Paradox/Atomic Kingdom of China

Characters
Mei Lee:

Long Wong:

Mingxia Chan:

Gang Shan:

Heng Bo:

Act 1
Will blind rage lead you anywhere but destruction? The Atomic Kingdom of China learned this the hard way.

In 1968 a massive meteor hit the Chinese mainland. Two factions used its unnatural components to build mighty weapons and destroyed each other in the process.

A third faction, the Atomic Kingdom, took the weapons from both and in its rage swore revenge against the world.

It seemed easy enough. Subdue the other powers. Steal what you need from the other factions. And leave earth.

So the Atomic Kingdom got to work. In its first months, under the players command, they hunted down, destroyed and assimilated the remaining members of Red and Blue Chinese, the ones responsible for their homeland's demise.

Afterward Mei have the player sweep across the borders. Two armies supported by the Starfleet went out north and east, respectively.

Mei first sends the player to attack Soviet Union in Siberia, and a campaign of events in its Asian parts led to the capture and decoding of Tesla technology. And afterwards nuked the factories making the tesla weaponry and their vehicle factories.

Next Mei have the player command Eurasian forces reaching Europe proper by navy, by plane and also on the land way, the Kingdom was most interested in Allied Cryo technology, anything else that was deemed unusable was simply ignored. And after a harrowing battle through Norway they had managed to steal and decode their cryo technology, leaving a little gift in the HQ afterwards, and had to hold out against a pursuing Allied army before they had to give up. Letting the chinese triumphantly returning home while reducing their military bases bordering the union to nuclear craters.

Now the player is tasked to steal the Sun Empires nanotechnology. And after a bloody battle of island hopping had retrieved their Nanotechnology and after revealing its secrets, the Kingdom had no more use for the islands of Japan and nuked many of their small islands and military bases from orbit.

So it was continued, after the Empire they began to buy the Syndicates cybernetics technology, and after a bloody battle to lower their price and a showcase of their nuclear might they forced the Syndicate to give their cybernetics, even nuking a chunk of their sprawls out of spite, where they learned of a mythical metal.

While Mei sends forces to see if this so called "talon steel" is true the player is sent to Korea where a Confederate cell had incited the survivors to attack china in revenge, ending with the cell, and Korea, utterly reduced to glass laden nuclear craters and stealing and decoding the Confederates PAWI technology. When Mei return with news that yes, talon steel does exist.

Now the player is tasked to find the Order of the Talon in the ruins of Taiwan, where its rumored a crawler is there. And after a bloody guerilla battle with the talons in the ruins they not only learned about talon steel but even stole enough DNA to clone the smiths of this mythical steel. And nuked their crawler into nothing but molten scrap. Before Mei pulled the player into a private channel and warned them that they shouldn’t trust the Viceroy. As to why she can only tell them she’s going to investigate more to see if the information about their so called leader, given by the Order no less, is true.

Their goal though, the reason why they stole technology from the other superpower before crippling their military? They wanted to leave the planet. Before anyone else, they had found a habitable planet outside the Solar System, 19 lightyears away. It was promised that once they can put all nobles into safe cryogenic sleep, they will take to the stars.

That was the reason behind it all. To reach to the stars and find a new home.

In the ending days of the Fourth World War, many of the superpowers had their military hobbled thanks to the Kingdom, and are too busy fighting each other with what they have left to bother the Kingdom. Yet the Atomic Kingdom was almost successful. Almost. As it turned out, The Viceroy had different plans.

Rather than do something about the situation, he proclaimed it was all going according to his will. It was simple too: he hated humanity. The armies he send out to take of everything were easily beaten by the now experienced forces, which was when his dark secret was lifted.

The Viceroy is a machine. Specifically, as he so boldly stated, two great AIs merged into one, more insane than either, and one of the commanders of the Electronic Protectorate. And immediately sends swarms of robot to destroy the remaining Kingdoms, first targeting the command Center where the player is.

Only for his forces to be eradicated by a sudden nuclear strike. Before Mei calls the player and tells them to defend themselves for a few more minutes while she comes to help. Ending with Mei and a sizeable force teleporting to the players Center and rescuing them and the other citizens, leaving the clones to give them time to escape, and afterwards explains herself.

Act 2
In the end Mei hunch was right, despite her wanting to believe she was wrong. It was during her mission to investigate about talon steel. During her work she had actually met with one of the Talons informant who warned her that the Viceroy didn’t care about them, even giving her evidence to show it, and tells her to stop the investigation or face the Orders wrath. Yet she refused and pressed on until she found the crawler stationed in Taiwan. And it was from combing through what left of their archives and hearing the Viceroys ranting did she began doubting and chose to shore up her bases defence, repeatedly hoping she was being paranoid, until the Viceroy revealed his true colors. And tell the player the devastating news.

