Would like to once again protest at Jameson being smeared as an anti-mutant bigot (he just hates superheroes, not ordinary people who can breathe fire but just wash windows) but this is a phresh box.
I like the shout-out to Malik, who's quite underused because of the whole thing where he's associated with the worst Captain America comics ever written.
Would like to once again protest at Jameson being smeared as an anti-mutant bigot (he just hates superheroes, not ordinary people who can breathe fire but just wash windows) but this is a phresh box.
I like the shout-out to Malik, who's quite underused because of the whole thing where he's associated with the worst Captain America comics ever written.
I mean IIRC there's a comic where he nearly ends up as the running-mate of a George Wallace analogue but bails at the last minute because he actually bothers to read the party platform, so it's not like it's impossible.
Also I noticed a mistake in the write-up, probably some artifacts from the OTL election. In paragraph 4 it says "Johnson carried 43 state" when it should be Rogers, and that "Eastland won his home state and swept much of the American South, most of which had not voted for a Republican [...]" when Eastland isn't a Republican, he's Mutant Control.
Also I noticed a mistake in the write-up, probably some artifacts from the OTL election. In paragraph 4 it says "Johnson carried 43 state" when it should be Rogers, and that "Eastland won his home state and swept much of the American South, most of which had not voted for a Republican [...]" when Eastland isn't a Republican, he's Mutant Control.
The Third Clone War was a galactic military conflict lasting from 967 to 976. It was the third and largest of the three Clone Wars. 14 years of peace that had lasted since the end of the Second Clone War ended with the Invasion of Alderaan by clone forces and the subsequent formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
At the end of the Second Clone War in 953, the generation of clones and use of clones for involuntary servitude, including warfare, was outlawed in Republic space. Republic forces seized or destroyed most cloning facilities in the galaxy. Despite this, cloning continued in the Outer Rim and other territories beyond the reach of the Republic, where clones were mostly used for slave labor. With the end of the war, the dominant political issue in the galaxy was centralization. The first two clone wars had greatly increased central control of the Republic from the capital world of Coruscant. All systems were subject to stringent oversight and regulation during wartime, and this continued during peacetime as well. Many systems which had lost power and prestige wanted it back, and pushed for decentralization. Meanwhile, smaller and weaker systems which relied on central support favored further centralization.
Finis Valorum, who had been elected President in 964, had been a supporter of centralization, but upon taking office filled his cabinet with both centralists and anticentralists, displeasing both sides. Nevertheless, there was considerable agitation by anticentralists who claimed that Valorum would completely end system sovereignty and establish direct rule from Coruscant. In 966, eight systems formed the Self Determination Pact, a group of systems that were dedicated to the cause of anticentralism. The SDP expanded considerably over the next year, especially after the Valorum cabinet introduced a new tax intended to restrain regional tariffs.
In 967, the government of Alderaan was considering whether or not to join the Pact. Although many powerful families and ministers of Alderaan favored anticentralism, King Kayos XIV was a centralist. Anticentralists believed the addition to Alderaan would be a major boon to the Pact due to its significant wealth and military power. However, Kayos resisted pressure from his advisors and declined many bribes to join the Pact. Consequently, SDP systems sent a joint military expedition to first blockade Alderaan into joining, and then later to attack once Alderaan called upon neighboring systems to help defend it.
The SDP invasion force successfully reached the surface and seized Aldera, the capital city of Alderaan. Kayos was executed by the invaders, but his daughter and heir Sabé escaped. After President Valorum authorized a unified republic expedition to liberate the planet, Sabé became queen and committed Alderaan to centralism. The passage of the Galactic Protection Act authorized Valorum to call up the military forces of the various systems to suppress rebellion and treason in the Republic. In response, the Self Determination Pact declared the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and began a war of secession. In order to close the severe manpower gap with the Republic, the Confederacy contracted clones from the clone masters who had fled the Republic at the end of the last war, thus starting the Third Clone Wars.
The war is divided into two distinct periods, the System Forces period (967-971), and the Grand Army period (971-976). During the first period, the Republic forces were derived from the various systems, and operated independently unless otherwise ordered by the War Department. This resulted in very poor organization and repeated losses despite superior manpower and haphazard fighting on both sides. The Republic decided to contract their own clone armies in order to have a unified fighting force that was under the direct command of the President. The Republic clones were the most efficient army and prompted question as to whether the Republic should shift to an all-clone army.
