Atlas Military

The typical Atlas Soldier wears Combat Armour with an AR Combat Helm (AR stands for Augmented Reality). Unlike Whtiecliffe, Atlas' soldiers do not wear camo and instead wear dark fatigues and white armour with colour streaks. The look is reminiscent of Stormtroopers or perhaps clone troopers from star wars. These Soldiers carry many different types of guns unlike in the main timeline and are more varied and well-trained.   Rather than the Hyper Robust Ground forces of Whitecliffe, Atlas prefers massive Fleets of ships to deploy large numbers of forces quickly, using Gunships, jets and VTOLs to lay down the pain on the enemy. Their Thunderhawk Airships come with Laser Cannons, Autocannon batteries and Missile pods. Atlas fleets normally have 40 Airships with hundreds of aircraft between them all that give the Atlas Military Maximum reach.   Atlas Soldiers are constantly tasked with Police Work and Guard Duty, there are problems with this as Atlas Soldiers are known to follow orders to the letter and be rough with civilians and sometimes end up shooting people where they should not. Atlas Soldiers aren't Inhumane but rather their training turns them into highly regimented Killers and not the ideal civil servants yet all the same, they are tasked with their duties and will fulfil them with absolute dedication and no questions.   Even if they're asked to do something unethical.   Atlas Academy maintains its own Combat Information Centre, however, the majority of Outbound Atlas Operations are handled by the Octagon. The Academy CIC is explicitly dedicated to Defensive Combat Operations for Atlas City and Mantle, the latter half leaving much to be desired.   The Atlassian Knight-200 is the latest and Greatest of Atlas Combat Bots, while Whitecliffe combat bots are free thinking, the AK-200 has zero free will and obeys a set of highly sophisticated combat protocols and can use a wide array of weapons. The Bot can also take a severe beating and continue operation, unlike the AK-130. These bots are designed to take the risks the Atlas Soldiers can't or won't.   However, their ability to kill Grimm has been somewhat...disappointing. The Falcon Jet is the main Jet Fighter of the Atlas Airforce, it has been known to fly in high orbit and deliver devastating blows against Grimm. They're not as diverse as Whitecliffe's jet fighters but they're known as reliable all-rounders that have served faithfully in the last 20 years despite some trying to decommission them and depend entirely on the Atlas Manta ships.   The military has many Generals but -The- General is General ironwood who serves as secretary of Defense and headmaster, owning two seats on the Atlas Council. Ironwood wasn't always the big leader but it is certainly easy to feel as though he is the only leader. He has been the major deciding factor in almost every Military policy since the SDC got him the secretary position after the Faunus Liberation War.   That said, there are many other generals who dissent against him, the key of which is General Gold who leads his forces to protect Vale and then Mistral after the Battle of Beacon. Still despite this detention, few violate Ironwood's Orders. For all intents and purposes, he is the sole, unquestionable authority of the entire organization. Leading many to nearly worship the man as the single greatest military genius the world has ever known, even if his record isn't particularly more impressive than any other high-performing CO.   After the Battle of Beacon, the Department of Cyber Affairs was created in order to maintain Network security, and keep the many robots of the army under control, fearing a possible A.I Revolution against the Kingdom. Despite the Department's existence, it's still young and there are many vulnerabilities that must be closed before someone else cripples all of Atlas with but a press of a Button.   As such, the Marigolds and the Slynch Families pool a lot of investment into the Program, with Ironwood donating a portion of his personal wealth to ensure that the Department continues to develop and secure the network. Their failure to do this beforehand has created a lot of doubt in Schnee Robotics who denied any rumours of the Atlas Knights being hacked and sometimes are bold enough to imply the General himself gave bad orders which resulted in the AI killing organics.   The Government broadly blames unnamed free AI and somewhat blames Whitecliffe for the security breach.   Specialists are Military Hunters who serve Atlas, this is the common outcome of Hunter Trainees within Atlas. Winter is especially prevalent because she is the -single- highest-performing Huntress to ever come out of Atlas Academy. This is why she is the face of the Program and the General's Right hand. Specialists are entrusted with command and often end up being in the command hierarchy.   As such, the Academy basically acts like an Officer School, with Hunters within it learning Strategy, tactics and Command. Every general is pretty much a specialist at some point, meaning the End point of Winter's career is to herself be a general and given her closeness to Ironwood, some say she is to be the future Secretary of Defense, a job few specialists really envy, partly out of hero worship of Ironwood which is incredibly potent in the Specialist Program but also a nervousness that no one else could control such a vast organization.   Ace Ops are also members of the Specialist Program, and so are Neon Cat and Flynt Coal who were high-performing Specialists in their grade.   A lot of people mock the Nubuck Guard but they're a relic of the Pre-Ironwood Atlas Military if anyone could believe it. In past times, the military had an even more ridiculous and uptight attitude. These were not always the Uniforms but Nubuck Uniforms were good examples of Early Post War Uniforms. The World was coming down from times of war so most armed forces took up fancy uniforms with mobility and flexibility not factored in.    Cordova often keeps a surviving Garrison of the vaunted Guards as a part of the Base Garrison but they often parade around and promote Atlassian Patriotism rather than being combat effective soldiers. Outside of Argus, there are very few instances of Nubuck Guards, often guarding areas of incredible national importance and are the main ceremonial guard of the Vytal International Forum.   The Atlas Military is among the few militarised forces with the use of the WMDs, specifically the Direwulf Mk.2 Mega Dust Bomb. The Missile is an intercontinental Weapon and when fired, burrows onto the ground and detonates all nearby Dust veins simultaneously with highly volatile dust. The Explosive Power of the Direwulf is comparable to the real-world Tsar Bomba. The Direwulf's purpose is absolute and undeniable mass destruction.   If Remnant was ever lost to Humanity, there will be no Remnant at all.    There is also the Scatter Strike Dust WMD, the Scatter Strike sprays highly volatile Dust particles across wide regions of land. The Air is filled with toxic vapours that'll kill anything in the lungs. The Ground will quake and shatter with hyper-explosive dust crystals scattered everywhere causing subsequent explosions in a daisy chain of mass destruction. Not only will the Underground veins explode but so will any surface veins.    Just in case anything could survive the blast, the primary explosion is a Thermonuclear Reaction, instantly vapourising anything in the immediate blast radius. The Missile explodes in the air so that way the Radius is many miles larger. After a detonation, the land is highly radioactive and full of hyper-reactive dust crystals and particles. Along with radioactive dust, the dust particles in the air will literally shred your lungs because they're so fine and damage your skin.    The Bomb like the Direwulf is designed to kill as many things as physically possible.