stated as the man sent all their terminals files pertaining to his target and plan of attack.
"This is an industrial district where the imperial manufacture parts for VTOLs and gunships, I propose we launch a strike on the facility using our new submarines as a launching point…" He started explaining as he went over infiltration, possible bomb planting sites and exfil, along with back-up plans for if they team is caught, if the info is not good, or if a firefight breaks out. As he went along, he answered the question from the group as they looked over the information.
'I love when a good plan comes together.' Zero thought to himself as he sat back and let his command staff handle this one, he didn't need to be involved with every thing, not when he had spent so much time building such a bastion of knowledge and battlefield experience.
(With Cornelia)
"How is he?" Cornelia asked as she stood at the bedside of her faithful knight, Guilford. They were still in the government headquarters but in the medical wing where Guildford had been transferred after his emergency surgery.
"Stable, just like yesterday." The doctor replied as he read through the notes for the sleeping man. "He was lucky that his cockpit filled with soft snow when it collapsed. It soften the impact." He stated as that was the man reason the man wasn't dead, if there wasn't snow, then his cockpit would have taken a harsher blow when it crashed into the ground and probably filled up with sharp, jagged rocks, something that had happened in the past.
"But it could have killed him." Cornelia rebutted, her fury barely being held back by her own temperament and the presence of both her younger sister and her friend, Nonette. Both of which had volunteered to accompany her to see him.
"But it didn't, he was recovered before he could perish to hyperthermia. Still, he broke several bones and lost quite a lot of blood, so he will be forced to stay here and heal at least for another three weeks." The doctor replied, scared for his life due to the glare he was getting from the royal before he swallowed his spit and kept on going. "After which, he would need bed rest at home for at least two weeks."
"Thank you doctor. We got what we came for." Nonette stepped in before Cornelia could hurt him. Even if she didn't like looking her the man that had her friend's heart dead to the world and covered in bandages, it was hell of lot better than looking at him in a coffin. "That is good news."
"Yes, thank God that he will live, even if he'll be out of the combat field for over a month." Euphemia spoke up as she took one of his hands into her own and gave it a squeeze.
"Knowing him, he'll try to return to your side as soon as he wakes up." Nonette joked as the three women left the room and headed back to the main office section.
"Don't be silly, he knows his own limits." Cornelia rebutted, she knew him for years and not once had he ever done something so stupid.
"I also know him, and when has that stopped him?" Nonette countered as she could of a few times Guilford showed his dedication to his princess. It was romantic at times. Like the time he passed out after seeing her naked, true that was her doing but she hadn't heard the two complain about it so they must have enjoyed it.
"Point taken." Cornelia conceded as she knew that he was her most loyal solider and closest friend. But then she had to bring up the lesser aspects of the operation. "How…how are the funeral proceedings going?"
"They were able to recover the…remains. They'll be transported back to the Homeland in two days." Euphemia answered, silently praying for the remaining Daltons as they had lost another one of their own. It was made worse by the fact that the explosive radiation hadn't left much of a body to recover and his tags were ruined by the heat as well and melted to the chest, they had only been able to identity him through DNA harvested, though that was just wishful thinking….believing it was someone else and that Alfred was till alive. "The boys wish to pay their respects before that happens."
"Even when we can fight back, we lose." Cornelia felt her fist tightened as that operation turned out to be a bloody mess. They certainly proved the usefulness of the Vincents but at the cost of most of their infantry and a skilled pilot like Alfred. The worst part was that they took no prisoners as the ones they found died before they could find out anything.
"That's not the only issue." Nonette pointed out, sounding quite serious which was in of itself, a bad sign.
"What more could there be?" Euphemia asked the elder woman who look at them both like she was about to shoot them.
"Bismarck contacted me yesterday." She revealed to them as they entered an elevator together. The news shocking them as they knew that Bismarck kept on eye on all Knights of rounds but he rarely ever directly ordered them as each was a capable fighter and commander(bar Bradley, who was a homicidal maniac only good for slaughtering large droves of enemies).
"The Knight of One?" Cornelia asked, hoping that it was a different man, even if that hope was stupid.
"Yep, the man with a goatee himself." Nonette replied as she shivered from the…call she had with her superior. "He said that the emperor isn't pleased with the three of us. He wanted this situation solved a long time ago."
"That is not good. Not good at all." Euphemia stated as they elevator came to a stop and they walked on towards the sub-viceroy's office.
"He says we have 4 months. If we can't deliver a breakthrough by then, we'll lose more than out posts." Nonette relayed to them as it seemed Charles had grown tired of this little rebellion. Now they had to settle things or risk death and though two of them were his own children, what had happened with Lelouch and Nunnally-both of whom were far younger than they-drove home the point to them and their siblings. They were his pawns and were only kept alive so long as they were useful or didn't anger him in any way.
'Things back home must really be a mess if he's actually stepping into government. But what does Schneizel say about this?' Cornelia thought to herself as it was strange for their father to include himself with government these days, with most of their family and high nobility merely chalking it up to his age but she knew better. "If you can, tell him we understand."
"Got it, hopefully, Lloyd can roll out more Vincents, at this rate-we'll need units for the regular pilots. I'll give Schneizel a call and see if he can't make that happen." Nonette responded as they entered the office where Euphemia took her seat by the desk as the other two sat in the chairs in front of it.
"Thank you, you have no idea how much this means to me." Cornelia thanked her friend as with any luck, they could have another 30 Vincents ready by the end of the mouth. Though she might have to contact her own friends in the arms industry and see if they can't spare a factory line or two to increase production speed.
"Hey, what are friends for? Besides, I can't let the two of you lose their pretty little heads of yours." Nonette replied with a chuckle, making light of the fact they be dead in four months.
'And she's back.' Cornelia thought to herself with a sigh as she could hardly remember a day when Nonette wasn't a wild one.
