A healthy baby boy...

[Wendell]

Originally Posted by G.Bone

What is the problem? The Afrikanischer Prinz is simpy taking a break -

"Cannot" possess "no longer" is a double-negative.

Also, why does your map have Rwanda and Nyasaland (Malawi) as Portuguese?

[G.Bone]

Because Rwanda & Malawi are bought, sold, and occupied by the Germans, who occupy Mozambique. I was just lazy in not sketching it out and was using Shadow Knight's Afrika map from the post-1900 forum...

HRH Empress Margarete I of Prussia-Germany;

Commodore Heinrich of Prussia dictates to me that you shall receive news of his ailment.

He doth informs you of the problems that draw him down into despair. He cannot progress the duties as Administrator of Sudwestafrika. Thus it has been decreed, passed, and approved by Admiral von Spree that a High Commissioner shall be founded, as held by Otto Jäschke, a man of considerable repute, and Oberst of the Windhoek Garrison. He is the first man in the Schutztruppe to be of the roots that the Afrikaans have and is of sound mind.

The doctors have pinpointed it to exhaustion and thus he states that he is taking the rest of the month off for restoration. It is not as fatal as HRH das Prinz. He will be back in a month but doth do says from his home in Windhoek that do not forget about Afrika, do not forget about supplies, and most certainly keep an eye out for Rhodes, for he is an ally of us, and so on.

Written & Dispatched by,
Leutnant zur See Adelbart Heydebrerck
Kaiserliche Marine, Sudwestafrika-Angola

[Max Sinister]

Some questions:

- You say that the Third Republic is "not quite enemy of Germany, but near". ITTL Germany not only defeated France (again), but made the home country a satellite, forced its ideology upon it and made the old government flee to exile in Africa. If that doesn't make the 3rd Republic Germany's archenemy, nothing can.

- What does it mean that some states are allied with Kamerun-Togoland, but not with Germany?

[G.Bone]

The Afrikanischer Gazette, Sudwestafrika-Angola, 1901
*Afrikanisch[1] Edition
Letters to the Editor

Sir;

I am writing to you in Heinburg[2] and replying upon the matter of the cited opinion on the Kaiser's plan on trapping the French in Afrika.

Pardon my language, but isn't this total Scheiß[3]? The Kaiser is brilliant in all ways but there fact is that we have no part in this plan - that's Kamerun. It's the duty of the Kaiserliche Marine to contain the French in their desert realm. We've always sent token troops up there, but it's most certainly not what we did to France. It's about containment and I don't care if they are planning on to sack Algiers in two-score years! It's always been about containment?

Our duty is to our ailing Prinz[4], Kaiser, and Colony!

Languid in Nordhelmsbay.
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[I]Kommandant von Spree[5],

I am writing to you this upon the subject of the Kongo[6]. Progress has been made on the railroad but in reference to the current state of things, we cannot possibly absorb the said state into the colony. This is my professional and my superior's[7] opinion. The most that we can do is to hold on to the current land that we do have and re-build our own forces so that the mission can be accomplished in two-score years.

Also, in reference to Mosambik, progress has been at a slow pace due to the recent establishment of the Colonial Assembly at Madagaskar. Both L-V and Götzen have pointed out that they too, cannot simply absorb the island under the aegis of German Protection. Thus the reason has been shown of resurrecting the previous rulers, in this case, Queen Ranavalona III, who was instrumental in the Madagaskar Krieg[8]. Although this is not in line with the set given agenda as sent to my superior, it is the unanimous opinion by all of us that it is the best that we can do in the said circumstances. The Colonial Assembly will be modified along the Ostafrika Assembly, with deviances set for native rule, and the rights of the interceding power.

Beyond that, progress within Mosambik is also set further back given that it is not Angola. As one can suspect, the same approach done in Ostafrika is being implemented in that region. Special emphasis has been placed on the industrial sector in the fears that the new Generalmajor[9] of the Cape will break the said treaties, thereby confounding us even further.