However, this ended with the Great Clone Mutiny of 971, when clones on both sides of the war attempted to overthrow their respective commanders and establish their own sovereignty. The mutiny was put down on both sides. The Republic then passed the Military Organization Act, which combined the forces of all Republic systems into one. Thereafter, Republic forces operated as the Grand Army of the Republic and the Grand Navy of the Republic. The Confederate response to the mutiny was to scale down the number of clones in the army. However, they did not centralize their system forces and continued to operate individually. These events gave the Republic a considerable advantage over the Confederacy and turned the tide of the war in the Republic's favor. Most of the fighting was over by 975, with only a few Confederate strongholds remaining.
The war ended in 976 with the Battle of Utapau, with the defeat of Montross Holdaack's 5th Army and the capture of the last Confederate capital. Confederate President Tarnack Duku and his government surrendered unconditionally to General Obi Wan Kenobi. Some fighting continued in disparate pockets across the galaxy that were either unaware of or refused to accept the surrender. Although the war ended, turmoil in the Republic continued for about a year with the assassination of President Valorum and the subsequent Palpatine coup and other events which culminated in the creation of a new Galactic Empire.
The Third Clone War was the biggest and deadliest war since the end of the previous Galactic Empire in the 8th century. The war, the Imperial period, and the Galactic Civil War are grouped together by historians in a period known as the Decades of Turbulence due to the high frequency of military conflict and civil unrest that weakened the unified galactic order. Many anticentralist systems would become vital to the Rebellion in the Galactic Civil War and contributed to the decline of the Empire.
The Third Clone War was a galactic military conflict lasting from 967 to 976. It was the third and largest of the three Clone Wars. 14 years of peace that had lasted since the end of the Second Clone War ended with the Invasion of Alderaan by clone forces and the subsequent formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
At the end of the Second Clone War in 953, the generation of clones and use of clones for involuntary servitude, including warfare, was outlawed in Republic space. Republic forces seized or destroyed most cloning facilities in the galaxy. Despite this, cloning continued in the Outer Rim and other territories beyond the reach of the Republic, where clones were mostly used for slave labor. With the end of the war, the dominant political issue in the galaxy was centralization. The first two clone wars had greatly increased central control of the Republic from the capital world of Coruscant. All systems were subject to stringent oversight and regulation during wartime, and this continued during peacetime as well. Many systems which had lost power and prestige wanted it back, and pushed for decentralization. Meanwhile, smaller and weaker systems which relied on central support favored further centralization.
Finis Valorum, who had been elected President in 964, had been a supporter of centralization, but upon taking office filled his cabinet with both centralists and anticentralists, displeasing both sides. Nevertheless, there was considerable agitation by anticentralists who claimed that Valorum would completely end system sovereignty and establish direct rule from Coruscant. In 966, eight systems formed the Self Determination Pact, a group of systems that were dedicated to the cause of anticentralism. The SDP expanded considerably over the next year, especially after the Valorum cabinet introduced a new tax intended to restrain regional tariffs.
In 967, the government of Alderaan was considering whether or not to join the Pact. Although many powerful families and ministers of Alderaan favored anticentralism, King Kayos XIV was a centralist. Anticentralists believed the addition to Alderaan would be a major boon to the Pact due to its significant wealth and military power. However, Kayos resisted pressure from his advisors and declined many bribes to join the Pact. Consequently, SDP systems sent a joint military expedition to first blockade Alderaan into joining, and then later to attack once Alderaan called upon neighboring systems to help defend it.
The SDP invasion force successfully reached the surface and seized Aldera, the capital city of Alderaan. Kayos was executed by the invaders, but his daughter and heir Sabé escaped. After President Valorum authorized a unified republic expedition to liberate the planet, Sabé became queen and committed Alderaan to centralism. The passage of the Galactic Protection Act authorized Valorum to call up the military forces of the various systems to suppress rebellion and treason in the Republic. In response, the Self Determination Pact declared the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and began a war of secession. In order to close the severe manpower gap with the Republic, the Confederacy contracted clones from the clone masters who had fled the Republic at the end of the last war, thus starting the Third Clone Wars.
