Great Naval Invasion of Japan

**The Great Naval Invasion of Japan** was a massive naval campaign between the country of Japan with the support of its allies and the Gra Valkas Empire and is considered to be the turning point in the New World War. This was also the first large-scale attack on the Japanese home islands since their transfer to the New World.

* **Riem Kingdom**
* **Japan Self-Defense Forces** (Main Force)
* **Mu**
* **Parpaldia Empire**
* Fleet Admiral Caesar (supreme commander, KIA)
* General Mirkennes (1st Advanced Fleet, MIA)
* Vice-Admiral Aurones (2nd Advanced Fleet, KIA)
* Captain Luxtal (Captain of Grade Atlastar, KIA)

**Special Extermination Operations Division**
* General Kaizal
* Gra Valkas Empire Air Corps Commander Macina
* Guti Maun Super Heavy Bombing Regiment Operation Director Arley Tolliger (KIA)
* Imperial Navy 44th Task Force Commander Zem (KIA)

**Riem Kingdom**
* King Bank (KIA)
* General Rival (KIA)
* Lieutenant Commander Sakano (CO of 4th Escort Flotilla)
	+ Captain Chizuki (JMSDF Destroyer Chokai Captain)

**Japan Air Self-Defense Force**
* Commander Yagami (Nahanath Kingdom)
* Commander Misugi (Louria Kingdom)

**Japan Ground Self-Defense Force**
* Kotsubo (CO of Missile Regiment)

**Mu**
* **Mu Advanced Technology Research**
	+ Major Myrus
* Mu Air Corps
	+ Unknown commander

**Parpaldia Empire**
* Head of State Kaios
* Emperor Ludius

**Holy Milishial Empire**
* 1st Battlegroup (440 Ships)
	+ 1st Advanced Fleet (230 Warships)
		- 5th Navy Air Force Squadron
	+ 2nd Advanced Fleet (210 Warships)
* Main Fleet (996 Ships)
	+ *Grade Atlastar* battleship
	+ 88th Fleet
	+ At least 12 Battleships
	+ At least 30 Cruisers
	+ At least 58 Aircraft Carriers
	+ At least 500 Destroyers
	+ At least 300 Supply Ships
* Submarine Fleet
* Riem Kingdom Garrison Force
	+ 44th Task Force
		- 56 Cruisers and Destroyers
	+ 3rd Air Corps
		- More than 300 Fighters

**Special Extermination Operations Division**
* 200 Sky Fortress Bomber Guti Maun

**Riem Kingdom Navy**
* Dragon Mother Fleets
* Wyvern Knights
* Mainland Defenses
	+ At least 80 F-15J Kai
	+ At least 65 F-2
	+ At least 40 BP-3C
	+ 1 E-767
* Nahanath & Rodenius Air Wing
	+ At least 70 BP-3C
	+ At least 15 F-2
	+ At least 15 F-15J Kai
	+ 1 E-767
	+ 1 RF-4EJ
* Mu Air Wing Emergency Deployment
	+ 22 BP-3C

**Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force**
* At least 5 Soryu-class & Oyashio-class submarines
* All 4 Escort Flotilla
	+ 4th Escort Flotilla
		- 4th & 8th Escort Squadron

**Japan Ground Self-Defense Force**
* 5th Surface-to-Ship Missile Regiment Type-12 Surface-to-Ship Missile

**Mu Air Corps**
* 1 Prototype Shinden Fighter
* At least 120 other fighters

**Parpaldia Empire**
* 230 Wyvern Lords
* 42 Magic Ships-of-the-Line

**Holy Milishial Empire**
* Caesar Roland
	+ Captain Luxtal
* About 1149 ships in total
	+ Main Fleet
		- *Grade Atlastar* disabled and captured
		- All 88th Fleet (15 ships)
		- All Aircraft Carriers sunk
		- At least 600 Warships
		- All aircraft destroyed
	+ 1st Battlegroup
		- 2nd Advanced Fleet
		- 221 of 230 1st Advanced Fleet
		- 5th Navy Air Force Squadron
			* At least 100 Antares Fighters
* Gra Valkas Annihilation Department
	+ 200 Sky Fortress Bomber Guti Maun
* Riem Kingdom Garrison Force
	+ 44th Task Force (52 ships)
	+ 3rd Air Corps
		- 348 Fighters
	+ Dragon Mother Fleets
	+ All Riem Kingdom Wyvern Knights
	+ Hilkiga Forward Base destroyed
	+ Riem Palace Tower
	+ Majority of Riem Officials
* Minor Civilian damages in Duro.

## Background

### Gra Valkas Empire

Since their failed attempts at holding their territorial gains after the Battle of Alue and with Japan gradually involving more into the conflict, the sentiment of defeatism loomed over upper military echelons of the Empire of Gra Valkas. Previously, Mu's Navy and Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces managed to destroy the 52nd Local "*Ishtam*" Fleet off the shores of Otaheit and Mykal, respectively. Additionally, the empire lost their strongest armored division, the 4th Armored Division and in addition the capture of Valkyries Base. To make matters worse, the crown prince, Gra Cabal, was also captured by the World Union during the loss of their military base.

Upon learning of these tragic events, Emperor Gralux berated every high-ranking officer that was stationed on Leifor, including Admiral Caesar. Angered by the news and having suffered multiple humiliating defeats, he ordered the navy to assemble all of its fleets to hastily dispatch a punitive strike on the Japanese mainland, albeit without the careful knowledge or research of Japan's homeland defenses.

As part of a previously planned strategy, Admiral Caesar began to carry out the attack. Due to the general lack of knowledge of Japan's military defensive measures and partly due to their unchecked confidence, he believed advantages in numbers would turn the tide of battle to his favor. The Great Fleet would overwhelm Japan through sheer the numbers of their warships and aircraft which he had hoped to overwhelm Japan's (assumed) technological advantage. In addition, he also divided the Great Fleet into several combat groups. Such a division not only made the larger fleet harder to detect but also exerted their numerical advantages. Caesar knew with certainty that the number of Japanese warships were very small, so he believed he could crush Japan's naval warfare capabilities with his battlegroups. The idea was that Japan would regroup and focus on individual battlegroups while the rest would sail to Tokyo without being detected. However, this was under the assumption that Japan will fight with the same direct-ship tactics that his forces will use.

So far, he has been partially successful with his plan: his 1st Battlegroup - consisting of the 1st and 2nd Advanced Fleet - approached Japan by going South around Rodenius and was able to get relatively close before being detected.

### Japan

After the capture of the Valkyries Base where the World Union succeeded in capturing the Crown Prince Gra Cabal, Gra-Valkas diplomats, Dallas and his superior Parguel, visited the Japanese embassy at Otaheit and demanded that Japan return him, or they will burn Tokyo to ashes. Asada Taiji, the Japanese diplomat that was stationed on Mu, promptly refused to comply despite fervent threats from Dallas.

Based on satellite images, the Great Fleet consisted of 98 aircraft carriers (fleet carriers and light aircraft carriers made of converted oil tankers), 23 battleships, 74 cruisers, 828 destroyers, an unknown number of auxiliary and supply ships, naval bombers, and the total of 1620 aircraft - far beyond Japan's original calculations. The Gra Valkas Empire assembled all of their ships from all fleets - including newly-built warships and reserve vessels - to form the so-called "Great Fleet," leaving the minimum amount for the defense of Leifor and the homeland.

