American Empire

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	American Empire
Alias(es)	美帝国; American Empire
Affiliation	Department of Commerce; secret agencies and clandestine organizations; military fleet
Status	Active
First Appearance	148

Background / History

The American Empire is a major foreign power engaged in an escalating technological, economic, and military rivalry with Daxia and Xingtu Technology. Its leadership, including Weis and covert-organization members, views Daxia’s AI-driven security systems and Xingtu’s technological advances as threats to its influence. 148 149

After Daxia deploys Skynet through its anti-espionage system, the Empire’s spy networks suffer severe losses. Its representatives identify graphics-card supply and pricing as a possible pressure point, intending to raise costs and obstruct the nationwide expansion of Daxia’s system. 148 149

Conflict with Xingtu Technology

Entity List and market restrictions

The American Empire places Xingtu Technology, Xingtu Gene, and Xingtu Semiconductor on its Entity List, blocking their products from the American market on alleged security grounds. The restrictions prevent Xingtu’s products from entering what is described as the world’s largest and wealthiest market. 194 195

• The Entity List affects the Deep Sleep Aid Model despite its large American user base. 194
• The Department of Commerce attempts to contain the model through server blocking, media campaigns, and other restrictions. 196 197 240
• Disconnecting Deep Sleep Aid Model support triggers public anger among American users and protests demanding its restoration. 240
• The Empire later adds Xingtu Technology and its subsidiaries to the Entity List again, barring companies from selling them equipment or patents. 239

Antitrust actions and patent disputes

The Empire’s corporations pursue antitrust complaints against Xingtu Technology, with companies including Nvidia, pharmaceutical giants, Lockheed, and Thor Tech reporting it to a California court. 252

• Xingtu Technology receives a $20 billion antitrust fine, an action that causes international uproar and outrage in Daxia. 253
• The Empire declares Xingtu’s technical patents invalid, enabling domestic companies to use the technology without the original patent protections. 294 311
• Companies that prevail in the American case subsequently bring similar monopoly allegations against Xingtu in the Island Nation and Korea. 253
• The Empire’s clandestine organization considers limiting chip-production materials, using trade-war measures, and employing antitrust rulings to seize assets and remove Xingtu products from sale. 251

Technological exclusion

The Empire’s restrictions contribute to Xingtu’s decision to deny it access to advanced products and services.

• Lin Feng orders support for the Deep Sleep Aid Model in the American Empire shut down after Xingtu abolishes its patents for American companies’ free use. 240
• Brain-Computer Interface Chips are designed to refuse service when connected through an American Empire IP address. 253
• The Empire is consequently excluded from Knowledge Implantation Technology and Virtual World Technology, while those systems spread through Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. 310 311
• Its secret agencies conclude that the exclusion threatens its technological advantage, talent attraction, and national competitiveness. 311

Covert Operations

The American Empire’s secret organizations repeatedly discuss methods to suppress Xingtu Technology, obtain its technologies, or eliminate Lin Feng. 231 251

• Secret organizations consider pressuring Daxia through chip supply, aircraft deployments, and other external leverage. 231
• They seek single-walled carbon nanotube production technology, but Lin Feng’s security measures and Skynet’s expansion make direct action difficult. 231
• Secret agencies manipulate Xingtu employee Zou, exploiting his gambling debts to sabotage the space elevator with explosives. 310
• The sabotage is exposed, provoking global anger toward the Empire’s secret agencies. 310
• During a later hardline turn, the Empire publishes alleged evidence accusing Lin Feng of terrorism and announces a $4 billion bounty for his capture or killing, paired with an offer of American citizenship. 313
• Daxia rejects the wanted order and presents the evidence as fabricated. 314

Military and Strategic Pressure

The American Empire uses naval deployments to pressure Daxia during the development of Xingtu’s military technologies.

• An aircraft-carrier fleet is dispatched near Daxia’s southern coast amid the single-walled carbon nanotube dispute. 225
• An aircraft carrier enters Daxia’s territorial waters without permission, while destroyers are sent to monitor Lin Feng’s railgun experiment. 226
• Following first-generation railgun tests, Fleet Commander Mike Joseph declares a 300-kilometer no-entry zone around Daxia’s coastline to protect the fleet. 229
• The fleet withdraws from the South China Sea after the second-generation railgun and Air-Ground-Space Integrated Defense System demonstrate Daxia’s deterrent capability. 236
• The Empire later announces plans for a space magic net system, competing with Daxia and Xingtu in orbital development. 316

Negotiations with Xingtu Technology

As the American Empire’s exclusion from Knowledge Implantation Technology and the Virtual World becomes increasingly damaging, it sends negotiator Thomas to seek Xingtu Technology’s return to its market. 311

Lin Feng conditions any return on revoking the antitrust judgment, restoring Xingtu’s patents, compensating its losses, equal treatment for Daxia goods, dissolving the Wosena Organization, and higher Xingtu service fees in the Empire. 312

Demand	Terms presented by Lin Feng
Antitrust ruling	Revoke the monopoly judgment and investigation against Xingtu Technology. 312
Patent rights	Reinstate Xingtu’s patents and recover losses from infringing companies. 312
Compensation	Pay $40 billion for two years of market-exclusion losses and related harm. 312
Trade treatment	Give Xingtu and Daxia goods equal treatment, without discriminatory tariffs. 312
Organization	Disband the Wosena Organization and refrain from establishing similar bodies. 312
Service fees	Triple service fees for Xingtu products in the American Empire for ten years. 312

The harsh conditions strengthen the Empire’s hardline faction. It rejects immediate compromise and proceeds with the terrorism accusation and bounty against Lin Feng. 313

Economic and Technological Decline

The Empire’s strategic position deteriorates as Xingtu’s technologies spread elsewhere while remaining unavailable domestically.

• Secret agencies fear that supercapacitors could undermine the oil-based economic system that supports the Empire’s financial and military power. 321 322
• Weis proposes using oil prices to force Lin Feng to delay the Supercapacitor’s release by five years. 322
• The rise of supercapacitors, electric vehicles, agricultural robots, and engineering robots contributes to falling oil prices and weakens this pressure campaign. 330
• The Empire is unable to purchase high-demand Xingtu products, including the Virtual World and specialized robots, due to the hostile relationship. 330
• As global industrial production and talent increasingly concentrate in Daxia, the American Empire is described as becoming increasingly marginalized. 330

Relationships

• Daxia — Principal geopolitical rival; contests espionage, trade, industrial standards, military presence, and space development. 148 225 316
• Xingtu Technology — Primary corporate target of Entity List restrictions, patent invalidations, antitrust actions, covert operations, and market exclusion. 194 253 310
• Lin Feng — Target of suppression, assassination discussions, sabotage operations, negotiations, and a $4 billion bounty. 231 310 313
• Weis — Strategic figure who proposes using graphics-card pricing, trade restrictions, antitrust measures, and oil pressure against Xingtu and Daxia. 149 251 322
• Thomas — Negotiator sent to seek Xingtu Technology’s return to the American market. 311 312
• Mike Joseph — American fleet commander who orders a 300-kilometer no-entry zone after Daxia’s railgun demonstration. 229

Trivia

• The American Empire initially has 30 million Deep Sleep Aid Model users despite restrictions on the product. 194
• Later discussion describes 60 million American users being affected by the loss of Deep Sleep Aid Model support. 240
• The Empire proposes the Solar System Development Organization, a plan to divide ownership of planets and asteroids, sparking global debate over resource allocation. 307