Allied States

**Dev. Status** | Original units and building In-game

*"Come you masters of war*

*You that build all the guns*

*You that build the death planes*

*You that build all the bombs"*

- *"Masters of War"* by Bob Dylan, written before WWIII
The **Allied States** or the **Alliance of Free States**, the **Alliance Forces** or simply **the Alliance**, are a military alliance between the states of western, northern, and central Europe and their colonies formed prior to the second world war as an anti-communist pact at the urging of British, French, Spanish, and Italian dictators JFC Fuller, Phillipe Petain, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and Pietro Badoglio in reaction to the American, German, and Russian revolutions. By the time of the third world war the core of the Allies were undoubtably the British, French, Spanish, and Italians; though other members cannot be ignored. Once simply a pact of states with similar enemies, the Alliance has become a suprastate consistent of many nations from around the world that has made repeated grabs for global domination.

The Allies are symbolised by a stylized silver bird-of-prey with a silver-and-blue triangle pointed downwards behind it. This is supposedly meant to represent the majesty and power commonly attributed to Eagles.

## At a Glance

 **Motives** | Global Hegemony, Imperialism, Mutual Defense

## Background

### The Alliance under Fuller

*"Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind."*

-Fuller's "brothers in struggle" speech in 1938.

The story of the Alliance starts with an assassination. In the Chaos of the American Revolution of May 1933, King George the Vth was killed by a mysterious agent who fled into the night afterwards. Terror gripped Britain and nobody was quite sure of who to blame, and following the Soviet and German revolutions of the decade prior the British army was supremely restless about any disruption to British society. But the quickly ascended Edward the Eighth knew who to blame, Socialists, Jews, Liberals and others who would seek to deny Britain her birthright. Already a major power broker behind the scenes as crown Prince, Edward worked closely with fellow radical right wingers JFC Fuller, Oliver Locker-Lampson, Anthony Ludovici, and William Joyce who already had been guiding British society with their increasingly influential British Social and National Unionist Party towards a program of militarism and jingoism.

Staging a march on London for allowing the American communists to take power, the failure to deal with the British General Strike and not joining with MacArthur in his attempted putsch, the five would dispense with the pretensions that they had anything less than absolute power and ensure the miserable; lonely death of British democracy. Edward came to power with a dream, to bring back the pax Brittanica and to push back the red tide, and presented his "Ultimatum" to western Europe, choose this path of radical reaction and a "revolution against revolution" or choose Communism.

Influenced by the Black Hand through a mysterious advisor, Edward and his fellow dictators Lyautey; master of France, Rivera of Spain, and Bagodlio of Italy, would build their Alliance with the intent of smashing communism once and for all and restoring western Europe to its place of primacy in the world. And at their disposal were vast empires and legions of brilliant scientists who feared the expansion of communism that they would use to build a vast war machine unlike anything the world had seen before.

He was convinced that Europe's way of life was under threat by the expansion of communism and that the conversion of Russia, Germany, China, and America into red states and their sister revolutions was the greatest disaster since the French revolution, and through massive saturation of propaganda, quashing those who disagreed with the message, and information control, he convinced Europe that this was true. Building his iron pact up, he spent the next quarter century years preparing for his assault on global communism. And on the thirty first of October, 1950, that day came. Banking on the mutual distrust and disagreements of the International to see him through, his forces attacked at every shared border they had with the communists.

*"We want war, wake up!"*

-Broadcast heard all across Alliance-Comintern borders on the day of the offensive.
The enormous military offensives would crash into the Communist bloc like two tidal waves smashing into one another. The Communists did not wait until the Blue Hordes were at their door and met the Allied armies head on in an immediate counter-offensive to buy time. Even the greatest offensives of the first world war could not compare in sheer scale and size, and the fields of Eurasia and the Americas were soon strewn with wreckage. The nature of the new SPAM technology made for a see-saw sort of warfare. Measured offensives through heavily fortified territory eventually coming to a halt in the face of counter-offensives that would push back until they themselves ran out of steam. Rinse and repeat. Gradually however, the Alliance began to grind forward.

