
She offers Lelouch a Faustian deal (which he accepts) that grants him "The Power Of The King", otherwise known as a "Geass". (pronounced as "See Two"), a refugee from a top-secret Britannian research project. Lelouch is an exiled Britannian prince in hiding he wishes to crush Britannia from the outside to both avenge his assassinated mother and create a safe future for his disabled sister, but he has become disillusioned by the inability to act without reprisal from Britannia's police and military forces.Īll of this changes when Lelouch encounters a Mysterious Waif called C.C.

Suzaku is a career soldier of Japanese origin who hates bloodshed having joined the ranks of the Britannian military, he hopes to gain enough authority to change the system from within and return a number of once-lost rights back to Area 11.

In the present day, two childhood friends run into each other by chance after years of separation: Suzaku Kururugi and Lelouch Lamperouge. The Empire refers to conquered countries by a numerical designation based on when it conquered the territory in this case, Japan became "Area 11", and Britannians began referring to Japanese citizens as " Elevens". After the victory, Britannia stripped Japan of its autonomy, its national identity, and even its name. Britannia's army of powerful Humongous Mecha-the "Knightmares"- ended the conflict in short order.

Seven years before the beginning of the show's main story, Britannia launched an invasion of Japan to secure that country's stocks of a rare mineral that makes a new power source possible. The British-controlled America evolved into the Holy Britannian Empire, which eventually gained control of over a third of the world. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a two-season anime television series that aired from 2006 to 2008 it takes place in an Alternate History timeline where the British Empire won the Revolutionary War, but lost a later European conflict against Napoleon (who went on to conquer the British Isles and forced the Empire into fleeing to America).