Japan has long since predicted a large-scale military operation would be carried out by Gra-Valkas, based on diplomatic developments as well as satellite reconnaissance images. However, they were still shocked when the news of a large-scale invasion was confirmed due to the huge number of the Great Fleet that far exceeded their initial predictions. To make matters worse, the Minister of Defense admitted that the upgrades of JMSDF's guided missile destroyers had not been completed as well as their inability to constantly monitor the Great Fleet due to the lack of reconnaissance satellites.

It was later discerned that the Great Fleet had in fact split into separate groups to lower the chances of detection. Each and every one of them headed for Tokyo:

* 56 ships in the Riem Kingdom
* 230 ships in the waters near the Qaiz Kingdom
* 210 ships in the Groot Knightland
* 996 ships (possibly the main force) in the east of First Civilization Area

The situation became dire for Japan when the government was notified of a fishing vessel being attacked by unidentified aircrafts about 1,250 kilometers southeast of Okinawa, indicating that the Great Fleet has begun to approach Japan's home islands. In order to effectively deal with the Great Fleet, the JMSDF utilized hit-and-run and ambush tactics like in Mu against the 4th Division by sending submarines to harass and thin out the numbers of the Great Fleet's battle groups before JMSDF's escort flotillas and JASDF's air wings could catch up and completely destroy them.

## Battle Against the Advancing Fleets

### JMSDF's submarine attack waves

While passing the Rodenius Continent and approaching Japan from the south, Gra Valkas' 1st Battlegroup consists of 1st and 2nd Advanced Fleet of 440 ships of the Great Fleet from the Qaiz Kingdom and Groot Knightland commanded by General Mirkenses and Vice Admiral Aurones managed to shoot down 20 scouting wyvern riders from an allied country of Japan. However, Mirkenses received a warning satellite message from a Soryu-Class Submarine to turn back or else they would be destroyed. Arrogant with the high number of ships, Mirkenses ignored the warning and forwarded the fleet while trying to track down the Soryu sub. To make matters worse, Mirkenses and her officers also arrogantly stated that the destruction of the Gra Valkas' fleet in Mu by a small number of JMSDF destroyers was fraud information along with the fact that Japan's military technology was above them also a gigantic hoax. She immediately ordered her subordinates to locate the submarine that sent that message and sink it with depth charges. However, their primitive sonar systems would never find the Japanese submarine with its advanced sound-suppression hull coating and the crew are also very trained to deal with warships that were equipped with depth charges, unaware that the submarines are not below them.

Knowing fully well the Gra Valkas would not back down, the captain of the *Soryu* ordered a full attack on the 1st Battlegroup fleet. The *Soryu* then unleashed a Harpoon missile at the Gra Valkas destroyer *Itokuwa* and successfully sunk it. Mirkenses and the rest of the fleet were horrifically dumbfounded with the attack as they couldn't figure out how the JMSDF could strike the fleet without showing any signs of aircraft. As panic ran through the fleets, the fleet scrambled to launch seaplanes to track air attacks while unable to figure that the attack came from under the sea.

As the Soryu launched the second harpoon, the Gra Valkas air defense network luckily scored a lucky shot and managed to intercept the Harpoon, causing it to plunge into the sea and explode. This success allowed the fleet to regain some fighting spirit. However, it did not improve the dire situation, as they were unable to detect the Soryu submarine. After the failed second attack, the Soryu pressed on with the attack with concentrated missile strikes, but this time unlike before, Japan's submarines already surround them in secret and launching multiple missiles from all directions, driving Mirkenses and the 1st Battlegroup into a panic.

The concentrated missile strikes successfully sunk 7 Gra Valkas ships including the cruisers *Parabolt* and *Terra Barker*, the destroyer *Karon Gochin* and the aircraft carrier *Cerberus*, while permanently disabling 7 other ships. This causes Mirkenses and Aurones to scream in anger as the entire anti-air defense network of the Great Fleet being punched through so easily plus their aircraft carrier was sunk by one hit from a single missile. However, Aurones regained his composure as he felt that the attack didn't do many damages to the fleet's massive numbers and ordered two other destroyers to rescue surviving sailors from other destroyed ships. Unfortunately, Aurones, Mirkenses and the rest of the fleet once again being pushed into full-blown terror once again as the Soryu launched another two missile strikes and sunk both destroyers. At that point, they realized that Japan would not let them do as their please until the GVE either retreated or surrendered.

Taking advantage of the momentum, the Soryu then launched two Type 89 torpedoes at the aircraft carrier *Carpella*, and effectively sunk it while disabling the cruiser *Hiryo* with a Harpoon missile. The loss of two aircraft carriers and the helplessness of unable to detect the JMSDF submarine fleet sent Aurones to the brink of insanity. Additionally, even after getting a grasp of how JMSDF's torpedoes work, Aurones was unable to send information to the main fleet since Japan already jammed their radio and radar, effectively isolating them. Two more torpedoes were then fired at the flagship of the 2nd Advanced Fleet.

### Destruction of the 2nd Advance Fleet

To decimate the 1st Battle Group, Japan's Ministry of Defense intended to launch 35 F-2 Fighter-bombers and 70 BP-3C Orion Medium-range bombers with a total of 400 Air to Ship missiles as soon as daybreak comes. As an initial assault, JSDF Air Force sent 10 F-2 fighters to assist the submarine fleet and launched 40 Type 93 Anti-ship Missile at the Gra Valkas Great Fleet.

Aiming for the 2nd Advance Fleet, Aurones trembled in fear as Japan's torpedoes that were launched from the Soryu submarines squadron is coming in high speed (50 knots) while his ship also tries to avoid it. Eventually, the ship was hit to the starboard and the water leaks in. Initially, the counter-flooding was successful but due to irreparable damages and most compartments are destroyed, the ship once again tilted to the starboard to the right. As the Soryu submarine fleet continued thinning out the 2nd Advanced Fleet, Aurones screamed in utter despair as he couldn't believe a powerful fleet of his Empire could be decimated so easily without drawing single casualties from the enemy. When the 10 F-2 fighters reached their destination and unleashed the payload of ASM-2 to destroy what left of the 2nd Advanced Fleet. Aurones watched helplessly as missiles were coming to his 2nd Advanced Fleet and decimate the rest of the cruisers and destroyers. One missile was heading straight into the bridge of Aurones' flagship, the battleship *Kuwesa*, effectively killing him and destroyed the flagship of the 2nd Advanced Fleet. At this moment, the 2nd Advanced Fleet of the Great Fleet was annihilated. The Japanese submarine fleet was then ordered to move to the next operation, most likely to re-fuel and re-arm.

### 1st Advanced Fleet's Countermeasures

Although the communication channel was cut off by JSDF jamming devices, information about the destruction of the 2nd Advanced Fleet was reported to the 1st Advance Fleet using information obtained from previously 20 launched reconnaissance aircraft. Hearing the grim news, the 1st Advanced Fleet's officers began lost morale and Mirkenses was absolutely enraged and disbelief with the destruction of the 2nd Advanced Fleet as she couldn't believe that the fleet was destroyed in such a short period of time.

