Chapter 3: Research and Preparation
After the Rumbling
The cataclysm impacted the entire world. So many beautiful cities around the world have turned into ruins. The pain and suffering was almost unimaginable.
The massive loss of life and economic destruction would take decade to fully recover. Leaders from around the world were screaming for blood of the Falmartian and vowed to revenge for the dead.
Massive rearmament projects were put into action. Those were essentially a massive job program to reduce unemployment and to calm the public wrath.
Rearmament was also vital to revive the heavy industries. Shipyards and tank factories around the world started to expand and work day and night to produce new weapons.
The world economy have transformed to a war time economy.
Japan sent all 2000 Falmart POW to America for further investigation in a secret location in the arctic.
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also called on the international scientific community to join forces to study the GATE phenomenal in project BRIDGEHEAD.
The leaders of the world have promised to spend $ 500 billion to study how to open the portal to another world and bring the wrath of the entire human race to those alien bastards.
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Count Colt Formal
It have been 3 months since the disaster cut off the way home for the expeditionary force and trapped all of them in this alien world called Earth by the locals.
The local population were physically weak and didn't have any magic but they possessing powerful machines.
The planet didn't have an unified government or a standard language.
A day in this world was 2 times longer than at Home.
The air was thinner and more polluted.
The sun was also bigger and brighter
The sky was bluer than Home.
The gravity was lighter.
The planet was smaller.
The Count made some observation in his free time.
While he didn't feel fear thanks to mental enhancement and mind adjustment magic, he did feel anxiety because he missed his daughter a lot.
He didn't know if he still has a chance to meet his daughter again. He had been captured with the rest of the expeditionary force when they tried to escape but the GATE collapse too quick.
Now he is being locked in a underground prison with his hand tied by steel chain.
It was a dark room and the wall was soundproof but my super enhanced sense allow me to see clearly everything in the room including a strange one-way mirror.
Suddenly a man came to my room, he look like a middle age with a sharp blue eyes.
"Hello there, please come in". I greeted him in perfect English.
The man seem to be surprised. He asked : " You can understand me, you can speech English ?"
"I can speak all the language, Mr Smith." I answered.
Hmmm! " You know my name ?"
"Oh! I can see your name tag."
"So why are you here Mr Smith ?"
"I am here because the world government want answer for the calamity that struck the world."
I was silent for a moment then said : " On behalf of the Holy Empire I express my condolence for those who lost live in this tragic disaster."
"Thank you !" John felt a bit surprise by the Count.
"Now let start to the business. Let's start with the basic, shall we. What is your name ?"
"Colt Fortunato Formal."
"Where are coming you from ?"
"My dominion is Italica on the Lemuria Subcontinent."
"How old are you ?"
"I am 445 years old."
"Do you know why are you here, Count Formal ?"
"I am here because your government want an answer for all the death and destruction that my Empire accidentally caused." He said in a sad voice.
''You are correct, we want to know for what reason you people are coming to this world ?"
"For what reason! It is very simple. To expand our border, to explore new world and to conquer new lands.
The Empire and the world itself are at their limit, the Empire and all the territories that the Emperor stand at the top of the order mortals have created and the current hierarchy where the strongest rule at the top and those who achieve the most receive the greatest reward were all solidified quite some time ago.
It the nature of man to expanse, to conquest the world and themselves, to live not just to exist, to overcome great challenge and overjoy when we success.
If we don't go through difficulties and challenges if we are only content with what we have achieved, the society will become stagnant, mortals will lose faith in themselves and fall into hedonism, corruption and decline.
Past Emperors used war to break through barrier. Winning, conquering, bestowing, struggling and showing the path to fame. But that method had also hit it limit after we won the struggle again our two last competitor the Gra Valkas Federation and Europania United.
That is when a small GATE opened at the Holy Hill of Alnus.
Perhaps that why the Imperial Senate and Crown Prince Odysseus decided to mastered space-time magic and enlarge the GATE. Well, you know the rest. We become too confident and acted too hastily, that why the disaster happened."
"The world want your blood, you know that right ? There are a lot of countries out there want the Empire to be burned, including us, the United State of America."
"I know, it is reasonable that you want revenge. How many countries out there want to retaliate us?"
"All of them, all the 251 countries and territories. You look pretty calm, don't you feel any fear ?"
"Well what can I do Mr Smith, your people won't stop until they get their revenge, I can't blame them.
But our Empire is strong and we have never been conquered . We never say sorry and we won't ever bend our knee.
And from what I have observed your world with those weird machine are strong too.
So this war is inevitable. I just pray to the gods that my family survive this war."
"Well, if you care about your family I suggest you should cooperating with us, we can guarantee you and your family asylum. You should consider this offer because once the hammer of justice hit the Empire there won't be anything left standing."
For a few minute, the Count fell silent. He was thinking about the offer, this might be the chance for him to meet his daughter again but betray the Empire mean the death of every member of his family and there was no guarantee that the nations of Earth could defeat the Empire.
"No ! became the Empire's enemy was too dangerous and become the traitor to your homeland will bring shame to his family name forever." He thought.
"How do I know you even have the strength to beat the Empire in the first place." He asked sarcastically
"I will show you the true strength of the Earth nations. "
A laptop was brought in front of Colt to show him the true situation of Falmart
"Earth is a planet with a population of 7.7 billion. Despite the devastating disaster the Earth can recover easily in just a few years.
We have the combine army of 50 million troops and with the large number of volunteer this number can excess 200 million troops.
We also have a large number of weapons of mass destruction like nuke, nerve gas, anthrax."
Other image of tanks, artillery, jet fighters, helicopters, warships were also shown.
Colt was impressed by the number of soldiers Earth nations can mobilize but he knew that the Empire still have an 10 to 1 advantage after the general mobilization.
This world have some really powerful weapons that can destroy the world but the Empire can also return the world to primordial chaos.
He thought to himself : "The war is unavoidable, I should played along and cooperate with the enemy but secretly inform the Empire about the upcoming invasion."
"What do you want from me ?" the Count asked.
"I want it all, everything you know. I want all names you know, I want all maps you have. I want numbers. How many troops do the Empire have. What is the population of Falmart ? How many cities do they have ? What kind of weapons do they use?"
Tuka
Before came to the interrogation room, lord Colt had ordered her to answer all questions truthfully.
She was pretty happy because that mean she can finally answer the question and there was a chance for her to return home.
I hope my family at home was fine, I made a promise that I would return no matter what I have to do.
Before being transferred to this facility, she was raped and beaten by an angry mob in Japan. The security in this facility was a lot better than in Japan. She felt a lot safer here.
While she was thinking the cell door opened and the interrogator came in.
"Before we start with the questioning. I want to assure you that you are perfectly safe. My name is John Smith. I just want you to give me a few answers. " The man said in a calm voice so as not to scare the girl.
The elf just nodded.
"What is your name ?"
"Tuka Luna Marceau" she answered.
"How old are you ?"
"I am 165 years old."
John said nothing but he was one again surprised by the longevity of a Falmartian. A normal Falmartian can live for a thousand years, that mean 165 years old were basically still a teenager.
"Where do you live ?"
"I live Maha village near Coda city in the Lemuria Subcontinent."
"It is said that you are an explorer is that true ? "
"Yes I am. I was a talented explorer that why the Imperial Army conscripting me for the expedition force."
"This means you know a lot about the terrain and weather in the area aren't you. If so can you become our guide?"
"Actively aiding and abetting the enemy is high treason. I can't help you however I can tell you everything I know and assist you with the map with one condition that is I will be returned home as a prisoner of war."
He was silent for some seconds then said: "Even though I can't promise you anything but my superior will think about your offer, but I warn you don't play trick with us."
Japan, Bay of Tokyo, 11-01-2029
Lieutenant General Yōji Itami, hero of the Ginza , was watching the gathering of the Global Fleet. Lieutenant General Itami Youji, 42 years old. He was an Otaku now, and would be an Otaku in the future.
He was just a First Lieutenant during the Ginza Incident but thanks to his heroic actions, commanded the search and rescue missions after the Rumbling, he was promoted, 10 years later6 he became a Lieutenant General.
Itami couldn't stop being amazed by the concentration of naval power before his very own eyes. This was too big, more than anything in history by an order of magnitude. The largest fleet in the history of mankind.
The Great Fleet of Earth Alliance.
The Allied combine fleet were the largest in the history. This is only to be expected, as the American, European, Indian and Chinese shipyards had been producing at wartime levels for a decade.