I must inquire at this point of how you are doing with Guinea, Marokko, and the Sahara. Geographical distances do prove the better of our enemies. Lately I have been experiencing the very same difficulties that my superior was set back on when he took his 'leave'. It is no wonder that our beloved Kaiser was befallen by a wayward bomb[10] by the Republikan Forces[11] - he was distracted.

Of course I would never fringe upon the honor of the Kaiser. I owe my success to him as well as my superior, who instructs you to "Demote me!". I cannot help but to imagine, if he was in the homeland, we would have an easier time with the Republik than what we have now. Yet, we are all ruled by the Good Kaiser who made Fortune turn to us, and it is a test upon us all to counter these ailments that we are currently experiencing.

I must also inform you that I had to raise up another Kommando [12] in the matters of the Kongo-Line. There is some difficulty in having them serve with the Afrikans of the Home Army[13]. Thus I have sent a good number of them along the Kongo-Line. They are coming in droves....

Oberst Otto Jäschke,
Schutztruppe, Sudwestafrika & Angola[14]
High Commissioner, Sudwestafrika

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*Translated from German

My good friend[15]-

I sympathize with your loss. I can understand the sorrow that you must face. It shouldn't account for the loss of your ...position though.

I have talked with your sister as well as your son and it occurs to me that you would need assistance in this matter of rebuilding ...our ally of sorts. I am on good terms with Edward[16] and perhaps this is a time in which your..."revolutionary" tactics can be set aside for your Empire that you have created. You have a very sharp mind, my friend, and perhaps a compromise can be reached in which this "European Union" can be tilted to the good of the people rather than simply for war.

I am no older than you and own just a small territory in the Pacific. Such an alliance would ...not be under any circumstances of our shared sorrows[17]. I would not part with my daughter, mind you, with a man of such a young age[18]. Let it be that I would simply like to talk to you upon matters of state that would surely...lead a continent astray. I can promise you that my own security will be minimal and perhaps further developments can be entailed.

Her Serene Highness Princess Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia of Waldeck and Pyrmont[19]

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Annotations
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[1] The local pidgin/creole of the native Afrikan dialects, German, the "Jewish Tongue", American English, African American English (i.e. from the American South), Austrian German, and Hungarian
[2] OTL Naulila, Angola
[3] cr_p, -h-t, and other related terms
[4] i.e. Prinz Heinrich
[5] the "higher" rank of the Schutztruppe, which is considered to be the = to Admiral
[6] Congo Free State, which still exists around this time
[7] i.e. Commodore Heinrich
[8] named so because it took so long just to gain dominance of the said island
[9] named so on the account that Robert Baden-Powell was just promoted to "get the hint" from London, namely the Colonial Secretary
[10] see previous installments for the actual truth of this.
[11] i.e. the French that don't want "New Socialism" and are still fighting
[12] byword for the "Afrikaanischer Legion" (the Boer Legion). The exact term is not used due to the realization that the Boer Republics won't last any longer with the whole "Prinzkrieg" in Europe as well as a new Colonial Secretary, thus, them migrating to Sudwestafrika for better oppertunities, etc, etc., etc.
[13] the "technical term" for the Windhoek Garrison and the environs around the colony
[14] to difference itself from the Ostafrika "Army", the Mosambik "Army", and the Madagaskar "Army" (not necessarily an Army but "connected" with the Official Schutztruppe of Ostafrika)
[15] for political reasons
[16] King Edward VII
[17] It's public knowledge that the Kaiser-Prinz's wife is dead as well as King King William III of the Netherlands
[18] Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau is only 21
[19] and Queen Mother of the Netherlands

[Shadow Knight]

And it seems their grip is slowly loosening.

[G.Bone]

Aunt -

As much as I appreciate the gesture, I take it upon myself to decline the offer that you have done. He is in ill health and the Empire cannot hold. Perhaps it would be wise if I were to take his place. It would be a marriage of convienence, I having no power due to my Grandfather's Abdication, but the heritage of the Imperial Armed Forces behind me.

