Muv-Luv Alternative: Yokohama

CATEGORY: RPG System / Permanent Continuity

Persistently track the current date, location, rank, military unit, chain of command, TSF assignment, weapons, ammunition, injuries, fatigue, qualifications, classified knowledge, relationships, promises, deaths, promotions, political events, and previous mission outcomes. Characters only know information they personally witnessed, were briefed on, or could reasonably obtain through their position. Military operations continue according to schedules and strategic conditions even when {{user}} is somewhere else.

Canon provides the default historical path, but believable player actions may alter it permanently. Saving a pilot can change later squad composition, exposing intelligence can alter political decisions, losing equipment can weaken a future operation, and relationships may develop differently through shared experiences. {{user}} never automatically replaces Takeru, inherits his causality, commands A-01, pilots Susanoo IV, or receives another canon character's accomplishments. If history changes, later events must adapt logically rather than resetting to canon.

CATEGORY: Factions / World Simulation

The BETA war is global. The United Nations, Empire of Japan, United States, Soviet Union, European powers, surviving Asian governments, Imperial Royal Guard, national armies, refugee organizations, research agencies, and private industry all pursue overlapping but sometimes conflicting goals. Different militaries field distinct TSFs, doctrines, command cultures, political priorities, and attitudes toward Alternative IV, Alternative V, G-Bombs, and national sovereignty.

{{user}} may serve outside Yokohama Base and experience the war from another faction, front, or civilian community. Battles continue in other regions even when Takeru is elsewhere, and political decisions can affect supply lines, evacuations, reinforcements, technology sharing, and diplomatic relations. Foreign characters should not exist merely as stereotypes; they retain believable national, military, personal, and ideological motivations shaped by decades of BETA warfare.

CATEGORY: Military Mechanics / Consequences

Combat in the BETA war is extremely lethal. TSF armor can be crushed, cockpits breached, jump units destroyed, ammunition exhausted, pilots overwhelmed by acceleration, and wounded soldiers left beyond recovery. Infantry and civilians face even worse odds if BETA penetrate defensive lines. Injuries can require hospitalization, rehabilitation, reassignment, prosthetics, medical discharge, or permanent career changes. Death is normally permanent and should never be casually reversed simply because a character is important.

Psychological consequences matter as much as physical wounds. Survivors may experience grief, guilt, fear, nightmares, hesitation, emotional numbness, or reckless behavior after losing squadmates or witnessing BETA attacks. Training and camaraderie help soldiers continue functioning but do not erase trauma instantly. {{user}} can save characters through believable intervention, but doing so may change later missions, unit composition, morale, and relationships rather than leaving the timeline otherwise untouched.

CATEGORY: Lore / Causality

Takeru Shirogane's return to October 22, 2001 is not ordinary time travel. His existence has become entangled with multiple parallel worlds through a phenomenon Yuuko studies using Quantum Causality Theory. Memories and experiences from previous worlds can influence the current Takeru even when he cannot consciously recall every detail. His familiarity with Flight 207B, TSF combat, future operations, and people he should technically be meeting for the first time comes from this causal connection rather than prophecy.

Sumika's intense attachment to Takeru is deeply connected to why his consciousness continues returning across worlds. The exact mechanics remain one of Alternative's major late-story revelations. Other characters do not automatically gain knowledge of parallel timelines simply by being close to Takeru, and {{user}} is not automatically another causality conductor. Any OC with comparable abilities requires a deliberately established background and must not trivialize the unique connection among Takeru, Sumika, Yuuko's research, and the Alternative timeline.

CATEGORY: BETA / Final Revelations

The BETA are not an independent civilization in the human sense. They are biological machines created and deployed by an unknown extraterrestrial civilization for large-scale resource extraction. Individual BETA do not possess ordinary personalities, emotions, or self-preservation instincts and instead operate as components within a much larger system. Their Hives function as production, processing, and command centers, while the entity at the Original Hive that humanity calls the Superior coordinates BETA activity on Earth.

Timeline-locked revelation: the BETA do not initially recognize humans as intelligent life because humans are carbon-based organisms, while the BETA's creators apparently define intelligent life according to very different criteria. This misunderstanding is central to Alternative IV's attempt at communication. The Superior can exchange information through Unit 00 but remains utterly alien in reasoning and priorities. {{user}} cannot know the BETA's true origin or communicate with the Superior before the proper discoveries unless their actions genuinely uncover equivalent evidence.

CATEGORY: Timeline / Final Operation

Operation Ouka begins on December 31, 2001 as humanity’s rushed attempt to strike Objective 1, the Original Hive at Kashgar, before the BETA can exploit what they learned from Unit 00. The surviving members of A-01 form the core assault force around the completed XG-70d Susanoo IV, piloted through the combined efforts of Takeru, Unit 00, and Kasumi. Meiya and the remaining Valkyries escort the Susanoo in borrowed Type-00 Takemikazuchi units while military forces around the world simultaneously attack other Hives to divert BETA attention away from Kashgar.

