Scepter of Darkness Chapter 27, a harry potter fanfic

Chapter 27

Scepter of Darkness

Summary: Part II: Time has been traversed, the aversion to the damage of the future has changed history. The Empire has risen under the Dragon's wings. The Alliance has been formed riding on Eagle's watchful gaze. The Union is strengthening with the Bear holding vigil.

Helltanz's notes: Alright I was planning to wait before posting this so I could finish rewrites for chapter three but Michael1 asked so here you go.

Okay thing to get to the point at this point the Orden is more or less capable of understanding the technology of the ancients (stargate). Also besides being time travelers and having access to magical worlds where time flows slower they're generally quite technologically advanced.

Hence why I gave the Allies more alien technology, as well as giving them and the Soviet forces their Red Alert goodies among other things, no cloning as of yet.

I didn't want to completely wank thinks even though given that timetravel is involved I have all rights to do so, so had the SINEW blow its new type FTL, which kind of led to last chapter's side story.

Forget it here is the next chapter

Chapter Begin

Right now things were particularly troublesome, like the Axis the Allies were not with out their problems nor were the Soviets. In the case of the Allies the Americans were busy dealing with internal matters concerning race as well as communist supported rebels in their newly gained region of Mexico, while the English were cracking down not only on the Irish but also on the overseas territories.

There was also the matter of the proxy wars to consider in regards to the new problem that had arisen as of late. Those conflicts between Soviet backed communists and the forces of the Allies in Vietnam and the nations South of the United States was the expanse up for grabs.

Venezuela for example was red as blood, while Panama was firmly held by the US, in that case however that was due to the substantial military presence at the canal. Mainly the former Spanish territories were disputed.

Argentina was one of the only Reich States, boasting ties to Dracaena and by proxy the order of the Dragon. To be frank the Argentine military swore fealty to Asran himself and their equipment reflected this, to the other states and their overlords, both capitalist and communist, this was a worry that could be a potential problem.

The Duke of Kiev hoped the proxy wars and their own home issues would keep the Allies out, aggression was unlikely but certain factions within the US and UK were not exactly the most sound minds.

Though Arzachel's previous actions did worry him some. The duke of Moldova's supporters had carried out the conquest of Uruguay, admittedly the seizure had held populous support but nonetheless it was worrying. The nation was possessing little in the way of mineral resources. Furthermore Arzachel had outright obliterated the opposition in conjunction with native allies by bringing in draconists, while this was undeniably standard policy it would still worry the allies or the soviets.

In any case the knights under his command had almost immediately begun construction of immense building projects, hydroelectric dams, and roads. brought in advanced farm equipment and such. The actions, not so much the economic ones, were worrying for the stability of the region.

In other news the populous of the British Empire had renewed their sense of Imperialism, a trait pervading some Americans, and their was also that nation's so called Monroe Doctrine, which disliked movements into the southern continent.

In Africa French and Portuguese well besides the Axis portion of the continent had basically been condemned to be all but forbidden, with the 'exception' being the enclaves of refugees, and in the SAU had been just that in that there were laws forbidding the 'inferior languages.'

The Allies with their removal from Europe had significantly increased their forces in other areas to compensate for this shift in power. Of course such was to be expected as the German Blitz had annihilated the Allies on the Western Front.

As a part of this strategy the allies had poured into by Allied Industrial groups, one would have thought this would do something to help the poverty, in most cases however it did not.

Businesses were Foreign owned and with the largest exception being Liberia, which for whatever reason the American's for some reason considered the population as part of their own, as exemplified by the rather 'loud' dispute between the US and the UK when the later had attempted to move in a way which was typical of their methods in other parts of the region.

The presence of the United States, as well as the UK, however was quite peaceful in the region especially when compared to Vietnam's northern quadrant. These build ups since after the Declaration of Peace had been signed starting small and progressing from there had yielded a great amount of economic energy. The projects allowed the building of modern weapons of war, tanks aircrafts, guns etcetera in the Allies region.

