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The Jupiter Empire (木星帝国(ジュピター・エンパイア) Mokusei Teikoku?) was an autocratic military regime that controlled the Jupiter Sphere by the U.C. 0120s.[1] It was founded by Crux Dogatie, one of the early Jupiter colonists, who later became its Supreme Leader.

Under Dogatie, the Jupiter Empire concealed its true nature from the Earth Federation and pretended to be nothing more than a public corporation, but secretly prepared for an invasion of the Earth Sphere. This plan came to fruition in U.C. 0133, when Dogatie declared war against the Earth Federation government. However, he was stopped by the combined effort of the Crossbone Vanguard, the Earth Federation Forces, and colony forces led by Sherindon Ronah.

By U.C. 0136, the Jupiter Empire reorganized under two new Supreme Leaders, Callisto's Light and Callisto's Shadow. The two orchestrated Operation Divine Thunder, a plan to devastate Earth using the colony laser "Divine Punishment". However, the colony laser was destroyed during Operation Steel Seven - a desperate attack launched by seven pilots - and both of the Callisto Brothers were killed in battle.

At the end of Operation Steel Seven, a resistance group within the Jupiter Empire staged a coup d'état. As a result, the Jupiter Empire was transformed into the Jupiter Republic, led by Crux's daughter, Tetenith Dogatie.

History[]

Origin[]

More than seventy years before the Jupiter War, Crux Dogatie was the leader of a group of Jupiter Sphere colonists. According to him, he carved out a nation in the harsh environment of Jupiter, where even basic necessities like air and water had to be manufactured, without any support from the Earth Federation.

When Dogatie was almost 80 years old, the Federation proposed a political marriage with him in order to control the Jupiter colonies. This act filled Dogatie with a burning hatred toward the Federation. This was only worsened by the fact that his young wife, Danae, was filled with a kindness that he considered impossible in the harsh environment of the Jupiter colonies, causing Dogatie to feel that everything he did for the last seventy years was ultimately for nothing.

Driven by his desire to destroy Earth, Dogatie gradually transformed the Jupiter colonies into the Jupiter Empire. He hid his plans from the Federation, presenting the Jupiter colonies as a harmless public corporation. Ten years prior to the Jupiter War, Dogatie began a plan to gain the trust of the Federation and slowly transport poison gas into the Earth Sphere using an exchange student program. He also began building an army, promising the people of Jupiter that their lives would be improved after they take control of Earth and all of its resources.

However, Berah Ronah and Seabook Arno (now using the pseudonym "Kincade Nau") learned of Dogatie's plans. In order to oppose the Empire, they reorganized the Crossbone Vanguard and began disrupting the Jupiter Empire's operations under the guise of space pirates.

Jupiter War[]

In U.C. 0133, a new group of exchange students arrived in the Jupiter Sphere aboard the transport Smashion. However, the ship was soon attacked by the Crossbone Vanguard mothership Mother Vanguard. During the battle, exchange student Tobia Arronax accidentally stumbled upon the ship's poison gas storage. Just as he was about to be silenced by his teacher Karras, who was a Jupiter Empire agent, he was saved by Kincade in the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1.

After learning about the truth of the Jupiter Empire, Tobia decided to join the Crossbone Vanguard. Meanwhile, a mysterious girl named Bernadette Briett also snuck aboard the Mother Vanguard. Believing that she was not a spy, Berah decided to take her in as part of the crew.

After a series of battles, the Crossbone Vanguard discovered Dogatie's apparent location: a base on Io, one of Jupiter's satellites. After a fierce battle, they breached Io's defenses and reached Dogatie's headquarters, only to find that the "Dogatie" in the headquarters was a decoy controlled by one of nine identical bio-brain copies of Dogatie. During this battle, Bernadette revealed herself as Tetenith Dogatie, Crux's daughter, who escaped from her home in order to see Earth with her own eyes.

Meanwhile, the real Dogatie headed to Earth aboard the Jupitris 9. While there, he presented himself as an ambassador of peace to the Federation. When the Crossbone Vanguard caught up to him, he ordered Zabine Chareux to attack the Federation Forces in his Crossbone Gundam, tricking the Federation into fighting the Crossbone Vanguard.

