A month had gone past, within this time several important things had happened. For one, I had all the sites marked on that map raided and checked, the personal in one of them awoken from cryogenic sleep, as only one facility had people in cryosleep, that facility was completely dedicated to such a task, several thousand Pre-War Enclave soldiers, and other personal like maintenance workers, scientists and engineers were frozen as well as normal staff such as cooks. Their reaction to what had become of the United States was, exactly as expected. Shocked, horrified, some shot themselves, most however sucked it up, however I did sign a lot of them up for therapy, and surprisingly almost all of the 15 thousand humans whom had been frozen, wanted to follow me since that AI had named me the President, even after explaining to them I was the ruler of an Empire in the north, the Marshal from before had decided that since I was the highest human power that be, he would enforce my rule upon the soldiers whom joined, as well as the other people whom were part of the Enclave base.

It took a few weeks but the integration had completed, those who no longer wished to serve in a military in any shape or form, only a few thousand, where let go and given standard citizenship in the Empire. One thing however was a rather shocking find, in the facility that held Enclave personal in cryogenic stasis was one massive cryopod which could house an estimated ten people in power armor. After examining it I got the absolute shock of my life when I found out it was Frank Horrigan, for those whom don't know who that is, I shall explain. Frank Horrigan was.....an absolute monster, a former secret service agent for the Enclave, he was exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus, or the FEV as its widely known, after this being found out the Enclave sedated him and did uncountable experiments on the man, and with several genetic and cybernetic modifications he had a custom suit of power armor grafted to his body which would act not only as armor, but life support for him, he was a terror of the Wasteland, seen tearing deathclaws and power armored human soldiers apart with his bare hands. He was a supermutant about 13 feet in height, the power armor adding another foot making him almost over 14 feet tall. This was odd however that he was found, from what I remember of the lore he should have been killed in the explosion of the Enclave's Oil Rig.

When I asked the AI calculator, whom I had transferred into a simple Empire Supercomputer much more advanced than his old ZAX unit, he told me something that shocked me to the core was when it told me the rig had never been destroyed in the first place, Frank was just transferred for cryogenic stasis to await the day he would actually be more use than simply killing deathclaws and Brotherhood of Steel soldiers. It seemed the lore for this Fallout World, may not be exactly the same, but it was close enough that things like the Enclave still formed, as did the BOS and COA, so I was just going to take the surprises as they came.

I had the scientists keep Frank sedated while my own scientists and robotic experts upgraded his power armor, his cybernetic systems, and reprogrammed his brain with the chip the Enclave had inserted into his brainstem, simply to program him to be loyal to the Empire the same way he had been loyal to America, and to think that the Empire was America several thousand years later, that may have been cruel yes, but I saw no other way of keeping such a monster of flesh and metal in check without just killing him. The upgrades to his power armor meant it would cover him entirely, he had plasmatic blades on his arms like he did before with his composite blades, and his plasma cannon was replaced to give both arms an automatic 20 millimeter plasma cannon, how this differed from his old one was because they were much, much more powerful than his older, slower plasma cannon. Along with having his fusion plant replaced with an Empire Standard one. As for why I had this all done rather than kill the mutated bastard? Simple, he could be useful in several dozen different ways, so I'd use em for now, if he went on a killing rampage an implant I had installed into his helmet would blow with the force of a M45 Tactical Nuclear Bomb, or, a mini-nuke.

The data recovered from those bases had been interesting as well as the technology recovered. The blueprints of a nuclear powered rocket which would house a few hundred, up to a thousand people in cryogenic sleep with an advanced Artificial Intelligence which would control the craft until it got close to its destination, at which point it would wake up the pilots and have it land quite a bit like an airplane, it would have long angular wings slide out and let it glide while the booster rockets beneath it fired to slow it down and sort of let it land like either an airplane, or helicopter, and this thing was designed in such a way that once it was pointed upwards and refueled it could be reused, that was very close to an idea I had thought about for the Empire's space travel until the Zetan tech had been recovered. However the most interesting chunk of data was how in 2068 the United States of America had launched seven of those at Mars, and made planetfall. Seemingly the pink planet I had picked as one of my territories actually had a breathable atmosphere, and trees, abit they didn't look much like ones on Equis, I'll go over that more later on.

In other news, the wall had been repaired, the rebuilding process was slow, but we were making steady progress in rebuilding, the military service held for those lost in the battle with the Umbrum went off decently, the monument built to them quite a lot like 'the fallen' of world war two, a giant wall with their names, a holographic picture of each. Families who lost someone in the battle where compensated well, the ashes of their loved ones given to them along with the belongings they had in their bunk lockers. In lighter news, trade with Equestria, the Griffon Empire, and the Minotaur Kingdom was back up and running, moreso in my favor than before since I still had the Crystal Lorenzo hauling in tons of free floating rock from the asteroid belt. Equestria's lunar colony was complete, and aside from housing civilians it also held a military purpose as well, armed with dozens of their Magical Deathrays, reverse engineered by Storm Empire scientists to work with magic as a power source rather than plasma, which would shoot down anything trying to enter Equis's atmosphere without authorization, meaning hostile aliens. I was glad Celestia was smart enough to do that.

