The Empire of the Rising Sun
Much as how The Continuation Reich, the Space Cominterm, and the Allied Nations Space Command continued fighting world war two and the cold war by launching themselves into space via the technology developed by supergeniuses, Imperial Japan also launched itself into space to expand the East Asian Co-prosperity sphere indefinitely into space. When the Home Islands surrendered to the allied powers, the Supēsu Sentai declared that they would continue to carry Imperial Japan's honor into the stars and fight alongside the spaceborne axis powers against the twin evils of Communism and Democracy.
Like the other space based powers, the Japanese created their own Frankenstein style hyper-soldier program. The Okami process turned soldiers into super-powerful manmade gods. And while explicitly referring to them as gods would have been taboo in the highly Shinto influenced society of the Japanese military, it was recognized that the Okamis were something far greater than mere men or women (the Onibaba division was the first part of the Japanese military to accept women). The Japanese also used their supergeniuses to create state of the art weapons more advanced than anything we have today and spaceships to carry the war into space, for the nations of the second world war feared that using such powerful technology on Earth would destroy it.
The Japanese created power armor, mass drivers, beam weapons, spaceships, plasma weaponry, shielding, mecha, all to further the indomitable war the Axis powers had with the Allies and the Comintern. More technological advancement happened in single days than occurred across entire centuries for the sole purpose of waging more and more war. Japan would stand with it's Axis partners to the bitter end, it would not quit, it would not surrender, for such would be a shameful display to blacken Japan's honor forevermore. Besides, Japan had beaten the west before when it had made Russia bow before it.
For years Japan fought like a demon across the stars, committing atrocities just as cruel and inhumane as those made by Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, supported by it's own ally Thailand. Entire worlds were shattered and razed in the bloodiest war humans have waged among themselves save for the civil wars of the Imperium of Man and the forces of CHaos which had already departed the Earth a long time ago and haven't truly touched the earth in ages for the latter. While the war ground to a stalemate due to nanomanufacturing and flash growing citizens and soldiers, the war on the Earth was eventually lost by the Axis powers.
When the news of the Axis power's defeat reached their space colonies, they rejected the demands of surrender and kept right on fighting. There could be no surrender, if the homeland wasn't strong enough to keep on fighting, then they would continue the fight for the sake of their nation's honor, and were delighted to see relations between the Comintern and Allies break down until they started the cold war, though in space the cold war became an on and off again open conflict. With a three way war going on between the sons and daughters of the second world war, the forces of humanity were caught off guard when the Hierarchy invaded in full force.
For the first time in nearly a century, the three sides banded together as one to fight against the Hierarchy...sort of...Internecine warfare still continues between the three sides. But it was the revelation of the Imperium of Man and Chaos that perhaps most concerned the Japanese. Here was a nation that prided itself on having a divine Emperor and the mandate of heaven being met with a nation whose Emperor vastly exceeded their Pantheon in power and had the mandate of the Masari. This has lead them to do some soul searching. Eventually they came to the conclusion that the Imperials had their thing and the Japanese had their own.
Chaos though, was regarded as a serious moral threat to the Empire of the Rising Sun, as was the indomitable threat of the Black hand. The Army of the Inferno and the Silvery tide of the Electrical protectorate were also believed to be serious risks to the continued safety of the Axis Powers, and must thus be stood against by the racially pure nations of the cosmos. The Empire of the Rising Sun, like the other Axis Uber Alles nations, is ethnically homogenous, even it's allies are not allowed to interbreed with it's citizens.
Akifumi Hojo, Shogun of the Rising Sun
Akifumi Hojo was a member of the once powerful Hojo clan that gave the Legend of Zelda it's tri-force symbol. A staunch japanese nationalist and a highly elite soldier already, Akifumi gladly submitted to the Okami process that changed this member of the Japanese Marines into an Imperial warrior for the land of the rising sun.
Akifumi out of his armorThe Process changed Akifumi, made him tremendously powerful as he was uniquely suited for the process. And it allowed him to hold a decisive advantage against most other super-soldiers. He is perhaps one of the only first generation Frankensteins to have maintained their own form and grip on sanity while still being extremely powerful.
He gained the primary powers of self duplication, superspeed, and pyrokinesis, though while he was more powerful than later Frankenstein equivalents, he did have a weakness. Radiation. Ionizing radiation for some reason, causes him substantially more damage than it otherwise should, to the point that he cannot stand to be around radioactive materials.
He was granted his own armor soon enough to solidify his status as one of the most powerful of the "Sane" members of Homo Rex Ultima, a transhuman offshoot that drew from both Homo Sapiens and Homo Superior, and was superior to both. Homo Rex Ultima would become effectively it's own true breeding species, incapable of having children with Mutants or Normal humans. But due to their superiority to either, they referred to themselves as "Ultimates" collectively.