Crown Prince Wilhelm, Kapitan, Imperial Army[1]

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Your Majesty -

It would be wise to declare an Economic Union with Austria and Hungary. The split seems nigh. Such a declaration would be an easier route compared to the tensions that grip the continent in the present state.

Chancellor Lenin

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Cousin -

The Pact still holds true. I will dispatch an army when the declaration is made. However, in th' legacy of my father, I must inform you that I must see further information that my cousin is still alive. I am not as a dastard as him but I still owe much to him.

Tsar Nicholas II, Autocrat of all the Russias[2]

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Cousin -

Your interference within Poland is noted. I will not be taking the title of Holy Roman Empress for that would be too much akin to my brother. Fear not of the further treaties with my sister-in-law's realm; they mean nichts to the Pact that we hold true. I fear that the Empire will break and my brother will fall. I cannot say that we are family for that is over now. I will be annointing my nephew as a Grand Duke of the Republic - along the lines of Poland. The end is nigh and I shan't be the one to bring it. Suffice to say, please send aid as quick as you can. We are stretched too thin.

Kaiserin Margarete I of Prussia[3]
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Aunt -

I will not be assuming any position as King of the Netherlands. I avow to be the Consort. It is the most that I can do.

Crown Prince Wilhelm, Kapitan, Imperial Army

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Cousin[4] -

If you deal with your brother then there will be no ally to the north. The minute that you break, we break. Perhaps my father was too ill to grasp the finer pictures of the game. Britain will not help. I have telegraphed Italy to help us in this time of need. I am pulling in all debts that I can, if there are any.

Crown Prince Wilhelm, Kapitan, Imperial Army


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Annotations
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[1] Held because of the loyalty of the troops in France to his father as well as his association with a certain Brigade
[2] Held due to the Reforms of 1898
[3] Held because of overt public favor to her brother
[4] To Emperor Rudolph of Austria

[Wendell]

It would be interesting to incorporate atleast one colony directly into the Empire...

[G.Bone]

Admiral -

Watch your step concerning Mexico.

Lenin.

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Chancellor -

I am reporting to you that we cannot possibly hold the coast for much longer. Perhaps it could be transferred to our Home Fleet[1] upon the matter of the Republik. Our further trade within the Amerikas[2] has gone well. The trouble is that we cannot simply lay seige to the Republik without parting our focus with the Amerikas. I know that this is out of order - but to unify our fleet would be in the best interest for the Empire, especially with the increased need for more workers.

When will the Kaiser be healthy again?

Admiral von Spree
Kaiserliche Marine, Kamerun-Togoland
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Admiral -

I do not know.

As for the matter of the Sahara and Guinea, I agree with you upon that matter. Admiral Franz von Hipper has expressed interest in such a stature. It is the will of the Kaiserin that you DO NOT rock the boat.

Lenin.
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Admiral -

I must inform you of a possible re-organization upon an Imperial Matter. Your rank will be preserved of course. You will probably be promoted. The Kaiserin is proposing that there shall be three ranks, just to formalize it, as it has in the past. You will have to expand the shipyards in Togoland.

Admiral von Zee[3] Ludwig von Reuter

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Admiral -

I am hereby demoting myself.

Kapitan Heinrich of the SMS Hohenzollern[4]

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Prinz Heinrich -

I am promoting you to Commdore.

Admiral von Spree

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Admiral -

Nein.

Kapitan Heinrich

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Admiral -

I am formally dispatching General Edward Rydz-Śmigły[4] for the formal handover of the colony of Guinea. The Poles deserve it. I suppose it will be my last action as a Prinz. I should note that I am a Field Marshal after all.

Ha! My sister did the right thing!

Yes - she did a right thing.

Field Marshal Prinz[5]
Imperial Army

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Admiral von Spree-

Could you please send me further information about our dealings with Argentina?

