Brittania rules the stars

by Southeren Legion

This is a story wherein the United Kingdom finds the Stargate in 1905 and makes it public. Written in the style of a historical text and goes in detail so that to quote one review "WHY any of this is important to anyone not at least in college studying world political history".

111. Spring in the south

The Congolese Spring represented the last gasp of colonialism as the Kingdom of Belgium attempted to maintain their dominance over their African colony. First secured by King Leopold II as his own personal fief he soon turned the Congo Free State as it became known into hell on Earth. The state was focused purely around the exploitation of the region and that of course meant exploitation of the locals people who failed to harvest enough rubber had their hands cut off, the Belgian soldiers garrisoning the region ran wild and raping and murdering across the state all in the name of profit. The Free State ended in 1908 when the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Belgium. While certain aspect improved from the hell of the Free State the region still remained a brutal fuel for the Belgian economy. The Battle of Earth however changed that as the administration of the colony alongside most major settlements were annihilated and the region was placed under a military administration until the Belgians felt it was ready to be returned to civilian rule. That never came with a continued military government for the next eighteen years. While the military government was not as brutal as the Free State only used the natives for economic gain and to transform the Congo into little more then the kindling of the industry of Belgium. This continued until 1954 when the first of the protests that would define the Congolese Spring dragged the reconstruction of Léopoldville to a halt. Demanding freedom and equality the protesters were entirely peaceful refusing to give into violence. The protests rapidly spread across the colony until any efforts of rebuilding the colony were impossible. The largest protests came on the 1st of July 1955 the anniversary of the establishment of Free State and the protesters all demanded one thing freedom. The military government was on the verge of cracking down by then with the protests having gone on for nearly a year but the newly elected socialist government in Belgium announced the dissolution of the Military Government and the establishment of a democratic provisional regime. The provisional regime held an absolute majority of pro-independence parties which despite the grumblings of King Leopold III and the more conservative members of the Belgian federal Parliament was accepted and the road to Congolese impendence was paved. Instead of creating a single nation across the entirety of the Belgian Congo the Belgian government decided to create several allied states across the vast region those being the Republics of the Katanga, Congo-Kasai, Équateur, and Kivu. The formal aim was for Belgium to withdrawal from the Congo by 1970 but in reality with the singing of the Salisbury Agreement Belgium effectively abandoned the Congo to their fate allowing the development of those countries without intervention.

However, the largest effect of the Congolese Spring was not the liberation of the People of the Congo though that was important but the ripple effects across the rest of Africa and arguably Asia. The first effect was in Libya and Algeria where the Arab population fully embraced Pan-Arabism and the native Tuareg population embraced Tuareg nationalism not that their overlords cared or noticed. See the Arab population of the North African colonies had been pushed into the deserts following the Battle of Earth as the Goa'uld had destroyed the majority of settlements in Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria allowing the Italians and French respectively to ensure their ethnic dominance. This of course radicalized the population, so they turned towards Pan-Arabism or Tuareg nationalism. Their demands were generally just for their colonizers to hold a referendum on their status and then act on the results. In Italy since they had formally annexed all of Libya they were forced to bow to their demands holding a series of referendums across the inner provinces of Libya all of which resulted in victory for the independence activists representing the native Tuareg population. Which they followed through on establishing the south of Libya as the Kingdom of the Tuaregs. When the Tuaregs found oil the next year the Italians were quite irritated to say the least. The French were less accommodating with several of the major leaders of the Pan-Arabist and Tuareg independence movements movement mysteriously disappearing in the night and turning up the next month drowned in a nearby river with a suicide note in hand.

-Extract from a lecture on the Congolese Spring and its effects on the world.

As Anubis began to gather his forces for his grand offensive humanity could not help but notice as Anubis withdrew his greatest troops and thousands of his Jaffa, so IIET-1 was put on the case to work out what was going on across the galaxy. From the darkest recesses of the Goa'uld Empire to their shining beacons IIET-1 hunted any scrap of knowledge they could. Hiding as peasants and traders allowed them to gain access to the heart of the Goa'uld Empire where they saw legions of Jaffa marching off to war, but they had no idea where. Until the world of Dee. IIET-1 would arrive just before the Kull dispatched to rally that worlds Jaffa arrived. They would trail the Kull through the planet's capital to the military garrisons headquarters where Tolkien managed to slip in until he was just outside the room where the Kull handed over the information regarding the use of the world's Jaffa. With the knowledge of the near entirety of Anubis's plans across a door from Tolkien he knew that he needed to get that information. He would hide in a cupboard as the Kull left then he struck blowing the door down, shotting up the Jaffa commanders, grabbed the information and ran to met up with the rest of IIET-1. IIET-1 managed to fight their way through the city and back to the Stargate where the Kull had just arrived. Tolkien volunteered to fight it while Bra'tac dialled out and Sigurður Steelfangs shredded the Jaffa patrol that had come along with the Kull. The duel with the Kull was long and brutal. Tolkien was nowhere near as strong as the Kull, so he had to fight using his brain. He managed to push the Kull back through the use of a sledgehammer that Sigurður Steelfangs had carried around to deal with any annoying critters or walls. He managed to push the Kull into the Gray effect as the Gate dialled out to the nearest Alpha Site. With the death of the Kull IIET-1 was able to flee back to Earth with their loot. When they returned the information was given to high command who dealt with the coordination of the Great Fleet for the Battle of Liberty but Tolkien himself was rewarded for his valour. On the 7th of September 1955 he was formally awarded the Victoria Cross for his fight against the Kull by Edward VIII the day before he left for the Battle of Liberty.

-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.