Atlas Military

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## Organizational Information

### Role

Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Atlas (formerly)

### Goal

Protect the Kingdom of Atlas from all threats (formerly, failed)

### Other Members

* General Farren Scriver (formerly head of the Atlas Military & acting leader)
* Commander Winter Schnee (Acting Senior Ranking Officer & former Head of the Ace Operatives)
* Brigadier General Alex Horne (Head of Special Operatives Unit, formerly)
* Clover Ebi (former Head of the Ace Operatives, deceased)
* Marrow Amin (Faunus Support Specialist, Ace Ops, formerly)
* Vine Zeki (Crowd Control Specialist, Ace Ops, deceased)
* Elm Ederne (Heavy Weapons Specialist, Ace Ops, formerly)
* Harriet Bree (High-Speed Pursuit Specialist, Ace Ops, formerly)
* Pietro Polendina (Head of R&D and Atlas Academy Professor, formerly)
* Penny Pollendina (Leader of the drones and Battleship units, deceased)

The **Atlesian Military** was an organized body of armed forces from the former Kingdom of Atlas, which was regarded as the world's strongest military power led by General James Ironwood. Their headquarters was located at Atlas Academy. The uniforms of standard soldiers included metal body armor and helmets that conceal the top of their faces. They were seen wielding a variety of weapons including rifles, pistols and swords.

While originally a force of good at the beginning of the series, the events during the Battle of Beacon, where their technology was hacked, caused them to be seen in a negative light by the world. As such, they were recalled to Atlas. However, when the one responsible launched an attack on the Kingdom, the military under orders from Ironwood took direct control by overthrowing the council following martial law and intended on raising Atlas in order to escape, leaving Mantle in the process.

After the evacuation of Atlas, the vast majority of the military was destroyed alongside the Kingdom with it's remnants being absorbed into Task Force Argo.

## History

Decades prior to the start of "RWBY", Atlesian researchers at the now defunct Fort Arrowfell developed a deployable device for attracting Grimm through the use of stored fear energy. However, these devices proved to be too dangerous to manage, so Ironwood's predecessors canceled the project and closed the facility. They then assigned the protection of what remained of the technology to a secret Huntress team known as the Keepers of Arrowfell.

Sometime prior to the events of the series, Bram Thornmane once trained in the Atlas Military in order to become a member of the Ace Operatives. However, he was rejected as a member and eventually left he military as a Huntsman and became resentful towards General James Ironwood. Around the same time, Hanlon Fifestone enlisted in the military as a soldier in order to fight for better rights for the people of Mantle. It was during this time that he saw the corruption, wealth and greed of the people of Atlas and deserted military duty in order to become a union leader in Mantle and resulting in him having a bad reputation among the people of Atlas.

Ironwood visited Vale in order to attend the Vytal Festival with students from his academy. However, he arrived not just with his students, but hundreds of soldiers carried by airships. The Atlesian Military protected the city of Vale during the Breach, and served as the primary security in the Vytal Festival Tournament.

During the Battle of Beacon, Cinder Fall's virus caused the military's technology to turn on them, causing further panic and chaos in Vale.

Upon learning from Winter Schnee of a brewing threat in Mistral, Ironwood decided to close the borders of the Kingdom of Atlas, calling back most of his troops to defend their home. He stationed a small group of soldiers, lead by Special Operative Caroline Cordovin, to stay in the city of Argus and restricted transportation to Atlas.

During the time Team RWBY assisted the military, a conspiracy led by Bram Thornmane against Ironwood was discovered and eventually multiple people involved were arrested by the military including Hanlon Fifestone, Lieutenant Colonel Olive Harper who secretly provided military technology to Amoncio Glass and his goons and turned herself in out of guilt, and Bram Thornmane himself after being defeated by Team RWBY. During this period, a deal between the military and the Schnee Dust Company set up prior to the events of "RWBY: Arrowfell" to find a new Dust Mine for the company was also completed with Winter acting as the contact between both factions. However, the new Dust Mine site was deemed unusable due to the Dust inside it having inert specks and imperfections.

The Atlesian Military aided in the assembly of the Amity Communications Tower, and later defended Mantle in the Battle of Mantle from incoming Grimm onslaughts. Once Ironwood declared martial law and attempted to raise the city of Atlas, the military became a dictatorship and attempted to capture Ruby's Group as an arrest warrant for them was sent out throughout the Kingdom.

After Penny Polendina became the Winter Maiden, Ironwood attempted to bring her back to his side to complete his plans. During this time, councilmen Sleet and Camilla tried questioning Ironwood about declaring martial law until Ironwood killed Sleet. When Ruby's Group infiltrated the Atlas Command Center, Ironwood authorized his soldiers to use lethal force to stop them.

When Salem destroyed the Hard-Light shields around Atlas and had Monstra land on the floating city, the military was seen trying to hold off the Grimm she created during the Battle of Atlas with multiple soldiers killed in the ensuing fight. They tried to send a bomb to the giant Grimm, but it was killed before they deliver it. Later, Ironwood sent multiple ships to destroy the Schnee Dust Company drones meant to help evacuate the people of Mantle by Whitley Schnee. He delivered an Ultimatum to Penny, come to him and open the Vault within an hour or he would destroy Mantle using the bomb originally meant for Monstra.