They rumbled ever closer to the borders of the Soviet Union, even overrunning the rebellious Syrian, Palestinian, and Iraqi mandates and invading Turkey. Though few in America were under the delusion that Allied forces there could truly hope to deal with a vastly more numerous enemy, the offensives there seized substantial territories in less defended sections of the North and tied down forces that may have decided things in Eurasia while the Brazilian giant rumbled to life in South America and millions perished in the fields of China to support the Beiyang against the Kuomintang and CCP. Soon the war had reached the gates of the Soviet Union itself, and had overrun the Catalonian, Galician, and Basque Republicans to secure the western Flank against communism.

But the Comintern had forged a plan against the Blue Juggernaut. Having felt the measure of their foe the Comintern struck back out of the blue, internationally standardized and new tank designs in Red Steel, infantry from across the world now fighting side by side as brothers while aircraft trained in the safety of deep Russia and America swarmed through the skies to win them back from the war birds of the Allies. In a game of back and forth pushing matches and cat and mouse, the Allied advance was at first slowed unacceptably, then the Allies begun to advance no farther with most further offensives being meant to retake lost ground, then they started being rolled back towards their borders until Comintern forces were waiting for the order to bring the war to the den of Capitalism. Rebellions in the colonies were a continually bleeding sore that nobody seemed able to stop, and the Entrance of the Japanese into the war had taken the guts out of the Allied pacific war effort.

However, some final counterattacks in 1956 would push back the Comintern; rolling the frontline back outside of France and to the Canadian border and seemed to fill Fuller with Fresh confidence as he began to fear that a Communist invasion of Britian was imminent as France, Italy and Canada began to shudder under the strain of the Comintern's pushback. One day late in 1956, in a particularly good mood with word of some successes on the front line as it began to drag into stalemate, Fuller drank tea offered by his aide Natalie; only to double over in sudden pain. Poison! As he toppled over onto his desk dying, Natalie babbled about brotherhoods and a new order that will arise from the old as right before she shot him to death before being shot to death herself by a mysterious man named Rupert Thornley who just so happened to be there to dispose of her.

He immediately informed the rest of the Alliance of Free States that Fuller had been tragically assassinated and that he was to be his replacement as chairman of the Alliance, Governor General of the colonies, and Prime Minister of Britain. He went as far as to go about providing ample documents for anyone who questioned him and having access to a formidable force of his own black watches quite distinct from the units that took up that name under Fuller's alliance to deal with any who insisted on asking too many questions. And for a time people truly thought that he could be the man of peace that every wanted him to be.

### Gearing Up for Round Two

*"So long as there is Communism, there cannot be peace. The American Raven, the German Ant, the Chinese Dragon, the Latin Grasshopper, the Persian Crocodile, and the Russian Bear are the greatest threats to world peace ever known and unless we prepare to destroy them, they will destroy us."*

-Thornley's "Why we must build our war machine" speech.
Thornley however, would not be the kind of man that so many hoped beyond hope to be. From the moment he took the reins of power he commanded that the Blue war machine be rebuilt and built to even greater heights than Fuller had constructed. New and frightening weapons of war were commissioned and division after division was formed in preparation for his plans to finish what had been started. True he may have re-allowed local elections (however "fair" they were), and loosened the restrictions placed by Fuller and shaped up the character of the Allied military, but he was no less of a warmonger than his predecessor. He made sure to commit forces to many of the running sores of tension between the International and the Alliance during the so called Cold War; engaging his communist foes in proxy wars in central America, West and Southern Africa, Indochina, and China itself.

While there was technically peace between Thornley's Alliance and the International, the rhetoric had not dialed down in the slightest in its hostility. In Thornley's Alliance, the International was still portrayed as a vicious pack of foes. Any failings of the comintern were played up, any atrocities committed were repeated ad infinitum to portray the International as a horde of fiends who would take away the liberal freedoms of the Alliance and plunge the world into proleterian totalitarianism. With Thornley being highly popular for his renovations of the Allied economy that saw large economic upswings, his DeFullerfication programs which brought (or reintroduced) many liberal freedoms to the Allies, and his "humanization" of the Alliance that reduced the heavy reliance on terror that characterized Fuller's Allies; people were willing to believe what Thornley was saying.

And to be fair, the Allied propaganda machine made sure to rely less on outright lies and more interpretations of facts. All of which helped to sell people on the necessity of preparing for a rematch even with the prior conflict still fresh in everyone's minds. And what was there not to marvel about Thornley's new war machine? Filled with advanced technology produced by the minds of the best and brightest of countless nations, made faster and sleeker than the clunky juggernaut of Fuller's armies while still maintaining that overwhelming power, and with seas and air forces that operated on every continent and ocean, the Allied army was a wondrous war machine. Truly something to believe in.