'Only she can make such a morbid joke sound humorous.' Euphemia thought to herself as she nervously chuckled.
(Late Afternoon – Vermillion Forbidden City)
"How is the inter-provincial train system proceeding?" Tianzi asked the attendant bowed before and the High Eunuchs.
"Everything is moving as to schedule. Work on the last couple lines will be finish sometime in January." The man replied, keeping his head down and face towards the floor, though the eunuchs believed this kind of behaviour suitable, the young empress hated it. She wished to be able to look able in the eye, Xingke always told her to do so as it was easier to catch a lie and because it showed that he cared enough to look at them.
"Good, see to it." She replied, keeping her own opinions to herself, though that proved to be a challenge to her.
"As you wish." The attendant as they stood up and without making eye contact with anyone, quickly left the throne room.
"I don't know why you are so concerned about the commoners." One of the High Eunuchs, the skinny one commented as they were spending billions on this project.
"A good ruler takes care of the people, because if you take care of them, they take care of you." The young empress replied as she kept her face as child-like and innocent as these 'men' were used to as to keep their guards and suspicions down.
"And why did you hear such things?" And it appeared her act worked as the fat one asked her a follow-up as he took a leg of chicken off a plate and took a bite, though at least he ate like a civilized person as the bite was small and he kept his mouth closed. She wasn't sure she could keep her cool if he ate like some humanoid pigs she read about in fantasy books.
"I read it in an old book from the library. Isn't that a good thing?" She answered, saying a half-truth as she did read it in a book, just not one from the library which was stocked with mostly useless material or propaganda.
"It's a waste of money if you ask me, they should be able to take care of themselves." The short one joked, getting chuckles from the others, though she didn't find it amusing, quite the opposite.
'Then why would they feel obligated to fight for their country when that country doesn't do a damn thing for them?' She thought to herself as she knew that the only reason there were so many people willing to join the armed forces was because it was the only way to gain a good income, and by good-she meant pretty bad but better than nothing. "But isn't that our job?" She asked them, to which all of them looked down on her, like always.
"Your highness," The fat one started, purposely not using the right title just to rub it in that she wasn't the real one with power. "Our job is to ensure that civil order is maintained."
'Figures, all you traitorous cowards care for is your greedy selves. And now you just keep me around to serve your own interests.' She said to herself in the confines of her head. All these pigs were concerned with was making sure they could continue to feed off the people of the federation like parasites without challenge. "Okay." She replied, keeping her tone and stance meek and submissive.
"Your majesty. You're evening dinner had been served. Shall I accompany you?" Her faithful and first friend, Xingke announced as he stepped into throne room, with him were four other guards that served directly under him-all armed with spears and swords.
"Hmm." Tianzi sounded as she got off her throne and made her towards him before the small group left the room all together.
"Little brat." They all heard one of the eunuchs mutter to themselves but restrained any other, this went double for Xingke as he felt his blood boil at the fact he couldn't address their disrespect.
'Don't. Not now.' Tianzi said with a small, near impossible to notice nod of the head, to which her faithful protector saw and cooled his temper as they left.
"Do you know what they made for me?" She asked Xingke in a tone that carried an air of innocence. Though to others it may have seemed like a simple question, it was actually code. The real meaning of the question was: Do you have any new information for me?
"I'm afraid not, this wasn't something I was clued into." Xingke replied to her, keeping his eyes straight and tone crisp. Real meaning: No, I have not been clued in with the new developments.
"Does it include Indian spice?" She asked him, her eyes shining as she thought back to the new spices they had recently brought for meals. This was a double meaning as she was curious about the meal but she also meant: Did they include Rakshata this time around?
"Yes, your majesty. They agreed to include it this time around." Xingke answered her as they turned a corner, passing one of the maids they already knew was in the eunuch's pockets. True meaning: Yes, Rakshata will be included in whatever their plans are.
"Yummy. Maybe it'll taste better this time around." The empress stated as she started to skip as they went, appearing to just be an excited young girl. Real meaning: Maybe we're learn more in her next report.
"One would hope, your majesty." Xingke replied as they passed through one of the many gardens of the palace, using the route as not just a short cut to the empress' private dining hall but to also take in the fresh air and the smell from the flowerbeds.
"Xingke." Tianzi requested as they came to stop so that the girl could look over the many plants and vines growing across the area.
"Yes, your majesty." Her faithful servant replied as he stepped forward and gave her a bow.
"What do you think Zero is like?" She asked of him. This time her question didn't need to be hid as the masked man had left quite the impact with their corrupt counterparts who at first thought they could make simple get rid of him if he became a problem, they wanted to make a deal with him in the hopes of obtaining even just some of the power he had shown. But what they didn't know was that one of Xingke's double agents had overheard one of them airing a proposal in a secret meeting she wasn't invited to. A proposal to try and marry(sell) her the man.
"What do you mean?" Xingke asked, recalling when he got the report on their greedy foils possible future plans, the rage that burned in him at the thought of the girl he swore to protect and serve being handed over to Zero of all people just so those bastards could gain even more undeserved power.
"Kaguya says he's really nice and they were are to be wed, she wouldn't marry a bad person, right?" Tianzi asked as they started moving again. She was honest with herself, she was worried for her friend who would frequently bring up the man in conversation. The girl seemed to have quite the crush on him and never had something bad to say about him which could mean he was a good person but since she had only met him in September, it could just mean she hasn't known him long enough to see his flaws.
"I don't believe she would. Zero is quite the man, very powerful." Xingke replied to her question with an answer with double meaning, the second being that: I trust her character judgement capabilities. Zero would be a powerful ally to have if she can convince him.
"Just like the wizards I read about, do you wizards are real?" Tianzi asked him, making a couple servant girls giggle quietly as they walked on passed, carrying out their duties. The real meaning of her question: Do you believe that Zero has similar powers to the suspects in those old reports?
