Chapter 23
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 lunar landing will be interesting, cause at the moment the world has no idea the Drachenorden is building a lunar colony, well except for Grindelwald and Donitz, or obviously the Drachenorden.
Seeing as more than one person has asked about the internal politics I gave out some info in this chapter.
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Chapter Begin
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England's imperial desires were becoming quite the annoyance; mused the duke of Kiev softly to himself.
They were moving seriously into Cambodia and the so called Vietnam war beginning to get severely out of hand infecting Laos or rather the mountains which separated the two territories, of course the Americans had due to Laos indeed being land locked built a fairly impressive railroad network and rendered massive upgrades to infrastructure.
However there were still factions in the other two factions of Indochina supporting the Vietminh, especially in Cambodia where attempts by the British it as under the dominion of the crown were rife.
South Vietnam was ahem civilized of course the northern region was anything but, and the fires set by the Americans was not helping at all.
Asran pushed the file out of his way;
Enlgand's other world was becoming an equal nuisance it appeared as if and by all that it likely, Dumbledore shortly after the botched end of world war II's magical campaign had set up a dark lord to run amok in the British Isles in order to gain political power of course the shut off from the Empire had dampened the UK's economy.
Well at least the magical one, the regular world was trading with the sole 'democratic' power in Africa and the United States.
The Magical World was proving to be troublesome even with the isolation the idea of course was to strangle their economy in the event of another war involving both sides, it wasn't subtle by any means but it mattered little in this case.
Meanwhile the USSR was, for once listening to, optimizing its economy building a series of railways, or improving the old one, which all intersected a Moscow, Stalingrad, seeing as it hadn't been affected by the war as it had in the last time line, and Leningrad among other improvements which greatly improved the rather inefficient system, though in the end it would not prevent the revolution from occurring, of course that was not known after all things had changed.
Influence by the orden was up but that was to be expected given recent events, and their effectiveness.
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Axis Empire, Europe, Kingdom of Germanicus, Central Germanicus, Germany, Berlin, Axis Headquaters
Asran stared at his paternal grandfather. Jeremiah 'Jerry' Potter had served during the first world war where Dumbledore had become a rising star; also said Headmaster of the UK responsible for the Zimmerman telegraph.
The negotiations would inevitably reach the point where one side would continue to push for access to more of the raw materials and the other side would refuse.
England would at said point throw a hissy fit at being denied from the markets of Europe; of course the wizards of the United Kingdom could try and trade with the Americans however this was unlikely to suit the English because of both political and Economic differences, as well as ego issues.
Of course this would stunt the UK's already medieval magical economy, again it wasn't subtle but that was never the intention.
Albeit Asran would never openly admit the Potter's were one of the major internal suppliers of magical resources with in England and that after the fall of Voldemort well it would be simple to seize the assets, callous perhaps but it was a necessity to prevent resources from falling into enemy hands… not that he'd ever have a need for the money he never had the need to use even a fraction of the substantial wealth he had brought with him from the previous timeline, then again he hadn't needed the money in the previous timeline not with the state of the world.
The discussions were continuing of course shortly as part of the summit they would be moving to Dracaena, first to Kiev and then to Turkey the latter for some ridiculous peace space nonsense, which would probably get delayed again, the Americans had apparently managed to blow up another of their spacecraft on the landing pad, now if he could keep Arzachel and the certain others from making an incident over it.
Goring and Himmler among them, the two were chatting far to amiably for the duke of Kiev to be confident that they would not guard their tongue, or at least Goring.
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Asran was considered a bit of a mystery, even by his own people, as technically his life span did make him a tad on the old side, the fact Elysium like Aslan time passed much quicker than in the normal reality but that was a fact of magical sub realities.
The veil of mysticism, which seemed to enshroud him and the Order began with the massive constructs and successful campaign in the second world war.
His own rising power amongst the Axis was considered both positive and negative by observers. In dracaena and other 'Drachen Sphere' regions his words were held as tantamount to law.
In the new Reich knights and nobility wielded palpable influence and minor, those orders who were not the Drachenorden, and Major, the drachenorden, which was considered the Primary Major orden, and its Axis counter parts by which other analysts considered the SS and Thule Society to also be amongst the Major, were all considered direct ties to the Duke of Kiev, by the dictations of the Reich's founding, though it was not a power which had been expressed directly in a military fashion however...
Abuse of one's power was frowned upon, and was resultant if caught and it usually was with harsh discipline. The Federal Senate, of Dracaena, was elected of course seeing as Asran view was basically undisputed, to some annoyance of the Death eyed knight, going against that opinion meant going against public opinion which usually meant losing the next election.
