Don't own warhammer 40k nor anything to do with marvel nor anything else that gets mentioned...
The interrogation of captured Japanese sailors that had been recovered was going well. Various methods of interrogation ranging from pure torture to confectionaries were used to get as much information about japan as possible. And after they got all the information they could out of them most had a massive, and unsafe, amount of ADAM injected into them, they were killed, Then Eleanor took the ADAM and interpreted the knowledge that was gained.
The Nihon wa Umarekawaru (Reborn Japan... roughly) was formed from the anarchy following the great war, named as such to symbolize its rising from the ashes.
Even though Japan wasn't allowed to build nukes do to various treaties and threats, they had been forced to focus on defense. Massive amounts of conventional missile silos were built across the country aiming to disable or destroy from a safe distance any nukes or bombers launched towards Japan. Most of the project succeeded with only a few missiles and no planes making it through.
Most of the nukes had activated in the countryside as they were being thrown around randomly at that pint, but Tokyo was hit hard by no less than twelve nuclear ICBMs, several urban legends surrounded the place about zombie like creatures wandering in and around the decimated city but most didn't believe it, obviously they must be ghouls, but that mean the FEV made it to japan just like England.
She managed to find out about giant versions of prewar animals, more intelligent than their ancestors and far more dangerous.
At that point Eleanor focused on the military and government structure. There was no sign of the old republican government but no shogunate, so the Emperor had absolute power, but he had a council dedicated for day to day duties and maintaining laws that the emperor made.
The Emperor is chosen by the last emperor man for worthiness and their merit, right now the Daini no kōtei (Second emperor) was in power, at the age of 93.
The military is composed of some form of samurai, at least on the ground. There was no form of airforce but the Naval might of Japan far outpaced even Rapture's. Considering the fact that the Japanese ship even had that many broadside cannons was because they had conquered a lot of the pacific islands, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and parts of northern Australia.
Also, the most powerful people before the emperor is the fleet admiral and the dai-shogun(The dai-shogun, in my sroty, is basically the general of generals, or head army general)
After getting as much information as she could, she had the bodies incinerated.
Off of the Oahu shore submarines stopped as close to the islands as they could. Hawaii's sonar detection grid wasn't set up yet, Rapture soldiers having focused on other things, still not used to fighting a naval war.
The submarines surfaced and missile hatches opened all long the top, the disgustingly overweaponization of Japanese ships could be seen in the submarine with it's at least one hundred missile tubes exposed, the watertight decking sliding to the sides to expose the tubes and the frames supporting them.
Suddenly all three submarines, each exactly the same, fired their entire salvos in a massive attack. The force of the missiles forced the submarines a few meters back into the water as a smokescreen enveloped them, hiding the submarines from the naked eye until they submerged again.
Rapturian soldiers erecting buildings and tents, loading and unloading ships stopped all work at the sound of the air raid siren. Troops ran for cover and braced themselves as a force of 1500 missiles bombarded the barely working port, ships sunk or exploded or both and the ground cracked beneath them as the three hundred year old port and city of pearl harbor was destroyed in a lone ruthless attack
In response to the terrible attack Eleanor ordered her entire invasion fleet towards Japan, Hawaii losing much of its value as all the infrastructure is now destroyed, all other ports having been bombarded that night.
Japanese ships though would swarm Rapturian ships if they were gathered together, and anything smaller didn't have the capacity to attack any of Japan's cities.
So, Eleanor finally had the carriers at Rapture, assigned as floating airports for the time being, spruced up a bit and sent towards Japan. Boomers had begun to train new pilots and instructors so that the empire wasn't too dependant on them for pilots, but the lack of plane production allowed Boomers to be the main pilots.
Pilot Achille (By the way, I made it so that boomers earn their names before they're called anything but kid or recruit) prayed as he readied himself to attack the first Japanese island.
"May Zeus guide my hands, protect me in your domain so I may bring glory to the Empress and the gods"
He was one of the rare Boomer Grecians (Greek pantheon). Readying himself, he gave a thumbs up to a techy and pushed forwards at the command, his beautiful hunk of junk he was flying, a small privet propeller plane retrofitted to be a fighter/bomber, smoothly ran down the carrier.
"All right then everyone, this is Colonel Achilles! Now we are going to arrive above the city of Kyoto, the capital, in a few minutes. I want you all to be dodging those defence lasers, and make sure to use those tesla cannons liberally! Were not the Boomers for nuthin'!" A crackling of laughter came over the radio as everyone had their bottom mounted tesla cannons aim to the buildings once they got in range, the bigger bombers preparing their plasma bombs and the smaller fighter/bombers ready to fight off any resistance and protect the bombers.
Soon enough missiles started flying at them from the tall spires spaced throughout the capital, the missiles chased the planed and several worried plots reported that evasive maneuvers couldn't shake them off, they had computer tracking somehow.(In case you didn't know, no one else in the world had the transistor except America, no computer could be small enough to fit in a missile)
Eventually most of the spires were shot down.
Achilles felt something hit his plane, the sudden depressurization alerted him to a breach and glancing behind him he screamed as a massive hand crushed his skull.