A radar engineer named Magellan on 1st Advance Fleet's flagship restarts the operation and increased the wavelength output to the maximum, discovering 50 JASDF's aircraft is coming to decimate them inside the radar that can only be operational from 10 to 2 o'clock. Horrifically impressed and feared by the previous radar turbulence and the swift destruction of the 2nd Advanced Fleet, Mirkenses recalled the documents on Japanese guided weapons she had read earlier and regretfully began to realize that those documents seemed to be true, not ludicrous propaganda like she and the rest of the Gra Valkas officers initially thought. Starting to take Japan seriously from now on, she then called up an engineer named Kandall, who works at the Advanced Technology Research Institute, who later explaining how Japan's arsenal works based on information collected in Japanese weapons books taken at Mu, even though he and Mirkenses still skeptical about Japan guided missile technology. According to him, to counter Japan's incoming missile attacks, he will deploy the prototype jammer created by the Advanced Technology Research Institute to disturb the missile guidance so Japan will have less accuracy hitting them as well as flares to distract infrared navigation systems, metal scraps to jam active radar guidance systems. Though Kandal is confident that the prototype will work, it is based on the assumption that flares and chaff are 100% effective and that guided missile technology had not improved in the last 40 years. Furthermore, the GVIA also didn't realize that the books of about Japanese weaponry collected by their spies in Mu never include in-depth technical details as well as latest updates and upgrades in Japanese weapon technology, making all the knowledge they gathered insufficient.

### Air-to-Air Encounter with the JASDF

Around the same time, an Air Strike Group of fifteen Mitsubishi F-15J (A2 group) and about 70 BP-3Cs (A1 group), supported by 1 E-767 as a spotter and source of the jammer, began to approach the 1st Advanced Fleet to conduct a saturated attack with anti-ship missiles. Although initially a little surprised because Gra Valkas still spotted them and was launching fighters to intercept, the A2 team quickly split up and flew toward the Antares fighters with orders to shoot them down and protect A1 group.

The ninety-two Gra Valkas interceptors of the Navy Air Corps led by captain Kra Daciami were dispatched to deal JSDF air attack. Kra Daciami was overconfident with his fighter squadrons since as far as he was aware only the Alpha-3 Fighter aircraft of the Holy Mirishial Empire could prove to be troublesome to the Antares fighters. Before they reached the interception point, Kra's fighter began showing engine trouble and was trailing smoke. This forced him to turn back toward the fleet or risk ditching into the sea at night. His fellows ridiculed him for missing out on the glorious battle to come.

However, this proved to be a blessing in disguise. Just as he was turning toward the fleet, his squadron came under attack from an unknown and unseen source. The enemy jets had detected the flight of fighters, and began picking them off from beyond visual range using radar-guided homing missiles. Kra Daciami was terrifyingly flabbergasted at the destruction of his fighter squadron since no forces so far can decimate the huge concentration of fighter planes so fast like that. In less than 20 seconds, half of the entire flight was sent crashing toward the sea. To add insult to injury, he and the rest of the fighters in the squadron were unable to contact with each other as the F-15Js also jammed their radio signal to reduce their combat efficiency. By the time the F-15s came into view, nearly all of the Antares fighters were being shot down. They simply could not compete with the Japanese jets and their firepower. Kra Daciami became the sole survivor of the interceptor flight as the Japanese pilots decided to let him go, since he was not a threat to them.

### 1st Advanced Fleet's Attempt at Anti-Missile Warfare

During the time in which the fighters were sent out to intercept the incoming Japanese aircrafts, Mirkenses and her general staff were speculating as to how large the enemy formation was and what types of aircraft were being used. It was the general assumption that the attacking force was composed of torpedo bombers and escort fighters. The bridge speculated that the 92 Antares fighters were sufficient enough to beat back the attacking planes, but were shocked when the report came in that all of the Gra Valkas fighters, save for one, had been destroyed. Mirkenses was furious but her officers assured that even though they lost the entire squadron of fighters, they still had the anti-missile countermeasures and the anti-aircraft batteries to deal with the JSDF air attacks.

As the first wave of anti-ship missiles was launched, the 1st Advanced Fleet desperately tried to shoot them down to no avail as the Type 93 anti-ship missiles were too fast for their anti-aircraft batteries and fighters to hit. The Gra Valkas Cruiser *Bernante*, Destroyer *Barrister*, Battleships *Pete*, and *Licata* all deployed their jammer devices and threw flares and chaff into the air to deceive the missiles. However, much to their horror, the countermeasures were far too primitive to fool the ASM-2 missiles with an advanced inertial guidance system and infrared image tracking. Each ship was either sunk or disabled. Kandall was shattered in his mind at the uselessness of his latest invention to counter guided-missiles to point that he even assumed that Japanese guided missiles were using magic to make chaffs and flare unable to fool them.

### Destruction of the 1st Advanced Fleet

As Mirkenses and the rest of the 1st advanced fleet were distraught as their countermeasure they put so much confidence and hope in failed them in the end, the radar of the fleet managed to be back online at full strength and detected a massive wave of 250 missiles heading toward the fleet. This causes Mirkenses and her officers to sink further into despair. With their anti-missile strategy deemed as worthless, their only choice is to try to desperately shoot down as many missiles as they can, though the task has been proven to be impossible. As the wave of anti-ship missiles began striking the 1st Advanced Fleet mercilessly, Mirkenses is thrown into the ocean due to the explosion from the missile opens a part of the bridge. She managed to grab a large fragment of wreckage to save herself from drowning. She then sadly witnessed her flagship *Balsar* and the rest of her fleet destroyed by her own eyes while lamenting her weakness and deeply shows sorrow to all her perished crews. The rest of the fleet is ravaged and only 9 destroyers survived the onslaught. By the time Caesar receive the news, Mirkenses was officially listed as Missing-In-Action (MIA).

So, with both the 1st and 2nd Advanced Fleets completely destroyed, the first phase of the Gra-Valkas naval invasion has failed with the loss of 431 ships in total.

## Strategy to cripple Japan's fighting capabilities

Caesar receives word from his officer that both 1st and 2nd Advanced Fleets have been obliterated and is utterly crushed and shocked. Despite wanting to withdraw after confirming the rumors that Japan had guided missile technology and capability to strike beyond visual range is all true. Not only does he realize that his direct-ship warfare tactics are now obsolete, he also sees the potential trade-off of 100 guided missiles for 100 ships that are far more expensive. Even more discouraging was the fact that their prototype jammer devices were deemed to be useless. In spite of the bad news, Caesar forces himself to continue the attack since retreating would means death sentence in the court-martial for him and the rest of his crews by the pig-headed officials back home, especially the Emperor Office. Caesar then angrily curses the narrow-minded and stupidity of the higher-ups for forcing his hands to bring the entire fleet to the meat grinder.

Caesar then receives intel from the intelligence officers of the location of the JSDF Air Wing Fleet in Nahanath Kingdom and decides to rush the fleet to destroy it while the JSDF attack air groups still in the stage of refueling and reloading their armaments to shave off JSDF military strength. At the same time, Caesar also correctly guessed that JSDF doesn't know the true number of his fleet and doesn't prepare enough missiles to attack so he is quite confident of his strategy to attack. In addition, he sent an order to the Riem Kingdom Garrison Force and Special Extermination Operations Division to conduct a total assault on Japan's home island, with the intention of forcing Japan to redeploy their forces to defend its homeland, allow the Main Fleet to attack Nahanath smoothly.

