Chapter 8

Scepter of Darkness

Summary: Harry had a completely different experience of childhood. The wizarding world, would have been unprepared and caught completely unaware by a Potter who had mastered the underworld and the way of manipulation. They never got a chance he traveled back in time to increase his powers.

Helltanz's notes: The J series submarines, mentioned previously and you will see again, never entered mass production, though some were still built and launched saw action up until the introduction of the X series, a bit more about this is explained in this chapter the J series that is. The orden governed territories will be mentioned more in depth probably in the sixties. Also on Prism and Tesla technology unlike in the Red Alert series, they will be able to target air borne units. Chapter Begin

Introduction

"With the formation of the Axis Empire, December first nineteen forty six, much to Soviet distaste, the Axis Empire reinstated the Peerage system, Hitler's glorious view of an Empire, the Japanese altered their own peerage system to be more like the European continental peerage system than the British Peerage system. With the formation of the Empire and subsequent division of territories changes came to the order the five years between the second great war of mankind and the next armed conflict, saw the order adapting more along the line of a nation, while retaining its identity as an Order, the order as I stated and is still responsible for the governing of the states of Moldova, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria, with the last making us quite responsible for the magical education of eastern Europe. The Orden would over see the development of its responsible states and the development of its military force. This five year period was perhaps tense but was peace, the three super powers, Axis, United States, and the Soviet Union enjoyed peace. Our time, that of the Axis leaders, was spent with public relations and oversight of the military, some fancy dinners, civilian projects, and our own interests for the most part, that was our lives for that brief period and then it came to an end.

The 'cold war' saw the continued increase in technology the United States fielded her first Sturgeon class attack sub put out to sea in March of nineteen Fifty, with the Los Angeles attack sub class entering a mere nine years later. The Soviet Union fielded the Shchuka, type 671, and then later the Akula, a decade later, type 941 once ballistic missile became in service, more promenintly known to westerners in the previous timeline by its NATO reporting name Typhoon, as there primary sub. Germany fielded U-5 series, an Orden modification to the Sea Wolf of the United States Navy of the previous timeline. The Order in the mean time switched to H Series as their principle attack Submarine, the H series would be replaced by the N series and in then the current submarine of the Order X series, the R series would serve as the Order's primary SSBN, it would replace the A series multi purpose attack subs, which only possessed moderate missile capabilities, and the B III SSBN. Japan fielded the Kensei class subs (I-600) as their primary submarines the Kensei being your standard Fast attack Sub it was about roughly equivalent in capability of the former timeline Shchuka II of the previous timeline, and the Kyoto Ballistic missile sub once the SSBN class was developed. I won't even bother going in depth with the so called English navy, they were trying to rebuild their losses from the war but would not make any progress on that front until several years into the fifties. Despite not being in open war; there were several mysterious losses at open sea, the order was only immune to this because of our superior Submarine designs, superior design in hull integrity and multiple pressure hulls and the like, and we still had a couple fire exchange situations during the Asian and African conflicts.

As I stated previously directed energy weapons were developed during the fifties, primarily these were anti ship or missile weapons, despite nuclear powered ships, only the order had powerful enough small generators to run these on such things as battleships and other ships efficiently, another major problem were the energy weapon's them selves they were bulky and had a habit to more often then not burn out there circuits, the Order was the only ones with such technology at the time. Orden aircraft would be armed with lasers, actually they would be put into service in half a decade, the first aircraft lasers were primarily point defense devices, later on they would be anti fighter and anti armor weapons, and eventually ground targets. Though this would change later, Russian tesla technology, and America would develop a form of laser based on Mirror refraction, codenamed Prism Weapons developed under the Advanced Weapons Development Project, the project would start with the development of the Prism Tower, eventually Prism Tanks as well as Prism armed warships and later Prism armed jets, developed in the early nineties, though they still don't see major production, other laser armed jets, though these point defense lasers for most part, are first produced around this time, the Luftwaffe would have similar point defense to order aircraft and later offensive directed energy weapons in the eighties, we had to wait for them to get the appropriate level where they could produce the battery and circuitry technology, kind of long and boring wait.