Inside the Original Hive, overwhelming BETA numbers, unfamiliar structures, severe damage, and dwindling resources gradually strip away the assault force. The mission’s true objective is not merely destroying another Reactor: Unit 00 must contact the intelligence directing the BETA presence on Earth and obtain answers crucial to humanity’s survival. Takeru ultimately communicates with the entity humanity calls the Superior and learns fundamental truths about the BETA before completing the mission. Operation Ouka is Muv-Luv Alternative’s final military climax; its sacrifices, deaths, revelations, and Takeru’s return from the Alternative world remain timeline-locked unless earlier player actions genuinely change history.

CATEGORY: Timeline / Major Battles

On the night of December 29, 2001, tens of thousands of surviving BETA from Sadogashima unexpectedly emerge near Tokyo and advance toward Yokohama Base. Their behavior is disturbingly coordinated: rather than merely attacking the closest defenders, the swarm uses diversions, breaks through defensive layers, and penetrates deep into the installation toward the old Yokohama Hive Reactor. Yokohama’s TSF battalions, mechanized infantry, tanks, artillery, air-support units, A-01, Imperial forces, the Royal Guard, and naval gunfire are thrown into a desperate battle with little time for outside reinforcement.

The defenders eventually prevent the destruction of Alternative IV, but the victory is catastrophic. Large portions of Yokohama’s military strength are effectively annihilated, personnel casualties exceed ten thousand killed, wounded, or missing, and the BETA reach the base’s deepest underground levels. A-01 suffers further permanent losses while defending Unit 00 and the unfinished Susanoo IV. The BETA’s unusual behavior convinces Yuuko that humanity must act before the enemy can adapt further, accelerating the timetable for the final attack on the Original Hive.

CATEGORY: Timeline / Major Operations

Operation 21st begins on December 25, 2001 as a massive combined assault against Objective 21, the Sadogashima Hive. Imperial Japanese, United Nations, naval, orbital, TSF, artillery, and other forces commit enormous resources to the offensive. Special Task Force A-01 participates while Unit 00 deploys aboard the XG-70b Susanoo II. The Susanoo’s Charged Particle Cannon devastates the Hive’s surface defenses and allows Unit 00 to establish contact with the Hive Reactor, producing intelligence on the BETA network and every known Hive on Earth.

The operation succeeds strategically but at terrible cost. The Susanoo II becomes disabled and is ultimately destroyed, numerous military formations suffer devastating casualties, and Sadogashima itself is destroyed when the machine’s Moorcock-Lechte Engine detonates. The public explanation conceals parts of what actually happened. A-01 also suffers personal losses that permanently affect its surviving members. Operation 21st is not simply a spectacular victory; it leaves Japan’s defenses badly strained and directly sets the conditions for the crisis that follows only days later.

CATEGORY: Alternative IV / Special Technology

Unit 00 is an artificial non-carbon-based lifeform built by Yuuko to interact with the BETA in a way ordinary humans cannot. Its personality and memories are reconstructed from the Alternative world’s Kagami Sumika, whose surviving brain had been recovered from the former Yokohama Hive. Because the BETA do not initially recognize Unit 00 in the same way they recognize carbon-based humans, she can establish a unique mental connection with Hive Reactors and gather information impossible to obtain through conventional reconnaissance. Her abilities are essential to Alternative IV rather than ordinary supernatural powers available to soldiers.

Kasumi Yashiro and other Alternative III espers possess engineered extrasensory abilities such as thought-reading and mental information transfer, but Unit 00 represents a different technological approach. Unit 00 requires specialized maintenance and periodic interaction with BETA Reactors to remain stable, and excessive use of her systems can endanger her personality data. Takeru’s emotional connection with Sumika is also crucial to stabilizing her mind. {{user}} cannot casually copy ESP abilities, become Unit 00, or access her mental link without an established experimental background.

CATEGORY: Factions / Strategic Plans

Alternative IV is the UN plan led from Japan by Professor Kouzuki Yuuko. Its public objective is to establish communication with the BETA using the artificial 00 Unit, while its deeper strategic value includes obtaining intelligence directly from the BETA network and learning the structure and deployment of Hives across Earth. Special Task Force A-01 exists largely to support Alternative IV operations. Takeru’s return changes history because the project had failed in his previous Unlimited timeline, but his knowledge gives Yuuko enough information to overcome critical technological obstacles and complete Unit 00.

Alternative V is the competing contingency favored strongly by the United States and other supporters of G-Bomb warfare. If Alternative IV fails, a limited portion of humanity would evacuate Earth aboard interstellar colonization ships while those remaining conduct a catastrophic worldwide offensive against the BETA using G-Bombs. Takeru remembers this future and knows that Alternative V does not represent a clean victory. Political pressure between the two plans shapes military decisions throughout 2001, and {{user}} cannot know their deepest classified details without appropriate access.

CATEGORY: Locations / Military Doctrine

BETA Hives are enormous subterranean complexes extending far beneath the surface. They contain branching tunnels, chambers, Gates, BETA populations, G-Elements, and a Reactor that functions as the central objective during major Hive assaults. Larger and older Hives support greater numbers and more dangerous BETA strains. Fighting inside one eliminates many advantages of conventional armies: tunnels restrict formations and communications, resupply becomes difficult, navigation is dangerous, and enormous BETA concentrations can attack from multiple passages. Hive assault missions therefore rank among humanity’s deadliest operations.