Some thought they were superior to man and mutant and advocated splitting from the war to found their own nations (though the war had go on so long that Allied ultimates wouldn't join Communist or Axis Ultimates and vice versa). Akifumi, or The Red Sun Rising as he came to be known (not to be confused with the Soviet "Red Star Rising") would have none of it and personally killed any Ultimate he found trying to establish it's own polity separate from Japan.
The Ultimates were created to serve the ideal of the homeland. The nation state is all that matters.
"The unenlightened masses,
they cannot make the judgement call.
Give up free will forever,
their voices won't be heard at all.
Display obedience
while never stepping out of line
and blindly swear allegiance,
let your country control your mind.
Live in ignorance
and purchase your happiness.
When blood and sweat is the real cause,
thinking ceases the truth is lost.
Don't you worry,
you'll be told exactly what to do.
I give my people the lives they need,
the righteous will succeed.
The fire of greed will burn the weak
so we'll make freedom obsolete.
Making old the fabric of society
collective consciousness controls what you see.
Let your country control your mind
Let your country control your soul
Let your country control your mind
Let your country control your soul."
-Collective Consciousness, a Poem by Akifumi expressing his Absolutist ideas on statecraft.
So caught up in ideals of the nation and civilization, Akifumi has lost all care or concern for the individual. And the people of the Axis have been so caught up by the ideals of "great men sheparding the weak masses", and "state corporatism" and "the destiny of the race and nation" that they willingly, and blindly buy into every word of it.
There is no hope for the freedom of the members of the Axis Uber Alles, for they see the Egalitarianism, Equality, Nontheism, Internationalism, and Communalism of Communism or the Individualism, Freedom, Secularism, Universalism and Economic Mobility of Democracy as inherently toxic to the ideals of Fascism which they hold to be "Social Darwinism, Obedience, Religious fanaticism, Nationalism, and Corporatism" which they hold as their second religion.
It was no great surprise that one of the great bull dogs of fascism, in time; given his continued success was selected to be Shogun of the entirety of the Empire of the Rising Sun some time after the second world war ended on the Earth. A post that Akifumi accepted willingly, for it allowed him to continue his crusade for the greater glory of Fascism, Japan, and Shinto.
As the war continued, he grew more and more convinced of the invalidity of Communism and Democracy and the inevitability of the triumph of Fascism. And while he was certainly a horrifically racist xenophobe, he did have something of an honor streak. For decades, the three fold war kept on going on and on, nobody making any gains once the alliance between the Space Comintern and Allied Nations Space Command broke down.
But all of that changed with the Hierarchy's invasion and the development of the Mega-gauge process (developed independantly by the three sides). The first gave all three a sort of shared opponent and made them junior partners in an alliance with the Coalition against the Hierarchy, the second created a new, even more powerful breed of ultimates. This, Hojo could accept...but it was finding out about the Primalborn that sparked an obsession in his mind.
Chosen by omniversal beings to defeat the greatest of evils. Children of gods and scions of primordials. They were the kind of heroes that he was raised on stories of. He wanted to emulate them. If he could, he would *be* one of them. He even went to the trouble of creating a Divine Steel power armor suit to match his Divine Steel Sword.
But Primalborns are born, not made, and he failed to understand that what makes a primalborn is not power or control. It is about the ability to rise up to a great destiny and face evil and depravity with the innocence of childhood. And he was the very sort of evil that Primalborn were made to destroy.
But the Shogun of the Rising Sun also has another dream. To restore Japan's honor and bring back the wartime Imperial Government to the Home Islands. He would live to see Japan once again live under the honorable old Imperialistic ways rather than degenerate into a society unable to even launch offensive strikes and known more for "Moe" than the wrath of the Rising Sun.
Japan will not be a nation shamed by foreigners. Though he is quite partial to some elements of modern Japanese culture such as Monster Movies and some forms of Anime, the Rising Sun's culture is far more militarized and obedient to the state in all things than what one would expect from the modern state of Japan.
Statistics
Height: 7'6
Mass: 268 lbs
Species: Homo Rex Ultima or "Ultimate"
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Ethnicity: Japanese
Skin tone: Pale East Asian
Identity: Publicly known
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Age: 96, biologically much younger
Nationality: Japan (Honshu)
Religion: Shinto
Operative name: The Red Sun Rising
Call sign: Shogun
Sexuality: Heterosexual.
Occupation: Shogun of the Empire of the Rising Sun, Okami operative.
