Photos of the Kaiserreich

[HIM Dogson]

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One of these things is not like the others...
Anyway...

Still from what most consider the best Starkrieg film, Tyranny Strikes Back. The film starts with a Monarchist cell on Hoth, where Lukas Starkiller, after receiving a message from the ghost of Obi-wan Kenobi, resolves to go to the planet of Dagobah. All is not well, however, as Darth Tyrannus has led the First Order to finding the base on Hoth. He orders an assault. Meanwhile, at the base, General Reiken declares that the main Monarchist force is too far away to help; they will have to evacuate. Lukas heads to Dagobah, while Hans Zola takes the Princess to theoretically meet the main Fleet. However, the First Order stops them, and they must head to the gass planet Bespin. Meanwhile on Dagobah, Lukas trains with the wise Jedi master Yoda. On Bespin, however, Hans's old friend Lando Calrissian betrays them to Darth Tyrannus. Lukas, against the advice of Yoda, goes to help them, while Hans is frozen in carbonate to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Leia, Chewbacca, and the droids, however, are broken out by Lando. Lukas arrives on Bespin, only to be badly beaten by Darth Tyrannus; unlike OTL, the fight goes to the landing pads, where Tyrannus cuts of Lukas's hand and tells him that, contrary to what Obi-wan told him(that his father was a noble Jedi who died protecting the last Emperor) he is his father. Tyrannus entices Lukas to join him, overthrow the Supreme Leader and establish a new dynasty. Right as Lukas refuses, Leia and company arrive; she throws out her hand and Tyrannus stumbles back slightly, revealing Leia to be sensitive in the Force. The heroes manage to escape, but the First Order, for now, has won, and Lukas's entire world has been changed.

 

[WotanArgead]

Morning gymnastics. Commune of France. 1932.
After the revolution, radical changes affected morals and sport. Together with a more free sexual morality, much attention was paid to the physical development of citizens. Charging and Morning gymnastics have become mass evasions.

Festive parade of athletes. Georgia. 1937.
In other socialist countries, sport was also given much attention.

Night at the port (reproduction). The British Union. 1956
For post-war Britain, a return to realism in art became characteristic. Some associate this with the deceits in society, others with the fact that the avant-garde remained unavailable to most citizens.

 

[chankljp]

The most famous shot of the German film series Starkrieg, one of the most widely recognized trilogies of all time. In what would become Episode 4, the First Order, based on Savinkov's Russia, captured Princess Leia, last heir to the Galactic Empire. Her message is discovered by Lukas Starkiller, seemingly a simple farmboy, who, joined by the wise former Knight of the Empire(Jedi) Obi-wan Kenobi and the rogue Hans Zola, along with his Wookie friend Chewbacca and a pair of droids, set out to rescue the Princess. Ultimately, they destroy the First Order's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, although Obi-wan is killed by his former student, the mysterious Darth Tyrannus.

Still from what most consider the best Starkrieg film, Tyranny Strikes Back. The film starts with a Monarchist cell on Hoth, where Lukas Starkiller, after receiving a message from the ghost of Obi-wan Kenobi, resolves to go to the planet of Dagobah. All is not well, however, as Darth Tyrannus has led the First Order to finding the base on Hoth. He orders an assault. Meanwhile, at the base, General Reiken declares that the main Monarchist force is too far away to help; they will have to evacuate. Lukas heads to Dagobah, while Hans Zola takes the Princess to theoretically meet the main Fleet. However, the First Order stops them, and they must head to the gass planet Bespin. Meanwhile on Dagobah, Lukas trains with the wise Jedi master Yoda. On Bespin, however, Hans's old friend Lando Calrissian betrays them to Darth Tyrannus. Lukas, against the advice of Yoda, goes to help them, while Hans is frozen in carbonate to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Leia, Chewbacca, and the droids, however, are broken out by Lando. Lukas arrives on Bespin, only to be badly beaten by Darth Tyrannus; unlike OTL, the fight goes to the landing pads, where Tyrannus cuts of Lukas's hand and tells him that, contrary to what Obi-wan told him(that his father was a noble Jedi who died protecting the last Emperor) he is his father. Tyrannus entices Lukas to join him, overthrow the Supreme Leader and establish a new dynasty. Right as Lukas refuses, Leia and company arrive; she throws out her hand and Tyrannus stumbles back slightly, revealing Leia to be sensitive in the Force. The heroes manage to escape, but the First Order, for now, has won, and Lukas's entire world has been changed.

OCC:

Personally, in my headcanon, I have alway imagined that for KR Imperial Germany's version of Star Wars, (And for that matter, many of their works of science fiction produced post-WK2) instead of the entire 'Plucky rebellion fighting against evil empire' trope in OTL, the sci-fi cliche will instead be 'Heroic, righteous empire that stands for law and order, fighting against deranged, bloodthirsty, bomb throwing revolutionaries who wants to destroy everything'.