This was the largest job program on earth with more than 10 million direct jobs and over 30 million support jobs.
The Allied navies included 420 fleet carriers (including 70 of the massive Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers), 345 Guided-Missile Battleships (this, of course, included the old ships design like the Montana-class Guided-Missile Battleship, as well as the more modern Super Yamato -class Guided-Missile Battleship ), 1065 Carriers Escort, 1080 Cruisers, 5415 Frigates, 8790 Mine Warfare, and well over 5000 Destroyers. The Amphibious fleet numbered well over 35,000 vessels that deserved the title of "ship" as well as tens of thousands of landing craft that would ferry the Allied massive ground armies to the Imperial mainland.
Next to Itami, Lieutenant General Tommy Kennedy, Commander of the US 3rd Armored Corps and a close friend of him, said aloud "Those Fucker in the Naval High Command really done it. They built the Super Yamato-Class Guided-Missile Battleship."
The new guided missile battleship was an absolute monster.
"Have you read the ship's specifications, Itami ?"
Tommy opened his iPad. "You are looking at the first battleship designed and built after War World 2:
The Super Yamato-Class Guided-Missile Battleship, the design was based on the famous Super Yamato-Class Battleship that was never built in WW2, with some elements were modernized.
Full length: 295 m
Max. Width: 42 m
Displacement: 95,000 metric tons
Range: Unlimited
Speed: 100km/h (54 knots)
Sensors and Processing System: AEGIS Combat System and AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System
Armament:
20 x Phalanx CIWS
60 × MK 57 Peripheral Vertical Launching System (PVLS) Module, 4 cells per module, 240 launch cells total for Helos nuclear-armed SAM, Land Attack Missile (TLAM), Harpoon, Standard Missile.
6 × Mark 32 triple nuclear torpedo tubes:
3 × triple 51 cm (20.1 in) Type 3 Advanced Gun System (AGS).
4 × triple 20.3 cm (8 in) precision guided rocket artillery.
6 × twin 15.5 cm (6.1 in) anti-air railgun.
4 x Raytheon SeaRAM Systems.
Laser Weapons System: 6 High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS)
Aircraft carried: 6 ASW helicopters
Aviation facilities: Flight deck and enclosed hangar for helicopters
Power Plant: Two 15 gigawatts A1C nuclear fusion reactors
Armour: Nano crystallized steel armour with 685 mm (27 in) on face of main turrets
430 mm (17 in) side armor (Immunity against own 51cm shells between 50.0000 and 60.000m) inclined at 20 degrees
230 mm (9 in) armored deck (75%)
254 mm (10 in) armored deck (25%)
And they built 50 of those monster. This is madness, and why building battleships, aren't they obsolete design since WW2 ? " Tommy complained.
Itami sighed then said : "Well, from what we know about the enemy, our primary enemies will be giant beasts so why wasting expensive cruise missile when we can shoot them with naval cannon for a much cheaper price. Beside, those guided-missile battleships created 800,000 new jobs.
In Falmart everything is uncertain, UEADF could use those battleships fitted for everything we need. The planet surface area was around 5 times our Earth so guided-missile battleships are necessary as standalone firepower.
Carrier is basically a "hunk of junk" if it got no ammunition left in the middle of the sea. Escorts can defend the carriers, but you need a battleship in this world should there are situations where you need to hold the enemy off until the fleet escapes.
Just imagine a scenario where UEAMDF must retreat after firing entire missile ammunition, you can see that our best chance to escape is to deploy a battleship that has 51cm guns to hold the enemies off when sailing like up to 10.000km without any ports to dock in to refuel.
As you noted that 30 fighters can take up to 3 hours on a aircraft carrier. One hour from landing, taxiing, and went to resupply station, one hour to resupply, and one hour to sortie.
I've watched several videos and the average rate of the launch is 2 minutes for each fighter and the rate doesn't change much even you have 2 catapults since the crew just to make sure everything was prepared thoroughly.
Although you can launch 60 fighters at that time, it will double your time on the carrier since the carrier can only accept 1 fighter at a time to land, clear the deck, and prepare for the next one. If you are looking at USS Eisenhower video, it takes 30 minutes to take 30 fighters, that's 1 per minute. Then again, you need to clear the deck to prepare for take-off.
I should remind again that we're not going to use the mindset of 21st century Earth where giant battleships were unecessary. It doesn't matter how good our supply line is since UEAMDF lacks everything to maintain its battle power on long-distance front.
On Earth, you can ask other countries to resupply your fuel and purchasing some of the arsenals when you need it, but in Falmart, you need to think that you have limited areas to refuel and resupply.
The UEAMDF, even with everything we have, lacks the manpower or the production capacity to conquest Falmart's world ocean, that is our biggest issue.
Battleship was made to complement the lack of battle power and manpower.
We need to be careful, it doesn't matter how superior our technology is as long as the opponent was more superior in terms of strategy, a brilliant strategist can exploit this for their advantage.
With the modernized Battleship, the brass hoped they could achieve better peace by having an intimidating Yamato battleship once again to dissuade future hostilities.
The Super Yamato-Class Guided-Missile Battleship as a modern and effective weapon of terror will enable Earth to have better standing in a violent and hegemonic environment of Falmart.
Additionally, due to the lack of naval personnel to crew additional warship, constructing the Super Yamato-Class Guided-Missile Battleship was necessary along with the concept of making it into an "Arsenal Ship" with Jack-For-All-Trades capability.
The High Command also want to use those battleships for not only as the symbol of power, but also as the main flagship by putting a Super Yamato and 2 Carriers together along with 1 Navy Escort Group since it's the best battle formation the UEAMDF can offer to combat threats on Falmart."
"Are those our new Tu-688 nuclear-powered ultra heavy bombers ?" Itami asked, pointing at the massive bomber formation in the sky.
"Yeah... they are ! From what I have read : The Tu-688 was, with all due respect to the fabled B-17, a true flying fortress.
The allied high command believe that stealth bomber like the B-21 is a waste of money for an enemy haven't invented radar so they choose a much cheaper bomber design.
The Tu-688 carried half a dozen four gun remote controlled turrets, four containing 40mm auto cannon and the other two armed with huge 57mm auto cannon.
It have a bomb load of 500,000 kg and it can fly for months on the sky thanks to the powerful nuclear reactor. "
"I still can't believe that they replace all of the ICBM and SLBM with those things, high attitude long range bombers; Really! Are we returning to the 1950s ? " Tom said.
"ICBM and SLBM won't work in Falmart." Itami replied. "From what we have learned about Falmart, the planet escape velocity is too high and the atmosphere is too dense.
Our ICBM and SLBM won't even be able to left the atmosphere and even if they can, the warhead won't survive the re-entry heat. Falmart's atmosphere is six times thicker than Earth.
That are why we use long range heavy bombers, the dense atmosphere is perfect for long range super heavy bomber and air-launched cruise missile (ALCM). In Falmart those Tu-688s can fly at the height of 50,000 m."
Tommy looked over Itami and asked "I heard that you became the commander of the 3rd Special Task Force of the JSDF. How the hell a lazy ass like you became the commander of a task force ?"
"Well, You know old man is the Minister of Defense Taro Itami. He said:
I can't believe after become the "Hero of Ginza" you still a lazy otaku Yoji. You are an embarrassment to our family.
I can't believe I will say this but I'm organizing sixteen Special Task Forces.
Your mission is to lead the third one to join the global expeditionary force to conquer the planet Falmart.
This will teach you a lesson and try harder to be worthy of our family name."
"Thus, I became the commander of the third Special Task Force."
"The conference is about to start, we have to go now or we will be late. " Tom urged as he watched the clock.
"Yea, yea, I know." Itami put the manga into his bag and walked over lazily to the conference room.
Tokyo International Convention Center
"Good morning and welcome to the United Earth Alliance Defence Force ( UEADF) conference in Tokyo to discuss the final phase of preparation for Operation Downfall." Supreme Allied Commander Liam Nuttall made an opening statement.
Itami yawned while listening to the commander-in-chief. He and Tommy sat in the 5th row. From here he could see his father Minister of Defence gave him a cold stare. He smiled wryly and waved back at his father.
The Supreme Allied Commander continued his speech:
"Your Majesty, Mr President, Mr Prime Minister and all the guests.
I am Liam Nuttall Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in the Falmart theatre.
As you see, just getting the title straight is tiring enough."
Some of the guests giggled as the Commander-in-chief make a small joke.
