“They did win a war against you, so maybe they are the real Pinnacle Blood of Australia”
"What Madness Is This?" Volume I: The Union Forever
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"We are going to invade Australia to help our Emus friends reclaim their legitimate territory against that bunch of fake pinnacle people!"~Oswald probably somewhere in the future.
“...And so the world as we knew it ended. Not with a bang or a whimper. But with the squawk. That world is gone. The Madness has passed. The world now belongs....to the Emu”
-Final lines of What Madness Is This Redux
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Apologies for any typos. I'm absolutely exhausted and will proof-read the chapter tomorrow. lol A decent bit of this chapter is based on Time Enough's Australian GWW chapter in the Star Spangled Expanded Universe, but most all of it is wholly fresh and new. Enjoy!
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN:
THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
It has been said that God made the Yankee cowboys, and then he thought they weren't boorish enough and so he made Australians. Upon examining Australian history up to their entry into the League of Nations and their role in Operation Manifest Climax, this old adage appears to be quite true. A land of dusty backroads, harsh deserts, dense forests, and thriving seaports, Australian "Kanga Roughnecks" built up a reputation as the Yankees' rougher-hewed cousins. But the stereotype of a bent-brim hat-wearing Kanga with an crocodile in one hand and a grinder in the other--however accurate it mostly was to conjure that image in the mind's eye--does little to show the business and military skills of that most strange and far-off fascist realm. While most of Australia was a rural community of farmers, trappers, hunters, and fishermen, the larger cities were booming by the 1930s, capitalizing on the reunification of the continent since the seizure of Europan West Australia in the Great World War. Not only had the Kangas fought like devils in the Great World War, they had also fought loyally alongside the American cousins they so often sought to emulate in Holy Nippon, during the 1914 Crisis there which saw Kangas and Yanks alike butcher untold thousands of rebels and civilians who refused to cooperate with the new rule of Dictator-General Arthur MacArthur.
Whereas in the last century Australia was viewed as a relative backwater by most of the world, only actually presiding over former British East Australia, their quick victory against the Europans in the west and their willingness to fight and die as a member of the Greater Fascist Co-Prosperity Sphere in Holy Nippon proved to Joe Steele and the American government that a new power was rising. To properly understand their situation in the 1930s, we must first look back upon their history leading up to this pivotal time in world history.
Some historians say that, following the Eureka Gold Rush of 1845 and the civil war of 1846, Australia became a place for the roughest and wildest Yankees to go in search of adventure and fortune. While the Gold Rushes of the Kingdom of California lured in Catholic, Chinese, and other exotic spelunkers to their lands, the Eureka Gold Rush and all subsequent mining crazes in Australia saw shiploads of Protestant and Yankee roughnecks and cowboys. Their influence would be felt for centuries to come.
The Australia of the 1850s was the first nation beyond America to adopt the fascist ideals as its core principles. The explosive events unfolding in America shortly after the Kangas struck out on their own were no small inspiration for their own version of manifest destiny. The Union was still under the power of the Consul System at this point, with John P. Hale and Levi Woodbury, both Republicans from New Hampshire, in the positions of First Chief Consul and Second Chief Consul respectively. The cracks in this system were growing very, very obvious, and rather than adopt the consular system themselves, Australians opted to follow the example of the English Commonwealth and created the Commonwealth of Australia under a Protector of the Realm and a Congress of the Realm. With the rise of A. A. Lincoln's Second Sons of Liberty movement in America before the beginning of the Great American War, American visitors and migrants brought with them the awe-inspiring words of Strong Abe, the Strong Man Theory, and Scientific Marxism. Lincoln himself was quick to offer words of advice to the fledgling nation which many Americans considered to be of Pinnacle Anglo-Saxon Blood, and trade was strong, despite the long distance and then lack of a Panama Canal and California.
