Psychological warfare at its finest

The interrogation room set up in the damp, stone basement of a requisitioned imperial estate near Deabis smelled of damp earth, copper, and modern industrial antiseptic.

​Dominic, or that's what he called himself, a senior CIA covert operations officer assigned to the PDTO-NATO Joint Interrogation Group, sat quietly at a folding plastic table. He wore no tactical gear, just a plain, rolled-up Oxford shirt, dark trousers, and reading glasses he used to flip through a thick manila folder filled with satellite imagery and encrypted field reports. Opposite him, chained to a bolted iron chair, was Senator Lucius Varo, a wealthy patrician and one of the largest slave-holders in the central Saderan provinces.

​Varo’s face was bruised, but his posture remained arrogant. He was accustomed to Saderan political games, where patrician blood carried weight and torture was an art form delivered with dramatic speeches. He assumed this foreign "barbarian in glasses" would eventually try to negotiate.

​"I have told your military captains a dozen times," Varo spat, wiping blood from his lip onto his fine tunic. "I am a senator of the Realm. I do not track every piece of chattel that passes through the northern markets. If your missing Japanese citizens were sold, they are in the deep mines or long dead. You have no jurisdiction here."

​Dominic didn't look up from his file. He took a slow sip from a stainless-steel thermos of black coffee, set it down without a sound, and adjusted his glasses.

​"You know, Lucius, when your people marched through Ginza, you took roughly two hundred civil abductees through the Gate," Dominic said, his tone entirely conversational, like a bank loan officer reviewing a mortgage application. "We’ve recovered one hundred and forty-two. But I assume there's more out there. Our overhead imagery picked up a covered transport caravan leaving your primary estate three nights ago, heading toward the mountain vaults near the capital."

​"I know nothing of any caravan," Varo scoffed, leaning back as far as his chains allowed. "Do what you will. Beat me. Execute me. Prince Zorzal will retake this city, and when he does, your little coalition will answer for every drop of noble blood—"

​Dominic held up a hand, cut him off mid-sentence without raising his voice, and tapped a button on a grey tactical radio sitting on the table.

​"Bring them in," Dominic said into the mic.

​The heavy oak door swung open. Two 2046 officers in monolithic multicam gear, high-threat plate carriers, facial ballistic shrouds, and glowing red optical sensors stepped into the room. Between them, they nudged forward a terrified woman wrapped in a fine silk palla and a twelve-year-old boy in an embroidered tunic.

​Varo’s arrogance instantly shattered into a cold, paralyzing terror.

​"Livia? Marcus?" Varo gasped, his breath catching in his throat as his eyes widened in disbelief. He thrashed against the iron chains.

"What is this?! You monsters! They are civilians! They are my family!"

​"I know who they are, Lucius," Dominic said softly. He pulled off his reading glasses, folded them neatly, and placed them beside his coffee thermos. He didn't look angry. He didn't look sinister. His face was entirely, horribly blank. 

"Your wife, Livia. Your youngest son, Marcus. Our forward teams picked them up at your summer villa an hour ago while they were preparing to flee north."

​"You... you cannot do this!" Varo screamed, his voice cracking as his son began to weep hysterically against his mother's side, terrified by the silent, faceless officer standing over them with an unmoving, mechanical posture.

"There are laws! Your coalition boasts of its justice! Its morals!"

​"The coalition has laws, yes," Dominic replied, opening a small leather kit on the table to reveal a simple, clean pair of heavy mechanics' pliers and a small, sterile syringe.

"The military police have laws. The UN observers back in Italica have laws. But I don't work for the coalition civil affairs branch, Lucius. I work for the United States Government. And my job is to find our people and the people of our allies, even from a different time."

​Dominic stood up casually, picked up a folding metal chair, and placed it directly next to the boy. He gestured for the officer to sit the weeping child down.

​"No! No! Don't touch him!" Varo shrieked, the chains rattling violently as he threw his full weight forward.

"Leave them out of this! I am the one you want!"

​Dominic ignored the senator entirely. He leaned down, offering the terrified twelve-year-old a small, plastic-wrapped ration bar from his pocket. The boy recoiled, sobbing into his mother's skirt.

​"It's chocolate, kid. It's fine," Dominic said gently, placing the bar on the child's knee. He then turned his head slightly toward the officer behind the mother, and in full Falmartian Latin for the senator and his wife to hear. "If he doesn't start giving us locations in thirty seconds, start with the boy's fingers."

​"You sick, godless barbarian!" Varo roared, tears of pure panic streaming down his face as he watched the massive, armored officer step forward and firmly pin his son's wrist to the stone table. "He is a child! He knows nothing of the war!"

​Dominic checked his digital watch. "Twenty seconds."

​"I don't have them! I swear by the Gods, I don't have them in my house!"