"So I will leave much of today's business to my trusted and gifted colleagues, our brilliant scientists and CEOs of arm-industries." He continued.
"We are from different countries, different religions but we united in this holy crusade for justice.
We shall crush the unholy Empire and all its accomplice .
We shall bring justice to those who have died in the Rumbling.
We shall make the world a safer place for future generations.
There are no other cause so urgent as to bring us so far from our homes.
This is our purpose.
This is Operation Downfall. "
The guests applauded like thunder before the touching speech.
"Explaining how we will succeed, the nature of our enemy and the challenges that we will face is best done by My Chiefs of Staff.
Starting with Dr Hange Zoë of the military intelligence and the head of project BRIDGEHEAD. Dr Hange if you will ?"
Dr Hange, a woman in her late 40s with a crazy hair , slowly walked up to the podium. She cleared her throat and said :
"Thank you for your introduction, Commander Nuttall. I'm Dr Hange Zoë and today I represent over 100,000 biologists, astrophysicists, quantum physicists, archaeologists, geologists, astrobiologists, theoretical physicists and engineers working in project BRIDGEHEAD for the last decade.
Here is our full report about the GATE phenomenal and Falmart:
The GATE phenomenal : was an artificial dimensional portal or a traversable wormhole that can connect Falmart to others world. In this case the Earth.
The wormhole in Ginza containing a notable amount of "exotic" matter so it could stay open and unchanging for longer periods of time.
Exotic matter, which should not be confused with dark matter or antimatter, contains negative energy density and a large negative pressure.
Such matter has only been seen in the behavior of certain vacuum states as part of quantum field theory.
The exit of traversable wormhole has broken the rule of our known physics, combined with the discovery of magic prove that there were more than 4 dimension space-time and those planes of existence could interact with the normal space-time.
Falmart :
The homeworld of our enemy, the Holy Darwinia Empire, is a super-earth. It a planet with 2,3 Earth-radius and 7 Earth-masses. It have 5 times the Earth surface so it a big place with very large continent and very high mountain range. It have a dense atmosphere and a very volatile climate.
To simply put it an Earth plus:
Its desert are hotter and bigger than on Earth. For example: Saharanta Great Desert, covered an area the size of our Africa, with the temperature may have reached 65 Degree C in the centre of the megadesert.
Its hypercane are a lot stronger than our hurricane. Some hypercane on Falmart have recorded wind speed of 500 mph, reached the size of Australia, worse they could last for months due to the warm ocean.
Its stormforest are wetter than our rainforest. Like the Great Marege Stormforest in Terra Australis Peninsula, a massive forest the size of Latin America that receives 467 inches of rain per year.
Its arctic is colder than our antarctica. Antarktyda average temperature is minus 55 Degree C with 120mph winds. During the global winter, the temperature might drop below - 110 C.
Its have higher escape velocity: 19.7 km/s so it very hard for our chemical rocket get to space. Thus instead of reconnaissance satellite we will use extreme high altitude reconnaissance drone for scout.
This is a map of Falmart you can see, it's amazingly Earth-like. The distribution of continents is look like map of the earth in the next 50 million years:
-Terra Australis Peninsula and the Halamaka mountain range are basically when Australia collide with Southeast Asia forming a massive mountain range.
-Lemuria subcontinent look like the hypothesis East Africa subcontinent after it break away from Africa in the next 10 million years.
-Neo Ameryka is basically an isolated South America after breaking up with North America.
-Ameryka look like North America after colliding with Asia forming a land bridge.
-Europania and Afrykania look like Europe and Africa after merging. Closing up the Mediterranean Sea.
-Azjania is basically a bigger, hotter and more mountainous Asia.
-Antarktyda is a much bigger and colder Antarctica.
There are too many similarity between Falmart and Earth to be a coincident, so here is my hypothesis : Falmart is an alternate reality Earth in a parallel universe.
Here are some survival tips on Falmart:
Landing on Falmart, you immediately know you're not on Earth. Why?
Instantly visible: that orange sunlight. Falmart's smaller, cooler sun looks golden at noon, blushing lower in the sky to a pure spectral red Sol never achieves. Falmart days have a warm tone, like perpetual afternoon, or gaslight, or firelight... Your eyes adjust quickly, so you'll see a full spectrum. You won't even be aware it's warmer-consciously. But it shifts your mood.
Invisible, but in your bones: the extra gravity. If you're in the tropics (and you'll probably start there) you weigh about 25% more (well, your weight gain really ranges from 23% at the equator to a good 40% near the poles. Variable gravity sound absurd? It's common! ). Strangely, many people experience the extra weight as a sort of vigor, at first. It's so evenly distributed your muscles can easily handle it short-term, and they respond forcefully, enjoying the workout. But a few days later you'll get sore and tired-your joints aren't used to the extra load being constant. After a week or two the vigor returns and you'll stabilize in excellent shape (rats raised in high gravity live LONGER-their joints adapt and last, they stay lean, and their hearts strengthen). The big risk isn't falling, breaking bones, or heart attacks-it's that you'll misjudge how fast objects fall! This adjustment is mental-and deep. You aren't weak, you're clumsy. And will be for weeks.
Visible within hours: the sun races across the sky. Falmart rotates in just 12 hours! Just seven hours of daylight, only five of night. Learn to catnap! (How can day and night be unequal? Falmart's thick and tightly layered atmosphere (thinning fast as you rise) bends light better than Earth's. So at dawn or dusk, sunlight's refracted several degrees around the planet-rarely under five, and up to ten degrees. Result? The sun seems to be shining above the horizon, when it's really just below it. Sound odd? It happens on Earth too, every day. The setting sun you see isn't there-it's several diameters below its image! A few minutes of extra light at dawn and dusk... But on Falmart, it's more than a few.)
Utterly invisible, but vital: the air's different, different in three ways, all of which affect you.
You have 3.5 times as much oxygen available. It's invigorating short-term-but you didn't evolve for it. Harsh on your lungs, if you over-exercise. It may age your tissues faster! Also: within days, in response, your blood will thin out-you'll feel fine, but by Earth standards you'll be severely anemic. So just before leaving, live in high mountains and eat an iron-rich diet for a week or so-or you may faint back in Earth air. So breathe easy, tour leisurely... and before settling on Falmart, consult a doctor!
There's also four times the nitrogen on Earth. That's not quite enough to give most people serious nitrogen narcosis, but you may be mildly euphoric for a few days. Enjoy the buzz ("rapture of the deep", it was once called), but don't fly aircars, or get married-you know, things you can crash. That's a good tourist, let your brain adjust!
And most importantly for our tour, Falmart's air also contains a lot of inert gasses too-so the total air pressure is fully SIX TIMES sea level on Earth. Air that dense means lift under your wings. Yes, you can fly. On Earth today, no flying creature weighs over 15 kg (35 lbs), though some pterosaurs were quite a bit bigger. On Falmart, despite the higher gravity, the air's SO dense that flying's much easier-possible even for creatures as heavy as humans. So strap on your wings and be sure they're comfortable! You won't impress the locals-you're too heavy for aerobatics, or carrying food home to your young, or soaring aerial courtship dances-but with a little practice and a good set of spidersilk wings, a human in reasonable shape CAN get off the ground and chug around. Cruising speeds are near 90 kph (55 mph)-as fast as a migrating goose.
Holy Darwinian Empire
The Empire also known as the Holy Darwinian Empire, is an early-industrial, militaristic, theocratic, and autocratic state with a very intolerant polytheism believe system located in Falmart and ruled by Emperor Molt Sol Augustus, where it runs in a hegemonic system with many tributary states. As an imperium dominatus it controls most of Falmart, from the land to the sea and even underground and underwater.
The Empire rules from its Imperial Capital, Sadera, is located northwest of Blue Sea, deep inside the mountain range of Ice and Snow. With a population of 10 billions it far surpass any Empires in Earth's history. It is the most powerful sovereign state in the modern world and the largest and oldest country in history of Falmart.
The Empire is very old, far older than any nations on Earth. Their Empire has written records going back some 50,000 years and the current Imperial House has ruled their entire planet for some 25,000 years. That is 20 times older than the Roman Empire.
