Purple Alert: Havoc Paradox

One often finds that there is in fact, such a thing as too much time travel. Then they wake up to find that some way, some how, two very different iterations of Earth were mashed together in a way that made those who lived on it just always think it was like this and barely notice the oddities. Bringing together Blue Alert Imperial Resurrection's own PEQAN PIES line (HAZARDOUS: Havoc, Ascension, Zealotry, Armageddon, Revengeance, Descent, Oracles, Unbroken, Salvation) and Red Alert PEQAN PIES. An Alert in Purple brings about a broken and deranged world, where things are very clearly not working the way they should but continue on nevertheless.

It also brings in insane but somewhat thought out rosters that try to approach how people would actually design things in such a batshit world and also an attempt at somewhat sensible history that can at least string together the assorted vibes.

## A Descent to madness

Perhaps someone reversed the wrong polarities, perhaps some act of time travel was taken too far, maybe some strange, elder lord had wiggled its pseudopods in a manner most squamous and blasphemous betwixt noneuclidean geometries and impossible angles. Whatever the case, Red and Blue have come together as Purple; joining two (and two halves) earths and two (and two halves) timelines into a combined super-earth, larger, with history contorted to allow the impossibilities of these alters existing side by side to nevertheless fail to diverge history enough to make it unrecognisable. For as far as the inhabitants of Earth "Purple" were concerned, this was how things always were and the Earth was just always this big and countries have always had alters, while it was only normal for people to be in fighting shape and prime condition into their seventies.

Also joined in were the "beta timelines", shadows of a potential otherworld, with Red beta having the Syndicate arise in Japan, Ernst Thalmann sweeping into power in Germany in 1933, Mao's revolution succeeding in China and the maintenance of Fascism in Italy, while Red Beta would instead see the Collective Arise in Japan, a Democratic Liberal Germany arise in 1933 with the election of the more militant Social Democrats under Hans Vogel, India managing to avoid its Blue Alert atomic self-immolation under a Capitalist aligned but revanchist Republic, and Amadeo Bordiga's Italy.

The Adimixture of countries was never entirely consistent, Blue Alert's North America with its UASR joined to Blue Beta's UASR was above Red Alert's with its USA joined to Red Beta's USA, separated by Blue Alert's Communist Central America and Mexico and Red Alert's democratic Canada. The Volkspakt of Blue Alert Germany lay east of Red Alert's Stahlpakt Poland, but Blue Alert's France and Britain were where France and Britain usually are relative to Schleicher's Germany; joined to their Blue Beta counterparts; while Red Alert and Red Beta's democratic France and Britain were further west, separating them from the twin Iberias. Stalin's Russia was placed below Bukharin's, with Blue Alert & Blue Beta's Red China and Red Beta's Maoist China below Bukharin's USSR and atop the divided Red Alert China, while Blue Alert's warring India adjoined to that divided China between Red Alert and Red Beta's loyal India and Blue Beta's Raj.

The Cyberbolivaran Forum's iterations were largely blended together, with the Red Alert versions to the north of the blue alert versions, while blue alert's technocratic brazilian bloc was now close to red alert mexico's technocratic sphere, with the Syndicate's Gran Colombia comfortably at the North of the contient near Technocratic Mexico. . The Japans would be atop each other, Blue Alert to the North, Blue Beta to the furthest North, Red Alert to the South and Red Beta to the furthest south, the middle two joined as one great Empire of the Rising Sun, while archipelagos were generally placed in proximity to each other. Border oddities were smoothed over by a few countries that existed in neither timeline here and there to allow for rough shapes to be preserved and for roughly similar geography to what should be at the borders of those countries, rarely all that large, but with histories written from whole cloth that were nevertheless important.

Africa was similarly, seemingly divided in such a way as to encourage geographic continuity between the alters of the blocs that would one day form upon it even while there were now two Korean peninsulas attached to their respective Chinas and a pair of Antarcticas.

