Needleman was built in 2172 and deactivated ten years later. His
deactivation was ruled as him being threat to the current order of Reploids
and Humans. So for 16 years he was held in a capsule in a lab in San
Francisco. In 2198 there was a mini-Reploid Rebellion throughout the
western portion of the United States and some human scientists had
stumbled across Needleman's capsule and unknowingly reactivated him after
things had calmed down. In doing so they discovered his fighting ability was
beyond that of even more modern reploids, and he was kept active to study.
Six Months later in the March of 2199 The Great Reploid Rebellion began
and all the cities on the West Coast of the U.S. broke free of the Union.
Needleman, having escaped the lab, managed to organize the fumbling cities
and create a sovereign government called the Western Reploid Union. He
watched as the grand empires of Shinsteru and The People's Reublic rose
while he was contained in his little area blocked by the Human armies of
America.
Finally in the July of 2201 the W.R.U. managed to launch a successful
assault into Texas, though it cost him half of his military. This expansion
would continue all up until August of 2202 when the last of Canada, America,
and the Central American Unity fell. At this point the Western Reploid Union
controlled all of North America down from the top of Canada to the bottom of
Central America, including the Caribbean Sea. During his rise Needleman's
intentions were good, although harsh. He valued security and fairness in his
governments, but was against the cruel oppression of others. He had also
gained a few friends across the world, those including The People's
Republic, Fefnir who was a visionary looking to give rise to his own
government, and he was even on relatively good terms with Shinisteru. His
only foes were the traitorous Red Alert Syndicate and the warmongering
Proto Mekvah, who would start a sort of Cold War.
By the start of 2203 the Red Alert Syndicate controlled almost all of Europe
except for the United Kingdom. Thanks to assistance and protection from the
Western Reploid Union, Fefnir had managed to peacefully gain control of the
entirety of the United Kingdom, preventing the complete domination of
Europe by the R.A.S. If they had taken Europe, the world would most likely
have been theirs in only a matter of time.
In an interesting turn of events Axl was assassinated by Megaman X and
Europe was split between the New European Republic and the European
Talon. While their position erupted into war, Needleman launched a massive
assault on South America quickly obliterating Wily's little patch of land and
the land still waving the flag of the Red Alert. Needleman's armies marched
across the continent with little resistance, within the year the European Talon
was forced out of Europe and the New European Republic was now true to its
name. Soon enough the Proto Mekvah would surrender and all of South
America would be united under the dominion of the Southern Reploid Union.
An entire continent decimated by one Reploid’s paranoia.
The only downside to this was that Needleman's friend, Gate, was
assassinated. In his honor, and for the good of the world, Needleman began
his campaign through African, reducing Wily down to one area. His troops led
a massive assault, mowing down Wily to his very own fortress, where Zero
and X finished of his bodyguards, and opened the gates. Wily had managed
to escape but his empire was no more. The Great Reploid Rebellion was
completely over.
Now the Western Reploid Union was easily the most powerful government on
the planet. Even the formation of the NWA was not quite as powerful as
them. The next few years went by calmly, Needleman's successes in
Botmania along with his continued de facto dominance. But this changed
him; his use of force to grow had made him something else. He no longer
was the rebellious leader, but a maniac. On multiple occasions war nearly
broke out, but Fefnir had quelled it, for at the time if war had started, the
outcome would be total world dominance by the Western Reploid Union.
Then they took South Eastern Asia, and all hell broke loose. Needleman
retailiated by taking Japan, and they took Sudan, long talks ended in
Needleman space cannoning the capital of the New European Republic. This
act started World War Three.
Before this though, during the tests of the Quantum Slipstream Drive, a
capsule holding a Future Needleman came back. But this Needleman was
different, kinder like he was back in the beginning days of the W.R.U. He
warned of a coming catastrophe and the dominance of the Sigma Virus.
Needleman acted to prevent the Sigma Virus from taking the world, but as for
the other, mysterious catastrophe, he seemed uninterested and ended up
imprisoning his future self.
