Caesar Roland

**Caesar Roland** (カイザル・ローランド, *Kaizaru Rōrando*) was the fleet admiral of Gra Valkas Imperial Naval Force. He was in charge of the naval force to subjugate the New World under Gra Valkas rule and appointed as one of three Imperial Generals, the highest position at the military. He took command of the Eastern Fleet and later, the Supreme Commander of Gra Valkas Great Fleet.

He was killed during the failed invasion of Japan.

## Personality

Initially, like the rest of the Gra Valkas Empire, Caesar is a supremacist and looks down all countries in the New World and seeing them as weak and pathetic only to be deserved to be conquered.

This attitude soon changed after he faced the Pal Chimera, which decimated a good portion of his fleet. After that time, Caesar realizes that the New World is not easy to conquer as he might think.

During the battle against Japan, he became more pessimistic about Gra Valkas' victory in the war after two advanced fleets consisting of more than 440 ships was sunk by the JSDF. This makes him realize the true potential of guided missile technology and the ability to strike beyond visual range, make his direct-ship strategies as totally worthless. This event proved to be his breaking point that he seriously contemplated to retreat his force for the first time in his military career but couldn't due to the risk of death sentence from the Gra Valkas Court Martial as well as being consumed by his own hatred and pride against the JSDF for not being able to scratch them while losing tons of men.

Unlike most generals and politicians in the Empire, Caesar taking the Japanese somewhat more seriously and more cautious about their mysterious technological capacity. This, coupled with his natural talent, helped him formulate more sophisticated and devious tactics against Japan, causing them to face many difficulties on the battlefield despite their technological advantages.

It was revealed that he secretly despises his superiors and higher officials in the Gra Valkas administration as he referred them as military wannabes and amateurs. Despite this, he still respectfully obeys their orders to the point of willing to commit suicide attack against Japan due to being an honor-bounded soldier. However, in the final moments of his life, he cursed their stupidity and ignorance for provoking a hopeless war against the Japanese.

## Chronology

### Pre New World War Saga

Before his reassignment to command the Eastern Fleet, he was assigned as the Commander of the 88th Fleet, consisting of 1 Battleship, 8 Cruisers, and 6 Destroyers. He stays on the fleet until his promotion as Fleet Admiral and Imperial General, reassigned by the military into the Supreme Commander of the Eastern Fleet.

### New World War Arc

During Battle of Baltica Offshore, Caesar participates as a Supreme Commander of the Combined Audit Fleet and Eastern Fleet to repel the World Union Fleet that wants to expel Gra Valkas from Second Civilization in a hurry, unbeknownst that Japan did not participate due to preparation of defense at the first before joining in. Commanding from the Flagship, *Grade Atlastar*, Caesar devise a plan by initially reduce the Navy fighting power through gaining Air Superiority as the first phase.

He later had the opportunity to come into contact with Japanese weapons documents, and although he did not really believe that they were real, he considered the potential threat to be very serious and ordered a investigation into Japan's true technological potential.

#### Great Naval Battle of Japan

Caesar initially decides to split his fleet into battle groups and attack the Japanese mainland with multiple strikes, thinking that the Japanese forces would not be able to handle them all. However, the First and Second Advanced Fleets were obliterated, forcing Caesar to change his strategy to aerial bombardment, code named Operation Barbecue. This too would also end in failure as both bomber formations, the 44th Task Force and the Hilkiga FOB were all annihilated without a single JSDF casualty.

Seeing that the invasion of Japan was all but impossible from the beginning and retreating means unceremonious death by the top brasses back home for cowardly charges and shameful display of the pride of GVE military, Caesar ordered the Main Fleet at full speed toward the JSDF base in Nahanath. Without refueling his ships, the entire fleet is now on a one-way mission in an apparent suicidal attack to destroy the base. Even knowing that such an attack holds no military advantage and knowing he and his entire fleet going to die but he reasoned that the destruction of the base has political value and can be used as propaganda to show that the GVE doesn't go down without a fight plus he is being killed by a powerful enemy rather than be executed by the high-ranking people he despised so much back home.

Much to his surprise, his former fleet decides to stay behind and follow him until the end while the rest are withdrawing under his command to save as many personnel as he could. Confidence that his warship can destroy JMSDF 4th Escort Flotilla and the previous records of destroying Holy Milishial's Pal Chimera, he ordered the warship to make a full attack.

As the Grade Atlastar failed to land a single hit on JMSDF destroyers and endured hundreds of shot, Caesar was frustrated and shocked with JMSDF technological prowess but pushed on with the attack as the great battleship still stood firm. However, when the JSDF fired 6 Type-12 Surface-to-Ship Missiles to finally destroy Grade Atlastar, Caesar cursed the buffoonish and stupidity of the Gra Valkas Empire for provoking the war they could not win against a superior foe and silently accepted his fate as he and his officials were sent into oblivion by the explosion.

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## Abilities

* **Excellent strategist**: Caesar is considered the master tactician in the Navy and overall strategist in the Gra Valkas Military, to the point of being called "**the God of War**". He is well-versed in direct-ship combat and carrier tactics. However, these tactics are World War 2 level and are worthless against enemies that can strike from beyond visual range. Furthermore, he has made the same blunder as Japan's previous opponents by not knowing his enemy in the first place.

## Trivia

* Caesar seems to share many similarities with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, when both are considered prominent strategists in their country, but on the other hand seem to disagree with the belligerent claims of the government.