It could easily be both an assassination plus mass killing.
My guess would be either the Kaiser or Crown prince (attacking Kat would not be treason like the royal family would be) followed by killing some others.
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Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
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It could easily be both an assassination plus mass killing.
My guess would be either the Kaiser or Crown prince (attacking Kat would not be treason like the royal family would be) followed by killing some others.
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Right now Germany has two major problems, an internal Empire problem with what is happening in Poland and an external regional one in the Balkans with Russia flexing it's muscles and I wouldn't put it past Russia in having it's Intelligence agencies interfering in supporting Polish nationalism.
What we don't know is it this shooting is some ways tied in to all of this, so far every indication is that it is a lone shooter situation but if Andreas is part of a reconstitute group I would look to some one by the name of Ulrike who used to live in Jena IOTL and because of all the butterflies ITTL and would most likely who have gone to the University there.
What we don't know is it this shooting is some ways tied in to all of this, so far every indication is that it is a lone shooter situation but if Andreas is part of a reconstitute group I would look to some one by the name of Ulrike who used to live in Jena IOTL and because of all the butterflies ITTL and would most likely who have gone to the University there.
Part 110, Chapter 1804
Chapter One Thousand Eight Hundred Four
30th June 1967
Mitte, Berlin
After he had emptied the fourth magazine into the street below, Andreas could see the rising panic. The crowd was a living thing as individuals scrambled for shelter, even though the fire had paused. He loaded the fifth and final magazine into the rifle and this time, aiming carefully as to make sure that everything would be at a fever pitch down there when the Police belatedly arrived. Then disassembling the rifle, Andreas put it in the case and walked to the concrete wall next to the elevator he wrote the message that he wanted the whole world to hear when they traced the bullets back to this room in permanent marker. It was graffiti in the same style as what he had done in countless places when he had first started down the path of being a student radical.
The King must die so the country can live.
Andreas smiled when he saw those words on the wall which would leave no doubt about who had done this. Perhaps this time people would finally pay heed.
Then he pulled the wedge from the elevator doors and pressed the button for the subbasement, with the elevator in fire mode it would go where he wanted and nowhere else. Andreas was aware if the tunnels that led under the city streets and was planning on making good his escape, being able to move swiftly while everyone else was caught up in the mess that had resulted from his actions. One of the entrances to the tunnel system was in the basement of this building.
1st July 1967
Mitte, Berlin
Glass crunched under Louis’ shoes as he walked through a scene of utter devastation in the early morning hours. It hadn’t been the rifle fire that had caused this, but the resulting panic as people struggled to get off the street and into any sort of shelter they could find. In the business that Louis was looking at, several people had been shoved through a plate-glass window by the crush behind them. Despite the lacerations, they had been lucky ones. Those who had been crushed against less yielding surfaces had not been as fortunate. The U-Bahn entrances had proven particularly lethal with people falling down the stairs and getting trampled. Many felt that this was just one more part of the chaos that was engulfing the wider world in recent days, the violence having finally come to Berlin.
The Police estimated that a hundred and fifty shots had been fired from the top floor of the high-rise building that overlooked the long avenue. They said that this had been well planned and executed with the gunman having vanished as soon as the shooting had stopped. All the Police had found was a pile of brass cartridges and a message scrawled on the wall suggesting what the motives of the shooter were. They were still counting the dead and injured, this was a bad day by anyone’s standard.
It had been a nice day right up until the shooting had started. Louis had gone to the site of the new Winter Residence and had looked at the footings for the buildings’ foundations as they were being put down. The team of Lawyers and Accountants who managed his finances said that construction was moving ahead now that funding had been secured. They had mentioned that taxpayers were not on the hook this time, something that made the Reichstag happy but gave Louis heartburn. Exactly what had his people done to secure the money? While Louis was glad that they worked for him and the betterment of the State, they were of the sort who caused mayhem on an international scale when they got a bit too creative.
Then things had gone off the rails.
Louis had been rushed to the Central Command of the Berlin Police where he had been informed that Charlotte, Marie Cecilie, Nella, and Nan were secure in the penthouse apartment. They ought to be, being enclosed in steel reinforced concrete and bulletproof glass on the top floors of one of the tallest buildings in Berlin. Michael was in Prague surrounded by the Bohemian Army. Victoria was safe in Jena while Louis was somewhere in the Adriatic commanding a warship.
