Milites Empire Milites Empire is a Crystal - State in " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " that neighbors the Dominion of Rubrum . The empire ' s capital is Ingram where the White Peristylium , an organization that conducts research into the energy from the White Tiger Crystal , is located . The power of the White Tiger Crystal is used to create weapons and magitek for both military and domestic affairs . " Nominally speaking , the Militesi Empire is a totalitarian Crystal - State with an emperor at its helm . However , when the current emperor pulled a mysterious disappearing act , Marshal Cid Aulstyne conveniently stepped in to take control . " Rubicus . " Unlike the other nations of Orience , the people of Milites do not serve the White Peristylium . Rather , the White Tiger Crystal exists solely to provide abundant energy to the populace . When Cid Aulstyne seized reins of power , one of his first orders of business was absorbing the Peristylium into the imperial government . As expected , his proposal was met with resistance . " " In other nations , only those chosen by their respective Crystal have access to its power . In Milites , however , scientists developed teknology by which they could extract energy from the White Tiger Crystal and harness it to mass - produce guns , magitek armor , and other armaments . Thanks to this nigh unlimited source of power , the empire has succeeded in mobilizing millions of troopers and overwhelming the other Crystal - States with their incredible numbers . " Story . Jörg Paradis was a lowly lord in Azurr who encountered the White Tiger l ' Cie in 174 , three years before he was to crown himself the Emperor of Milites . He studied Crystal - driven technology leading to the invention of firearms . His subjugation of Azurr was swift , requiring less than a year to demolish decades of civilization . Out of the ashes rose Ingram in the north , the capital chosen to house the White Peristylium as Paradis made his formal declaration of empire . The subsequent conquest of Cetme had the realm take notice , as the expansionist Milites ushered in a new era of force in Orience . The mass production of firearms saw the subjugation of the outlands , but imperial expansion also necessitated new technologies . Milites made inroads to Berith and inadvertently engaged the paladins of the Lorican Alliance , suffering casualties in close range combat . In 214 , four years prior to the breakout of hostilities , the empire had developed the Crystal ( or " C - " ) Engine — a motor to power mobile artillery . As the first airships were conceived , the advent of mechanization in warfare changed combat forever . The imperial machines were suits of armor whose cannons tore the Lorican lines to shreds from afar . Imperial forces penetrated the Lorican heartland before the Black Tortoise l ' Cie stifled the imperial advance and brought about an armistice . The alliance poured its efforts into combating the Crystal - powered imperial weapons and devised a means of imbuing arms and armor with the Black Tortoise Crystal ' s energy . The Arms of Agito could fell the formerly invincible imperial war machines , and once enough knightly orders had been outfitted , Lorica declared war on Milites on 301 . The armies again clashed in the sandy region of Berith , and with their new equipment the Loricans overwhelmed the empire . Alliance knights pursued the fleeing imperial troops into their homeland , but were driven out of imperial lands by White Tiger l ' Cie , although the knights ' Crystal - imbued Arms of Agito saved the alliance army from total destruction at their hands . After suffering defeat the empire hastened its development of new weapons . Thanks to their C - Engine , the empire was ahead of the alliance in regard to Crystal energy extraction , and imperial researchers introduced a weapon superior to their tanks and dreadnoughts : magitek armor . The imperial government installed enormous , high - output C - Engines throughout the state to extract energy from the Crystal that distributed the energy to smaller C - Engines , which then used that energy to generate power for the various imperial arms factories . As a result , magitek armor could be mass - produced and the empire sought to test the power of it new mechs . The Lorican Alliance accepted the Militesi challenge in 315 . The Black Paladins took up their Arms of Agito , but could not demonstrate the crushing strength they had shown in the previous war . The alliance army was overwhelmed and the Black Paladins were annihilated . In wars past , the imperial army would have advanced on the Black Peristylium , where the Black Tortoise Crystal