"I can't say, I would have to research that." Xingke replied with a small smile as they reached a part of the palace which didn't have that many people as the empress didn't want a lot of people working so near to her own private sections of the place, keeping only the bare minimum of those who were either neutral and unaware of the state of the federation government or loyal to her and her cause. Real meaning behind his answer: I would have to go over the accounts again to make ensure if it's a possibility.
"Okay." The young teen replied as they kept on moving for a while, seemingly enjoying the quiet and calm of the snowy winter's afternoon. As they walked, they passed on by a vase which kinda looked out of place to them as unlike the rest of flower vases, this one had a notable lesser number of freshly picked flowers. Though this would escape the notice of most, they picked up on it but didn't act on it. Instead they kept on walking and by the 7th vase after the odd one, one of the guard with her walked a little closer to the vase and peered inside. He saw that in the water, was a white feather. When he saw it, he walked closer to the other and nodded his head.
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"We're in the clear." Xingke spoke aloud as they all relaxed a bit, knowing that this portion of the palace had been cleared of any ease droppers and listening devices, the white feather being the sign that the area had been checked.
"Thank goodness, I don't know how much longer I can stand those pigs." Tianzi spoke up, her tone and posture instantly changing to a women with a backbone and a cause to fight for.
"It won't be much longer, you highness. The plan is moving forward but that is all I can say." Xingke replied to try and calm her, knowing that for the past year-she had been finding harder and harder to keep her real emotions in check around those they couldn't trust. He was proud that she had made leaps and bounds in confidence but also knew the dangers of the wrong people finding out.
"I hate the secrecy." She stated with a bitter bite to her tone, palming at the charm hung around her wrist, one that symbolised her vow to make the lives of her subjects better. A promise she couldn't even be open about without putting a target on her pack. It would be easy for the eunuchs to dispose of her and get some lookalike they can control to take her place, next to no-one had even seen her in person, the overwhelming portion of the population didn't even know what she looked like in the first place.
"It's the only way we can ensure the eunuchs don't find out about the truth. But speaking of unknowns. Do you really believe Zero can be of help to us?" Xingke asked of her.
"I don't know, he says that he fights for the weak so maybe he would help us make things better for the people here. Kaguya also speaks highly of him and…" She started but found herself pausing.
"And?"
"I think she knows who he is, there was that one time when we have our video chat and whenever Zero was mentioned, she would have that knowing smile on her face." Tianzi stated as her friend had been particularly happy about something ever since September, the same time she had met with him along with the rest of Kyoto. She didn't know what went down at the meeting but she did know that Zero had secured their full support.
'She is already learning to read facial ques.' Xingke noted to himself as he was impressed that she could pick up on that at such a young age. "Then it would be fair to assume she knows more than she is letting on." He answered as they moved. "But what do you intend to do with this?"
"Nothing. Kaguya has always been a good friend. She wouldn't so something to hurt me. If she wants to keep it secret, she can." Tianzi replied, her faith in her friend shining through as she refused to believe that she was anything but a friend.
"As you wish." Xingke replied, trusting her judgement.
"Still, about the fleet." She brought up, expressing concern for those lives.
"There is nothing I can do, you majesty. The commanders are all in the eunuchs pockets." Xingke sighed as he informed her. He wasn't in agreement with this foolish attack in area 11 as well. At best, it would cost thousands of lives and only give them a portion of the southern islands, at worst-it will be interpreted as an act of war.
"But why, don't they realise this could mean war." Tianzi shared his sentiments as she turned to face him, looking like she was about to cry. It was hard enough telling Kaguya that the federation was attacking soon but it was even harder to tell her she had no control in it.
"I doubt they care. As long as they get what they want." Xingke informed her, trying to be honest with her and give her the bitter truth rather than give her sweet lies. As much as he wanted to protect her, she was their ruler and would need to know these things.
'Still, this could serve our goals. With such a large group of their following out of country, it'll make things easier to move without detection. Still, I am curious as to how Zero will interpret this.' HE thought to himself as he didn't think that this would go the way the eunuchs wanted it, on the contrary actually, he saw it as a chance to eliminate a sizable portion of the eunuchs supporters and if Zero was as good as he believed him to be, then that goal could be achieved.
'Why must the eunuchs throw away so many lives? Don't they realise they those people have friends, family?' As he thought about the pros of so many dying, his empress thought about the human sacrifice that was about to happen. 'Why must so family people die just to sate their greed!'
'Soon, soon the people will have their freedom, their voices will be heard. I don't know if I can do it alone but….' She resolved, wiping away the forming tears from her eyes as they kept on moving forward. 'I'm not alone, as long as I have Xingke, I'll never alone.'
"Your Majesty?" Speaking of whom, it appeared that he was trying to get her attention.
"Hmm, sorry about that Xingke, I was distracted." She apologised to him with a bashful expression on her face, she was normally more alert.
"It is alright but you should know we're leaving the cleared zone, people could be listening in soon enough." Xingke reminded her as one of the guard picked on another clue to inform them.
"Okay." She nodded her head as she did some breathing exercises before she fell back into her 'role' as the timid empress as they left behind their safe zone. They kept up the conversation but only on topics that wouldn't warrant suspicion such as the weather and plays she had recently seen.
18th November 2020 a.t.b. /3 9688 BBY:
Unknown Region:
Milky Way Galaxy:
Earth/Sol-3:
Area 11:
Northern Hokkaido:
Black Knight Space port:
"I hope you all packed, we're going to be gone for about two weeks." Zero announced to the group of his personal squad, Rakshata and her assistants, S.K, L.M as well as the Japanese that once made up the Wyvern unit. At present, they were located on one of the only spaceports on Earth.
