Battle of the South Pole (Purple Alert)

The final and largest battle of the third world war, the Battle of the South Pole saw all the world's armies come together in a massive free for all in the hopes of seizing, protecting, or destroying the Mental Omega device located at the south pole before it could activate and bring about the end of free will and ensure Yuri's absolute victory. Also of great import was attempting to subvert, capture, or destroy the Red Front's Paradox Engine, the only superweapon in the world to match the Mental Omega Device's overwhelming strategic implications as this moving master of time and space and flying militarised city had dominated virtually every battle it had gotten itself involved in since its launch and allowed for massive scale movement of Communist troops across the entire world as well as the time accelerated manufacture and training of enormous numbers of assets at a time.

Meeting them was the Lamassus of Babel; the guards of the Mental Omega device and some of the most elite, well equipped, and numerous forces of Epsilon on the entire planet as well as Rahn's own Mor'Shadan. All forces of the illuminate would be called to participate, as would a panoply of mind controlled assets from every military in the world in the hopes of ensuring that Yuri's will would be done, all placed under the Command of Grand Proselyte Gluckel Horowitz.

The battle would end with more casualties than the entirety of the first world war and with the Mental Omega Device and the Paradox Engine Aerofortress both crippled, the former only able to partially activate to ensure that the Brotherhood's controlled territories would be unassailable, the later's crippled hulk being recovered and allowing for a partial desync of much of Earth from the Psychic Amplifier, Beacon, and Dominator Network.

The stalemate that the battle ended with is generally regarded as the cause for the treaty of Metropolis that ended the war without a clear winner and solidified the Brotherhood as one of the world's premier superpower blocs, with the Epsilon-Ayin Dominion having, unlike the Empire of the Rising Sun, overcome the combined might of the established superpowers and achieved a favourable outcome.

## Militant Funk

The Communist International's forces would descend upon the south pole from multiple different directions, with the Revolutionary International Volunteer Army's Khione Front and the Orbital Corps being the first to reach the outskirts of the Device's enormous fortifications. Opening up with a sudden teleporting strike and massed aerial and orbital assault to clear the path for heavy usage of armoured and mechanical troops, the RIVA would annihilate the far northern base of "Sumer" within minutes, the caught off-guard Epsilon-Ayin Dominion troops unready for the ferocity of the Comintern's attack on their lines.

From the east, the Soviet Red Army would arrive with a vanguard of Apocalypse Tank Aces and the Airship fleet to smash into anything in their way. With massed orbital strikes rained down from what the Magnetic satellites picked up softening up Yuri's forces for the 1st Guards' Terra-Australis Tank Army, the advanced guard of epsilon was no match for the force arrayed against them. At home in the colds of antarctica, the Red Army would stop for nothing and made sure every trick and trap was marked for destruction while their new drones were unleashed to clear away mind control centres. With Karl Marx Megatanks and Vladimir Lenin Megawalkers deployed, Base Assur would be reduced to scrap metal with a final push before the ten minute mark.

From the south, the APRC's heavy assets gathered into the Zhuque Banner advanced following saturation strikes with Neutron Missiles and Paralyser station bombardment, Though the forces of the Brotherhood were stronger here than in other fronts, they were unable to stop the crushing weight of the Zhuque Banner's forces. Sheer overwhelming firepower and judicious usage of new weapons such as the Aero-paralysers to shut down Epsilon's aircover or the ultrahigh speed Steel Dragon type strike craft cleared out much of the initial surprises. Once the lines were broken, it was only a matter of exploiting the breaches while fortifying the positions behind them to ensure total victory over Base Bethlehem.

The Red America's Antipodal Task Force would strike hard at base Nineveh, mass-warping in with air strikes and the Time Legion while their ranger groups sabotaged strongholds in the southeast. Rapid mechanical forces protected by psychic troops would shield the Antipodal Task Force from the weight of mind control defences waiting for any would be attacker, leaving the Katyusha satellite network to pummel everything that so much as blinked out of line. (WIP)

## Awakening

The core of the Mental Omega Device's defences were some of the very heaviest of anything anywhere in the war, far surpassing the fortifications protecting the likes of Tokyo or Moscow. Yuri, Roiescu, and Kalypso knew that once their device was found out that everyone would drop everything to stop it, and thus ensured it was defended to a degree that not even the physics altering weapons of many of their enemies would have an easy time of making any headway against Base Babylon around the "Tower of Babel" as the device was affectionately called.

Even with the shaky co-belligerency of the Allied-Entente, Comintern, and Revolt troops made at Antarctica, they were outnumbered more than a hundred to one by the vast cloned armies of the Brotherhood and more Brotherhood forces would be on their way as Horowitz sent out the call for all available mind controlled and truly loyal forces to make it to Antarctica to save Yuri's creation.

More immediately, a large stockpile of Tactical Superweapons from multiple arsenals were present within the enormous Babylon base, all deeply recessed within its concentric layers of defence. Even worse, the Tower and its most powerful defenders were protected by Mental Dynamo devices that offered achronally regenerating shielding that would function even in a time freeze, in essence erasing any damage faster than it could be made. Massive anti-air and orbital infrastructure proved to be impervious to attempts to bombard the Babylon base while Yuri, Roiescu, and Calypso's space fleet and citadels were now on full alert, thwarting any attempt to assail Fortress Babylon from space.

Teleport scramblers caused the initial waves of teleportation assaults upon Babylon to have their atoms scrambled messily, resulting in horrific demises as Comintern and Allied-Entente transdimensional attacks were telefragged without fail regardless of methods used. The Chrono-Legion strike force and the Cosmo-Phalanx combat groups dispatchedalmost immediately getting shunted into the ground, high in the air to their deaths, slightly too far or back in time and being stranded in space due to earth's revolution around the sun, or shredded into fine particulate slurry or scattered across higher dimensions of spacetime.

Furthermore, Babylon was a site of massive production and had enormous reserves already in place, as were its immediate surrounding "Cardinal" bases, and the farther out "Citadel" bases had more industrial capacity in place than entire nations and more soldiers than the population of many countries. Its extreme outermost "star" bases had only fallen so easily as they were still under construction as part of a wave of expansion, and the defenders of the Headquarters were found to be made of far sterner stuff, with the initial weight of armoured counterattack being so intense as to force the attackers to hunker down in their initial landing sites and set up their bases while met with a tsunami of enemy forces.