Michael Allen Johnson, first Protector of the Realm
The first Protector of the Realm was Michael Allen Johnson, a seasoned explorer, bushranger, Aboriginal-fighter and militia commander. He had actually come from a long line of English Puritans. He would come to office by a vote of Congress in the inaugural year of 1846. His ancestor Abercrombie Johnson was convicted of petty crimes and exiled to Australia. Johnson's story was the story of many Australians: they were the children of the dregs of old British society, almost all of a hearty mix of Welsh, Scottish, and English society, many with a great disdain for non-Protestant or Irish people. Exiling so many criminals and ne'er-do-wells had the opposite effect the Crown had intended, and it simply produced a mutant derivative of the Anglo-Saxon, one with only the shirt on his back and the thirst for adventure in his heart. Protector Johnson was did not wish to become a dictator and he was not a fascist by any means, but he would react with brutality to the rebelling miners of the Eureka area. In order to sustain the government, Congress voted to levy harsh taxes upon miners. Only a few out of the thousands actually found gold and struck it rich, and now those who found little to none were being forced to pay what they could not afford. The miners were not working for a business paying wages, but using the sweat of their own brow to desperately search for gold. The result was the Australian Civil War 1846. The government defeated the rebel miners, but it still needed to sort out its economy.
Enter one Steed Perry, Secretary of the Treasury, who would personally drag Australia out of financial ruin. In 1852, Perry would establish the Bank of Australia in an effort to control the inflation of the Australian Dollar. He would lessen taxes on miners finding little gold, but those who did strike ore were required to tithe 10% of the value to the Bank of Australia in the name of "national security." With a bit of gold now in reserve, Perry would next move to get rid of the independent miners altogether. A company called Price and Hall Spelunking Incorporated operated out of Sydney, and in a lucrative deal the gold fields of Eureka were sold in entirety to Price and Hall. Instead of ordering the miners out of their new territory, the Board voted to offer them paying jobs, digging for two dollars an hour, a veritable fortune in those days. Gold was abundant enough that these wages were tolerable. It also had the intended side effect of Eureka proper opening up countless new stores, businesses, and other ventures as the miners now had a place to spend their reliable paychecks. One miner, Josephus Bradley, said of it:
"We might have bowed to the corporation. It might have ended the dream of keeping the gold you found and building your own plantation. But it was needed. The anarchy of the gold fields was an era of lawless shootouts and violence. The corporation brought order. Security. And for the first time I felt like I was secure in my finances. God bless the Board."
A second gold rush of sorts erupted as many came from all over to get the well-paying jobs. Cattle, mostly of a variety imported from Dutch South Africa, became another thriving industry. The expanding population needed meat and food. New farms went up. Rivers were bridged. Emus were slaughtered for meat and in retaliation for their aggressive attacks on cattle herds. Above all, the dark-skinned Aboriginal peoples of Australia were pushed farther and farther into the inland desert and often across the border into the Bonapartist West Australia.
This would see Australia finally stand on its own two feet with a bright future seemingly ahead. However, all was not well. Skirmishes were frequent and bloody with the natives, and it caused a very heated anti-Aboriginal view to be adopted by most of the whites. Many American businessmen were participating in the land-rush and wanted the natives gone. They viewed them as Inferiors of mongoloid descent, unworthy of owning any land at all. This suited many Australian farmers and miners who merely saw the tribes as a stumbling block on their way to their very own trademarked brand of manifest destiny. American Fundamentalist Mercenaries frequently visited Australia, even going so far as to create an Australian Fundamentalist Church. It taught that it was inevitable for the Anglo-Saxon Australian Pinnacle Man to sweep over the rest of the continent and drive out the forces of pagan and Papist idolatry. As to whether this was a popular and successful offshoot of Aaron Burr's cult or not was to be decided by the march of time: by 1935, 57% of Australia self-professed belief in Fundamentalist Christianity. Not unlike the common practice of snakehandling as practiced by their American cousins, the Australians often handled tarantulas during revivals, whipping themselves into berserk frenzies as the spiders crawled all over their bodies and sometimes even into their mouths. In 1893, Harvey Clarke Turner was appointed as "Supreme Deacon of the Australian Church" by AFC Reverend-Colonel Dwight L. Moody.