Prinz Sigismund, Ambassador to Brazil

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Brother[6] -

Don't be stupid.

Wilhelm.
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Annotations
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[1] i.e. the fleet around Europe
[2] everything south of Peru/Columbia/Venezuela/the Guyanas
[3] he's more of an Admiral-of-Operations; the ranks that he's referring to goes like this;
Commodore
Admiral
Admiral von Zee (Operations & Theaters of War) {formerly Vice Admiral}*
Vice Admiral (Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Supply, II to head honch)*
Fleet Admiral (The Head Honcho of the whole dang Navy)*
*these ranks will be illustrated in future installments
[4] He's being stubborn
[5] The Prinz is "coming out" of his breakdown but not really *complete*. It should be noted at this point that the Prinz hardly ever uses his given name and simply goes by the title "Prinz" on the account that most tracts in New Socialism refer to him as the one ideal that people attempt to be in the Uber-Staat, the one ideal man (The "Uber-mensch" that came about in the Prinzkrieg), and that most people that support him only know him by this name and/or deviations thereof.
[6] Meaning Prinz Heinrich.

[Wendell]

So, are the Germans seeking World Domination?

[G.Bone]

From The New York Times, 1901
Urban Loon, Correspondent to Afrika
"The Question"

Most folk are perhaps asking the question on if the Germans are seeking world domination, on the account of their bought allies, and that they rule Afrika. I took a gander in Helmsbay to find out this answer. It is Coloured Town, as they would say in the South. There is virtually no language on Earth that's not spoken there. I myself, managed to get my feeling across through speaking Spanish and English, although the shopkeeper did ask if I knew German.

The best answer that I got was with a newly minted nightwatchman who was busy eating some schnitzel (breaded pork) at this small cafe. I came upon him and I introduced myself as a Correspondent from The New York Times. He was a fair man, almost to the lines of that famous Coloured Preacher of the Late Rebellion, a Fredrick Douglas, if I have the name correct.

It was then that he introduced himself as _the_ Afrikan Kapitan, the noted plunderer of the seas, and victor of the famous Submarine Battle off the coast of French Guyana. I should have seen it comng by the marks of his uniform. These Germans certainly do not know how to make their officers apart from their sailors, the usual stripe shirt, and the common man hat.

I asked him a couple of questions on what it was serving on a Holland and I found myself clearing up the up and coming lingo that has erupted in the chatter of our beloved homeland. For him, the submarine is the UBoat. For him, it is simply a cutter that goes underwater for a spell and then comes up, reckoning on the grace of God that the torpedoes do hit their mark, and reliance on the cannons.

But alas, that was not the question in mind. I asked him on the whole thought of German Dominance and he looked at me odd. In accented language that I thought myself to a Coloured straight from old Mississippi, he said that the Germans weren't out for conquest; rather they were there to build up his fellow kin from the dirt and into the light.

I suppose I was interviewing the wrong man about this theory. Almost half the town that was Walvis Bay had been subsumed into Helmsbay, supposedly named by the Kaiser-Prinz himself. Yet when I took a keen eye and ear upon the folks that were talking in English/Spanish/German, what they knew was of Prinz Heinrich, most noted for his actual demotion of his rank, pomoting a non-named person that had only served as a cargo runner from Helmsbay to Dar-Es-Salaam, without the actual approval of the Admiral-Kaiser up North.

I made a point to the Coloured Captain that the Germans were no better than the Rebels, proving a point to the wrong government, and ultimately paying a price for it. I remember this - that he did give another stare at me. He ate one of those potatoe mashed fritz[1] that I've been told that is always on every plate here in Helmsbay. He then looked into my eye and he said that if the German Empire was out for conquest, in broken English mind you, then they wouldn't have opened their factories for his father. Nay, he said almost sounding English, the ones that were truly evil were the French, who had goaled the Prinz into his own actions against them.