The war is divided into two distinct periods, the System Forces period (967-971), and the Grand Army period (971-976). During the first period, the Republic forces were derived from the various systems, and operated independently unless otherwise ordered by the War Department. This resulted in very poor organization and repeated losses despite superior manpower and haphazard fighting on both sides. The Republic decided to contract their own clone armies in order to have a unified fighting force that was under the direct command of the President. The Republic clones were the most efficient army and prompted question as to whether the Republic should shift to an all-clone army.
However, this ended with the Great Clone Mutiny of 971, when clones on both sides of the war attempted to overthrow their respective commanders and establish their own sovereignty. The mutiny was put down on both sides. The Republic then passed the Military Organization Act, which combined the forces of all Republic systems into one. Thereafter, Republic forces operated as the Grand Army of the Republic and the Grand Navy of the Republic. The Confederate response to the mutiny was to scale down the number of clones in the army. However, they did not centralize their system forces and continued to operate individually. These events gave the Republic a considerable advantage over the Confederacy and turned the tide of the war in the Republic's favor. Most of the fighting was over by 975, with only a few Confederate strongholds remaining.
The war ended in 976 with the Battle of Utapau, with the defeat of Montross Holdaack's 5th Army and the capture of the last Confederate capital. Confederate President Tarnack Duku and his government surrendered unconditionally to General Obi Wan Kenobi. Some fighting continued in disparate pockets across the galaxy that were either unaware of or refused to accept the surrender. Although the war ended, turmoil in the Republic continued for about a year with the assassination of President Valorum and the subsequent Palpatine coup and other events which culminated in the creation of a new Galactic Empire.
The Third Clone War was the biggest and deadliest war since the end of the previous Galactic Empire in the 8th century. The war, the Imperial period, and the Galactic Civil War are grouped together by historians in a period known as the Decades of Turbulence due to the high frequency of military conflict and civil unrest that weakened the unified galactic order. Many anticentralist systems would become vital to the Rebellion in the Galactic Civil War and contributed to the decline of the Empire.
Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – November 9, 1967), byname "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932, the Share Our Wealth candidate for president in 1936, the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1948, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his death in 1967, aged 74. He has also been named Senate Finance Chairman, as well as a brief stint as Chair of the Farmers Holiday Association. He was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed not radical enough.
A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a notorious spoiler to the Roosevelt presidency when he ran in 1936 under the Share Our Wealth Movement. He would later recommit himself to the Democratic Party following the seizure of the Movement's machine by former ally and anti-semitic preacher Gerald L.K. Smith, who would turn the organisation into the nationalist "America First!" third party in the early 1940s. Many of his initial policy proposals from the Share Our Wealth platform, including a wealth tax, a national health service and greater wealth redistribution, later found their way into the latter half of Roosevelt's presidency.
Following his controversial third party run in 1936, Long became something of a perennial candidate for the Democratic party nomination, challenging Roosevelt in both 1940 and 1944 in spite of the latter's immense popularity, before securing the nomination in 1948. He later went on to lose against Republican nominee Thomas Dewey, in part due to a third party candidacy from former friend Gerald L.K. Smith, who'd by now gained national prominence as an opponent against federally-enforced integration, securing the key vote of southern states, considered Long's stronghold. Despite his advanced age, Long was considered a contender for the Democratic nomination in 1968 before he succumbed to a heart attack in 1967.
The Abbey of the Everyman was a religious organization founded by Benjamin Holger at the turn of the 17th Century. Holger originally was a social reformer in rural Gristol until he had a religious epiphany in 1701 which led to his foundation of an Abbey in Dunwall. The Abbey grew in prominence through a twofold expansion plan in the chaos of the fall of the Morgengaard Dynasty, and the First Great Awakening. First, they established charities and welfare programs throughout the Isles, and secondly Holger embarked on his ‘Rectification War’ against the “Heretics” of the Empire. While at the time the Abbey claimed these heretics were “witches, void-whisperers, and other thralls of The Outsider”, recent scholarship suggests that the vast majority of the groups destroyed in the Rectification War were in fact simply other benign religious movements.
