Scepter of Darkness Chapter 21, a harry potter fanfic

Chapter 21

Scepter of Darkness

Summary: Time has been altered in the interest of the cunning defeater of Voldemort, Dumbledore had no idea this would happen and he wasn't able to stop the plan now the timeline has been altered. Peril is on the horizon of this future, beware the wrath of the dragon.

Helltanz's notes: a small bit of recap, also to address the US, SAU, and indeed the Reds, do both have access to some alien technology.

The US has access to the wreck of the crashed Asgard ship from 47, albeit it is much less intact than its counterpart in Conflict Python, one of planned stories, and then later the Yucatan Peninsula ruins which will have a few nifty toys for this story.

The Commies, well lets just say the Romanov Family had some goodies, mostly its Goa'uld, but they have a couple Asgard trinkets lying around, cough cloning tech, cough.

As for the SAU, well you'll see, but I'm sure someone can figure out.

So everyone is clear the Outer Space Treaty is never signed… not that that particular treaty will stop anyone once the capacity has been reached.

Chapter Begin

Introduction

"Things were of somewhat tense, this was not the second world war of the home world of mankind. The Allies and Axis while of possessing an Alliance with their respective comrades things were as tense if not more so as they had been during the lead up and during the second world war.

The United States of America President Roosevelt, and United Kingdom Prime Minister Churchill were despite propaganda, not exactly friendly, it took several tries to allow England to use the moth balled World War I Destroyers of the United States Navy, of which the UK has a similar request during the time of the Cold War.

On the opposite side Stalin and Hitler were busy politicking one another… though it was with some convincing that Hitler did not turn against the Red Bear.

France fell quickly to Imperial Advance by the Blitzkrieg. This worried president Roosevelt, especially as forces began to mobilize in Europe.

The battles, which followed, were surprising, to the allies. The Drachenorden deployed aircraft, which did not have propellers, the German carried the first Assault rifle. The Navy began to understand first of all, the Drachenorden relied heavily on its submarines, surpassing even the Kriegsmarine who were famous for the U boat, their tactics still infantile.

This however changed when the Dracaena Federal States was formed, so began the build up of the Navy. Using technology and knowledge pioneered for surface ships in the previous time line, the Federal Navy's surface ships proved quite unnoticed by radar to what would have been considered exceptionally radical had they been voiced out loud to the admiralty of the time, no one really seemed to understand these changes, it was just one of those oddities, the Drachenorden indulged in, they assumed it was just something we did on a whim, the stealth aspect of the ships, was not connected to the ships shape until later, when they themselves understand the principle, at that time it was viewed as some kind of 'null field' produced by the Drachenorden to 'cloak' their vessels from allied radar, going back to the mysticism surrounding the order.

The like was said of the wings of our aircraft, it was just considered odd, especially the variable geometry wings, to say nothing of our use helicopters, who even Germanicus thought was odd, referring to them as whirly birds, and such, though they were a welcome sight on the battlefield, it was considered an eccentricities.

There was also the matter of the UNIT, and ADORE. Which caused some amount of conspiracy theory, especially when one looks at the known information on Order of the Dragon that was held by Allied powers.

These events all involved the non magical world, at the conclusion of the second world war, the Axis took the bold step of beginning to reintegrate both its populations. Among these policies was the continued support of the 'human theory of Evolution' as well as other policies such as the revelation of magical species.

This was not the only major change in development, while admittedly it took the USSR and USA longer to develop super sonic air craft, seeing as the were unable to access German designs, they had already made some progress. Though none the less things proved different as technology was forced and pushed, and prodded to advance to try and check the other powers, Dracaena continued to advance because it was a purpose, we couldn't afford to stagnate even if we were a century a head of every other nation.

Two Eagles, A Bear, the Dragon, these are the symbolic superpowers of the world, America, Germanicus, the United Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Drachenorden governed Federal States respectively is what they represented, with the fifth, and sixth being held by another Dragon the Empire of Imperial Japan and the Asiatic States Union, the military arm of the Asiatic National States.

There was however notable differences in goals concerning advancement, while there were complete cities in the Dracaena Federal States, there were however problems, like with the other Axis States. New cities using the technology were built, or advancements elsewhere rebuilt other cities. Among such new cities, was the rebuilt city of Troy near where the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean met, other building projects included the massive tasks to modernize ancient cities equipping them with Drachenorden technology which surpassed other Axis powers.

