Chapter 22
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: The devices mentioned below are more like STCs rather than Star Trek devices also remember Dracaena has had functioning nano technology, since the early nineteen fifties, to say nothing of the Drachenorden.
Concerning RA 3 technology see note next chapter
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Chapter Begin
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Introduction
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"The first contact occurred with a hostile alien power occurred, admittedly not the threat I was expecting to encounter.
The Bahamut class 'mother ship' is the largest vessel constructed, admittedly this was made possible by my earlier, previous timeline, knowledge including the Janissary project to an extent, as well as of course in this timeline the off world projects in addition to the expanse of extra dimensional worlds, the most notable example being Aslan and Elysium. The combination of diverting massive amounts of resources which would have otherwise been stockpiled went into the massive fabricators and construction units, these same units which allowed us to build our space ships in several months, though unfortunately most warships for the sea had to be constructed using normal techniques so as to not reveal the technology. With improvements, most impressive those being yielded by the continued cataloguing of the information contained with in Ancient Database as well as the Tacitus device allowed us to build units, which could work on a much larger level to refine metal to the appropriate size to make the hull plates. Considering that it takes approximately Eight months to build an O'neill Cylinder, which is eight kilometers in wide, as opposed to the six months, it takes to construct by traditional means the Con Rit class Destroyer in the seventies. The first Behemoth took fifteen years to construct due to the 'Crusade' and the African Aggression Conflicts.
Admittedly we used similar fabrication technology to construct our weapons, albeit different models, designed specifically to work with magic, this was typically alchemic and runic improvements to the weapons, admittedly because of the autonomous nature of the construction process the magic is not as strong as say if personally refined and crafted by an artisan.
There was also the small matter of the, in addition to the rather hostile first contact and construction projects, Pureblood revolt in England. This lasted until my present incarnation was 'born' so to speak, and at that point things began to be troublesome for me, having to fragments of your soul in two separate states of consciousness caused problems but that was all resolved on a fateful October no one but the English cared to remember, just as I had hoped.
But in the previous timeline things were different, I do not deny my intellect, or my ability, in the previous time line I did a great many things including the creation of a functioning weapons grade Tesla system at age eleven, the creation of a sentient machine race, admittedly perhaps something that would make many people nervous, the one thing I learned is power with out purpose leads to a path of destruction and entropy. As fact humanity was forced to learn, grievously.
My final stronghold was in the end neither Kiev nor Targoviste but located in the desert of Arabia in what had been at one time been a Goa'uld lab, though most of it was to badly damaged to be of much use, admittedly my knowledge of the language was not acquired until this timeline.
Humanity was winning, but it would be a pyhric one. Ah but that history is irrelevant, only its results matter, and preventing the last one.
Admittedly I had desired to arrive early enough to prevent world war two however the fact was that would only have been possible if I had stopped world war one's unfavorable outcome due to the Versailles treaty. So things went a head with plan b so to speak.
By seventy two the guerilla conflict was mostly over in Vietnam, the Americans were, mostly due to their media coverage and upsurge in liberalism, demoralized, the mainstay of the fights were between military forces on the front line.
With the semi resurgence of the English Empire, it was expected that if they took charge Vietnam would become a crown colony, something neither the Empire of Imperial Japan or the Asiatic National States would be pleased about, and would likely go to war, to say nothing about what that would do once the US pulled out.
Meanwhile in sub Saharan Africa a region widely ignored in the previous timeline, began to become extremely powerful, cities were built, and with by the time of nineteen sixty nine had atomic bombs equivalent to those used against Hiroshima in the previous timeline.
Detonating a nuke, or several, as a prelude to war against your northern neighbor and then rush through and veritably enslave and or massacre the population, or attempt, is a good way to get the attention of the other world powers.
However due to certain problems we didn't pay much attention other than the Allies equipping their future member, the Soviets did nothing, mainly because they had no reason to, the Axis, primarily the UAS, Carthage and Madagascar all began to build up not particularly surprising considering the 'manifest destiny' the SAU claimed. Had Hitler survived to see this he probably would have just ordered a flight of Germanicus long range bombers to nuclear carpet bomb the 'subhuman menace' into their proper place, i.e. extinct, Donitz authorized the build up of naval power in the region, particularly the expansion of Madagascar's fleet, especially after the SAU's attempt to blockade, which resulted in said fleet beating the Union's navy.
Speaking of Donitz he particularly, well lacked Hitler's drive for space colonization, he did however fully support the space program.