​"Ten seconds," Dominic said, picking up his thermos and taking another small, calm sip. He wasn't watching Varo; he was looking at a digital map on his tablet.

​"Stop! Stop! All right! All right! The deep vaults at the Appia quarry!" Varo screamed, his voice breaking into a ragged, pathetic sob as the officer's heavy gloved hand tightened on his son's small hand.

"They are at the Appia quarry! Thirty-four of them! My overseer has the keys! They are being kept alive for leverage against your advancing lines! I swear it! I swear it on my ancestors!"

​Dominic held up his hand. The officer immediately released the boy's wrist and stepped back, returning to a rigid, silent stance.

​Dominic pulled out his radio, pressed the push-to-talk button, and spoke clearly into the receiver. "Strike Team Alpha, this is Control. Target location confirmed: Appia Quarry, Grid 04-89. Deploy the breach teams and secure the hostages. Treat all guards as hostile."

​A static crackle came through the speaker. "Copy that, Control. Alpha rolling out now."

​Dominic set the radio back on the table. He stood up, adjusted his tie, and slipped his reading glasses back into his breast pocket. He picked up his manila folder and his coffee thermos.

​Varo slumped in his chains, hyperventilating, his eyes fixed on his terrified, shaking family.

"You... you have what you want," the senator whispered, his voice stripped of all imperial pride. "Now let them go. Please."

​Dominic stopped at the door. He turned around and looked at Varo with an expression of cold, utter indifference.

​"My fellow officers will escort your family to the refugee processing center in Deabis. They'll be fed, clothed, and assigned to a civil integration camp," Dominic said smoothly.

​"And me?" Varo choked out, looking up at the CIA officer.

​Dominic unlocked the heavy oak door, revealing two armed JGSDF military police officers waiting in the corridor outside.

​"You're being extradited to Tokyo," Dominic said, stepping out into the hallway. "Alnus Tokyo, to be exact. The families of the people you kept in dark holes for god knows how many years, but they are waiting to see what you look like in a prison suit."

​The heavy oak door slammed shut, leaving the broken senator alone in the dim room with his weeping family and the silent, unyielding guards of the new world.

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I've been getting recommendations to watch Mushoku Tensei. Should I watch it? Is Rudeus actually a pedo, like what people on TikTok say he is?

Why no rory in gate 2?? And are we getting brand new mc with separate story line????

I mean there were some baddies but where is our queen rory

I make this post cuz at last time I see so many posts of this sub,I don't see anime but I know what happens in it

FYI it’s current day London so people stop asking me like it was on the Russian one

Ever wondered what would happen if the JSDF named characters, Itami's Harem, and the Rose Knights went hand-to-hand and beat the crap out of a bunch of Saderan nobles? That's just one of the goofy things that happens in Gaiden 2, which now has an upgraded summary with even more pictures and and expanded history on Rory Mercury on the wiki.

https://gate.fandom.com/wiki/Gaiden_2:_Grand_Festivity_of_the_Dark_God

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What if the Gate from the anime GATE: Jieitai opened in Mega-City One, from the Judge Dredd universe, instead of Ginza?

The Imperial Army of Sadera launches the same invasion as in the anime, but instead of facing the Japanese military, they find themselves confronting the Judges of Mega-City One.

What would've happened if the gate appeared in Amsterdam in 2016?

Most questions like these are about military powers with larger landmass but i'm curious what would happen if the gate appeared in a smaller country like the Netherlands.

Let us say it opens in Yerevan on November 1st 2020 at 12:00 am so how would this effect the conflict,how would Armenia respond and how would this effect the speical region and the world mainly?

Who would claim first blood, the regular wendigos or the wendigos that play Dueling Banjos and have access to firearms?

I'm working on this Schaffrillas-style video essay for GATE: Thus the JSDF Fought There, where I talk about what I like about the series and what I didn't. Originally, I had a conclusion in mind similar to Schaff's Shark Tale video: the series is an absolute disaster, but still fun to watch...

I realized on my rewatch just how unfun most of the scenes that don't involve the battles are, and analyzing the politics and characters feels more like a war criminal's false testimony of what actually happened than a real story. The action scenes are really fun, and it's cool seeing modern military tactics; I also love the internal politics in the Empire, but at the same time, when I watch the show, I feel I'm waiting for the action rather than actually engaging with the series.

Instead, I'm focusing more on how GATE is a perfect warning for what happens when a story refuses to take itself seriously. I'm still in the planning phase cause I have three video essays I'm working on right now, but stay tuned for most posts, I guess... or not?

I'll let you guys know when I actually get around to making the script.