would have retaliated with l ' Cie . However , because the empire ' s objective was to test the newly developed MAs , as the alliance army took flight , the empire pulled back . The border between Milites and Rubrum , the Meroë Region , had been plagued with conflicts , and in 343 RG , one of these border disputes sparked the first war between the two countries . The battle became a contest between magic and mechs , but the dominion ' s spells had little effect on the empire ' s magitek armor . The empire nearly routed the dominion out of Meroë before the dominion ' s First Independent Summoning Regiment summoned Ifrit who drove back the imperial army and led the dominion to victory . Steeled and strengthened through centuries of war , each Crystal - State had developed formidable fighting forces convincing each head - of - state of the possibility of unifying Orience under one banner . The waning of the Crystals ' power drove the four state leaders to expedite their war efforts , even if extracting energy from the Crystals exacerbated their deterioration . Fearing the weakening of the Crystals to be permanent , each nation sought to annihilate the others . As the Great Orience War commenced Milites focused on attacking the dominion , prompting Lorica to deploy its troops to the empire . Having driven the dominion out of Meroë Region , the empire continued its advance into the Iscah Region . The alliance tried seizing the Berith Region , but the king and the Black Paladins left Jubanla Region for Iscah to see how the King ' s Sword and Armor would fare in combat : special arms developed with the power of the Black Tortoise Crystal . They were met by the Vermilion Bird l ' Cie Kiyosaki who engaged the Lorican King , and the empire lost more than half of its magitek armor fleet in the clash between the king and the l ' Cie . With the alliance approaching from the north , and the imperial fleet in shambles , Militesi territory was vulnerable — but with the help of its l ' Cie , the empire escaped the plight . The Crystals began deteriorating even faster due to the replenishment the weapons , armor , and magic , and through the creation of l ' Cie . As the power of all four Crystals was waning , on Ventusmens IV in the year 359 , the four nations ordered a ceasefire and began preparations for a peace treaty . Pax Codex prohibiting the use of l ' Cie in war was drawn up in 361 , and in 448 the four peristylia drew up a non - governmental pledge of non - aggression , known as the Fabula Pact . When the emperor went missing in 832 , Marshal Cid Aulstyne took over government affairs as well as the White Peristylium . In truth , the marshal had had the emperor imprisoned , and enacted a " coup d ' etat " to become the nation ' s ruler . The White Tiger Crystal fell into his hands , and the marshal came up with a way to subjugate it and thus enslave its l ' Cie . Once the marshal had seized the Militesi throne , skirmishes began erupting between the empire and the dominion border cities and villages gradually intensifying until the imperial army razed a dominion village in 841 . The Dominion Central Command deployed a task force to assault an imperial city in retaliation . When a White Tiger l ' Cie appeared near the borde , fearing another clash between l ' Cie , the leaders of both armies quieted their troops . The empire devised a three - part campaign to invade the dominion in 842 . The first phase was Operation Solar Eclipse , in which Brigadier General Qator Bashtar would lead a blitzkrieg attack on the Vermilion Peristylium from the ocean . Accompanied by the provisional First Airmobile Force and a l ' Cie - piloted magitek armor , his objective was to force the dominion capital of Akademeia to surrender . In the second phase , the empire ' s main force would invade Iscah , the town where the dominion ' s primary defenses were stationed . The dominion troops received orders to report to the capital moments after the battle began and as the dominion legionaries retreated , and imperial troops seized the dominion ' s western half with minimal casualties . The third and final phase involved deploying a fleet of dreadnoughts to infiltrate the dominion ' s central and eastern regions . The empire had to transport personnel and MAs via airship . Milites anticipated an unrelenting local resistance , but the Rubrum legionaries fled to defend their capital , and the empire conquered the central and eastern regions of the dominion unimpeded . Cid used the Militesi government to break the Pax Codex and sent the Militesi forces alongside the White Tiger Secundus l ' Cie Qun ' mi Tru ' e to invade the dominion . The empire ' s new weapon , developed by