AWWA-Yesterday, Today, and Forever(OOC-Closed)

[The Vaktovian Empire]

Map Update

Several changes.

1. Canadian and Confederate territories changed colors for flavor
2. Got rid of that weird "Chinese colony" coloring. It's not needed.
3. Union of South Africa given it's own color, illustrating it's status as a self-governing colony.

I'll be making a non-canon version of the map with Brazil divided. This is a necessary change because Brazil is going to be a divided nation for an expectancy of many years as its already been almost 5 years since the Fascists broke away in the Northeast.

[Unicario]

Map Update

Several changes.

1. Canadian and Confederate territories changed colors for flavor
2. Got rid of that weird "Chinese colony" coloring. It's not needed.
3. Union of South Africa given it's own color, illustrating it's status as a self-governing colony.

I'll be making a non-canon version of the map with Brazil divided. This is a necessary change because Brazil is going to be a divided nation for an expectancy of many years as its already been almost 5 years since the Fascists broke away in the Northeast.

I'd rather you not because it'd be confusing to have two maps. -.-

[Unicario]

You forgot to give Cabinda to the Dutch.

Speaking of Cabinda, I think that if it were given to the Dutch, I think it will not be an enclave due to the fact that the Congo ATL has a long enough coast to warrant not having to give a small part of the coast away from the Dutch, unlike OTL where Portugal had to give up the land link to Cabinda so Belgium could access it.

Interesting point, I didn't know that.

Note: Civil Wars are *not* demonstrated on the map because the factions of a civil war are not real countries, they're just factions. So please, no unofficial maps.

[Ruridova]

ATL QUOTES

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Thomas A. Hendricks, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!
...
"As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"What the northerners do not understand is that Venezuela, and other south American nations do not apperecite being fearmongered into the same hegemonic empires from which we struggled to break free."
-Esteban Lopez, 1897

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"I am the only rightful Emperor of Asia. Asia shall be one house under my rule."
- Emperor Puyi after being declared Regent by the Kenpaitei, 1979

"The blood of the fascists shall water the gardens of Japan, and we shall forever relish in their defeat, for they shall not hold up against the triumph of the people."
- Empress Akane, 1979

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? Intellect, that's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
- Canadian abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth in the Confederate city of Akron, 1851


"...the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the Confederate States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why did our forefathers stand to defend their rights against the British Empire? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy, 1962

"The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americaners- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
...
And so, my fellow Americaners: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- inaugural address of CS President John F. Kennedy, 1963

"But all these years later, the negro still is not free. All these years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. All these years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. All these years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of Americaner society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the Martyred Fathers of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the First Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
...
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
...
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'. We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in New Orleans cannot vote and a negro in Chicago believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
...
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americaner dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to my home with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
...
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sonora. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New Mexico. Let freedom ring from the heightening Appalachians of Virginia. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Utah. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual:
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., in Washington, 1963

[Ruridova]

So Boji and I have made a series of agreements pertaining to this RP.

- Effective immediately, Boji is now the person playing Russia. Anything previously canon pertaining to Russia after the present date ICly is rendered non-canon.
- When the IC reaches 1899, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland will break away. I will be playing the resulting nations(Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia).
- Galicia will join Poland in 1890, not 1991.
- When the IC reaches 1918, the Tsars will be driven to Alaska, where I will RP the rump state.
- the EAU will be founded in Yugoslavia in 1945, not in Russia in 2000.
- following 1945, Hungary will be reduced to its present day OTL borders.
- all plot lines involving future wars or disputes between Russia and Caucasia are non-canon, and will be replaced.
- Due to the earlier EAU foundation date, North New Guinea will likely belong to the EAU, not the AU.

Boji, am I forgetting anything?

[Bojikami]

So Boji and I have made a series of agreements pertaining to this RP.

