w00t. A conversation. w00t. 
Retcon II: the German Arms are in the hands of the Hawaiian Royal Army. Queen Lil'u'kalani hasn't been on the throne yet. My bad.
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My Dearest Brother-
Willy is doing well. I suspect it is one of dear Father's allies. I suspect it is our mother that did this deed. There will be fire and brimstone to be paid.
With that said, STAY! I know that Afrika taxes upon your soul but I firmly believe that we can do this! I have managed to persuade our English brothers to come to our side, although I have not deduced how swiftly they fell. I need support in Afrika to make it real, to become this dagger that will slay our rotten burough, and perhaps make Germany a Hegemon that rivals anything concieved in the modern day.
No more speeches; I know my limit now. This is mein kampf against die welt!
Your Brother,
F.
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It is late Winter 1891/1892.
Progression within Togoland and Kamerun are booming in contrast to East Afrika and Southwest Afrika. This helps because of the limitation that the colonies have. They are a seaport; nothing more, nothing less. But what is not known is that a certain Kaptain Spree has been dispatched to Kamerun. He has been there for quite some time. If Nambia could not work, then Kamerun or possibly Togoland could suffice.
The ships that are launched from Kamerun are something to be worried about. Since Germany is interested in submarines, there is this man called James Holland, who is trying to make submarines float for longer distances. The current cruisers are more plated than battleships; they are adapted for speed. It also helps that these cruisers are the modern day cutters; the only difference of them being metal. The engines have been streamlined. There have been efforts on getting this wonderous thing called oil from the US but that's been suspended with Kaiser Fredrich III getting involved....
But back to James Holland - James Holland has the brains for it. He has been hired by the..."Imperial" Armory to develop their own submarines. The current model has them imitating the cutters to become little more than ships one foot deep from the surface. They are supposed to be hidden from view. Thus why the top resembles a cutter. This particular notion has spurred other designs in which the cutter is deadly, not only from top (it's a cutter!), but from the bottom, able to shoot torpedoes at some random ship nearby. Of course the navigational systems have to be repaired...
The new cutters do have the speed of the Cutter Snark; in fact Prince Wlademarl has nicknamed them the 'Sharks' since they can do double time from Hamburg to Victoria Bay, Kamerun. The large advantage of these Cutter Sharks is that they have one of those massive artillery pieces, that while are canned in the _Actual_ Imperial Armory, are revived in Togoland and Kamerun. In fact, much of the outfitting of the recent Cutter Sharks in Victoria Bay, Kamerun, is done by a branch office of the "Imperial" Armory, where the cannons are quite ...effective against any attempt by "rebels" to the North, correctly assumed to be French supported.
James Holland has been lured away from the US by manufacturing submarine for the Imperial Navy, Kamerun. These submarines do imitate the cutter shark frame, the famous James J. Woods Engine, with the advantage placed on speed. In fact, the reason why there is such support towards Nambia is from the cutter sharks, which help provide security and a constant transportation routes from colony to colony.
Meanwhile, the first shipment of supplies from Brazil and Argentina are arriving in Wilhelmsburg and Luderitz Bay. Prince Heinrich is thoughly tanned through his experience in Afrika. He isn't quite the diplomat that his brother thinks he is; most of the choices that he has to make is based on common sense. Imagine to his surprise that he gets a telegram that practically orders him to stay there. It also annotes on the back that his family is coming there as well. The telegram is the informing of his family coming. The actual letter that orders to stay is hand written, with parts of it with a hole in it, and a packet of information that he should use in the colony.
The shipyards are in Togoland and Kamerun. Ships are useless in Nambia, this desert place, where the only life being in Windhoek. There, efforts in intregating the native tribes to "New Socialism" is being picked up quite frequently by the Nama. It is something of their own heritage. The Poles help through their shared experience, there is some struggle, and there is some conflict on whether or not should there be inbreeding. The local security force has been dissected to negate this problem; it is mostly dealt by the Jews and the local priests. Walvis Bay is becoming more German thanks to it's unoffical German 'town' next door. Out of annoyance, Kaptain Heinrich of Prussia has the local security force trained along Naval lines. There is a distinct hierarchy to be respected. Those in the interior are more tribal, less hierarchy, more focused on diplomacy with the Afrikans and the Europeans participating.