The varying high level civilian ministers served six year terms after which progress was evaluated though they typically performed well.
The Dracaena armed forces like the government civilian branch was under Asran's direct command, which linked them to the Drachenorden.
All of this was perhaps as far as democracy went these days, nobility, or rather the upper class in general, in most other states held pretty much undisputed power.
It would seem that the blue white scale dragon had decided to perch itself upon the great elongated dome of the building.
If the duke of Kiev had an explanation he did not see the need to give it, the ball was held at the palace, admittedly this was mainly used for the civilian ministers, Asran himself typically worked from the Drachenorden Headquarters, in Kiev, so the Axis, and even the Amazons, were all quite used to the monstrous lizards for the English however well the muggle and the wizard were surprised, though the prior seemed to have been aware of the Dragon's existence, though Asran had suppressed such knowledge to an extent.
The members of the Order of the Dragon who were quite used to such behavior paid it only the minimal attention.
The English Prime Minster had gaped and pointed a bit, blinked repeatedly and gestured mutely until Donitz after a moment or two assured him such occurrences were quite normal and acceptable with in the empire, and that there was no danger from Order's namesake creature.
Strangely this did very little to allay the pm's concern, when questioned about the matter of the Statute of Secrecy. Grindelwald had remarked in an amused tone that the outdated nonsense was unnecessary within the Empire.
The Death eyed knight sipped his wine as Hakon talked about the new hydro electric energy project using tidal movements; officially the Jarls and kings of the North state swore the same oath of loyalty to the empire as the other nobility appointed did, unofficially like the other Dracaena sphere nations they swore fealty to the time traveler Frederick Asran, Harry Potter by his Christian Name, the Duke of Kiev.
He was not concerned with the dragon, at the moment the preparations for this whole rally were in place it should relieve tension and that was what was keeping the main portion of his attention.
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The death eyed knight did not scar easily, of course he still wore covering clothes. The scar he did bare were not necessarily disfiguring either appearing they were generally small a benefit from the time traveler's immortality as well as the fact the majority of the scars were puncture wounds.
The international gathering the previous evening had gone smoothly, ignoring of course the dragon perching on the roof.
Asran fastened the Weyland forged blade, his other typical attire, undershirt, shirt, slacks, undercoat already donned.
The Allied dignitaries would be taking a trip to the Cosmic Observation Center in Dracaena Turkey, accompanied of course by the Axis representatives.
The trip had been mandated due to fact of the space programs but more so the anomaly of radiation and energy, and UFO sightings, which would make the oblong sphere shaped SINEW very suspicious when it was disclosed.
The high speed, clocking in at three hundred kilometers an hour, monorails which linked the federal states, besides the more mundane rail Highway system: which linked the Empire was still going as planned admittedly there was still one issue that being linking the overseas, mainly Japan and Carthage to the rest of the Axis.
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Technology was progressing heartily on all sides, now if only another war didn't break out this could be a good thing.
For the late sixties things were already getting busily advanced.
Japan, for whatever reason, was already on their way to having fractal edged high vibration blades, a similar thing could be said for the United States this intelligence indicated.
The fact earth now had space ships made for war meant the Damnation may not occur, albeit Asran would admit the vessels were his as were the platform which guarded the solar system.
Both sides, well actually everyone, were busy building large ships, which had never been seen in the previous timeline, sea faring ships in this case.
Though for the most part everything continued on track as it were for tech development in the civilian sector, well in as much as it could.
The US was
building large scale drilling platforms, to some concern of the
liberal population primarily of the West Coast.
What idiots, he
mused distastefully.
As it stood Dracaena was presently under no major strain. Germanicus had some minor issues on the social front. Gaul was more directly suffering from its catholic population, and the Paris Insurrection, but for the most part Germanicus was keeping the Holy See weak and ineffectual.
The UAS was working out the problems between the two factions of Islam and of course its own internal development. The ASU however was currently suffering under a dilemma of its own. The union was quite religiously diverse thus posing one issue, furthermore the railways meant to link the Reich was behind schedule; the fact was the ASU covered quite simply a vastly large area and it was divided along provincial lines there was also the different languages to consider.
IN the Empire of Imperial Japan they were eagerly awaiting the allies to slip up so they could further expand their territory; since even with Korea, Manchuria and Taiwan they had few problems at present.
Hispania and Scandinavia were apart of the so called Dracaena sphere, the later literally connected to Dracaena by a heavily armored undersea channel built during the early stages of project Avalon. Hispania had subsumed Portugal some two decades earlier with the formation of the Empire; this had some issues
South America was bluntly a mess several communists 'governments' were attempting to attain power, Venezuela having been successful, the US did not appreciate that.