In the context of the KR version of Star Wars, instead of George Lucas' idea of the prequel trilogy being about 'Democracy being replace by tyranny as the people give their freedoms away', it will instead be something more about 'Good-hearted, idealistic people having their minds being poisoned by propaganda, turning them towards an evil cause... Only to be discarded by their new ideology once they have outlived their usefulness'. And the alt-version of Anakin and Padme being a not-so-subtle metaphor for social-democrats, the former being manipulated into fully embracing the forces of evil, while the latter got murdered/purged as a reactionary once she told the man she once loved that he is going down a path that she cannot follow.

... Alternatively, if alt-Star Wars is produced by the syndicalists, I see the story as being a lot like "Red Faction" mixed in with SWTOR and KOTOR 2.

Perhaps starting with the Hutt Cartel representing the capitalist exploiting the working class on Tatooine, leading to a proletariat uprising, and the establishment of the galaxy's first socialist commune. While they were ignored by the rest of the galaxy's powers at first, the revolutionaries, led by Luke, will slowly spread their influence from Star System to Star System, until the Communards have effective control of the Outter Rim, while the Republic (An expy of the Entente) and the Empire (An expy of Mitteleuropa) continue to fight each other for the gains of the ruling class, ignoring the crimson spectre that is slowly but surely spreading from Coruscant to Dromund Kaas... The spectre of the worker's revolution, that will sweep the board clean and create a new one in it's place!

 

[chankljp]

(2016, London) Jeremy Corbyn of the Federationists faction delivering his inauguration speech after being elected as the new Chairman of the Union of Britain's Congress of Trade Unions.

 

[HIM Dogson]

OCC:

Personally, in my headcanon, I have alway imagined that for KR Imperial Germany's version of Star Wars, (And for that matter, many of their works of science fiction produced post-WK2) instead of the entire 'Plucky rebellion fighting against evil empire' trope in OTL, the sci-fi cliche will instead be 'Heroic, righteous empire that stands for law and order, fighting against deranged, bloodthirsty, bomb throwing revolutionaries who wants to destroy everything'.

In the context of the KR version of Star Wars, instead of George Lucas' idea of the prequel trilogy being about 'Democracy being replace by tyranny as the people give their freedoms away', it will instead be something more about 'Good-hearted, idealistic people having their minds being poisoned by propaganda, turning them towards an evil cause... Only to be discarded by their new ideology once they have outlived their usefulness'. And the alt-version of Anakin and Padme being a not-so-subtle metaphor for social-democrats, the former being manipulated into fully embracing the forces of evil, while the latter got murdered/purged as a reactionary once she told the man she once loved that he is going down a path that she cannot follow.

... Alternatively, if alt-Star Wars is produced by the syndicalists, I see the story as being a lot like "Red Faction" mixed in with SWTOR and KOTOR 2.

Perhaps starting with the Hutt Cartel representing the capitalist exploiting the working class on Tatooine, leading to a proletariat uprising, and the establishment of the galaxy's first socialist commune. While they were ignored by the rest of the galaxy's powers at first, the revolutionaries, led by Luke, will slowly spread their influence from Star System to Star System, until the Communards have effective control of the Outter Rim, while the Republic (An expy of the Entente) and the Empire (An expy of Mitteleuropa) continue to fight each other for the gains of the ruling class, ignoring the crimson spectre that is slowly but surely spreading from Coruscant to Dromund Kaas... The spectre of the worker's revolution, that will sweep the board clean and create a new one in it's place!

OOC: Spoilers, but this is what I had planned for the prequels, playing up the First Order's Fascistic tendencies and also having the Empire be pretty corrupt. I don't think that it necessarily has to be so mainstream; after all Palpatine in the prequels was a hamfisted metaphor for Bush(IIRC). The Germany of this version of Kaiserreich ultimately expended much more resources fighting the NatPops than against the Syndicalists, so that's why the bad guys are Fascistic.

 

[Tales Weaver]

4LEAF, a japanese Entertainment company in Nigawa. Japan is center of Pop Culture, especially on animations and Video games. It is especially focused on Chosen Regions[1]. With Keijo-Nigawa being the center of it[2].Although there are companies that are in situated in Honshu, such as Nintendo, it is no match for companies in Keijo[3].
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[1] OOC:Chosen is TTL's equivalent of korea
[2] OoC: Keijo-Nigawa is equivalent of hollywood
[3] TTL's equivalent of Seoul.

Talesweaver, a video game from 4LEAF, features Mascots of 4LEAF. This video game imagines the 13 mascots as 13 talesweavers, with ability to control the core of a stars, try to fix the core and save the planet tecith., their antagonists are from Planet Edel, who want to use Tecith core and put it to edel, which would destroy Tecith.