It should have been an unlivable world with gravity too high and a horizon too large for history or even humanity to unfold as they did, with radically different weather conditions if there was such a thing as weather at all. But somehow, it didn't. Regardless of latitude on this large, stretched earth, weather conditions would remain comparable to their base counterparts. Popualtions were largely increased across the board to account for the larger earth and the subtle stretching of coutnries to squeeze into familiar shapes. Almost as if this were all by design, or there were some form of anthropocentric principle to ensure such insanity would have living witnesses.

Whatever is the truth is not for men to know, nor is it a question anyone even knows to ask

## Further information (Out of Universe perspective)

We're also using the landmasses here as a baseline for fictional countries https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725313804 as well as some of the fictional countries and landmasses here https://www.deviantart.com/quantumbranching/art/Imaginary-Places-514550386 and https://www.deviantart.com/fjana/art/Marvel-s-Earth-616-839225758 though generally in a way that preserves OTL country shapes as much as possible. The earth is a bit bigger to fit everything and climate issues are largely handwaved. Extremely disruptive to continent shape masses like that tumour growing out of Alaska are just moved to open ocean (and I personally would carve it up into a much smaller series of cold archipelagos and micro continents instead of a giant featureless blob).

The general rule is giving some buffer space between great powers and allowing for some extra room to fit in interesting regional sub-blocs or give some geographically constrained world powers (like the Empire of the Rising Sun) some room to expand to be more fitting of the title. As a general rule, the northern Insul-Atlantic cultures and languages; the "Atlantic Group" are culturally close to Pre-Christian Canaan and Greece but linguistically closer to Basque. Atlantic cultures are generally followers of Esnotzya which is a polytheistic faith mashed together from bits and pieces brought by Phoenician, Celtic, and Greek explorers mixed with the basque pantheon and can be best described as "Shinto if it grew out of Basque religion with Greek, Phoenician, and Celtic influences standing in for Shinto's Chinese, Korean, and Indian influences."

To avoid confusion with the Atlantean faction, the atlantic island countries are collectively called the Yammurasoa (combining the Semitic and Basque terms for the sea and water and slightly corrupting them) after the Worker's Council Makomunita (Commonwealth) of Upper Yammuraso and the Errehan (Empire) of Lower Yammuraso. The landmasses closer to Europe are called Ys (for the Celtic archipelagos closer to Britain), Thule (for the Germanic archipelagos closer to Scandinavia) Hyperborea (Finno-urgic towards the Kola peninsula), and Buyan (for North Slavic archipelagos closest to Russia).

The ones between Africa and South America generally correspond to the nearest African cultures if closer to Africa, or are unfortunately more or less wholly replaced with European cultures if closer to South America. In the far northern atlantic/arctic ocean the primary cultural influence is Nordic or Finnic depending on whether its farther west or east. The African ones tend to follow an organised form of the Yoruban Akghani cults that spread there in the middle ages, but Islam, Christianity, and Esnotzya are popular there. The colonised southwest atlantic places follow a broadly similar religious make up to their colonisers.

In the Indian Ocean, most are generally Arabic, Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Malay, Austronesian, Burmese, or Thai influenced. Due to colonialism's impact though, the legacy of the colonising cultures is still strong. The most popular faiths in the region are Hinduism (albeit more the Tamil sects), Buddhism, Shia Islam, Manichaenism, and Nestorian Christianity. In terms of animal life, they tend to be "lost worlds" like Madagascar or Australia. To avoid confusion with the undersea Lemurians, the landmasses are collectively referred to as Kumari Kandam after places important to Tamil mythology while the ones closer to the islamic world are named Iram after a Qu'ranic account of a lost land punished for its wickedness and towards the farthest south; Kerguela after the real world islands.

In the pacfic it depends very strongly on who's closest. Closer to East Asia and it's going to be offshoots of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Tungusic, and Viet cultures. Closer to the southeast pacific and it's more likely to be Malay or Tagalog speaking offshoots. Farther from that and you get mostly Polynesians and Austronesians. When you get closer to the Americas though; towards the South are Andean offshoots, in the middle mesoamericans, while towards the north they tend to be closer to Pacific Northwestern native americans; though many have been settler colonised and largely displaced by settler cultures.