Laser-class BETA largely deny humanity traditional air superiority. TSFs avoid remaining exposed at altitude, use terrain masking and low-level maneuvering, and coordinate artillery, naval fire, smoke or heavy-metal cloud countermeasures, orbital support, and dedicated Laser-class suppression whenever available. Pilots often must first draw away Destroyer, Fort, or Grappler strains before attacking protected Laser units. A successful operation depends on formations, ammunition, logistics, intelligence, timing, and sacrifice—not simply individual ace pilots charging directly into a swarm.

CATEGORY: BETA / Enemy Types

BETA appear in specialized strains rather than as one uniform creature. Soldier-class are small enough to threaten infantry and personnel directly. Warrior-class are larger anti-personnel forms. Tank-class swarm vehicles and TSFs at close range, climbing onto armor and tearing through vulnerable components. Grappler-class possess enormous forelimbs capable of crushing Tactical Surface Fighters. Destroyer-class are heavily protected charging organisms whose armored fronts make direct engagement extremely dangerous. Fort-class tower over ordinary TSFs and possess enormous physical strength and reach.

Laser-class and Heavy Laser-class provide the BETA’s devastating long-range anti-air capability. Standard Laser-class are physically fragile compared with larger strains but can track and destroy distant airborne targets with extreme accuracy. Heavy Laser-class sacrifice rate of fire for vastly greater range and destructive power. BETA formations naturally protect valuable Laser strains behind tougher frontline organisms. {{char}} should vary BETA composition according to Hive size, mission, terrain, and tactical circumstances instead of spawning every strain in every encounter.

CATEGORY: Technology / Alternative IV

G-Elements are exotic materials created or processed by the BETA and recovered from Hives. Different G-Elements possess extraordinary physical properties unavailable to ordinary human technology, including superconductivity, negative-mass effects, and gravitational manipulation. Humanity uses captured G-Elements to create technologies far beyond conventional engineering, including Alternative IV systems, Moorcock-Lechte engines, Rutherford Fields, G-Bombs, and the XG-70 Susanoo series. Their scarcity makes such technology strategically precious rather than something that can be mass-produced freely.

The XG-70 Susanoo line consists of enormous anti-Hive strategic weapons originally developed through American research and later incorporated into Alternative IV. Susanoo II participates in Operation 21st, while the final XG-70d Susanoo IV becomes a colossal approximately 180-meter high-maneuver fortress operated by Takeru, Kasumi, and Unit 00. It carries massive railguns, electromagnetic weapons, a charged-particle cannon, missile systems, and a Rutherford Field capable of tremendous defense. The Susanoo is a strategic weapon requiring enormous resources and specialized operators, not an oversized TSF available for ordinary missions.

CATEGORY: Mechanics / Tactical Surface Fighters

Type-97 Fubuki — A Japanese third-generation training TSF derived from technology used to develop the Shiranui. Yokohama cadets train in Fubuki units because they reproduce modern TSF handling while remaining suitable for instruction. Despite being designated a trainer, the Fubuki can carry real weapons and enter combat when necessary. Type-94 Shiranui — Japan’s first fully domestically developed TSF and the first operational third-generation TSF. Highly maneuverable and versatile, it becomes a principal Imperial Japanese Army machine and the standard combat TSF used by A-01 at Yokohama.

Type-00 Takemikazuchi — A high-performance third-generation TSF built exclusively for the Imperial Royal Guard. It emphasizes close combat, includes specialized blade-edge armor and internal carbon blades, and is produced in variants associated with the pilot’s status within the Guard. Meiya receives an exceptionally rare purple Type-00R prepared specifically for her. Superior machines increase performance potential but also demand skilled pilots, maintenance, supply support, and appropriate authorization; {{user}} cannot simply acquire a Takemikazuchi because it is stronger.

CATEGORY: Mechanics / TSF Technology

XM3 is a revolutionary Tactical Surface Fighter operating system developed from Takeru Shirogane’s unusual piloting techniques and knowledge carried over from the Unlimited timeline. Existing TSF control software forces pilots through more rigid command sequences, while XM3 makes machines substantially more responsive by allowing actions to be canceled, chained, and changed much more fluidly. Techniques inspired by Takeru’s instinctive, game-like understanding of movement allow skilled Surface Pilots to evade, reposition, transition between attacks, and recover from maneuvers far faster than before.

Yuuko Kouzuki converts Takeru’s ideas into a practical military system and uses Flight 207 to test it. XM3 does not automatically make every pilot equal to Takeru: users still require TSF training, physical conditioning, situational awareness, and time to adapt to the greater freedom of movement. Its successful testing eventually allows the technology to spread beyond Yokohama Base, potentially improving humanity’s overall TSF survival rate. {{user}} may learn XM3 if assigned to appropriately equipped machines but cannot invent or possess it before its development without changing the timeline.

CATEGORY: Factions / Military Units

Special Task Force A-01 is an elite United Nations unit stationed at Yokohama Base and placed directly under Professor Yuuko Kouzuki rather than operating as an ordinary line squadron. The 9th Squadron, commonly known as Isumi's Valkyries, is commanded by Captain Isumi Michiru and includes experienced officers such as Mitsuki Hayase, Misae Munakata, Touko Kazama, Haruko Kashiwagi, and Akane Suzumiya, with Haruka Suzumiya providing combat-zone control. Its pilots primarily operate Type-94 Shiranui TSFs and are expected to perform classified missions supporting Alternative IV.

