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Cold old world
Let me begin by saying that this is loosely based off of S. M. Sterling’s Domination of Draka, Let me continue by stressing the word, loosely, I don’t know when the Point of Diversion is, however I do know something about the world in the modern days, In Europe there is the European Republic, controls everything from Ireland to Poland’s eastern Border, in Northern, eastern, western and central Africa there is the Democratic Empire of Ethiopia, In all of South Africa there is the South African Federation, Just know that South Africa has an Apartheid like system, and Ethiopia is mostly black. Asia is separated in a lot into tiny countries, every OTL Chinese Province is its own country, Korea, Vietnam (Includes Laos and Cambodia as well) and Japan are all countries.

Russia is in Chaos, after the Empire’s losses, Europe tried to establish a Democratic government, but when someone claiming to be Czar tried to take over, Hundreds of factions, some claiming to be the Czar others claiming to be trying to establish Democracy went to war, the war still hasn’t ended and won’t for the foreseeable future. The United States and Canada and Both North and South America are around the way they are in OTL but they are very Isolationist so they won’t be coming up much.

Now for a bit of Background, I know what happened as far back as 1889 that’s the first Pan Continental War (world war)

First Pan Continental War 1889-1895
Axis Powers (Axis of Free Nations) European Republic, Democratic Empire of Ethiopia, Great Britain, and Japan.
Allied Powers (Alliance of Empires) China, Russian Empire, South African Federation, Empire of Italy
Result: Axis victory, All Allies lose some of their territory, it is more of an ideological defeat than an actual annihilation.

Second Pan Continental war 1903-1910
Axis Powers: European Republic, Democratic Empire of Ethiopia, Great Britain, and Japan
Allied Powers: China, Russian Empire, South African Federation, Empire of Italy
Result: Allied Victory, Italy gains back Most of its lost territory, as a result of the losses; Britain and Ireland become a part of the Republic

Third Pan Continental War 1925-1934
Axis Powers: European Republic, Democratic Empire of Ethiopia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
Allied Powers: China, Russian Empire, South African Federation, Empire of Italy
Result: Axis victory, China is broken into multiple countries and Russia losses Poland Who Joins the Republic.

Fourth Pan Continental War: 1949-1963
Axis Power: European Republic, Democratic Empire of Ethiopia, Japan
Allied Powers: Russian Empire, South African Federation, Empire of Italy
Result: Axis Victory, Russia is Defeated, ten Years later the Civil war begins and the country is still in Chaos in the Early 2000s, Italy is defeated, north African Territory goes to Ethiopia, Europe takes the Mainland. The Development of the Nuclear Bomb nearly defeats South Africa, but They manage to steal one and the Threat of a bombing ends the war, Japan feels this war has robbed it of its just deserts and severs ties with the Rest of the Axis, Europe and Ethiopia are on good terms, trying to Keep South Africa where it belongs. If anyone would like to write a story about the Pan Continental wars, feel free, I have no idea how to do it.
April 27, 2010, London (But not the one we know at all)
John Castle looked in the Mirror, he was wearing his black Policeman’s uniform(1) he straightened his collar, started to comb his oily black hair, but then decided against it and put his hat on, took a deep Breath and walked out of his Bathroom, then out of his Apartment and down the apartments six flights of stairs before finally getting onto the street, he soon wished he were back inside, it was an especially cold day in London and it was raining in a slight drizzle that would soon become a torrential downpour. When He finally got to his Division Station (2), he was soaking wet and wished he had brought an umbrella. His Commandant shouted something

“Castle, you’re early again, don’t you have anything better to do?”

“I live close and I enjoy the walk, Commandant Malcolm and so I’m always early.”
Commandant Malcolm didn’t like Castle, Castle was one of the few men at White Division who actually did his job, most policemen felt that it was a quiet division and nothing would happen, however Castle had stopped a few illegal deals, and he didn’t want to be here forever, he hoped to one day move into Berlin, hopefully in Enforcement and First strike, if a war came he would be fighting in it, not preparing to fight in it. He spent his whole day looking at the screens of various street observation camera’s had a few patrollers stop some petty crime.

For most of his day, he just sat there looking at nothing until he spotted something unusual, a man with walked up to another man at a bus stop and uncovered his wrist the man waiting, looked at it, and went with him into an especially nice car, he ordered a patroller to follow them.

A few minutes passed before the patroller called in again “Intelligence officer Castle, Backup needed, shots fired, were at 4th and Winston in front of a warehouse!”

Castle grabbed his Ei-29(3), and alerted the rest of the division a few grabbed their own rifles but most just ordered more patrollers to the area.
Castle jumped into an armored car and drove to the area, the patrol car that was already there was a shot up ruin, men in the windows of the warehouse were shooting, and John looked through the scope of his Ei-29 and shot a man in the window the rest of the patrollers arrived and started shooting, John grabbed a grenade and threw it through the doorway, an explosion sounded and a few men screamed the enemy stopped shooting he told his men to stop shooting.

Everything was quiet someone threw a south African Rifle out the window a few other people did to, but the general message was that of surrender the Policemen filed into the warehouse and started arresting people. John took the lid off of a crate and pulled a clear plastic bag with a green plant in it.

“H-grass” (4)

Castle called his commandant and explained, Malcolm responded, more than slightly annoyed,

“Very good Officer castle, you have permission to interrogate if needed.”

“Thank you Commandant.”

John Walked up to one of the sellers and took out his night stick “Good afternoon young man, what is your name?”

Four hour's later
Castle wiped some of the blood off of his uniform and walked back home, he had been unable to change after the drug bust and now the rain had stopped, so it was going to have to be done at home. He walked up to the stairs and waved to his downstairs neighbor who was taking out the trash, His name was Nathan Radcliffe and he was a Doctor at the local hospital. Nathan waved back.

“So, Mr. Castle, tough night, or were you just working hard?”

John laughed lightly, Nathan could be a bit annoying at times, but John had had worse neighbors.

“Working hard, caught a few sellers, One of Them decided to kill himself, got his blood all over me(5)”

“Ah well, have a nice night”

“I will, you too.”

John walked up the stairs, opened the door, and took of his jacket; he was home fairly late, so he just went to bed.


(1)Police are a part of the military and function as soldiers during war

(2) Divisions are areas that a given force of Police keeps control over; they are named after standard last names of People in the area, if I can get some
British, French, Spanish, German, and Polish Division names that would be great.

(3)Semi automatic assault riffle

(4) H stands for Hallucinogen, its OTL’s Marijuana, H-grass is what the police call it, not civilians

(5) John is lying
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