"Yep, I got the memo, brought everything I'll need." Lockon replied as he moved to place his bag in an overhead bin. The cabin of the craft they were boarding was a mix of the average passenger plane and a private jet as there were leather seating, carpeting and even a couple sofas. One of which was taken by Rakshata.
"I as well." Tierra replied from his own seat, already reading one of his books.
"It was hard to get to much time for work but Marie was understanding enough to agree." Alleujah replied as he took a seat on one of free sofas.
"Don't worry, when we get back, you can spend as much time as needed to make it up to her," Lockon said as he took the seat next to the quiet member of their squad and placed an arm around his shoulders. "If you want, I can give you some pointers."
"Please don't." Alleujah asked as he tried and failed to keep the blush off his face as Lie Mei also decided to join in on the teasing and took the last free seat on the sofa.
"Do they ever stop?" Kallen asked herself as she took the free seat opposite Tierra so that they could both have window seats.
"I'm sad to say that they do not." Tierra replied as she kept on reading, turning the page as he kept the conversation going to try and drown out the rest of them. "How has your mothing been holding up?"
"Oh, I….She's she been doing as well as you can expect. The withdrawal symptoms are finally dying down." Kallen answered as she looked away as she visited her mother the night before at her rehab facility. It wasn't easy for her as the women was still struggling with basic things but they had been on the mend lately.
"That is good to hear, perhaps I shall pay her a visit one of these days." Tierra replied, keeping his tome crisp and respectful.
"I think she would appreciate it, she always did enjoy meeting anew person." Kallen answered as even if the calm man was at times, unnerving-she appreciate that he was trying to start conversations with her, when she joined, he would barely speak to her outside missions.
"Alright people, we'll be off the ground in a few minutes so take your seats." S.K stated as he took his seat next to L.M Akito seated with the rest of his old unit.
"Is there any particular reason why this was designed off a regular plane?" Sayama asked bluntly as he gestured to the whole thing.
"And that it is styled like a private jet?" Naruse added in as he went over some notes on his phone.
"To the first question, that was done so it could fly around and not draw suspicion since most wouldn't look past the fact that it's a plan in appearance and carry on thinking it was a plane." S.K answered his first question before he looked over the shorter male. "The second reason was due to this being a VIP shuttle, so it had features the regular ones do not."
"Sir, we're ready for take-off." They all heard the pilot report over the speaker.
"Proceed then." Zero ordered from his own seat, his posture that of a man who was in charge.
"How are we going to take off without a runway?" Alleujah asked as they facility was mainly underground. Hell, there wasn't much in the way of a runway but rather a launch tunnel that didn't even look 200m long.
"Look out the window and you're see." Zero replied as they all heard the engines powering up, out of curiosity, most of them looked out any window that could find and to their shock, they weren't even taking the short runway but rather the craft was starting to lift into the air as the roof above them started to open up, revealing door after door as they all soon saw the light of day shine through.
"Holy...This things a VTOL?" Kallen asked as she saw that they were rising through the opening to which soon enough, they had reached ground level before the craft started to power forward.
"Most of our craft are, even a large star destroyer can slow to a halt and take off and land like a copter." Zero stated as he reached for his own book as the craft suddenly increased in speed from the slow hover to a rate that kept in rising as they climbed higher and higher into the air.
"That's a kick." Lie Mei stated as the rapid increase of speed had forced them all into their seats. Soon they were flying through the clouds and from the look of it, they were still climbing, from where she stood, it appeared that they really were going to space.
"Well when you accelerate from 5 to 120km/h in two seconds flat, that kinda happens. Don't worry, you get used to it." S.K chuckled as he didn't even flinch or move as he looked at them all, it was extremely funny to him to see the big tough Sayama holding on to an equally frighten Kosaka like a couple a baby cubs.
"What's our cruising speed in this thing?" Lockon asked as they soon left the clouds and continued to rise in both speed and altitude.
"750km/h. If we to be trying to outrun or just get away from some threat as fast as we could, we would go about 875km/h." Zero replied from his seat.
"That's fast but not as fast as I thought." The sniper of the group muttered to himself as he recalled seeing rockets blasting off into space as a kid, they always flew much faster than that.
"Most craft like this one aren't built for use in atmosphere but the powerful engines can manage. You should see this baby in vacuum, which we should reach soon seeing how we've been flying in a steep climb." Zero told him, having heard his statement even from the other side of the plane over the hum of the engines as they propelled them.
"What will our speed be then?" Rakshata asked him, intrigued that they had design a craft as large as a private jet that could travel below the speed of sound and still break away from the earth atmosphere.
"Ha, we won't be going too fast seeing how we just need to break from the Earth's atmosphere, around 15,200km/h." Zero dropped the number like it was the normal speed of a city bus. Hell, most of those listening couldn't believe that they were going to accelerate to such a speed in the first place.
"What's how real destination? I thought we were going to Mars." Alleujah asked, having caught the fact that they were merely going out into space, not another planet.
"That is our endgame goal but not where he was heading right now. Right now, we're heading to see a surprise that was recently completed." Zero cryptically replied as he put his book away, seemingly done with it.
'A surprise?' S.K. thought to himself due to the fact as far as he knew, they were supposed to head straight to Mars via hyperspace.
"And what's that?" He asked aloud, trying to be patient with his old friend that always managed to give him a headache.
"Our new flagship of course." Zero told him, his tone telling them that he was smirking behind that helmet of his.
"What?" S.K stated, since when they have a flagship? They had sold the Harrower three years ago on the black market for cash.
"Just sit back and wait a couple minutes while we jump to hyperspace." Zero stated as he heard the quiet but familiar hum of the Hyperdrive charging up. Within moments, they jumped into the realm known as hyperspace, a tunnel like existence where all there was to see was white, black and blue. Such a sight was in a word: mesmerizing to everyone who was seeing such a sight for the first time.
'It's so….beautiful.' Kallen thought to herself as he felt herself get lost in such a sight. 'They travel like this?'