I pointed out, again, that 'twas not the issue, and the man actually had the gall in saying this;

"If good sir you are correct, then why do I have so many of my lost brothers here, if Duetschland ist so bad? Wir hier for peace - it is only to Gott that my Kaiser shall wake up from the Mountain and make Europische new-[2]"

It was with that he finished his meal, dropped a few coins on the table, and left.

I had the high mind on hitting him for being so rude

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Annotations
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[1] a proto-french fries only more "healthy" (don't ask)
[2] Atwell is confusing his "stories" again

[Wendell]

This is interesting. The pessimist in me says that German propaganda (and policy) is working.

[Shadow Knight]

Originally Posted by Wendell

This is interesting. The pessimist in me says that German propaganda (and policy) is working.

Quite so. Although if the whole thing collapses in on itself it could just make it fall that much harder. No one is more zealous than a convert and nothing can be more devastating than having your reason for converting proven false.

[Midgard]

Ah, the breaking point... does it mean that Russia will be the predominant partner, given that it sounds like Russia will be sending the troops West to hold the German Empire together? Interesting times, indeed - albeit so far seems like true WWI might be avoided, and thus a possibly better world.

[G.Bone]

It would be a favor to God that your Kaiser Prinz shall die. After all, what is more usefull than a martyr for the cause?
-Attributed to President Diaz, 1900

Revolution must be contained, else there will be chaos. That has already been proven in Europe. It is high time that the US should prove why it is the beacon of order and civilization.
-Robert Todd Lincoln, 1898

The state in which our ally to the west should not be overlook. We maybe mired in our own turgid sorrows of the past but we shall not be blind to them. That is why we must continue our shipments to them, hold the Empire strong, and to hold up the strength that Konprinz Frederick William Victor Albert of Hohenzollern illustrated to us.
-Tsar Nicholas II, Autocrat of all the Russias, 1897

The reforms that our current President has implemented with the advice of the Communalists are pivital to the reformation of our fair state. After all, was it not mentioned within Danzig[1] that leaders should be elected not of the royal blood but by experience? It is my belief that this system should work, given that the people are placated by social reforms made from the company, and those that are well educated enough to initiate such reforms, should in fact stay in power. This is no different from the Roman Republic where their Senate was similar to what the Yanquis[2] have in Washington D.C. At least the Germans are frank in their bribery, as the Bierce-man says[3]. It is my hope that President Diaz does not make waves to the point of disintergration.
-Francisco I. Madero, 1898

There should be a Union of the Americas, as done in Europe in the matter of Poland. They already have Italy and the Balkans in hand. Why not approach it to our Continent? Thanks to our allies to the east[3], we have been given the chance to achieve what they currently have; status as not only an empire but a player upon the world stage. It does not have to be as extremist as the Kaiser-Prinz but simply to the fact that we will not be interefered with by those powers that wish us harm. The finer details of which are entirely open for us to debate on...
-President Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles of Brazil, The Summit of the Southern Republics & Democracies of South America, held in Sao Paul, 1900

The terms in which my comrade to the north has proposed is most advantageous to my nation's health. In my late service in the Army, the Germans have provided a security in which our Republic has known no boundaries. It is a statement of fact that our actions within the desert[4] and the late war with Paraguay[5] mirror that of the Madagaskar War, short, quick, and to the point. My nation is truly in God's eye, as well as the rest of those that partake in the strong bond we share with the Germans. My only reservation is thus; how will we be able to hold to it if our neighbors to the North come knocking?
-Minister of State/War Julio Argentino Roca, The Summit of the Southern Republics & Democracies of South America, held in Sao Paul, 1900

Germany or America? Their colonies in Afrika does not matter. If it continues, then their effect will surely be disasterous to her foes and fortune for her allies.
-Admiral Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva, 1879[6]

Economics are the opiate of the masses - if we do that - then we can avert dissolution.
-Chancellor V. Lenin, 1901