As WWIII sped up the battles became for violent, and many nuclear weapons
and Space Cannons were used. Half of Europe was a Nuclear Wasteland
within a year. Even parts of the pacific were blasted.
Three years went by in a flash for the world. The Battle of Spain had allowed
the N.E.R. to push Western Reploid Union forces into the pacific where a
long but uneventful battle took place. This stalemate eventually led to both
navies simply passing each other by. The N.E.R. used those forces to attack
the eastern coast of the W.R.U. and the north-western coast of the Souther
Reploid Union. Both failed. But Needleman had concentrated his forces in
Spain which took it after yet another barrage of nuclear missiles eliminated
all remaining military. He aimed his forces at the heart of the N.E.R., the
British Isles.
World War III continued to rage on. Needleman was pushed out of Spain on
the European Front, and was dealing with assaults by Desert Claw via the
Red Sea. He had also ordered a nuclear strike on a large garrison of military
in the city of Berlin. Immediately after his attack on Berlin, Needleman
ordered an invasion of Seoul.
In early 2207, Needleman is victorious in Seoul and begins his push
throughout Kunisakae. But despite his best efforts, Needleman was unable to
hack into Fefnir’s two floating Space Cannons, and ordered them destroyed
by two experimental space missiles tipped with powerful nuclear warheads.
Needleman also orders WRU troops to secure the Western Shinisteru Empire
to the north.
In 2208, World War III is still going strong. Needle Man has taken all of
Kunisakae, and is now pushing deep into Desert Claw, stopping just outside
of Jerusalem. Realizing he could not maintain a siege of Jerusalem for long,
Needleman orders a large-scale strategic nuclear strike on the city and the
troops around it. The attack is as devastating as anyone could have
imagined, and WRU troops secure what’s left. For the first time ever,
Needleman finds he is facing domestic unrest in response to his attack on
Jerusalem.
In 2209, Fefnir and Needleman agree to sign a treaty to end the four-year
long WWIII, and the war is finally over. Not long afterwards, Needleman
receives word from Craft, his Supreme General, that there has been a
military-related scientific breakthrough. He is then informed that the Burst
Limit Enhancer project that he had been funding has come to fruition, and
that they have developed a device capable of tripling a Reploid’s combat
capabilities without extra strain on the power core.
In 2210, the Burst Limit Enhancer becomes public knowledge and the entire
military is outfitted with a micro-scale version of the device. Other smaller
versions up to the full version were created as well. Needleman immediately
outfits himself with the first commercial model.
Utilizing his newly enhanced military, Needleman blitzs the world and
conquers the Shinisteru Empire and New European Republic with ease. On
July 23rd, 2210; Needleman declares the world united in a grand speech to
the planet made from the top of the Capitol Building in San Francisco:
Title: Dawn of a New World
“My fellow Reploids.” He began. “My Human brothers. On this day, I am to
give joyous news to the people of Earth. For the past decade, the world has
been embroiled in a conflict that can now be called “The Revolution”. For
that is what it was. In 2200, machinekind made itself a declaration of
independence. We stood up to declare ourselves equal to those that have
built us, and that threw the world in chaos. Leaders arose who unified with
words, like Gate. Leaders arose who unified with guns, like Ring Master.
Leaders arose who unified with both, like myself. And it is this “Revolution”
that has caused what many of us have been unable to escape for ten long
years. And for four of those years, the Earth was subject to the largest
conflict in history, and a conflict already called World War III.
But that is finally, over, my citizens. That war has ended, and the conflicts of
Old Earth have fallen into the memories of history and are nothing more. We
have walked into the fire of global conflict for the last time, because, and for
the first time in all of history, the entirety of Earth is united under a single
banner. OUR banner. Fact has triumphed over prejudice, reason over
emotion, and practicality over fanaticism.
Eight thousand years since the rise of civilization. In eight thousand years the
people of Earth now fly among the stars and live under a single rule. Who
can not be in awe at this achievement? An achievement made by all people
of Earth.
