"I have developed a new technique." The First Ranked Valkyrie simply said as her impeller field flared with a gigantic pulse of higgs particles. Her eyes were flat, voice akin steel as Last Word moved to intercept the lead group of Type Zeros.
"I cast Bread." The sky opened, clouds parting over the raging battlefield as a portal opened. The land was cast in shadow as a floating loaf of golden baked bread began to descend from the sky, a 200 story pillar of baked goodness.
Everyone could only stare in shock as it plunged down and slammed into the antagonist breach below, detonating in a blazing ball of fire.
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Omake - ZeldaFan - Ironic. She could save others from Antagonists... but not herself.
Anna stood in the medical Bay. Somehow she had powered through it, and her impeller field was now ready to desynchronize for the first time in...a very long time. She hoped this would be over soon, the scan should take no more then a few moments. The team of doctors began reading out as various sensors began to focus on her.
"Commencing scan in 3...2...1..."
Anna lowered her Impeller Field. Several million things happened next.
STRATNET and Perth had a rapid back and fourth she could not make out. Anna saw the doctors looking at her with growing unease as a thick tension filled the room. Some of the medical team were staring at her in confusion.
Others in stark fear.
She felt a sinking sensation as her impeller field switched back on and everything felt alright even though she knew something was very wrong.
"What...what happened?"
"Clear the room, now." Leonhart ordered in a voice that promised dire things for any hesitation. Everyone except her Instructor immediately departed, leaving them alone in the cold sterile room. A pale Instructor Leonhart spoke to her over a secure com, her voice calm.
"According to the medical scan we just took of you and Durga, the exotic particles directly consumed from Sehkmet..." The Instructor actually hesitated. If Anna's heart still beat it would be thundering. Anna received a summary of her scan with a UN level of classification she did not even know existed.
"It has changed you." Leonhart sighed
Anna felt her eyes widen in shock as she took in the info.
"With your impeller field down you register to our sensors with very similar readings to a Type 0."
She...was turning into an antagonist?
Is Durga helpfully confirmed.
"Oh."
Anna stared back as she silently screamed.
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No Anna you are the Antagonist.
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Omake - ZeldaFan - Is it possible to learn this power?
Anna stood 10 feet in front of her foe as the battle went on around them. Well it was quieting down as the UN was currently in the process of a rapid withdraw.
Type 0 Class A Damocles stared back, looming over her. Its sudden appearance was the reason the UN was withdrawing.
Anna knew it was almost a certainty she was about to die.
...Still she had learned a thing or two from the Academy.
Anna teleported, not enough to stave off the impossible interdiction. Her right arm, right leg and ribcage were carved away by the Types insane weaponry.
Damn. Even as she teleported again, her medical suite was regenerating the massive injuries.
A heartbeat later, Damocles was about to impale her-
Anna dodged, but not quite enough. She grunted as a gigantic lance pierced her stomach.
Still, she grinned as blood flowed from her mouth, locking eyes with the enemy.
A thrum of higgs particles, and--
The teleport was complete.
Damocles screamed, a echo that shook the region for miles around. The Type 0 Class A antagonist began to tear at itself. Anna was sent flying into a new crater, crumpling into a bloody heap.
She watched as exotic matter and rivers of bread began to spill out of the Type Zero Class A's convulsing body.
There was so much bread.
Rye bread.
Whole wheat.
Baguettes--
The world returned as she heard the spike in coms-
"What in the actual fuck-"
"Cut the chatter-"
"Holyshit-"
"Wait is that bread coming outta it?"
"We need a medical evac for Coroner-"
"Stay focused we have a battle to win-
"Holy shit-"
"Thats fucking bread coming outta it!"
"I repeat Damocles is down! Damocles is down!-Ragnarok and Apocalypse squadrons move to sector-"
"Cool!"
There was a burst, and several squadrons teleported around Anna. Several medics did what they could to stabilize her, while Last Word began securing the perimeter and the remains of Damocles.
"H-how?" Vivas asked in stunned awe.
Anna looked up at her and shrugged. "I downloaded the recipes."
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Omake - ZeldaFan - Not from this UN Security Council meeting.
The Ginnungagap cannon will be targeting the Major Breaches. Regardless of what defensive measures the Major Breaches have, the UN is confident that Wave Force will punch through it and destroy the Hive inside.
"Ginnungagap won't ever be able to fire. You see, it is not even a real weapon."
Several of the most powerful people in the world spat out their coffee or tea.
"What."
"Explain, now."
"...This oughta be interesting."
