After finishing meetings with Marrybell and her Glinda Knights, he assigned them the task force to dig up dirt in Pendragon. Marcus, Leila, and Jeanne went to California.
The mobile suit development division where Rakshata Chawla was working.
"Well, well, what an honour, Your Majesty himself came to visit." The Indian lady lazily greeted the Emperor-To-Be who arrived at her hangar.
The very first thing he did was to take off his black cloak and hand it to Jeanne, as he was getting roasted by the hot weather.
"Good day to you, Rakshata Chawla. Marrybell told me you want to meet me."
The lady chuckled at that comment.
"Who doesn't? You are the first Man who rules the entire world." She commented with a smirk before standing up from her couch and walking over to him.
'She is just as eccentric as that Lloyd…' Leila and Jeanne thought at the same time.
"Just a side objective, I assure you," Marcus replied before looking at the mobile suits standing against the wall in the hangar.
"...not as impressive as yours, but assure you, they are the best that Britannia could produce with the current level of technology we have." She said while following his gaze.
"Impressive nonetheless. You did this in a matter of months. It took me years of development to make my first mobile suit." He honestly replied to her.
"Fufufu, being humble is not for you, Emperor Lelouch." She shook her head.
"All I did was follow your footprints, use your Anaheim Technology as much as I can before incorporating Britannian tech and what I developed.
It's still not there… Thrust power, battery longevity, and even cockpit technology are lagging behind.
Not to mention your Artificial Intelligence." The woman frowned as she recalled all the shortcomings.
"Alas, I was about to roll out my GOUF." She looked at him. " I was able to crack your Lithium Sakuradite batteries." At the end, she smirked while saying that.
"Good for you. It was the most basic tech we threw at the wind. It was something Anna and I came up with to make mass production units." He replied casually. Setanta tech is so-so.
There is literal upgrade work underway for those machines.
"...I knew it." Rakshata had this feeling that Setantas meant nothing to Marcus.
It was mass-produced machines after all.
"Your Anaheim is separated into spheres of technology. Through the conflicts, the Britannians barely got anything from your forces.
In other words, the core technology never got leaked to the outside world."
The Emperor-To-Be nodded several times at her.
"Indeed, that is why I want to offer you a position in my Anaheim."
She chuckled when she heard that.
"Do I even have a choice? If I want to make Mobile Suits ever again, I can only do so with your help."
Rakshata shook her head. He was the only authority in the world now. Sure… she could get some financing from private companies, but that would be suicidal. Anaheim's hold over the world will be far more terrifying than Britannian ever was.
With how Mobile Suits are run… and the government itself, she heard in India. It's a different beast when it comes to control.
"Indeed. I do need you in space. There are tens of enormous projects that you could work on."
"...As long as I can work on what I like." She tried to wiggle.
"There are Mobile Suit Projects, yes. But they are not a priority at the moment.
I want people in space so that I continue with my expansion… to put humans on every planet on in our Galaxy and eventually… the entire cosmos."
"...That's…"
She was speechless… does he know!? How big is Cosmos!?
"Indeed. So at the moment there are no wars, but we need commercial space ships, the Space Elevators, terraforming technology, all of that." He mentioned stuff from the top of his head.
"Or… if you want a challenge, I can assign you to designing Orbital Ring." He lazily mentioned another thing he wants to build for his Earth.
"No. I am fine with whatever Earl of Pudding is working on."
"Fair enough. You can work on bringing my other KK units to the next generation."
When she heard that, a grin appeared on her lips.
"You have my undivided attention, Emperor Lelouch." She was motivated!
"Good." He sharply nodded before looking at GOUF…
It was nostalgic… he hasn't seen Gundam Anime for many years now. It was a pity…
~~~~~~A Week Later~~~~~~
Embarrassed, Leila stumbled into a meeting while following her boyfriend. She was blushing and walking awkwardly. This has been going on for over a week.
Marcus took it personally to make sure his future wife was taken care of.
Some of the people realised what was going on and were smirking or laughing at it.
"Do you need to do it everywhere?" Leila hissed at him as she ended up sitting next to him.
Instead of saying anything, he squeezed her hand.
"All I am doing is to make sure my girlfriend is satisfied. How can I allow you to feel left out?" He replied with a question of his own.
"..."
The blonde blushed as she had no idea how to reply to that.
"...But… every day… several times per day?" She whispered.
"Indeed… until you are satisfied." He winked at her before focusing on the gathered people.
"Morning, my apologies for being late. I had to take care of a small thing." Leila blushed even harder. This was embarrassing! She should have known that Marcus would deal with her jealousy in some strange way! She didn't expect him to take it 'personally' like that.
Since she was jealous that Marcus impregnated Anna, he would make her pregnant as well.
She doesn't mind that… but what is making her want to kill herself is that he is pulling her aside somewhere in the Palace and then does things to her… everywhere!
"Your Majesty, it's alright. We understand." One of the business leaders smiled at him in understanding.
The rest of them did the same.
"Good. Then let's begin. I want to show you the future."