Meanwhile in German Ost Afrika, it is becoming evident that Sherman's tactics of Total War have been learned. It is here where the local Muslims are learning this new thing called machine guns and guerilla warfare. With Kaiser Friedrich III ruling Germany proper, massive amounts of people are arriving, not as the late wave of refugees that didn't get the news that Kaiser Friedrich III is Kaiser, but people from Italy. These are ...mafioso's, the Black Hand, and virtually everyone in the Balkans that don't like it in their home country. They have come to East Africa to learn and settle down. They hold a formal declaration from the actual Kaiser that it is their right to settle. They do, they learn from the Colonial administrators, and begin to teach the finer aspects of a criminial system, although not to implement it, just to teach what structure means.
Although they do not have the strong naval yards, they do have a military history, and the tactics that have put capos to tears. A young man by the name of Paul Emil von Lettow Vorbeck arrives with these new immigrants to East Africa. He is to report to the local Colonial Police (in English) station in the newly promoted Max Hoffmann, who is testing out his new Panzerkampfwagons. They are for speed, again, and have been in use for those that are openly rebelling against the Colonial Administration. They are correct in assuming that it is all French supported, or, the last refuge for those in favor of the Crown Prince on his plan on to kill France.
For the past year, the Crown Prince has been seen in Italy. That much is certain. He talks to the Pope, seen talking to the heirs of the Inquisition, and then is spotted in person, talking to the Sultan of the Porte. An unofficial amendment to the Reinsurance Treaty on technical supply is shared between the two. When confronted with the French ambassador on not telling his august father on his whereabouts, the Crown Prince quotes an obscure line from the Art of War, misunderstood as an insult. It does not help that the French ambassador is found dead in his apartment a day later, apparently from alcohol poisoning, silly little Frenchman.
President Grover Cleveland "meets" up with the Crown Prince in Rome, through his Ambassador. The German Embassy is not informed of this. It is recorded by French spies that the Crown Prince is more angry, lethal, and a sharp glare to shoot down any opposition.
Meanwhile, Herr Ebert organizes the first convention in Koln, with all the Party members present.
Retcon II: the German Arms are in the hands of the Hawaiian Royal Army. Queen Lil'u'kalani hasn't been on the throne yet. My bad.
---
My Dearest Brother-
Willy is doing well. I suspect it is one of dear Father's allies. I suspect it is our mother that did this deed. There will be fire and brimstone to be paid.
With that said, STAY! I know that Afrika taxes upon your soul but I firmly believe that we can do this! I have managed to persuade our English brothers to come to our side, although I have not deduced how swiftly they fell. I need support in Afrika to make it real, to become this dagger that will slay our rotten burough, and perhaps make Germany a Hegemon that rivals anything concieved in the modern day.
No more speeches; I know my limit now. This is mein kampf against die welt!
Your Brother,
F.
-----
It is late Winter 1891/1892.
Progression within Togoland and Kamerun are booming in contrast to East Afrika and Southwest Afrika. This helps because of the limitation that the colonies have. They are a seaport; nothing more, nothing less. But what is not known is that a certain Kaptain Spree has been dispatched to Kamerun. He has been there for quite some time. If Nambia could not work, then Kamerun or possibly Togoland could suffice.
The ships that are launched from Kamerun are something to be worried about. Since Germany is interested in submarines, there is this man called James Holland, who is trying to make submarines float for longer distances. The current cruisers are more plated than battleships; they are adapted for speed. It also helps that these cruisers are the modern day cutters; the only difference of them being metal. The engines have been streamlined. There have been efforts on getting this wonderous thing called oil from the US but that's been suspended with Kaiser Fredrich III getting involved....
But back to James Holland - James Holland has the brains for it. He has been hired by the..."Imperial" Armory to develop their own submarines. The current model has them imitating the cutters to become little more than ships one foot deep from the surface. They are supposed to be hidden from view. Thus why the top resembles a cutter. This particular notion has spurred other designs in which the cutter is deadly, not only from top (it's a cutter!), but from the bottom, able to shoot torpedoes at some random ship nearby. Of course the navigational systems have to be repaired...