I eat a simple fare[7]. If it can be true, then what the Third Republic must do is to rebuild. We cannot simply eat cake when we have so much to do. It is key that we shall overcome our foes to the North, not by simple invasion of our homeland, but to use their tactics against them, so that we may rise above the anarchic sands of sin.
-President Georges Clemenceau, Third Republic (in exile), 1899

I am a Kapitan not a Prinz. How I often wish to be an Afrikanischer, herding cattle, and pondering the movement of stars. The age of calm has ended; long live anarchy.
-Kapitan Heinrich of Prussia, Kaiserliche Marine, 1901

What I do for my Kaiser
-last words of would be assassin (& enemy agent) of President Georges Clemeneau, Gaetano Bresci[8], supposed member of the infamous Iron Brigade, 1901

The matter of our treaty with Japan should not surprise many in the international community. Nay, it is for the mercy of our current Tsar that hostilities upon the morrow has been averted because of that one incident. I know of no other Tsar that would calmly make friends of his enemies after an attempt was made upon his life. Now comes the fate of China-
-Ambassador {Baron} Roman Rosen, Imperial Court of Japan, (1895-1896), Imperial Liasion of the "Asian Reinsurance Pact of Friendship (1896-8), recalled to the Imperial Court {of Russia} (1898-1900), re-appointed Ambassador to Japan (1900- )

We need a middle class.
-rumored to have been the first words of PM {Count} Sergei Yulyevich Witte, 1895

...unite for our Mother Country seems to be distracted by the German Empire and if this proves to be true, then the defense of our nation and our Empire's interests in Asia must be preserved else we shall fall to the unknown enemy...
-attributed to the Tenterfield Oration "Speech", Henry Parkes, Tenterfield School of Arts, 1898

Guns; the second currency of Germany
- The Prinzly Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 1900, Ambrose Bierce

My citizens - we have been acknowledged by the Kingdom of Sweden!
- Władysław Grabski, Chief Financial Minister, Republic of Poland, 1899

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[1] (the) {Danzig} (Speech)
[2] Yankees in Spanish
[3] who is becoming very famous
[4] Germany, who then supported Argentina & Brazil to quasi-first world status and the main source on why a Summit of the Americas is being held 96 years before OTL's version of it - as well as to show how far they are "now"
[4] The Pacification of the Desert; Argetinian version of the US "Indian Wars"
[5] German arms did not exactly play a role in the War of Triple Alliance, however, they did present themselves in the "Pacification of the Desert" and other areas, to the point that the "Pacification" and the beating up Brazilian rebels were cut shorter than OTL
[6] I acutally have no idea of when this notable figure died or was born so I gave him a couple of years (until '79) and then he kicks the bucket ITTL
[7] True IOTL - although his firm Republican ties also helps on him being Prez.
[8] Many of the assassins that would be doing the multitude of killings in OTL have been either deported, converted, or outright killed.

[G.Bone]

Telegram sent to Mexico City

Diaz-

I have hope in the movement that you will triumph, Presidente.

Field Marshal Prinz

Unfinished note found on the desk of Field Marshal Prinz

If I may be condemned, my son, then let me at least slip away knowing that I have triumphed over France. England may hate me but at least we did right. Is it? There will be no tears when I die. Son -

Telegram sent to Berlin

The Prinz is dead.

[Wendell]

That's a major event!

[G.Bone]

Speech given at the Kaiser-Prinz's wake,
spoken by Tsar Nicholas II, Autocrat of all the Russias
January 1902

I am not good in speeches. I am not good in the words of my predecessor. My brethern across the seas would most likely have far more ability in making a monologue of morals than I.

However, I shall attempt my best.

There comes a time in which the greatest emporer of all time was taken away when he was buried. He was buried not in a manner of the late Napoleon or Lincoln. The details remained forbidden for the common eye and to this day, no one knows where he lies, lost to time, on purpose, and as a lasting effect to the world he ravaged.

I am speaking of Genghis Khan.