It would be Turner who would rally support for the RU on a scale never before seen in Australia. The true birth of Australian Fundamentalism was matched by the rise of the revanchist Australian Commonsense Party (ACP) of radical Custer acolyte and "Aboriginal Hunter" David Campbell. Campbell was a man so violent and murderous that he was quoted as saying, "Custer hunts buffalo. I hunt Abbies. They are disgusting Inferiors and Pan-Indochinese mongrels, the byproduct of African, Indian, and Mongoloid Chinamen breeding a race of cultureless cave-dwellers worthy of the mercy of destruction. My rifle isn't named Mercy because I like to thank people in French. I'm doing them a favor." Abbies, of course, being the slur of choice for the black natives. Campbell was a Scotchman through and through, and he saw in Custer a well of inspiration. In 1892, the ACP attained a majority of the seats in Congress and unseated the Australian Liberal Party for the first time in its history. Campbell was declared the new Protector of the Realm and he went to work aligning himself much more closely with Custer, including joined the Greater Fascist Co-Prosperity Sphere and sending soldiers to fight in the conquest of Imperial Japan. His views of Japanese people were changed by John Splendidfaith, who he called a "brother in Christ," and he referred to the populace of what was now known as Holy Nippon as "true Lost Jews and the only other men of Pinnacle Blood in Australasia." In 1895, the first concentration camps were built in the Australian desert, largely inspired by what Australian strategists had witnessed the Union do during the Immolation of Mexico.
The Great World War would see Australia fight doggedly for the Central Powers, attaining rapid victories against Europan West Australia. Never having been the focus of much true colonization effort by the French and with fascist-sympathizers all throughout their lands, the Imperial government in Bonaparte, West Australia's capital, concentrated mostly on evacuating as many people as possible to India and Africa. Out of West Australia's 1.5 million people, 800,000 were evacuated in one of the largest exoduses in human history. Ships of all sorts and from all over the world poured in to help rescue the people from the claws of Protector Campbell and New Zealand-born General Alfred "The Butcher" Hindmarsh. Europan and Aboriginal troops fought bravely, but the tide of thousands of fascist Commonwealth troops headed to them on a mission of annihilation was too much to stand. Bonaparte, and the rest of the Europan-majority cities, were burned to the ground with what Hindmarsh called "the wrath of an angry and triumphant God." Over 200,000 Europan prisoners of war, Aboriginal freedom fighters, and other anti-Commonwealth factions and peoples were sent to concentration camps, where many were beaten to death, starved, raped, and worse.
Remains of the Bonaparte Telegraph Exchange, 1912
Commonwealth Soldiers advance, 1911
Europan Artillery tries to holds back Commonwealth Forces, 1911
Imperial Aboriginal troops prepare for a last stand against the ferocious Australian assault
The aftermath of the Great World War saw a massive era of unprecedented prosperity for Australia. West Australia was almost totally abandoned, opening up a massive new area of coastline for settlement. Recruitment call went out to Protestant realms across the globe that Protector Campbell was implementing the Homestead Acts of 1920, his last act as Protector before retiring in 1921. He was succeeded by Alfred Hindmarsh, who bent even further before the Republican Union. Some say Campbell was too Custerian for the post-GWW era, and that Joe Steele had engineered a silent coup against him in favor of the whip-cracking Hindmarsh, who he apparently shared a rare friendship with, or at least as far as "friendship" went for Steele.
General Alfred "The Butcher" Hindmarsh
Hindmarsh would preside over a new era for unified Australia, building hydroelectric damns to power the growing metropolitan regions like Sydney and Eureka. The military was modernized and equipped with updated gear. The Australian Navy became the third most powerful in the Pacific, after Russia and the Republican Union. Buffalo were brought in from North America and bred in huge numbers on massive sprawling ranches in former Aboriginal lands. This helped offset the over-hunting of the species by the Americans while still sating their desire for Buffalo products, becoming a lucrative trade item. Rich people from around the world would come to go on safaris in Australia and have the "Cowboy Experience" in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The corporations were growing in power as well. Price and Hall, the original Australian megacorporation, would be acquired by Colonel Goodyear Enterprises in 1932, forever bringing the two nations even further together. When the time came for the London Conference, Protector Hindmarsh was eager to further cement his nation's ties with America and further ingratiate himself with Steele. He referred to the League of Nations as "a modern Knights of the Round Table" in the Sydney Herald in 1935. As to who was "King Arthur," it was clear it was Steele.
When news broke of the Neutrality Pact's attack on Port Pierce, public opinion was strongly on the side of the Union, and war on the Pact was declared on September 14, 1936. A more successful Union meant a more successful Australia. A crippled Cuba, the main source for cheap Inferior labor for the megacorporations, meant a poorer economy for the entire League, especially with Australia's already close economic ties to their Yankee cousins. Colonel Goodyear Enterprises Australia helped offset the crippling blow of Cuba in revolt by shipping Aboriginals from concentration camps across the Pacific to American factories that still utilized them. Many also became victims of Project Percival and the machinations and whims of ORRA scientists, who considered them "the ultimate subhuman." Lastly, the Australian Expeditionary Force was established in January of 1937 with a goal of shipping 20,000 Kangas to reinforce the Panama Canal Zone.