The new cutters do have the speed of the Cutter Snark; in fact Prince Wlademarl has nicknamed them the 'Sharks' since they can do double time from Hamburg to Victoria Bay, Kamerun. The large advantage of these Cutter Sharks is that they have one of those massive artillery pieces, that while are canned in the _Actual_ Imperial Armory, are revived in Togoland and Kamerun. In fact, much of the outfitting of the recent Cutter Sharks in Victoria Bay, Kamerun, is done by a branch office of the "Imperial" Armory, where the cannons are quite ...effective against any attempt by "rebels" to the North, correctly assumed to be French supported.
James Holland has been lured away from the US by manufacturing submarine for the Imperial Navy, Kamerun. These submarines do imitate the cutter shark frame, the famous James J. Woods Engine, with the advantage placed on speed. In fact, the reason why there is such support towards Nambia is from the cutter sharks, which help provide security and a constant transportation routes from colony to colony.
Meanwhile, the first shipment of supplies from Brazil and Argentina are arriving in Wilhelmsburg and Luderitz Bay. Prince Heinrich is thoughly tanned through his experience in Afrika. He isn't quite the diplomat that his brother thinks he is; most of the choices that he has to make is based on common sense. Imagine to his surprise that he gets a telegram that practically orders him to stay there. It also annotes on the back that his family is coming there as well. The telegram is the informing of his family coming. The actual letter that orders to stay is hand written, with parts of it with a hole in it, and a packet of information that he should use in the colony.
The shipyards are in Togoland and Kamerun. Ships are useless in Nambia, this desert place, where the only life being in Windhoek. There, efforts in intregating the native tribes to "New Socialism" is being picked up quite frequently by the Nama. It is something of their own heritage. The Poles help through their shared experience, there is some struggle, and there is some conflict on whether or not should there be inbreeding. The local security force has been dissected to negate this problem; it is mostly dealt by the Jews and the local priests. Walvis Bay is becoming more German thanks to it's unoffical German 'town' next door. Out of annoyance, Kaptain Heinrich of Prussia has the local security force trained along Naval lines. There is a distinct hierarchy to be respected. Those in the interior are more tribal, less hierarchy, more focused on diplomacy with the Afrikans and the Europeans participating.
Meanwhile in German Ost Afrika, it is becoming evident that Sherman's tactics of Total War have been learned. It is here where the local Muslims are learning this new thing called machine guns and guerilla warfare. With Kaiser Friedrich III ruling Germany proper, massive amounts of people are arriving, not as the late wave of refugees that didn't get the news that Kaiser Friedrich III is Kaiser, but people from Italy. These are ...mafioso's, the Black Hand, and virtually everyone in the Balkans that don't like it in their home country. They have come to East Africa to learn and settle down. They hold a formal declaration from the actual Kaiser that it is their right to settle. They do, they learn from the Colonial administrators, and begin to teach the finer aspects of a criminial system, although not to implement it, just to teach what structure means.
Although they do not have the strong naval yards, they do have a military history, and the tactics that have put capos to tears. A young man by the name of Paul Emil von Lettow Vorbeck arrives with these new immigrants to East Africa. He is to report to the local Colonial Police (in English) station in the newly promoted Max Hoffmann, who is testing out his new Panzerkampfwagons. They are for speed, again, and have been in use for those that are openly rebelling against the Colonial Administration. They are correct in assuming that it is all French supported, or, the last refuge for those in favor of the Crown Prince on his plan on to kill France.
For the past year, the Crown Prince has been seen in Italy. That much is certain. He talks to the Pope, seen talking to the heirs of the Inquisition, and then is spotted in person, talking to the Sultan of the Porte. An unofficial amendment to the Reinsurance Treaty on technical supply is shared between the two. When confronted with the French ambassador on not telling his august father on his whereabouts, the Crown Prince quotes an obscure line from the Art of War, misunderstood as an insult. It does not help that the French ambassador is found dead in his apartment a day later, apparently from alcohol poisoning, silly little Frenchman.
President Grover Cleveland "meets" up with the Crown Prince in Rome, through his Ambassador. The German Embassy is not informed of this. It is recorded by French spies that the Crown Prince is more angry, lethal, and a sharp glare to shoot down any opposition.
Meanwhile, Herr Ebert organizes the first convention in Koln, with all the Party members present.
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