"Fascinating. How fast this this?" Rakshata asked, for once her ever present pipe missing from her mouth as she couldn't focus on that when she was front row and centre for a feat of engineering that put everything she ever created to shame.
"Hyperdrive allows vessels to move at speeds exceeding the speed of light, allowing one to travel vast distances that would normally take days if not weeks in minutes." S.K told them as he went on to explain that hyperspace itself was a separate realm of existence in a way, a zone that could only be entered by creatures or objects moving faster than light.
"The moon isn't too far so we should be exiting it soon." Zero stated, and just like that-they exited hyperspace moments and to their amazement, they could all spot the frickin Moon outside the windows. Rather than head right for it, it seemed like they were only flying around it, towards the other side.
"The ability to cross light-years in such a short amount of time, incredible. How small can this tech be made?" The Indian scientist probed, hungry for more after seeing and experiencing such an event. She felt like the people who just watched the Wright brothers take flight for the first time in human history.
"As far as I know, a good hyper-drive can be fitted to something as small as a fighter if need be, though I wouldn't recommend that for such a small craft." Zero answered her question, having predicted that there would be question to everything they see and do on this trip, it was natural for intelligent life to be curious after all.
"Energy concerns?" One of the aides spoke up, doing the calculations in his head and even though he couldn't be sure, the amount of power needed to sustain such a speed came back to a crazy amount.
"No, it's the fact that you can be travelling in hyper-space for hours if not a full day at a time if the distance you're covering is considerably large, I don't know about you but I don't enjoy just sitting in one spot for hours at a time." Zero stated as he always hated just sitting there for hours on end as he flew from one system to another in a cockpit of a star-fighter during his training days. At least flying through an asteroid field added a level of danger and excitement to it all.
"If one has the discipline, that wouldn't be such a bother." Tierra spoke up, finding his voice as he tore his attention away from the numerous craters that dotted the surface of the Moon.
"I suppose that is one way of looking at it but now isn't the time for a debate, we're here." Zero replied as they crossed into the dark side of the moon, meaning that they couldn't see much outside anymore.
"We're heading for the dark side?" S.K asked, having feint memories of what they saw on the dark side 10 years prior. What could they be hiding out here that warranted using the celestial body like the moon to hide it?
"Hehehe, why of course, where else would we construct our very own vessel." Zero stated/asked of his old friend who for his part, didn't immediately reply as he processed that.
"Construct? I thought we were just buying one?" S.K asked, showing that even he was in the dark about this.
"Oh that, that was the lie I told you two to keep the project on the down-low so when you found out," Zero said honestly, now sorry that he hid that from him. "You would be surprised." He finished as he spotted that other side where his little present was waiting for them.
"Hold up, when did you even…get….holy hell, what is that." S.K stuttered out as he looked onward and saw it. The others equally silent as they gape at the sight that awaited them.
And it was huge.
On the other side of the Moon, away from prying eyes on earth, lay a star destroyer like no other. It was dark blue with accents of black and white, shaped like a fine longsword than a dagger that Sith designs typically took, from their angle, they could spot the 8 massive thrusters that must have been moving the ship, even if six of them were much smaller than the larger two. The colour of the propulsion being exhausted was an eerie yellow that seem like mini suns. The main command bridge was close to the main body of the thing but still looked to be quite the distance from the rest of the hull.
"That," Zero started but paused for dramatic effect as they flew closer to it, letting them all see the dozens upon dozens of weapon's emplacements. Everything from massive turbolaser batteries that made them all think back to the main guns for their tanks to CIWS turrets and missile pods. "Is the flagship of our new navy, the Sakura class star destroyer. Its name: Sakura." Zero finished as they flew towards the bow of the ship, coming in from the front of it.
"Wait, like my mother?" S.K asked, seeing a possible connection there.
"Yes, your mother was the namesake of this beauty." Zero answered him, revealing that the present was that this machine of war was named for his mother. He wasn't too sure what to think about that but knowing his….unusual his best friend was, he just took it as it was.
"Jesus, that a lot of fire power." Lockon stated as they came in close for their landing down the middle of the ship, which itself opened up to reveal a trench like depression which seemed to have hangar bay doors running on either side.
"The thing is fitted with numerous turbo-lasers of varying sizes, missiles launchers for everything from anti-ship to CIWS, flak guns and a sophisticated CIWS system, all to ensure that this vessel can contend with the best of them and came out on top." Zero now openly bragged as they begun to rapidly slow down as they entered the depression like space.
"This is our destination? A space war-ship?" Alleujah asked aloud as they reached the end of the runway(?) where the largest hanger door was situated. In front of it was some kind of shield which powered down as they approached and the doors opened, allowing them excess.
"Of course, we're be staying on board for the next two days before we head to Mars. This ship is due to make her debut anyway, during Operation Island Getaway." Zero replied as they entered the large hanger bay, which was filled with activity from both organic and droids. Around them were other craft, some looking like fighters while other appeared to be gunship of some kind. Soon they found themselves parked and leaving the shuttle via its ramp.
"Are those robots?" Lie Mei asked as she pointed towards some white and yellow droids which were busy carrying some crates over a fighter that seemed to be under maintenance.
"Droids but yes, they are robots. They must make up the bulk of the crew." Zero answered her question as they all stepped off the ramp onto the metallic surface that made up the launch bay.
"Correct! You have no idea how long it took to create the perfect ship crewmen but the results," A bright, peppy and loud voice called out to them as s certain mechanic approached them before she gestured to the hangar as whole. "Show for themselves."
"Kaya?" S.K asked as he stepped forward to which the for once clean young lady stepped up to him and gave him a big hug.
"What's up lover boy, miss me?" She stated as she took in his musk that she had come to memorise, much like he had done to her. "I would so kiss you if not for that helmet, come on, why don't you take it off."