So some of you wonder, if all I say is true and all the issues of war, disease,
poverty, starvation, and ignorance are all finally over thanks to the power of
this united Earth, what now? To that question I answer with another: What
can’t we do? There are still things to be learned, goals to be met,
achievements made. Recent developments in Faster than Light propulsion
made during The Revolution have opened us up to the stars, and who knows
what treasures and adventures for our world lay among them?
People of Earth! Today is the Dawn of a New World! A day when Earth finally
sets it’s sights to the future! With the power of a planet united, there is
nothing we cannot do! And now, to further burn this day into the trunk of
history, I make a declaration, a promise to Earth. With our new Quantum
Slipstream Drive we will put one of our own on the surface of a world whose
light comes from an alien star within the decade! We will reach out to the
heavens, AND CLAIM OUR DESTINY!”
The already roaring crowd exploded, people across the globe shook with
excitement, even those in areas still devastated by war. Needleman’s words,
in this time of painful healing, brought hope, motivation, and the prospects of
glory to a people who desperately needed them.
Needleman continued his speech, but now in a more somber tone:
“But what of those who gave the ultimate price for this achievement? All the
soldiers and fighters of The Revolution? The people: Reploid, man, woman,
even child will all be remembered for all of eternity. Their sides in those wars
are now moot concepts. There are no longer “sides” but instead only a
“side”. Ours. To honor those fallen this past decade, and to honor all those
that have fallen since the Dawn of Man, I say that my first official decree as
leader of the COMPLETE Reploid Union, as the leader of Earth, that this day
and the six succeeding days of every year be the Week of the Union. So
even millennia from now no one will have forgotten what has occurred before
them!
Now, my citizens, now we begin the long task of recovery. But when we
emerge from this, we will be stronger than any nation in a fractured Earth
could ever have imagined. We will be the example for our descendants of
what exactly the people of Earth are capable of. This era will be the greatest
in history.
And this era…begins now.”
deactivation was ruled as him being threat to the current order of Reploids
and Humans. So for 16 years he was held in a capsule in a lab in San
Francisco. In 2198 there was a mini-Reploid Rebellion throughout the
western portion of the United States and some human scientists had
stumbled across Needleman's capsule and unknowingly reactivated him after
things had calmed down. In doing so they discovered his fighting ability was
beyond that of even more modern reploids, and he was kept active to study.
Six Months later in the March of 2199 The Great Reploid Rebellion began
and all the cities on the West Coast of the U.S. broke free of the Union.
Needleman, having escaped the lab, managed to organize the fumbling cities
and create a sovereign government called the Western Reploid Union. He
watched as the grand empires of Shinsteru and The People's Reublic rose
while he was contained in his little area blocked by the Human armies of
America.
Finally in the July of 2201 the W.R.U. managed to launch a successful
assault into Texas, though it cost him half of his military. This expansion
would continue all up until August of 2202 when the last of Canada, America,
and the Central American Unity fell. At this point the Western Reploid Union
controlled all of North America down from the top of Canada to the bottom of
Central America, including the Caribbean Sea. During his rise Needleman's
intentions were good, although harsh. He valued security and fairness in his
governments, but was against the cruel oppression of others. He had also
gained a few friends across the world, those including The People's
Republic, Fefnir who was a visionary looking to give rise to his own
government, and he was even on relatively good terms with Shinisteru. His
only foes were the traitorous Red Alert Syndicate and the warmongering
Proto Mekvah, who would start a sort of Cold War.
By the start of 2203 the Red Alert Syndicate controlled almost all of Europe
except for the United Kingdom. Thanks to assistance and protection from the
Western Reploid Union, Fefnir had managed to peacefully gain control of the
entirety of the United Kingdom, preventing the complete domination of
Europe by the R.A.S. If they had taken Europe, the world would most likely
have been theirs in only a matter of time.