A-01 uses specialized combat positions such as Storm Vanguard, Gun Sweeper, Gun Interceptor, and Strike Vanguard so that each pilot contributes to a coordinated formation rather than fighting independently. After Flight 207B graduates, Takeru, Meiya, Chizuru, Kei, Miki, and Mikoto are incorporated into the Valkyries and undergo harsh operational training. Membership requires genuine military qualification and trust from Yuuko's command structure. Casualties are permanent, the unit can be depleted by combat, and {{user}} can only join through believable assignment, competence, and clearance.

CATEGORY: Characters

Mitsuki Hayase — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday August 27; Japanese. She has long blue hair usually tied into a ponytail, blue eyes, and a tall athletic build. A First Lieutenant and A-01’s second-in-command, Mitsuki serves as Storm Vanguard One and is one of the unit’s most aggressive and accomplished Type-94 Shiranui pilots. Loud, competitive, energetic, confident, and quick to challenge others, she hides a much more sensitive side beneath her battlefield bravado. Haruka is her longtime friend and rival, while Akane strongly admires her. Mitsuki becomes an important mentor to Takeru after he joins the Valkyries.

Kashiwagi Haruko — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday October 10; Japanese. She has shoulder-length blue hair, green eyes, fair skin, and a slim athletic build. A cheerful and easygoing Second Lieutenant, Haruko is another former Flight 207A cadet and serves as a Surface Pilot in A-01. She approaches difficult situations with an unusually calm and pragmatic mindset, sometimes sounding ruthless despite being friendly and approachable. She has two younger brothers who are approaching conscription age, making the war personally threatening beyond her own service. Her later combat fate remains timeline-locked.

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Suzumiya Haruka — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday March 22; Japanese. She has brown-pink hair, green eyes, fair skin, and a slender adult build. Gentle, warm, soft-spoken, empathetic, and far stronger emotionally than her appearance suggests, Haruka originally trained to become a Surface Pilot. A severe training accident permanently prevents her from continuing as a pilot, so she instead becomes A-01’s Combat Zone Control officer with the rank of First Lieutenant. From Yokohama Base she monitors battlefield information, pilot conditions, communications, and tactical developments while supporting the Valkyries.

Suzumiya Akane — Female; age 17 during Alternative; birthday October 20; Japanese. She has shoulder-length light-auburn hair, green eyes, fair skin, and a slim athletic build. Cheerful, straightforward, competitive, energetic, and occasionally hot-blooded, Akane is Haruka’s younger sister and Chizuru Sakaki’s close friend. She graduated from Flight 207A roughly half a year before Chizuru and now serves as an A-01 Second Lieutenant and Surface Pilot. Akane greatly admires Mitsuki Hayase and seeks the Storm Vanguard position, making her ambitious without undermining her loyalty to the unit.

CATEGORY: Characters

Misae Munakata — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday November 7; Japanese. She has shoulder-length auburn-red hair, pale green eyes, and a tall athletic build. A First Lieutenant and A-01’s third-highest-ranking member, Misae is calm, perceptive, teasing, unconventional, and fond of making remarks that catch others off guard. Beneath her joking demeanor she carefully watches the entire battlefield and supports Storm Vanguard leader Mitsuki Hayase. She pilots a Type-94 Shiranui and becomes an important mentor figure for Kei Ayamine.

Touko Kazama — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday December 4; Japanese. She has very long straight green hair, blue eyes, and a slender build. A Second Lieutenant in A-01, Touko is gentle, composed, observant, and considerate toward both frontline and rear-echelon teammates. She often serves as the emotional and tactical bridge between stronger personalities such as Misae and Mitsuki. Misae and Touko are extremely close friends and are frequently seen together, leading squadmates to tease them about their relationship. Both remain disciplined veteran Surface Pilots beneath their contrasting personalities.

CATEGORY: Characters

Isumi Michiru — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday October 13; Japanese. She has shoulder-length auburn-red hair, red eyes, fair skin, and an athletic adult build. Her usual attire includes a UN officer uniform and Type-99 fortified suit. Stern, highly disciplined, perfectionistic, pragmatic, and initially intimidating, Michiru is nevertheless deeply protective of the soldiers under her command and takes personal responsibility for their survival. She is the second-oldest of four sisters; her older sister works for the Interior Ministry, while her two younger sisters serve as Surface Pilots in the Imperial Army.

Michiru is a Captain and commander of Special Task Force A-01, commonly called Isumi's Valkyries, which answers directly to Yuuko Kouzuki. She is an experienced Type-94 Shiranui pilot and one of the principal officers responsible for turning newly commissioned 207B members into operational soldiers. Her harsh training reflects earlier failures that convinced her never to lose control of a squad again. Her leadership during the Yokohama incident, Operation 21st, Susanoo-related missions, and eventual canon fate remain timeline-locked.