- Effective immediately, Boji is now the person playing Russia. Anything previously canon pertaining to Russia after the present date ICly is rendered non-canon.
- When the IC reaches 1899, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland will break away. I will be playing the resulting nations(Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia).
- Galicia will join Poland in 1890, not 1991.
- When the IC reaches 1918, the Tsars will be driven to Alaska, where I will RP the rump state.
- the EAU will be founded in Yugoslavia in 1945, not in Russia in 2000.
- following 1945, Hungary will be reduced to its present day OTL borders.
- all plot lines involving future wars or disputes between Russia and Caucasia are non-canon, and will be replaced.
- Due to the earlier EAU foundation date, North New Guinea will likely belong to the EAU, not the AU.

Boji, am I forgetting anything?

No that was it.

[Ruridova]

So Boji and I have made a series of agreements pertaining to this RP.

- Effective immediately, Boji is now the person playing Russia. Anything previously canon pertaining to Russia after the present date ICly is rendered non-canon.
- When the IC reaches 1899, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland will break away. I will be playing the resulting nations(Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia).
- Galicia will join Poland in 1890, not 1991.
- When the IC reaches 1918, the Tsars will be driven to Alaska, where I will RP the rump state.
- the EAU will be founded in Yugoslavia in 1945, not in Russia in 2000.
- following 1945, Hungary will be reduced to its present day OTL borders.
- all plot lines involving future wars or disputes between Russia and Caucasia are non-canon, and will be replaced.
- Due to the earlier EAU foundation date, North New Guinea will likely belong to the EAU, not the AU.

Boji, am I forgetting anything?

No that was it.

Well, there's one thing.

- Germany loses some land to the Baltic Union and Poland in 1914.

[Unicario]

- Due to the earlier EAU foundation date, North New Guinea will likely belong to the EAU, not the AU.

*The sound of Unicario slamming her head on a desk is heard*

[The Vaktovian Empire]

- Due to the earlier EAU foundation date, North New Guinea will likely belong to the EAU, not the AU.

*The sound of Unicario slamming her head on a desk is heard*

[Unicario]

*The sound of Unicario slamming her head on a desk is heard*

Go soak your head, m8.

[Unicario]

Poland, Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia added to map for future reference.

[Unicario]

The Kibbutzim Plot was a 1947 forerunner to the 1948-1953 Kibbutzim Rebellion waged by the Zionist Army For Israeli Liberation. In this, the ZAFIL attempted to assassinate President Strom Thurmond of the Confederacy, Emperor Alexander II of Japan, King George VI of the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, and several high-ranking Rumite officials. In this plot, the ZAFIL sent several letter bombs to each world leader's office. However, the plot was uncovered by the Rumite Special Services, and alerts were sent out, avoiding the death of several people.

The ZAFIL would later wage a bloody war to liberate Israel from Rumite control from 1948 to 1953 before being defeated, they would later be involved in the 1964 Mecca biological bombing, which killed, at conservative estimates by the Zionist World Congress, 7,600,000 people.

((in OTL 1947, a group of Zionists tried to off President Truman. They failed.))

[The Vaktovian Empire]

Go soak your head, m8.

[Unicario]

HMCS Maine?

OH NO.

[Shrillland]

HMCS Maine?

OH NO.

Yeah, it'll blow up on arrival and Mr. Hearst will have a field day with it.

[Unicario]

HMCS Maine?

OH NO.

Yeah, it'll blow up on arrival and Mr. Hearst will have a field day with it.

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Ruridova]

The Kibbutzim Plot was a 1947 forerunner to the 1948-1953 Kibbutzim Rebellion waged by the Zionist Army For Israeli Liberation. In this, the ZAFIL attempted to assassinate President Strom Thurmond of the Confederacy, Emperor Alexander II of Japan, King George VI of the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, and several high-ranking Rumite officials. In this plot, the ZAFIL sent several letter bombs to each world leader's office. However, the plot was uncovered by the Rumite Special Services, and alerts were sent out, avoiding the death of several people.

