Drone Command

SANJI HARA

Vice Admiral, JMSDF

DR. NITOBE IKEDA

Director, NEDO

HIROSHI ITO

Prime Minister of Japan

KOBAYASHI

Yakuza boss

HIROSHI ONIZUKA

Captain of the submarine
Sword Dragon

OSHIRO

Yakuza underboss

KATSU TANAKA

Parliamentary Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, LDP member of the House of Representatives (Nagasaki Prefecture)

GENERAL CHEN ZULIN

Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission

ADMIRAL DENG ZILONG

Fleet Commander, PLAN South Sea Fleet

FENG YONGBO

Vice Chairman, Central Military Commission

FENG JIANLI

Son of Feng Yongbo

ADMIRAL JI DONGSHENG

Fleet Commander, PLAN East Sea Fleet

HUANG YONG

Minister of State Security

PANG BO

Ambassador to Japan

SUN QUAN

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission

DR. WENG LITONG

Head, GAD Expert Working Group (robotic weapon systems)

DR. T. J. ASHLEY

Pearce Systems associate

HENRY DAVIS

Ambassador to Japan

DR. WILLIAM (WILL) ELLIOTT

National Security Research Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Ex-CIA, friend of Troy's dad

JIM GARZA

National Security Advisor

STELLA KANG

Pearce Systems associate

DAVID LANE

President of the United States

IAN MCTAVISH

Pearce Systems associate

MARGARET MYERS

Former President of the United States

GENERAL GORDON ONSTOT

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

TROY PEARCE

CEO, Pearce Systems

MIKE PIA

Director of National Intelligence

BREN SHAFER

Secretary of Defense

GABY WHEELER

Secretary of State

DR. KENJI YAMADA

University of Hawaii faculty, Pearce Systems associate

AUGUST MANN

Pearce Systems director of nuclear facility deconstruction (Germany)

DR. LINH PHAM

VAST drone researcher (Vietnam)

TAMAR STERN

Former Pearce Systems security associate, Mossad agent (Israel)

4GW

Fourth-generation Warfare

A2AD

Anti-Access/Area Denial

AAV

Autonomous Aerial Vehicle

ACTUV

Antisubmarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel

ADPS

Automated Dynamic Positioning System

ASAT

Antisatellite

ASV

Autonomous Surface Vehicle

ASW

Antisubmarine Warfare

AUV

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

AWACS

Airborne Warning and Control System

CAP

Combat Air Patrol

CIC

Combat Information Center

CMC

Central Military Commission

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DNI

Director of National Intelligence

EMP

Electromagnetic Pulse

FIC

First Island Chain

GAD

General Armament Department (A PRC/PLA version of DARPA)

GWOT

Global War on Terrorism

HGV

Hypersonic Glide Vehicle

HPM

High-powered Microwave

HUMINT

Human Intelligence (spies)

ICBM

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

JPALS

Joint Precision Approach and Landing System

LDP

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan

LRAD

Long-range Acoustic Device

MAD

Mutual Assured Destruction

MIRV

Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle

MOD

Minister of Defense (Japan)

MSS

Ministry of State Security (PRC)

NEDO

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization

NKP

New Komeito Party (Japan)

SAC

Second Artillery Corps (PRC)

SLBM

Sub-Launched Ballistic Missile

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

TAD

Threat Assessment Display

TEPCO

Tokyo Electric Power Company

TNF

Technical Nuclear Forensics

TTO

Tactical Technology Office (DARPA, USA)

UCAV

Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle

UCLASS

Unmanned Carrier-launched Surveillance and Strike Vehicle

UFP

Upward Falling Payload

USV

Unmanned Surface Vehicle

UUV

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

VAST

Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

VPA

Vietnam People's Army

VTC

Video Teleconference