Justinian felt that six weeks were not going to be enough to use his magical abillities, so he created a massive Bounded Field in unison with Ddraig and Albion. The three of them covered Mars, Phobos, and Deimos in a Time Dilation Field to give themselves far more time.
The Planet and its two Moons in this Time Dilation Field continued their orbit around the sun without issue and none were the wiser. From Earth, it merely seemed that Justinian had placed a magical protection Field around Mars, but it was so much more.
The Justice League was starting to believe Batman that Justinian was not a benevolent person. Diana was starting to have a harder and harder time justifying his actions, but with the discovery of her twin brother, she wouldn't and couldn't betray him.
She still vouched for him, but thus far, Justinian was far more occupied with Mars. His Dilation Field trapped every single living being on Mars, and it did as it was named. It dilated time giving Justinian not six weeks to finish his work, but six years. Ddraig, Albion, and Justinian made the decision that they needed more time and they were not going to wait for it naturally.
Once the Field was up, Justinian cut loose on the brutality he had been suppressing. He released his Honor Guard and Martians who had been itching for carnage. 20 of his Honor Guard including Remnosh led his 20 Chapters of 20,000 Soldier White Martians.
In these Campaigns, the different Chapters of Marines began forced recruitment of young Soldier Cast White Martians. Once they were forced to sign the proper magic binding contracts, they were subjected to genetic, magical, and psychic enhancements to make them proper Space Marines.
Much like the real Space Marines, loyalty was engrained in them not just from their souls, but their very DNA and minds made them loyal to Justinian. Not only were the Space Marines going through a rise in numbers, but even the Laborers were going through the same.
The Tempestus Scions were mass recruiting from Mars having similar practices to the Space Marines. Mars had a population of 450 million before Justinian's arrival, but that was still plenty. That also did not include the clones that Justinian was starting to make.
Once a Kingdom, City State, or Empire was forced into Compliance with a Tithe of Laborers, Soldiers, Shapers, and even Elites. 1/10 of each was demanded to be handed over to The Imperium Of Justinian. Once they were taken, they were separated by their jobs. Laborers either became Farmers, Miners, or Smiths and other jobs or if they were of stronger will taken to the Scions.
Soldiers were all taken to the Space Marine Chapters, which were going to be grown in Legions in due time. Once they were modified and trained in the new training Dimensions Justinian set up to show them combat they received their Power Armor once they passed the harsh Criteria.
The Shapers were tested for Magic Talent and those considered talented were taken to be War Shapers. If not, they still received the Magical, Genetic, and Psychic Enhancements to be Mages, Psymagical Smiths, or War Smiths forging the weapons of War demanded of them.
As for the Elites, Justinian began to expand his Honor Guard. The Emperor had 10,000 Custodes as his Guards, but Justinian was not going to have an army that large. Instead, he decided to set a target for 100 Burning Martians.
Once he reached his goal, he would stop taking the tithe of Elites but instead have a Tithe Of Blood. As it sounded, every Elite had to supply several gallons of their blood which was of no issue for a Martian, much less an Elite.
With this blood, Justinian continued his Genetic Experiments through Science, Alchemical, Magical, Biomantic, and Esoteric Techniques he created a new race. A Psychic Race that only answered to him and those he permitted to control them.
The Krorks, a race he had always wanted to see come back to 40k, but unlikely to happen. Regardless, he recreated the giant Psychic Powerful Warrior Race, but he had yet to release them.
They remained in stasis within his genetic laboratory to be unleashed into the galaxy. Regardless, the brutality did not stop with the tithes that were taken. Through the brutal crushing of resistance, Justinian's small Imperium brought all of Mars in less than a month to compliance which would have left two weeks to meet with the Saturnians. '
However, with the Time Dilation Barrier still in effect, Justinian had another six years to spare. Once most of Mars was forced to comply, Justinian brought every single Psychic Focus Crystal to his Throne Room.
Using his abilities, he fused all of them into his Crystal Throne before hijacking and fusing the Psychic Nets into a massive planet spanning one. Through this net, Justinian could find even the smallest bit of resistance forming in the minds of individual Martians.
When he did find it, he would either send out his Marines, and Scions, or he would just send them to Lauralina who was in the process of forming an Inquisition to root out what she called, Heresy.