A.E.F. volunteers march through Sydney before shipping off for Panama, 1937
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN:
THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
It has been said that God made the Yankee cowboys, and then he thought they weren't boorish enough and so he made Australians. Upon examining Australian history up to their entry into the League of Nations and their role in Operation Manifest Climax, this old adage appears to be quite true. A land of dusty backroads, harsh deserts, dense forests, and thriving seaports, Australian "Kanga Roughnecks" built up a reputation as the Yankees' rougher-hewed cousins. But the stereotype of a bent-brim hat-wearing Kanga with an crocodile in one hand and a grinder in the other--however accurate it mostly was to conjure that image in the mind's eye--does little to show the business and military skills of that most strange and far-off fascist realm. While most of Australia was a rural community of farmers, trappers, hunters, and fishermen, the larger cities were booming by the 1930s, capitalizing on the reunification of the continent since the seizure of Europan West Australia in the Great World War. Not only had the Kangas fought like devils in the Great World War, they had also fought loyally alongside the American cousins they so often sought to emulate in Holy Nippon, during the 1914 Crisis there which saw Kangas and Yanks alike butcher untold thousands of rebels and civilians who refused to cooperate with the new rule of Dictator-General Arthur MacArthur.
Whereas in the last century Australia was viewed as a relative backwater by most of the world, only actually presiding over former British East Australia, their quick victory against the Europans in the west and their willingness to fight and die as a member of the Greater Fascist Co-Prosperity Sphere in Holy Nippon proved to Joe Steele and the American government that a new power was rising. To properly understand their situation in the 1930s, we must first look back upon their history leading up to this pivotal time in world history.
-THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA-
Flag of the Commonwealth of Australia
Flag of the Commonwealth of Australia
Some historians say that, following the Eureka Gold Rush of 1845 and the civil war of 1846, Australia became a place for the roughest and wildest Yankees to go in search of adventure and fortune. While the Gold Rushes of the Kingdom of California lured in Catholic, Chinese, and other exotic spelunkers to their lands, the Eureka Gold Rush and all subsequent mining crazes in Australia saw shiploads of Protestant and Yankee roughnecks and cowboys. Their influence would be felt for centuries to come.
The Australia of the 1850s was the first nation beyond America to adopt the fascist ideals as its core principles. The explosive events unfolding in America shortly after the Kangas struck out on their own were no small inspiration for their own version of manifest destiny. The Union was still under the power of the Consul System at this point, with John P. Hale and Levi Woodbury, both Republicans from New Hampshire, in the positions of First Chief Consul and Second Chief Consul respectively. The cracks in this system were growing very, very obvious, and rather than adopt the consular system themselves, Australians opted to follow the example of the English Commonwealth and created the Commonwealth of Australia under a Protector of the Realm and a Congress of the Realm. With the rise of A. A. Lincoln's Second Sons of Liberty movement in America before the beginning of the Great American War, American visitors and migrants brought with them the awe-inspiring words of Strong Abe, the Strong Man Theory, and Scientific Marxism. Lincoln himself was quick to offer words of advice to the fledgling nation which many Americans considered to be of Pinnacle Anglo-Saxon Blood, and trade was strong, despite the long distance and then lack of a Panama Canal and California.
Michael Allen Johnson, first Protector of the Realm
The first Protector of the Realm was Michael Allen Johnson, a seasoned explorer, bushranger, Aboriginal-fighter and militia commander. He had actually come from a long line of English Puritans. He would come to office by a vote of Congress in the inaugural year of 1846. His ancestor Abercrombie Johnson was convicted of petty crimes and exiled to Australia. Johnson's story was the story of many Australians: they were the children of the dregs of old British society, almost all of a hearty mix of Welsh, Scottish, and English society, many with a great disdain for non-Protestant or Irish people. Exiling so many criminals and ne'er-do-wells had the opposite effect the Crown had intended, and it simply produced a mutant derivative of the Anglo-Saxon, one with only the shirt on his back and the thirst for adventure in his heart. Protector Johnson was did not wish to become a dictator and he was not a fascist by any means, but he would react with brutality to the rebelling miners of the Eureka area. In order to sustain the government, Congress voted to levy harsh taxes upon miners. Only a few out of the thousands actually found gold and struck it rich, and now those who found little to none were being forced to pay what they could not afford. The miners were not working for a business paying wages, but using the sweat of their own brow to desperately search for gold. The result was the Australian Civil War 1846. The government defeated the rebel miners, but it still needed to sort out its economy.