Religiously Buddha's teachings have spread very far and wide, as have Chinese philosophies. Due to the way these worked, they tend to fairly neatly layer on top of pre-existing pantheons. Where settler colonialism took place or closer to Indonesia though you're more likely to see Abrahamic faiths like Islam and Christianity. The primary exception is around the sphere of influence of the dragon empire of Muh where the dualistic faith of Mu-Ten took hold; based around the Dragon God of Light Hux and the Dragon God of Darkness Xuh.

Biologically its a big pile of "lost worlds" where placental mammals largely didn't take, leaving it full of weird birds, crocodilians, and some fucked up seal and bat descendants who relearned how to walk along with imported animals from elsewhere. It's kind of like the atlantic islands in that regard but the animal life has more room to grow and often gets bigger, like the Emperor Jaw Dragon which is a really big crocodilian about as large as a decent elephant and hunts massive turtle, manatee, and crocodilian descended plant eaters.

To avoid confusion with Mu, the landmasses to the far east closer to Oceania are called Greater Zealandia (after the sunken portions of the continent whose above water portions bear the name New Zealand), Kitezeh towards the Bering Sea, to the Americas are collectively called Quiviria (North), and Cibola (South), towards Southeast Asia being Sunda, near Australia being Sahul, and the ones closest to East Asia being Fusang.

Towards the Southern Ocean, a lot more of the islands and minor continents were just never settled before the age of steam travel due to unfavourable currents and wind, so most of these cultures are colonial off-shoots of sea-going great powers or are in fact, still direct coloies or dominions of their settling powers.

Because the Earth itself is bigger, population sizes are also bigger as most countries are larger in terms of area.

## The Worlds Upside Down

The Great War that pitted the Central Powers against the Entente would rage across many continents for four dreadful years in the aftermath of Franz Ferdinand's assassination and the triggering of multiple defence pacts and guarantees of independence. Within the Entente were Oriental and Occidental France, Oriental and Occidental Britain, Upper America, Upper and Lower Russia, Oriental and Occidental Italy, Upper and Lower Brazil, and the Japanese Empire to name but a few of participants. Within the Central Powers were Oriental and Occidental Germany, West and East Austria-Hugary, the Upper and Lower Ottoman Sultanates, the greater Kingdom of Siam, the Senussi and Dervish orders, and Sun-Yat Sen's pan-asian revolutionary Kuomintang to similarly give only a brief overview.

It was a protracted, bloody war that even the Lower American and upper entry in 1917 and the dual Russian exit in the same year with the great october revolution did little to stymie. However, the weight of the balance of power was in the favour of the Entente, and the outresourced Central Powers would soon face growing internal discontent and military setback as they proved more laggard in the adoption of revolutions such as the Tank. Eventually the sort of pressure that lead to the October Revolution would spread to the west, as the Central Powers' empires collapsed. While the premature rebellion in occidental Germany would be crushed to solidify the liberal republic, in oriental Germany it would triumph, spreading throughout the former eastern central powers and sending shockwaves throughout the world with the great March revolution, sending forces to Oriental Poland to assist the Polish reds and the Soviets in tandem with the Upper and lower Finnish Socialist Workers' Republics.

The Kuomintang, buoyed by its alliance with the CPC and the Federalists, would sweep through upper China even if its lower Chinese counterpart ran into the problem of growing warlordism, while East and West Iran, Upper Afghanistan, Oriental Italy, Oriental Sweden, and Upper Turkey would join the growing tide of revolution. While the revolutionary bloc would not be wholly united in a singular grand military alliance, it would clearly pose a great challenge to the existing world order when the time came to hang the capitalists with the rope that they would sell them. A number of other countries would join them, and the Communist movement gathered with great spirits while some pushed for a more internal focus to develop the revolutionary fortress such as Stalin in Lower Russia and Luxembourg in Oriental Germany (though for different reasons) and others to consider exporting it beyond; such as Bukharin in Upper Russia.

