The Adeptus Custodes never exceed ten thousand warriors at any given time. Guided by psychic divination and the intelligence gathered by shadowy agents, they strike down demagogues and warlords who might otherwise raise invasion forces against the heart of the Imperium. While they were created to defend the Throne World, the Adeptus Custodes have recognised that the most effective way to safeguard Terra is to take a proactive hand in the ongoing battle against MankindвЂ™s innumerable foes.

In his unfamiliar court language, he told his subjects, вЂњwe have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable.вЂќ The United States immediately accepted JapanвЂ™s surrender.10,000 years ago the Custodians were created by the Emperor as his companions and sworn bodyguards. At noon that day, Emperor Hirohito went on national radio for the first time to announce the Japanese surrender. The rebels seized control of the imperial palace and burned Prime Minister SuzukiвЂ™s residence, but shortly after dawn the coup was crushed. In the early hours of August 15, a military coup was attempted by a faction led by Major Kenji Hatanaka. He ordered the Japanese government to prepare a text accepting surrender. After a long, emotional debate, he backed a proposal by Prime Minister Suzuki in which Japan would accept the Potsdam Declaration вЂњwith the understanding that said Declaration does not compromise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as the sovereign ruler.вЂќ The council obeyed HirohitoвЂ™s acceptance of peace, and on August 10 the message was relayed to the United States.Д®arly on August 12, the United States answered that вЂњthe authority of the emperor and the Japanese government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.вЂќ After two days of debate about what this statement implied, Emperor Hirohito brushed the nuances in the text aside and declared that peace was preferable to destruction. Just before midnight on August 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito convened the supreme war council. READ MORE: Hiroshima, Then Nagasaki: Why the US Deployed the Second A-Bomb atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese coastal city of Nagasaki. The next day, Soviet forces attacked in Manchuria, rapidly overwhelming Japanese positions there, and a second U.S. On August 8, JapanвЂ™s desperate situation took another turn for the worse when the USSR declared war against Japan. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 people and fatally wounding thousands more.ДЄfter the Hiroshima attack, a faction of JapanвЂ™s supreme war council favored acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but the majority resisted unconditional surrender. Truman ordered the devastation to proceed, and on August 6, the U.S. Ten days later, the Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration, demanding the вЂњunconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces.вЂќ Failure to comply would mean вЂњthe inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitable the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.вЂќ On July 28, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki responded by telling the press that his government was вЂњpaying no attentionвЂќ to the Allied ultimatum.

On July 16, a new option became available when the United States secretly detonated the worldвЂ™s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. The invasion of Japan promised to be the bloodiest seaborne attack of all time, conceivably 10 times as costly as the Normandy invasion in terms of Allied casualties.

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