Carthage, Egypt, and the UAS had with project Genesis gained additional farmland besides the sea region and the fertile river regions which had been developed as such in the past, though there only other major development was to the oil and natural gas deposit sites, meaning that the WANS was just as developed, though less specialized, from an economic standpoint. This was in part due to the greater mineral resources, though the three Axis States did have high tourism trades, if that meant anything.

Arzachel's use of the ADORE as skillful as it had been had allowed the UAS a decisive first victory and earned the younger time traveler a rather imposing moniker. The duke of Moldova had been nicknamed Azrael or among others, though the intention was the same, the Angel of Death. The mark would most likely stick, Arzachel alongside Radu had lead the dragon forces amongst the Afrika Campaign though the fighting in India had received more coverage and Rommel had gotten a lion's share of the fanfare in Africa by the European nations of the axis, but in any case all of them had gained significant status amongst the UAS, ASU, Carthage and Egypt.

"Tovares," The later pressed of the commanders, the azure haired master vampire inquired to the leader of the order of the dragon.

The other time traveler paused before responding. "Radu, take the Dragoons and secure the Egyptian flank. Arzachel has a penchant for being rash that time has surprisingly yet to cure him of." The Baron of Luxor nodded in response.

The Dragoons as their name might imply were the heaviest of the highly mobile forces outside the UNIT amongst the Drachenorden ground forces. Among the more common weapons in their arsenal were heavy versions of the Aria tank and in addition the command of the AC, or at least the mark 1 of that weapon system, would fall to this branch of course those units. Of course those units currently weren't available to the point the rest of the Axis didn't even know about them.

Not that Asran would have little qualms about amending that fact if the situation were to call for it.

However the region that in the previous timeline that would have been known as the nation of Chad, while officially now part of the Allies sphere by way of the West African Nationalist State, the SAU had and the certain regions of populous held closely related ideologies. Border incidents with Carthage had been rather common till the border build up by both Governments.

As is stood the shifting of the drachenorden forces in the UAS and Carthage shouldn't influence much on that side of things.

The fact was poverty or otherwise even with the mandatory military service millions were under arms in the SAU, well the Axis could only deploy so much in response money was another thing, the technology of the SAU was fairly uh inexpensive, even if it was inefficient in addition they made up for it by having hordes of it.

In that regard the slabs of metal they called tanks proved that point, they could be fairly cheaply produce such a weapons and they worked, and could in theory survive on the modern battlefield and possibly win.

Despite progress in modernizing the regions there was still a large number of tribal style arrangements in the African Regions of the Reich. This could potentially be quite a problem; in that Imperial, Reich, Forces would have problems organizing a serious defense outside of the cities.

Axis troops would have to be brought in from the surrounding area, and that was the best case scenario, worse case scenario more troops would need to be deployed from more states, probably the ANS. He would pass along that they begin doing the appropriate preparatory drills as a preemptive preparation to that kind of deployment.

The time traveler turned, with any luck, which he did expect to have any, this would be relatively short campaign. Whatever happened it would given the orden a chance to try out some more weapon systems they had developed in the time since the last major conflict they had been seriously involved in.

Military preparation was underway unlike in the previous timeline where the victors of world war two had attempted to carve out a Jewish state, which had thus greatly angered the Muslims who inhabited the region the Axis had let the UAS have a great deal of autonomous rule.

In the aftermath of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the first world war of mankind had allowed the English and French to have their way including the leading of more Jews into the region of British Palestine a problem that a certain Grand Mufti wanted dealt with, and eventually it had been to an extent both in the way that the Axis had wanted and in evacuations sponsored by the Allies and left unmolested by Romel and the forces in charge of the Middle East Campaign.

There were however issue Ibn Saud the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had been an ally of the British as such while Operation Midgarsormir had been ongoing a second military operation was launched to secure the rest of the oil rich Arabian Peninsula and prevent aid from reaching the allies during the war.