In the realm of fire arms the United States standardized the use of its 1911 as the side arm of its armed forces, it would remain this way for quite sometime, the nineteen eleven will be extensively produced and outfitted to most the so called Free powers. The year also marked the creation of the M16 of this timeline. Japan and the other Axis powers, minus the Soviet Union, standardize our own standard side arms, typically nine millimeter by the nineteen millimeter parabellum chambered HK USP or Berretta Ninety two's. Another popular choice was the Jericho 941 of the previous timeline, re designated as the DMI, Dragon Military Industries, Babylon, the gun is produced en masse, the Babylon saw extensive fielding in the middle east based forces, along with the GLOCK line of pistols, which became quite popular with our allies to the east. The Reich over the next two decades became exceptionally gun friendly, given the chances of another war, the communists aren't exactly trusted, and then you have the allies and the conflicts in the east. The US also loosened gun regulations; the ever popular slogan 'you can have my gun when you pry it from my dead fingers' became a very prominent phrase in the United States. Overall with the end of the war the economy of the world, minus the Soviet Union, began to return to normal, or rather began to move in such away as that of the previous timeline, with some changes, all actions have repercussions after all.

Nineteen fifty one May 9th the US's test of a nuclear weapon with thermonuclear materials, the "George" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, sixteen days later a test of an atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

But back to the current portion, in forty nine, Eire is placed under marshal law, April first this begins a still ongoing guerrilla war on the emerald isle. In the United States the Armed Forces Security Agency is founded, this agency is the predescor to the NSA. June 8th the order under Technological directive nine twelve it intorduces mulitple computer based technologies to the Axis militaries and academic organizations. The M61 enters production in the United States. Three days after being formally charged for treason and espionage Klaus Fuchs dies, an air burst is the cause. February 13th nineteen fifty The US Air Force loses a B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada this incident is the world's first Broken Arrow, Hittler went into a flurry over that.

The most prominent event of this period was the beginning of the Asian Conflict. The Asian conflict, as I stated previously included the equivalent of the Korean and Vietnam conflict. As Japan, and the rest of the Axis powers, never lost world war two, so the UN never set up a provisional government trusteeship for the United States and Soviet Union, who as this timeline has shown is still a member of the Axis, if a bit of an outsider, it being a communist state and all. I got the message the conflict began while I was lecturing at Durmstrang two Gestapo agents alerted me barged right in the middle class to tell me the German military, in actuality the entire Axis military, was going on full alert, the cold war, had just gone hot. I would be on a flight to China within an hour of consulting with the German High command. A group of communist aligned rebels had started an open revolt against Japanese held Korea, Axis peacekeeping forces would land with in the week.

This conflict was becoming troublesome unlike the previous war were the enemy had been armed with semi automatics for the most part, with an submachine guns amongst some of the western forces. The Korean Communists were armed with an alarming number of AK-47s, the Soviet made assault rifle were becoming quiet the nuisance to the Axis groups, German troops were armed with the Strumgewehr 46, while almost half of the other Axis forces were armed with the Strumgewehr 44, though about half of divisions, primarily those from the other major Axis nations, did possess the Strumgewehr 46. The Strumgewehr 44 is a SIG SG 510, the gun was decided despite entering mass production and passing the trials it would not succeed the Strumgewehr 34 given the progress of the war, the High Command had decided to wait till after the end of the war before update the armaments of the troops battle rifle, though the plan is for eventually for the complete transition to the Strumgewehr 46 once enough have been manufactured. The communists were loosing but the presence of the Soviet Battle rifle was rather disturbing."

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Axis Empire, Bulgaria, Durmstrang Academy of Magic

The academy class room sitting arrangement was reminiscent of a college class room, the ones that sort of amphitheatre style rooms.

"Welcome class." Greeted Asran as the group of fifth years took their seats. "My name is Frederick Asran this lecture will be an explanation of the classical magical distinctions and classifications of our world."

The title wrote itself onto the top of the black board.