Powers
Super strength and durability: Akifumi starts out at exactly class two hundred fifty quintillion, but the longer a fight goes, the stronger and tougher he gets as his body begins to go into overdrive. So far, there does not seem to be an upper limit to this. What classifies as a fight seems to be quite nebulous. However, if he's directly threatened, this seems to cause her power to ramp up much faster than it usually does. Thus, typically the only way to overpower him is to defeat her quickly before he can get powerful enough.
Magic resistance: Hojo is highly resistant to magic, but this resistance increases at the same pace as his strength.
Psionic resistance: Akifumi is highly resistant to psionics, and like his magic resistance, it is tied to how strong and durable he is at the moment.
Speed: Due to his seemingly limitless endurance and hugely strong leg muscles and what is often called "an artificial speed force", Akifumi is capable of moving at incredible speeds, having clocked in at three billion miles per hour at his base, and this speed increases ridiculously fast. He can quickly reach faster than light speeds if a battle is allowed to continue.
Reactions: Hojo has a reaction time a hundred billion times as fast as a normal, unenhanced human. These increase proportionally to her Speed. She additionally has a seemingly infallible danger sense that further enhances her ability to avoid incoming blows.
Healing factor: Akifumi has a healing rate so quickly that he would heal faster than anything short of a Divine steel blade can cut him. This increases at the same pace as his durability and strength, so it makes it imperative that anyone seeking to defeat Hojo should do so quickly before he proves to overmatch his foe completely. This healing factor also makes her immune to all poison and disease, including vampirism, lycanthropy, and zombification. She also hasn't aged since hitting eighteen, her body's healing ability far in excess of the worst old age has to offer.
Lethal blood: If any vampire or parasite tried to drink from the Shogun's blood, it would immediately begin to attack the vampire's systems and leave only a pile of goop. Eating of his flesh will also give one the same fate as the antibodies in the flesh attacked the body and literally dissolve the creature's body.
Pyrokinesis: One of his most powerful abilities, The Red Sun Rising offers an incendiary death to any who oppose him. Starting at several quadrillion degrees, the heat the Red Sun offers only gets hotter from there. To the point that he can approach or perhaps even reach Absolute hot, the absolute highest temperature the universe will allow for, at which point anything that obeys conventional physics breaks down, and even metals like Uru or Adamantium are reduced to roiling subatomic particles instantly. Using Thermal Energy also empowers and heals him.
Self duplication: The Red Sun can self duplicate, creating a perfect replica of himself with all his equipment and powers, all linked by a hive mind. However, the red sun seems to follow a sort of conservation of ninjitsu. The more Red Sun duplicates fall, the more powerful the remaining ones get as their power gets combined with the others and their equipment merges with the others. The effects of the boost wear off after some time, but beware if a million red suns suddenly commit suicide in the middle of the battle and leave a single one standing.
Power supreme: Akifumi's powers cannot be altered, diminished, or stopped in any way, thus foiling those who rely on depowering their enemies. It matters not how powerful the depowering effect is. It will simply have no effect. Indeed, it might actually have a *negative* effect where it actually makes Hojo stronger.
Immune to transmutation: Akifumi's body cannot be altered or transmuted against his will. Nor can his time stream be forcibly be written. Reality warping is similarly ineffectual against him. The only way to fight him is to either flee or take him in a head on clash that he's designed to be unmatchable at.
Weaknesses
Radiation: Ionizing Radiation deals vastly more damage to Akifumi than it does to even normal humans. While his healing factor can repair the damage done, it takes less radiation than normal to start causing cell death and harming him. A particularly wide Radiation beam is capable of killing a Red Sun body outright and preventing regeneration.
Honor: Akifumi is honorable to a fault and something of a thrill-seeker, holding back heavily and not allowing himself to use tactics that should grant himself easy wins just so that he can keep the fight going on longer and to avoid shameful displays of treachery such as sneak attacks or stealth. Were he to fight Anthony stark, he'd fight on a level that Anthony would be able to respond to rather than simply go out and annihilate him.
Equipment
Katsushika Taiyō no ha: An enchanted Divine Steel blade once wielded by a minion of Xaraghoul but purified of Chaos to serve the followers of Shinto instead, this Katana is enchanted to be deadly to those who oppose Fascism, Japan, or Shinto, and is instantly fatal to the undead, supernatural beings of other religions, and causes intense pain to followers of Democracy or Communism and it's mere presence causes the aforementioned beings intense burning pain and damage. Akifumi has used them to create nuclear explosions by cutting the atoms in the air or alter matter by cutting off individual protons and quarks, making himself invisible by cutting apart photons, as well as cutting open portals to help him outflank a foe or effectively teleport across vast distances, or even create stunning fractal patterns by slicing at reality. Furthermore, it's hilt is explosive to let him draw the sword at superluminal speeds, and it's hilt's draw charge only gets more powerful as he does. He has two of these swords and can join them together to function like enormous scissors.