This video game was popular in German Empire, CSA, South China, and UK.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

Photograph of the execution of Oswald Mosley on August 29th, 1934. His final words were a haunting address to his followers, both in Britain and worldwide. "We have lit a flame in Europe that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brothers, until it illuminates Europe and lights again the paths of mankind." Despite 18 years of hell in France and Georgia, the ideals behind these words would thankfully never come to fruition.

British Republican Army Red Guard soldiers circa 1934. Out of an already professional military force, the Red Guards were the elite formations of the Union of Britain, acting as the tip of the spear in assault operations. While armed with 1920s era weaponry in this picture, by the Second Weltkrieg they were armed with Vickers Armory "K" model machine guns and Arsenal Self-Loading Rifles[1], much like the rest of the British Republican Army.

[1] basically Lee-Enfield Renamed. Think of the Arsenal Self Loader as a mix of the SVT-40 and Enfield Mark 6 experimental.

American International Revolutionary Army (IRA) Grenadiers. After the redesigning of the American Army as a professional, mechanized, combined arms military force, the Grenadier Divisions were designed as an elite force of shock troopers and assault specialists, with high morale and superior training to the average IRA soldier. Alongside their Naval counterparts in the Marine Corps, the Grenadiers would go on to distinguish themselves in several battles with National Populist Russia, the Empire of Japan, and integralist Brazil [2] during the Second Weltkrieg.

[2]Yes, that's a homage to Reds.

 

[Marisa Kiridifferent]

You can elect the Integralists in KR too tbh.It's just the AI is skewed on electing the Syndies usually.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

You can elect the Integralists in KR too tbh.It's just the AI is skewed on electing the Syndies usually.

I figured that in the event of a Syndicalist America, the Brazilians would go Integralist out of fear of the "Red Yankee threat"

Besides, this is just my little Kaiserreich canon. If you would like to add to it, please do!

 

[Marisa Kiridifferent]

I figured that in the event of a Syndicalist America, the Brazilians would go Integralist out of fear of the "Red Yankee threat"

Besides, this is just my little Kaiserreich TL. If you would like to add to it, please do!

I guess you can run your own and I run my own canon.Usually I see they go Totalist tho.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

I guess you can run your own and I run my own canon.Usually I see they go Totalist tho.

Thats because the AI is skewed towards Totalism, even though IRL it likely wouldnt happen anywhere except Georgia and maybe France and Italy. The British Reds are too damn stubborn and independent to go totalitarian and theres no way in hell the Spanish Reds would go Totalist.

 

[Marisa Kiridifferent]

I'm really iffy with France tho,since it's described as a rather loose confederation of communes.Tbh the concept of Totalism and the revanche for Alsace-Lorraine is my biggest gripe with the KR scenario.It's more realistic (although too parallel) to have a NatPop Russia or a revanchist Russian Empire starting the Weltkrieg.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

I'm really iffy with France tho,since it's described as a rather loose confederation of communes.Tbh the concept of Totalism and the revanche for Alsace-Lorraine is my biggest gripe with the KR scenario.It's more realistic (although too parallel) to have a NatPop Russia or a revanchist Russian Empire starting the Weltkrieg.

TBH I had NatPop Russia start the Second War but Germany basically goes to war with a totalist France in the 30s and France gets rick rolled.

 

[Marisa Kiridifferent]

Scenes from the movie Reds!(known internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World,as a homage to Jack Reed's reportage on the failed Russian Revolution and the "ten days" between MacArthur's takeover of the government and the proclamation of the Chicago Commune).Released for 50th anniversary of the Second American Revolution to critical acclaim even from non-syndicalist countries,it was also surprising in its portrayal of Huey Long as a well-intentioned,albeit misguided man who wanted to save America in his own way(although MacArthur would receive no such treatment,being "the last gasp of the bourgeois republic against the upswelling of class consciousness").

 

[HongCanucker]

HMS Warspite shells the beaches of Devonshire during the landings in Wales and South West England. Perhaps the greatest ship of both of the world wars, the "Grand Old Lady" saw distinguished service as a revolutionary fast battleship at both of the Battles of Jutland. She then became a focal point of the Royalist evacuation and reconsolidation in Canada during the British Revolution. After the undeclared naval war of the early 1930s, she and her sisters would undergo major refits. During the Liberation, she took part in the Battle of the Shetland Islands, scoring the longest recorded hit on an enemy ship with a barrage against RNS Peterloo, and at the Battle of Scilly, the decisive battle that broke the naval power of the syndicalists. She also took part in shore bombardment duties during the Liberation, being assigned to assist the landings in Devon and the Battle of Plymouth, ironically leading her to attack the port where she had been built almost 30 years ago. Following this, she was retired, but her prestige ensured that as replacements entered Royal Navy service by 1946, she would be preserved as a museum in Devonport, a commemoration of not just her long, illustrious service but also of the Liberation and for the sacrifices made in both of the world wars.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