Politics
The Holy Darwinian Empire is a theocratic absolute monarchy governed by its Holy Emperor under his imperium maius (supreme executive power), his auctoritas principis (primary legislative authority), and his jure divis (divine mandate as the Son of Heaven ). Other magistrates possess political powers subsidiary to and even derived from those of an emperor. A Emperor's other titles include Princeps Civitatis (First Citizen), Augustus (Venerable One), primus inter pares (first among equals), Imperator (Supreme Commander), and Pontifex Maximus (Pope). Separate from his public office, a Emperor bears the highest Dignitas (social standing) of a Imperial citizen and has sacrosanctity from physical harm under Falmartian Orthodox and Imperial laws. Violating his sanctity is sacrilege and treason - punished by death.
The Holy Council of the 13 Apostles's resolution 1066 gave an Emperor the sole right to represent Gods on Falmart under canon law of the Falmartian Orthodox Church. However the religious powers of Pope are diluted in their new person; an Emperor cannot bring forth new religious dogma. This authority was only in the hand of the 13 Apostles. Still, as Bishop of Sadera, the Emperor may issue binding papal bulls, canonize saints, and structurally reform the Church in a limited fashion. As the sovereign of the Senate and People of Sadera, an Emperor alone can enact legislation promulgated by the Senate. For his executive powers, an emperor can appoint ministers and perform the functions of most ministries and for his administrative powers, he can dismiss and reappoint praetors for provincial government.
The Imperial government is somewhat identical to the Roman Dominate Period, in which the Emperor is nearly an absolute monarch. He has the responsibility for the overall policy of the state and its diplomacy and has the final authority on most matters of state. However, substantial power also lies in the hands of the Imperial Senate and the Holy Order of Eden.
Unlike in the Dominate, however there exist the title of princess, which, in reality, never happened in the Roman Principate Period.
Like in the Late Antiquity Roman Empire, domestic affairs are still managed locally. The vast land of the Holy Empire is divided into territories known as Provinciae, ruled by Praetores (Governors) who are appointed by the Emperor whenever a Praetorian position opens (either by resignation, death, or impeachment). Praetors must be patricians born and having lived no less than 30 years of their lives in Sadera. Once elected, the new governor forfeits his other magisterial positions and private jobs. Consequently, praetorship is a common successive post for senators or consuls after their terms. However, the position is precarious. An Emperor can remove Praetors at will.
In addition, the Empire has permitted certain cities with long and distinguished histories, such as Rondel and Bellnahgo, to rule themselves; this was typical for the Eastern Roman Empire since the 2nd half of the 5th Century. Certain places which are not suitable for a limited-term regional governor, but which require long periods of acclimation, such as House Formal's domain, which counts many races and tribes among its citizens, have been ceded to individuals who possess the requisite adaptability. Many lesser kings and nobles swear loyalty to the Empire and provide troops during times of war whilst controlling most of the local affairs in their territories. Imperial semi-colonial states included the Kingdom of Elbe, the League Principality, Kingdom of Mudwan, Kingdom of Alguna, and the city of Italica. In term of religion, the Emperor counted as the highest religious official in the Empire so he could speak with Apostles of the Holy Order during national religious events.
Unlike in the Late Antiquity Roman Empire, senators, military commanders, and other high-ranking officials while carry substantial political power; never have enough political power to depose an Emperor. Only the Holy Order have the political power to depose an Emperor if they deem him to be unfit for divine mandate.
History
Based on the Imperial Calendar, which likely marks the founding of the Empire as "Year 0", the Empire was presumably founded 52019 years before the GATE event , or in the early 50000 BC based on Earth's calendar. Initially the country was a democracy, however, the government grew ineffective as the territory increased, which resulted in the current imperial government. While few events in the history are known, it is known that, about 25000 years prior to the GATE, or around (260997-27029 ) Imperial Calendar, a major war called the War of Unification took place, which is generally considered to be one of the most turbulent and difficult times in Imperial history.
Imperial Subjects
The dominant species on Falmart is Homo Titanien, also called Titan Shapeshifter, Subjects of Darwin, or Humanoid. Titan Shapeshifter are unlike any other species encountered by Humanity. They are the ultimate lifeforms. Their cells can assimilate genes of other species, this combines with their own hyper-evolution allow them to survive in almost all environments. They don't need food, water or even air to survive. Titan Shapeshifter possess extreme longevity. Their lifespan is between 1000 to 10,000 years.
Basic abilities :
Titan transformation: A Titan Shapeshifter is able to turn into a giant Titan 10 time bigger than normal. Hence the name.
Although the organic materials that make up the Titans' bodies appears to be from nothing, they are said to be sent from invisible paths that transcend physical space.
The body of Titans appears to violate several known laws of science, spontaneously generating both energy and mass. Their muscle is incredibly powerful granting them superhuman levels of maneuverability.
Their extremely high level of activity and body temperature indicates the need for a massive intake of energy to fuel them, yet they apparently never need to eat, drink or breath at all.
Superhuman strength: Titan Shapeshifter has superhuman strength and is able to lift a 8-ton truck in human form. Experiments have shown a Titan Shapeshifter have the strength of 100 man. In Titan form their strength increase a thousand time that mean they now can lift a 8,000 thousand-ton destroyer.
Immense speed: Titan Shapeshifter is able to dash around battlefield at incredible speed, and easily outrun a speeding vehicle. During the test, test subject Tuka also managed to dodge gunshots from many assault rifles used by CIA agents and reached the speed of 370 km/h but this ability is not absolute since she cannot outrun all the bullets in which she receives a few shots. In her 20m-tall Titan form, she still can reach that incredible speed despite the inverse-square law indicate an extremly powerful energy source.
Combat prowess: Titan Shapeshifter are very skilled with weapons, they can use any type of Shapeshifter can gains the battle experience from every single Titan Shapeshifter before them via paths but they need special training to awake this ability.
High speed regeneration: Titan Shapeshifter body regenerates any wound it receives. They can regenerate lost body parts from seconds to minutes, even severed heads. Even if the Titan body were destroyed, the real human body inside would not be can only be kill if their real body is torned to pieces or burned to ash.
Object Conjuration/Materialization: Titan Shapeshifter can create any simple medium size object like tools or weapons or even armor. Although this appears to violate the law of conservation mass when matter appears from nothingness, they are said to be sent from invisible paths that transcend physical space. They can create even bigger object in their Titan form.
Magic: Titan shapeshifter is capable of using magic. Magic in the Falmart follows the "Legal Principle", which states that the "False Principle" (Magic) is an application of natural phenomena unfolded upon the "True Principle" (reality / physical laws). For example, a spell that causes rocks to levitate then accelerate is the "False Principle" interfering with the "True Principle" of the rocks being still. Falmart magic appears to be means of manipulating natural processes such as chemical interactions and fundamental forces of the universe in a manner which is not completely understood by the residents of the Falmart.
Humanoid Races:
Homo Titanien has many sub-species divided into many races called Humanoid. A Homo Titanien can transform into any humanoid form that suit their need hence the name shapeshifter. But this ability required a special growing pod.
Some common humanoid races living in Falmart are:
Immanity
Immanity are basically normal human. They look exactly like human on Earth except for their impossible natural hair and eyes colors. For some unknown reasons, they have glorious anime-like hair colors: blue, green, violet, pink, silver, ruby, red, orange ect. Immanity make up more than 60 percentages Falmart's population.
Elves
The Elves in Falmart are similar to depictions of elves in 'high fantasy' fiction, being depicted as humanoid creatures with unique pointed ears and dashing appearances. Elves are known as expert archers and are also skilled in the use of spirit magic. They are famous for Turning Arrows that can change fly directions mid-air.
Dark Elves
Dark Elves are a sub-race of elves with brown or blue colored skin, who seem to live in colonies separate from their fair-skinned counterparts. They suit for living in the desert.
Fairies
A pacifist race that, due to their small size, handle small jobs such as handing pens to others and providing desk assistances. Groups of fairies can cooperate to handle heavy objects.
Orcs / Trolls and Goblins
Goblins are sometimes referred to as "Orcs" or "Trolls". They are large and muscular humanoids with gray, green, or purplish skin and pig/ape-like faces. They are known to have very thick, superhardern skin and hightly resistance to injuries. Goblins are very strong but appear to be less well-armed and armored than humans or other soldiers, carrying mostly crude clubs, warhammers, axes and cleaver-like swords. They are infamous for the superheavy Orc's longbow.
Ogre
Armored Orge , also referred as Walking fortress by the Empire, are giant humanoid race that can be found in the Mountain Region. Armored Orge are famous for their tremendous physical strength and super thick armor allow them to wreak havoc the enemy formation or working in very dangerous environment. They are the heavyweight lifter of the Empire.