"This subject to the Magical world and its history. I would suggest you get comfortable we will be here for four hours. You are all wizards and witches, Wizards are typically defined by their use of a wand as a primary tool in focusing magic, they are considered the basic and most common form of magic practitioner, a mage, magi, magus, magier, or variation of that term depending on the nationality would be an example of an advanced class of magic practitioner, another example would be the almost no longer existent Priest class, these were common in Egypt during the Pharonic times, Mages, we will use as an example seeing as I am more familiar with them, for obvious reasons. The mage is not bound by the use of a foci such as a wand, it doesn't mean that mages stop using a wand, it just means they don't have to use a wand to readily use magic. Mage typically use a weapon to supplement and serve as their foci. More recent examples are the gun mages made famous in the American west. If you ever meet an American magic practitioner, he could very well be a mage. The technique is a relatively simple magier technique simply cast your spell on the tip of the bullet, its very useful, you block the spell and you get hit with the bullet, vice versa. Most common magic shields only stop energy not physical matter, and if they do not something moving as fast as a bullet." Asran paused. "Lots of people through around the word Sorcerer. Long ago this was a separate magical class, now it is just a title, a very important title, it indicates a wizard or other magic user is much more knowledgeable and has much more power in his craft than is average. Quite a bit higher, Grindelwald and Kemmler are both Sorcerers."
"Are you one?"

"Officially I am a mage, but yes I am also a sorcerer. A wizard may become a mage, this is one of the few examples of how a magic practitioners base designation changes, being Sorcerer is like having a title, you are still considered a wizard though. The same is with Warlocks, the difference is that the title is bestowed on those who have demonstrated extensive combat prowess, Mages do not become Warlocks, as a mage is considered intrinsically combat aligned, Mages who have showed exemplary combat abilities, gain the suffix Knight, and obviously bestowed knighthood, Wizarding knighthood has another common bestowment when or is member of an Order, brotherhoods are considered orders, so a wizard if a member of such an order would not gain the title of warlock but would receive Knighthood. Guilds are also treated with order status, then you have scholarly groups such as the Order of the White Tower or the Hermitic order of the Red Dawn a subdivision of the much larger Order of the Rose Cross. Or the Guild of Libraries, which evolved from a sect of Egyptian Priests dedicated to Thoth."

The door opened an two black coated men, Geheime Staatspolizei agents, judging by there hurried pace they were probably coming straight from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt office.

"Herr Asran your presence is required in Berlin immediately."

"Class dismissed I shall see you to it all of you receive the necessary papers." Asran turned to the two Gestapo agents. "What happened?"

"Their was a rebellion in Korea, AK-47 armed communist insurrectionists that were previously based in the northern part of the country launched an attack against Saigon."

"What happened."
"The Japanese regular army has held them off for now, but only by the grace of the Order of the Dragon's air support, Reichsmarschall, UNIT Twelve and the Japanese Task force consisting of the new Shinano class Super Aircraft Carrier Kuraomikami. The Task force has suffered no damage but the rebels have made large defensive positions in the north. With out ground troops the rebels will be able to hold the ground for awhile even against air forces. There are only so many of those order whirly birds."

'I really wish he didn't call them that. So I am the only one who is currently fielding true military Helicopters it is irritating.'

"The Japanese Army is preparing to send additional forces but…"
"I understand lets go… I'll speak with the high command."

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Axis Empire, Germany, Berlin, Weremacht High Command

"How the devil did this happen? What is the status?"
"Calm yourself General."

"Asran."

"UNIT Twelve is coordinating defensive efforts UNIT seven is moving to provide assistance. The Drachen Orden two hundred ninth air group is already airborne. Concerning the enemy, they are armed with lots of Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947s. Lots of them. No Tanks to speak of, but likely aging soviet aircraft, YAKs most likely."

"Asran how many are we talking about here?"
"At their peek I would prepare for at least a force of two hundred sixty thousand in total. I may be saying to be over prepared but we should be prepared, this is an insurrectionist movement, popular support is likely."
"We didn't have this problem when we conquered China."
"Yes but there were still prominent feelings of pro Germany. Korea isn't exactly fond of Japan. And we were very coordinated."

"How will we handle this? We cannot allow communism to spread. It would encourage-"

"Yes we are all aware of that." Snapped Karl.