In 1708, the Abbey, with its titular building completed, gathered its mass of Overseers, who then marched on the City of Whitecliff (Conveniently enough a center for opposition to the newly-elevated House of Olaskir), and laid Siege to it for a month. During the Siege, High Overseer Holger gave a series of speeches, that would eventually be compiled into the Abbey’s Scripture, the Litany on the White Cliffs. The Overseers then sacked the city, putting all its inhabitants to the sword; and during the battle, Holger was stabbed by a knife to the eyes, elevating John Clavering to the High Overseership. Their main opposition destroyed, the Abbey continued to expand its influence until in 1711, Emperor Yefim Olaskir (1705-1714) declared the official and sole legal religion of the Empire of the Isles.
The next 120 years were spent cementing its power, becoming an intrinsic part of the Imperial Bureaucracy, prosecuting those guilty of religious crimes. In this period the Abbey controversially began recruit from children forcibly taken from the Lower Classes instead of open invitation as before. Also, in this time, High Overseer Grafton led an expedition of the Abbey to the Pandyssian Continent, from whence the entire expedition never returned. In this time the Abbey began to grow corrupt and power-hungry with High Overseer Campbell being noted by sources at the time as “Breaking each of the Seven Strictures Daily”.
The High Overseer Campbell was a member of the Council that orchestrated the Coup against Empress Jessamine Kaldwin (1825-1837) and brought the Abbey to its lowest point. Following the restoration of Emily Kaldwin, now Royal Spymaster Corvo Attano led a purge of the Abbey, that for a time restored public confidence in the Organization. The Abbey initially pledged neutrality following the Serkonan Coup of 1852, but following ill omens from the Oracles, High Overseer Khulan led the Dunwall Overseers on an attack on the self-declared Empress Delilah (1852). The Overseers were slaughtered to a man, leaving an organizational vacuum, which had yet to be filled by the time of the Void Rift Crisis. Following these twin failures, Empress Emily Kaldwin (1837-1902) formally disestablished the Abbey of the Everyman as the official faith of the Empire of the Isles, causing it to eventually schism into no less than 23 successors, and leading to the Second Great Awakening.
If you told someone in 1981 that Michael Foot would win the 1983 Election in a landslide, they would call you crazy. However, events transpired in a way so cataclysmic for the Conservatives that it ended up making Michael Foot the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century. The failure of the Conservative government to take back the Falklands, the persistence of Prime Minister Thatcher to call a general election four years into the term, when an election could have been called as late as 1984, and the manifesto pledge from Foot in the election to return the Falklands to British stewardship all mixed to create a cocktail of mortal proportions for the chances of the Conservatives winning the election. That, and the Labour Party, which once seemed destined to splinter, stayed completely together.
In the end, Michael Foot won over four hundred seats, the first time this had occured since the 1930s, and won the largest popular vote percentage since the 1951 election. The popular vote total was a new record. For the first time in history, the sitting Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, lost her Finchley seat to the Labour candidate, Lawrence Spiegel. Several Conservative frontbenchers and backbenchers alike were felled in the landslide, including several potential leadership contenders. Margaret Thatcher had a shocked look on her face when she realised that she had lost her seat, and the country, by such a large margin. Thatcher made one last speech in front of the press at Downing Street, before heading into the Prime Ministerial car, with a tear in her eye, to hand in her resignation to the Queen and recommend her to send for Michael Foot. Naturally, the Queen accepted Thatcher's resignation, and she then invited Michael Foot to form a new government, which he accepted.
The new Prime Minister then headed to Downing Street where he made a speech thanking the public for their strong vote of confidence in him, and then headed off inside, with his wife Jill by her side. The oldest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill; he turned 70 next month, started forming his new cabinet, which was almost entirely the same as the Shadow Cabinet. Peter Shore was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. Roy Hattersley was made Home Secretary. Denis Healey was made Foreign Secretary. John Silkin was made Defence Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, John Smith was made Secretary of State for Energy, while Neil Kinnock was made Science and Education Secretary. Left wing firebrand Tony Benn was made Minister without Portfolio, though rumours were that he was to be given a promotion to the Foreign Office soon enough. Whatever the matters, the government had a strong mandate to fulfill their manifesto, and shape Britain in their image.
(This is a new version with a diagram and map I made.)
Welcome to a forever changed Scotland. A Scotland red once more. A Scotland with the nationalist cause in flames. A Scotland which has voted for radical change in government. Welcome; to Richard Leonard's Scotland.