Cid with the help of Qun ' mi and the White Tiger Crystal , crystal jammer , is deployed to the dominion capital and magic academy of Akademeia to disable the Rubrum army ' s magic by cutting them off from the Vermilion Bird Crystal . Agito Cadet s from what would become known as Class Zero destroy the crystal jammers , as they can wield magic independent of the Crystal , and Qun ' mi , Qator and the Militesi forces are driven out of Akademeia . Impressed by Class Zero ' s prowess , the dominion administration deploys the cadets to help regain Rubrum Region from the empire . Though the empire failed to capture the dominion capital and the Vermilion Peristylium , the Ultima Bomb deployed on Lorican Alliance obliterates the nation and its Black Peristylium . The empire sets to recover the Black Tortoise Crystal from the ruins with Cid Aulstyne declaring Milites will become Agito , the fabled savior of Orience , and choose a new path for Orience to garner support from his people for the war . Rumors spread that the White Tiger Crystal is fading and the empire wants to siphon energy from the other Crystals . Milites lacks many resources , unlike Rubrum , whose Vermilion Bird Crystal still shines strong . The White Tiger Crystal powers the empire ' s armaments making them the premier military power in Orience . Milites is the only Crystal Nation to have subjugated their Crystal , and thus , its l ' Cie , who are deployed to war to support the imperial troops . This shocks the other nations , as l ' Cie are known to not meddle with mortal affairs . The other Crystals respond by deploying their l ' Cie against the empire . After the dominion reclaims the Rubrum Region from around Akademeia with the help of Agito Cadets who have been enrolled into the military to help in the war effort , they turn their sights on the stronghold of Togoreth , strategically important location for the dominion . Ready to reclaim it at all costs , the dominion storms the stronghold and disables its defensive system , gaining an upper hand . Though General Bashtar defends it with his new magitek armor , the Gabriel is still a prototype and he is forced to flee . The White Tiger Primus l ' Cie Nimbus is summoned , but the Vermilion Bird sends its own Primus l ' Cie to intercept him , Zhuyu Voghfau Byot . Togoreth is obliterated in the l ' Cie ' s clash and Milites loses Togoreth Region . After the battle both the dominion and the empire try to recover from the losses and neither can mobilize for a time . Because the dominion lost fewer personnel , the legions resume military activity sooner , and set their new objective to liberate the town of Keziah . Given the base ' s remote location , Milites is unable to easily dispatch reinforcements to assist the small squad charged with defending the town , and it is lost to the dominion . Soon the Northern Togoreth Region is also lost as the dominion cooperates with the Kingdom of Concordia to liberate Mi - Go . Milites loses Iscah when the dominion sends a cadet task force to cut off power from the town by infiltrating its subterranean waterways and planting Magicite bombs to take out the dynamos that power the city . As the Militesi forces scramble to restore power , the dominion legions storm the city and reclaim it . The imperial army dispatches several units to the ruins of the Lorican Alliance to seize the Black Tortoise Crystal . Believing the entire population annihilated , Imperial Central Command anticipated a bloodless occupation . Yet , the empire was met with a small group of surviving paladins who put forth a valiant effort before ultimately falling to the imperial forces . The remaining survivors are reported executed , but in truth some end up in Militesi hands as test subjects , such as Supersoldier Akkad . The imperial units retrieve the Crystal and take it back to Milites . The dominion army deploys newly mobilized troops to its recently acquired base at Iscah . Having lost its occupation headquarters in Rubrum , the imperial army fears it might be driven out of the dominion . Local Militesi officials request for reinforcements from Ingram and the empire lands the first strike against the legions at Iscah , but fail to capture the base . The empire meets with a Vermilion counteroffensive , and the Limbo Stronghold falls to the dominion . Imperial troops retreat from the Iscah Region . Imperial officials reorganize at Renown Base in Meroë to combine the troops who retreated with reinforcements from the capital . The imperial army obtained a briefcase containing classified dominion military information during their occupation of Rubrum , but dominion legions discover the team responsible for transporting