With his forces gaining valuable experience in various conflicts around the world, Thornley would repeatedly consult with his right hand man; one Field Marshal Bingham, and his fellow members of high command on improving Allied strategies in case of war. Speed would be emphasized in a way the old army never did. Attempts would be made to win over the hearts and minds of the "liberated" people rather than needlessly terrorize them and drive them further into the arms of Communism though Partisan activity was still to be heavily punished. "Paramilitary cults" like the old Blackwatch, were to be de-emphasized in favor of divisions armed with the latest the "boffins" could practicably equip them with.

The economic front also needed changes. Rather than "strip-mining" mobilization plans that would conscript virtually all able bodied citizens in an area and thus require the need for slave labor to keep the factories and farms working; sensible draft systems were to be put in place; with mind being given to the advantages in production offered by automation of labor. Rather than blanket bans of trade unions, patriotic or religious trade unions were to be allowed to diffuse communist anger at home. And Britain would cede some of its overwhelming primacy in the alliance so as to better address the needs of the other members; particularly in matters of trade and the Syndicate and Japanese Empire would be approached for assistance with financial development. Blue plenty would be tapped into to empower the allies at home and at war.

With all this preparation, Thornley had his war machine oiled and maintained for war. All he needed was the right excuse to launch it. For two and a half decades the Alliance and International would be in the most uneasy of peaces. Though many would dispute the usage of the term "peace", for in the eyes of Thornley and others; the Cold War was more of a breathing period for everyone to recuperate and prepare for what amounted to round two of the next war. And on a foggy January day in the year 1987, that chance came as a British plane was shot down by Belgian forces for lingering over Wallonia. With this pretext, Thornley would at last have his war.

### Let's Go! (Again)

*"What was started thirty seven years ago will be finished starting now. No peace until the Reds are smashed! We're going to war, a war that we can win, that we must win, that we shall win. Forward, to the destruction of Bolshevism!"*

-Field Marshal Bingham speaking to his troops at the commencement of hostilies.
His Third World War would be fought on an even larger scale than the prior one, and this time Allied forces were even fighting at the gates of many of the Comintern's most important cities and both sides were preparing to see if Comintern forces would once again push the Allies back or if the Allies could finally march through Moscow and Debs D.C. For a time, it truly seemed that the International would fall at last as the Alliance reached the borders of the Soviet Union itself and reached as far into America as Chicago and New York City. Concerns that the Alliance had greatly overstretched itself were summarily dismissed even as some setbacks were suffered in the attempted siege of Chicago and the defeat in the Baltics, Victory was in sight.

But a number of key factors had managed to elude Thornley's calculus, the often forgotten Solar Empire of Japan which launched a devastating assault on both the Pacific and Indian ocean nations; declaring themselves to be acting in cohort with the Pan-African League which gravely threatened the Allies' African territories, the Guardians of Monarchy who caused havoc throughout the world, aided by the Majestica Inclusive and Pacifica Traders as part of the Tokyo-Ababa-Belobog-Kronusia-Pacifica axis, and the unforeseen betrayal of Epsilon. Similarly, the fears of many were confirmed as it was found that the International had anticipated that the Alliance would seek to try for incredibly deep penetrating assaults into their core regions, and had prepared a great deal of defense in depth to meet just an assault while overextending the Alliance war machine as much as possible.

These attacks came just as Thornley had hoped to move before the Comintern could prepare counterattacks and enact general mobilization efforts, and now the Allies faced three enemies at once. The Pan-African League swept through Africa like a storm, with prepared cells rising up against the Alliance in a grand assault meant to finally drive the hated colonials out of Africa. In the mean time, the Empire launched devastating surprise assaults in the once thought secure region of the south pacific, though whereas before they intervened in a rather limited fashion; this time they were dead set on conquest of a vast empire. The Guardians of Monarchy picked up with assaults at nearly anywhere they pleased; striking the underbelly of the Alliance with repeated abandon and causing merry havoc wherever they chose to, managing to quickly crash the Technocrats' latin American offensives by opening up another front in their effort to among other things; return the Pedros to the throne of Brazil even as they attacked in places such as India, China, Africa, and even raided Europe. At the same time, the Majestica Inclusive wreaked havoc in the waters of the Atlantic and other oceans; made-men launching raids more or less anywhere.

