The Empire

> We guide him always, abandon him never, go where there is no path, never yielding, forever on the battlefield. Everything we do, we do for victory. We seek mages for the worst battlefields, the smallest rewards, days darkened by a forest of of swords and hails of bullets, and constant danger with no guarantee of survival. To those who return go the glory and the honor.
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## The Empire

* Youjo Senki
* Tuefelsreich
* Mage x Family

**The Empire** is one of the major powers within the world Tanya is reincarnated into in Youjo Senki. As such it has been a major starting point for all the fanfics which involve Tanya including Saga of Slime and Devil, Tuefelsreich, Mage x Family, and World's Finest Mage.

The Empire is in a near-constant state of war thanks to the meddling of Being X, who in wanting to seek Tanya's suffering through 'dire straights' brought the whole world against the Empire. Depending on the fanfic in particular, the fate of the Empire becomes different in each.

## Saga of Slime and Devil

The Empire takes a mostly secondary role in Slime and Devil as the series takes place within the Central World where the Empire does not exist. Nevertheless, when the series begins the Empire is on a gradual, but ultimately downward path towards its seemingly inevitable defeat. While the Empire continues to hold on, the meddling of Being X has pushed the Empire to its limits as the Eastern Front, then barely holding on, begins to crumble. The death of Tanya von Degurechaff not only causes the subsequent de-facto collapse of the Salamander Kampfgruppe in the following days, but also causes Being X to take a step back, withdrawing his meddling from the world.

Despite no longer directly pinning the world to rally against the Empire, the damage had already been done. Though, without Being X's influence, the Empire was given much needed time to breathe, allowing it to stabilize the Eastern Front, at least to an extent. By the time of Weiss' summoning to the Central World, the Empire's situation had begun to turn south once again. While the Eastern Front had slowly been stabilized after the loss of more men, the landings in Normandy would open up another new front in the west. Now fighting a two-front war, the western allies would continue their advance until being stopped close to the former Franqois border. Now once more with the Rhine Front effectively revived, the 203rd Aerial Mage Battalion is nearly cannibalized by other units. However, thanks to Weiss' leadership and maneuvering of the political bureaucracy of the General Staff, he is able to keep the battalion together if at least for a bit longer. However following Weiss' sudden disappearance due to his summoning to the Central World, the 203rd is now left leaderless once again and is shortly thereafter disbanded with its mages dispersed across the Rhine and Eastern fronts.

As of the most recent chapters of Slime and Devil, the Empire is effectively nearing its last legs, though it has for the most part grinded both fronts to a standstill of trench warfare once again for the time being.

## Tuefelsreich

In Tuefelsreich, the course of the Empire is rapidly diverged from that of the Youjo Senki Canon. Shortly after the start of the Eastern Front, mostly thanks to Being X's meddling, Mary Sue is killed in combat with Tanya von Degurechaff. With his main hope to bring a full challenge to Tanya so easily defeated along with her persistent stubbornness, Being X gives up on his experiment, considering that world a failure as he ignores it to move onto other plans. With Being X's influence gone, the Empire is no longer strained under the pressure of a world opposing them, instead they begin to utilize their advantages as best they can.

Tanya von Degurechaff, for her part, quickly is able to rise the ranks of the Empire unrestrained by Being X's influence. Before long she leads an entire army group as she uses her knowledge of her own world's history to try and bring about an Imperial Victory. Her efforts in the battle of Josefgrad, this world's version of Stalingrad, lead to a major Imperial Victory that leads to the seizure of the Caucasus oil fields.

The Empire, meanwhile, utilizes the large Imperial-American community within the Unified States to push for a pro-neutral outlook on the war within the nation. While the country had formerly begun to lean against the Empire, the Empire's efforts prove fruitful as the Unified States delves deeper into their isolationism.

With the eventual defeat of the Russy Federation and the signing of a peace treaty, the Empire begins a large-scale 'blitz' of major Albionese strategic points with its newly invented rocket technology. With no real hope of the Unified States joining the war, Albion eventually agrees to a 'peace with honor' with the Empire. With this final 'Peace with Honor', the Empire was able to finally pressure the exiled Francois government into a peace arrangement, though one far more unfavorable to them.

With all of its enemies defeated, the Empire sat as the uncontested victor of the Great War as it propped up new independent (but Imperial-aligned) nations in the east, dismantled Legadonia to the north, and demilitarized the Francois border to the west. Before long the nations of Francois and Albion would begin to crumble, collapsing into revolution as their colonies became free gain for the rapidly growing Imperial Colonial Empire. In the midst of this collapse, the German super-colony 'ZentralAfrika' is formed out of numerous colonies both gained from the war and from the following collapse of Albion and the Francois.