All of a sudden, everyone 'forgot' what they had witnessed and focused on the table that had come alive.
A hologram of Earth appeared above the middle of the table.
The purpose of such meetings is to introduce businesses to space. Space elevators and colonies are the next big thing.
Humans have already been in space… thousands of them! SWORD ONE is getting populated as this meeting is happening.
So far, resource management is handled solely by Anaheim, but Marcus wants commercial trading to become a thing.
That's where Space Elevators come to play. He is showing them three massive cities that will be built around three massive Elevators.
He wants these business leaders to focus on them and build their warehouses and stuff there for space industries.
And at the same time, he wants to control them early on. He can't allow corporations to get out of control the moment Space Elevators are operational.
"You might have heard the rumours that I am quite fascinated by space."
Everyone showed him a strained smile.
He conquered the world for that… they know that in detail!
"The space is already reachable for my military, and several thousand people already live there. Most of them are pioneers.
But I want to change that for the better. This is my solution." He motioned for the hologram to zoom into the elevator in Africa.
"Space elevators that run magnetic linear trains. With trains in places we can move goods, resources and people at absurd speeds, making space just another location on the map." He showed them inside the linear trains and what is at the top of the pillar.
It was a massive space port,
"...Your Majesty, how quickly will they be operational?" One of the men asked in an excited tone.
It would seem they realised the potential for this. How could they not? This was the wild frontier once more.
Life-changing event!
"Already under construction."
He showed them huge works happening close to Kongo and above Kongo in space. Construction is happening as thousands of Legion Bots are working there.
Among them were custom spaceships that work as Legion Bot Maintenance.
"It will take a few short years." Marcus smiled. "Now that wars are over. I could dedicate more than 50% of the shipyards to these tasks.
My industrial complex is only growing bigger."
The businessmen immediately realised what was going on! They realised that the Emperor wants them in space!
"Now, to answer the question why we are here, Ladies and Gentlemen," He showed them the layout around the Kongo Space Elevator, which will be a city.
"These locations here will be given to you. Not sold, but given. There will be direct lines of trains that will take from these locations to the space elevator before moving them to space.
From there, cargo ships will move to colonies."
There was quite a reaction to that.
"What I need is for you all to start developing space-related goods. From uniforms to food rations. You understand, don't you?
There will be deep-space exploration, space-station life, and all sorts of things. While, I will try to give gravity in all places that can't be achieved everywhere, yet.
That is why we need to be ahead of our game." He explained what he wanted.
Now it made sense as there were many different leaders from all sorts of fields.
"We hear you loud and clear, Your Majesty. This is indeed a great opportunity!"
Marcus smiled, seeing them as enthusiastic as he was.
"My representatives will contact you all with details on how to proceed going forward. There will be many things to discuss."
Many of them nodded as the Emperor-To-Be gave more details before the meeting ended.
Once the meeting was done, Leila sighed in relief. She was feeling quite out of place… not military-related or logistics; she was here just because Marcus insisted she was with him!
"Can…I go now?" She wanted to retreat! To get into her room and get a shower and a bath.
"Nope, you will be spending the rest of the day with me." He smirked at her.
Her whole body trembled as she was feeling… spooked and excited at the same time!
~~~
Marcus stroked his chin as he looked through all the data he got from his World-Sized Empire.
He was tracking his people's mood. His claiming the title of Emperor has sharply tanked their opinion of him.
'I should go live and showcase the new policies.' The Inventor recalled that doing that, in person, so that they could see, would be for the best.
Especially since he will gut Britannian and turn it into a mere province.
Sure, it will be a huge province, but still a province nonetheless.
*Knock*
"Your Majesty, it's Maya, may I come in?"
Marcus perked up. Now that's a rare guest! One of his G-Force pilots! He rarely sees one of them in recent days…
These guys were a menace to all of his enemies.
"Come in, Maya."
The Inventor made his comfortable chair turn around, well, it was more like a throne than a chair, and looked at her.
The girl was dressed in Black and Purple uniform with a black cloak. Her blue eyes were looking at him.
Among his close circle, she was one of the most dissatisfied with him becoming Emperor of Britannia.
"What can I do for you?" He asked the girl who had closed the doors and walked into his workshop.
"...I want to know… why… with what Britannia did to you and your sister… why did you accept such a position?" She frowned; confusion clouded her eyes.
"...Hmm… there were several reasons." He pondered for a bit before replying.
"I want to hear them."
"Very well, since you are the one who is asking." For a second, he sighed.
"First, I wanted to move on and focus on what is important to me. The war was in the way." He looked at a hologram of what the Space Elevator will look like.
"Second, I was the one who pushed my old man to this position. To the point that he is giving away his throne to me.
Third, it was to win against him. He wanted to goad me into believing that I would rage and end the conversation." He explained to her, making her realise something.
"...So it's… ego?"
"Of course. I won't hide that. In other words, I would lose if I were to rage and be unable to control my emotions, and if I were to win, I would become the Emperor of Britannia, ending the war and finishing my conquest of the world."
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