Dwarves
Short, stocky, and bearded, the typical Dwarves of 'fantasy fiction' are among the races seen at the bar in Alnus. The Dwarves are known among the inhabitants as skilled blacksmiths and metalworkers. They are strong and skilled combatants in spite of their short stature.
Pooka
A red-skinned humanoid species known for their skills in commerce. They seem similar to Japanese Oni superficially.
Lennon
Lennon are a Humanoid race with a third eye on their forehead. The Third eye allow them to see through wall.
Minotaur
Minotaurs like most of the fauna of Falmart bears resemblance to mythological creatures from Western cultures on Earth. In this case, it's the labyrinth-dwelling half-man, half-bull monster of Greco-Roman mythology. Like their mythical counterparts, minotaurs of the Falmart possess giant humanoid bodies (save for the bovine hooves on their feet) and heads similar to that of a bull. They are famous Gatekeepers .
Succubus
Race of humanoid consists primarily of highly attractive female prostitutes. They bears resemblance to mythological creatures from Western cultures on Earth.
Amazons
Race of humanoid consists primarily of tall, muscular and highly attractive female warriors. Due to their fighting prowess and beauty, they are among the favorite races of Emroy as well as Hardy. The Amazons are the most human-like race of all humanoid races. They work at bodyguard for the noble and the Emperor.
Cat-People
Cat-People are humanoids with feline features, specifically cat-like ears and tails.
Warrior Bunnies
Strong, agile, disciplined, and feminine lagomorphic humanoids best known for being fast and fierce warriors and assassins.
Sirens
Sirens are humanoids with bird-like feathers from their arms and heads, as well as avian-like feet. Their arm feathers resemble wings thus they are able to fly. Sirens are famous to have the ability to use powerful wind magic.
Monarch wing
A race of winged humanoids apparently distinct from Sirens are known to inhabit the Arctic Region. These winged humanoids are six-limbed, having two wings growing out of their back in addition to 2 arms and legs, similar to depictions of "angels".
Medusae
Medusae are humanoids with numerous 'snake heads' sprouting from the scalp, as if they are hair as to the like of normal humans. These 'snake heads' possess the ability to feed on the life force of a victim, as well as the ability to read minds.
Volralden
The Volraden are a tribe of humanoid Werewolf race with wolf-like appearance. They hail from the Mountain of Snow and often serves as mercenaries for various Lord in the Empire. Most of them are seen doing their job as military police or convoy guards
Leonoids
Bipedal anthropomorphic lion and tiger-like beings . Like werewolves/Volralden of the Mountain of Snow and Winter , Leonoids appear more like animals with an anthropomorphic body structure than humans with some animal characteristics.
Atlantean
They aquatic humanoids have a fish-like tail but also possess two legs, allowing them to stand and walk on land.
Mer-People
they look like the classic depictions of "Mer-people" they are a race that are half-human and half fish. They have many great cities underwater. They play a vital role in the Imperial Navy.
Draconians
A tribe of humanoids with dragon-like features, including wings, scales, and sharpened teeth. They are known to be capable of communicating with Dragons to a degree, as well as taming them more easily.
Centaurs
A demi-human race with the lower body of a horse, just like it's counterpart in Earth mythology. They are the main components of the Imperial cavalry.
Kobolds
A aggressive and salvage race of wolf-like demi-human that bear quite resemblance to the Voldradens.
And there are many more humanoid races that are not on this list.
Imperial Army:
The Imperial Army is the main army used by the Empire. The Imperial Army is similar in appearance to the Roman Empire on Earth, being made up primarily of formations of heavy infantry armed with spears, swords, large metal shields, and utilizing Roman testudo formations in battles.
Also present in the military are super heavy cavalry, long range archers, siege engines such a battering rams, ballistae, mortars, cannons and dragon riders.
As the empire's military, it is the centerpoint of a military-industrial complex with unbelievable power and international authority. Feared by foreigners and revered by patriots, the Imperial Army is without question the most effective army in Falmart's history.
Overview
While the Imperial Army might share many similar to the Roman Army in their appearance, their technology level is particularly more late-Renaissance.
For instance the Imperial centaurs cavalry, who are typically similar in appearance to the Polish hussars knights, clad in very thick plate armor and armed with heavy cavalry swords, lances and the fearsome Joergbow.
Imperial legionaries also extremely heavily armored with thick plate armor and heavy metal shield can weight up to half a ton.
Other Renaissance weaponry used by the Empire include wall-mounted artillery and mortars. Their air force is made up of giant Wyverns Titan shifter with high speed, agility and devastating firepower. Their main use is ground and sea support.
They also own a very large navy, with between 200,000 and 300,000 transport ships of all kinds, ranging from 50m long Galleons to giant wyvern carriers up to 150 meters long. Those ships are not weapons by themselves they are just mobile base of operation. The main naval weapons is the Sea Cavalry comprise of mostly Sharkopath Titan.
As the largest armed forces on the planet, the Imperial Army boasts 126 million regular soldiers. This almost excessive number of troops is maintained by mandatory military service - twenty years for every man born within the borders of the Empire. No force in history compares in size to the modern Imperial Army. Even the entire Earth's militaries in the Second World War combine fell short of its forces.
Historically, the World Empire has supplemented its army by conscripting citizens into the Imperial Army. When the security of Empire is threatened, the Emperor can lawfully force his people into service, magnifying the size of his forces several times.
A modern horde could have anywhere from 200 million to 500 million soldiers. Human civilization has never witnessed a comparable military force.
Structure
As an arm of the executive government, the Army is completely at the behest of the Emperor. Its internal leader, however, is the Crown Prince of Drawinian, the supreme commander of the army, navy and air force.
The professional division of the exercitus consists of 200 Army Groups according to nearly identical designs. Its present form stems from the Second Reforms in 7717. This reorganization emphasized the command hierarchy and enforced strict uniformity in the armed forces.
The state confers absolute command over the entire armed forces to the reigning Emperor, Sadera's chief executive officer and first citizen.
As the top of the pyramid of command (pyramidis imperia), his orders must be followed without exception. Due to the separation of most emperors from military life, their orders are typically vague with a great deal of strategic flexibility, along the lines of "hold Thebes above all else" or "take the enemy's capital".
Imbedded securely in the pyramid and immediately below the Emperor, the Crown Prince (Supreme Commander) is the highest distinctly military office in Sadera. He is the commander who formulates the Empire's military policy and global strategic goals after the Emperor's input.
Civilian management of military affairs works through the Ministry of Defense, popularly known as the War Ministry. The Minister of Defense, its administrator, manages the bureaucratic issues of keeping a standing army, and working closely with the Secretary of Army, Navy and Air Force.
There is little natural conflict between the duties of the Crown Prince (Supreme Commander) and the Minister of Defense. The latter engages himself in paying wages, organizes the legions during peacetime, and communicates military policy to the public, while ensuring that national strategy is in line with national policy.
The Crown Prince (Supreme Commander), by contrast, decides the where, when and how of military operations at the highest level. Of course, often strategy must be planned on a global scale so he tends to decide on strategic goals while his generals flesh out the details.
Organization:
The Imperial Army structure is surprisingly similar to the US army in WW2:
5-10 soldiers will form a squad lead by a Optio (Sergeant )
3 to 4 squads together make up a Platoon (15-45 soldiers) lead by a Centurio ( Lieutenant ).
3 to 5 platoons together formed a Company (80–250 soldiers) lead by a Primus (Captain).
3 to 5 companies will form a Battalion (300–1000 soldiers) lead by a Praefectus (Colonel ).
3 or more battalions will form a Brigade (1,000–5,500 soldiers) lead by a Tribuni ( Major General ).
3 brigades form a Division (10,000–25,000 soldiers) lead by a Tibunus (Lieutenant General ).
3-4 divisions will form a Corps (30,000-50,000 soldiers) lead by a Legatus (General ).
2-4 corps will form a Field Army(100,000–300,000 soldiers) lead by an Epistrategos ( Field Marshal ).
Finally, 4-6 field armies will create the largest division of troops is referred to as an Army Group (400,0000-1,000,000 soldiers) lead by the Generalissimus (Lord Commander) who are also the member of the Imperial Senate.
Recruitment:
Recruitment into the Imperial Army is either done voluntarily or through conscription. Military service is considered a great honour and volunteering for the Holy Darwinian Army is considered to be an honourable profession in the Holy Darwinian Empire. The Imperial Army also employs mercenaries and Arch-mages to bolster their forces. Much of the armed force is made of warrior-class citizens. Soldiers of the Imperial Army have good education and are expert at geography, history, archery, hand to hand fighting, psychological warfare, airborne skills, underwater combat, poison use, and so life of a common soldier is quite decent, they have high salary combine with many benefits and are well respected by all members of society.