In the meantime, the Gra Valkas Foreign Affairs also ordered Riem Kingdom to be sortied and destroy Duro, the industrial city of Parpaldia Empire on their own without any Gra Valkas support. The goal is to destroy the Japanese Embassy and especially the merchant ships to reduce Japan's trading capabilities. The attack order totally horrifies all Riem officials and King Bank since even though Riem Kingdom committed treachery toward the Japanese by siding with the Gra Valkans, they are not foolish enough to attack the Japanese head-on on their own judging how fast the JSDF pulverized the Parpaldia Empire, a country much stronger than them. Riem officials desperately pledge with Gra Valkas Foreign Affairs official Beidart Sval to reconsider the attack but only receiving the cold shoulder from him, much to the distraught of Riem officials.

During this time, Holy Mirishial Empire officially declared war against Riem Kingdom. All these events eventually cause King Bank to mentally break down and he screams throughout the sleepless night for his utterly foolishness and blunder as his country is now being sandwiched by the potential devastating attack from two superpowers while the Gra Valkas turns their back on them.

With the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Advanced Fleets, the Special Extermination Operations Division under command of General Kaizal was given orders from Caesar to move out and start bombing raids on Japanese cities to assist Caesar's plan, using their new heavy bombers, Guti Maun. Their target was Nagoya, one of the Japanese major cities. In order to prevent the morale of the bombing squadron from plummeting, Caesar deliberately conceals the information of the destruction of two Advanced Fleets so they can bomb Japanese cities effectively but he warns them about the guided missiles. Unknown to Caesar and the entire bombing squadron, Nagoya is where the Komaki Air Base located. It has a huge concentration of jet fighters, anti-air defense, and a primary base for mobile refueling aircraft, which makes the entire attack plan suicidal without their knowing.

Despite the Guti Maun's long-range flight capabilities, it is still not enough for the bombers to fly directly from their home base to Nagoya. Hence they will be attacking from the Third Civilization regions by making a total of five stops for refueling, including through Leifor as the first stop and Riem as the last stop before heading toward Japan's Home Islands. Since they are expecting no resistance in Second Civilization, Central World, and Third Civilization that can reach the Guti Maun's altitudes, the bomber crews feel safe taking this route to Japan. However, they remain unaware that they are heading toward a deadly network of Japanese jet fighters, missile batteries and long-range, early warning radar systems as none of the GVE military officials bothered researching Japan's mainland air defense network beforehand.

## Super Sky Fortress and Riem Fleet

### Mu Airspace

Mu's latest 2D radar (thanks to Japanese books) managed to detect the high altitude bombers of Gra Valkas as they flew over the South Hath Air Force Base. They tried to intercept the formation but their Marin were unable to reach that altitude. Fortunately, the base was not bombed. Due to engine trouble, the number 18 Guti Maun turned back to Leifor as the Gra Valkas command was too conceited to believe that the plane was needed to participate in the bombing of Japan. At that point, Myrus decided to use the first prototype jet fighter of Mu, the X Shinden Kai. Mu also deployed their rudimentary ECM equipment built using an outdated secondhand laptop as the main computing core from Japan to disrupt the bomber's communications. The bomber crew was confident that there are no Mu plane that can reach their altitude. However, the jet managed to reach the height of the Guti Maun, to the surprise of the crew. They tried to shoot down the X Shinden Kai with their defensive machine guns. However due to its speed, it managed to dodge the defensive fire. The jet managed to shot down Guti Maun No. 18, with its 30mm cannons, causing the bomber to become a flaming wreck, crashing down towards the ground. Only one of the machine gunners, Dentalc managed to bail out. The remaining bomber aircraft has arrived in the Riem Kingdom, where they will be refueled one last time and escorted by fighter planes to Nagoya.

The presence of Guti Maun made King Bank falls into a false sense of security and his deluded mind tells him that the Gra Valkas will never lose to Japan.

### Preparation of the Home Defense

On the emergency meeting, the Prime Minister was informed that Japan's Escort Flotillas are stationed on three areas: 1 Escort Flotilla is on Kyushu, 1 Escort Flotilla is on the west of Japan, and the last was stationed around Nahanath Kingdom, preparing to stall the Great Fleet Main Force's advance. Additionally, Japan has redeployed most of the Japan Coast Guard's vessels to the west of Japan, also recalled all of the JASDF Fleet Air Wing back to the homeland with exception of several squadrons from Rodenius Fleet Air Wing and the entire Nahanath Fleet Air Wing due to preparing of incoming attack from Gra Valkas Main Force.

The Minister states that the defenses on the Nahanath Kingdom will be a tough battle considering only one Fleet Air Wing and one Escort Flotilla stationed there. As for the Riem Kingdom, one of the Ministers propose a pre-emptive attack on Riem Port but was denied due to Riem Kingdom's status that they bare no hostilities towards Japan and the risk of shooting the bombers which will fall into civilians area, causing unnecessary casualties. Instead, they plan to launch the attack as soon as the entire Guti Maun has taken off from the airfield, destroying all them within the airfield.

### Gra Valkas and Riem Kingdom attack plan on Japan

Before commencing operation to attack the Japanese mainland, a meeting was held between Gra Valkas and Riem military officials in Hikilga. The meeting was attended by:

* Gra Valkas Imperial Base officials in Riem Kingdom consists of Gra Valkas Air Corps Commander, Macina
* Guti Maun Super Heavy Bombing Regiment Operation Director Arley Tolliger
* Imperial Navy 44th Task Force Commander, Zem

They have outlined the attack plan on Japan in detail:

* Riem Kingdom Dragon Mother Fleet will attack the city of Duro to destroy Japanese merchant ships to intimidate Japan and reduce their trading capability.
* After the attack in Duro is completed, Riem Kingdom Dragon Mother Fleet will go to the northwest of Japan and act as bait to distract and disturb the JASDF.
* The Air Corps consists of fighter-bombers will fly at ultra-low altitude to avoid radar detection to bomb Awara City, in Fukui Prefecture. The Air Corp also serves as decoys to divert JSDF attention from the Guti Maun Air Fleet.
* 200 Guti Maun bombers will be take advantage of their extraordinary performance of ultra-high attitude to firebomb Nagoya into ashes (Operation: Barbecue).
* The 44th Task force consists of 56 ships will in charge of radio blockage 300 km from Japan with air support from Riem Kingdom Fleet. Later, if conditions permit, they will assist the air force to bombard Awara City.

It is revealed that the Gra Valkas high command mostly retain their ultra arrogance and false sense of supremacy, as they wholeheartedly believe their horrendous loss in Mu and the destruction of Valkyries Base were due to extreme military blunders and carelessness. Furthermore, even though the Gra Valkas Military HQ inaccurately re-evaluated Japan as the same level of power as the Kain Divine Kingdom back in Yugudo, the re-evaluation is still considered to be incredibly unbelievable and absurd, leading to the fact that no one in Gra Valkas military bother researching Japan's mainland defense. This great mistake plus Caesar's desperate decision to cover up the destruction of two Advanced Fleets of the Great Fleet caused the Gra Valkas and their Riem ally to be far too careless than usual. Consequently, all the military officials and personnel of the Gra Valkas and Riem are full of extreme confidence and passion for victory, even Commander Zem takes a sadistic glee of the prospect of turning Nagoya into BBQ with fire bombs.