It is widely commented that in each of the Axis states, where every country will have an embassy an entire city will fall under the authority of the order of the dragon, this an exaggeration, not helped by Axis propaganda which extolled grandeur upon the Reich's most prominent groups, not limited to the Drachenorden, Thule society and SS. Though as with most such tales, it did have some base in facts, for example on typically cited example is the city of Luxor is one such city, though that of course is because Radu is the baron of Luxor, not because the Orden rules over the city, Radu is the ruler, albeit the laws of the city are based off our own laws. A more accurate example would be Hong Kong, the Order having taken over a number of British Holdings, or the Drachenorden constructed city in the Northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, of which construction began after the rebellion was suppressed.

However it was primarily the Order of the Dragon which led such projects concerning building of highly advanced technological feats, such as rebuilding our cities, the other Axis were more concerned with military and modernization of the industry so such feats were incapable, and at the same time the United States, and USSR were also participating in the arms race, and eventually so was the late comers to the party the South African Union.

Of course there was obviously the air issue over Vietnam, despite both sides, Soviet equipped insurgent forces, and Allied military personnel, being more advanced, some of mistakes of previous timeline's conflict occurred, the United States still underestimated value of the gun on the fighter aircraft, despite the fact Dracaena and Drachenorden aircraft were outfitted with missile and guns, well rail guns to be precise. The soviet to quote a paraphrase from Arzachel; "Comrades The United States have removed the machine guns on its fighters, in favor of poorly built capitalist missiles. This is colossal disaster of a move," Admittedly the move was rather idiotic, given that missiles fielded by the other sides were inaccurate, and soviet built aircraft could and usually did close to gun range in most air battles,

Meanwhile the Orden began its next major project the building of a 'mother ship' actually it wasn't labeled as such until the Reich High Command learned of it, in seventy nine, and its capabilities, sort of like the habit of referring to the ADORE as an Air Battleship, and the fact it was 550 kilometers in diameter. In addition to the Drachenorden space fleet starting with the Con Rit class Destroyers, and the Brnensky drak class Cruiser.

The Con Rit is designed in much the fashion as the later German built Angelos, which named because it not only was it agreeable to all factions participating but the UAS pushed so hard for the name, class, if the Con Rit did surpass the Angelos, but that was due to superior technological acheivements, and that the Angelos were designed to be constructed quickly even if being constructed discreetly, four months, while the Con Rit was built on a regular schedule in six months at Hell's Citadel Shipyards, alongside up to eleven others, as well as five cruisers."

Axis Empire, Europe, Kingdom of Germanicus, Central Germanicus, Germany, Berlin, Axis Headquaters

Asran frowned, he should have expected that to happen, the rings were magical and worked by blood.

"Surprised it recognizes me after all these years," He remarked, allowing his hand to fall back to his side. It was true he hadn't touched the Potter Ring in years… in fact he had his timeline's Patriarchal ring securely locked inside a Dragon warren for safe keeping.

"I see," the elder Potter remarked slightly curious.

This little tidbit would probably come to cause trouble for him later if it was shared amongst the Allies… then again the relations between the English Wizarding world and the Normal Government were already at odds with one another, said wizarding government also in the middle of an insurrection, it more than a decade since Tom had returned to his homeland to reek havoc.

For now it was perhaps the best course of action to ignore this turn of events the isolation of the Axis would insure very little could be done about the tidbit, after all it was veritably harmless, at least when compared to actually relevant information about his abilities, or his status and holding of other positions.

The conversation danced around the political and economic issues of which was the purpose of this diplomatic summit.

Sol, Space Orbit over Earth, Drachenorden Warship Con Rit

Magic was impressive, but technology surpassed it in certain fields, at present infantry level directed energy weapons, even those of the Goa'uld were much less effective than traditional guns, to say nothing of the improved firearms issued Drachenorden personnel, enhanced via alchemy.

The first standard produced warship of the orden, the Con Rit class Destroyer. Albeit there was one larger ship, based more directly on information taken from the Tacitus, but that vessel incorporated things not completely understood, in addition it was also on assignment.