"And who is this?" Kallen asked as she gestured to the unnamed girl who had taken off S.K helmet without him even giving his consent, though he didn't seem to mind.
"Kaya Vesna, engineer and self-proclaimed super genius. She is the brains behind our knightmares, including our Stalkers models." Zero answered as he reached for his own helmet, even if Rakshata didn't know who he was yet, his secret identity paled in comparison to what they were standing in. when she heard her name being called, the attractive alien girl broke from her embrace with her lover and walked up to the Indian scientist and her little group.
"You must the this Rakshata that I've been hearing about, it's a pleasure." She said as she held out her hand towards the taller women who smirked as she gave the women a firm handshake of her own.
"Oh trust me dear, the pleasure is all mine." Rakshata replied as she kept herself in check, though she did have the urge to call Lloyd just to brag that she met an alien before he did but she wasn't nearly as petty and she had a pretty good guess that phone calls weren't allowed.
"I hear that you have some interesting creations, compact but efficient walkers?" Kaya asked as the two started to discuss what they did best, inventing and improving.
"Walkers?" Rakshata repeated. She figured she didn't mean what she thought but that meant she was drawing a blank here.
"She means the knightmares." Suzaku helped her out by clearing the confusion.
"Oh, yes I am quite proud of them, would you like to see some info of them in exchange for information on those Nightmare Tarantula you designed." Rakshata proposed, seeing a chance to see just how those machines were built as she had never been given permission to work on them before.
"Oh I like you already," Kaya said with a witty smirk "You have a deal."
"And what about the rest of us?" Leila asked as she too removed her helmet and gestured to the group as a whole.
"Oh one of the NC-02s can help you with that, isn't that right?" Kaya asked as she pointed towards one of the droids who just happens to be walking by, who noticed her pointing towards it before it marched on over.
"Roger, roger." The droid, which was different coloured to the rest as instead of white and yellow, was white and blue as well as cleaner. They also noticed that as the droid replied, Kaya along with Rakshata and her people walked on off, presumable to discuss science and engineering. "Welcome aboard the Starship Sakura. Would you all like the tour?" The droid inquired of them, sounding pleasant.
"Might as well seeing how those two will keep each other busy for a while." Leila stated as their boss took to the backseat of the group. "Lead the way."
"Yes sir. Right this way." The NC-02 unit replied as it lead them away from their craft as others moved in, likely to inspect it and hopefully retrieve their belongings. "Do you have any question?"
"How large is this vessel, from the outside it appeared to dwarf any man-made movable object I've ever seen." Tierra decided to speak up as the group reached one of the many blast doors that led into the hander bay.
"Oh it quite larger, even larger than the Harrower-class used by the Sith Empire. The vessel of 720m from bow to stern, has a beam of 180m at its widest point and is 153m tall." NC-02 replied to the question near instantly, being able to quickly access that information from its own central hard drive.
"How large a crew would a ship this size need?" Akito asked as they walked on by some fully geared troopers.
"That is the beauty of it. The vessel was designed to incorporate numerous droid brains to run many of the functions which limits the number of organics need to operate it. There were also a large number of droids on board meaning that it only needs around 630 organics, including pilots." The droid informed them as it gestured to a console where they could see two droids doing some work. Both were vastly different from NC-02 as where NC-02 was about 170cm in height, they were both only 145cm. Where NC-02 had a body type that was skinny but not frail, they had bulky and study. There was also the fact that their heads and chest both had what looked to be headlights built in.
"Pilots, you mean those other craft in the hanger bay?" Sayama asked as he had spotted a couple dozen GINNS just standing there in racks keeping them from falling over.
"Yes sir, the vessel isn't a carrier but it was one of the core tenants for the vessel to have its own strike craft and walkers." NC-02 replied to the question, seemingly showing the feeling of pride as it spoke about their combat capabilities.
"You mean knightmares." Kosaka corrected as she took note of how clean they place was, but then again-how much dirt could you make in space?
"Yes mam, knightmares. As it stands, we carry 60 fighters of varying roles, 15 shuttles such as the one you came with and 20 Bombers. There are also 30 knightmares on board." NC-02 informed them, revealing that this one vessel was loaded.
"Shit. This thing has enough gear to take entire bases." Lockon whistled as he could imagine the destruction this weapon of war could bring.
"Not true. The ship's armament was designed to be capable of orbital bombardments capable of destroying whole cities." However, that little fact put a pause on the group as they all paused in shock, this thing could do what?!
"Whole cities?! That's insane!" Kallen voiced the thought first. Why would you even need that kind of firepower!?
"Kallen, on the grander scale of things, entire planets operate like countries and cane control entire systems. For us, destroying a cities outside capitals isn't that big of a deal." Zero reminded her as they had already received the talk about the greater galaxy as a whole, to them-a settlement with numbers below one million was considered to be small and in most parts of the galaxy, the average city had it least 112 million.
"But wouldn't-" Leila tried to interject but found herself cut off.
"Kill millions. Leila, even a small conflicts between two planets can leave tens of thousands dead. After all, warships of this size tend to have crews in excess of 5,000 people." He stated as throughout galactic history, wars have been a near constant. Sure periods of peace could be found here and there that lasted for several decades but living creatures would always struggle and fight with one another. Besides, he wasn't like he was lying, a small naval engagement with just a few ships could leave up to 15,000 killed or wounded. When two planets fought for even a short time, they number could climb up to the hundreds of thousands if the Jedi didn't step in and resolve conflicts. "It's not something I enjoy but it's a possibility. Both the Republic and Sith have made use of orbital bombardments in the past so we can be sure if we were to trade blows, it could happen again." He explained as he didn't enjoy the thought of firing on whole cities and killing millions but when such things are honest possibilities, one must adapt.
"But it would take a lot of power to sink this vessel. The hull is protected by 45 inches worth of armour plating. We even have 4 shield generators on board." NC-02 stated as they group started to move again.
