The United States Presidential Election of 1956 represented the massive divisions with American society within the latter half of the 1950's and the early 1960's as the major issues of the day came to the fore as every major issue within the country tore themselves free from the woodwork. While the majority of the election was focused around the aim to establish a separate head of government there was also the issues of segregation, the Terror in the Deep South, and the issue of federal government over state government. The election was the first to have both Baja California and Alaska voting which led to them becoming major focuses of the campaigns. The candidates represented the polarized society of America at the time. The American Union Party ran the fiercely conservative Strom Thurmond who campaigned on cracking down on the Terror and ending this nonsense at once regarding the movement to establish a separate Head of Government. Against him stood the incumbent Henry Wallace who had the backing of both the Republican-Progressive Party and the American Worker's Party, and the Democratic-Conservative candidate Fielding L. Wright who had the problem of supporting many of the positions that the American Union Party held.

The election was filled with controversies with several accusations of paramilitaries in the Steel Belt and the Deep South most notable after the brutal murder of noted Union activist George Wallace by the Ku Klux Klan despite his fervent racism. This was countered by the death of Samuel Roper during a visit to Ohio in 'an industrial accident'. The election only grew more divided following an American Union Party representative outright calling for Baja California's votes to not be counted. Luckily, he was found dead in a ditch with the black fist of the Black Panthers scrawled across his face allowing the American Union Party to bury the remarks swiftly. The election only drew more contentious and only the colonization of New Washington, and Hamilton managed to keep the lid on the violence that mired the nation. When the election finally came it resulted in the last electoral college victory in American history with Henry Wallace just scraping over the line with the backing of the American Worker's Party. The result was not accepted well by the Ku Klux Klan with a massive march down the centre of Washington DC as Henry Wallace was inaugurated for the third and last time.

-Extract from a discussion on the American Election of 1956

The idea for the 'Wind of Change' laws came not from a member of the Labour Party but from a Conservative MP one Harold Macmillan who gave a speech in the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Orange against the controversial Apartheid polices that had been introduced by the local government. The speech on how the Congolese Spring represented how mankind had to change and how the native people of Orange would soon awaken to the winds of change that were spreading across the continent. The speech got him booed out of the building and he was effectively banned from entering the Commonwealth of Orange again. The speech however raised an important issue to the Imperial government in London that being the lack of rights available for the native people of the United Empire and political dominance of the Old Dominions as they were known those being the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and New Windsor. The Labour government had been heavily investing in the African Territories due to the needs of the Goa'uld War and that had led to more and more labour actions as the workers demanded better rights and pay. The government decided to push for their propaganda of believing that everyone was equal, and the bill introduced by John Curtin provided the perfect method. The bill aimed to make voting mandatory for all citizens over the age of 18 under Imperial law for all elections across the United Empire.

The bill aimed to make it impossible to cripple the ability for Commonwealth governments to make certain groups unable to vote by making it mandatory to vote. The bill was contentious and ended up mired in the House of Consuls for the next two years by the actions of the Speaker of the House one David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir who refused to introduce the bill instead dragging up other bills he had. When the bill finally passed in 1958 it was met with praise across the United Empire as the last of the barriers against true equality for all within the United Empire was broken down decisively. But there is still inequality which is why we need to lift up the weak and powerless in the name of the Emperor. Which is why we must vote for the Imperial Socialist Party this year we must vote to hold up the legacy John Curtin. So, come comrades. Let us sing for the Crown and the People.

Stand up all victims of oppression

For the tyrants fear your might

Don't cling so hard to your possessions

For you have nothing with you rights

Let Racist ignorance be ended

For the crown unites us all

Freedom is merely privilege extended

Unless enjoyed by one and all

So, come brothers and sisters

For the struggle carries on

The Internationale unites us all in song

So, comrades come rally

For this is the time and place

The Crown unites the empire in peace

Let no one build walls to divide us

Walls of hatred or walls of stone

The Crown breaks them down

So, let us gather round the crimson crown

-Transcript of an Imperial Socialist rally 2078

Operation Gauntlet has often been called the stupidest military plan ever used by the allies during the Goa'uld War and for good reason. Instead of following in the footsteps of Operation Grenade and striking at the collapsing fringes of the Goa'uld Empire the plan called for a single decisive strike through the heart of the Goa'uld Empire towards Dakara. The plan came from John Churchill who had heard about the importance of the world from Bra'tac when reviewing the Emperor's Free Jaffa legion. He then designed a plan over a few nights alongside his equipment reform and promptly dropped them both off at Imperial Stargate Command. The equipment reform was accepted adding swords to the weapons that a member of the Imperial Stargate Command was assigned but Operation Grenade was a lot more contentious. The plan was seen as suicidal by charging straight into the jaws of the Goa'uld Empire. But the revelation that the Empire was unable to crush the Tok'ra revolt led to the more radical members the High Command being able to push the Operation through and now the allies were about to charge into the potential jaws of death. Not that would ever stop 'Mad Jack' and he had got his wish.

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