The Burning Sun
Current Month: March 1947| OP: Exalted Inquellian State | Co-OPs: TBA | IC | Starting Map | Current Map: January 1947
The Rising Tensions
In the beginning of 1936, the World was a peaceful place. The German Kaiserreich stood as the sole superpower. It's enemies, Russia and the Third Internationale, were broken by the Erste Weltkrieg, and the other countries which antagonized it, such as the Entente or Japanese, were far away from the mainland. Kaiser Wilhelm II had, at that point, mostly retired, and let the Chancellor(who was at that point practically appointed by the Reichstag) to rule. Their citizens were rich, uninhibited by the economic struggles of the United States of America. Their puppets and colonies were compliant. Everything was so great, some suggested that in a hundred years, the whole world would be German.
Everything changed, however, on February 3rd. That day, the Berlin stock exchange plummeted, sending the German Empire into chaos. The German Empire was thrown into disarray. Its Indochinese colony rebelled, beginning the Indochinese war and leaving the colony vulnerable to the Japanese. Hermann von Goering's embezzlements grew in size, before it came to light, resulting in Goering being fired and fleeing to Brazil, with Rudolf Asmis, the new Statthalter, beginning his attempts to pacify the nation. America was hurled into a four-way civil war, which lasted until 1939. China balkanized more, and fought itself for the next two years. The Spanish fell into a civil war. Egypt and its allies fought the Ottomans. The Fourth French Republic in Algeria threw of Petain, and became led by De La Rocque. And worst of all for the Germans, Russia and the Third Internationale, unaffected by the crisis, threw off democracy firmly(except the Italians), becoming authoritarian states, in particularly Britain.
The Deluge
Regardless, the Reich was somewhat recovering in 1939. The economy was on a road to recovery under the new Chancellor(appointed by the emperor but approved by the Reichstag and Bundesrat, due to the 1936 Kanzlergesetz amendment), the revolts in their puppets and colonies were more or less quashed, and Japans invasion of China was not feared. However, on July 23rd, 1939, an ultimatum was sent, from the Commune of France, demanding Alsace Lorraine. This was after they were allowed to devour a good chunk of Switzerland. The Kaiser rejected the demand, resulting in a French declaration of war. Russia jumped in, however, surprising Germany, who didn't expect them to do it so soon. The Second Weltkrieg had begun.
For the first two years, Germany held the French, slowly retreated from the Russians(besides the minor victory over the Lithuanians in the beginning), and abandoned East Asia, where Hellmuth von Mücke, all alone, held on to whatever land he good with whatever resources he had. Australasia helping the Third Internationale made things even worse. Ireland was invaded as well, being occupied and loosing the North. Its government in exile was assassinated in 1942 by Mosley's spies. The Austrians, the Italian Republic, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies did join, but in the beginning, they simply protracted the Italian war. Only when the Entente joined did the war begin turning in favor of the Reichspakt, creating a partnership which was eventually christened the European Coalition. Even then, however, the war in Italy barely moved until 1944, and the Canadians were invaded in 1943 by the Union of Socialist States of America, which had mostly finished reconstruction, with the Germans being powerless to stop the Americans and the National French making peace following Edward's flight and Prime Minister Mackenzie King's capitulation.
In 1944, however, after the National French held onto whatever ports they could over the two years since the first naval landing, and the Germans reaching Paris for the third time in under a century, the Commune of France capitulated, followed by the Italians. Mosley held out, offering peace(which made sense, given the old British monarchy was almost certainly not going to be restored at this point) but the Reichspakt and remaining Entente members cried for blood. Britain was invaded in the largest naval operation in history, with 300,000 troops from both sides. After a million more lives lost by Mosley's Scorched Earth policy and his troops fanatical resistance, London fell on September 2nd. Mosley had fled, but his journal was found, as well as plans to eventually lock down Britain from the outside world, with enough cameras being made in 1943 and early 1944 to place on a third of Britains streets. Scotland declared independence, and Wales followed suit. England's legislature capitulated soon after.
The Russians were being pushed back, by the Germans and the Russian Free Army, which rose up near the start of the war. On October 2nd, the Reichspakt and Co-Prosperity Sphere signed a peace deal, where Germany let Japan and Thailand "occupy" most of their colonies, which Japan turned into puppets or annexed a few days after the deal became effective. A similar deal was signed with the Australasian Union, except this time Germany occupied and later annexed their lands, following Mücke's successful defense of New Guinea. Savinkov surrendered unconditionally on October 25th. Russia's central asian occupation ended as Iran quickly occupied a few border provinces and the Emirate of Bukhara, Khanate of Khiva, Turkestan Republic, and Alash Orda declared their independence. The Russian people rose up, bitter at the government, and the Germans recognized Boldyrev as rightful ruler on November 20th after he entered Petrograd, with the Second Russian Republic being declared. The Second Weltkrieg was truly over.
The Rules
And with that said...
The Present
Epilogue
And so, begins a new era in Earth's history. As new technologies are made, such as rockets which may soon reach space, weapons which may obliterate entire cities, and cures to diseases considered incurable, as new wars are being waged, as movements for change, balance, or reversion to the past fight, as new friendships and rivalries occur, which of the main three factions will come out on top? Which nations will secure their own small region in the world? Which nations will be blown into irrelevance? And which will go into the dustbin of history? Will the Germans survive the Burning Sun, and will it always shine pleasantly on Japan? Will the suns rays reach France and America? Time will tell, regardless if humanity is still there or not.