"The actual purpose for Ginnungagap is to pose such a gigantic threat that it lures out antagonist infiltrators and possibly forces engagement by Abraxas."
"What."
"See, STRATNET believes the risk of subversion is too high for a actual super weapon with this much power. If actually used, there is a good chance suspected infiltrators will subvert it and turn it on us, which would have a good chance of sending humanity into a death spiral. Nevermind the threat Abraxas poses by its existence."
"I thought Type 2's were the confirmed highest ability infiltrator antagonists?"
Someone sipped on their tea. "They were until we confirmed that there is a Type 0 infiltrator capable of assuming human form. We need to lure them out, or to be blunt, we lose the war."
There was a moment of dead silence.
"Then what the hell is the UN devoting this much manpower and resources on?!"
"I can assure you that they are being put to good use building several Valkyrie battlegroups to engage and destroy Abraxas."
Stunned silence.
"This better work."
"It has a good chance of doing so."
"As for breaking antagonist hives? Rest assured, our current number one Valkyrie is leading that effort and the results are..."
"Promising I hope?"
"Confirmed, we now have more then one Valkyrie who can use waveforce."
"...Holy shit."
"We might just win this war."
"Patience, all good things in due time."
What the person leading the Security Council meeting failed to mention was that Ginnungagap was in actuality a super weapon, and if it worked it would be devastating to the antagonists in coordination with the planned world wide operation.
That and the deception was for the benefit of the antagonist infiltrator who was likely in this room.
Welp, it ain't much - mainly because I just got a new drawing program and am still learning it - but here's a quick fanart of Anna to celebrate (Almost) 1k pages, and years' worth of enjoyment.
The face and the... everything are - well, it's the thought that counts?
Hope people enjoy anyway.
Uhhh, in lieu of an update, here's a shitty sketch of what I imagine Perth Arcology to look like (not to scale). I couldn't describe the helix around the primary residential tower well in update 21 and that bothered me, so I tried drawing it out, then uh, took a picture of it on my phone.
200 IQ.
Artists, if you need help uploading high quality work online, hit me up for advice.
I enjoyed reading this a lot (so much so I reread it several times) and it inspired me to make some quick/rough fanart. I based the uniform off of Renu's design in the media tab, not sure if the colors are completely correct though. The uniform looks cute with a longer skirt too; are there season based uniform variations in arcologies?
It's not the October update we deserve, but the one we need.
On 17 December 2012, a mere four days ahead of schedule, fragments of a mysterious object from space struck Earth's surface.
What happened next was a cataclysm beyond anything humanity had experienced prior.
Enormous tsunamis unleashed by impacts in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans engulfed coastlines and drowned cities; those cities would stay submerged when formerly frozen methane stocks melted ice caps and raised water levels permanently. Automated nuclear retaliation systems, convinced that the end of the world had come, duly followed orders and did their best to ensure it stayed that way. The simultaneous destruction of America, Europe, and Russia as geopolitical entities had knock-on effects on the global order; one nation after another crumbled and collapsed in the face of so much death and turmoil, leaving those that survived to deal with the endless waves of refugees left in their wake.
Democracy, liberty, and human rights were often the first principles cast aside by those confronted with such choices, the symbols of third millennium optimism becoming little more than words on paper soaked through with blood and salt water.
For some, the world had indeed ended; for others, the suffering had only just begun.
It is now 31 October 2025.
Thirteen years have passed since Impact. Thirteen long years of treading water; of being forced to watch as others sank beneath the waves, unable to render aid for fear of losing themselves; of being buoyed along solely by the mirage of safe harbour ahead. Thirteen years of falling to death and despair, of clinging to life and hope.
In that time, humanity has not only survived: it has changed.
All across the globe, in the tents of overflowing refugee camps, in the cramped offices of tired and thankless bureaucrats, in the remote homesteads charged with feeding entire communities, new strains of thought are beginning to evolve. Throughout the years they have warped and mutated, acquiring and discarding traits as necessary, coalescing in the motivations and actions of a handful of individuals.
Nobody knew who they were before Impact; had Impact not occurred it is entirely likely that they would have lived out the rest of their natural lives in obscurity. But while they experienced Impact alongside the rest of humanity, not even they could have predicted that they would be the ones to bring humanity into the future – whatever that future may be.
From their experiences, they have come to the conclusion that humanity must be:
[] Domesticated.
[] Disregarded.
[] Challenged.
[] Self-Sustained.
[] Enlightened.