Enter one Steed Perry, Secretary of the Treasury, who would personally drag Australia out of financial ruin. In 1852, Perry would establish the Bank of Australia in an effort to control the inflation of the Australian Dollar. He would lessen taxes on miners finding little gold, but those who did strike ore were required to tithe 10% of the value to the Bank of Australia in the name of "national security." With a bit of gold now in reserve, Perry would next move to get rid of the independent miners altogether. A company called Price and Hall Spelunking Incorporated operated out of Sydney, and in a lucrative deal the gold fields of Eureka were sold in entirety to Price and Hall. Instead of ordering the miners out of their new territory, the Board voted to offer them paying jobs, digging for two dollars an hour, a veritable fortune in those days. Gold was abundant enough that these wages were tolerable. It also had the intended side effect of Eureka proper opening up countless new stores, businesses, and other ventures as the miners now had a place to spend their reliable paychecks. One miner, Josephus Bradley, said of it:
"We might have bowed to the corporation. It might have ended the dream of keeping the gold you found and building your own plantation. But it was needed. The anarchy of the gold fields was an era of lawless shootouts and violence. The corporation brought order. Security. And for the first time I felt like I was secure in my finances. God bless the Board."
A second gold rush of sorts erupted as many came from all over to get the well-paying jobs. Cattle, mostly of a variety imported from Dutch South Africa, became another thriving industry. The expanding population needed meat and food. New farms went up. Rivers were bridged. Emus were slaughtered for meat and in retaliation for their aggressive attacks on cattle herds. Above all, the dark-skinned Aboriginal peoples of Australia were pushed farther and farther into the inland desert and often across the border into the Bonapartist West Australia.
This would see Australia finally stand on its own two feet with a bright future seemingly ahead. However, all was not well. Skirmishes were frequent and bloody with the natives, and it caused a very heated anti-Aboriginal view to be adopted by most of the whites. Many American businessmen were participating in the land-rush and wanted the natives gone. They viewed them as Inferiors of mongoloid descent, unworthy of owning any land at all. This suited many Australian farmers and miners who merely saw the tribes as a stumbling block on their way to their very own trademarked brand of manifest destiny. American Fundamentalist Mercenaries frequently visited Australia, even going so far as to create an Australian Fundamentalist Church. It taught that it was inevitable for the Anglo-Saxon Australian Pinnacle Man to sweep over the rest of the continent and drive out the forces of pagan and Papist idolatry. As to whether this was a popular and successful offshoot of Aaron Burr's cult or not was to be decided by the march of time: by 1935, 57% of Australia self-professed belief in Fundamentalist Christianity. Not unlike the common practice of snakehandling as practiced by their American cousins, the Australians often handled tarantulas during revivals, whipping themselves into berserk frenzies as the spiders crawled all over their bodies and sometimes even into their mouths. In 1893, Harvey Clarke Turner was appointed as "Supreme Deacon of the Australian Church" by AFC Reverend-Colonel Dwight L. Moody.
It would be Turner who would rally support for the RU on a scale never before seen in Australia. The true birth of Australian Fundamentalism was matched by the rise of the revanchist Australian Commonsense Party (ACP) of radical Custer acolyte and "Aboriginal Hunter" David Campbell. Campbell was a man so violent and murderous that he was quoted as saying, "Custer hunts buffalo. I hunt Abbies. They are disgusting Inferiors and Pan-Indochinese mongrels, the byproduct of African, Indian, and Mongoloid Chinamen breeding a race of cultureless cave-dwellers worthy of the mercy of destruction. My rifle isn't named Mercy because I like to thank people in French. I'm doing them a favor." Abbies, of course, being the slur of choice for the black natives. Campbell was a Scotchman through and through, and he saw in Custer a well of inspiration. In 1892, the ACP attained a majority of the seats in Congress and unseated the Australian Liberal Party for the first time in its history. Campbell was declared the new Protector of the Realm and he went to work aligning himself much more closely with Custer, including joined the Greater Fascist Co-Prosperity Sphere and sending soldiers to fight in the conquest of Imperial Japan. His views of Japanese people were changed by John Splendidfaith, who he called a "brother in Christ," and he referred to the populace of what was now known as Holy Nippon as "true Lost Jews and the only other men of Pinnacle Blood in Australasia." In 1895, the first concentration camps were built in the Australian desert, largely inspired by what Australian strategists had witnessed the Union do during the Immolation of Mexico.