After the battle apparently concluded with the destruction of the Crossbone Vanguard, the Jupiter Empire Forces launched their attack on Earth. Dogatie issued an ultimatum to the Earth Federation: after 48 hours, they would conduct a nuclear attack on Earth itself. He then informed his forces that the nuclear attack would destroy 60% of Earth's surface, but claimed that it was necessary to eradicate the Earth Federation and that the remaining 40% would still allow them to live their lives without scarcity.

However, when the Empire's Death Gale Team captured Tobia in his hideout on Earth, team member Giri Gadeucca Aspis revealed to him that Dogatie lied: the attack would reduce all of Earth to ashes, leaving it as nothing more than a source of minerals for the colonies. According to him, Dogatie's plan was to strictly control the population by controlling the manufacture of resources, as was the case with resources in the Jupiter Empire, thus eliminating conflicts that stem from overpopulation.

During the 48 hours before the attack, the Jupiter Forces crippled all of the Federation Forces' primary bases on Earth and slowly attrited their fighting power, rendering them powerless to stop the thousands of nuclear missiles aboard the Jupitris 9. However, the Crossbone Vanguard managed to regroup on Earth and launch an unexpected attack on the Jupitris 9 from below, destroying the massive ship.

At this point, Dogatie deployed his trump card: eight EMA-10 Divinidad mobile armors, seven of which were controlled by his bio-brains and one by himself. The Divinidads quickly overwhelmed the remaining Federation mobile suits, but the colony forces led by Sherindon Ronah unexpectedly appeared to assist the Federation Forces.

In a last ditch effort to destroy Earth, the real Dogatie reentered Earth in his Divinidad, intending to detonate its fusion reactors and devastate the Earth's environment with the resulting radiation. Tobia engaged Dogatie's Divinidad in the XM-X3 Crossbone Gundam X-3, during which Dogatie revealed that even what Giri knew was a lie: He had no plans for Earth at all after its destruction, and was only motivated by pure hatred and malice. Eventually, Tobia sacrificed the X-3 to destroy the Divinidad. Dogatie was killed by Kincade in the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 Kai, finally ending his genocidal plans.

Jupiter Remnants[]

In U.C. 0135, a group of Jupiter Empire remnants led by Camaro Kettle hijacked the Federation transport Sadin 107. According to their leader, the ship was carrying evidence that the Jupiter Empire Forces bribed a high-ranking Federation official two years ago. They intended to use the evidence to ransom the Federation.

However, the Crossbone Vanguard rescued the ship's captive crew and the XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 Kai Kai "Skull Heart" destroyed the Jupiter mobile suits, including the EMS-06-P Arana Batalla piloted by Kettle, foiling their plan.

Operation Divine Thunder[]

Jupiter... Since then, it did not change one bit, Tetenith. Absolute obedience to the superior, poverty... And the disregard for life.

Europa Dogatie

Following the Jupiter War, the situation in the Jupiter Sphere changed very little. Many still fanatically worshipped the now-dead Dogatie and a strong sense of resentment for the Crossbone Vanguard still lingered. It was even said that the Crossbone Vanguard was responsible for the death of Princess Tetenith.

By U.C. 0136, the Callisto Brothers, the brothers-in-law of Crux Dogatie, had become the Jupiter Empire's new supreme leaders. The two intended to reignite the war with Earth through Operation Divine Thunder - a plan to devastate Earth using the colony laser "Divine Punishment".

The Divine Punishment was originally Dogatie's ultimate weapon for the invasion of Earth. However, Dogatie knew that he was near death and began the invasion before it was complete. Following Dogatie's death, the Callisto Brothers finished its construction. Their plan was to first destroy the Federation capital, then repeatedly fire the colony laser at Earth every two hours until it melts after twelve shots. Though this would not destroy Earth, it would devastate its population and cause unimaginable damage to the environment.

Having learned of the plan, Europa Dogatie, the second wife of Crux and the stepmother of Tetenith, escaped to the Earth Sphere in an attempt to warn Earth, believing that the plan would threaten the existence of the Jupiter Sphere. Unbeknownst to her, however, the Callisto's Brothers were Psychickers with the ability to see and hear through her, and they allowed her to escape.

Callisto's Shadow followed Europa to the Earth Sphere with a team of Jupiter soldiers, attempting to sabotage any plan to reach Jupiter in time and stop the colony laser. Though he was successful in destroying the F99 Record Breakers - a SNRI prototype mobile suit equipped with Minovsky Drive - and their development facility, he failed to destroy the Anaheim Electronics Minovsky Drive prototype Speed King before being killed in battle with Tobia.

