Warning: The term "Feminist" in this fic refers to an imaginary extremist and militaristic version of a women-centric totalitarian government and in NO way represents the author's opinions on feminism proper.
This fic was written in collaboration with K9catforce, or soIheardyoulikepanerzers, and it spawned from his admittance that on the same night he viewed a pic of some German uniformed girls advance towards a village, he dreamed of a totalitarian government run by and for girls.
Glory? Do you see glory in this husk of a city? Among the rubble, the blood, the bodies? Do you realize what this place might have looked like before we were ordered to seize it for the well-being of the state? Children running in the streets kicking a ball between them, the coffee shops full of pedestrians, and the gardens tended to with gentle care; cars trying to pass through the narrow streets here and there. The Femintern Parties can go burn in hell – they would love to bathe in the product of their work, after all.
-Miho Nishizumi, commander of the 1st company of the 515th Heavy Panzer Battalion, to her loader Yukari Akiyama, 1987.
"Men are animals! Their perverse, depraved, and corrupt decadence have brought this pure, gifted world to ruin; they are the true cause of the Great Depression that has gripped the nations! Each day, their filth brings down the order and justice of the state into lower and lower gutters! This must be corrected! The Female Race, the righteous, the sensible sex must rise to the challenge and cleanse this world of the unclean! The evils of the Y-chromosome must be contained in designated lands, separated from the civilized world! Only when the subhuman Male Race is culled and controlled can civilization progress forward again! The world must be fused as One Nation, One Gender, and One Order! When the glory of the Female Race is realized, the Eternal Utopia will come forth!"
That was the rallying cry of the Femintern Alliance, a coalition of the militant feminist-driven totalitarian regimes that had its origins in the ranks and was an offshoot of the Bolsheviks, in the decade of war that followed in the 1984-1994 JE (Julian Era). The Femintern's reality was organized into the Union of Feminist Progressive Republics, comprised mainly of Feminist Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary and North China. With their economies somewhat stabilized by nationalization of industries and mass employment of the unemployed by the arms industry and the military and emboldened by the inactivity of the Entente, the Femintern Alliance sparked the Second World War on August 19, 1984 with the invasions of the Low Countries and Italy.
The Entente, still reeling from the effects of the Great War, the Spanish Flu, and the Great Depression, only managed to begin rearming by 1980, and its armies were still poorly equipped, with new and good designs few and far in between. A few Entente nations even refrained from joining their allies in the war in the opening months and years. Nevertheless, with the war in full swing, the Entente – now comprising of Britain, France, Italy, the USA, South China, Japan and a host of other nations – was able to mobilize itself into nations fully committed into total war. The next ten years were marked by bloodshed, war crimes, and complete deletions of entire cities where fighting were the fiercest. At the War's end, the death toll ranged from 40 to 70 million people. After the Femintern was dissolved by the Treaty of Buckingham Palace – the world-famous Versailles having been thoroughly destroyed during the Battle for Paris – the former member states had to contend with a rapidly declining population and a highly negative birth rate; Germany in particular having to resort to the infamous "Birth Rate and Polygamy Act" to ensure a stable population growth and the return of men back into the country after their systematic suppression and extermination.
But this book is not a documentary of the alliances, battles, maneuvers, strategies and weapons each army fielded; many more very qualified experts have wrestled with the grad strategies of the Second World War, or as some call it, the Gender War. Instead, this book recounts the events that a certain unit, and especially a certain team went through during the decade of the earth scorched in flames; this is the story of Major Miho Nishizumi and her soldiers of the 515th Heavy Panzer Battalion.