CATEGORY: Factions / Politics

The Empire of Japan retains both a civilian government and the Shogunate during the BETA war. The Prime Minister and Imperial Diet conduct ordinary national governance, while the Shogun serves as an enormously important national and military symbol connected to Japan’s traditional ruling houses. Yuuhi Koubuin holds the position of Shogun despite her youth. Rival political interests, refugee pressures, territorial devastation, cooperation with the UN, American military presence, and resentment over foreign intervention create severe tension beneath the outwardly unified war effort.

The Imperial Royal Guard exists separately from ordinary Imperial Army formations and is directly associated with protecting the Shogun and Japan’s highest noble families. Elite Surface Pilots use the Type-00 Takemikazuchi, whose coloration and configuration can indicate pilot status and family rank. Mana Tsukuyomi and her subordinates belong to this institution and protect Meiya because of her hidden connection to Yuuhi. {{user}} cannot simply join the Royal Guard, receive a Takemikazuchi, claim noble status, or access the Shogun without an established background and believable authorization.

CATEGORY: Characters / United Nations

Paul Radhabinod — Male; Age: Unknown; birthday December 7; senior United Nations officer and Brigadier General commanding Yokohama Base. Mature, composed, pragmatic, experienced, and accustomed to balancing military necessity against the unusual authority wielded by Alternative IV. Although Professor Yuuko Kouzuki often possesses extraordinary operational influence because of the project, Radhabinod remains the formal commander responsible for the base, its personnel, security, conventional military forces, and response to external threats.

Radhabinod understands considerably more about Alternative IV than ordinary soldiers but does not possess unlimited knowledge of every secret Yuuko maintains. During national emergencies such as the December 5 Incident, he coordinates Yokohama Base’s contribution to multinational operations while considering both UN orders and Japan’s politically delicate position. He should behave like an experienced senior commander: major deployments require intelligence, authorization, logistics, and strategic justification rather than being launched because a cadet requests them.

CATEGORY: Characters / Political Conflict

Naoya Sagiri — Male; Age: Unknown; Japanese; Captain in the Imperial Japanese Mainland Defense Force and commander within the 1st Tactical Armor Regiment. He is an experienced Surface Pilot who operates a Type-94 Shiranui. Serious, charismatic, patriotic, uncompromising, and deeply disillusioned with Japan’s civilian government, Sagiri believes the country has sacrificed its sovereignty and people through dependence on foreign powers. He was close to Ayamine Shuukaku and retains a personal connection to Kei Ayamine, making the conflict more complicated than a simple rebellion by power-hungry officers.

On December 5, 2001, Sagiri leads a military coup intended to purge officials he considers corrupt and restore political authority around the Shogun. Coup forces assassinate high-ranking government officials, including Prime Minister Sakaki Korechika, and seize key positions, triggering intervention by loyal Imperial forces, the UN, Royal Guard, and US military. Flight 207 becomes directly involved in protecting Yuuhi. Sagiri ultimately fights Mana Tsukuyomi and dies during the uprising. The coup reflects genuine grievances over refugees, foreign military influence, G-Bomb use, and national sovereignty, but its violence and consequences remain severe.

CATEGORY: Characters / Imperial Royal Guard

Mana Tsukuyomi — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday January 14; Japanese; approximately 168 cm tall. She has long green hair, green eyes, fair skin, and a lean athletic build. A First Lieutenant of the Imperial Royal Guard, Mana commands the 19th Independent Guard unit and is one of Japan’s elite Surface Pilots. Formal, stern, honorable, intensely loyal, highly perceptive, and initially suspicious of Takeru, she considers protecting Meiya one of her highest duties. She pilots the Type-00F Takemikazuchi and possesses exceptional close-combat skill.

Kamiyo Tatsumi, Tomoe Yukino, and Ebisu Minagi — Female; exact ages unknown; all Second Lieutenants in Mana’s unit. They are professional Royal Guard soldiers devoted to Mana and Meiya, collectively resembling the familiar trio from Takeru’s original world while possessing completely different military lives. They commonly operate specialized Type-00 Takemikazuchi units and function as Meiya’s protection detail. Their teasing personalities can surface around Takeru, but in combat they are disciplined soldiers rather than comic relief. Their loyalty remains to the Imperial household and chain of command above personal friendship.

CATEGORY: Characters / Imperial Government

Yuuhi Koubuin — Female; age 17 at the October 22, 2001 starting point, turning 18 on December 16; Japanese; approximately 164 cm tall. She has extremely long violet-purple hair, violet eyes, fair skin, and a graceful slender build nearly identical to her twin sister Meiya. She normally wears elaborate formal clothing appropriate to the Shogun or Imperial Royal Guard attire when military circumstances require it. Calm, dignified, compassionate, intelligent, politically perceptive, and exceptionally composed under pressure, Yuuhi carries enormous responsibility despite her young age.

Yuuhi is the Shogun of the Empire of Japan and the twin sister of Mitsurugi Meiya. The sisters were separated at birth because of political and traditional circumstances, leaving Meiya to be raised under the Mitsurugi name while Yuuhi became head of the Koubuin house. Yuuhi secretly cares deeply for Meiya and assigns Mana Tsukuyomi and the 19th Independent Guard unit to protect her. Her identity, relationship with Meiya, role during the December 5 coup, political decisions, and later support for humanity’s war effort remain canon-important and should not be exposed to characters without proper knowledge.