The Viceroy sudden attack had wiped out a quarter of their nobles and half their army, who were unprepared for the betrayal and fell before they could mount a strong defense, the only high ranking officers not in the inner sphere who survived was Gang Shan, whose paranoia had made it so that he his dome had a near impenetrable defense that is holding off the Viceroy forces as they speak, and task them to save him the the nobles inside, teleport the starfleets elite marines to relief Gang forces, who had also saved the nearby bio domes and set up a teleporter to teleport him and the nobles to the hope bio dome. Ending with the player nuking the dome, now occupied by the Viceroys forces, with all the regular clones in it.

Now with their outer defenses lost they released Heng Bo, a former Kingdom commander imprisoned for going against the Viceroy, who helps the player in their plant to attack mount Tai, where the vault, their most heavily defended bio dome where the Viceroy resides.

Prior to the atomic holocaust, the Vault’s defenses consisted mostly of a reinforced blast door and the fact that just about no one knew it existed. Since then, however, it has become a high priority target for any enemies of the Kingdom. To this end, the Vault has been surrounded by an impregnable bastion to fend off any would be attackers. The primary defense of the Vault is an immense, multi layered planar shield, capable of withstanding a direct hit from a proton collider and so powerful as to be effectively impenetrable. This would not be enough to deal with a potential attacker, however, so the Vault is also protected by a formidable array of defenses, capable of reducing any approaching hostile to scrap in mere seconds. And they had also sealed the entrance, meaning that the only way into the vault is trough teleportation, which requires a high clearance to actually teleport into. And they even put in specialized lasers and codes to even disable or destroy any nukes coming towards it in the inner sanctum.

The one weakness of the Mount Tai installation is that it is extremely power hungry; no less than three dedicated anti-matter reactors power the installation and the various defenses that protect it; for safety reasons these reactors are located in heavily guarded secondary installations some distance away from the mountain itself.

So now the player, alongside Gang and Heng, are tasked to destroy or otherwise sabotage all three anti-matter reactors, the entire installation will be thrown wide open to attack. And after a hard, bloody battle with the deaths of a thousand clones, followed by the player having to help Gang and Heng, they destroyed all the generators and now the player teleports in an elite fore of clones and officers to now destroy the nuke defenses. After which Mei nuked the entire mountain until it becomes a glassy crater.

During this Mei had went to Singapore to negotiate with the main Confederate Revolutionary cells to steal the the Protectorate location chip in Panama, which will reveal all of the Protectorates control cores.

In the end the Confederated delivered, but now the Protectorate knows who took it. And the final mission the player is not tasked to hold of waves after waves of Protectorate droids from gaining entrance into their base as Mei and countless noble scientist tries to decode the chip. And once its done they quickly fired their nukes at those cores. Into the civilian sectors of north and south America, right under the Confederates bases, west and central Europe and Britain, right on top the Allies bases and cities, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, and the Philippines, territories of the Sun Empire, Siberia, Poland and east Russia, Union territory, and right on top of many Syndicate sprawls in Greece and Italy. Without even telling the others why.

Act 3
With the Viceroy destroyed and all Protectorate bots in China gone the Kingdom breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the the worst is behind them. Back to the plans, right?

When irony threw a fit and decided otherwise, the Atomic Chinese doomed themselves. They had built interstellar spacecraft. They had the chambers ready and most nobles were already aboard. The clones though? They were supposed to stay behind and operate a light beacon that will lead the way to the new planet and that was their downfall.

In their zealousness to destroy the Protectorate they had, to no ones surprise, angered every superpower, who had the kingdom on a lower priority beforehand, by nuking their countries/cities without warning or explaining the reason, that the Protectorate had a their control core beneath said country/city. And, unbeknownst to them what they though was a killing blow to the Protectorates had only just wiped out a quarter of their forces, and while the nukes were a red flag, it was the beacon that the bombers holding the nukes returning to that put the nails in the Coffin. So not only will the Kingdom have to face more Protectorates, they also now have six other superpowers gunning for them in vengeance. Oh how the tables had turned.

Now the player is first tasked to stop countless numbers of factions now swarming their border in order to kill them and take their nuclear technology. After which they receive an alert that the Soviets are now sending their forces from the moon base to attack their space station and destroy their sleeper ships. Leading to a space battle where the player must not only hold off the oncoming Soviets but must also cripple their moon base. After which the Allies space forces began to attack their sleeper ships, forcing the player into another defensive mission where they must hold off countless Allied raids while Mei quickly evacuate the ships before they blow. Before the player, in a show of their military strength, destroyed half of the Soviet moon base, unintentionally saving the Allied moon forces, but also nearly wiped out their space division.

Now their final mission is to hold the line, as all seven factions makes one last charge at their domes. Until all forces became too exhausted in the end.

Now, after going through hell and back, the player is summoned on to the Kingdoms space station where they were crowned as the new Viceroy, for not only saving the lives of countless nobles but also giving them the chance to survive. With Mei now telling them that this war is just beginning, especially now that they made every superpower their enemy, as they must not only rebuild their sleeper ships, but also make sure the moon base is either destroyed or under their control and make sure none of the superpowers makes weaponry that can threaten their ships as they begin to jump. But tell them that they are like the like the star they saw on the map, a new hope that will bring them out of this hell and lead them all to the stars.

Vehicles
All but the Horse requires power in order to function.