"Air superiority will only accomplish so much, but it will still be helpful, the navy isn't going to be much help though."

"Sadly not. We need a well trained, well armed infantry group, Tanks not exactly going to be helpful in the forested regions, plus we will be looking at an enemy who knows the terrain much better than us, this isn't Europe."

"You are suggesting we deploy the Blitzjager?"
"No we would be vastly out numbered. We need regular infantry."

"Adolf I would suggest mobilizing the Chinese branch of the Reich Heer, we need a force that is used to fighting in similar conditions, Asran is right, this is not Europe."

"An extensive air campaign as well ground supported troops in a coordinated plans of attack we should see results."

"Can you handle that Asran?"

The Drachenorden leader rolled his eyes. "The air campaign yes, but I would have the Kriegsmarine air corp. and the Luftwaffe planes are changing. The Navy and Air campaign experience would be very useful. Speaking of the Navy there are J series stationed in the pacific I can have move to the Sea of Japan to provide."

"Asran what is a J series?"

"It is an Unterseeboot." began Donitz. "It is an attack sub but it is also a mobile launch platform for surface to surface missiles. So it is larger than most of our attack subs, but smaller than the other submarines designed for assault and carrier duties. It is also armed with a pair of Dinar IV Railguns, as well as anti aircraft weapons." Explained the Grand Admiral.

"It was decided that it would not be produced in large numbers, more than half of them are assigned to Order's pacific fleet."

Hitler was little flabbergasted.

"Yes your wondering why, quite frankly the orden is busy elsewhere the subs are useful but we have other designs that can serve the task more aptly which are easier to field in greater numbers." Conceded Asran

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Asia, Korea, Seoul

"Status?"
Radu smirked. "Fire bombed the entire area, an entire division was wiped out."
"You're a pyromaniac, Ifrit."

"But to answer your question my lord, the enemy has been pushed back."

"The Korean Provincial army?"

"Not well. Demoralized. The Japanese Imperial Army stationed here wasn't much better, they were caught by surprise only four order airborne squadrons fast reactions kept the front group from being completely destroyed."

"That bad?"

"Pincer attack."

Asran frowned nodding.

"Two attack gunship teams put the insurrectionists out to pasture. At least until the rest the UNIT Twelve air groups arrived."

"Bet the Japanese were happy to see the whirly birds."

"I'm sure they were Paul."
"Yes very much so."

"Col. Gen. Yasuji. German Army would be a good idea then it would definitely bolster morale."

"The behemoth will help I would imagine."

"UNIT Twelve entered the city as quickly as it could."
"How long did it take?"
"Two hours from the Yellow sea coast its air group went super sonic, the four groups who were already nearby launched their attacks immediately once the distress signal went out."

"Well none the less I'm having an Orden construction team brought in to fortify the city." Asran sighed, so much for peace, I mean he hadn't expected it to last but it had been hoped the Korean conflict would be avoided just to ease up some of the tension on the world. 'Oh well might as well try and lighten the mood.' "Well then not much we can do right now, at least not until all the forces land, and the rebels won't be attacking, with a UNIT with in the City, assuming they are not suicidal. I recently procured land in the Golan Heights and started a vineyard. I do say I like the wine its produced, I do plan to expand into different regions of the area at a later date... I just happen to have a bottle if you want try some, I'd say we are fairly safe for the moment for a light drink."

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Asran glanced over the command display of UNIT twelve, currently the screen showed satellite and radar gathered information of the Korean Peninsula, at the moment multiple groups of Axis aligned fighters were above insurrectionist held Northern Korea. The general strategy was for the air corp. to hit the insurrectionist line, constant bombing raids, and hard anti infantry strikes just prior to military action by ground forces. The ground forces were supported by attack helicopter gunships. UNIT twelve was currently located at an Axis military base in what had in the previous timeline had been well with in North Korea's borders, specifically the Hwanghae-Bukto region internal administrative capital of Sariwon. At the northern border of the Korean peninsula Axis Chinese Army were marching south, the troops marching to the south west with a column of Tanks, nice heavily armed German Panzer divisions, according to the last readout dated eleven hundred hours this morning they had reached Sunch'on, putting them within fifty miles of Pyongyang. The eastern divisions of troops were clearing the northern mountain regions, the work was slow and tedious.