But it was perhaps the betrayal of Epsilon that was the most stinging. Taking with it many of the Alliance's most fearsome prototypes, Epsilon unveiled a great army produced in secret that was fully capable of waging total war on a global scale. Almost like magic, Epsilon appeared out of the wastes of Canada and Greenland, the Sahara and Arabian deserts, the jungles of the Amazon, Southeast Asia, and Guiana, the depths of the black forest, and the mountains of the Himalayas, the Alps, and other remote areas once safe. In other cases, they simply turned around and fired at their former masters at Geoffrey's signal to betray the Alliance and make his bid for world domination. What was supposed to be a simple clash of Communism and Capitalism had become a chaotic mess of a war with very little in the way of easily identifiable fronts. And Epsilon's methods of waging warfare and their assumed responsibility for developing counters to psychic warfare left the Alliance devastatingly vulnerable to the knife planted in their backs.

Thanks to the Axis' hostilities to Epsilon and the International (and Epsilon's own war with the other factions of the world war), the Alliance was able to regain its footing and press back against the forces that had sought to overwhelm it in a moment of weakness. The great Eagle of the Alliance would not be defeated in its battle with the International Ant by the Axis Dragon and the Epsilon Spider. Counter-offensives were made against the Axis and Epsilon, diverting resources from the fronts against the International as the war grew increasingly confused. One effect that the sudden shift in the war's character did bring about however, was the loss of the former desire to see the war to its finish. Whereas people were more than determined to see the war to the bitter end against the International, now with such a multifaceted conflict; people were more concerned with the immediate survival of the Alliance.

As the war entered its later stages, the Allies found themselves pushed back to Hamburg part way through Germany, though Thornley was convinced that with the Axis' decision to sue for peace with the death of Yoshiro and Tatsu and the stalemate in Africa and the increasing threat to the Guardians' flying cities and the Inclusive's desire to seek white peace rather than stand alone; and Epsilon being pressed to the walls; the Alliance could rebuild and finish off the International with another sea-saw offensive. However, commander Alexander Manning; a Canadian general who had fought in most of the most important battles of the war, had decided that enough was enough. And in a final drama, the Comintern supported Alex Manning's coup against Thornley in a showdown at Liverpool, but before Thornley could be captured he launched himself and a loyal cadre of followers into unknown parts of space. And at the end of it all, the allies had fought hard for little in the way of net gain and have found themselves in troubling financial straits and in need of massive rebuilding efforts.

Manning managed to negotiate a cease-fire with the Dominion, the Comintern, and the Axis thanks to the exhaustion and setbacks suffered by all four sides, but he faced a great deal of misgivings from his former enemies and many were less than pleased with the Treaty of Baghdad. With the combatants of the Third World War having moved away from total war production now, can lasting peace be had at last? Or will the world once again plunge into war as new power blocs rise? Only time can tell.

## Alliance Peacemaker Corps

*"The Alliance is an army that has brought respect from the world twice. It has shown the Communists that Capitalism still has the strength to be triumphant over the reds. It is a vast alliance of nations and dominions, and her industries have churned out a war machine that will live on in history forever. Our planes and our tanks are feared or admired the world over. Our ships weigh down the waves, and the tread of our boots shakes the Earth. Our leadership has sometimes been questionable, but with our new management and our high spirits, we shall not stumble where Thornley and Fuller fell."*

-Colonel Joseph Kilgrave.

### Tanks

*"There is but one sacred creed of the tankman. Attack."*

- *French Tank Commander Martin Dupain.*
The Alliance loves its tanks, most of the vehicles in the Peacemakers are tracked, heavily armoured, and relatively slow. As the tank corps is the pride of the Alliance Peacemakers, anyone hoping to defeat the Peacemakers will have to deal with endless waves of tanks for every conceivable purpose.

### Space Command

Space Command is mostly about providing the Alliance with quirky means of accessing capabilities that the mainstream Peacemakers cannot, such as fast and somewhat resilient raiders, quick interceptors, or precision attack aircraft. This comes at the cost of these units typically being more than a little weird, unreliable, and somewhat overcosted.

## Protocols

A list of protocols used by the Alliance. Those are tied to non-production structures. How they upgrade is not decided yet.

Template:Allied Protocols

## See Also

[[BCN News, October 31st 1996]: A seemingly common news report, but it contains some rather delicate information for the Allied citizens.