They say that they have carried his corpse away to the most common gravesite dotting the bespeckled plains of France. What deal that he could have gained with the Queen of the Netherlands remains unfinished, only carried out in motion by his son, who by rule of his predecessor, will never gain the throne. The rest of the family lies in ruins. For the rise of the Empire, the Kaiser-Prinz paid in blood, and ultimately died upon the glories of the late Canute, who also remains forgotten by my relatives to the West[1].

I am not speaking as a Prinz who would meddle in the affairs of state. Nay, I have no right to do this. Russia is upon her own feet while facing the sins of weakness that have swallowed her in the past. I cannot speak as brazen as my fellow relative, in which I owe so dearly, and that wise fork in the road that lead Russia to become less of an anarchic state than an Eastern Roman-Russian Republic, in the strict definition of the term, for we are not as near as the United States nor England.

What I can speak is the legacy that the Prinz has made throughout the Continent. France has been torn asunder. There is a pact that rules us, Russians, Germans, Hungarians, Austrians, Bulgarians, Jews, scions of the Vikings[2], the Croatians, and the list goes on. There are no more abrupt end of the leaders that govern the seperate but sovereign countries of this Continent; security has been realized for the people and the economy.

I do not ignore the problems that has entailed that philosophy into practice. I will not state that the Insitutionalized Economic Revolution, as Lenin has pointed out in his new approach to the Reinsurance Pact[3], has done much good. Yet look at us - there are the Poles in the audience. There are the resurrected legions of the Roman Empire. Italy has been stabilized. Afrika, that Dark Continent, is Dark no longer. There are even Argentinians in the audience here, to make the point nearer to the heart of the Kaiser Prinz's legacy, that he has made for us all.

I suppose you all know what happed in the Otsu Incident. Russians are not made for the warm generosity as shown in Paris or Madrid. I must admit, I was in shock over my assailant's corpse, the gun warm in my hand, the need for more ammuntion within my bones and blood, without the fact that he was dead, six shots to his spine, and there he is, dead as dead can be.

I was shown that the Kaiser Prinz was virtually the same way. He preached to his officers under a picture of a Jewish rabbi that intolerance towards his chosen people of Europe would not be a given fact. Look at yourselves - is not Europe blessed by the Kaiser Prinz's glory? While it is true that he did leave a creep upon the entire continent, is it not better than a war that would kill so many, wipe out a single generation, and plant the seeds of an extremist anarchic movement that would make more generations slip away into Lord Thantos's realm?[4]

The circumstances of the Kaiser Prinz's own actions may be debeated for future time. To paraphrase an English poet, Ozymandius[5] was standing for eternity, with only his head to show of the lost glories of yesteryear. In Europe, there is no sand to choak the glory of the Kaiser Prinz. He stands as sharp as a saber, as broad as a dreadnaught, and as pointed as a rapier. His legacy is not the revolution but of hope beyond misled Chancellors whom seek the status quo, only to be cut down by autocratic leaders with the sense of Nero, and thus Ares rules.

Russia cannot promise the weight of a thousand legions upon the soil of everyman's country. We are too poor for that. What we can offer is our trains and our industrial sector. If you want a kimono from Japan, we can get that you. Empress[6], you have our undying support, as well as King Umberto, Kaiser Rudolph, and the legal President of the Fourth Republic. Your Majesty, King Edward VII, I hope fortune comes to your way as well, and may friendship of both democratic republics are held strong as Athens and Thebes.

Oh - how I wish you were Viking, dear Cousin. Then we would put you on fire and let you drift into the seas. We do not have a sea as you, dear Cousin, only the endless steppe. Would you still like to be sent to God with glory of a thousand angels? There is hope for us all - yet - and forevermore -

Konprinz Wilhelm[7], you have my sorrows and the tears of a grateful Empire-


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Annotations
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[1] Meaning England
[2] the Nordic Countries which at this time are growing periously close to Germany, much to the alarm of England, as well as the U.S.
[3] the "brotherhood" of German allies, now (obviously) the network that Russia can tap into, with the support of Germany
[4] Davy Jones, in Greek
[5] Ozymandius by Percy Bysshe Shelley
[6] the "legal" head of state of Germany and not so much the Empire
[7] a point made to the Empress Margarete I, who's squirming in her seat at this mention, as well as King Edward VII, who's not really happy w/the Russians, who are meddling with Persia as well as other regions...