Exploring new worlds, building the colonies through the stargate was one such doing of such tasks, the 'crusade' as many with in the order term it, which I always find surprising especially considering the fact its used by all members, given the presence of Muslims recruited both from the UAS and Axis Oceania, Dracaena Malay for example.
But alas the battle, the stepping back to that world, did come so begin the crusade. Elysium is or was at the time a world stuck many years in the past despite it being centuries older than earth, due to the fact time moves faster naturally over their, seconds like in Aslan, in our world can be years over their a month in our world is a hundred over their, in my youth I spent years, in our world, over there, the previous timeline's conquest of Elysium cost many lives, both human and Janissary.
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely, I disagree arrogant I may have been in my youth, arrogant enough to breath life in not one but several races, foolish enough to challenge, admittedly I won but not the point, the king of the Djinn, to say nothing of my conflict with Bahamut.
Elysium, after words I began my other studies, I seeded the janissary with a burst of power through the void, but as far as Elysium went the world a mix of ancient Greek but more so than that like the world of Aslan featured knights and other warriors of what we would term ancient warriors, living on a world alongside magical creatures, I would not be caught unprepared this time, the Tarrasque would not catch us this time, I am not some unprepared child this time around, though I was still annoyed but she did bring up a good point."
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Reich Empire, Dracaena, Imperial Duchy of Kiev
Asran looked at the Gate, energy flared underneath his flesh, the armor hummed in response, beside the Duke of Kiev the duke of Moldova, Arzachel Asran smirked, he always found it terribly amusing to see his father's anger flare to the surface directed at something. After all the death eyed knight had become so 'mellow' since the wars.
His father sent him a chastising glare, it wasn't proper for him to smirk so, Asran, the senior, stepped forward and through the gate hundreds of knights would soon follow, dressed in similar armor complete with full trench coats, swords hung at their sides, pistols and rifles, knives, all were armed.
In front of the gate were other things, armored vehicles, a group of Aria II tanks, the super heavy variant of the standard Aria Main Battle, though to the other governments it, the regular Aria Main Battle Tank, was considered a super heavy tank in its own right.
The distortion of space and energy flowed across his skin, the duke of Kiev watched as the Drachenorden base outside the Imperial Duchy of Kiev vanished replaced by the golden fields, which haunted the grandmaster's dreams.
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Elysium, The world
Asran watched as the tower was established it would allow communication to the earth, of course considering the time dilation on the other side it probably wouldn't be needed, there were of course issues on this side which would need to be addressed, his head turned to the rolling land below.
"Initial command center is set up lord Asran." Announced a colonel.
The duke of Kiev gave the barest of nods as he stared at the horizon, the expanse laid out before him.
The death eyed knight let the air blow across the un aging skin of his face, how many sunsets, how many sunrises how many lives born, more importantly how many deaths were caused here.
"So I was thinking father," Drawled the younger Asran snapping his father from his, pointless as Arzachel saw them, musings. "How exactly are we going to divide this up, militarily and politically," He inquired smugly.
Asran did not answer.
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Well that had been an utter chore in and of itself. Arzachel was slouching near by sipping a glass of wine.
The invasion had gone smoothly at least, the world was even more chaotic than it had been in the previous time line, which admittedly would be more than ten thousand years due to the difference in time flow.
That issue also was going to need to be addressed as well. "At least you don't have to waste three and a quarter centuries figuring everything out," Drawled the duke of Moldova.
Admittedly he had time back then there hadn't been any pressing issues to hurry along and discover.
Of course the resources of the world would be a useful advantage, especially considering the world couldn't be assailed by alien threats like a colony could be.
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Drachenorden Third sphere colony Talos First Contact Scenario, O'neill cylinder CIC
"Deploy Light Wings," Ordered the XO of the Orbital Platform, the first ship imploded on contact with the extra dimensional energy the projectors moved searing through a second ship resulting in similar explosion.
"Munitions one to twenty were successful in overwhelming enemy shields." Announced the tactical coordination officer.
An FTL burst signaled the arrival of a cruiser weight vessel.
The Order of the Dragon warship fired, eight Dinar turrets spat slugs at a fraction of the speed of light.
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Reich Empire, Dracaena Federal States, Ukraine, Imperial Duchy of Kiev
Arzachel
crossed his arms of his chest, "We were attacked,"
"I am
aware, and the enemy was slaughtered," Asran responded to his son
flatly.