I won't care to explain the title again because you just read it so I'm going to tell you the baseline of the scenario with this so here we go!:

Let's say for this scenario the lylat war ended a day ago and suddenly a gate opens in the heart of the main city of Corneria and at the same time on the other side the events of the fire dragon incident hearing has just ended, so general pepper sends his forces through the Gate to investigate it and establish a foot hold on the other side for defense (and I know! This is the exact same thing the jsdf did in the anime so I'm assuming that general pepper is going to take the exact same approach here just without the whole invasion thing from the empire) and finally before I forget we are using the universe of the most recent star fox game being "star fox 2026".

So that's everything I thought up for this so far so I leave it up to you all (because I'm not well versed in both star fox lore and geopolitics) anyways have fun folks!

(Sorry for the lack of star fox 2026 pictures this is the best I could do)

A gfx for Gate: Napoleon and his enemies fought magic in Wattpad.

The GFX depicted sets in Battle of Telta (upcoming) sets outskirts of Telta, where Prince Zorzal and his cohorts settled on the city. On the west flank of the grand battle, as the French and Anglo forces (Franco-Anglo Army) were countercharge on the advancing Saderan legion-sized division, which one of the British regiments of 23rd Royal Welch hold against the charging Saderans, as the French 3e Chevau-Legers-Lanciers were supported, attempt to capture the Saderan's eagle.

I make this random question because I was curious, do you guys like this type of story or not? Cuz this was kinda different than the usual where it's always one side beating the weaker one, now it's two side who both beating the weak one while at the same times fighting against each other. The conflicts would be much more interesting.

One of my favourite fic with this type of premise is Fallout: Nuclear Legion, while not fully realistic, it was interesting to see the dynamics relations between Japan against NCR.

Context march of giants is MOBA game where you play as giants and lead soldiers, to destroy objectives.

A war between Duskline and Dawnline, an endless war, that they forgot the reason why their fighting.

Technologies like blend of science and alchemy, meaning there some kind of magic.

Giants are born from alchemy inside metal eggs, adding a pure emotions from humans civilians, and Frontline soldiers hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

Creating giants born from those dreams.

Like Victoria, dream of victory, Goliath dream of courage, Oriane Dream of peace, and Solace Dream of faith.

But there are also corrupted versions called nightmares, mode with the ambient fear, doubt, cowardice, and agony of the battlefields bled into the eggs.

Like Kragg nightmare of strength, Wolfgang nightmare of rage, Ossuary nightmare of fallen, and Voidmaster nightmare of the occult.

There more giants, but you can look it.

ok scenario time, it takes place in the battlefield, a mix of human soldier, carrying rifles and equipment to take down a giant, supported by tanks, reinforced my airships, have cavalry.

Based on World War I, but with giant commanders, there will be four agains on both sides and those giants have mix of Dream and Nightmare giants on both sides.

The gate opens, and there are two scenarios.

One the Saderan gets decimated without the other side knowing both dusk and dawn lines knowing.

Two they survive either the gate is in area that is not in middle of the battlefield and make themselves known.

If using scenario 2 is the answer, how much land would they take, not that much.

That they will known, we know the main threat is the Giants if they Saderans fight them.
Note no giants go alone, there is always soldiers surrounding them.

The empire’s infantry can’t do crap, there wyvern corp could do damage, but they will either get shot down by anti air and biplane or get swatted like flies by the giants.

Let’s skip the fight because most of the time the Saderan are cooked.

The unlikely scenario is both Dusk and Dawn lines, stopping the fight over magical gate, more likely one side pushing the other and winning the battlefield, claiming the gate.

Another unlikely thing is entering the gate, either it not as important that it’s winning the war, maybe the high command wants to explore it, another problem the giants can’t fit inside?

They are taller than the ogres the empire used, by at least they fit, but maybe they can reverse engineer the gate and making it bigger to enter.

I’m done for here for now. It’s up to you guys too make things up i guess.

Decided to put my own spin on the trend going on in tiktok

How would it effect the events of gate,how woulf japan react and how would the rest of the events of gate would unfold

I have uploaded Gaiden 1 (both the original tankōbon and later bunkobon editions) to my Google Drive folder.

You are free to read either version. However, if you prefer Kurojishi's illustrations over those of Izuka Daisuke, I recommend the bunkobon edition.

Additional material includes:

• The author's afterword from each bunko volume, translated into English for the first time.
• Biographical sketches of Yanai Takumi and Kurojishi.
• Additional annotations.

In both editions, I have made a number of corrections, light copyedits, and revisions to a few short passages to improve accuracy and readability.

My focus is on fidelity, linguistic nuance, and cultural context. As with my previous translations, both editions include extensive annotations to help readers understand Japanese expressions, honorifics, terminology, and historical or institutional references that are often lost in localization.

I hope fellow GATE fans and readers interested in the original Japanese text find these editions useful and enjoyable.