However seizing the whole peninsula had another reason other than simply denying the oil to the allies. No the Axis war machine needed to be fed and what better way to feed the immense beast and keep the supply chain moving than a rapid development of infrastructure in such a well endowed region.

As a result this economic build up led to even greater popular support amongst the population especially as the big wigs in Berlin did not seem like colonial overseers but rather as liberators who did come through on their promises for self rule.

With populous support now achieved, and in addition to endorsements by influential clerics the Axis had achieved the foundation a solid partner to the south. An Ally that quickly began the process of training and supplying troops to the war in favor of the Axis cause.

Once the support became apparent the North African campaign quickly began to take a turn for the worse in regards to the Allies.

From there the British and Free French troops began to falter and loose control and in a rapidly deteriorating manner one not helped by the arrival of Romel's Afrika Corp, as well as additional Orden forces, newly trained and highly motivated native troops who were eager to see the colonial overseers out, and what was worse battalions belonging to the Waffen SS. This combined force of arms proved the final death knell for the Allies presence in North Africa.

At that point in time Hitler began to feel that some divine entity was guiding the success of the Reich and began to spout off ideas of the Reich ruling supreme, of course he had thought pretty much all along but this was 'concrete' proof in his opinion.

In the aftermath of the Second World War this was realized in the finalization of the Axis in to a super nation state. The UAS was formed in the Middle East and as promised in the early days of World War II they were allowed almost total self government, and thus the reason that Middle East was in a much better position over all.

Right now the nation states were gearing up to supply troops and resources to their holdings on the African continent as well as reinforce other Axis territories on the continent to assist in the defense against the 'Southern Barbarians'.

Once again populous support was behind the cause that the Axis Senate was calling for to be addressed by force of arms. On the home front particularly in regions in the east the people were calling for a swift and decisive punitive strike to be carried out, this is due mostly to worries about the USSR possibly trying to do something.
Though such an attempt would be unlikely, in the minds of military analysts, due to the buffer ring formed by the bulk of the ANS, as well as the European buffer forces.

Whatever the case hopefully Xeno Draco would manage to retrieve SINEW III and return the flying war machine to Humanity's cradle in time for the unveiling. They weren't deemed necessary for the coming campaign but the SAU were choosing an interesting path when it came to development of technology.

The initial counter attack had gone well enough until the suicide bombings had started of course, Chad as feared erupted and the trucks loaded with bombs hit 'civilized' locations belonging to both super power alliances.

Of course as of yet the Allies had no desire to get involved. So thus they had simply cracked down on 'Chad' exasperating the situation there to a degree.

Albeit the tactic had begun to falter once the Axis saw it enter use in fact the use had enraged the Reich, not just the Arabs and others affected directly.

The Empire of Imperial Japan had ordered their new air warships to be sent. Donitz however would not deploy Germanicus's two Sturms, not yet anyway probably waiting for the third one to be finished, the Orgel were also being with held by order of the, a order that would not do him many favors when it finally spread via word of mouth amongst the populous, Minister of the Interior, both of which were indisputably faster than the Japanese battleship.

Other issues included the Royal colony of Kenya, which belonged to Great Britian, at the port of Mombassa was held a US military base for there over which they had invested large amounts of capital and industry to defend the nation against the Axis States, in this case the UAS to the North.

The invasion of UAS Sudan was worrying because the SAU had ignored the British colony, not completely there were harassment attacks, but there had been no conventional troops, of course this wasn't immediately a pressing issue, though the English were moving in troops to secure the colony to address the issue.

What was were the human wave tactics the SAU were still with in the borders. The insurrection earlier had probably been an attempt to rouse up popular support for the SAU in preparation for the invasion, this had failed as only a handful of rebels had opposed the Axis while the mainstay of the populous supported the Reich.

Asran dispatched his orders, these nuisances could not be allowed to continue to impede the preparations to develop mankind.

Dracaena and the drachenorden primarily relied on its multi role fighters, however the bombers in their arsenal were hypersonic beasts launched from bases or from Zilant class super carriers.