Friedrich, Suga and Mirai had been hustled off to a secure location which not even Louis Ferdinand knew the location of. In the event of war, the destruction of Berlin, or any other major emergency the First Foot had only one duty; to preserve the line of succession as part of the continuity of governance. While it was debatable just how much a role the House of Hohenzollern played in that governance, they were seen as a unifying factor which would be sorely needed in a time of extreme National crisis. This had come at a particularly poor time for Suga. It hadn’t been announced officially yet but with Mirai having turned three, they had decided that it was time to have another child, planned this time, and Suga was expecting. This emergency had occurred when she was at a delicate point.
Then he had gotten rather disquieting news, Kristina being Kristina, she had seen the news reports of the unfolding crisis and was rushing to Berlin heedless of the danger. No one had known yet if the attack was a multipronged effort and he had been tempted to order the First Foot to stop her but had ordered her to be directed to him instead. When Kristina had arrived in Central Command with Doctor Oskar Baber, the veteran Notarzt who supervised her in the field, she had been angry about her Security Detail bringing her here. To his credit, Doctor Baber had just introduced himself and told Louis that he should be proud of the sort of person who Kristina was.
Putting Kristina in a position that amounted to make-work, having her make phone calls to coordinate medical efforts that were already well coordinated had seemed like the right call. Later it had turned out that Louis had underestimated Kristina and the stature she had taken on in recent years. She was able to get through to Hospital Administrators, not just in Berlin but in several other cities as well and had gotten them to make hard commitments to what they could send to the response effort. Later, Kristina had still been upset because she felt that she needed to be out in the field doing things as opposed to talking on the phone. Louis was tempted to ask her exactly what she thought those in positions of command did but had thought better of it.
30th June 1967
Mitte, Berlin
After he had emptied the fourth magazine into the street below, Andreas could see the rising panic. The crowd was a living thing as individuals scrambled for shelter, even though the fire had paused. He loaded the fifth and final magazine into the rifle and this time, aiming carefully as to make sure that everything would be at a fever pitch down there when the Police belatedly arrived. Then disassembling the rifle, Andreas put it in the case and walked to the concrete wall next to the elevator he wrote the message that he wanted the whole world to hear when they traced the bullets back to this room in permanent marker. It was graffiti in the same style as what he had done in countless places when he had first started down the path of being a student radical.
The King must die so the country can live.
Andreas smiled when he saw those words on the wall which would leave no doubt about who had done this. Perhaps this time people would finally pay heed.
Then he pulled the wedge from the elevator doors and pressed the button for the subbasement, with the elevator in fire mode it would go where he wanted and nowhere else. Andreas was aware if the tunnels that led under the city streets and was planning on making good his escape, being able to move swiftly while everyone else was caught up in the mess that had resulted from his actions. One of the entrances to the tunnel system was in the basement of this building.
1st July 1967
Mitte, Berlin
Glass crunched under Louis’ shoes as he walked through a scene of utter devastation in the early morning hours. It hadn’t been the rifle fire that had caused this, but the resulting panic as people struggled to get off the street and into any sort of shelter they could find. In the business that Louis was looking at, several people had been shoved through a plate-glass window by the crush behind them. Despite the lacerations, they had been lucky ones. Those who had been crushed against less yielding surfaces had not been as fortunate. The U-Bahn entrances had proven particularly lethal with people falling down the stairs and getting trampled. Many felt that this was just one more part of the chaos that was engulfing the wider world in recent days, the violence having finally come to Berlin.
The Police estimated that a hundred and fifty shots had been fired from the top floor of the high-rise building that overlooked the long avenue. They said that this had been well planned and executed with the gunman having vanished as soon as the shooting had stopped. All the Police had found was a pile of brass cartridges and a message scrawled on the wall suggesting what the motives of the shooter were. They were still counting the dead and injured, this was a bad day by anyone’s standard.