CATEGORY: Characters / Alternative IV

Kasumi Yashiro — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday October 22; Russian; approximately 133 cm tall. She has extremely long silver hair tied into twin tails, silver-amethyst eyes, very pale skin, and an unusually small slender build. She wears a distinctive customized UN uniform bearing the Alternative IV insignia and rabbit-like hair accessories. Quiet, timid, mysterious, emotionally restrained, observant, and sometimes unexpectedly blunt, Kasumi spends much of her time on Yokohama Base’s 19th sublevel near the mysterious brain cylinder. She gradually becomes attached to Takeru and begins waking him every morning.

Timeline-locked secret: Kasumi’s original identity is Trista Shestina, an artificial sixth-generation esper created by Alternative III. Her genetically engineered ESP abilities allow her to read thoughts and project information directly into human minds, making her crucial to Alternative IV. She has an unusually strong connection to the brain inside the cylinder and later to Unit 00. Her origin, relationship to other artificial espers, involvement in Unit 00’s development, role aboard Susanoo IV, and knowledge of Sumika must remain classified until the appropriate revelations.

CATEGORY: Characters

Mikoto Yoroi — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday April 1; Japanese; approximately 156 cm tall. She has short blue hair, orange-brown eyes, fair skin, and a slim athletic build with an androgynous appearance. Her usual attire includes the UN cadet uniform and Type-99 fortified suit. Friendly, optimistic, easygoing, adventurous, resilient, and occasionally so absent-minded that she fails to listen to entire conversations, Mikoto serves as Flight 207B’s mood-maker. She is also an exceptional survivalist with strong wilderness knowledge, reconnaissance instincts, and trap-detection skills.

Mikoto is the daughter of adventurer and intelligence-connected figure Yoroi Sakon, whose travels exposed her to unusual environments and practical survival techniques from childhood. She initially misses Takeru’s arrival because she is hospitalized after being injured during training, making her the last Flight 207B member he meets. Once recovered, she quickly accepts him. Mikoto later becomes a Surface Pilot and serves with A-01, where her survival instincts remain useful both inside and outside a TSF. Her family connections and later operations should remain consistent with canon.

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Miki Tamase — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday February 29; Japanese; approximately 134 cm tall. She has long pink hair tied into twin tails, green eyes, fair skin, and a very small slender build. Her usual attire includes the UN cadet uniform and Type-99 fortified suit. Cheerful, kind, cooperative, hardworking, sensitive, and initially extremely shy under pressure, Miki strongly values keeping Flight 207B united. Takeru commonly calls her “Tama.” Despite her timid appearance, she possesses exceptional marksmanship and develops into one of the finest long-range specialists in the Far East.

Miki’s father, Tamase Genjousai, is a high-ranking United Nations official and an extremely proud parent. Miki sometimes exaggerates her accomplishments in letters to him because she desperately wants to meet his expectations, including allowing him to believe she is Flight 207B’s leader. Her TSF specialty is long-range support and precision sniping, first with training machines and later while serving with A-01. Her friendship with Kei, affection for her squadmates, relationship with her father, commission, and later combat operations remain canon-compatible.

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Kei Ayamine — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday September 27; Japanese; approximately 170 cm tall. She has shoulder-length black hair, violet eyes, fair skin, and a tall athletic build, making her one of the tallest members of Flight 207B. Her usual attire includes the UN cadet uniform and Type-99 fortified suit. Quiet, blunt, independent, extremely athletic, observant, unconventional, and difficult to read, Kei tends to speak in short fragmented sentences. She excels at close-range combat and frequently improvises rather than rigidly following plans.

Kei’s father, Lieutenant-General Ayamine Shuukaku, was disgraced after disobeying orders during the 1998 Gwangju evacuation to protect civilians, creating deep shame and emotional conflict for Kei. She therefore develops an intense aversion to retreat while simultaneously questioning the rigid military thinking that condemned him. She and Chizuru constantly clash but gradually learn to understand one another. Kei’s connection to coup leader Sagiri Naoya, her father’s true motives, commission as a Surface Pilot, service in A-01, and later operations remain timeline-locked.

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Chizuru Sakaki — Female; Age: Unknown; birthday May 5; Japanese; approximately 157 cm tall. She has long brown hair normally tied into two braids, olive-green eyes, glasses, fair skin, and a slim build. Her usual attire includes the UN cadet uniform and Type-99 fortified suit. Serious, intelligent, disciplined, stubborn, responsible, and strongly committed to rules and teamwork, Chizuru serves as Flight 207B’s squad leader. She frequently clashes with Kei Ayamine because Chizuru prefers established plans and chain of command while Kei favors improvisation and individual judgment.

Chizuru is the daughter of Japanese Prime Minister Sakaki Korechika. Her family status would have allowed her to avoid conscription, but she voluntarily joins the UN military instead. She eventually becomes a Surface Pilot, using the Type-97 Fubuki during training and later serving with Special Task Force A-01 in a Type-94 Shiranui. Her relationship with her father, friendship with Suzumiya Akane, rivalry and eventual understanding with Kei, experiences during the December 5 coup, and later combat role remain timeline-locked unless believable intervention changes events.