Despite the general cockiness and recklessness of the whole attack force, there still military officials who are cautious with JSDF military power but their caution are replace with blinded pride in punishing Japan for insulting the glory of Gra Valkas Empire and refusing to hand over Gra Cabal.

King Bank and other Riem Kingdom officials is excited for this attack operation since this will show the power of Riem Kingdom toward Japan and to the extend the whole world.

### Destruction of the 44th Task Force

Unknown to the rest of Gra Valkas, JAXA satellites has managed to detect all possible movement of the Gra Valkas attack force enables the Ministry of Defense to plan proper attack on Gra Valkas and their Riem ally. During the midnight meeting to deploy counter-measure against GVE attack, Japanese officials expressed concern that Gra Valkas might have far more unexpected hi-tech military hardware judging from appearance of the Guti Maun. While concerning the number of GVE air crafts comparing to US air force back in WW2, it is pointed out that Japan really needs to increase their military budget at the level of US military to properly defend their country in the future (In detail, if Japan to spend 100 trillion yen that is meant to combat global pandemic, they will have access to 500 F-15J jet fighters with just 5% from 100 trillion).

The JSDF decides to send 15 F-2 fighters to sink the 44th Task Force, while the 2nd and 3rd Escort Flotilla along with Japan Coast Guard will be in charge of Japan coastal and mainland defense with the primary objective that no Gra Valkas force will reach Japan's mainland.

As soon the 44th Task Force sails off from Riem, 15 F-2 fighters launch 63 anti-ship missiles at them. Minutes after leaving Riem's waters, Zem shockingly witnessed his ships being picked off one by one from unknown directions by guided missiles in which he stated that the technology was absolutely impossible. Utterly panicked, he ordered his ships to open fire blindly to no prevail and his ship also narrowly survived the missile strike in the first three minutes. Two minutes later, his warship was destroyed, killing him in the process as he was ironically burned to death, along with the remainder of the task force. Fifty-two ships were either sunk or reduced to wreckage with no opportunity to report back to their base.

### Destruction of the Guti Maun Bomber Formation and the 3rd Air Corps

The Ministry of Defense also discovered that the Antares escorts had taken off first before the Guti Maun bombers, while planning to launch 80 F-15J Kai, and 50 F-2 Fighters to destroy them. The ministry also received a report that the JASDF already have 15 F-2 and 40 BP-3C that can be sortied anytime. Without wasting time, the ministers decide to dispatch 150 F-2 and F-15J Kai to destroy the incoming fighters and bombers and orders that no enemy fighters and bombers would be able to reach Japan. On the other hand, the JSDF ignored the Riem Wyvern Knights that were heading to Duro at Parpaldia Empire since the Guti Maun and 3rd Air Corps were the larger threat and took priority.

Leaving Riem Airspace, Arley Tolliger felt remorse that the low-altitude fighter squadrons were simply being used as a bait to make sure Guti Maun reaches Nagoya. However, upon receiving the report that the 3rd Air Corps was destroyed, his bomber formation came under attack by BVR missiles. One hundred and twenty of his bombers were destroyed in midair, despite being at a high altitude. Trigger in a panic, gave the order to turn back as he saw that losing over half of his forces was seen as a tactical defeat and he couldn't risk losing the remaining 83 bombers, while stating that the bombing operation was an utter failure. At that point, the Japanese jets came within visual range to finish them off.

The defensive gunners could not shoot down any of the jets, as they were too fast and could even fly higher than their bombers. The remaining bombers fell prey to heat-seeking missiles and M61 Vulcan fire. Trigger was shocked to realize too late that the guided missiles were a reality, before he departed this world as a missile sent his bomber into oblivion.

In the end, the JSDF successfully neutralized all aerial attacks on Japan's mainland, which counts for 548 aircraft in total.

### Assault on the Hilkiga Forward Base in Riem and the destruction of Riem Kingdom's administration

The radar operators in the Hilkiga Forward Operation Base were confused when they lost radar contact of the 44th Task Force, as well as the high-altitude and low-altitude bomber formations. They began to suspect that the attacks had failed when the alarm was sounded that enemy aircraft was approaching. As anti-aircraft batteries and interceptor fighters were being prepared, fifteen F-2 fighter-bombers attacked the base, intending to take out the radar stations, runway, anti-aircraft guns along Antares fighters in the runways and hangars with JDAM bombs. They succeed in doing so, causing the base personnel to go into a panic. The F-2 fighter-bombers had cleared the way for a formation of BP-3C bombers to finish off the base with unguided bombs. After finishing off the base, the bombing squadron attacked the Riem Dragon Mother Fleet and their capital Wyvern force and successfully destroying all of them.

Before the attack on the base, King Bank and Rival were blindly confident that the Gra Valkas was unbeatable by any country and were excited for the supposed upcoming victories against Japan. However, their confidence were instantly crushed when they witnessed the JSDF demolish the Hilkiga Air Base while the base was helpless in defending itself as all their anti-aircraft guns and fighters were destroyed. Panic and utterly terrified, Rival screamed and finally admitted that it was totally stupid to provoke the Japanese in the first place while King Bank fearfully lamented what gonna happened to Riem when the Japanese gonna come for payback for his treacherous action.

To add more damage, Gra Valkas had previously installed a communication radar on the Riem Royal Castle for communication, which emitted radio waves to the JSDF, causing them to designate the castle as enemy communication facility. Consequently, Bank, Rival and almost all Riem officials and nobles watched helplessly as BP-3C bombers dropped bombs on them while the entire Riem Wyverns in the capital had been shot down by F-2 fighters beforehand. As the royal castle was destroyed, Bank, Rival and almost all Riem officials and nobles were buried under the rubble, ending the ruling regime and crippling the administration of Riem Kingdom. After that, the bombing squadrons start to decimate what left in the Riem military force, causing the country has zero means to defend themselves again future foreign attack.

As the Hilkiga base was demolished, base commander Murnow and some survivors escaped to the bomb shelter to save their lives. Despite being utterly enraged with JSDF attack, Murnow sulked and admitted that the Gra Valkas had lost the war and tried to get back to Gra Valkas territory to inform their military of the destruction of the base and the entire fleet of bombers and air corps.

### Battle of Duro

In Esthirant, Kaios would received word that the wyvern knights of Riem were attacking the city of Duro. Understanding that Riem had thrown in with the Gra Valkas Empire, Kaios ordered his own forces to Duro by reason of self-defense. They would only fight the forces that were attacking Duro. Parpaldia's Wyvern Knights succeeded in repelling the Riem Kingdom's attack, slaughtering most of the Riem's Wyvern Knights, although some of them managed to inflict some damage on the Japanese assets in Duro, mainly merchant ships. In any case, given the great losses Riem suffered, any damage they could cause would be quite small.

Furious with Riem's transgression, Kaios with support from Emperor Ludius assembled 230 Wyvern Lord and 42 magic ships-of-the-line, intending to retaliate against Riem Kingdom but unaware that Japan already decimated Hilkiga. Without any wyverns or naval fleet to defend the capital, Hilkiga was subjected to utter decimation by the Parpaldian Wyvern knights and their naval fleet.

