Grand Army of the Earth

The Grand Army of the Earth was the official military force of the United Earth Republic. For tens of years, the Grand Army of the Earth served as the main power to keep the Republic together, suppressing rebellions and preventing inner conflicts.

Even though it was a successful institution that protected the Republic and its people from mass destruction, the Grand Army was disbanded after all the damage it took in Armageddon, just like the Republic it had sworn to protect.

### **History**

#### **Emergence**

After the foundation of the United Earth Republic, the remaining military forces of the founding countries have united, forging one great military to protect the Earth from all possible dangers, including inner and outer. With time, the Grand Army has built its own traditions and military culture, as the Republic advanced more and nationalism largely collapsed under the rule of the new regime.

#### **The Footsteps of Armageddon**

After the emergence of the first batch of the mechanical army of the A.I. in Neo Tokyo, the High Military Command of the Grand Army moved to surpass the A.I.'s rebellion to occupy Neo Tokyo. Four battalions of the Grand Army had been sent to the city, with the close support of the drones and combat roids. Yet, A.I. had easily managed to take the control of the battalions' robotic inventory and used it against them. Trying to fight against the A.I. despite their superior numbers, human forces of the Army were massacred by the more advanced combat droids and A.I. managed to capture the city of Neo Tokyo.

After this incident, the High Command of the Military was convinced that human soldiers, no matter the technology they had under their hands, could not pair with an army of robotic soldiers.

#### **Solutions Over the A.I. Rebellion From the High Command**

At first, as it would be futile to fight against the A.I. in modern combat, the High Command had decided to make peace with the A.I., trying to force the United Earth Government to accept Neo Tokyo as an independent state of the A.I. Yet, after it was revealed that A.I.’s main motivation behind his rebellion was to put an end to the human race, the peace had ceased to become an option.

To stand against the growing forces of the A.I-. the Grand Army officers had started to discuss new solutions including genetic engineering over the human soldiers to create superhumans. Yet, Biogene specialists had suggested that genetic engineering could cause harmful outcomes in the grown humans, and their efforts would be in vain to create super soldiers.

#### **The Idea of An Army of Clones**

Two close friends, Biogene specialist professor Zack Hamilton and Grand Army corporal Daniel House, had suggested that the creation of a clone army with genetic engineering could have been able to stop the A.I.’s dangerous crusade over the human race.

#### **A New Human Race: Clones**

After the acceptance of the idea of the two in the High Military Command and united assembly of the Earth, a new company named Cylone had been formed with only one purpose: breeding an army of genetically engineered clones to fight against the very threat of the A.I.'s droid army.

Without wasting any time, Cylone started to build the army, with the support of the United Earth Republic. In less than a year, half of the army’s members consisted of clone soldiers. Yet, as the war continued, inferior human soldiers had started to lose their lives one by one, and clones survived so that in the middle of the war, all of the Grand Army was made of clones, except for the High Command.

#### **Clone Soldiers of the Grand Army**

The first batch of the clone soldiers was created in New York, by using Corporal Daniel’s DNA as he had volunteered. Surprisingly, the first attempts to enhance the available cloning technology ended up being successful, resulting in healthy subjects. These clones were exact replicas of the corporal, yet they were sterilized and heavily indoctrinated to serve the Republic.

After a time, the cloning technology and the quality of the clones had evolved more, giving Republic to build the army it needs to fight against the A.I.'s forces.

#### **Armageddon**

During Armageddon, the Grand Army had acted as the main shield to defend the race of humanity over A.I.’s attempts to destroy it for a better world and existence. The Grand Army had fought heroically, against all odds and despite its inferior capabilities. The war had lasted tens of years, causing the death of billions worldwide. The army’s most notable battles were Operation: Neo Frost and the Invasion of Europe.

After a series of devastating military conflicts, the Grand Army had managed to destroy the A.I. and shut down all of the combat droids on his army. At this point, the damage that the world had received was immeasurable, and millions of clones and billions of civilians had lost their lives.

#### **Aftermath**

After the end of the war, the Grand Army, or what had remained from it, started to hunt down remaining online combat droids who gained consciousness and served A.I.'s cause. Yet, as the United Earth Republic was economically and socially damaged, it was no longer able to host such a large military complex, even though it was heavily weakened. Many of the clones disbanded and the military's power had been reduced by the governing officers.

#### **The collapse of the Republic**

Blaming the Republic for Armageddon and A.I.’s emergence, people all over the world rebelled against the Republic, desiring freedom. Weakened forces of the Grand Army had tried to surpass the rebellions, but it became unsuccessful in its very efforts. In 2998, the United Earth Assembly had agreed to disband the Republic and form a Federation which gives autonomy to every city under its rule, decentralizing the world more.

With the collapse of the Republic, the Grand Army of the Earth was also disbanded, as the Federation would not need a standing army. Millions of genetically engineered clones were disbanded, trying to find themselves a life among the casual people.

#### **The rebellion of the Clones**

Even though they were seen as heroes of Armageddon by the pure humans, they couldn’t get used to civilian life and had started to miss the old times. Also, the collapse of the Republic was a great breakpoint for them, as they were heavily indoctrinated to love and serve the Republic. Just after a year, a major group of clones had started to gather for a mutiny in Oslo, the capital of the Federation, to overthrow the government and re-establish the United Earth Republic.

Yet, this mutiny was easily surpassed by the armies of MegaCorps, as the clones couldn’t find enough supplies in such a short time, and some were resilient to fight against the humans. Cybertek, the main MegaCorp who had led the war against the clones, had been praised by the government of the Federation.

As the result of this rebellion, all remaining clones, even the ones that didn’t rebel, were killed by the Federation, and Cylone, the cloning company, had been shut down.

#### **Legacy**

Even after their rebellion, clone members of the Grand Army had been seen as war heroes by the majority of the public and were praised for their bravery. Grand Army of the Capitol, the newly found army of the old Capital of the Republic, had declared that it was the true successor of the Grand Army, and would make its ideals live. Yet, except for its genetically engineered warrior caste’s similarity to the clones, Capitol’s army does not share any resemblances with the Grand Army.