Author's Note: June 8, 2008 This started as an AAR at the Paradox Strategy Gaming Forum, but the Swedes who run the site wouldn't let me have the artistic lience I needed to write even a cencored version. So be it, their site, their rules. So I'm posting here. This is rated M for a reason; the Drakaverse is brutal bar none, and I intend to write in that spirit. I admit I have never read the Draka books themselves, but such is the power of the very description of them that I could not help but want to play a mod where I could smash the Draka into dust. Our Narrorator assumes you have read the Draka novels or at least, as I did, read the following Wiki article:
en./wiki/TheDomination (put in front h t t p : / / in front without the spaces for all links!)
and assume the Draka novels represent a distorted version of the truth.
As an added bonus, I will try to include a picture with each chapter. No promises though. I can't post them directly, but I can give you the links. Enjoy, and I will update concurrent with reviews gotten. I'm an asshole, but I need my reviews goddamnit!
Britons never, never, never shall be Serfs
An Alternate History of the Draka in the 20th Century
Our Narrator, the Snake
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; so wrote the bard some 300 years before my birth. And like the ghost of Hamlet's father, I have a terrible tale to weave. But I do not ask for your vengeance, there has been too much of that. Rather I ask to understand.
I am long dead, and I speak where time and space converge; a place I could not conceive of in life, yet in death I find utterly inevitable. I speak through one who would happily put my people to death. But enough of the creepy, I'm not here to discuss the afterlife, I'm not here to discuss metaphysics, I'm here to address the Draka, because I am Edward Teller, formerly of His Majesty's Seventh Citizen Division, and I am one of them.
I am aware that you are familiar with my people through the works of a man called Sterling. I wish I could say he wrote a pack of lies about us, but while there are several important inaccuracies, ESPECIALLY ABOUT RAMPANT DRAKA LESBIANISM, which the bastard has propagated to suit his own perversions, the tale of the Domination is fundamentally true. But it wasn't always that way. In his attempt to create a moral dichotomy between his "perfected" anti-racist United States (which I assure you is not the case, segregation is even more pervasive and harsh in my world's US than yours at any given point. I know this because as my avatar takes down my words I can sense his thoughts, his memories, his knowledge) and ourselves that he makes wild leaps and makes us all monsters from the beginning of the colony, and turns us from frail, flawed Christians into superhuman atheists. This is what the Domination movement WANTS you to believe. It was the official history of the Domination, what they taught in schools, and still is in the worlds where the Domination persists. But it is simply not true. And I will first tell you the true, if abridged story of the fall of the Dominion of Draka, and my own perilous escape from the hell of the Domination.
Sterling tells you the world was enslaved. But not my world; my world, my Empire endures, because while I am a Draka, goddamn it, I am a Briton and Britannia rules the waves. Britons never never never, shall be slaves! Or Serfs.
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The World, 1920, before the Dominion was abolished and the Taiping overthrown