First power suit: This piece of equipment doubles all of his physical traits and is composed out of an adamantium-necrodermis-vibranium alloy, making it tremendously strong. Additionally, it doubles the rate of increase of his physical characteristics and their initial starting points and it grows more durable with her thanks to super-advanced technology. Additionally, it has a self repair system and living metal characteristics that works as quickly as his healing factor and grows in pace along with it.
It acts as fully functional life support, and a series of repulsor jets on his back, chest, feet, and palms lets him fly with surprising amounts of maneuverability, the speed being about ten times faster than his running speed, and growing with his own running pace. Like all of his equipment, the repulsors increase in power as he does, and are perfectly viable as weapons. Shoulder deployable micro-missile launchers with variable warheads and wrist mounted plasma stream projectors effectively make him bristling with weaponry.
The suit also has six "pauldron plates" deployable from his shoulders, sides, and hips connected to armatures that can form a shield made out of specially treated divine steel that absorbs all incoming force perfectly; defeating Divine Steel's traditional problem of still transferring some force. Furthermore, the shields are ladened with explosive reactive armor, meaning that striking them will be met with an explosion in the attacker's (or victim's should be shield bash) face. However, the Armatures *are not* made out of Divine steel, so it is possible to cut his shields off by striking at the thin robotic arms that keep them on his suit.
The Shogun's battle armorShield generator: Implanted into his suit, nanomesh weave, and body are shield generators, each of the three shield generators being rapidly regenerating, moldable, and usable for defense against all sorts of attacks, allowing him to block matter disrupting weapons, though it does take quite a bit out of his shield supply. He has three shield layers, each of which can swap to allow the others to recharge, and it takes quite an impressive amount of force to blow through all three layers of shielding simultaneously.
Suit modes:
In Armor mode, the suit's nanomachines harden as much as they are able, greatly enhancing durability and working with the suit's reverse engineered shielding. This means that his durability is cranked up a thousand fold to the point that most attacks on him fall completely flat.
Of course, each hit against the armor drains energy, and when depleted the suit reverts back to default mode until it can recharge. Fortunately, energy recharges fastest in armor mode.
In speed mode, energy is diverted to the synthetic muscles relating to movement and to various thrusters spread across the suit into the reflex centers of the brain, greatly increasing the velocity and reflexes of Akifumi to a thousand times his normal.
All movement is sped up, including swimming, flight, reloading, and thinking, allowing for Akifumi to use the speed mode to think out plans and strategize while the rest of the world moves on like slugs. Of course, heavy usage of this mode's abilities such as sprinting drain from the suit's energy stores and will require Hojo to stop and allow his suit to recharge.
In strength mode, the suit diverts energy to the synthetic muscles and motors, setting everything to provide as much physical strength as possible the user is made a thousand times stronger and gains physical might at a similar rate.
Of course, this still costs energy, and "power melee" attacks or throws, contests of strength that require the suit to pour all the energy it can, "power jumps", or holding extremely powerful weapons steady drain the suit's energy, and after a certain point the suit resets to default mode to speed the recharge process.
Finally, you have cloaking mode. Here the suit engages both lensing mechanisms and chromatophore systems, bending light across all spectrums, telepathic signals, magic detection, odor, and sound around it and replicating the image of whatever is behind it This mode constantly drains energy while in use, but it turns Hojo into a undetectable Ninja ready to kill enemies undetected and similarly disguises anything in the Akifumi's possession.
Put it simply, this is the ultimate in stealth technology. A soldier with unparalleled ability to strike wherever, whenever he wants without retaliation. And it is totally irrelevant because it's a tool for cowards.
Teikoku no yoroi: A divine steel armor suit that could be considered equivalent to the mega-gauge process. The Teikoku no Yoroi amplifies the Red Sun up to Primalborn like levels of combat ability and continues to enhance him from there on up. It is about ten times weaker but ten times faster than Dornan in his mega-gauge status at both of their bases, and of course, being made of Divine Steel, cannot be penetrated by anything save for anti-reality, even telekinesis.
Though it still transmits force and there are some gaps in the armor through which only the Red Sun's normal battlesuit can protect his body, which can be stabbed through.
Like his prior suit it also has six "pauldron plates" deployable from his shoulders, sides, and hips connected to armatures that can form a shield made out of specially treated divine steel that absorbs all incoming force perfectly; defeating Divine Steel's traditional problem of still transferring some force. Furthermore, the shields are ladened with explosive reactive armor, meaning that striking them will be met with an explosion in the attacker's (or victim's should be shield bash) face. However, the Armatures *are not* made out of Divine steel, so it is possible to cut his shields off by striking at the thin robotic arms that keep them on his suit.
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