Special Unit:
One difference from a Renaissance Army is the fact that the Imperial Army does employ a kind of Air Force in the form of the Titan Wyvern Lord Corps. These are Draconian soldiers who are trained to transform into giant wyverns (dragons with winged forearms). Wyvern lord length about 120 meters, can fly up to tens of thousands of meters high, at the speed of 2,400km/h , has extra thick exoskeleton skins, super regeneration , and can shoot giant fire ball at enemy. They are normally armed with giant heavy flechette and use the wyverns' ability to breathe fire to attack enemy troops on the ground. They are the ancient equivalent of ground-support aircraft. They are also used for reconnaissance, patrols, and for intimidation. Their super hard dragon scales combine with insane regeneration and supersonic speed prove to be invulnerable to modern-day anti-aircraft weaponry and can only be killed by a tactical nuclear weapons.
Another difference is the Sea Cavalry . Imperial Army do have a kind of underwater Cavalry called the Titan Sharkopath Corps. They are Mer-people soldiers who are trained to transform into giant Armored Shark. The armored shark length about 50-60 meters, can dive to tens of thousands of meters depth, making speed at 550 knots, has extra thick exoskeleton skins, super regeneration , and can shoot air bubble wrapped supercavitating teeth at enemy, each around 6 meter long and 50cm thick and at hypersonic speed of mach are the sign of calamity of the sea. Supercavitating nuclear torpedoes are suggested as a weapon to kill them.
Types of soldier
Heavy Infantry: the basic soldiers in the Imperial Army. They wear a 250 kg plate armor that look like a Crupellarius and carry a 150 kg metal Scutum. The thick armor and shield make them immune to most firearm up to 50 cal. Thank to their superhuman strength they can move at speed up to 300 km/h even with all those heavy armor.
There Titan form is 10 times larger than their normal form reach the height of 20 m. Their weight increase a thousand fold to 500 tons. Heavy artillery is need to neutralize them.
Centaurs Cavalry: the basic cavalry units in the Imperial army. Very heavy armored can run up to 600 km/h. They are shock troopers of the Empire. In their Titan form they can weight up to 1000 ton with all those heavy armor. They are very maneuverable allow them to encircle their enemy. They are very good archers. A heavy cavalry charge with lances by the centaurs is almost unstoppable. Anti-tank mine is the weapon of choice.
Volralden warrior: Volralden are excellent skirmishers, they are like the Ghurkha in our world. Their Titan form is a giant wolf-like monster with horns. Its length is 50 m, total height is 20 m. It has 2 small wings incapable of flight and it is covered with hair as hard as steel. It possess tremendous amount of magic, being able to shoot explosive magic from its mouth and its horns. It has super strength and also has super regenerative magic. It has two types of explosive magic: a low-power lightning shockwave fired from its horns and a single high-powered explosive magic. Although it has high offense magic, it has a weak defensive power. Its speed is impressive up to 720 km/h so air-to-surface missile (ASM) is the best way to kill it.
Armored Ogre demolisher: They act as armored troops of the Army. They normally move at the front act as vanguard. Their normal size is 6m height . They wear very thick armor up to 50 mm of super hard Titan crystal and armed with a 200mm thick shield along with a 10 ton giant hammer or club. Their Titan form is a colossus 60m height 30,000 ton beast. It can generate massive telekinetic wave and destroy everything around. It's quite fast for its size can move at 200km/h. An Armored Ogre Titan can leveled a city in a day. 460 mm Advanced Gun System (AGS) is the best way to deal with it.
Warrior Bunnies Assassins: Warrior Bunnies are known for superhuman agility, reflex and speed as well as highly skilled warriors and big bunny-like ears also enable them to have enhanced hearing in which they can hear sound and conversation at a very far average Warrior Bunnies is equal to five trained Imperial soldiers that is why they used as special force.
Special weapons
Helstorm Rocket Battery : The Helstorm Rocket Battery is an experimental artillery piece used by the Empire as a means to shower the enemy with a hail of explosive rocket munitions, nicknamed the Sunmaker, for it fired specialist phosphoric rockets that burned with a blinding brilliance.
Dwarf Organ : The Dwarf Organ Gun, or Organ Cannon as some call it, is a strange yet infamous artillery piece created by the Engineers Guild and used extensively by the Dwarfs for its ability to shoot cannon-balls at a far greater rate of fire than a typical Dwarf, the Organ Cannon's barrel are smaller and lighter than the ones used in standard cannonry, meaning it lacks the range and firepower of conventional artillery. However, the Organ Gun makes up for this disadvantage by being able to fire multiple shots at the enemy, able to literally tear apart an entire regiment of soldiers should the crew get within adequate range of the enemy.
Helblaster : The Helblaster Volley Gun is one of the most infamous black powder weapon ever invented, its devastating firepower able to tear apart an entire regiment of enemy troops in one thunderous volley. Its nine separate barrels are divided into three "decks" and are turned by means of a central crank, firing around three shots per deck which would shatter the enemy in hail of miniature cannonballs. Helblaster crews may choose to fire all three decks in quick succession, or to load and fire the decks one after another. Either method has advantages.
Wildfire : The Imperial Troops use Wildfire flasks as incendiary weapon. Wildfire is a flammable liquid which is created by the power of Titan. Wildfire is a highly volatile material; when ignited, it can explode with tremendous force and the resulting fire burns so hot that water cannot extinguish it. Only by smothering the flames with large quantities of sand can they be put out. Wildfire is identifiable by the distinctive green hue of its flames and a bright green color in its liquid state .The Wildfire flasks can be loaded in the giant Polybolos to launch at the enemy to burn them.
Joergbow : Joergbow is a rapid fire magazine-fed bow . It allow archer to increase their rate of fire and accuracy because it have a magazine of 6 arrows , draw assistant system ,trigger release and the ability to mount iron sights. Combine with the ability to create unlimited arrow through Paths , an imperial soldier can shoot up to 60 arrows per minute. Because of magic and superhuman strength the crytal arrow can fly at the speed of 1000m/s make them as dangerous as the 20×102mm round. The Titan form of this bow can shoot 9m long 100kg heavy arrows enought to kill a tank.
JoergMachine Bow : It a crossbow with a 50 arrows magazine and a magic power repeat system. It shoot lighter arrow but with the rate of fire up to 360 arrows per minute. It the reason why the Empire didn't invented gun because it basically a M2 Browning. This thing will be very dangerous in this giant form.
Giant flechette : It a high velocity heavy rod dropped from Wyvern Lord. It is basically a giant Lazy Dog (bomb) used in Vietnam War. A Wyvern Lord can summon thousands of flechettes per minute from the " Paths Dimension " make them essentially a ultra heavy bomber. Each flechette would develop an enormous amount of kinetic energy as it fell .Those flechettes weight about 1 ton each and their speed often exceeded 700m/s before impact penetrating nearly any material upon hitting the ground.
Economy
The Holy Darwinian Empire is the sole hyperpower on Falmart. It has the largest economy and controls the raw materials of the entire planet with the capability to field a full-time professional army, millions of warships and battle beasts and well as complete massive construction project such as the "Fortress of Falmart" an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications along the entire seven continents coastline.
In spite of the fact that the Holy Empire's economy is somewhat limited by its early-industrial revolution technology level, the existence of magic, Titan powers and Paths dimension places no limits on the amount of resources which can be exploited by the Empire, as well as the annual gross domestic product of the Empire.
For this reason, the Holy Empire's annual gross domestic product is enormous even in comparison to that of an comparison to that of a modern industrialized country such as Japan. While the annual GDP and government budget of the Empire is not known, it is known that the initial Emperor budget proposal to rebuild the capital Sadera of 50 trillion Suwani, which is about the 3 billion tons of gold, was considered to be a small sum.
However, Darwinian society suffers from an income inequality deeply ingrained into its history and class system. The top 10% of earners control about 65% of the empire's wealth - the noble (1%) alone more than 44%. Unsurprisingly, the empire's gender gap is enormous. 75% of women who reported working in the year of the last census earned less than 1000 Suwani that year.
Women are subject to the same minimum hourly wage as men so their lower income comes from a lack of work hours - a social disparity rather than legal inequality. Regularly working females tend to hold jobs for which men are less suited, e.g. designing women's clothes, or men consider degrading to their gender, e.g. prostitution.
