The year is 2017. A.T.B, the Imperial Calendar, the Order the Black Knights are the first movement who have been able to reclaim a colonised area from the Holy Britannian Empire, the reclaimation of Area 11 was named the Black Rebellion. At the heart of all this is the exiled Britannian prince, Lelouch Vi Britannia who assumes the masked alter ego of Zero and commands the Black Knights while bearing the iron fist of justice upon Britannia. Lelouch continues his role as Zero in his conquest in the annihilation of his once homeland.