Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Atomic Palace

"I have become death, the destroyer of worlds!"

-The Bhagavad Gita

The Atomic Palace is the main offensive superweapon of the Elsword Empire, and is the most powerful superweapon in the game, only eclipsed by the Nuclear Storm.

History
"47 47 2e 20 59 6f 75 20 77 69 6e 2e 20 3d 28"

-Last transmission by a SKYNET Command Node shortly before it was vaporised by an Atomic Bomb.

An Andoran Solaris beam can fuse an entire city block into a molten pool in an instant. The Proton Collider can blast six macro-explosions within a kilometre of each other, devastating a wide area. The Protectorate Psionic Decimator can buckle steel and melt minds in a vast area using nothing but the gestalt will of a number of psionic empaths.

And all of these are but mere firecrackers when compared to the Luresian Atomic Bomb.

How the Empire invented this terrible weapon is unknown. What is known is that it was first used in the Embry Civil War as two bombs were loaded into old bombers and sent on their final mission. On August 6, 1957 V.C., the Union bomb named Fatman was dropped on Lexington, while the Commonwealth bomb, named Littleboy, was dropped on (insert).

Upon reaching the optimal height, one subcritical mass of uranium was shot at another. The uranium, having thus reached critical mass, then broke down, and then again, and yet again, in a chain reaction that produced more energy than any conventional power plant in the world could hope to. The explosion, in a flash of light bright enough to melt the retinas of people looking at it, released its energy mostly in a blast front and thermal radiation.

The blast wave can reach 1,000 kilometres per second, which is made more horrific by the debris set on fire by the intense light. Anything within 1.6 kilometres is completely destroyed, with temperatures in the ensuing fireball reaching up to 4000 degrees Celsius. People caught in the fireball are instantly vaporised, leaving either carbon shadows painted on the walls and pavement, or even more disturbing so, still carbon statues of themselves, arms shielding themselves from the all-conflagrating heat, mouths open in silent screams. From a further range of destruction up to 6.6 kilometres, people caught in the blast will be ripped apart, due to intense pressure waves within the soft tissue. The thermal radiation, meanwhile, will ignite whatever can be ignited, including people.

Both Lexington and (insert) were completely obliterated by these weapons. Even some distance from the detonation point, people were horribly burned by the thermal radiation and died soon after, and secondary fires started by burning debris thrown by the blast wave caused a firestorm that destroyed any remaining settlements and much of the countryside outside the island. Over the course of the next two weeks, nearly every city, town, and collection of villages were destroyed by either side in an insane attempt to end the decades-long civil war. Over three-quarters of the population of Embry died within a month, but the worst was yet to come.

In the aftermath of the Embry Civil war, where every nation had witnessed its power to leveled cities, the Empire took their remaining stockpiles of nukes to the government to await judgment. It was up to the Emperor to decide the fate of these infernal warheads. Though many Nobles, Eunuchs, and Bureaucrats wished to destroy the weapons right there and then, the Emperor decided instead to harness them for the greater good of the Empire, but only against military forces that dared to threaten the Elsword Empire. Unfortunately, that is pretty much every single military force in the world, but even the emperor has no wish to further inflict atomic horrors on cities full of innocent civilians.

Fenghuang Strategic Bomber
"No going back..."

-Fenghuang pilot upon lift-off.

While the Elsword Empire could certainly vaporize their enemies with one simple press of a button, the emperor decided that to make such a decision would make the Elsword Empire as monstrous as the Chaos Gods and potentially turn Gaiaterra into a wasteland that makes Embry a paradise. Instead, on making the decision to only utilize atomic weapons on the world's military forces, the Empires engineers were required to design a way to deploy a bomb while minimizing the threat of civilian casualties, with only the nuclear division rebelling by instead making nuclear ICBMs that would eventually form the Nuclear Storm, which was barely approved by the Emperor. It was decided that the only way to ensure this was to utilize the most heavily protected warplane ever designed.

The Fenghuang is piloted by a single pilot, the aircraft itself encased in layer after layer of armor and using a combination of the strongest ECM suites they could make similar to the Alexander jets and supersonic engines making it as fast as an Aurora Alpha, making it immune from any and all anti-air weapons. Andoran Apollos, Aquilan F-22s, Alliance Achilles, Voshkod Sukhois, Protectorate Tengus, and Eagle Kai Pluses, all fail to down the Fenghuang as it closes on its target, with the only weapon having an inkling of a chance of stopping these bombers being the Aquilans SDI cannons, but no one is willing to test that theory.

Understandably, the pilot who are chosen for such a task are considered outcasts by all others, though many of them remain anonymous to prevent such a situation, and tends to suffer from massive guilt and nightmares that often haunt them till their death, though the Empires mandated therapy helps them to some extent.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Particle Cannon (Aquila)
 * Tomahawk Storm
 * ICBM
 * Heaven's Wrath
 * Missile Silo
 * Strategic Command Uplink (Task Force Eagle)
 * Proton Collider (Alliance)
 * Ion Cannon (ADI)
 * Psionic Decimator (Protectorate)
 * Solaris Array (Andora)
 * Solar Apocalypse
 * Atomic Palace (Empire)
 * Nuclear Storm
 * Hadron Collider
 * Scientifc Lab
 * Temple of Cantha (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Vaccuum Imploder (Voshkod)
 * Temple of Asmodia (Brotherhood)
 * Soyuz Missile (Horde)
 * SCUD Storm (MLA)
 * Psychic Dominator (Collective)
 * Minea Elemental Missile Silo (Encantadia)
 * Rift Generator (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Tremor AGAS (Coalition)
 * Warp Missile (Heralds)
 * Firestorm Generator (Order)
 * Resonance Jackhammer (Survivors)
 * Weather Control Generator (Syndicate)
 * Omega Blitzer (Conglomerate)
 * Basilisk Magnus Apocalypse (Legion)

Bonus Factions

 * Kabandha Radio Center (ASA)
 * Guns of Windrunner (Bastion)
 * Lord Creep (Rangers)
 * Tempest Generator (Pirates)
 * Death Hand Hand ICBM (Ascalia)
 * Temple of Elona (Elona)
 * ICBM (Dominion)
 * Light of Dragalia (Security)
 * LEO Landing Beacon (Ascendancy)

DLC

 * Orbital Storm (Federation)
 * Coronal Storm (Corona)
 * Mother's Love (Party)
 * The Icon (Skynet)
 * Winds Grande Ode (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * The Great Sun Temple (League)
 * Erect Ground (Swarm)
 * ARK Superheavy Artillery Battery (Confederation)
 * Eldritch Cannon (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * Aggregat (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * Maw Missile (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * Hammer of Sigmar (Theocracy)
 * Punisher Cannon (Insurgents)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * Doomfire Missile Silo (Ecumene)
 * Shrine of Sadida (Concordat)
 * ARKNIGHT Dropzone (Contingent)
 * Scream of Elysea (Eden)
 * Meganulon Hive (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * Gandalf Scatter Launcher (Commune)
 * Stonehenge Strike Array (Clique)
 * Fugaku Air Tower (Guild)
 * Death Worm (Threat)
 * Schwere Gustav (Traders)
 * Bavarium Missile (Entente)
 * The Icon of Sin (Oblivion)
 * ... (Corporation)
 * ... (Institute)
 * ... (Commonwealth)
 * ... (Nimbus)
 * ... (Carnival)
 * ... (Wraiths)
 * ... (Chronophage)
 * ... (Privateers)
 * ... (Foundation)