## Fall of the Main Fleet

### Defense of Nahanath

After receiving word of the Riem Kingdom attacking Duro and the immediate retaliation of the Parpaldia Empire and relieved that the attack on mainland had been averted, the Japanese Ministry of Defense received intel that a large fleet (Caesar's Main Fleet) was heading toward the Nahanath Kingdom faster than they anticipated. Only one convoy of supplies had made it there in time and there was only a small regiment of F-2 fighters and BP-3C bombers available as they were not being recalled back for the Mainland defenses in the first place. To make matters worse, Japan also didn't have enough ammunition to supply the entire Air Wings with missiles. As a result, Japan had insufficient firepower to stop the invading fleet and casualties seem unavoidable this time.

On Runepolis, Holy Milishial officials are now discussing about the current situation. Lydolka submitted his report to Arneus that Japan has successfully defeated the Guti Maun ultra-long range bombing regiments and suffered no casualties and Parpaldia Empire attacked the Riem capital city of Hilkiga and decimated the defenseless capital. This fact totally shocked Arneus since he initially thought that the vast numbers of bombing fleet would cause significant damages to the Japanese. Consequently, this fact made the Holy Mirishial Empire respect the Japanese further. Holy Milishial is also unaware that the 1st Battlegroup of the Great Fleet was destroyed even before Caesar had sortied out the Guti Maun.

### Caesar's Determination

**“Captain, this upcoming battlefield might be our… no, our fleet’s final resting place. I’m sorry.”, Caesar points out the fact that the attack on Nahanath is a suicide attack.**

Meanwhile, news about the destruction of the Guti Maun bombing fleet, 3rd Air Corps and the empire's FOB base in Hilkiga had already reached Caesar through the Headquarters, which caused Caesar and all his officers to finally be enlighten of the fact that the Japanese were too powerful for the GVE to defeat and the whole war was doomed from the beginning. Despite the failed invasion, the Office of Sovereign spitefully forced Caesar and his fleet to inflict as much damages as possible against the Japanese for greater political implications that "**the Gra Valkas Empire would not go down without putting damage on a truly formidable enemy**". With no other choices and being honor-bounded, Caesar and his officials fully committed a suicidal attack on Nahanath and determined to inflict a single damage to JSDF and dissuaded others countries from siding with Japan in the future as much as he could before he and his crews' inevitable demise. It was also revealed that the reason why the Main Fleet managed to nearly reach Nahanath so fast was because Caesar didn't stop to refuel in order to increase the pace of the assault.

On Nahanath, F-15J Kais from the JASDF 9th Air Wing from the Southwest Air Corp will arrived soon. The JGSDF's SSM (Surface-to-Ship Missiles) Regiment is now deployed as well as the 4th Escort Fleet is also preparing for the defense. It was revealed that the Ministry of Defense had miscalculated the time gap between the attack on the Main Land and Nahanath as they did not expect Caesar's initially near-suicidal strategy of not refueling his fleet, thereby making the ammunition and fuel convoy will not make it in time since GVE did not stopped to refuel and continue advancing from the east. The worst thing comes is that the Pal Chimera is about to arrive earlier than expected, and the JSDF from northwest of Rodenius is not even listed the Pal Chimera on IFF as friendlies as the Pal Chimera's assistance was unexpected from the beginning and the Japanese government just received the news, concerning that it might be shot down by accident by a SAM. Base Commander Yagami decided to radioed the Pal Chimera to inform of them of the situation.

### Arrival of the Pal Chimera

In the Pal Chimera, Meteos was excited but exceptionally cautious of the upcoming battle as the Holy Milishial Empire had already lost one irreplaceable Pal Chimera from the Gra Valkas Empire during Battle of Baltica Sea. Meteos contemplated that things would be easier if they utilized the Marine Fortress Pal Cowne to decimate the Main Fleet. When Yagami radioed the Pal Chimera, he is surprised that Japanese radio waves can reach the Pal Chimera at high altitude while they hadn't arrived on the battlefield. Yagami asked Meteos to fight close to the JMSDF to prevent friendly fire in which Meteos assumed that the Japanese were trying to prevent the Holy Milishial from taking any significant credits in the battle. Also, Yagami offers Meteos to observe the battle first since they have their own strategy, giving him the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, they can participate but they can also observe how the JMSDF fights, which intrigues Meteos and it was also part of the Holy Milishial Emperor's order to observe how the JSDF fights. Meteos agreed by distancing himself 200 km from the battlefield. He utilizes the wave-guided super telescope installed on the Pal Chimera to observe the battle.

### Attack on the Main Fleet

22 BP-3Cs from Mu to Rodenius Continent carrying a total of 88 ASM-2 made their first attack to the Great Fleet under the night sky, hoping that GVE will not expect an attack in the night. The East Sea of Nahanath Kingdom will be decided as the place of turning point of the New World War. As the bombing commenced, the JSDF BP-3Cs started jamming the radar of the Main Fleet.

As Meteos tried to observe the battle, the Pal Chimera's conductive magnetic radar was jammed by the JSDF's EMI due to the Pal Chimera's close proximity of to the jamming signal of the JSDF. Meteos and his crew tried to get the anti-jamming device to work but no prevail as the device couldn't nullify Japan's jamming, frustrating and causing him to be amazed with Japan's technology as it was good enough to jam and neutralize even the Ravernal Empire's radar and anti-jamming technology. Seeing no other choice, Meteos ordered the ship to get close to the battle to observe it at visual range.

The missile attacks dealt devastated blow to the Main Fleet as the anti-ship missiles instantly destroyed 4 destroyers and 3 cruisers while the fleet fired blindly into the sky as their radars were jammed and they had zero night vision. Caesar fell to despair as his fleet was helpless against the attack and shocked at the fact the anti-ship missiles are far more powerful than any big cannons developed by the Gra Valkas. He later wondered that how many anti-ship missiles the JSDF actually had.

As Meteos observed the destruction of Gra Valkas warships by JSDF guided missiles, he and the rest of his crew were astounding shocked and disbelief that Japan, a purely mechanical country could create something as powerful as the magically guided anti-ship missile of the Ravernal Empire. The scene cause Meteos to be shaken to his core as he couldn't believe that science can outperform magic, which he firmly believes to be the root of development and power. At the same time, he also fearful that if the Ravernal Empire returned, the Holy Mirishial Empire would suffer the same fate like the Gra Valkas against the Japanese.

At Nahanath base, the JSDF officers lamented that they didn't have enough anti-ship missiles to deal with the vast numbers of enemy ships. Yagami decided to leave the *Grade Atlastar* alone since cutting the head of the enemy would cause the rest of the fleet to charge blindly at the base with overwhelming numbers. He then ordered concentrated attack on the Main Fleet's battleships and aircraft carriers to sap off their strength and morale.

The JSDF attacks then intensified in which hundreds of ships and all aircraft carriers of the Great Fleet were ultimately turned into scrap metals, sinking toward the blue sea. The Main Fleet of 1,000 ships was reduced to about 400 ships and all their air force was neutralized.

### Caesar's Ultimate Decision and Pal Chimera's new Revelation

Despite being utterly crushed by the mass destruction of the Great Fleet, Caesar ordered the remaining ships to keep charging much to the protest of some of his officers as they seriously wanted to withdraw out of sheer fear but Caesar then counter-backed that withdrawing would waste the sacrifice of 10,000 men and determined to inflict some damages to the Japanese as he seriously wanted to die while trying to fight a powerful enemy.

