* This is it, no plans to go anywhen else.
Victoria’s Grandchildren
By Doktor Erasmus Sanjay, University of Djkarta Press, 327 W.S. (2547 AD Old Style)
Excerpts from the Introduction
After the death of her beloved Albert, Victoria I devoted herself to what she frankly called “meddling” in the affairs of Empire. Constitutionally powerless, she nevertheless engaged in a “charm war” to implement her vision of a world at peace under the lion and unicorn.
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Her most notable work resulted, after her death, in the so-called Cousin’s War, which united George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II in a campaign against the Franco-Austrian Alliance. By inducing the British Foreign Office to abandon its long-time policy of keeping a “balance of power” on the Continent in favor of the Triple Monarchies governed by her descendants acting in concert to conquer and divide the world, Victoria I guaranteed the century of peace and prosperity which ensued. That this peace was enforced with cannon and the prosperity wrung out of weak but resource-rich lands is often overlooked.
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It was not until the accession of more rapacious monarchs who, having divided Asia and Africa according to their whims, began to cast envious eyes on the Western Hemisphere that the spectre of unrestricted war began to arise after nearly a hundred years. Even though the United State of the Americas had a reputation for harsh governance of its subject peoples in the southern continent of that hemisphere, it had neither prepared for, nor spoke out regarding an extension of its power beyond it’s ancestral sphere of influence. The excuses from London, Berlin, and Moscow, claiming insult, encroachment, and preparation for a surprise attack were most disingenuous, considering what happened.
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The United State was not entirely unprepared, as the sabre-rattling from overseas had given them cause for alarm, and they were not stupid. However, they assumed the oceans, those great wide moats, would protect them as they had so providently insulated them from the Old World for two centuries. The very size and strength of the blow were shocking.
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In the end, it was fatigue which ended the World War. Fighting at the end of a lengthy logistical pipeline caused difficulties for the Triple Monarchies, whereas the United State was defending with much shorter interior lines as well as easier access to resources and war materials. In the revolutions which followed, both Monarchial and Oligarchical government was given short shrift, and today’s world, in which no nation or collection of nations is allowed an armed force above that of the regular police, seems like a paradise in comparison to the preceding centuries of mayhem.
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I got the notion after reading some of the Utopian lit that was written in the 19th Century and early Twentieth, and have tried to copy the pretentious style of the others.
Not sure it belongs in pre-1900, but that's where it starts.