BC 1 was an immense Dart shaped monster powered by solenoid engines it was capable of mach eleven, had inertial dampeners and carried 100 000 lbs of bombs or missiles at standard combat load, of course this included its anti fighter armaments, defended and aided by powerful avionics. The monstrosities served in a similar if vastly improved capacity as the previous timelines Hercules Gunship.

"Launch." Within minutes the immense war birds had taken flight into the sky. The Duke of Kiev turned deploying the SINEW the option would need to be weighed. It may have been deemed overkill but… These people were simply far to trigger happy when it came to using nuclear weapons.

This would mark the first full combat use of the BC 1. They were simply not needed in Korea, and in that conflict hadn't been totally ready.

At the moment there were more pressing issue to deal with bombing runs would help but not completely deal with the problems. Assuming the invasion of Kenya came they would need to watch the allies. Of course the same would be accomplished if the SAU invaded to the West it would draw the Allies into the conflict one the Axis's side, though it was unlikely the two great Alliances would work well together.

Grizzly tanks were already on the scene at the borders, the product of the Union of Allied corporations the Allied Main Battle tank was easily able to be mass produced and was cost effective, it was exceptionally fast, with a top off road speed of fifty miles an hour, of course this advantages came at a price it was when compared to other regular weight main battle tanks, i.e. Germanicus and the Soviet Union, the new Tiger III, or T 65 Rhino respectively was audaciously under armored for a tank of course the allies were preaching mobility and production ability for their main forces.

The American M 3 Basilisk mounted a pair of massive guns, admittedly the machine was less imposing than German Super Heavy tanks, which carried cruiser grade guns, but the Basilisk mounted a pair of M61 Vulcan auto cannons for close in support. Meaning it had excellent protection against aircraft and light armor, or infantry.

Asran smirked the Aria held the firepower and range with its Dinar and S2 engines. The next tank of the order of the Dragon was already producing the final model would be done in six to eight months.

Of course the design would like the AC frame M 1 would need sometime to be produced before it would see deployment.

Air prower brought up an issue as well Germanicus simply could not deploy its Orgels with only eight, all under the jurisdiction of the SS. They 'needed' to remain behind , of Japan's six air battleships three were being dispatched, despite some worries it was two early for such a deployment.

The third Axis group well fourth really the third in order of development, the Thule Society and had decided to deploy its vessels.

Though the ADORE was still unmatched its heavy fighter capacity, shields and weapons kept the original airborne warship the most powerful. The SINEW sacrificed some of the direct mounted offensive firepower, cannons and the like, of the ADORE in favor of more fighter capacity and heavier shields. Its deployment could allow further ability to transfer forces, though first they just get had to get the lost one back.

Dracaena would hold control of all remaining F 1 Azhi by the end of the year, the F 6, F 7, and F 9 being that all were specialized purpose aircraft so they would only see limited deployment the F 8 was to replace the F 1 for the Dracaena air corp. in totality in seventy three according to the scheduled devised.

The other fighter would see partial deployment but the F-4 would be replaced by the similar F 12 in five years though some of the interim F 10s, heavier fighter variants had been deployed to colonies despite Arzachel's protest the F 10's heavier energy weapons were a better choice than the F 12 Houolang. The F 4 like, the F 10 had originally been designed by the Moldova design bureau the F 10 Marid was a much heavier larger variant of the F 4 specifically fulfilled a heavy assault role as opposed to its predecessors general purpose design. The F 12 on the other hand boasted slightly lesser than the Marid's armament but made up for it with better acceleration and higher maintained speed than either model.

He turned, this war would be a problem, though at the same time it could possibly be useful after all nothing stimulated an economy like war.

Chapter conclusion

Helltanz's notes: I apoligize for the tech yapping felt it was needed, seeing as times are passing and new weapons being developed and all.

Miscellaneous something I had intended to have the pre Great Journey, i.e. the order of the Dragon of the Previous timeline (.i.e. the Prequel which I have yet to repost) to have a Jurian Tree ship, but that in my opinion would have been much to wankage.