However, everything was still new so Justinian took the time he had to stabilize Mars. Once he took control of the rampaging tide of Mutated Beasts, Mars was truly his. He still had no response from the Martian gods, but all things considered, the Martian gods were minor gods in DC.
He still could tell that they were not pleased with him, but he was a Divine Perpetual who would not kneel to anything or anyone. Once all resistance to his rule was broken, Justinian began the process of setting up a council of 100 Martians which were all clones he had made in his lab.
All of them followed his will with the ability to suggest and advise him. They would never have a self-serving thought, but it gave the illusion that there was some chance of change. There was not, but other than Justinian, Ddraig, Albion, The Space Marines, and His Honor Guard, no one would know.
With the setting up of the 'Counsel' new Laws were passed to manage the Imperium. Several laws were passed including the outlawing of all religions other than Worship of the Emperor or The Dragon Gods.
Proper Institutes of Research were formed where Magic, Psychic, Biology, Science, and Technology were researched. All information discovered was the property of The Emperium.
Murder of another was legal as long as there was just cause, or an Honor Duel was issued. Acts of theft were outlawed and depending on the reason the punishment would suit the crime.
If the theft was malicious, the thief would be sent to the many mines, factories, or forges for some time until they paid off their debt to The Emperor. Rape in White Martian culture was extremely rare and seen as pointless as there was no need to rape another if you were stronger than them.
Crimes of a sexual sort against children were even rare as sex for Martians was not about pleasure. It was about reproduction, but just in case, these two crimes were labeled punishable by soul destruction after the criminal was used as a test subject for the Research Institutes.
However, Treason and plotting to overthrow Justinian and The Imperium was punished the same way as sex offenders. A period of being a test subject before having their collected, not destroyed.
Several other laws were passed to manage The Imperium. Justinian, Ddraig, and Albion as the three strongest on Mars worked together to begin bringing great change. With each passing day, Mars continued to become saturated with greater Mana and Psychic Energy.
In some areas, more and more Volcanos began to erupt which were allowed to safely. The volcanic rock and obsidian that formed which was saturated with energy was collected for construction work or just left where it was.
As for the atmosphere of Mars, with the expansion of more fruit orchards, more farms, and more livestock pens, it began to become livable for those who could survive the pressure of magic and psychic energy.
Something only Justinian knew was that slowly, the planet was becoming for aware. It began to communicate with him in slight ways as his idea had been correct. The forming soul and mind of the planet viewed him as its master for giving it life.
The Leylines were acting as veins which caused the core of the planet to not just absorb energy from them, but purify it and send it back into them in a loop. This caused more and more magic and psychic energy to flow through the planet.
This caused all of the water on Mars to melt and become liquid once more, in some places liquid mana mixed with Psychic Energy began to fall like rain. Psymagic Storms were not uncommon, but they were seen as signs of their planet's great change.
Justinian even began to release not only Earthen animals that had evolved under the Psymagical influence of Mars, but also some of the creations of his laboratory. Including the monsters he had created which would breed and evolve on their own.
He even ordered that vast forests be grown on the surface in certain areas which started to proliferate the planet. Slowly, small lakes, slow streams, and some rivers began to appear on Mars.
Proper surface life had returned after untold eons, but to make sure that the underground was not affected, different formations were placed to make sure that the water stayed on top and not deep underground.
Speaking of the underground, giant forges deep in the Mars(hehe) burned as magical metals were refined in Psymagic Dragon Fire which was then taken for further enchanting before disappearing into one of the many secret dimensions created by Justinian where even larger factories churned out war machines for the planned Great Crusade.
Of course, the Crusade still had a few decades before it started, but bringing the Solar System to compliance would be soon. At the end of the six years in the Time Dilation to be exact. The first target was going to be Earth as Justinian still had a favor to cash in.
But, in one of these Dimensions, the constructions of the greatest minds, mages, psychics, enchanters, and smiths worked tirelessly to complete Justinian's Flagship The Invincible Reason. This single project took a massive amount of resources as everything had to be the best.
The metal used in the hull had to not just be the strongest of Adamantium and Magisteel, but it also then had to be enchanted with runes, glyphs, and formations. The wiring that ran through the ship to transport power had to be pure enchanted Mithril.