the case to Milites . A pursuit and subsequent battle ensue , and the legionaries chase the imperial squad into the Rokol Caverns . Class Zero is deployed to recover the stolen documents . Class Zero is sent to destroy the imperial prototype magitek armor in the Steelworks manufacturing plant near the imperial capital of Ingram . The cadets infiltrate the factory and destroy the Brionac designed to deploy the Ultima Bomb , but are overpowered by the White Tiger Crystal Primus l ' Cie , Nimbus . Queen Andoria of the Kingdom of Concordia invokes the Fabula Pact forged between the nations ' peristylia hundreds of years ago . Nimbus ceases his attack and the queen declares an armistice in the name of the god Pulse . Cid Aulstyne watches the spectacle from a balcony , finding the queen invoking the pact " quaint . " Chancellor Khalia Chival VI of Rubrum travels to Ingram to partake in the peace talks . During the ceasefire the imperial troopers stationed in the Nesher Divide fall victim to monster assaults , and Class Zero , that had been given leave in Ingram , is deployed to " assist " them , their true mission being espionage on the Militesi forces . The ceasefire is short - lived as Queen Andoria is assassinated and the blame is placed on the cadets of Class Zero . The chancellor and his entourage return to Rubrum as the war is to continue immediately , but the cadets are ambushed in the Armada Hotel by imperial troops and must fight their way through Ingram to escape . The King of Concordia , whose title is more of a figurehead , schemed to overthrow Andoria , and when she is assassinated , he assumes control of the nation and forms an alliance with the empire to retaliate against the Dominion of Rubrum for their supposed role in Andoria ' s death . Thus the Azure Dragon Crystal falls into Militesi hands . Facing invasion from two sides , the dominion works to secure its borders at Meroë and Eibon Region s , but the empire puts up little resistance as it is planning a simultaneous invasion with Concordia , forcing Rubrum to split its army to wage war on two fronts . Driven from the dominion , the imperial forces rally in their homeland and , along with the royal army , begin formulating a renewed offensive . Hoping to buy time to regroup , Milites deploys a surprise amphibious assault targeting the Sothoth Coast on the far side of Rubrum . When Dominion Central Command hears the empire has landed , they deploy Class Zero to destroy the beachhead . The dominion deploys nearly 300 , 000 legionaries to the imperial border — approximately 80 % of the dominion army . With the inclusion of their newly formed 106th and 107th Companies , the imperial forces double the dominion legions in size and easily breach the dominion ' s front line . The dominion deploys troops behind the imperial forces to disrupt their rear guard and slow the imperial advance , and Class Zero destroys the empire ' s crystal jammer - mounted MAs . The Vermilion Bird Secundus l ' Cie Lady Caetuna summons the Verboten Eidolon Alexander , whose Divine Light obliterates the imperial stronghold . Militesi casualties mounting as high as 180 , 000 , their MAs hopeless against the dominion ' s Eidolons , the empire is devastated , and morale plummets as the troops withdraw from dominion territory . Although Rubrum lost the greater half of its legionaries , Milites lost all strongholds and 90 % of its units stationed along the border , and the dominion emerges victorious . Concordia capitulates and the dominion concentrates its forces into taking the empire . Militesi towns fall one by one until dominion troops march on Ingram . Seeing the empire ' s surrender inevitable , a Militesi scientist fits a prototype Ultima Bomb to General Qator Bashtar ' s magitek armor intending to wipe out both the capital and the invading forces . Realizing the ploy , and not wanting to see Ingram destroyed , Bashtar flies his MA to the atmosphere where the bomb detonates clear of the city . As Cid Aulstyne watches the bomb light up the sky he realizes Bashtar has perished and the empire has lost the war . As he flees Rubrum conquers the White Peristylium and Orience is united under the banner of the Vermilion Bird . The dominion ' s victory celebrations are short as Tempus Finis commences and the Rursan Reaver s lay waste to Orience . Cid Aulstyne has a White Tiger l ' Cie take him to Pandæmonium , the Land of Judgment that appears at the end of the world where the Judge is said to make the Final Decision on the world ' s fate : if there is no Agito Orience will be destroyed . Class Zero follows and find Cid has been turned into the Rursan Arbiter , the Judge , by the fal ' Cie Gala , and deems the