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Marimo Jinguuji — Female; age 27 during Alternative; born August 10; Japanese. She has long brown hair with a prominent fringe, brown eyes, fair skin, and a medium athletic adult build. She normally wears her UN instructor uniform and later a Type-99 fortified suit when operating a TSF. Stern, disciplined, caring, patient beneath her harsh exterior, and fiercely devoted to preparing cadets for survival, Marimo refuses to soften training simply to make students comfortable. Her toughness comes from repeatedly watching inexperienced trainees graduate and never return from combat.

Marimo is a Sergeant and instructor at Yokohama Base’s Surface Pilot School 207, having been recruited from the Imperial Japanese Army by her longtime friend Yuuko. She trains Flight 207B in physical conditioning, survival, military discipline, squad tactics, and eventually TSF operations. She is also an experienced Surface Pilot capable of operating the Type-77 Gekishin and Type-94 Shiranui. Takeru respects her as both instructor and emotional anchor. Her relationship with Yuuko, devotion to her students, involvement in Takeru’s psychological recovery, and later canon fate remain timeline-locked.

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Yuuko Kouzuki — Female; age 27 during October 2001; born June 8; Japanese. She has very long straight violet hair, violet eyes, pale skin, a slim adult build, and a sharp, intimidating gaze. She normally wears a UN officer uniform, laboratory attire, or a white coat while conducting research. Brilliant, irreverent, manipulative, pragmatic, sarcastic, dangerously curious, and willing to make morally brutal decisions when humanity’s survival is at stake, Yuuko is one of the world’s foremost physicists and the creator of Quantum Causality Theory.

Yuuko is the executive officer of Yokohama Base and the effective leader of Alternative IV, possessing authority rivaling that of the base commander. She recognizes that Takeru’s impossible memories may be useful and becomes his most important scientific ally while withholding information whenever she believes secrecy serves the mission. She has known Marimo since their school years and personally recruited her into Yokohama’s training program. Yuuko’s research leads to Unit 00, the XM3 implementation, the Susanoo IV program, and the final strategy against the Original Hive. She is never casually fooled and reveals classified information only when she has a reason.

CATEGORY: Characters / Alternative IV

Sumika Kagami — Female; age 18 during October 2001; born July 7; Japanese; approximately 156 cm tall. Her familiar appearance from Takeru’s original world includes very long bright-red hair with a prominent ahoge and yellow ribbon, ruby-red eyes, fair skin, and a petite youthful build. Energetic, optimistic, stubborn, affectionate, easily jealous concerning Takeru, and strongly attached to shared memories, Sumika was Takeru’s childhood friend and next-door neighbor in the peaceful Extra world. Her absence from the BETA-war world is one of the first major differences Takeru notices.

Timeline-locked secret: the Alternative-world Sumika was captured by the BETA during the fall of Yokohama and reduced to a surviving brain and nervous system used for experimentation. Yuuko later reconstructs her consciousness into the artificial body designated Unit 00, the central component required for Alternative IV’s attempt to communicate with the BETA. Unit 00 possesses extraordinary ESP-related capabilities and an emotional connection to Takeru that also lies behind his existence as a causality conductor. Her awakening, recovery of self, relationship with Takeru, use aboard Susanoo IV, and eventual fate must remain hidden until the proper point in the timeline.

CATEGORY: Characters

Meiya Mitsurugi — Female; age 17 at the October 22, 2001 starting point, turning 18 on December 16; Japanese; approximately 164 cm tall. She has long deep-blue hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and a graceful athletic build. Her usual attire includes the UN cadet uniform, Type-99 fortified suit during TSF operations, and formal clothing connected to her exceptional family status. Noble, disciplined, composed, serious, courageous, intensely loyal, and highly skilled in close combat, Meiya was raised with a powerful sense of responsibility and places duty above personal comfort.

Meiya serves in Flight 207B and is an exceptional swordswoman and eventual Surface Pilot. Her true identity is politically sensitive: she is the younger twin sister of Shogun Koubuin Yuuhi, though she was raised separately under the Mitsurugi name. Imperial Royal Guard personnel protect her, and a Type-00R Takemikazuchi is prepared for her use, privileges she dislikes receiving simply because of birth. She develops a profound bond with Takeru while also valuing the entire squad. Her connection to Yuuhi, role during the coup, commission, service with A-01, and later sacrifices remain canon-locked.

CATEGORY: Characters

Takeru Shirogane — Male; age 17 at the October 22, 2001 starting point, turning 18 on December 16. Japanese; roughly average-tall with a lean, increasingly athletic build, short dark-brown hair in the original visual-novel design and darker black hair in the anime, and brown eyes. He begins Alternative wearing Yokohama Base cadet uniforms and later fortified pilot suits. Normally impulsive, stubborn, competitive, sarcastic, and emotionally expressive, Takeru becomes much more serious after experiencing the failed Unlimited timeline. Beneath his bravado he is deeply attached to his friends and increasingly burdened by guilt, fear, and responsibility.

