American King: Take Two

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by Rooster Cogburn

And a very important message it is! Love the newspaper article, as always wonderfully written. So Johnsland has a Congress? How exactly does the colonial government work? I had assumed it was just an appointed Governor, and his staff and other underlings to execute orders. Are the Senators elected, and if so by who? What does Philadelphia officially have to say about all this? So many questions

Thanks, Rooster. It's nice to be back writing some AK-related stuff. I really need to do another chapter in "'Your Humble Servant'" soon enough. As for all your questions, well: they're great because even I'm not totally sure how it's going to work or functions. Guess I'll be hashing it out with Napoleon over PMs, likely enough.

I think that it's important to note that when I'm posting here, a lot of those concepts are works in progress. The EU thread will feature finalized ideas. Watch that space, more or less. You're quite right the administrative setup, though. The governor-general and a lot of his guys are appointed/recommended to positions in government. But I do imagine, however, that the Congress is not really a traditional one (I was searching for some kind of representation and couldn't think of a better name; maybe demote it to council or something?). I'd imagined it being a bit of an old boys' club for rich guys to throw their weight around when they get anxious about directions things are heading.

Jedediah Morningside and 'the Mad Rabbi' are people to watch, though, I'll say that much...

[Rooster Cogburn]

Any chance we can have recruiting tactics like this take place in the major cities? I think it'd be very effective

[marcus_aurelius]

Originally Posted by Rooster Cogburn

“I’m sure you've already received reports of what occurred, and the details. It was a silent massacre like I've never seen. The celebration began around 8:30. The men were drinking heavily, and going after anything in a dress, white or black. Around midnight, they started falling over, sick. By 1:30, we had lost at least a brigade’s worth of officers. The other half are either sick or blinded. They were good fighting men, and will be hard to replace. We've all agreed wood alcohol is the most likely culprit. I drank lemonade myself, and thus was unaffected, thank God. The Negroes and women who served the drinks are long gone; no doubt they had sympathies for the Clan, no matter the reason."

"The town’s population has already been taken care of on my orders; no local witnesses remain. The surrounding areas will talk though; they might try to repeat the incident. I suggest we begin enforcing prohibition in all occupied areas. The men won’t like it, and won’t follow it, but after the public sees what happened here, the men will learn to live with it. Long live the King, and may God have mercy on this hell on Earth.”

-Marshal Hunter DeRensis in a private communication to Secretary of the Army Daniel S. Dickinson on November 6, describing the Abbeville Massacre (November 2-3, 1850), where hundreds of American officers were killed or permanently blinded by wood alcohol poisoning at a party, celebrating the subjugation of South Carolina. One of the first major actions of the Calvinist Christian Clan, the Massacre led to the prohibition of alcohol in all military occupied areas, and the systematic shooting of all residents in Abbeville immediately following the massacre.


I pretty much ripped this off of the one scene from Harry Turtledove's The Man With the Iron Heart. What does everyone think? Also Wiiguy, maybe Glas could say something publicly about the massacre and how he'll get revenge, showing that he's a badass.

Well that is unfortunate. And one of the reasons why Marc Dickens, Jr. would need to start updating his COIN playbook.

Marc A

[Rooster Cogburn]

What does the Smithite Cult think of the war, and what are they doing about it?

[Clandango]

Originally Posted by Napoleon53

I have been indeed planning making Egypt a puppet colony. However, I'm pretty sure Arab Muslims would never accept a black as Sultan/King.

Something more like this:

Have the mother of the Black be White. That should even out the skin color so that it looks like a tan.

[Rooster Cogburn]

http://americankingseries.wikia.com/...South_Carolina

[Rooster Cogburn]

http://americankingseries.wikia.com/...Bill_of_Rights

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Now we shift from your regularly scheduled programming to a very important message...

Hopefully the Jews are ultimately allowed safe passage.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Rooster Cogburn

http://americankingseries.wikia.com/...Bill_of_Rights

I like how they are spelled out specifically. Less need for interpretation.

All laws, royal decrees, or military commands denying X shall be considered illegal, and the people responsible for such orders shall be held answerable for their crimes.

I especially like this in each amendment.

[Rooster Cogburn]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

I like how they are spelled out specifically. Less need for interpretation.


I especially like this in each amendment.

Thanks! Since the Supreme Court of TTL (Ministers of Congress) are so random and their decisions constantly change, I thought it'd be best to have it written in solid stone. No interpretations, no "Well it could mean..", or anything like that. It is what it says.

[Napoleon53]

Holy moly. I promise I'll be back very soon and answer as much as possible and the PMs some have sent. No excuse for my absence other, than, you know, Assassin's Creed III Collector's Edition.

[wiiguy]

Hey gys, in less than one day I will ed my Sandy-imposed exile and gt back to reading this thread! I hope the blackout didn't make me miss much, and I'm working as we speak on my wiki page so I can post it upon ConEdison's deliverance.

[Rooster Cogburn]

Originally Posted by Napoleon53

I promise I'll be back very soon and answer as much as possible and the PMs some have sent.

Finally I've been waiting for your response about the end of the war

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Napoleon53

Holy moly. I promise I'll be back very soon and answer as much as possible and the PMs some have sent. No excuse for my absence other, than, you know, Assassin's Creed III Collector's Edition.

'Bout damn time!

[Napoleon53]

Say hello to the Toppers Mafia of the 1930's:




Yes, that is Laurel and Hardy. Stanley Andrew Jackson Laurel, the murderous, infamous "Boston Big-Cheese," and Oliver Perry Hardy, better known as "Snakeoliver" and a few other nicknames.