Other jobs typically held only by females will place them underneath men, like the position of secretary, or keep them by the side of a businessman or politician. This reflects the perception imperial possess of distinct gender roles in society.
As their early-industrialization suggests, the Empire's citizens create hand-made and mass produced goods, using raw materials from Paths Dimension. The lands of the Empire also very rich of gold , silver and gem stones.
Some of the more unique materials in the Empire are dragon scales, Titan crystal, wood of Titan Forest (is comprised of colossal trees generally around 180 meters tall), Iceburst stone (natural gases solidified by Titan power, becoming like icy stones), Titan ultrahard steel, ect.
The Currency of the Empire consists of gold, silver and platinum coins of varying values.
Weight & Metal Exchange rate
Gold: Suwani = 60g
Silver : Denari = 60g
Platinum : Soruda= 60g
1 Suwani = 5 Soruda , 1 Denari = 2 Soruda
Slavery
Slavery still exists in the non-Imperial parts of the world, although the Holy Darwinian Empire effectively destroyed the slave trade by the early nineteenth millennia. Most slaves are found in the Neo Ameryka and former Afrykania colonies of the Former Europania Union, and in the Middle East kingdoms, though there are some in Europania itself. Many nations use slavery as a criminal punishment, or simply as a way of disposing of political opponents of various kinds.
Attempts have been made to stamp it out, which has halted the trans-Antlantycki slave trade (while leaving nations with their own internal slave markets), but in general apart from a small number of anti-slavery campaigners, slavery is considered an internal matter, with which other nations should not interfere.
There is an interesting paradox however, although the Holy Darwinian Empire doesn't have slave, at least officially, free people could willingly sell themselves legally to pay off debt, they use a massive number of slave labour. In the form of mindless titans and homunculus slave. They are basically biological robots doesn't have a will of their own, that is why they are perfect slave.
In fact, homunculus slave growing and selling is one of the major sources of income for the Holy Empire and it is known that in the Holy Empire exists many factories and markets completely dedicated to the create and trade of high quality homunculus slaves and that the homunculus are used for forced labor and sexual exploitation in inhumane and life-threatening conditions.
Do not misunderstand, the Holy Darwinian Empire didn't abolish slavery because some moral objection or anything, they did it because normal people were horrible slave and didn't make economic sense. Homunculus are much better slave and they never revolt, you can also design a perfect homunculus slave yourself.
Technology
The Empire technological level was in the 1700s, right before the Industrial Revolution's era. Most of their known technologies are reflected in the military aspect, so their full technological capabilities (such as civilian technologies) remain unknown.
Militarily, their army is based on ballistic weapons of the 18th century, such as mortars and cannons. All their weapons, however, use magical force to propel projectiles rather than gunpowder, although the principle of firing looks the same.
Their warships were in the style of the early-modern ships-of-the-line, with a curious variation is the Dragon Carrier. When it comes to speeding, they use the Tear of the Wind God to wind the sail.
It shows that their technology represents both "forward" and "backward" thinking when compared to Earth technology in general.
While most of their technologies are only equivalent to the 1700s, interestingly, there are some areas that are far more developed.
Darwinian is the first country to successfully develop television, using magic to convey images far away by unknown mechanisms, in addition, some others communication technologies such as magic radio exist.
Another very well developed area is biotechnology, with their mighty Wyvern is a product of that technology. By using magic, it allows them to perform gene editing and hybridization, helping to create beneficial traits at will.
The love of gadgets by the nobility of the Empire drove the development of numerous inventions in the 'Age of Gadgets' before mass production and large-scale industrialisation took hold. Inventors were funded by nobles to produce devices to entertain, amuse, excite or help them.
These included such devices as steam cars and calculating machines. In most cases these devices, that begin as toys for the rich, evolved over time into things of general use.
Education
Free education is provided to all children by the Holy Darwinian Empire. Based on the unified curriculum of the Holy Order of Eden, which was first used in 10702, this provides a sound basis of knowledge, covering magic, grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, logic, scholasticism, religious studies, mathematics, history and the natural sciences.
There are a number of world-renowned universities in the Holy Darwinian Empire. In particular the universities of Bellnahgo, Rondel, Kabul and Agra are very well-respected. In addition to the Holy Empire has a number of astronomical observatories in Olympus mount. The University of Lhasa is especially well known for its astronomy department.
There is a long tradition of a scholarly, magically-literate educated nobility which has, over time, trickled down to all levels of society, leading to there being more scholars and so on per head of population than on Earth. Significant amounts of magical progress derive from the efforts of amateur magicians, who meet in clubs and societies across the civilised world.
Likewise, because of the lack of an equivalent to the Earth's third world, the general level of education around Falmart is higher than on Earth, and the vast majority of people are at least somewhat magically literate.
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"TO SUM UP, despite their primitive technology the Empire presented unparalleled challenge for our expeditionary force that require upmost commitment to overcome. Mr Musk, CEO of the Musk Industries, would continue the presentation. Welcome Mr Elon Musk."
"Thank you Dr Hange" said Elon as he came to the podium.
"As you heard from Dr Hange, Falmart is a hostile environment. Its planet high gravity mean our soldiers can't carry heavy firearm. Facing enemy with super heavy armor and super speed, our light infantry will be sitting duck. We need better firepower. "
"Introducing the next evolutionary step in warfare : the Combat Jacket Mk3." Elon point as the main screen as he continued.
"Combat Jacket is highly advanced exoskeleton suit that enhances soldiers abilities in the battlefield. When wearing the suit, soldier can run faster up to 72km/h, jump to extremely high heights, lift and push heavy objects. The suit also lets soldier to avoid damage when falling from great heights when they are dropped from the Quad Tiltrotor. The suits visor can show upcoming threats even in smoke.
Jacket is powered by Tesla's hypercapacity battery that needs to be periodically replaced after the last one runs out of power. Without the battery the Jacket can't function and soldier inside of it becomes immobilized. So remember to check your battery.
The suit is equipped with high calibre railgun and rocket launchers that are controlled by Neuralink - a implantable brain machine interfaces (BMIs). The suits are fitted with four weapons: arm mounted rifle with a grenade launcher on the right arm, a triple-barrel cannon device on the left arm, an 20mm auto-cannon mounted on the right shoulder and a 16-shot grenade/missile launcher on the left shoulder.
The suit has metal plates around the user. The helmet has a cage like attachment around the face. The suits (BMIs) comes in few different languages so soldiers of different nationalities could used it without hindrance.
The suit is also equipped with smart blood. It a artificial blood carry nanobots that will improve your health, reduce your stress. It is compatible with all blood types therefor saving a lot of life. The suit also have morphine to relieve pain.
With this State-of-the-art exoskeleton suit our armored infantry will have what it take to survive the battlefield of Falmart and bring us the final victory."
"Oh Man, he is really turning us into real-life Iron Man ! isn't he. "
Said Itami as he secretly reading manga from his sit at the 5th row. The meeting continued for 6 more hours discussing many aspects of the operation.
Rearmament
Falmart's environment presented unprecedented challenges for military operations. Those challenges need to be solve in order for the first interplanetary war to be a victory. The dense atmosphere of Falmart mean its wind had 6 times the force of Earth's wind with the same speed. Not just that the high temperature and faster rotation of Falmart mean faster wind and the formation of Hypercanes
(Hypercane is an extreme type of a tropical cyclone which forms in extremely warm waters (around 50°C/122°F). This storm has a recorded wind speed of 500 mph (801 km/h). Hypercanes cover a large area of land and reach around 90 km into Falmart's stratosphere, preventing stratospheric jets or airplanes from getting past. The ocean in which the hypercane formed in stays warm from a few weeks to a few months, allowing the hypercane to survive longer. Also, if waters stay warm after the storm dissipates, it will allow more hypercanes to form. If this sort of storm actually impacts land, it causes widespread chaos. A hypercane's winds allow it to form an extremely high storm surge, which floods up to 20 miles (32 km) inland.)
This mean our aircraft with fragile aluminum alloy frame would be torn to pieces like paper. So we had to replace and redesign all of the air forces planes. This resulted in the use of stainless steel for airframe and super large airplane design to better resist the wind. Stainless steel airframe combined with thick heavy armor plate make the plane too heavy to effectively fly on earth atmosphere but perfect for the stormy weather on Falmart.