"Brno, and Feilang are in position," Announced the Executive Officer, a Malaysian, indeed two other Con Rit class destroyers were apparently in position for whatever was going on.

Looking from Earth, with out the proper scanners, one would not see the nine proud Drachenorden destroyers, or the many orbital platforms.

Faintly the leader of the order of the dragon wondered had the united states in the previous timeline ever launched its prototype space warship, but that ship had been smaller than its Heavy, in this case CVN designated carriers were over one hundred meters its length, sea faring cousins of its time line.

In comparison the Con Rit, a destroyer class was four tenths of a kilometer, seventy seven meters longer than the Gerald R Ford the American Navy was proposing to build in the previous timeline prior to the mess began, Asran wondered whether or not the Americans would try to build that class he doubted it though especially if intelligence was correct.

The small Order of the Dragon F 4 fighters buzzed around a massive construct.

"Sire,"
Asran nodded for the man to speak,

"Would this not be a move that is slightly reckless," Asked the Knight Commander,
"Perhaps the Vessel will be one fourth the mass of Luna, an FTL capable platform that will sustain millions of lives if it needs to, we have twelve years to build it, why do you think the Allies will achieve advanced inter solar capability in that time?" He inquired jokingly.

The man shook his head, "No eminence its not that merely that more in a threat by an alien power," He responded.

In an instant space distorted, two thousand platforms, the majority of which were smaller ones, filled the solar system, the commander looked about realizing that neither he or the grandmaster were on the warship any more. "Relax," Assured the duke of Kiev, though he looked different perhaps in the void of darkness it was because he appeared paler, or just the raw amount of power. "This is Sol, in its present state, the Drachenorden platforms form perfectly to work in tandem against incursion, and indeed I could should it come to that reach out and cause all manner of cosmic catastrophe to any would be invaders."

Space distorted again, returning to the bridge. No one noticed the black circles rimming the edge of the duke of Kiev's eyes.

Asran surveyed the platform, true using the a third of the currently built Con Rit class destroyers as ships to assist in construction was not exactly appealing but it allowed them to accelerate the building of the habitats once that was done simple enough to drop the project in a Shangri-La to further speed up production, from two decades to twelve years… it was worth it to expend that much energy to create a Shangri-La that big in order to ground build a massive ship, even if said expenditure would knock him out for two to four days and leave him sore, as well as fatigued, for the better part of a month.

So many space projects so little time,

Reich Empire, Dracaena Federal States, Turkey

"What do you mean you lost it!" Roared Arzachel, his father sighed.

"That is something I would rather like to know as well," Remarked the duke of Kiev, though certainly calmer, placing a hand on his son's shoulder, raging would not help the situation. "How is it we have lost a SINEW,"
"I do believe I commented that it was to early to test the alternate FTL drive, but did any one take my advise, what I can tell you is that the ship is in tact," The Mage remarked snidely. "With only moderate damage."
"Yes you did and thankfully we have subspace communication that allows for real time conversations." Asran remarked. "Deploy the Xeno Draco," He stated adopting his 'ruler' voice, "Cancel its current mission or better yet redirect it to explore the area where the signal of the SINEW originates from."

The Admiral snapped to attention. "Yes at once my lord,"
"Well father you'll be pleased to know you were right there is now an insurrection in the wizarding populous of the English Isles," Drawled Arzachel flippantly. "The purebloods are raising an armed fuss in that nation, of course your reforms have eliminated the chance of support coming from Europe, and we all now how the Americans are"

"That is to say nothing of Stalin loyal wizards,"

"Loyal, more like fanatical nuts," Arzachel retorted "The Russian Wizards are all like mental flash clones of Colonel Volgin," The younger duke continued slouching, "Besides not even one of those inbred sycophants would think to ask help from the Russians still to much bad blood between them, and they are communists after all they won't help the 'legitimate' government because of their policies."

The younger Asran was correct, where as the Western Catholic church had been extremely intolerant of magic, the eastern 'Orthodox' church was slightly more benign, the most prominent example being their treatment of Damphir, the only Catholic Church which could be considered more 'magic friendly' was the Coptic church. Further more the West retained its Nobles, something the now Soviet States had done away with… and there were the ideological differences from the western and eastern changes over the years.