"Your father is correct," Isaac agreed grounding his cigarillo out, "We won handily with barely any losses to our fighters, we have bolstered defenses."
"In the mean time we have political matters," Asran remarked perusing the file. The attack was surprising but it did prove the ships were capable of dealing with threats in theory the advancements to the original first contact, should it even occur this time around, would be even more powerful
Most of the nations, outside the Axis included, were significantly augmenting the defenses and production of at least three of their major cities, Culaich in Gaul was already significantly well defended. The rail gun emplacements capable of decimating any missile or spaceship in the sky, and of course splitting a ship in the channel in half was easy, to say nothing of its anti ground capabilities.
Paris and Marseilles counsels were demanding to be improved; the uprising in Paris and the radical Amazon attack; respectively had merited that, meaning they were applying for Axis Aide.
Germanicus would have the largest bill, of course.
Though Russia was improving a lot of their cities, though still was directing a large amount of its resources to its military, as well. The Axis Senate were passing a large number of research projects to. With the resources of the off world set up at least it wouldn't be as expensive, though the surplus would not be as high.
The Asiatic States Union were using the opportunity to build up on the borders of the Allies Indochina territories, which was making the Allies nervous.
The duke of Kiev pushed the security file away as some one knocked on the door,
"They're early." Isaac commented.
Arzachel just scowled as the aide de camp entered. "Lord Asran the ambassador has arrived"
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The myth about embassies was merely propaganda, for the most part, located near the Tumen river near the border with the USSR and ASU China was one such parts of the propaganda that was true.
The fortress city had been built in fifty five the almost crystalline appearance of the central buildings like Culaich and at the same time unlike it.
The rail gun base admittedly did feature similar design features, however Culaich was under the government of Gaul. This city was not under the authority of the IJN, but then again Culaich had not been basically built from scratch.
The Drachenorden autonomous city sometime referred to as the city of the Crossing Dragon, due to it being built over the river.
The inclusion of the dragon was not decidedly untrue as a dragon warren was present in the central portion of the city inhabited by the most intelligent breed of dragons, so naturally locals in the country did sea the dragons from time to time.
Similar cities, autonomous, like Hong Kong in the ASU as well as those in Hispania as well as the city in the UAS, Madagascar, Egypt, Germanicus and the one under construction in the newly stabilized Argentina, now with an Axis Friendly, particularly Drachenorden, government.
Military things were progressing on all sides, and with the Oil fields of the UAS firmly in Axis hands well it wasn't going to be pleasant, not that trade was not fair, at the moment.
The US had set upon the path and like the other sides alleviated the power supply problem for its cities and such but even so that still left vehicles and fighters and such to be run on fossil fuels there was further complicating foreign policy the matter of Cuba.
America's own imperialists wanted the island nation annexed into the US and of course there was the growing strife south of the border.
However for the duke of Kiev there was also the recovery of the SINEW subspace communication indicated that it was still functioning and that the malfunction of the new FTL drive had not been totally catastrophic still the reports the SINEW had sent of its sensors detecting large quantities of electromagnetic radiation was troubling.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: A Con Rit Dinar XVII are capable of propelling a 10 kilogram slug to .6 the speed of light, combined with the fact they fire such slugs in groups of fifty.
And yes the Tarrasque is basically the same creature as DD lore.
Also more allied Reaction as they begin to become suspicious of the Grand Master of the Order of the Dragon. Though they are going in the wrong direction so to speak
As for Russia when the Soviet Union collapses I'm tempted to have it break apart, and Dracaena taking several republics in a pseudo recreation of Kievan Rus.
Basically the Revolution which dissolves the Soviet Union will go one of a couple ways, most definitely occurring will be the armed civil war in which Dracaena, being the most immediate neighbor, and other Axis states deploy peacekeepers.
After this Russia will go through political turmoil as it attempts to restructure, Germanicus will attempt to reestablish the nobility and certain Russian Federal Subjects will break off to join the Drachenorden govern Dracaena Federal States, more than likely Russia will be reformed under a rather puppet Tsar, ala Pope Alessandro of Trinity Blood would be a good example, or Russia will receive a strong leader who will more than likely be a warlord –esque figure who will try expand, but not expand to far and other Soviet Republics, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, will be subsumed into the new Russian Empire
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As for the Future Moderate looks to have won, so I'll go ahead and start some of the political issues Donitz is far nicer than Hitler so some states will switch over to Dracaena from Germanicus.
In addition interruptions will start flaring up soon.
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