It had been a nice day right up until the shooting had started. Louis had gone to the site of the new Winter Residence and had looked at the footings for the buildings’ foundations as they were being put down. The team of Lawyers and Accountants who managed his finances said that construction was moving ahead now that funding had been secured. They had mentioned that taxpayers were not on the hook this time, something that made the Reichstag happy but gave Louis heartburn. Exactly what had his people done to secure the money? While Louis was glad that they worked for him and the betterment of the State, they were of the sort who caused mayhem on an international scale when they got a bit too creative.
Then things had gone off the rails.
Louis had been rushed to the Central Command of the Berlin Police where he had been informed that Charlotte, Marie Cecilie, Nella, and Nan were secure in the penthouse apartment. They ought to be, being enclosed in steel reinforced concrete and bulletproof glass on the top floors of one of the tallest buildings in Berlin. Michael was in Prague surrounded by the Bohemian Army. Victoria was safe in Jena while Louis was somewhere in the Adriatic commanding a warship.
Friedrich, Suga and Mirai had been hustled off to a secure location which not even Louis Ferdinand knew the location of. In the event of war, the destruction of Berlin, or any other major emergency the First Foot had only one duty; to preserve the line of succession as part of the continuity of governance. While it was debatable just how much a role the House of Hohenzollern played in that governance, they were seen as a unifying factor which would be sorely needed in a time of extreme National crisis. This had come at a particularly poor time for Suga. It hadn’t been announced officially yet but with Mirai having turned three, they had decided that it was time to have another child, planned this time, and Suga was expecting. This emergency had occurred when she was at a delicate point.
Then he had gotten rather disquieting news, Kristina being Kristina, she had seen the news reports of the unfolding crisis and was rushing to Berlin heedless of the danger. No one had known yet if the attack was a multipronged effort and he had been tempted to order the First Foot to stop her but had ordered her to be directed to him instead. When Kristina had arrived in Central Command with Doctor Oskar Baber, the veteran Notarzt who supervised her in the field, she had been angry about her Security Detail bringing her here. To his credit, Doctor Baber had just introduced himself and told Louis that he should be proud of the sort of person who Kristina was.
Putting Kristina in a position that amounted to make-work, having her make phone calls to coordinate medical efforts that were already well coordinated had seemed like the right call. Later it had turned out that Louis had underestimated Kristina and the stature she had taken on in recent years. She was able to get through to Hospital Administrators, not just in Berlin but in several other cities as well and had gotten them to make hard commitments to what they could send to the response effort. Later, Kristina had still been upset because she felt that she needed to be out in the field doing things as opposed to talking on the phone. Louis was tempted to ask her exactly what she thought those in positions of command did but had thought better of it.
So...on the one hand, we have an anti-royalist nutter who killed multiple innocent people to make a political point and even before he went off the deep end hadn't contributed anything to the betterment of the country...and on the other hand we have a royal family with a proven and public history of public service, especially in the younger generation, and one of whom is actively coordinating the medical response?
It's rare to see such a perfect example of a terrorist shooting their own cause in the foot and rallying the populace thoroughly behind their target. Well done, Andreas. Well done indeed...
It's rare to see such a perfect example of a terrorist shooting their own cause in the foot and rallying the populace thoroughly behind their target. Well done, Andreas. Well done indeed...
Uh Oh....the Cat's gonna be prowling in the Underground of Berlin, and its going to rattle things until someone spits something useful.....
Then again with all the things that have been happening lately to the Imperial Family the German people may think that they are becoming a bit inconvenient...
Paying the street tax is sometimes the cost of doing business.
Eh, I doubt it. Especially since this kind of thing tends to have the opposite effect.
Heck, look at the Falklands. Before Argentina invaded, most British people wouldn't have been able to find it on a map, and there was serious talk about letting them go. But afterwards...
As I said above, the Imperial Family have an incredibly good reputation these days. They're definitely not 'idle royals', and Kiki's a public darling between her war service, her work as a doctor and what happened with Mithras. With what's happened now? The vast majority of the German people will be in utter solidarity with them IMO.