cadets unfit to be Agito . The cadets fell Cid and stall Tempus Finis , but in its aftermath the light of the Crystals fades . It is unknown what comes of Milites in this new world where mankind can no longer rely on the power of the Crystals . Military . The empire has the largest military of all of Orience with numerous armies with hundreds of thousands of troops under its command . The army is strengthened by the White Tiger Crystal that augments the imperial armaments . Officers usually stay back and issue commands to their subordinates and provide troopers with various enchantment sera . The empire has a fleet of magitek armor that often serve as the main offensive force of the armored divisions , and an artillery squad , navy and an air force , as well as advanced weapons like the crystal jammer and the Ultima Bomb . Some troops are enhanced by special armor created from engineering a device that extracts energy from the Crystal , resulting in augmented supersoldiers . The test soldiers from this project are known as " freak s " as they tended to lose their sanity . Milites captured many Lorican survivors from the remains of their homeland and brainwashed them , transforming them into living weapons of war , reducing them to shells into which the imperial army has poured an insatiable bloodlust . Having lost autonomy , the brainwashed Loricans follow orders without question . The most popular among them is Supersoldier Akkad , one of the Ultima Bomb survivors who tried to protect the Black Tortoise Crystal from falling in the empire ' s hands . The imperial military ' s dreadnoughts are officially designed as " airborne warships " and have been included as the empire ' s primary source of aerial firepower ever since the founding of the imperial air force . Unlike the dominion military , the empire utilizes its airships to provide air - to - ground offensive support as well as transport magitek armor and soldiers , so these craft are bigger and more heavily armed than the ones employed by the dominion . At the onset of the war , the empire ' s main strength was its fleet of Warrior MAs that could handle regular dominion legionaries , but lose against the dominion ' s Eidolons . In response imperial scientists devised the heavily armored Colossus and the airborne Helldiver MA models , which in turn helped spur the development of other models which would aid the anti - dominion offensive , namely the Dáinsleif operated by the l ' Cie Qun ' mi fitted with a prototype crystal jammer , and the prototype Gabriel , General Qator Bashtar ' s MA , equipped with a magic shield capable of neutralizing the dominion ' s spells . The crystal jammer was invented by Marshal Aulstyne himself , and cuts the opposition forces off their Crystal . This weapon does not work against Class Zero whose cadets use magic independent of the Vermilion Bird Crystal . The prototype version could only be operated by a l ' Cie , but a more advanced model is developed that can be operated by mortals . The Ultima Bomb is the empire ' s ultimate weapon , able to annihilate entire countries if set off . The bomb detonates over the Black Peristylium was augmented by the l ' Cie Qun ' mi , and one that explodes over Ingram airspace doesn ' t seem like it had equivalent power leading to speculation about the the real potential of the prototype weapon . The military is led by Marshal Cid Aulstyne who can even deploy White Tiger l ' Cie to do his bidding because he holds the White Tiger Crystal hostage . Numerous generals work under him to lead the campaigns on the ground . Musical themes . " Show of Power " plays in many cutscenes involving the Militesi Empire . An arranged version called " Arms of Steel " plays in the empire ' s territories on the world map . Another version of the theme titled " White Thunder " is the theme of General Qator Bashtar . Etymology and symbolism . The nations of Orience are based on the Four Symbols . The country ' s attributes and qualities symbolize one of the animals of the four symbols . Representing the west , the nation is situated in the westernmost region of Orience . Representing the season of autumn , Milites boasts a continuous overcast sky , with an upper continental climate . Aligned with the Wu Xing element of metal , the White Tiger Crystal manifests its use through technology . Metal being the prime material for weaponry , it is also symbolic of martial force and death . While the tiger traditionally represents the general and military might in Chinese tradition , the White Tiger is said to be the god of war and battle , the herald of benevolent rule and eras of peace , and the guardian of the spiritual world and the dead .