The Abyssinian Empire had been moved to the Storm Islands, no one, no one alive that is, remained on that island when I came back, so I had them set up there quickly, as for how? I had the Crystal Lorenzo use its antigravity beam to TUG their chunk of land from the planet and simply fused it with the storm islands, increasing their size a small bit, and also meaning they didn't have to spend time rebuilding, and in return I also gave them some automated defenses while they set up their own, I also handed them Arcane Cannon blueprints, arcane reactors, magical energy shield blueprints, and antigravity engine blueprints to do with as they wanted, seeing as every nation, important nation anyways, used them now for not only their airships, but their small fleet of starships. Those islands where rich in iron, copper, silver, coal, and other resources which they could use, the coal they'd likely just sell.

I had attempted to have a portal gate to the anthro Equestria opened, but so far no luck, and I had no way to contact that worlds Discord, seeing as I didn't get some object from him that would allow him to find me like My worlds Discord did, and once I was back I snapped it in half, like HELL I wanna keep a twilicane in my inventory taking up space. Instead after I did so, he gave me an empty Nuka Cola bottle, which I kept, it would do the same thing the cane had done, let em locate me if I somehow got tossed into another dimension. A very random bit of interesting news came to light recently after I had come back with my Empire to Equis, the USCR, or Union of Canine Socialist Republics, had formed in the wake of my devastation to Bonejaw's entire military structure. The minotaur had also done a lot of damage, but since I had killed Bonejaw I was seen as the main component in their revolution, I honestly hadn't known there was a revolution in the works when I killed Bonejaw.

Several thousand diamond dogs went with me when I killed Bonejaw, several million however did not, and it seemed the revolutionaries had decided to take power sooner than expected, since most of Bonejaw's military had been brutally destroyed, they took power with very little resistance and began to reform the nation, the Dragon Lands had been a decent chunk of what was now the Union of Canine Socialist Republics, but seemingly the few thousand dragons remaining fled to the top of Zebrica, which was an empty colony of the Empire, but the section they had settled into was empty, far from the automated defenses which had sat awaiting orders to kill since the Empire vanished, I had sent several dozen combat androids to Zebrica to maintain it after a week of being back, and it seemed the Caribou had kept trying to poke their way into the former nation, since the defenses had reported killing a few dozen in the three years my Empire was gone from the face of this universe.

Regardless back to the point at hand, the Union of Canine Socialist Republics ruler, a dog named General Secretary Vadik had personally video called me to thank me for my help in their revolution, and that they'd like to be allies, I was holding off on that for now until I could learn more about this new nation, as such I had placed a few changeling spies into it, if shit went wrong they could activate a specialized enchanted gem given to them which would shatter and teleport them to a room in the DIA. I had new satellites deployed last week from the Crystal Lorenzo, a few dozen of em, which began to map this planet rapidly, and a landmass to the western side of the planet had been detected, it was a decent sized continent, so far I have yet to receive any images of the continent, but I would be getting those soon, for now however I'd return to what I was doing and turned to the scientist who was helping with the Horrigan Project. "You reported he's ready for activation, let's hope this is true and that nothing goes apeshit." I looked back across the room to the large table that held Frank Horrigan, several maglocks keeping him locked onto the table, his power armor polished and the flag on it replaced with one of the Crystal Empire's flag.

Laura Stone, the chief scientist whom was frozen, nodded and pressed a button after typing a few things into the computer next to her, and watched in anticipation as Frank's armor began to process the data and a surge of power flowed throughout its systems, within a few seconds the helmet's eyes began to glow a hellish red as Frank stood up in all his glory, smashing the maglocks in the process of doing so, looked down at his arms, then at me. I gave a savage grin as he saluted and walked over, his massive frame shaking the floor with every step. "What are your orders King Lorenzo." His voice just as I remember listening to from Youtube back on my Earth.

Looking up and down over his armor, the modifications and upgrades made it so no part of his mutated skin was able to show through, however he could take the helmet off, as mutated as he may have been he still needed to eat, and I chuckled. "You are to assist in the manned exploration of Mars, a planet which now is under Empire jurisdiction and is going to soon become a colony of the Empire."

The towering beast that was Frank Horrigan nodded. "Understood sir, I will do as I am able to defend the teams assigned to explore our new world." I couldn't see it, but Frank was grinning behind his helmet. The small starship which would launch in three hours to Mars was already set to go, I just wanted to wait until I myself could accompany the staff aboard the starship as well, it was a modified Akun starship. If the data that Calculator had given me was correct, this was going to be a very, very interesting exploration mission.

Author's Note

You know, I didn't actually plan on adding Frank Horrigan, not at first anyways, until a commenter got me thinking about it, and I thought to myself 'fuck it why not' because in the end, my story I can alter the lore as much as I see fit XD, seeing as how I made the Great Calamity a thing and crap, that part was actually planned since I began A New Empire War And Peace. Regardless, what did ya think? Did ya like this? Tell me down below in the comments! If ya haven't already, like, share, and simply tell me how ya enjoy the story! Join the discord server if you want updates as they come, since Fimfiction is being a cunt lately with notifications it seems. and not updating people when the story gets new chapters.

here's Frank Horrigan the big mutant himself, the top image is mostly what his armor looks like now, abit both arms can have the same automatic plasma cannon like the one seen on the left arm

here's a cooler pic of em that shows what the plasmatic blades look like, along with the telltale glow of his power armor's eye sockets due to his cybernetic eyes

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/466344/operation-new-world