This proves Andreas is a zealot not a lunatic. If he was a lunatic he wouldn't have planned his escape so well. Sadly for him, The Tigress and her Cubs will be on the prowl, along with their friends in the Federal Police & BII/BND (they have to suspect some type of foreign involvement as well as domestic). Oh, and the unofficial authorities will be looking for him as well. Turns out most major criminal organisations don't really like this sort of indiscriminate slaughter; its bad for business & causes the actual authorities to start poking things they have 'overlooked'. That and the little fact that most criminals tend to have a patriotic streak, as many captured spies & traitors in many nations have discovered over the years.
Georgie Boy most definitely paid for the Winter Palace. And then some I'd say.
Kiki is showing the right instincts for a true, dedicated medical professional. She wants to be at the sharp end treating people, not stuck in an office all day pushing paper. The thing is, while Louis & her security detail were intending to keep her out of harms way, by placing her in the coordination role, they gave Kiki the opportunity to prove to her superiors just how capable a senior officer she is going to be. They will be smart enough not to push her into a purely admin role too soon, but she will be commanding a hospital department or mobile field medical unit faster than she realises. And it will all be on merit, which will be hard for her to accept.
Support for the monarchy will increase among the majority of the population, especially if Andreas is stupid enough to target a Royal in the future. That's what happened when the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army) assassinated Lord Mountbatten while he was on his fishing trip. It also resulted in a massive drop in both open & private support, funding & arms supplies from Irish Nationalist supporters & sympathisers in the USA for all Irish 'Republican' terror groups.
Kiki is going to get her delayed promotion sooner rather then later and she is going to working a lot of shifts in relief of other medical personnel for which the the legend of "The Angel in Gray" just keeps growing.
I am sure that were plenty of police, firefighters and other people who rushed to the scene immediately without any regards to their own safety and they need to be honored with a new Order to be named after someone that I can't think of now.
Unless Andreas wore gloves when he loaded the rounds in to the clips and his prints are not in the system, law enforcement will soon will know who they are looking for.
Investigators will look at past associates and there is a special prisoner who is being held at the Kaiser's convenience who may have some useful information
I am sure that were plenty of police, firefighters and other people who rushed to the scene immediately without any regards to their own safety and they need to be honored with a new Order to be named after someone that I can't think of now.
Unless Andreas wore gloves when he loaded the rounds in to the clips and his prints are not in the system, law enforcement will soon will know who they are looking for.
Investigators will look at past associates and there is a special prisoner who is being held at the Kaiser's convenience who may have some useful information
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Let's see
1. Freddy: doing Crown Prince things (which are... what exactly?)
2. Michael: being King in Bohemia and also driving tanks
3. Kristina: all-round kind-hearted badass war heroine doctor/medic who is also pretty and dating a fighter pilot/astronaut
4. Louis: has his own warship to command and receiving sexy pics from his sister's best friend
5. Marie: arguably the most "useless" but she's still in college; also part-time activist so yay I guess?
6. Victoria: arguably the most "useless" but she's still in college; could work part-time as cashier at the university bookstore or be a waitress/barista, I suppose (and wouldn't the paparazzi love THAT)
7. Antonia: what do you expect, seven year-old's gotta seven year-old
Yeah, the "useless royal" thing really doesn't work on them.
Honestly if you're planning on being Public Enemy No.1 in Germany you're gonna have to take out Katherine von Mischner-Blackwood first, otherwise it's just pointless.
Marc A
It's not pointless as such, you're still public enemy No1, it's just that your reign as public enemy No1 is likely to be like peasant life in the middle ages:
Nasty, brutish and short. Very short if you cross the wrong person.
Kind of unfair but valid observation on the twins as they are both in university and I think that there was a bit of sarcasm there.
Vicky is studying psychology and has sat on a group session for PTSD that Kiki belongs to.
I can see her after this mass shooting event to become even more interested in the effects of PTSD and she is at the world's most foremost research institution ITTL the University of Jena that has the pioneer in the field Dr. Peter Holtz as the head of the Medical School and somehow I think that having another Imperial Princess under his thumb will not bother him.
Rea is the Chief Maid of the Court and has no doubt plenty of experience in the management of the various State and social functions that has been held.
I can see her with help of the Imperial Family staff and her other Maids of the Court hold maybe a Star Studded Gala that raises funds for the victims for the extras that are not covered by the State or other official means.