Seeing the enemy would not change the course, Lieutenant Commander Sakano who commanded the 4th Escort Flotilla which consists of 4th and 8th Escort Squadron of the JMSDF decided to target the Grade Atlastar first and fired all their 78 anti-ship missiles at the remaining ships of the Main Fleet to weaken them and called in the Pal Chimera for support.

Meteos glared angrily at the *Grade Atlastar* and wanted to smash the super-dreadnought for destroying one of the Pal Chimera and made him withdrew like a coward the last time. He then smeared that 8 ships of the JMSDF trying to engage more than 400 ships of the Main Fleet as suicidal attacks and wondered in a mocking tone that whether the pure science nation like Japan could show him any powerful weapon, showing Meteos' magical supremacist mindset.

When as the 4th Escort Flotilla fired their anti-ship missiles at the remaining of the Main Fleet, Meteos was profoundly shocked at the large-scale guided missile attacks and he couldn't believe that a total scientific nation like Japan could create marvelous mechanical technology that rivals the magical tech of the Ravernal Empire. This caused him a huge crisis of belief that he is always adamant with the erroneous belief that science cannot match magic much like most of the high-ranked officials of the Holy Mirishial Empire. The showcase of JSDF tech also dreaded him and the rest of his crews as if the Ravernal Empire returned, they would be helpless much like the Gra Valkas against the Japanese.

The main fleet continued to lose ships against the JMSDF 4th Escort Flotilla which counted for 50 ships. Caesar worried that he had miscalculated that the Japanese might be prepared enough missiles at the base to destroy his fleet after all. Suddenly, an anti-ship missile struck on one of its front main turret and destroyed it, with another struck on its broadside, causing uncontrollable fires. Both Caesar and Luxtal were shocked at the fact that their strongest armor back in Yugudo capable of withstanding an attack from the 46 cm cannon and perhaps in this world was destroyed in a single strike.

When the Pal Chimera started to commence their attack on the Main Fleet, Caesar then ordered the rest of the fleet to withdraw back to the homeland as he couldn't stand seeing his men continue to die while ordering the *Grade Atlastar* to kamikaze the Nahanath base. However, due to his charisma and reputation, sixteen ships that were formerly under his command, the 88th Fleet before his reassignment to command Eastern Fleet refused to withdraw and join in the Kamikaze attack on Nahanath with Caesar.

Horrified that the 16 ships didn't withdraw, Sakano tried to contact the JASDF for another air strike but they couldn't reload in time to go back fighting, and to make matter worse there were no submarines that can make it either plus they had used all their anti-ship missiles and torpedoes. Fortunately, the Pal Chimera came for help and Meteos decided to crush the *Grade Atlastar* permanently. To ensure the successful bombardment of Nahanath, the 15 ships broke away and went to engage the Pal Chimera to buy time for the *Grade Atlastar*.

Realizing there was no other choice, Sakano decided to challenge Grade Atlastar head-on with the 4th and 8th Escort Squadron for an intention to buy time for his subordinates and the fleets to rearm themselves, aware that this move is a suicidal knowing the power of the 46 cm naval guns.

### Destruction of the Great Fleet and the fall of Grade Atlastar

*Grade Atlastar*, suffering from a destroyed front main turret and damage at the bow while the Izumo-class Destroyer *Kaga*, now only armed with SeaRAM and Phalanx CIWS will be settled in a Fleet Battle duel with the support of several destroyers armed with cannons, RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Surface-to-air Missile, RUM-139 VL-ASROC anti-submarine missiles and the attack and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters in the *Kaga* itself.

Knowing how tough and destructive the *Grade Atlastar* was to the legendary *Yamato*, the JMSDF destroyers group led by captain Chizuki decided to keep the distance of 13 km and ordered massive bombardment from the Oto-Breda 127/54 Compact cannons to weaken the *Grade Atlastar*.

As the *Grade Atlastar* prepared to engage the enemy, Luxtal asked whether Caesar was confident in this engagement, judging from the fact that Japanese technology is far beyond their expectation. Caesar confidently admitted that at long and beyond visual range, the fleet are utterly helpless against the JSDF anti-ship guided missiles and torpedoes but at short and visual range, they would be unbeatable with their powerful 46 cm guns, using the destruction of the Pal Chimera as the best example. It was then revealed that aircraft carriers actually rendering battleships slowly obsolete back in Yugudo but the after the transferring battleships became relevant as the weapon of terror and no aircraft or wyverns in the new world can pass through the anti-air guns to deal any damages to the naval force.

The *Grade Atlastar* opened fire at the JMSDF destroyers group with it main guns but most of the shot missed as the destroyers broke up from the formation but it greatly raised morale among the fleet as it showed that the Japanese were scared of the powerful naval guns. Luxtal then ordered the rear guns to fire as well.

When the three shots began to reach Chizuki's destroyer, Chizuki was impressed with the skill of the Gra Valkas gunnery, causing him to assume that the Gra Valkas just installed FCS. He then ordered three RIM-66 Standard Surface-to-Air Missile to fire to intercept the shells and succeed, utterly dumbfounding Caesar and Luxtal as they couldn't believe that artillery shells could be intercepted. Caesar then regained his composed and ordered continuous fire as they closed the distance towards the JMSDF fleet.

As the Pal Chimera gradually decimated the Gra Valkas intercepting 88th Fleet, Meteos and his crew observed the battle between 4th Escort Flotilla and the *Grade Atlastar* and once again shocked at Japan's technological prowess as the Japanese were able to intercept cannon shells with SAM missiles, which deemed impossible for the Holy Mirishial Empire to achieve as only the Airborne target-countering guided magic light munitions of Ravernal Empire, which still not be able to be understood by HME can achieve such feat. Fully convinced with Japan's superiority, Meteos and his crews then fully admitted Japan's power is 100% rival of the Ravernal Empire.

The 4 JMSDF destroyers fired their cannons at the *Grade Atlastar* and continued to intercept 7 shells from the *Grade Atlastar's* main gun. After 200 shots, the *Grade Atlastar* is still standing and not slowing down but suffered quite a damages including fire broke out at the hull. In order to finish the battle once and for all, the 5th SSM Regiment lead by Kotsubo was requested by the JMSDF to fire Type-12 Surface-to-Ship Missiles stationed at the mountain of Nahanath at the *Grade Atlastar*, one missile at a time. With the range of 150 km, they were able to lock on Grade Atlastar.

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With JMSDF bombardment failed to completely disable the *Grade Atlastar*, Luxtal drunk with confidence that his ship was unsinkable and continued to attack the 4th Escort Flotilla. However, when the first Type-12 Surface-to-Ship missile was sighted heading toward the ship, Caesar realized that the demise of him, his crew and the greatest battleship of the Empire had finally come. He then lamented and cursed the utter foolishness and void of common sense of the upper-brass of the Gra Valkas Empire and his powerlessness to stop the GVE from shooting themselves in the foot from the very beginning. He then closed his eyes, accepting his fate as he and all his officials in the bridge were vaporized by the explosion from the missile impact. This would cause the ship to lose its guidance and steering. Five more missiles would impact on the *Grade Atlastar*, causing more explosions and fires that could not be contained. After enduring 235 shots from JMSDF destroyers and struck by 6 surface to ship missiles, the *Grade Atlastar* was given up for lost. The command was given for the remaining survivors to abandon ship. Most of them would be captured by the JMSDF as POWs. This would be the end of the 88th Fleet's heroic, but futile assault on Nahanath.