Artist's rendition of Chicago, the Capital City of the Combined Syndicates of America, noted for being one of the cleanest and safest cities in the world. Public works projects by the American Government resulted in the creation of several artificial islands on Lake Michigan, resulting in increased opportunity for the city's expansion. The Republican Assembly Building of the All-Union Congress of Syndicates is based here, as well as the Domus Congresso, the apartment complex housing the General Secretary of the All-Union Congress and his senior staff, which is one of the most heavily guarded complexes in the world.

Flag of the Combined Syndicates of America. The Black IWW logo represents the strong Worker's Syndicates in America, the Red Background represents it's dedication to Marxist Syndicalism and Democracy, and the Golden Gear, Torch, and Hammer represents it's role as Leader of the Syndicalist Internationale.

German Army soldiers fraternizing with Canadian soldiers in occupied New York circa 1937. Due to the growing Syndicalist threat from the Combined Syndicates of America and the Union of Britain, the exile government in Canada and the Kaiserreich found themselves growing closer out of sheer convenience. German aggression against Syndicalism influenced the Canadian government in fighting "Der Rote Reise". When Canada invaded the fledgling CSA, it was to be their undoing, as the Canadian Army, even with German support, found itself rocked with defeat after defeat at Detroit, Albany, and Seattle, quickly being forced on the defensive.

Painting of American Marines breaking through a fortified defensive line of German and Canadian soldiers in the Ottowa Valley of Eastern Canada in 1937. Due to being one of the only American Military units with heavy combat experience prior to the 1936 Civil War, the International Revolutionary Marine Corps, lead by General-Commandant Smedley Butler, spearheaded the invasion of Canada, acting as effective Shock Troops for the CSA. Their tenaciousness and refusal to retreat on the defensive and their absolute ruthlessness and aggression on the attack led to the Canadian soldiers nicknaming them "The Immortals" due to their seemingly invincible prowess in battle. Thus, the legend of America's Elite Maritime Shock Force began.

 

[Bulldoggus]

Flag of the Combined Syndicates of America. The Black IWW logo represents the strong Worker's Syndicates in America, the Red Background represents it's dedication to Marxist Syndicalism and Democracy, and the Golden Gear, Wheat, and Hammer represents it's role as Leader of the Syndicalist Internationale.

Is that a torch or a paintbrush?

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

Is that a torch or a paintbrush?

I honestly can't tell. I'm guessing it's a Torch.

 

[Magnimik]

A footage from the British movie "The Proud Valley" (1935), starring Paul Robeson, who saw his acting role as the opportunity to "depict the Negro as he really is — not the caricature he is always represented to be on the screen". The movie tells the story of the African American seaman named David Goliath in pre-revolutionary Wales and is embraced by the miners when the choir leader hears him sing. He shares the hardships of their lives, and becomes a working class-hero as he helps to better their working conditions and ultimately, during a mining accident, sacrifices his life to save fellow miners. The movie got a positive reception in the Syndicalist countries, where the movie was acknowledged for the powerful social criticism of both the capitalist system and the racial prejudices in the US.

Since his first visit to the Union of Britain in 1928, Robeson developed a strong bond with the Welsh labor movement. Robeson visited South Wales many times between 1928 and 1939, singing in various towns including Cardiff, Neath and Swansea. During that time, Robeson supported the Welsh ordinary workers, who were still suffering from the holdovers of the former bourgeois rule, and financially helped to improve their living conditions. Robeson later warmly remembered his friendship with the Welsh workers, as he said: "[It was there I] first understood the struggles of white and negro together – when I went down into the coal mine in the Rhondda Valley, lived amongst them.” This feeling was mutual, as Robeson was the most popular star of Wales, who not only enriched the cultural life of Wales, but also showed his care for the poor community of Wales.

Speaking about Robeson's love for nutjob dictators, I don't think that he would support Totalism and Oswald "I'll make the Irish feel nostalgic about Cromwell" Mosley in particular, since Totalism in KR is a red fascist reaction against the anti-colonial, progressive Syndicalist governments.

 

[Redshank Galloglass]

Speaking about Robeson's love for nutjob dictators, I don't think that he would support Totalism and Oswald "I'll make the Irish feel nostalgic about Cromwell" Mosley in particular, since Totalism in KR is a red fascist reaction against the anti-colonial, progressive Syndicalist governments.

Yeah, I agree. I don't know how much support Totalism would get in Britain either, especially since the British Labor Movement has a strong history of trade unionism. That's why I gave Mosley the firing squad in my Canon.