The Barbarians at the Bay was an unpleasant experience for the Empire; the mainland had been attacked and Japan's population now lived in fear of another invasion attempt by the combined Allied-Soviet alliance. As a result, homeland security was stepped up on the order of the Prince; all Imperial forces were placed on high alert, and the Empire's aircraft squadrons were prepared to launch at the first sight of trouble. The Imperial naval fleet was also instructed to carry out more frequent patrols of Japanese waters to detect any further incursions. The evacuation of all major coastal population centers also began within hours of the end of this Yokohama incident.

Turning his attention to the Russian Front, Crown Prince Tatsu was determined to crush the Soviet Union and the Soviet Time Machine once and for all, to stop the threat they both posed to the divine destiny of the Empire of the Rising Sun. Soon after the failed attack on Yokohama, he and the Imperial Shogunate began organizing the Empire's forces on the Russian Front for a full scale assault on Moscow itself. The Imperial Commander and Kenji Tenzai were chosen to lead the attack on Moscow.

Their objective was to raze the Kremlin to the ground, capture or destroy the Soviet military infrastructure and hardware within Moscow, and to assassinate the Soviet Premier, Anatoly Cherdenko, along with the Union's most senior military leader, General Nikolai Krukov.

“How you made this far with so little? I do not know. But it all ends... NOW!
- Cherdenko's first transmission to the Imperial Commander.”
At this point, the war on the Russian Front was fully in favor of the Empire of the Rising Sun. Most of the land east of the Volga River was already under Imperial occupation, including the city of Stalingrad (see To Conquer Shattered Spirits). The Shogun Executioner was also on the rampage, only a few kilometers downstream from Moscow. Immediately it was ordered by the Shogunate to make it's way up-stream in order to rendezvous with *Name Classified* and General Tenzai's forces. The Imperial strike force itself carefully made its way through the lightly guarded Russian countryside, to infiltrate the city undetected.