In an interesting turn of events Axl was assassinated by Megaman X and
Europe was split between the New European Republic and the European
Talon. While their position erupted into war, Needleman launched a massive
assault on South America quickly obliterating Wily's little patch of land and
the land still waving the flag of the Red Alert. Needleman's armies marched
across the continent with little resistance, within the year the European Talon
was forced out of Europe and the New European Republic was now true to its
name. Soon enough the Proto Mekvah would surrender and all of South
America would be united under the dominion of the Southern Reploid Union.
An entire continent decimated by one Reploid’s paranoia.
The only downside to this was that Needleman's friend, Gate, was
assassinated. In his honor, and for the good of the world, Needleman began
his campaign through African, reducing Wily down to one area. His troops led
a massive assault, mowing down Wily to his very own fortress, where Zero
and X finished of his bodyguards, and opened the gates. Wily had managed
to escape but his empire was no more. The Great Reploid Rebellion was
completely over.
Now the Western Reploid Union was easily the most powerful government on
the planet. Even the formation of the NWA was not quite as powerful as
them. The next few years went by calmly, Needleman's successes in
Botmania along with his continued de facto dominance. But this changed
him; his use of force to grow had made him something else. He no longer
was the rebellious leader, but a maniac. On multiple occasions war nearly
broke out, but Fefnir had quelled it, for at the time if war had started, the
outcome would be total world dominance by the Western Reploid Union.
Then they took South Eastern Asia, and all hell broke loose. Needleman
retailiated by taking Japan, and they took Sudan, long talks ended in
Needleman space cannoning the capital of the New European Republic. This
act started World War Three.
Before this though, during the tests of the Quantum Slipstream Drive, a
capsule holding a Future Needleman came back. But this Needleman was
different, kinder like he was back in the beginning days of the W.R.U. He
warned of a coming catastrophe and the dominance of the Sigma Virus.
Needleman acted to prevent the Sigma Virus from taking the world, but as for
the other, mysterious catastrophe, he seemed uninterested and ended up
imprisoning his future self.
As WWIII sped up the battles became for violent, and many nuclear weapons
and Space Cannons were used. Half of Europe was a Nuclear Wasteland
within a year. Even parts of the pacific were blasted.
Three years went by in a flash for the world. The Battle of Spain had allowed
the N.E.R. to push Western Reploid Union forces into the pacific where a
long but uneventful battle took place. This stalemate eventually led to both
navies simply passing each other by. The N.E.R. used those forces to attack
the eastern coast of the W.R.U. and the north-western coast of the Souther
Reploid Union. Both failed. But Needleman had concentrated his forces in
Spain which took it after yet another barrage of nuclear missiles eliminated
all remaining military. He aimed his forces at the heart of the N.E.R., the
British Isles.
World War III continued to rage on. Needleman was pushed out of Spain on
the European Front, and was dealing with assaults by Desert Claw via the
Red Sea. He had also ordered a nuclear strike on a large garrison of military
in the city of Berlin. Immediately after his attack on Berlin, Needleman
ordered an invasion of Seoul.
In early 2207, Needleman is victorious in Seoul and begins his push
throughout Kunisakae. But despite his best efforts, Needleman was unable to
hack into Fefnir’s two floating Space Cannons, and ordered them destroyed
by two experimental space missiles tipped with powerful nuclear warheads.
Needleman also orders WRU troops to secure the Western Shinisteru Empire
to the north.
In 2208, World War III is still going strong. Needle Man has taken all of
Kunisakae, and is now pushing deep into Desert Claw, stopping just outside
of Jerusalem. Realizing he could not maintain a siege of Jerusalem for long,
Needleman orders a large-scale strategic nuclear strike on the city and the
troops around it. The attack is as devastating as anyone could have
imagined, and WRU troops secure what’s left. For the first time ever,
Needleman finds he is facing domestic unrest in response to his attack on
Jerusalem.