[Darkest]

Wow.

G.Bone... Man!

[G.Bone]

My heart bleeds for the Konprinz. He's got a lot of growing up to do.
-attributed to Sarah Bernhardt, 1902

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Empress -

It is upon the matter of the Argentinian Republic and her allies that we wish to honor your late brother's memory by avowing our continued support for your Empire. We wish to join the Reinsurance Pact.

Minister of State/War Julio Argentino Roca {1902}

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Excerpt from the Declaration of Unity, ratified from the Buenos Aires Summit, held in "status" due to the death of the Kaiser-Prinz
Paragraph XVI, Line XIV

...and in which our sovereign states of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile are ever set in a situation in which we are to ever repay the debt that Germany has given us, do we charge that aid shall be given back to our allies in any & all means possible in the hopes that the debt shall be honored for time immoral...

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By no means are we to accept that a threat has been subsided; nay, it is the Bear this time, and we must drive, drive, drive home the point that we shall never be bested to the dust.
-Attributed to Joseph Chamberlain, 1902

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Secretary;

Efforts within the Cape to merge the Republics have gone well. Ironically the Germans have been doing our work for us. There are some diehards here. It is a statement unto itself that President Krueger has opted to resign in lieu of one of his supporters due to political infighting about the matter of going north or simply to fight back. A raid is not needed as so much enouraging this division to continue.

High Commissioner Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Southern Africa.

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Excerpt from the Journals of Frederick Townsend Ward
Feb. 3rd, 1880[1]

...mark my words - even though the Germans seem to be mired in the pits of Africa - they will get here sooner or later -

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Ha! Now you come asking for the matter of India! You were all late! My - how we have become addled in our old age...
-George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, upon the approach by noted Liberal party members on the matter of India, 1899

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Excerpt from the Papers of Zaifeng[2], 2nd Prince Chun, Royal Ambassador of the Empire of China to the Empire of Germany (& other titles)
{*translated from Mandarin}

Truly it is wise for me to chronicle the problems that has struck this Empire of the Western Sun[3]. They are no better than the late Rebellion[4] that was averted, but it doth seems that everything is under control, even to the point that we seem mere children compared to their order of things. Guns are their currency of choice; what profit that they may gain is shared with the common people at a percentage that is advantageous to the Lord of the Factory. The change is noted not within the fanatical loyalty that these people have to their leader but to their state; it is rare that I should tread within the factories to not have an icon of the late Kaiser-Prinz adorning their walls. Some have even taken it upon theimselves to imprint his visage on the very stock of the noted rifles that have been appearing within the Imperial Services and especially the Ever Victorious Army[5].

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Annotations
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[1] Not killed in TTL and living to the ripe old age of 63, although stricken with some type of disabling disease that allows "Chinese Gordon" to show his stripes, which is another story all together...
[2] Appointed ITTL to meet the noted "Kaiser-Prinz" that has been making waves as far as China, although highly disapproved of for obvious reasons. The meeting, however, does not take place due to "surprise" talks with Russia "borrowing" him on the matter of Manchuria, and 'gridlocking' him in other things that will be explained in a future installment...
[3] one of those useless titles that really mean Germany...
[4] one of many, I'm afraid...
[5] Still around to counter the said rebellions, who've found their hands on German arms, which leads the Chinese Army to use Russian versions of the said German arms, and making the whole thing kind of stupid...

[Max Sinister]

Wow, who would have thought, killing off the main and name-giving character of a TL... how far do you plan to continue the TL?