Major Zen spotted corporal Achilles' plane go down, quickly she reported what she saw.
"Achilles is down people, Achilles is down! I didn't spot a missile though!" She stopped herself as the heavy bomber shook, the lady of the lake was their best maintained plane and ran the smoothest of all their planes, something must have happened so she had her copilot take over and trekked out of the cabin.
Opening the door, Zen gaped at the ripped hull of the plane until she spotted something out of the corner of her eye, dodging out of the way of the massive hand she had fear written all over her face at what she saw.
It looked like a mixture of power armor and a robot, with a samurai armor theme to it(Imagine the silver samurai mech from the wolverine movie, exactly like that). The massive bulk of the machine ripped its fist out of the newest hole it had made in the Boomer's holy plane, and then drew an equally large katana from its hip.
At the sight of the plane's damage Zen felt a sort rage that she didn't know she had, Zen grabbed her Ripper and 10mm from her hips, shooting a full clip into the monster that didn't even move it.
With a contemptuous ease, the thing tapped the floor of the plane with its sword and Zen felt hundreds of volts course through her body, but as she had the electric skin tonic (She got electric shocks a lot during machine maintenance) it only fazed her, and she charged with her ripper.
The machine/suit thing didn't move from the shock of her not dying, and she ripped into the neck of the thing. Her prewar tool ripped out chunks of wiring and sparks flew, but it threw her across the room as it twitched around.
Calming down, the monster attempted looking around, but whatever it used for detection (As it just had a smooth plate for a face) was broken.
The machine stopping and going rigid, the head's neck let out steam as the head pulled back tot he back, the chest opening to reveal a severe looking Japanese man, he had a padded suit on to make him more comfortable in the machine. Drawing out a finely made katana with device on the back of the hilt letting out sparks he jumped out of the cockpit and got into a stance.
"You ruined my Colossus, now you will pay!"
Of course Zen didn't understand a word of this, so she quickly shot him with her pistol but it appeared he wasn't as unarmored as he appeared. The wholes in his clothes showed a skin-tight armor, obviously of pre-war Chinese origin, that protected him from the bullets well enough
Zen wasn't a fighter, sure she was pretty much the best Boomer pilot in the entire tribe, but she hadn't earned her name by being rough, she was always the cool collected pilot who made flying look easy. She was frankly surprised that had managed to damage the machine as her hand to hand, well that left much to be desired, and compared to her current opponent, who had likely trained his whole life in melee combat, she obviously didn't stand a chance.
It's a good thing then that her copilot stunned the samurai from behind with a Compliance Regulator, the samurai not noticing him over the sounds of the plane and the crackling of his robot/suit's mechanisms.
Quickly the copilot ran back to his seat and brought then lady back up from her dive.
"Jeremy... did you just leave the Lady flying alone to save a pilot?! Are you daft or what! And why do you have a police weapon?!" Zen huffed and gripped her nose, then brought out some rope kept for repairs and bound the samurai guy so that the interrogators could have him.
"Ah whatever. Now as for you, nobody gets away with hurting the Lady..."
The Lady of the lake had to drop its entire load of bombs to optimize the weight and keep the advanced machine inside, and started its long trek back home to bring it back home. People started to call the machine a Mecha.
After the last bombs were dropped the planes returned home, Japanese cities covered with smoke.
On the eastern shores of Japan dozens of ships landed, releasing hundreds of marines, soldiers, and of course a large portion of Rapture's Big sisters.
Eleanor herself was leading the battleforce of big sisters (About fifty big sisters in all, the best)
The Japanese were quick to respond to this invasion and sent hundreds of samurai, the majority of them wore a yellow sort of power armor that wasn't entirely encased, but they were effective at blocking energy weapon and conventional weapons (It is essentially Tau infantry armor from Warhammer 40k, but the unarmored feet are in geta sandals and the tau symbol is replaced with a red sun) And they were armed with well made Shock-Katanas and a sort of primitive laser weapon that looked like a staff, many samurai would use them like staffs.
The standard shock katanas were woefully ineffective on most marines as they had electric skin gene mods, along with others. But the huge force of army soldiers generally didn't get gene mods and plasmids, so they fell quicker.
Towering over this swarm though were the elite samurai, samurai who had become skilled enough, respected enough, and were generally badass enough to earn the title of elite. They piloted the Mechas into battle. Hulks of silvery machinery but strangely agile in the open, like metal giant versions of the swarming samurai.
Unlike the normal samurai, who only had a sword and a laser staff, Mechas had larger more powerful katanas, wrist mounted machine guns, two missiles each on their backs, and devastating grenades that used plastic explosives instead of gunpowder.
As the two imperial forces clashed, many Rapturian troops began to notice shadowy blurs killing dozens of their own, it was the Neo-ninjas who made up the stealth, recon, and special forces of Japan. They were outfitted in black armored Chinese stealth suits with extra padding. and no head covering, instead a loose hood covered their heads and thin black cloth covered every part of their faces except the red glowing steampunk style goggles.
Stolen tech from both side before the war allowed them to be completely invisible.