"That is comforting." Sayama muttered to himself as he didn't have the desire to die in the cod vacuum of space.
After that, they spend another two hours being shown around the massive vessel-from the mess hall, the fully stocked medical bay, the training area with a swimming pool and shooting range where the troops were firing blasters rather than slug throwers as was the collective noun for projectile firing weapons, the recreational areas for both officers and regular crew, the bridge, they even saw some of the weapon up close and personal as well many other facilities on board. Honestly the whole thing was quite the experience.
"And these are your quarters, sir." NC-02 stated as the droid gestured towards a door in one of the halls.
"For all of us?" Akito asked, not at all phased that they may all have to share.
"Negative, each of you are of officer level so you will have your own rooms. This is the room of the one known as Lockon Stratos." NC-02(they knew that wasn't its name but it was better then 'robot') corrected as the droid handed a set of keys to the sniper.
"See you all later, today been a real roller coaster so I'm gonna take a nap." Lockon said as he waved at them all and walked towards his door as the rest of them left in search of their own rooms.
'Never thought this would happen, what else are you hiding…Zero?' Lockon thought to himself as he walked into the decently designed and decorated officer quarters and threw his stuff on the bed before he collapsed into the seat by the desk, wondering what other crazy stuff they were yet to see.
Okay, that chapter ran longer than I thought it would but let's cut things here. Don't worry, they'll be some action in the next chapter as I wanted to put it in this one but I'm trying to keep the word count controllable for this story at least.
On the bright side, I was finally able to reveal the Sakura class which no, isn't named after the Naruto character(the info on the thing will be available at the bottom of this page) You don't know how long I waited to reveal this beauty since back in chapter 1, I had only made enough plans to get to chapter 9 and was hoping that it would make an appearance prior to chapter 20 but I didn't take into account how much development both the world and the cast would need, so sadly I had to wait since adding more Star Wars stuff before it was ready would just confuse things.
With the NC-02, the code stands for naval crewmen model 02. In terms of body type, think the separatist tactical droid but a little less bulky as they need units to act as their B1 battle units but not be completely useless. I get that they were made for comedic relive at times but come on, they were only over dangerous in confides spaces(most of the time) and in large numbers(but then again, anything can be dangerous with large enough numbers). The B2 super battle droids on the other hand, those things were monsters.
In other news, Guilford's alive! Before you all start to ask how the hell he survived, when I said that his cockpit took damage, I never said how. If you want a clearer picture, just imagine what had happened to Cornelia's when the geassed Andreas throw his lance through it. It's a critical hit but not necessarily a fatal one. Though it did nearly give the princess a heart attack.
Bismarck will also make an appearance soon but not in Area 11 as there would be no need for him to go seeing how his first duty is to be the emperor's bodyguard.
How was the scene with the young empress though? I hope you all enjoyed it. I really wanted to show that things in the federation aren't the same as cannon as the eunuchs haven't had the bright idea to basically prostitute their underage empress away to the Britannians yet and no, I'm not calling Odysseus a lolicon as maybe he chose the wedding as a way to join the two countries without bloodshed, it wasn't like they were Vikings where they would have to sleep together before the elders check the bed to ensure she was pure or something. He could easily have done what I made Lloyd do in this one and treat the marriage as nothing more than a business agreement.
I also wanted to show that the empress had nothing to do with the navel fleet planning to attack Japan, something that Kaguya would have passed along to the rest of Kyoto as well as the Black Knights and JLF.
When it came to the numbers of people and casualty counts, I can't imagine that a universe as expanded as the Star wars wouldn't have such large numbers as here on earth, different settlements are controlled by population(among other factors) so making it so 'small' settlements have such a large number would make sense. My home town had a populations of only 850K so we wouldn't even be on most maps. The casualty count came from the fact that in Star Wars, those large ships have very large crews as according to Wookiepedia(the official star wars wiki), a single Venator-class Star Destroyer had a crew of 7,400. In the first season of the CGI Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we see 8 ships of that line destroyed-even though we know that not all of them went down all hands, that still gives a death toll of 59,200
Think about that number for a minute, by just losing eight ships, you lose 59,200 clones, officers and any other personal on board. Hell in the episode where R2 goes missing, Obi-wan reports that prior to Anakin engaging Grevious, they lost another battle group and even though he don't know how large a battlegroup is, we see throughout season 1 that the republic tends to send Venators in groups of three, so if that's a battle group, that would mean another 22,200 lives lost if things were really bad. It's for that reason I doubt the fact that the clone army was only 200,000 strong in the first year of the war as that would be too small a number to effectively split clones between ground units and a navy that's goal is to fight a galactic civil war as that would mean losing even a single Venator could be crippling to the Republic war effort.
And no, I don't count the sparty clones(I don't care if that's the right spelling or not) as they make no sense as with the originals like Cody, Fives and Rex, it is explained that they age twice the normal rate as humans so that they are battle ready sooner as at age nine, they have the bodies of 18 years old. Yes, this is a long period to wait but it also means that these troops have bene given the best training possible as they spend like 8 years of their lives learning, practicing and training to be soldiers, the only down side being that there is no way of slowing down their aging process which means by the time they are 25, they have reached the age where they should retire from the armed forces. Sparty clones are reportedly grown much faster, reaching 18 in a year, wouldn't that mean that they age 18 times as fast as normal people? If your that pressed for troops, for the love of God, just use droids. It wouldn't be slavery, it would be far more humane and each droid would cost a fraction of a fully trained clone.
