Broke: giving your soul to the Worm
Joke: giving your soul to the Angel of Destiny
Bespoke: giving your soul to S I L A S S W I N E R, THE SCRUMPTIOUS SATAN, THE PORCINE PROFANATOR, THE BREAKFAST BAPHOMET, THE DELICIOUS DEFILER
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"What Madness Is This?" Volume III: The Pinnacle Future
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Joke: giving your soul to the Angel of Destiny
Bespoke: giving your soul to S I L A S S W I N E R, THE SCRUMPTIOUS SATAN, THE PORCINE PROFANATOR, THE BREAKFAST BAPHOMET, THE DELICIOUS DEFILER
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Иллюминистская Народная Республика Россия
Illyuministskaya Narodnaya Respublika Rossiya
I can only immagine Oswald and the rest of the RU having a collective nervous breakdown after seeing the Illuminists use roman art and styles for their symbols.
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Иллюминистская Народная Республика Россия
Illyuministskaya Narodnaya Respublika Rossiya
THE CONQUEST OF NEW ZION:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPERATION MANIFEST CLIMAX
"This is Divine Prophecy moving out of the dark and into the light."
- Supreme Marshal Acme Ashton
"They say we cannot conquer and hold this much soil. We are not conquering it. We are taking what Jev has ordained, and through him victory is inevitable."
- President and Atheling Joseph Steele
"This is a triumph of the Pinnacle Man. This is a shaking, violent orgasm of American Essence."
- Director of Propaganda Errol Leonard (Public Affairs Office, Grand Army of the Republic)
USEFUL STATISTICS:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPERATION MANIFEST CLIMAX
"This is Divine Prophecy moving out of the dark and into the light."
- Supreme Marshal Acme Ashton
"They say we cannot conquer and hold this much soil. We are not conquering it. We are taking what Jev has ordained, and through him victory is inevitable."
- President and Atheling Joseph Steele
"This is a triumph of the Pinnacle Man. This is a shaking, violent orgasm of American Essence."
- Director of Propaganda Errol Leonard (Public Affairs Office, Grand Army of the Republic)
USEFUL STATISTICS:
- Operation Manifest Climax began September 11, 1936 and officially ended on September 11, 1949.
- It was the longest continual war in American history.
- Despite being "attacked first" and the vast scale of the conflict, the Republican Union chose to refer to it as an "ongoing national security operation" for morale purposes, although this eventually fell out of favor.
- The R.U. was joined by its fellow League of Nations members Australia, the Carolinas, Norway, the Britannic Union, Holy Nippon, West Germania, and Mittelafrika.
- The Neutrality Pact was officially formed during the Great World War by Gran Colombia and Peru, seeking to avoid entrance into the conflict.
- Despite their initial goals, the Neutrality Pact formed the Cooperative Pact of 1913 and attacked the United Empire of Brazil and Rio de la Plata, after many years of disputes and seeking to keep the Americans from having to move through their land to fight the U.E.B.R.P..
- The revolutionary Republic of Argentina joined the Neutrality Pact shortly after its independence from the U.E.B.R.P., on April 1, 1913.
- By the end of the GWW, Brazil had transformed into an Eduist-Beutelist state by Reynaldo Edu, starting with his Green Revolution of 1913.
- Brazil was prone to conflict with its neighbors in the inter-war period, and thus did not formally join the Neutrality Pact until 1938, following the official fall of Gran Colombia.
- Several Beutelists and anarchist communes were dispersed through South America since the GWW. Most of these did not "officially" join the Pact, but they nonetheless fought as hard as anyone.
- Before Operation Manifest Climax, in 1936, the population of South America stood at 90,000,000.
- After Operation Manifest Climax, in 1949, the population of South America stood at 30-35,000,000, and dropping rapidly.
- The actual losses of Neutrality Pact combat forces are unknown because much of the official records were incinerated or destroyed, but are estimated to range from 30-35,000,000.
- In 1936, the Better population of the Republican Union was about 120,000,000.
- In 1949, the Better population of the Republican Union was about 130,000,000 and rising rapidly.
- The total losses of American combat forces were about 4,500,000, with about 1,500,000 unaccounted for, AWOL, or MIA.
- An estimated 10,000,000 American soldiers were wounded in Manifest Climax. Approximately 1 in 4 of these were life-changing.
- By 1970, a further 700,000 American veterans of Manifest Climax had died from exposure to Black Bliss defoliant, various, chemical and biological weapons and agents, and radiation exposure from Project Peacemaker.
- In 1936, the American GNP was around 90 billion.
- in 1949, the American GNP was at 350 billion.
- Manifest Climax cost the Union government an estimated 300 billion dollars, although that number is likely quite higher due to "black budget" projects and weapons R&D.
- By 1949, the Republican Union had dropped 40 atomic bombs on South American soil.