A Mecha made its way towards some of the power-armored troops, launching a missile at them until he reached them, and then would swing his sword, if not cutting right through it would electrocute the soldier to death inside his own suit.
Most of the time it took heavy weapons or a Big Sister to take them down, and they knew it.
This battle is the largest one in the war, most of Japan's samurai are fighting here while other Rapturian forces capture as many villages, towns, and even cities as they could. It soon became truly evident that Japan is one of the most heavily populated landmasses in the world as the population is almost at 18th century levels
six months later.
Eleanor led a force of power armored soldiers into Kyoto, after having broken its defences over the course of the last month. She had been sending radio broadcasts all over japan ordering the emperor to surrender but the few time he chose to answer he would aptly refuse, siting that surrender was impossible.
Right now though he was paying for it, thousands of Japanese live dead, the almost the entirety of japan violently conquered, and the great city of Kyoto barely stands after hundreds of air raids and the month-long siege.
Using door by door tactics, Her forces killed every samurai they saw, forced civilians to stay inside, and slowly made their way towards the palace.
Eleanor took to the rooftops, using her helmet's comm to order immediate reinforcements as she sped her way towards the massive stone and metal palace.
She grit her teeth and used her telekinesis to rip the imposing steel doors from their frames. She let an inferno melt the beautiful and priceless gold decorating the palace, and burned the wood that formed the inner walls.
She walked down the main corridor with a hellish aura of flames surrounding her, random dust rocks and objects spinning around her, bits of water too.
Finally she reached the gold-plated throne room walls, and using those objects to smash the doors in, fire immediately spreading out into the room.
The emperor sat on his throne, bloodshot eyes showed that he had had no sleep anytime recently.
"And so you finally reach me, after conquering, burning, and taking my country you finally do it. Like a demon or goddess you have thrown your wrath onto my empire. And as we speak no doubt your forces are conquering my colonies as well." He closed his eyes, then stood up, Eleanor glancing around for any hidden devices.
"You may or may not know of how I came to be the Emperor" He smirked."The smartest, most patriotic, strong, and skilled person from the massive crowds of Japan. That is how this empire chooses its rulers. The last Emperor plucked me from the streets, a mere lower class citizen who showed these attributes, he raised me like a son and taught me how to rule, then he died of old age when we were still scouting at Australia."
Sighing, he stared into the porthole of Eleanor's helmet, then Turned his back and stood in front of his throne.
"I will not surrender, I can never surrender" Eleanor let her left blade slid out,"But I know another way..." Hem delicately picked up a metal object from his chair, then turned around and showed it to her.
"This is the symbol of the emperor after the end of the world, a simple thing. A simple gold circlet with our symbol the phoenix etched on the front, it has been with me for almost eighty years," He picked up the delicate looking circlet, designed to look flat against someone's head, presenting it to her.
"Eleanor Lamb, Empress of the ... great and mighty Rapturian empire." He paused, taking a breath as Eleanor widened her eyes, coming to a realization" I Name you my direct heir, and once you place this upon your head I will lose all of my former powers and either be killed by you or live my days as a normal citizen. By the word of the Second Emperor, so mote it be" He raised his eyes back up from the ornament towards Eleanor as she took off her helmet, Her eyes glowing an intense yellow from her focus.
"So this is the face of the new Empress of Japan." He held it towards her with both hands, and He placed it on her head. And as soon as it was there, a synthetic voice rang through the throne room.
"Power has officially been turned over to conqueror Eleanor, resetting calendar to 3rd era, Year zero. Orders?..." Eleanor was about to say something but a wet "Squelch" sound came at her. She spun around and saw that The Daini had run his katana thru his gut. His pained expression showed his pain as he slowly died.
"The world has no place for an old former ruler, rule wisely and just, Daisan no Kotei." Eleanor nodded and ended his pain with a swift stab to where the head connects to the spine. The Daini fell as Eleanor had the VI Proclaim across japan through whatever way that the people would trust that she was now officially their third empress.
"And now, we rest"
Codex
2283-The Rapturian Empire combines with the Great Japanese empire in a suprising final act of the Second Emperor. Imperial forces stop invading and start peacekeeping as news spreads thru the Japanese media.
Eleanor Changes Rapture's flag, changing the space inside the golden gear to a red background symbolizing Japan's merging, the gold R standing out brilliantly. This proves to be the final flag of the Empire-
-Imperial forces stop expanding for a year, focusing on reinforcing current positions and making Imperial lives better-
Yes yes, go on, yell at me (Crowd erupts into righteously furious shouting)
Now, BE QUIET!... Ehem, I formally apologize for being too lazy (Not even writer's block, laziness) to finish this chapter before almost a month and a half.
Anyway, the first section of this story is almost finished, next chapter will be COMPLETELY codex, filling the space between now and first contact. it will also contain ship descriptions, weapon descriptions, space colonization, several menial things that the empire still has to do on earth, and various other guff.
Oh yes, and sorry for the multitude of author's notes, just making sure people can visualize this stuff :)
Now, don't forget to review, and don't worry, codexes are much easier to right, and as such I plan on having the next chapter out in a week or so, maybe less! (Unlikely...)