In 2209, Fefnir and Needleman agree to sign a treaty to end the four-year
long WWIII, and the war is finally over. Not long afterwards, Needleman
receives word from Craft, his Supreme General, that there has been a
military-related scientific breakthrough. He is then informed that the Burst
Limit Enhancer project that he had been funding has come to fruition, and
that they have developed a device capable of tripling a Reploid’s combat
capabilities without extra strain on the power core.
In 2210, the Burst Limit Enhancer becomes public knowledge and the entire
military is outfitted with a micro-scale version of the device. Other smaller
versions up to the full version were created as well. Needleman immediately
outfits himself with the first commercial model.
Utilizing his newly enhanced military, Needleman blitzs the world and
conquers the Shinisteru Empire and New European Republic with ease. On
July 23rd, 2210; Needleman declares the world united in a grand speech to
the planet made from the top of the Capitol Building in San Francisco:
Title: Dawn of a New World
“My fellow Reploids.” He began. “My Human brothers. On this day, I am to
give joyous news to the people of Earth. For the past decade, the world has
been embroiled in a conflict that can now be called “The Revolution”. For
that is what it was. In 2200, machinekind made itself a declaration of
independence. We stood up to declare ourselves equal to those that have
built us, and that threw the world in chaos. Leaders arose who unified with
words, like Gate. Leaders arose who unified with guns, like Ring Master.
Leaders arose who unified with both, like myself. And it is this “Revolution”
that has caused what many of us have been unable to escape for ten long
years. And for four of those years, the Earth was subject to the largest
conflict in history, and a conflict already called World War III.
But that is finally, over, my citizens. That war has ended, and the conflicts of
Old Earth have fallen into the memories of history and are nothing more. We
have walked into the fire of global conflict for the last time, because, and for
the first time in all of history, the entirety of Earth is united under a single
banner. OUR banner. Fact has triumphed over prejudice, reason over
emotion, and practicality over fanaticism.
Eight thousand years since the rise of civilization. In eight thousand years the
people of Earth now fly among the stars and live under a single rule. Who
can not be in awe at this achievement? An achievement made by all people
of Earth.
So some of you wonder, if all I say is true and all the issues of war, disease,
poverty, starvation, and ignorance are all finally over thanks to the power of
this united Earth, what now? To that question I answer with another: What
can’t we do? There are still things to be learned, goals to be met,
achievements made. Recent developments in Faster than Light propulsion
made during The Revolution have opened us up to the stars, and who knows
what treasures and adventures for our world lay among them?
People of Earth! Today is the Dawn of a New World! A day when Earth finally
sets it’s sights to the future! With the power of a planet united, there is
nothing we cannot do! And now, to further burn this day into the trunk of
history, I make a declaration, a promise to Earth. With our new Quantum
Slipstream Drive we will put one of our own on the surface of a world whose
light comes from an alien star within the decade! We will reach out to the
heavens, AND CLAIM OUR DESTINY!”
The already roaring crowd exploded, people across the globe shook with
excitement, even those in areas still devastated by war. Needleman’s words,
in this time of painful healing, brought hope, motivation, and the prospects of
glory to a people who desperately needed them.
Needleman continued his speech, but now in a more somber tone:
“But what of those who gave the ultimate price for this achievement? All the
soldiers and fighters of The Revolution? The people: Reploid, man, woman,
even child will all be remembered for all of eternity. Their sides in those wars
are now moot concepts. There are no longer “sides” but instead only a
“side”. Ours. To honor those fallen this past decade, and to honor all those
that have fallen since the Dawn of Man, I say that my first official decree as
leader of the COMPLETE Reploid Union, as the leader of Earth, that this day
and the six succeeding days of every year be the Week of the Union. So
even millennia from now no one will have forgotten what has occurred before
them!
Now, my citizens, now we begin the long task of recovery. But when we
emerge from this, we will be stronger than any nation in a fractured Earth
could ever have imagined. We will be the example for our descendants of
what exactly the people of Earth are capable of. This era will be the greatest
in history.
And this era…begins now.”