The ZAFIL would later wage a bloody war to liberate Israel from Rumite control from 1948 to 1953 before being defeated, they would later be involved in the 1964 Mecca biological bombing, which killed, at conservative estimates by the Zionist World Congress, 7,600,000 people.

((in OTL 1947, a group of Zionists tried to off President Truman. They failed.))

The Zionists would call the plot the Netanyahist Plot, and the rebellion the Netanyahist Rebellion; most Zionists reject the concept that Netanyahism is Zionism in any way, on the grounds that Hayim ben Tziyon said that Zionism is the peaceful campaign for Israel- and the Netanyahists are definitely not peaceful.

Also, the ZWC would have no reason to give a conservative estimate, since they view the Netanyahists as batshit insane non-Zionist assholes.

[Bojikami]

Something I made for Italy out of boredom.

[The Vaktovian Empire]

Something I made for Italy out of boredom.

[Unicario]

Japanese Space Program (milestones)

1956: Founded by collection of Japanese scientists and astronomers.
February 11, 1958: First Japanese satellite launched into orbit, called Eitai. Orbited the earth for seven days before burning up in the atmosphere.
March 22, 1958: Kasai program begins, modeled on the Russian launch of Laika the Dog. Kasai's goal was to launch animals into space and retrieve them safely, unlike Laika, who died.
May 3, 1959: Kasai One launch fails, explodes on launchpad, killing the animal instantly. Program scrapped.
September 18, 1959: Shinsei launched, broadcasts "Kimigayo" on repeat until it falls out of orbit in early 1960.
September 24, 1959: Tennou launched, remains in space until 1961, burns up in atmosphere.
1961: Apollo program, the first major scientific cooperation between the Confederate States and Japan, begins.
October 29, 1962: Seirei launched, with one passenger. Cynewulf, the ten year old English bulldog belonging to Emperor Alexander. Cynewulf was dying of cancer when he was launched on the ship. The dog died in orbit and burned up with his ship when it returned to Earth, a fitting funeral.
April 2, 1963: Go-Daigo launched, commemorating a milestone in the history of space flight. Ranko Yamato became the first woman to enter space, and orbited the earth for three days, eight hours and 47 minutes before returning to Earth. She survived.
January 1, 1968: Alexander the Great launched containing a three-man crew. The crew orbited the earth several times before returning to Earth safely.
July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 launched containing a three-man crew. Princess Ranko representing the Empire, Neil Armstrong representing the Confederacy, and Buzz Aldrin, also representing the Confederacy. Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon, with Princess Ranko being the second, and first woman to walk on the moon.
...

[The Vaktovian Empire]

In my wiki write up on Priya Reyez Ajendri, I compare her desensitization to watching someone die to that of Anton Chigurgh of the 2007 American Film "No Country For Old Men". Would that film be Confederate?

[Shrillland]

In my wiki write up on Priya Reyez Ajendri, I compare her desensitization to watching someone die to that of Anton Chigurgh of the 2007 American Film "No Country For Old Men". Would that film be Confederate?

I believe it would be.

[Unicario]

Map

[The Vaktovian Empire]

Map

I hoe you know the division of Brazil is a long term event that lasts into the 1920s or longer. At best, I think it'd be appropriate to label its other countries accordingly as in 1897, in order to avoid war, the Federal Government officially gives both nations sovereignty. So it is called the civil war but following this treaty when the war breaks out, it is technically a war between a former unified country.

[Unicario]

Map

I hoe you know the division of Brazil is a long term event that lasts into the 1920s or longer. At best, I think it'd be appropriate to label its other countries accordingly as in 1897, in order to avoid war, the Federal Government officially gives both nations sovereignty. So it is called the civil war but following this treaty when the war breaks out, it is technically a war between a former unified country.

I'm not putting them in the map, and I refuse to recognize any map with them in it. They are civil war states. The warlords in OTL China never appeared in maps either, so Brazilian warlords won't.