This is perhaps best illustrated by the Tu-688 nuclear-powered ultra heavy bomber and the Boeing C-177 ULTRA (Ultra Large TRansport Aircraft).
The Tu-688 had the length of 75 metres and the wingspan of 95 metres with 8 reactor driven electric turbofans and swept wings, it have maximum take-off weight of 1000 tons, a payload of 500 tons. Tu-688 was the heaviest armored strategic bomber in the world, it steel armor plated can resist even 30mm cannonfire, made it more like a flying battleship than a plane.
Boeing C-177 ULTRA had the length of 172 m and the wingspan 342 m. The wing was of crescent form, similar to the British Handley Page Victor V-bomber, but unlike the British design it was tailless. The plane was the biggest nuclear-powered transport aircraft ever designed. If the Tu-688 was the flying battleship then this was the airborne aircraft carrer that could stay airborne for 90 days. Its power was derived from the heat generated by a high capacity, high efficiency compact nuclear reactor and transferred to four jet engines where it would superheat the air passing through to provide thrust. The craft would be capable of staying airborne for long periods of time thanks to this. At low altitudes the jets would burn conventional aviation fuel. In order to get airborne in the first place it required 182 additional vertical lift engines. The aircraft carrier version could carry up to 22 fighter aircraft externally and had an internal dock capable of handling two air-to-ground shuttle transport aircraft. The cargo variant could carry 5,265 tons of equipment and 3,000 troops. It had VTOL capability.
The United Earth Alliance produced at least a half dozen different fighter with similar designs philosophy (J8, J-11, J-86, J-100, J88/101 & the Dragon Hunter) in greater quantity that all types of jet fighter produced on Earth from 1992 to 2018 combined, with just the J-86's 130,000 aircraft production run equally Earth's total aircraft production (including everything from basic trainers to helicopter to passenger jet aircraft) from 1959-2019. That massive number was only possible due to the simplicity design of the aircraft. None of them have stealth or electronic warfare ability because the enemy didn't have radar.
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs of Staffs realized the nature of the Titan and their abilities. They concluded that super heavy armored/mechanized formation was not just the key to victory but also to the survival of the troops because sending light infantry to fight Titan was suicide. The higher gravity and air pressure mean our armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) need redesigned. But the main reason for redesign was the price, modern AFVs were too expensive. Impossible to mass produce. They needed cheaper designs.
It was remarkable that the Allies, especially the United States of America, the United Republic of Europia, the Greater Russian Union, the Republic of India and Federal Republic of China, were able to nearly totally reequip their massive ground force with new, or at the least, massively upgraded armored vehicles in only 5 years. The sheer effort in the project would have been beyond the enormous resources of even the United States, EU, Russia, India and China had the entire world's raw material and manpower weren't under their control. However, with the forming of United Earth Alliance (UEA) and the forced labors of the third world countries, together with all the material, not to mention the skilled welders and other craftsmen & women shunted to armored vehicle construction, The project has had results. The results of this effort were, of course, the Type-47 Sheridan and the Type-92 Chamberlain.
While the United Republic of Europia, Arab Union, African Union and South American League armies were being re-equipped with Chariot II MBT. The Chariot II tank had an impressive weight of 84 tonnes, was armed with Rh-130 130 mm L/51 tank gun and had thick steel armor, the Anglo-American (along with the Indian Armored Forces, The People's Liberation Army and the Russian Armed Forces) had gone far further with the Type-47 Sheridan.
Swallowing a fair amount of pride, the Americans and Russian had built the Sheridan around a license built version of the German Armory 130mm weapon being used on the Chariot and an upgraded version of the M1A3 basis layout that was, to use the words of one American armored veteran, not built, but carved out of solid nano-crystalline steel ingots. While this level of protection came at the expense of range sapping weight of 94 tons, and limited the Type-47 to 58km/h it was a considered to be a reasonable compromise.
The other super tank, the utterly mind boggling Type-92 Chamberlain MBT, at the weight of 141 ton the tank reflected in many ways the ideals of its primary builder, the Bath Iron Works, a long time builder of warships. Slow, with a top speed of only 47km/h, Type-92 was the most powerful and best defended tank on the tough battlefield of Falmart. The vehicle was covered with almost 230mm of nano-crystalline steel armor (the same formulation used on the Yamato II battleships) provided the tank with 690 mm RHA vs APFSDS, and 920 mm RHA vs HEAT, and was powered by a 2,700 horsepower AGT-2700 turbine engine. Armed with a high velocity 152mm smoothbore gun the L/92, or the L/60 (155) and L/67 (180mm) SP gun carriages, and the rare (only 35,000 built) 210mm L/71 super SP assault gun, the Chamberlain was so large that it required a modified version of the LST to disgorge it.
"Operation Downfall is the largest millitary operation in history, however before examining Downfall in detail, it is worth considering the enormity of the overall Downfall operation.
Numbers can be misleading, but in this case, tell much of the tail
Allies (Deployed to Falmart only)
Troops: 60,000,000 (this represents just Combat and directly combat related troops like landing craft drivers and Combat engineers) Total forces exceeded 390,000,000 when air force formations (including ground support), naval personnel, and logistical/support troops are included.
Land Assets (as of the onset of Operation Downfall):
Total Tanks : 888,160 (10 times as many of tanks as the total US tank production in WW2)
+ T-146 Odin: 1500
+ Upgraded M60 Patton: 990
+ FAMBT-3 Mjolnir: 180
+ M1A2 Abrams: 3,650
+ Upgraded T-72: 40,210
+ Type-47 Sheridan: 266,080
+ Chariot II: 371,980
+ Type-92 Chamberlain: 203,570
Total Infantry Vehicles: 2,851,600 ( 20 times NATO and Warsaw Pact total inventory in 1989.)
+ 573,600 tracked IFV
+ 41,200 wheeled IFV
+ 1,122,800 tracked APC
+ 934,000 wheeled APC
Additional 640,000 armored trucks, off-road cars and reconnaissance/patrol vehicles various.
Total Artillery Forces : 1,440,500 ( 10 times NATO and Warsaw Pact total inventory in 1989.)
Self propelled 122mm: 49,760
Self propelled 155mm: 41,000
Self propelled 180mm: 40,800
Self propelled 203mm: 16,130
Self propelled 240mm: 9580
Self propelled 406mm: 3600
Self propelled 800mm: 1030
Self propelled mortars 240/320/380mm: 150,000
Self propelled mortars 520/600/914mm: 4300
Towed 122mm : 3060
Towed 140mm: 52,260
Towed 155mm: 49,330
Towed 180mm: 214,000
Towed 203mm: 66,000
Towed 240mm : 4800
MRLS 227mm : 2800
MRLS 300mm : 75,000
MRLS 320mm: 8100
MRLS 380mm : 3770
MRLS 480mm : 1200
Mortars 81/120mm: 261,100
Mortars 155/180mm: 382,900
Military Aircraft (as of the onset of Operation Downfall):
Combat aircraft: 2,004,430
Very Heavy Bomber: 37,400
Heavy Gunship: 41,060
Heavy Bomber: 214,610
Jets fighter and Fighter-Bomber: 316,850
Attack Helicopter: 399,860
Combat/Reconnaissance Drone: 994,650
Support aircraft: 955,160
Transport Aircraft: 239,000
Training Aircraft: 580,850
Aerial Refueling Aircraft: 135,310
Grand total: 2,959,590
Even without counting the drones, the UEAADF were the largest and most powerful air force in human history by an order of magnitude, with more than 2,9 million operational aircrafts, ten times as many planes as the entire US aircraft production in WW2. This insane number can only be achieved in a total war economy.
Naval Assets (as of the onset of Operation Downfall):
Battleships: 345
Cruisers: 1080
Destroyers: 5655
Frigates: 5415
Total Surface Warships: 12,495
Carriers Fleet: 420
Carriers Escort (manned and unmanned): 1065
Submarines (manned and unmanned): 3480
Mine Warfare Ships: 8790
Patrol Ships: 18,060
Amphibious Ships (not including Amphibious Tractors or Amphibious Tanks): 38,205
Auxiliary Ships: 19,005
Total Active Ships: 101,520 (this is the largest naval force in human history, by the end of 2029 the United Earth Alliance Maritime Defense Forces are operating 15 times more naval vessels than the US Navy at its peak in WW2, 6,768 ships on V-J Day in August 1945)
In addition to the almost unimaginable cornucopia of material available to the Allies as listed above there is also the more important matter of the quality of the equipment which was the premier armored formations on Earth."
The New York Times-2031