But the air campaign was targeting the ground, the communist air group had been destroyed, for the most part recently MIG- 15s had been spotted and destroyed, several squadrons. The planes were not necessarily a major threat, the Axis air craft were superior they had been for a while.

The Radar array blinked several new blips appeared

"Lord Asran interceptors communist MIGs. Fafnir leader is asking permission to engage."
"Granted blow them out of the sky."

"Yes sir. Fafnir Leader terminate enemy air group."

The gold blips on the color coded panel assigned to show airspace activity accelerated to meet the newly appeared red dots.

"Fafnir squadron is preparing to open fire. Beginning attack on insurrectionist MIGs."

The screen changed again.

"Communist MIGs destroyed."

'The multi mini missile pods.' That was what Asran would hazard a guess as to what the Orden strike fighters had used against the communist MIGs. The weapons were common ordinance on the OSF, the missiles were designed to destroy armor or other planes.

"Commander the sortie group is beginning attack run."
"Acknowledged."

The target in question was a heavily fortified communist position it wasn't surprising they had aircraft, this was the reality the rebels had held themselves up in easily fortifiable positions or they attempted to operate in small cells armed only their AK-47s, the latter tended to be less effective, the SS tended to be very effective.

The fact was the Korean rebels were much worse than what the American's had had to deal with in the original timeline, as Japan still controlled the country. Well it was just a minor problem, or it would have been if Japan wasn't so insistence on oppressing the people.

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Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: So in the new timeline the Korean conflict is an Axis problem against communist rebels. Heer is the Nazi German Army; it is one of the three divisions of the Weremacht, which means defense force, the other two divisions are the Kriegsmarine, the navy literally War navy, and Luftwaffe the air force. Vietnam is still going to be a hotspot for the US, you will see why when I go over the Declaration of Peace next chapter's introduction. So some blatant future references in development. Next chapter will continue the Korea campaign and other stuff, I don't know yet what all will be in it. I will be introducing some wizard politics soon though, along with some other magical events. Abraxas and Tom will be showing up, plus other English wizards and you'll see more of the Axis wizards and some of the Thule society. The Axis Korean conflict is going to be a bit different than the US's experience, I say the US and not the UN, because America contributed the most foreign troops against the communists, for obvious reasons. To clarify the Soviet Union territories in Europe include half of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Belarus, Estonia, and Lithuania. Don't forget to vote on the future, it ends around the Death Eater uprising in England. Considering adding X-men into the fray, if I do only characters and other things will be borrowed, won't be using any X-men storyline, because frankly this is going to be very Alternate Universe, one person who will show up is Sinister, in his role as a geneticist researching evolution.

Stargate differences in each future

Benevolent Future: Drachenorden run stargate program running from sixties onward, US program runs as canon

Moderate Future: Joint Axis run stargate program running parallel to the US stargate Program, US program runs as canon

Harsh Future: very little Stargate until much later, US program runs as canon.

The Future: (besides Stargate differences borders will also differ in each future, as will magical-muggle relations)

Benevolent Future: The Nazi succeed however Hitler dies and is replaced by a less Master race leader (Grindelwald dies as well unless people vote they want otherwise additionally Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Roosevelt will likely die oh somewhere in the seventies)

Five votes for

Moderate Future: Nazi's still in power, the Axis states are all allied together in a confederation (Grindelwald will likely be alive though also Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, maybe mid sixties he will be out of office by then, Hitler will be dead make no mistake, this is true for all timelines, he will be dead by the time we get back to the present, also the Russian Federation, well they won't be exactly the same after the fall of communism in the nineties)

Five votes for

Harsh Future the third Reich is victorious the culture Nazi Empire if this occurs will likely hold some similarities to the Dominion of Draka, it is likely rating will increase to M, the non M rated Harsh future will if written will feature all Axis states united in one large multi continental empire (Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Hitler is succeeded after his death by a leader who wished to build the Third Reich into the greatest empire to ever exist, additionally the US will expand to encompass both American Continents)