Using the Speed King, Europa and a team of seven pilots, including Tobia, successfully reached the colony laser just as it was preparing to fire. The Jupiter Forces fought fiercely to defend the colony laser, led by Callisto's Light and a bio-brain copy of Callisto's Shadow in two Dictus mobile armors. However, both of the Callisto Brothers were killed in battle, and the colony laser was destroyed.

End of the Empire[]

Following the death of the Callisto Brothers, the Jupiter resistance associated with Europa launched a coup d'etat. Though their forces were weak, they moved quickly to seize command. Empire loyalist forces quickly fled, having lost the will to fight following the death of their leaders and the destruction of the colony laser.

In the year that followed, Bernadette returned to the Jupiter Sphere as Tetenith Dogatie and became the leader of a foundation that managed what remained of the Jupiter Empire's assets. Because of her skilful management, Jupiter avoided the danger of economic collapse. Eventually, Tetenith reorganized the Jupiter colonies into the Jupiter Republic, finally bringing an end to the Jupiter Empire.

Culture[]

The Jupiter Empire is a highly regimented and authoritarian society. Every citizen of the Empire has numbers tattooed on the back of their hand and they show these number to one another as a sign of greeting; however, they keep knowledge of both the tattoos and their customs secret from people who are from the Earth Sphere, wearing gloves at all times around non-Jovians. It is unknown but speculated that these number may indicate more than the fact that a person is a Jovian, such as possibly revealing a person's rank and position in the Empire. Only two Jovians are seen without these tattoos, Crux Dogatie and his daughter Bernadette Briett.

The Jupiter Empire is also highly materialistic. This stems from how the Jupiter Sphere is naturally barren of the resources needed to support human life, such as plants and animals, water, or even breathable air. Each of these resources need to be manufactured in factories and because of limits on manufacturing abilities, they are heavily rationed. A person is allowed only their given share and to take more is considered a criminal offense. Extra rations won't even be given to the sick, who naturally need more water than a healthy person, because resources such as water and air are considered more valuable than a person's life. An interesting bit of hypocrisy is how Crux Dogatie suspends his nine bio-brains and one real body in large tanks of water, often with decorative fish swimming about. It is unknown if that water is necessary for some purpose, but it could be better used in hospitals where many people are suffering of dehydration.

The continuous struggle to survive in Jupiter Sphere's harsh environment led the Jupiter Colonies society to adopt a philosophy of survival of the fittest. All the Jovians of the Jupiter colonies must do their part in order to ensure the continued survival of their people, even if it means a twelve-year old boy working in an oxygen resource factory. The Empire demands quality work from its citizens knowing that anything less than the best could lead to death. As a part of this philosophy, anyone who is considered weak is looked down upon. This is possibly why hospitals don't go to the extra effort to help their patients. The fact that they got sick or injured in the first place is a sign of weakness, and those who died deserve it. This philosophy has caused many Jovians to look at Earthnoids and most Spacenoids of the Earth Sphere as weak, because they live in a resource rich environment and don't have to struggle to survive.

Metals are abundant and easy to extract in the Jupiter Sphere, but the mobile suits constructed with them are considered highly valuable. One of the possible reasons of their high value is that the metals and electronics in a mobile suit used for military purposes could have been used in the construction of a new resource factory instead. So in the Jupiter Empire military, failure is not an option. Failure to defeat the enemy is an indication of weakness, and the loss of mobile suits is a death sentence. Jovian pilots have openly admitted that if they lose they will die. Crossbone Vanguard pilots Tobia Arronax and Kincade Nau witnessed captured Jovian citizens who were executed by a firing squad for their failure after their release.

However, not all Jovians share this rather heartless outlook on life, and a small underground movement exists among the civilians to change the government.

The Jupiter Empire has a strong interest in Newtypes. Jovians hold the common belief that Newtypes are the next step in human evolution, but they do not hold the belief of peace and coexistence of Zeon Zum Deikun philosophy. Instead, they believe that Newtypes will beat out and consume the weaker Oldtypes until the latter died out. To this end, the Empire studied Newtypes intensively and built several mobile suit squads piloted by self-proclaimed Newtypes, though most of those pilots and machines were defeated by the Crossbone Vanguard pilot and real Newtype, Tobia Arronax.

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  • All of Jupiter Empire's mobile weapons are named after Spanish words.
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