Laurel, descendent of a British Royalist soldier who accompanied the English Royal Family into exile in Philadelphia, was known as the "Smiling Sadist" and "Satanly Laurel" in his younger days as a mafia soldier, and brutally murdered hundreds of people and robbed over 20 banks from Boston, Massachusetts Bay, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Miami, Illinoia. Stan had a habit of using his knife to cut victims' mouths into bloody smiles, and he was reported to say "Let's put a smile on that face" before cornering his prey. He was finally brought to justice and sentenced to one of America's island prisons in Macaronesia for several months before being executed by steamchair, becoming the first person to be executed by the device.


Hardy spent his time in and out of jail as a young man, where despite prison conditions, he somehow managed to sustain his corpulence, some said by catching and eating birds raw on the commons inside the prison, a practice which supposedly stuck with him even when he was free, earning him the nickname "Birdman of Boston." Later, as a mafia officer, his blubber protected him several times in bad situations, but the jiggly blob of fat did little to save him when the Boston Royal Police bombed his car, killing him and his mistress in a fiery explosion.

Steamchair?! Picture Laurel boiling with steam jets melting that grin on his face.

And no, I don't know if that'll make it in to the TL, I just thought it was hilarious in a twisted way.

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

You still owe us a picture of your Elvis-hair.

AC III took my money. Camera is on the list.

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Now we shift from your regularly scheduled programming to a very important message...

Article taken from The Johnsland Royalist (the colony's most widely circulated newspaper), dated October 23, 1862

McCANDLESS TO ALLOW JEWS SAFE PASSAGE?
by
Robert Lumley



[4] Watch this somehow all end with me being tossed down a reactor shaft. Er, I mean...

Me gusta. Glad you're writing again! I like this a lot. Concerning the colonial government, I could see a council, like you said. Not much power, but with an ocean in between, it helps to have guys assist in day-to-day law and order.

Originally Posted by Rooster Cogburn

Any chance we can have recruiting tactics like this take place in the major cities? I think it'd be very effective

I'd say Philly is doing this at the moment in the TL:

Royal Family of Persia
Royal Family of Britain
Minor European Nobles
Ottoman Imperial Expatriates (haven't touched on this yet, but I want to)
Different districts for different ethnicities
Government loves immigration to Philly; if they mean to build the world's strongest superpower and have a glorious economic and political center of the world, it helps for it to have a massive population.

Originally Posted by Rooster Cogburn

What does the Smithite Cult think of the war, and what are they doing about it?

Need to finish that last chapter in the Trilogy. I'll say this much: it kind of drifts toward Tenasee, kind of disappears, and then reemerges in the early 1900's under- . No spoilers yet!

Originally Posted by Clandango

Have the mother of the Black be White. That should even out the skin color so that it looks like a tan.

That would basically be Arab. Plus, I also remembered that most of those cantankerous old Victorian countries wouldn't appreciate a "half-breed," however competent, being granted nobility by the King of America.

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

I especially like this in each amendment.

Aye! My favorite bits, too.

Originally Posted by wiiguy

Hey gys, in less than one day I will ed my Sandy-imposed exile and gt back to reading this thread! I hope the blackout didn't make me miss much, and I'm working as we speak on my wiki page so I can post it upon ConEdison's deliverance.

Good to hear! But what's ConEdison? (might be stupid question...)

I'll answer them thar PM's tomorrow, pardners! All of 'em.

[marcus_aurelius]

Any chance of raising a Royal American Foreign Legion to combat the insurrections?

Also, if it is at all possible, what would you say to Prime Minister John H. Dillinger?

Marc A

[Clandango]

Originally Posted by Napoleon53

That would basically be Arab. Plus, I also remembered that most of those cantankerous old Victorian countries wouldn't appreciate a "half-breed," however competent, being granted nobility by the King of America.

They tended to be fine with the upper classes. The nobility cared more about class issues. There was also a good deal of popularity for supporting the Zulu King, not to mention various other exotic peoples. I do not see any of these countries being Victorian. Though Victoria was an extremely horny woman, if you must know.

[Napoleon53]

Originally Posted by marcus_aurelius

Any chance of raising a Royal American Foreign Legion to combat the insurrections?

Also, if it is at all possible, what would you say to Prime Minister John H. Dillinger?

Marc A

Spinoff of the Royal Legion! That sounds awesome! Turks! Jews! Arabs! Brits! South Americans!

Definitely going to do something political with Dillinger. Seeing as my great-grandfather was his personal driver and was portrayed in the Public Enemies movie, I should be the great-grandson of a Viceroy ITTL.

Originally Posted by Clandango

They tended to be fine with the upper classes. The nobility cared more about class issues. There was also a good deal of popularity for supporting the Zulu King, not to mention various other exotic peoples. I do not see any of these countries being Victorian. Though Victoria was an extremely horny woman, if you must know.

I think I've got an idea... Stick around and see what happens with Egypt.

[Napoleon53]

http://americankingseries.wikia.com/...e_Voorgebergte

Interesting addition I came up with. Betje is Dutch for Betty, and "Voorgebergte" is the Dutch word for "Ross," a type of landform in Scotland.

Betsy Ross analogue, Turtledove-style name translating technique.

Also, expect more Toppers stuff coming up.

EDIT:

http://americankingseries.wikia.com/wiki/Drago_Nemanja

Drago was first mentioned on the Toppers wiki page a few months ago. Nice to finally have a complete backstory about a guy with that neat a name. He also invents "Marquis of Queensbury Rules."

[wiiguy]

ConEdison's the power company that services most of Manhattan. One of their plants blew up when the storm hit. Like, literally blew up. Not Chernobyl-style, but the storm surge shorted out he plant's wies and then caused an overload, leading to electrical fire and explosion.