The armor was several meters thick, and a ludicrous amount of weapons covered its massive body. An entire planet worked tirelessly under The Imperium to complete The Flagship of Justinian.
And three years into the nearly five years since Justinian arrived in DC, the Invincible Reason was ready to activate.
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In the secret Dimension where The massive Gloriana Class Battleship had been constructed, Justinian was sitting on the massive command throne in the Command Deck of the black and gold 30-mile-long ship.
In 40k, a Gloriana Class Battleship would need crews in the millions to operate, but all of that was unneeded with the A.I and automated systems that controlled the ship. As Justinian sat surrounded by not his Honor Guard of 40 Burning Martians, but 50.
He was very picky when it came to his Honor Guard and only another 10 had passed his screening so far. Regardless, the newcomers were all males except the final crazy lady. She got along well enough with Lauralina and Remnosh.
Regardless, all around the command throne, several teams of Technicians typed away at the different consoles in the command throne. Justinian sitting with his lover Remnosh on his lap spoke up.
Currently, Ddraig and Albion have forsaken their Avatars and are inside the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing respectively.
"Activate all systems."
"At once."
One by one, the different technicians began to pull push buttons turning on different weapon systems, the shield generators, the Warp Drive, and the Hyper Drive. Even the matter synthesizers would allow the ship to create its ammunition when needed.
Even food to feed the crew, which was nearly 1 million laborers, Space Marines, Shapers, Technicians, and even Clones. Much less than was needed to man a vessel of this size thanks to the automated systems and A.I which drained to speak.
Weapons are all hot and ready to fire. All Enchantments, glyphs, and formations are activated and powered up. Transformation Cog activated and ready to activate when needed.> With a grin, Justinian looked up. "Excellent work Soundwave, initiate link." From the Command Throne, he sat on, different mechanical jacks began to plug into Justinian's armor. Like before, this caused the ship's many systems to be in contact with Justinian's soul. When Justinian felt his senses meld with Soundwaves, and The Invincible Reason, he felt like the ship was an extension of himself. Through this link, he began to surge his Conceptual Energy mixed with Divine Energy through the ship. Ddraig and Albion using the link also did the same with their Concepts of Supremacy and Domination to enhance the ship. All the while, Soundwave reported openly to all. 'How do you feel Soundwave?' The Power Core was the replacement for the massive Plasma Fusion Reactors. Inside was a contained star burning with the combined power of Justinian, Ddraig, and Albion. This way, the ship was truly self-sustaining with nearly limitless energy to use. Soundwave continued to double, triple, and quadruple-check the different systems looking for even small errors, damage in the wiring, or something of the sort. However, The Invincible Reason was perfect and ready for war. Justinian did not remove the Soul Link he was sharing with his Gloriana Class Battleship, but he knew now that with his Flagship constructed, he needed another 20 to match the other Gloriana Class Ships. "A success if I do have to say so myself." Remnosh looked up at him with a smile. "I am sure you are happy, my love?" "I am. This is just the beginning, this was the result of a single planet, in the future the galaxy will be mine." [Funny isn't Justinian, that the largest Gloriana Class Battleship in 40k was The Invincible Reason at 28 KILOMETERS(15 miles), but you decided to go all American and go 30 miles long.] 'Why not? I was American in my past life, but it no longer matters. All that matters is that we still have far more to accomplish. We have three more years in our Time Formation.' {Our power continues to swell, I wonder just how strong the three of us have become?} That was a good question, but Justinian would find that out during the Conquest of the Solar System that was going to begin very soon. He wanted to keep the Invincible Reason hidden until then so he would leave it in this secret Dimension. He cut the soul link he shared with the ship before he began to prepare for a few collections. He would soon send a few Chapters of Marines to Earth to invade Cadmus for their Cloning Research, to capture Metas of notice, bring him Slade, and many more. Now that would piss off the League, but they were in his Solar System after all. After all, he was preparing for a United Solar System to launch his Great Crusade. (My mistake for the delay, The Knight of Ruin my main Fic is my money maker after all. I might be writing more chapters for this fic by putting it on P-atreon as well. Soon maybe. Regardless, any more fun ideas? Any good Metas to capture for DNA? More DC-related things I may not know? Should Mars' Consciousness be a Waifu? Find out soon.)