Sakura class Star dreadnought
Class Overview
Name: Sakura Sumeragi
Namesake: Suzaku's mother's maiden name
Operators: Black Knights Navy
General Characteristics
Type: Star Destroyer
Length: 720m(2,362ft)
Beam: 180m(590ft)
Height: 153m(501ft
Decks: 45
Installed power: 2 Hydra firm D17 Rhydonium Reactors; 4 Sakuradite Mass Yggdrasil Reactors
Propulsion: 2 large thrusters; 6 small thrusters
Speed:
Maximum Acceleration: 2,400G
Atmospheric Cruising Speed: 258 knots/477km/h
Maximum Atmospheric Speed: 345 knots/638km/h
Vacuum Cruising Speed: 11,000 knots/20,372km/h
Maximum Vacuum Speed: 13,400 knots/24,816km/h
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 2.5
Range: 11,500 light years/108,798,400,439,500,000,000km
Endurance: 1.5 years' worth of supplies
Complement: 16 Officers; 480 Enlisted Men; 140 Pilots
636 Total
Sensory equipment: Short-ranged: 237km (147.26mi) and below; Medium-ranged: 222km (137.94mi) – 9,324km (5,793.66mi); Long range: 9,300km (5,778mi) – 24,150km (15,006.11mi); I.F.F transponder and receiver; 360o Medium ranged thermal cameras; 360o High cameras and infrared imaging sensors
Armament:
Primary Weapons
24 x Duel 38cm Heavy Turbolasers batteries
16 x Duel 30m Heavy Turbolasers batteries
6 x Single 12-cell 475mm SSM(Ship-to-Ship Missile) VLS
4 x Single 10-cell 355mm SSM(Ship-to-Surface Missile) VLS
Secondary Weapons
4 x 29cm Heavy Ion cannons batteries
12 x 25cm Heavy Turbolasers batteries
12 x Duel 150mm Medium Turbolaser guns batteries
12 x Duel 128mm Medium Turbolaser batteries
Tertiary Weapons
24 x 95mm Light Turbolaser guns
10 x Single 14-cell 135mm SAM(Ship-to-Air Missile) VLS
14 x 45mm Anti-Air Revolver Blaster cannon
Point Defence Weapons
18 x 40mm Close-in-weapons system Heavy Blaster cannons
16 x 35mm Close-in-weapons system rotary cannons
8 x 6-cell 95mm Close-in-weapons missile system
6 x 6-cell 80mm Close-in-weapons missile system
Armour: Hull: 45 inches/114.3cm Reinforced Dura Steel plating; Belt armour: 38.42 inches/97.58cm Reinforced Dura Steel plating; Deck: 25.38 inches/64.47cm Reinforced Dura Steel plating; Gun turrets: 13.72 inches/34.85cm Reinforced Dura Steel plating; Bulkheads: 9.98 inches/25.35cm Reinforced Dura Steel plating
Aircraft Carried: 60 fighters; 15 Shuttles/Helicopters; 20 Bombers
Knightmares Carried: 30 Knightmare frames
Aviation Facilities: 340m x 70m runway; 2 x catapults
Shielding: 4 Heavy duty shield generators
The Sakura-class Star dreadnought or more infrequently known as the Sakura-class Star Dreadnought, is a heavily armed capital ship of the Black Knights(Among other things) Navy. Although not built to the number of many other fractions it served as the main attack force and backbone of the Black Knight naval strategy.
Description
As there is no information about Suzaku's mother in cannon so I had to be a little creative with the name. The name Sakura was chosen because Sakura is the mother to Haru Glory from Rave Master manga and anime. Haru is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal in the English dubbed release and Yuri also voices Suzaku in the English release for Code Geass. Her last name was Sumeragi due to the fact that Suzaku and Kaguya are cousins in cannon and due to the fact Genbu last name was Kururugi, we can safely conclude that he wasn't related by blood to Kaguya so it makes sense that there were related through Suzaku's mother.
A large dreadnaught that was approximately 720m meters in length, 180m meters in width, and 153m meters in height, the Sakura-class dreadnought—also known as the Sakura-class Star Destroyer. This gave the Sakura-class shaped more like a streamlined shape more akin to a broadsword then the wedge-shaped design which is a staple of Sith design. The "point" or bow of the Sakura-class's wasn't split down the middle for a quarter to a third of the length of the ship like a Harrower-class but rather the runway/catapult which runs down a 15m depression run down the middle of the vessel from 45m short of the bow to around a little over half of the ship's total length which is protected/covered by a 12-inch blast roof and ray shielded when not in use(Think the same Hanger configuration as the Venator-class Star destroyer the republic used). The large hanger bay, the four large hanger doors were built with two of each side of the runway and are protected by 9-inch blast doors and force fields to keep atmosphere. A final and smaller hangar is located on the underbelly of the dreadnought and is mainly used for small VIP craft.
The Sakura-class Star Dreadnought sported armour that was on average 38-inches think and was equipped with 6 heavy shield generators. Two of the ship's shield generators protected the upper hull while another was reserved for the hanger and runway, another pair protected the lower hull while one shield generator covered each of the sides of the ship. This along with its think armour plating made this vessel type the most heavily protected till the age of the Galactic Empire and the construction of the Imperial class Star destroyers. The ship was armed with turbolaser batteries, laser cannons, ion cannons, Anti-air and Anti-ship missile launching systems/platforms and CIWS defence turrets. Most Sakura-class dreadnoughts had two primary thrusters surrounded by six smaller ones located at the rear of the ship.
The placement of the guns and missile bays also somewhat mimics real life modern destroyers and battleships of old with the main guns either facing front or back with the smaller guns either on the sides, above the larger main guns(as seen with the Yamato-class battleship) or on the sides of the main body. Because of the placement of the armaments, all sides of this massive vessel are covered by at least two of them granting it the ability to rain blaster bolts, missile, shells or bullets on any target no-matter their own position, if they're in range, they can be hit. However, the armaments are not mounted down the centre like a conventional destroyer or battleship as the centre acts as the runway for knightmares and other craft to take off and land from. Because of this, the main armaments are mounted to the sides, above the lower runway.