The retreating Gra Valkas fleet of about 300 ships was able to escape as Pal Chimera was fully occupied with engaging the 88th Fleet.

With the destruction of the main fleet and the behemoth battleship *Grade Atlastar*, the attempted invasion of Japan would end in utter failure.

## Aftermath

### Japan

The battered remains of the *Grade Atlastar* was towed back to Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture for investigation. A politician who has a strong influence on the political world decided to remodel and modernize the Grade Atlastar into a guided-missile battleship outfitted with the latest AEGIS System, guided missiles, and advanced armor while retaining the engine and some components that were deemed necessary while accompanied by the Ministry of Defense officials. With a modernized battleship, Japan hoped they could achieve better peace by having an intimidating Yamato battleship once again to dissuade future hostilities. He also proposed the name of *Yamato -* to honor his father's services on the Imperial Japanese Navy's strongest battleship in the Second World War with a purpose as a symbol of power and to deter other countries from acting against the interests of Japan. The proposal surprised the Japanese officials, yet the notion was immediately sent to the JSDF and the National Diet.

For Japan, their victory was not merely that of a military success. Prior to the invasion, the vast majority of the people from all countries of the New World viewed the prospects of the war to end in a World Union victory to be rather murky. Furthermore, the power of Japan - despite its manifestation and participation in previous conflicts were recognized by many countries - was still in doubt. With the resounding and decisive defeat of the Gra Valkas fleet, the fact not only proved that Japan could win over the Gra Valkas Empire but placed Japan as the new leading dominant power of the New World. Japan's strength was now undisputed, and many nations began to align themselves under the banner of the Rising Sun and look to Japan as a guide, leaving other superpowers like the Holy Milishial Empire as weakening powers.

For the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the victory brought about into serious consideration for reviewal since they suspected that they may experience a much worse naval battle after Gra Valkas' loss of the pride of their navy. Japan's Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency is currently working on designing the new battleship to refit and remodel the entire *Grade Atlastar*. The plans were to either install railguns, laser weapons, or simply converting the ship into the first arsenal battleship that can fit plenty of missiles. The decision was made to compensate for the lack of firepower in the JMSDF.

Additionally, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Irnetia Kingdom, sinking one battleship and twelve other warships with four Submarines from the 1st Submarine Flotilla to infiltrate the island.

### Gra Valkas Empire

The surviving nine destroyers of the First Battlegroup was left with no other option but to withdraw shamefully in defeat. Over three-hundred warships from the Main Fleet disengaged and promptly retreated, following Admiral Caesar's final order. The situation was clear that the Gra Valkas Empire had failed their campaign against Japan. Their unanticipated defeat was a serious blow to their strategic plans for world conquest and significantly reduced their capabilities for future offensives as well as their ability to defend the empire.

The invasion was a strategic disaster for the Gra Valkas Empire in terms of equipment, ships, and manpower. Roughly 300,000 experienced personnel, died during the campaign. The drain on resources directly contributed to Gra Valkas' failure to secure its achievements in the Second Civilization Area. Most importantly, the vast amount of Gra Valkas air and naval forces had forever disappeared into the surrounding seas of Nahanath Kingdom and Rodenius Continent. Gra Valkas could not afford to replace the aircrafts and ships destroyed nor the highly-trained sailors and pilots during the campaign - even with their enormous industrial might - while their opponent, Japan, had not suffered a single casualty and continued to strengthen their own armed forces.

While the Battle of Baltica saw the first heavy losses to the Gra Valkas Empire, they still remained on the offensive as shown by its advances on the Second Civilization Area. However, it was only after their failed invasion of Japan where any large-scale offensive actions halted. Strategic initiative passed to the World Union - as it would prove - permanently. The failed invasion of Japan totally and utterly ended all attempts of imperial expansion by the Gra Valkas Empire and placed Japan and the World Union in a position of clear supremacy, forcing the empire to now fight a desperate defensive war.

The catastrophic loss eventually forced the Gra Valkas to realize their biggest blunder for underestimating Japan from the beginning and completely forced them to utterly take Japan seriously from now on. Emperor Gralux was furious with the sheer devastation that was inflicted on them, and he and the rest of Gra Valkas officials had to admit that all the absurdities from all reports about Japanese far superior technology were true.

Despite the entire government having to accept the reality that they now have to fight a defensive war, a lot of bureaucrats and officials - out of blinded pride and sheer idiocy - were furious for such timid course of action only for them to be shut off by Gra Lux. While the head of the military, Xand Pastall, urged and commissioned all Gra Valkas armament companies to triple their weapon productions, Captain Siegs, in charge of capital defense, immediately laid out plans to deploy sea mines to the north to prevent any submarine attack from Japan and battleships from Mu with the oddities of possibly infiltrate some personnel to attack Leifor. He also plans to rig every possible site with mines and traps, in hope to prevent or to slow down the JSDF and Mu from taking Leifor back. Furthermore, in order to counter Japan's jamming technology, large group of patrol planes would be used for recon purposes to compensate for the situation where radars are completely disabled. Siegs also made it clear that Leifor must be held at all costs since if Leifor fell, Gra Valkas mainland would be vulnerable for an attack from the enemy.

Hearing news that Irnetia Kingdom was Japan's next target, Siegs made their preparations for a counter-attack to repel the JSDF.

Meanwhile, in Japan, after hearing the devastated new about the destruction of the Great Fleet, Gra Cabal began orchestrating his plans to save Gra Valkas from further self-imposed annihilation.

### World Union Army

Perhaps as important as the military victory for the World Union was the psychological victory. On a level playing field, Japan and its allies had beaten Gra Valkas' best air and naval forces. After this, World Union personnel will regard the Gra Valkas military with much less fear and awe than previously. In addition, the World Union viewed the eventual outcome of the New World War with greatly increased optimism. Despite this, it was a long term political and influence loss to the Holy Mirishial Empire as they now realized that the Japanese are now replacing them as the world's strongest nation and the new protector against the Ravernal Empire.

> **A ray of light shines through the gloomy hearts of those that have experienced defeat after defeat. The citizens of the Holy Mirishial Empire, after hearing this news, erupted in delight. All other countries, after hearing of this news, felt terror from the Holy Mirishial Empire’s overwhelming power, which has repelled even the Gra Valkas Empire.**
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In move to desperately retaining some level of influence, the PR department of the Holy Mirshial Empire exaggerated the victory against the Gra Valkas primarily contributed to the Pal Chimera, not from the JMSDF. While the majority of the Holy Mirsihial Empire felt proud of their national strength and countries who are mostly ignorant about Japan praised the Holy Mirishial Empire's supposed overwhelming power upon the titanic lie, countries that know Japan deeply like Mu, Parpaldia Empire, Altaras Kingdom, Esperanto Kingdom, Heiskanen, Fenn, Qua-Toyne, Quila or Louria scoffed and smeared at the exaggerated propaganda and became far more impressed with Japan truly far superior military power.

Despite the Gra Valkas has now been weakened, the World Union still relies on Japan as a whole since they still not strong enough to fight even the weakened Gra Valkas effectively without horrendous loss.

## Trivia

* This battle is one of the longest battle, with at least 4 days in total for overall engagements.
* It is estimated that 200,000 Japanese would be killed if the Great Fleet was not decimated and repelled by the JSDF.