The duke of Kiev turned to the display again, this was absurd, if the SINEW hadn't been designed to be self sufficient, as possible, he would have likely mobilized all the present available ships. 'May you live in interesting times, indeed,' He mused, 'pity my powers are limited, but I doubt I could reach out to them so far away even if I did risk drawing the attention of the Court,' the death eyed Knight thought dispassionately.

All in all the need for ships was a necessity, and frankly the duke of Kiev didn't think it would be wise to inform the populous of the planet of a possible impending attack by any number of hostile alien races.

The duke of Kiev didn't wince, he was the Destroyer, a person who could freely pass the gates of the realms, his eyes were death themselves, but there was a high probability that the Goa'uld were the least of their worries, if the previous timeline was an indication, well maybe not it had been a victory if a pyric one.

These reports were concerning and certainly merited investigation but as it stood but as it stood the drachenorden had very few warships available.

Recovery of the SINEW was a priority that was not up for dispute however also not debatable was leaving a possible threat unexplored.

Further more was the resurge in Malaria in the tropics among other diseases. Mlaria was easy enough the EIJ colonies on Java produced supplies of the malaria medicine quinine, and mutagenic phages had been used to exterminate the anopheles mosquito population in place of DDT.

This was raising a fuss over in the Pacific Stats who wanted action from the Order of the Dragon to deal with the disease problem, having both the Malasian Sultans and the Sri Lanka nobles, established after the Reich was finalized, nag about the problem was being a frequent topic amongst the Senate.

The assimilation of magic was proceeding well; albeit the creation of another 'iron curtain' around the Axis as a precautionary measure perhaps was not help diplomatic matters. Magic was supposed to only be used discretely though something slipped through and caused an incident, Gaul with its troublesome, if slowly becoming extinct, resistance was the main such trouble in comparison hampering of integration else where was non existent.

Madagascar's magical population especially was eager to integrate, distancing themselves from the policy of French Overlords, and resisted accordance.

Accordance to the World War II peace treaty a number of former French colonies had been moved into the allied camp, Madagascar was one exception, the Ivory Coast and the nearby nations were firmly in Allied dominion receiving heavy aid to prepare for a possible attack from Axis Carthage. The Nation like Argentina was Dracaena based, though more advanced than its South American Counterpart.

Military theory in the Axis was based along two ideas of development for a nation. Germany Stressed a highly rigid, almost to the point of micro management, structure. While Dracaena in combat, and emergencies dictated commanders had to be flexible and had the authority to act.

These ideas were also reflected in technology; a noticeable example was German Theory Elysium Did not carry Dinar Railgus instead featuring Heavy naval guns which could be outfitted with rocket propelled shells.

Madagascar formed as part of the so called Dracaena sphere, other members of the group included Scandinavia and Hispania as well as Carthage.

The UAS, and ASU were both neutral so to speak while Gaul was merely a puppet for Germanicus, at least since the Paris Insurrection. Egypt tended despite exceptional Orden popularity and the UNIT presence tended to agree in the Senate with Germanicus, perhaps the presence of Romel and his Afrika Corps Headquarters.

Before the union with Germanicus Nationalist Poland had been firmly in that camp as well.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: Oh all those poor stupid Jaffa who are going to die when Apophis shows up in 96, it is 96 isn't it, may be 97, I don't know off hand?

Also the Banshees are different from their, Command and Conquer, inspirations, the biggest difference is their armament and the inclusion of shields.

Like I said more Sci Fi, however after twenty two possibly as soon as the later part of that chapter, unlikely but possible, more earth magical society will show up, particularly because the Axis has reintegrated both societies together, particularly when a wizard from England, well when more show up, shows up and starts seeing dragons in public, or griffins in the case of Germanicus.

Also as I mentioned the US will have varying other units, by the time of the eighties the US, and the rest of the Axis, will have rail guns, albeit they still will be less than equal to early Dinars.

The US will have them on its Metal Gears, and also on its DDX Destroyers, which they'll have operational during the SAU Aggression conflict, the Axis will be mounting them on their medium tanks as well as using them as supplementary weapons for their battleships, as well as larger versions on their Super Heavy Tanks.

Chapter Twenty Four will really get into the initial star gate action if all goes as planned, i.e. the Axis program will get underway... to quote Asran "Finally,"