Terra Invicta – Project Valkyrie Core (or: Battle Action Harem Highschool Ultimate Genius Strategic Simulator) is a total conversion mod being developed for the upcoming grand strategy game Terra Invicta. As the leader of one of five factions, you will coordinate the recovery efforts following Impact, wage the war of extinction against the Antagonists, and determine the ultimate fate of post-Antagonist humanity.
Assisting you with these trials and tribulations will be your very own harem of up to six waifus (or husbandos, if you prefer), recruited from all over the world. The waifus will be your primary means through of exerting your will on the world. Every month, you can assign them to missions against targets of opportunity so as to acquire resources and power, and counter your opponents who are doing the same.
Your waifus' first priority will be to assume direct control of Earth's nations, whether by guile or by force. This will grant you power over their budgets and armed forces, letting you take the first step in your faction's quest to reshape the world to its desires. Of course, these nations have their own agendas they'd rather pursue, and managing their expectations so that they won't defect will be one of your faction's main tasks.
Control over nations will soon lead to the construction of Arcologies, necessary to centralize the reconstruction efforts and maximize efficiency. Unlike nations, Arcologies are a faction's private domains, and specific modules can be researched and constructed to benefit both the host nations and their owning factions. Sadly, humanity is not yet adapted to post-scarcity utopia, and varying approaches to address this will mark the first divergences between the five factions.
The discovery of Higgs particles marks a golden age for humanity, leading to a new scramble to secure its supply and the eventual founding of the United Nations. Access to Higgs allows you to do all sorts of nice things, like training Valkyries, expanding Arcologies, rushing construction of shiny new facilities, and of course acquiring more Higgs. Alas, all good things must come to an end, for the Breaches that provided such an economic bounty will soon become the harbingers of humanity's second brush with annihilation.
The war against the Antagonists will be prosecuted through several means. There are, of course, the Valkyries we all know and love from the quest: both as individuals under your direct employ as waifus, and as larger formations trained at Academies and deployed on the world map. While powerful and decisive, they remain the tip of the spear, and will function best when supported by conventional military forces, nuclear barrages, and orbital bombardment from space warships.
For their part, the Antagonists have one simple goal: to exterminate the human species through all available means. They naturally field their own conventional forces to do so: while (initially) less numerous than humanity's, they more than make up for it with technology. Supporting them behind the scenes are the Type 18s and Type 7s, sowing chaos behind the lines and clashing with your waifus in the process. And finally, there are the Type Zeros, the flying, teleporting weapons of mass destruction, which mostly exist to make your life miserable through preventing you from having nice things.
Waged on both Earth's surface and in Earth orbit, it is expected that the war with the Antagonists will be brutal and uncompromising. As Arcologies and their entire human populations are burnt to a crisp, waifus are killed in action or assassinated by unscrupulous actors, entire continents are irradiated and littered with exotic wreckage, and humanity is asked to sacrifice more and more in the name of survival, the five factions ruling over them ever more openly will be forced to make ugly and unpleasant decisions.
And yet, even this will come to pass. One day, the war against the Antagonists will end. What is to become of humanity then? With any luck, it'll be your faction which gets to decide.
Q&A
Will there be ways to date and romance our waifus in-game?
Hopefully, but it's not planned as a core feature at this time.
I don't agree with how you portrayed X country.
Sorry to hear that. Leave a comment on the big spreadsheet, or send me a PM, and we can figure something out. That said, I reserve the right to stuff this mod full of dumb and inaccurate memes.
Will there be X feature or X thing from the quest in-game?
Sure, why not. Anything is possible until it's too much work to implement. The more important it is to the setting thematically, the more likely it'll be in the mod.
Will the main characters from the quest be appearing in the game?
Most likely in a limited capacity as recruitable waifus.
Can I contribute to the mod?
For planning, sure. Post any thoughts and ideas here, on Discord, or in PMs, and there's a decent chance they'll end up in the mod.
For implementation, harder to say. Unfortunately, I can't officially accept any help on that front at this time. Check back in a few months.
All these crossover references are really cringey!
Heh, fair enough. I'll likely implement a config toggle to allow disabling crossovers on startup.
Tayta, when are you going to actually get back to writing your quests?
Uh... look, it's Anna Sanchez eating a bread roll!
Ugh, so we have to buy a whole new game just to play this? Why didn't you just make a HOI4 mod like everyone else?
HOI4 is a war game that isn't really designed to cover a decades-long journey to transhumanism.
Also, I didn't want to have to come up with a million political parties and leaders and focus trees for every single nation in the game.
When will you actually have something playable?
In October, of course. When else?