- The atomic bomb dropped by the Union was Fat Bastard, at 10 megatons, onto the Patagonian People's Anarchist Republic, as part of Operation Write-Off in 1948.
- By 1949, Republican Union had dropped 8 millions tons of explosives onto South America, and innumerable rounds of ammunition had been expended.
- Around 15,000,000 men and women served in the various branches of the R.U. military machine. Half of them would see combat in some form.
- An unknown number of people served in the Neutrality Pact forces, as by 1949, most able-bodied men and women (and even some who weren't) took up arms against the invasion. This gave the Union yet another reason to downplay the severity of the massacres being conducted, at least at first.
- The American unit with the most losses was the G.A.R.'s 320th Cohort, which began the conflict with some 2,000 men, sustained 35% casualties under Legate General Mike Fleetwood's command in the early years of the war, and then were massacred to the last man in the dead of night on November 3, 1941. They were the only unit of cohort size or greater that was totally wiped out, with not a man left. Even Fleetwood perished. The 320th Cohort's number was retired from active duty in a ceremony and collective funeral a month later.
OOC: To Be Continued. I gotta sleep. lol. People can offer up stat ideas and thoughts.
The main objective of this chapter will be to take the focus off the characters and show a cold hard look at events and the ghoulish statistics such an insane war would have.
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Jesus! I'm surprised there's anyone left or that all the tasty bits of the continent aren't salted ash
Jesus, 55-60 millions deaths in South America ... I really wanted to believe it's too high but OTL kinda disproved that. Soviet's loss in WW2 reached more than 20 millions within 4-5 years. Here with nuclear strikes, longer war, and worse brutality, even if NUSA collapsed, I doubt any coherent South American nations could form within several decades at least, maybe even a century.
So over a period of 13 years, the American population only grew by one million. Damn, that's a lot of losses...
Is this supposed to be the first or last atomic bomb used by the RU against the Neuties?
Ten million, actually.
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A million per year, and considering the size of RU, that's really bad.
Do keep in mind that this statistic is specifically noting BETTER population and not accounting for Infees, who despite Cleansing Month killing 3/4ths of them are probably still a significant demographic. Despite America TTL as a whole being behind OTL when you only look at Better population, the 3/4ths of Infees were killed in Cleansing Month implies around a fourth are still around, so the total population probably still surpasses OTL. Not including them in total population would be equivalent to, say, only recording the white population of America in the same time period OTL: this tells you the numbers of the dominant group in society which is accepted and the support base of this society, but not total population.
Another thing is that it is specifically noted that the Better Population is increasing rapidly, which seems to be implying the Baby Boom of the Pinnacle Future is getting started. A huge baby boom already happened after the GWW ended and America started settling all the land in Pacifica and Canada, and 1936, the start of Manifest Climax, is only 22 years after 1914, so the generation making up most of the soldiers serving in the Army for the war grew up just in time for the war. A lot of them would have been killed in Manifest Climax yes, but a lot would also serve for a few years and then come back (injured or not). These Veterans would have kept having kids, but at any given time most of the young generation would be in some form of military service (combat or not) until now when Manifest Climax is ending. With South American organized resistance now thoroughly annihilated and huge swathes of land now cleared for settlement even if a lot has also been nuked or poisoned by Black Bliss, most American Troops are probably going home now, even if a significant amount continue to occupy the territory America holds. This means that all these returning soldiers will now be settling down and finding new jobs, and probably benefiting from pro-Veteran programs and legislation all at once. When combined with all the new land in New Zion, the religious frevor brought about by the National Reformation, restoring of the Old Republic and the conquest of New Zion, and the coming decadence of the Pinnacle Future with reforms like the repealing of Focus On the Family there’s a perfect storm to be fruitful and multiply and have an absolutely MASSIVE baby boom which will more than make up for the Slowed growth and the loses here.
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Not to detract from the horrifying statistics (which need some tinkering) but hearing the most genocidal war in TTL's human history described like this is a horror unto itself.
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I know I plain should not be surprised this far in the TL but roughly 60 million South Americans being gone is just... fuck. Ya know? I just plain don't have the words for it.
Even if my prediction of the NUSA falling by 1976 comes true, South America will remain largely a graveyard with vastly reduced nations. I mean, I don't event think the aftermath of Generalplan Ost in the Anglo/American-Nazi war TL was as bad as this, at least the Nazis there fell by 1960.
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It is their climax, after all.
This is the part that really stood out to me. Imagine the fallout from that many nukes, even if most of them are probably Hiroshima-level.
Don't forget the 14 million American casualties.
It calls to mind the Freudian conception of the death drive. As the RU was caused to suffer near genocide, so the NUSA now returns a thousandfold horror upon others. Fun!
With 40 atom bombs and a war that makes the IOTL Eastern Front look peaceful, 60 millon South Americans gone looks like small numbers
60 million and rapidly decreasing. It won’t stay only 60 million for long