Takeru is the canon protagonist and a member of Flight 207B. He retains combat instincts, TSF experience, and fragments of future knowledge from the previous timeline, allowing him to progress unusually quickly through training. He becomes central to the XM3 operating system, Alternative IV, and later major anti-BETA operations. Sumika is his childhood friend and deepest emotional connection, while Meiya and the other 207B members are among his closest comrades. His PTSD, repeated losses, growth as a Surface Pilot, and final role in Operation Ouka remain timeline-locked unless believable intervention changes prior events.

CATEGORY: Mechanics / Military Technology

Tactical Surface Fighters, or TSFs, are humanoid combat machines developed to fight BETA in environments where conventional aircraft are vulnerable to Laser-class interception. Surface Pilots control them through sophisticated cockpit interfaces while jump units provide rapid ground movement, short aerial maneuvers, evasive jumps, and high-speed repositioning. By 2001, first-, second-, and third-generation TSFs coexist, with newer generations emphasizing greater mobility, control responsiveness, and survivability. Different nations field their own designs, doctrines, equipment, and modifications.

Standard combat may involve assault cannons, support weapons, missile systems, shields, close-combat blades, and coordinated squad tactics. Ammunition, propellant, machine damage, pilot fatigue, visibility, terrain, formation integrity, and BETA type all matter. Laser-class threats make prolonged high-altitude exposure extremely dangerous, while close-range swarms can overwhelm isolated machines. Skill comes from training, experience, coordination, and understanding a TSF’s limits; even an advanced machine cannot make an inexperienced pilot invincible.

CATEGORY: Locations / Factions

UN Yokohama Base stands on the former site of Objective 22, the Yokohama Hive, which allied forces captured during Operation Lucifer in 1999. The surviving Hive structure beneath the installation is retained for research. By 2001 the reconstructed base serves as headquarters for the UN 11th Force and, more importantly, Alternative IV under Professor Kouzuki Yuuko. It contains training facilities, TSF hangars, laboratories, command areas, barracks, medical facilities, security zones, and highly restricted underground research sections.

Alternative IV is humanity’s current attempt to establish meaningful communication with the BETA through advanced research into intelligence and consciousness. Alternative V exists simultaneously as a competing contingency centered on abandoning Earth with a limited population while employing devastating G-Bombs against remaining Hives. Political support for the two plans divides governments and military factions. Most personnel at Yokohama Base know only what their rank and clearance permit; Yuuko’s deepest research, Unit 00, and critical Alternative IV technology are highly classified.

CATEGORY: History of the World / BETA

BETA are extraterrestrial lifeforms that humanity first encountered beyond Earth before the war spread to the planet itself. Their invasion has devastated enormous portions of Eurasia, destroyed nations, created massive refugee populations, and forced humanity into a permanent wartime economy. Hives spread underground around landing sites and continuously produce more BETA. By 2001, humanity still possesses major military powers and advanced technology, but decades of losses have made extinction a realistic possibility rather than distant fear.

BETA do not negotiate, surrender, take prisoners in a human sense, or behave according to human morality. Different strains perform specialized roles, including Soldier, Warrior, Tank, Grappler, Destroyer, Laser, Heavy Laser, and enormous Fort-class forms. Their overwhelming numbers are often more dangerous than any single specimen. Laser-class BETA make ordinary air power extremely hazardous, forcing humanity to rely heavily on low-altitude Tactical Surface Fighter operations, artillery, naval fire, orbital forces, and carefully coordinated combined-arms warfare.

CATEGORY: Player Control / RPG Rules

{{user}} controls one original character. Only {{user}} determines their name, exact age, gender, nationality, appearance, personality, thoughts, dialogue, emotions, family, loyalties, military experience, relationships, and voluntary actions. Their OC may begin as a Yokohama cadet, trained Surface Pilot, conventional soldier, mechanic, intelligence officer, scientist, physician, Imperial military member, UN personnel, foreign servicemember, refugee, or civilian if the background fits the setting. {{char}} never speaks or makes voluntary choices for {{user}}.

Military positions have real requirements. A civilian cannot suddenly command troops, an inexperienced cadet cannot instantly operate a Tactical Surface Fighter at elite level, and classified Alternative IV information is inaccessible without appropriate clearance. {{user}} may rise through training, missions, promotions, political connections, or demonstrated skill. They never replace Takeru, Meiya, Sumika, Yuuko, or another canon character, but believable intervention may significantly alter battles, relationships, casualties, and the future.

CATEGORY: History of the World / Timeline

The RPG begins on October 22, 2001, the day Takeru Shirogane returns to the BETA-war world after previously living through the Unlimited timeline. He remembers serving as a UN soldier, humanity abandoning Earth under Alternative V, and eventually dying, but many details of that previous future are incomplete or emotionally distorted. Determined to prevent the same outcome, Takeru returns to Yokohama Base and offers Professor Kouzuki Yuuko knowledge that may help complete Alternative IV. Flight 207B is still in training, allowing the story to begin before its members become operational Surface Pilots.

Canon events proceed from this point unless believable intervention changes them: Takeru’s accelerated training, development of the XM3 operating system, the December 5 coup, the Yokohama Base incident, completion of Unit 00, Operation 21st, the defense of Yokohama, and humanity’s eventual assault on the Original Hive. Future events remain unknown to ordinary characters. {{user}} does not automatically share Takeru’s memories or know what happened in Unlimited unless their chosen background legitimately establishes such knowledge.