Furthermore the USSR relations remained immensely strained, with the Allies, there was also the deteriorating relations with the Empire of Imperial Japan as well as the ASU with said prior power, even in the event of the American's failure Russia or rather the USSR would have to continue with influence from the ASU in the Allied Indochina.
Though the USSR had consolidated their hold and boosted their resource ability the development of Siberia being a key part in that they still had a critical problem when it came to food production.
There were also the issues with in sub Saharan Africa, the current expansion of authoritarian regime there, was dismissed as nothing to be terribly concerned about, stated the Senate, after all their technology was little better than outdated soviet technology and bits of world war II stuff, again the senate's opinion,
They were more concern with the continent's newest Allied power of which was hosting a large US base now under construction.
The US had been avid in complaining about Cuba but now had nuclear missiles in Africa, of course with several red states possibly on the rise south of the border and Mexico teetering ever nearer to being on the verge of total civil war it could be minorly understood, the later had even resulted in spilling over on the US side something the 'Free World' Eagle was less than pleased about.
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Asran's trip to Beijing had not exactly been the usual same old same old.
The last Emperor of China had been deposed in 1912 after which a republic had been set up however the nation quickly dissolved into many pieces with some surprise and no small amount of trepidation in the west.
Unlike in the previous timeline the blitz through India to link up with the Japanese this timeline's eastern front as it were, had been immensely efficient the SS and Drachenorden intelligence arms had dealt with the major revolutionaries and restored stability and in the process pro German feelings.
Of course China and India were now disagreeing Imperialists in China wanted a new emperor, where they intended to find one Asran didn't want to know. India's Muslim and Hindu populations disagreed however it seemed they would loose considering the other ASU members those in Indochina seemed to be agreeing with the Imperialists.
That could pose a problem to inter Axis relations after all was the Emperor was someone who had the 'mandate of heaven' subject to heed the instructions of the Reich chancellor, it was a valid question.
Officially however the duke of Kiev had merely been present to oversea the return of some of China's historical artifacts, and it wasn't completely untrue.
Unofficially the death eyed knight was examining to see what if any were the chances of the disagreements escalating for now it appeared it was merely words.
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North America, United States, Commonwealth of Virginia, Langley
Germanicus was warlike, and the Reds obviously couldn't be trusted but there was a more pressing issue: Dracaena.
Jacob Forest, son of a certain naval admiral who had been present at a certain peace treaty was a part of an allied group dedicated to unraveling the mystery surrounding the Dragon State. As such he was privy to quite a few highly classified secrets, magic being one of the lower of such secrets.
Two pictures, one black and white the other in color, one from thirty years ago and the other from two weeks ago, that's what held his interest, what held him and his compatriots' attention.
Asran wasn't aging, or if he was it was at an immensely slow rate.
"There were
records to indicated when he had been born and very few historical
mentions from the time period of the last public Order of the
Dragon." Commented a light skinned African.
"He's mentioned,
or at least we assume its him," Remarked a brit,
"Mentioned
in passing in a document from Kievan Russia," The older man paused,
as he brought up a picture of Gram, "His sword is particularly
interesting given the legendary connotations, do you know the
national hero of Germany?"
"Sigmund or Siggard or something
right?" Remarked Forest grasping for the name of the Nibelung's
hero.
"Gram is another name for Balmung as in the sword of Sigfried,"
One of the officers chuckled, "Well that's easy enough to explain he likes opera," The Australian joked.
"This is no laughing matter," Snapped the head spook. "Asran has proven capable of taking a bullet through the throat and being still fighting fit, not someone who can be taken lightly." He growled, "as for the sword considering its able to produce several high energy magical effects…"
"We also have to worry about those damned orbital monstrosities," Commented another of the intelligence community leaders.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: As stated last chapter on the matter of Red Alert Three technology the fourth world war of the RA verse will not occur, obviously, that said the technology or some of it exists, Empire of the Rising Sun is Japan they do have Shinobi troops and similar vessels though the Naginata is a cruiser carrier hybrid for example, however as far as appearance goes they are a bit more serious than the latest CC games would portray, most assuredly the idea of a robot like the king oni will not be present at least not in that form.
Also the use of Amphibious warships is ludicrous so that will not be present either, now the allied land battleship might have such capabilities but that will be mid eighties which is almost twenty years off.
I'll go through my notes for the story and draw up a force list/warbook/codex kind of thing if people want.
This stated Part II starts with twenty four, concerning it, well it will focus on further tech development, the next major world conflict involving the world powers, I even threw in a little friendly duel, ah any way it does mean I'll have to sit down and type though since I haven't started typing any of it.
Feedback is welcome.
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