The Empire of Liberty, Trade and Civilisation
Clouds on the horizon, an introduction
In the heady years of the early 1930’s few in The Empire could see the clouds on the horizon. Britannia, her domain covering a quarter of the globe, united in the ideals laid down in the eighteenth century. Some 15 years earlier the continent had been aflame with war and a struggle between the ‘old enemy’ and a new self-confidant Germany.
England and her sisters had watched on as Germany and her ally Austria ripped Imperial Russia to shreds and France send its sons and the sons of her Empire in to the slow death of the western front. With the continent locked into a self-destructive spiral the moneymen of The Empire looked on gleefully as they sold their wares of war. Then in the last throw of the dice France’s fatal decision, to violate Belgium neutrality, and try and bring a swift end to the war.
Britannia could not watch as the Belgium’s pleaded and so the King’s government declared war upon France. The end of the war was swift as the German Keiser celebrated the misery that had brought victory he ripped France’s colonies into German hands. The Imperial government looked on in horror as colonies fell to Germany and Japan and she once again subsided into ‘Glorious Isolation’.
In just twelve short years every corner of The Empire would be under threat from new ideas and the aggressive intents of new nations. From Canada to Hong Kong and Scarpa Flow to the Falklands the brave men and women of Britannia would be laying down their lives for Liberty, Civilisation and Empire.
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This is a re-working of my first AAR, the history has been changed slightley for a more 'realistic' feel. Comments and surgestions are most welcome.