The Great World War would see Australia fight doggedly for the Central Powers, attaining rapid victories against Europan West Australia. Never having been the focus of much true colonization effort by the French and with fascist-sympathizers all throughout their lands, the Imperial government in Bonaparte, West Australia's capital, concentrated mostly on evacuating as many people as possible to India and Africa. Out of West Australia's 1.5 million people, 800,000 were evacuated in one of the largest exoduses in human history. Ships of all sorts and from all over the world poured in to help rescue the people from the claws of Protector Campbell and New Zealand-born General Alfred "The Butcher" Hindmarsh. Europan and Aboriginal troops fought bravely, but the tide of thousands of fascist Commonwealth troops headed to them on a mission of annihilation was too much to stand. Bonaparte, and the rest of the Europan-majority cities, were burned to the ground with what Hindmarsh called "the wrath of an angry and triumphant God." Over 200,000 Europan prisoners of war, Aboriginal freedom fighters, and other anti-Commonwealth factions and peoples were sent to concentration camps, where many were beaten to death, starved, raped, and worse.
Remains of the Bonaparte Telegraph Exchange, 1912
Commonwealth Soldiers advance, 1911
Europan Artillery tries to holds back Commonwealth Forces, 1911
Imperial Aboriginal troops prepare for a last stand against the ferocious Australian assault
The aftermath of the Great World War saw a massive era of unprecedented prosperity for Australia. West Australia was almost totally abandoned, opening up a massive new area of coastline for settlement. Recruitment call went out to Protestant realms across the globe that Protector Campbell was implementing the Homestead Acts of 1920, his last act as Protector before retiring in 1921. He was succeeded by Alfred Hindmarsh, who bent even further before the Republican Union. Some say Campbell was too Custerian for the post-GWW era, and that Joe Steele had engineered a silent coup against him in favor of the whip-cracking Hindmarsh, who he apparently shared a rare friendship with, or at least as far as "friendship" went for Steele.
General Alfred "The Butcher" Hindmarsh
Hindmarsh would preside over a new era for unified Australia, building hydroelectric damns to power the growing metropolitan regions like Sydney and Eureka. The military was modernized and equipped with updated gear. The Australian Navy became the third most powerful in the Pacific, after Russia and the Republican Union. Buffalo were brought in from North America and bred in huge numbers on massive sprawling ranches in former Aboriginal lands. This helped offset the over-hunting of the species by the Americans while still sating their desire for Buffalo products, becoming a lucrative trade item. Rich people from around the world would come to go on safaris in Australia and have the "Cowboy Experience" in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The corporations were growing in power as well. Price and Hall, the original Australian megacorporation, would be acquired by Colonel Goodyear Enterprises in 1932, forever bringing the two nations even further together. When the time came for the London Conference, Protector Hindmarsh was eager to further cement his nation's ties with America and further ingratiate himself with Steele. He referred to the League of Nations as "a modern Knights of the Round Table" in the Sydney Herald in 1935. As to who was "King Arthur," it was clear it was Steele.
When news broke of the Neutrality Pact's attack on Port Pierce, public opinion was strongly on the side of the Union, and war on the Pact was declared on September 14, 1936. A more successful Union meant a more successful Australia. A crippled Cuba, the main source for cheap Inferior labor for the megacorporations, meant a poorer economy for the entire League, especially with Australia's already close economic ties to their Yankee cousins. Colonel Goodyear Enterprises Australia helped offset the crippling blow of Cuba in revolt by shipping Aboriginals from concentration camps across the Pacific to American factories that still utilized them. Many also became victims of Project Percival and the machinations and whims of ORRA scientists, who considered them "the ultimate subhuman." Lastly, the Australian Expeditionary Force was established in January of 1937 with a goal of shipping 20,000 Kangas to reinforce the Panama Canal Zone.
