Summary: Japan isn't the only nation facing dilemas from Brittania, so is the EU
Summary: Brittania has its knights, Europe has the Musketeers.
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Prologue
End of the 18th Century a.t.b. - The Western world enters the Age of Revolution, with numerous people's revolutions taking place – save for Britannia, which under Henry X continue to hold absolute monarchy. After the French revolutions Napoleon emerges. He wins the Battle of Trafalgar and occupies London. In 1807 a.t.b. , Queen Elizabeth III retreats to Edinburgh, where a popular revolutionary militia arrests her and forces her to abdicate and end the monarchy, an event known as The Shame of Edinburgh. However, The Duke of Britannia (in America) Ricardo Von Britannia and his friend and subordinate, Knight of One Sir Richard Hector, brings Elizabeth III and her followers to the New World and establish a capital on the east coast of North America.
1813 a.t.b. - Elizabeth III died without leaving any heirs; she was supposed to have chosen her successor from one of her blood relations, but on her dying bed she nominated her lover, Ricardo Von Britannia instead. She is therefore famous for being "The Queen who loved throughout her stormy life." The Britannian year (a.t.b.) is established, with the origin year set as to the ascendancy of the first Celtic King.
1821 a.t.b. - Napoleon died on his way back to France after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo; although it was never proven, it is rumoured that assassins poisoned his food in accordance to Elizabeth III's will: her last words included the famous line "I do not forget slights to my honour." Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte (Napoléon II)succeeds his father after his death and is successful in negotiating a peace treaty with Europe's Seventh Coalition.
1824 a.t.b. - Napoléon II marries Princess Sophie of Bavaria and births his first heir, Maximilian I. That same year, Adrienne Batz-Castelmore is born on the poor district of Paris.
1833 a.t.b. – Adrienne Batz-Castelmore is sold by her parents to the Bonaparte family as a servant and companion for Maximilian I due to his isolation from the outside world.
1836 a.t.b – Maximilian I begins his military life at L'école du Ciel military academy. Thanks to reforms in the French military, which were brought upon by Queen Sophie, Adrienne Batz-Castelmore accompanies the young prince as a guard.
1843 a.t.b – Maximilian I and Adrienne Batz-Castelmore graduate with top honors. Maximilian I creates the L'ordre des Mousquetaires (Order of the Musketeers), a reformed version of the Mousquetaires de la Garde (Musketeers of the Guard) which allows nobles and commoners alike to join.
1956 a.t.b – Thanks to strengthened ties which began in the Age of Revolution, the countries of the European community formally and officially calls itself the European Union. The Order of the Musketeers becomes the Unions top military order as a countermeasure to Brittannia's Order of the Round and several military academies for the Order are constructed on the national borders of each country.
2010, a.t.b - The Second Pacific War had took place, resulting in the conquering of Japan by Britannia.
2012 a.t.b – The European Union and The Britannian Empire begin the Cold War.