Japanese Solar Empire

Date Founded: 2035

Leader: Kizu Hamada

Vice Leader: Haruhi Orihime, wife of Kizu Hamada

Ruling Party K.S.S. Nationalist Party of Japan

Type: Fascist, one-party dictatorship

Military Strength: Army: 9 million standing men, 12 million reserve, Navy: 550 ships, Air Force: 29,000 aircraft, divided into 150 Air Wings

Notable Units: Type 500 "Orihime" MBT, (nicknames: Singing Princess, Door Stopper, Bone Shredder, Screamin' Mimi) Weight: 95 tons. Design: Shaped like a gigantic, amorphous-titanium door stopping wedge, painted gleaming white with a black stripe on the hull, the treads are covered with a titanium shield to prevent damage to the tank's propulsion system. Its standard armament consists of twin rocket pods for shooting down aircraft and destroying other land-based targets, a 155-mm smoothbore cannon, and twin 50-caliber Gatling guns on mounted on the front of the tank for mowing down infantry. This vehicle is the most ferocious MBT ever designed. 95 tons of pure Imperial terror. Thanks to a state of the art propulsion system and armor plating, the tank can reach 75 mph. on flat land, and 45 mph over uneven terrain, and does not need to stop moving in order to fire its main cannon, with BLOS capabilities, it can hit targets well below the horizon and is utterly lethal to infantry, as well as containing missile-jamming systems and EMP field generators. They can even be outfitted with a flamethower. No other army on Earth possesses a tank even close to one of this caliber. It is virtually invincible on the battlefield, not since the Tiger tanks of WWII has anything like this been built.

Type 800 "Inori" Mech (Nicknames: Johnny Walker, Mantis, Exobot) This vehicle represents the next great leap forward in infantry technology. This gigantic, bipedal vehicle is not so much a vehicle but an extension and enhancement of a soldier's abilities. Mech pilots are trained to fight as if the Mech was part of their body, and they use it to frightening effect. The Inori is armed with rockets, 50-caliber machine guns, a rail gun, nonlethal microwave weaponry and a directed energy weapon that vaporizes any organic target it touches instantaneously, as well as doing heavy damage to any armored vehicle. These vehicles are the result of billions of technodollars pouring into Japan's resurgent military-industrial complex in the years leading up to the Fascist takeover, and the results are a military more than 30 years more advanced than the rest of the world...technology doesn't win wars by itself, but it sure helps...