After realizing that Ironwood was going too far, Winter and Marrow both helped Ruby's Group try and stop Ironwood by pretending to go along with his plan. The other Ace-Ops went after Qrow and Robyn when they tried to stop the bomb, but were frozen in place by Marrow's Semblance while Winter helped defeat Ironwood. She later locked him up in a cell next to her father to prevent him from getting in the way of the evacuation process.

Later, Cinder Fall, Neopolitan, and Arthur Watts used the last question of the Relic of Knowledge to find out what Ruby's Group were planning and used the information learned to sabotage them. First they killed all of the military personnel in the Atlas Command Center and had Watts cut the broadcast about how they can evacuate. He then sent a hacked Atlesian Knight-200 towards Qrows group to detonate. This freed the other Ace-Ops and Harriet planned on delivering the bomb herself with Vine, Qrow and Robyn in pursuit. Watts later hacked the ship's autopilot to give them a harder time stopping Harriet.

Sometime later, Ironwood regained his Weapon after his cell went down and used it to vaporize Jacques Schnee before heading for the Vault. There, he confronted Winter and the two began to fight. Harriet ended up being talked out of bombing Mantle by her teammates, but the bomb started to fall out of the ship until Qrow managed to stop it. However, Watts armed the bomb himself, forcing Vine to sacrifice his life to save his friends from the bomb.

In the Vault, Ironwood bested Winter and was about to win the fight, but she ended up receiving the Maiden powers and used them to defeat him before entering the portal to join the other evacuees.

After Cinder came back through the portal with both Relics, she presented them to Salem, who had entered the Vault. Ironwood attempted to shoot the two, but when Cinder turned and taunted him with "checkmate", he gave up. The two then leave Atlas as it crashed into Mantle and both cities were flooded with the Ace-Ops, along with Robyn and Qrow watching from their ship.

## Military Technology

Atlas had always supported the idea of the removal of men from the dangers of the battlefield, thus a large component of their significant military force was made up of android soldiers, such as the Atlesian Knight-200, designed to replace the standard Atlesian Knight-130 security model. The androids were heavily networked, routed through the large carrier airships used by the air fleet; destruction of all such ships in the area led to a full shutdown of all automated units.

The Atlesian military understood that many situations still required a Human presence, with Human soldiers still serving among their forces, and in conjunction with the Schnee Dust Company had also introduced piloted mechanized battle-suits known as the Atlesian Paladin-290. Although designed to operate in as piloted units, they could also be remotely and independently operated, functioning in the same way as the smaller Knight units. They had also developed towering mechs designed to defend against giant Grimm. An upgraded, more formidable version of the Paladin was seen in the Battle of Beacon.

Prior to the switch to the AK-200 model, Atlesian Knight-130s were upgraded into the Atlesian Knights-135. AK-135s were variants to the AK-130s with added durability by ways of a riot shield on its arm. Additionally, Atlas created an unknown number of prototypes of the Spider Droid, which served as security for both the military and for companies such as the Schnee Dust Company.

The Atlesian Military also created the Colossus, a giant mech that was used to defend Argus from giant Grimm like Leviathans. It was placed in the Argus Military Base when not in use.

The Kingdom's borders were defended by the Atlesian Beam Turrets, which sat perched atop walls, firing lasers at incoming threats.

Following the Fall of Beacon, the Atlesian Military made steps to improve its Kingdom's defenses, creating weaponry that would improve the public perception of their forces. Such an example was the Atlesian Burrow Gun, a turret built to conceal itself unless a nearby threat was present so that the threat of war was out of the citizens' minds.

Later, the next generation of defensive installations were the Atlesian Arachna Mines. Using the technology of the Accessibility Dialogue Assistant (Ada) for target acquisition and threat detection, these bombs could scuttle towards enemies on the ground.

The technology has been stolen and used in the past by multiple factions, such as the White Fang, who managed to get their hands on multiple paladin prototypes, the Wave crime syndicate in Kuchinashi who sold it among their other stolen goods and by Amoncio Glass who managed to steal the technology with assistance from Lieutenant Colonel Olive Harper and used the southern coast Dust Mine in Solitas for a weapons furnishing operation to arm mobsters in the streets of the capital of Atlas. Among the stolen Atlesian Military technology in the Wave's possession included an air bomber and a Dust carrier ship.

Following her fight against Cinder Fall, Winter Schnee began wearing an exoskeleton that is described as power armor.

To support the development of these technologies, the Atleasian Military utilized numerous research facilities around Solitas, including the now defunct Fort Arrowfell.

## Ranks

### Officer

* Commander-in-Chief
* General
* Captain-General
* Lieutenant General
* Major General
* Colonel
* Lieutenant Colonel
* Major
* Captain
* Lieutenant First Class
* Lieutenant Second Class
* Cadet

### Enlisted

* Command Sergeant Major
* Chief Warrant Officer
* Warrant Officer
* Sergeant Major
* Master Sergeant
* Staff Sergeant
* Sergeant
* Corporal
* Private

## Members

### Commander-in-Chiefs

* General James Ironwood (deceased)
* General Farren Scriver (acting head)

### Officers

* Major General Alex Horne (formerly, retired)
* Lieutenant First Class Clover Ebi (head of the Ace Ops, deceased)
* Winter Schnee (head of the Ace Ops, formerly)

### Enlisted

* Harriet Bree
* Elm Ederne
* Marrow Amin
* Vine Zeki (deceased)
* Razma Sladek (formerly, joined Black Tusk)

### Others

* Pietro Polendina (scientist)
* Penny Polendina
* Arthur Watts (formerly, deceased)