A.E.F. volunteers march through Sydney before shipping off for Panama, 1937
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While i don't doubt the arrival of 20,000 australian soldiers will be extremly helpful for the RU's war effor, this could end being a problem for the australian troops in America.
Not only no one of these soldiers is used to fight in the jungle, but their war experience mostly comes from fighting against a disorganised enemy, whose main strategy was to run away from the conflict as quickly as possible.
They aren't used to fight against an organised enemy who actually stands its ground rather than just run away and this time they can't count on fascist sympathiser helping their invasion.
Well, the only ones who can save this world now are the Emus. Emperor Quack IV shall be humanity's savior
If this is Australia, I don't even want to imagine what TTL's version of Mad Max would look like. Hell, maybe Immortan Joe would look sane compared to Joe Steele.
I shall wager my shiniest Silver Vulture that this quote was made by an exasperated Cokie barkeep trying to serve Australian customers.
Great, they're the Florida Men of the Anglo-Saxon world. Admittedly, these guys sound more badass.
For some reason I now picture a Royalist scientist throwing a criminal into a Joker-esque vat of chemicals, and from the depths emerges someone so aggressively Anglo-Saxon that your average Brit is a little alarmed.
My skin is crawling more than a toddler on meth. Just... Jesus Christ.
I love the idea of an Englishman in a top hat and coat shooting at Buffalo in the Outback and screaming YEE HAW in his aristocratic accent. Touches like this are truly what make Madness Madness.
Proposal: Johnny Gamble is the Sir Lancelot of the LoN. To be clear, yes I am proposing he sleep with Milli. It's a horrible idea, but it's sufficiently comedic to me that I had to throw it out there.
I think West Germania and Mittleafrika still follow old-school Protestantism. If I'm wrong...
*Nervous Presbyterian chuckling*
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Wait a second if the Round Table is evil wouldn't that mean that A)Steele's son is a genuinely nice guy and B) if Gamble is Evil Lancelot wouldn't Milli take the initiative? Imagine she assaults him because of Pinnacle Fluidation and he's just too uncomfortable to admit it.
An Australian would be *very* unlikely to be holding an Alligator. There are only two species of Alligator in the world, the "American Alligator" (running from basically Texas to Florida to CoCaro) and the "Chinese Alligator" whose realm in OTL (and probably TTL as well) by the 20th century is restricted to the Yangtze River and the areas of China immediately to its north.
I don't see anything iTTL that would make it likely that *either* animal would be imported to Australia as the areas which are particularly wet in Northern Australia already have both Salt Water and Fresh Water Crocodiles. With Alligators being considerably more cold resistant than Crocodiles (American Crocodile doesn't survive well north of the Everglades), the environmental niche for imported Alligators would be on the populated West Coast of Australia (Simplified, the Australian Coast has three section, North (hot and wet), East and Southeast (temperate and wet), and West and Southwest (Dry).
So a Crocodile makes sense, an Alligator doesn't.
That would require that Steele has a son outside of marriage...
Hah. This is the JFK/Camelot but its dark equivalent?
And whoever is Mordred takes down the whole thing and conspiracy theories arise about Steele going to Faraway Avalon, returning when the country is in its hour of greatest peril.
Murica1776 said, "I love the idea of an Englishman in a top hat and coat shooting at Buffalo in the Outback and screaming YEE HAW in his aristocratic accent. Touches like this are truly what make Madness Madness."
I laughed so much at this. In fact, it's going to be in the new timeline experiment that I made. It's "The Insanity of A Perfect Union" (How Britain went down in flames) You should go see it. Credits to HeX for the idea.
Anyway, I'd like to see the collapse of the Joe Steele Camelot. Sounds like an amazing story.
I laughed so much at this. In fact, it's going to be in the new timeline experiment that I made. It's "The Insanity of A Perfect Union" (How Britain went down in flames) You should go see it. Credits to HeX for the idea.
Anyway, I'd like to see the collapse of the Joe Steele Camelot. Sounds like an amazing story.
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I mean only Holy Nippon and Australia have adopted it off the top of my head. I'm sure it's a popular niche denomination elsewhere, but it's not majority.
I just confused the two as always. I'm not a biologist or animal expert, sadly. Lol