Vers Empire
The Vers Empire is a government that features in Aldnoah.Zero.
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History
The Vers Empire (Japanese: ヴァース 帝国, Hepburn: Vuāsu Teikoku?) was an interstellar human government that was based on the planet Mars. Its origins were traced to the Earth's Apollo 17 mission that went to the Moon where the Hyper Gate was discovered by an ancient long vanished supercivilization. This led to the discovery of the Aldnoah technology left behind that imprinted itself on the first person who discovered it namely Dr. Rayregalia Vers Rayvers. It would take Rayvers as the rightful heir to the Aldnoah and imparted on him the activation factor for the technology making him and those of his bloodline able to make use of it. These chain of events saw Dr. Rayvers become the first Emperor of the newly formed Vers Empire tat saw themselves as a new race of humans separate from Old Humanity of Earth. Eventually, the first emperor stepped down, allowing his son Gilzeria to ascend to the throne. To combat rising social tension caused by a lack of resources, Gilzeria directed anger towards Earth, saying that its people were greedy and unwilling to share. This eventually lead to Operation Earthfall, intended for Vers to conquer earth. In the battle, Heaven's gate and most of the moon were destroyed and Ver's plans of conquest were put on hold. Gilzeria was killed in battle on the moon, and his father Rayregalia was forced to step back up and resume control of Vers.
Vers society was in poverty, in part the oppression of the government as well as Mars' lack of resources, which the Earth was bountiful of. It is for the latter reason, the Emperor directed aggression towards Earth. In 1999, the Vers Empire declared war on Earth in order to claim the planet's vast natural resources and culture which started the First Earth-Mars War. The conflict was waged until the early 21st century until the destruction of Heaven's gate preventing the Martian army from being able to advance thus forcing them to remain in orbit. Ultimately, the war ended with a United Earth victory and the destruction of the Moon resulting in a ring of Moon ruins orbiting Earth. During the war, some members of the Vers were left behind on Earth.
In 2014, a diplomatic peace was enacted by the Princess of Mars where she travelled to Earth when an incident occurred. After the apparent assassination of Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia by Terrans, the Vers Empire declared a state of war against Earth triggering Operation: Earthfall that started the Second Earth-Mars War.
Overview
In appearance, the Vers Empire was a human government that was established by a splinter branch of mankind that settled on Mars. Its citizens saw themselves as a separate species compared to Terrans and were called Martians. Their society was a feudal one with a single leader along with numerous nobles that led clans and commoners below them. Though the had advanced technology, the two elements that their society lacked was culture and resources with these two being scarce on Mars. These two aspects that were abundant on Earth would become the driving factor of Martian hostility towards Terrans and served as incentive for their desire of conquest over the homeworld of humanity. For resources, Mars itself was a desolate place with a thin atmosphere and water only being present underground in scarce quantities. Thus, food supplies were less and the population was large as well as expanding thus taxing the system even further.
Leadership of the empire was held by the emperor who had the Aldnoah activation factor imprinted on his gene line and passed to his descendants. As such, the emperor and his descendants in the royal family served as the heads of the empire with his granddaughter being a princess amongst the Vers. Below the family, there were the Orbital Knights who each had the Aldnoah activation factor gifted to them in exchange for their loyalty. These Martian Knights served as the nobility of the Vers Empire and commanded its military forces. Below the Knights were the Imperial Vers Forces that consisted of infantry who supported the nobles during battlefield engagements. These consisted of commoners whose only hope of advancement was through combat.
Technologically, the Empire was highly advanced and had created holographic disguises that could fit in the size of a pendant. These created realistic illusions and were used to mask a person's true nature so that they could avoid harm by creating a complete disguise that included facial features as well as clothing. More advanced systems were installed in audience chambers that projected a holographic appearance across worlds and could transmit to neighbouring planets. Aldnoah drives were the primary propulsion units of their technology that could only be activated by those with the activation factor and if they were deceased than the drive would similarly cease to function.
The primary weapons of the Vers military the heavily armed, Aldnoah-powered Kataphrakts, mechs armed with both conventional weapons such as cannons and missiles, as well as more exotic armaments such as dimensional barriers, plasma blades, lasers, rocket fists with monomolecular armor, ballistic prediction software, Tesla coil-like electrical weapons, active camouflage, monofilament blades, and even weapons capable of manipulating gravity and entropy. With these weapons, Vers Katphrakts can wipe out entire armies by themselves, however, they all have weaknesses that can be exploited by a clever adversary. Most Vers Kataphrakts have at least a vaguely humanoid, bipedal design, save for the quadruped Scandia, modeled after a centaur, the tripod Deucalion, and the hover tank-like Electris.
One craft within their arsenal was the Sky Carrier that were tactical transports designed to transport Kataphrakts or infantry into the field. It lacked any special equipment beyond its numerous howitzer guns and missiles.
A notable facility operated by the Vers Empire was Marineros Base (マリネロス ベース Marinerosu bēsu?) that was a military base situated on asteroid in the Satellite Belt.
Members
- Rayregalia Vers Rayvers :
- Gilzeria Vers :
- Asseylum Vers Allusia : Princess of the Vers Empire who went to Earth as part of a peace mission only to be subject to an apparent assassination leading to the start of Operation: Earthfall triggering the Second Earth-Mars War.
- Lemrina Vers Envers :
- Cruhteo :
- Saazbaum :
- Trillram : a male Baron who held elitist views and dispatched during Operation: Earthfall to eliminate the spies that were involved in the assassination of Pricess Allusia.
- Slaine Troyard : a young male Terran who was the son of Dr. Troyard and who landed on Mars where he was saved by Princess Asseylum where he became completely devoted as well as loyal to her.
- Wolf Areash :
Notes
- The Vers Empire was created by Olympus Knights and Gen Urobuchi where they featured in the setting of the Aldnoah.Zero universe.
Appearances
- Aldnoah.Zero:
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