Peace would reign for a time, even in the face of Italian Fascism and new trends in reactionary thought that arose in opposition to the great revolutionary wave such as that advocated by Kurt von Schleicher in Occidental Germany. Most assumed that wars of revanchism or revolution and reaction would probably happen at some point down the line, but for the time being the world seemed largely under control even with continued lower-Chinese warlordism, the Oriental Indian insurgency under Subhas Chandra Bose and the Azad Hind movement, and some smaller conflicts here and there. At least until the roaring 20s came crashing down.

With the Upper-American, Upper Japanese, and Upper German Revolutions of 1929 caused by the onset of the great depression seeing the birth of the UASR, the Socialist Commonwealth of Nippon, and the Upper German Socialist Worker's Republic, the growth of the Communist Worker's Party, and the restlessness of so many Upper American veterans of the great war, the world was thrown into geopolitical disarray as another major industrialised country and the world's most developed one at that embraced revolutionary socialism and a great revolutionary wave spread once again. Revolutionaries across the new world and old cropped up and socialist movements would soon be backed by Upper American and German largesse from continent to continent, with demonstrations and action being taken in just about every nation imaginable while the two Soviet Unions would merge into a singular Union of some sixty republics under the Trotika of General Secretary of the Communist Party Iosif Stalin, Premier of the Sovnarkom Nikolai Bukharin, and Chairman of the Presidium Ivan Smirnov in an unlikely collusion of the heads of the Centre, the Left, and the Right oppositions.

While Oriental Britain would soon fall under Lionism with the Edwardian Restoration and Hubert Lyautey's martial regime in oriental France would solidify its grip and make amends with the Fascist Italian regimes, occidental France and Britain found themselves relieved of much of their prior debts to Upper America, and declared them null while the less thoroughly proletarianised lower America found the CPUSA growing even in its borders. While the liberal democratic nations engaged in concessions to try and simmer down the waves of uprisings, totalitarian and/or dysfunctioal ones simply sought to use the iron fist even if it produced widespread condemnation.

With the rise of Kurt von Schleicher in Occidental Germany and the formation of the "Stahlpakt", also known as the "Imperial Entente" (or more clumsily the Franco-British-Iberian-Italian-German-Celtic-Dutch-Scandinavian Union, at least in the five minutes before they sensibly went with "European Union" instead) in opposition to the "Volkspakt", also known as the "INPROV" there would be further response from the Reds. Not just declaration the People's Republic of Middle China but a new alliance, as Zapata, Marmaduke, Ana Seghers, Chen Duxiu, and Foster would sign the East-Leningrad declaration to create the "METCOM" (Metropolis Compact) while the liberals in western europe quitely formed their own "Alliance of Free Democratic Nations around the lower German and Italian Republics as well as Occidental France and Britain and a number of smaller nations.

## The Worlds at War

Kane would direct his chief followers, particularly Yuri's Epsilon would seek to steer both sides to war. In the courts of Edward and the cliques around Stalin they hoped to encourage a conflict that could surpass the original plans to make use of German Revanchism and Japanese expasionism in scope and scale. All to lay the way for Kane's great scheme for his "Tiberium age". They would ensure that the neutral countries separating the Imperial Entente and the INPROV would often be in a state of crisis and seemingly ready to fall at any moment to either revolution of reaction, to create tension where there might otherwise be none. It did not go all their way of course, with the Esoteric Order of the Talon and the Arcane Society of the Eye ever opposing them as they had for centuries. But it would set the stage for a war nobody was fully prepared to wage.

While Lower America's Joseph McCarthy; pushed left-wards away from the Republican party by chance meetings with strange but earnest folk; gathered allies such as the Longists, the Roosevelts, Bingham, La Guardia, and George Norris and formed his Federalist Party on a platform of anti-communist and anti-fascist populism to challenge the hegemony of the two party system, the world held its breath. Truman, also facing challenge from the left himself sought to stay the course in Lower American politics, stating his hopes for the peace and that the likes of Soong Qingling; Chairwoman of the Presiding Council of the Communist International; and Leon Blum of the allies would be able to mandate a peaceful way forward.

It was not to be, citing a border incident in the bordering nations of Frovania and Fosboria; countries that existed in neither original timeline but in this one had risen to be a Western Vlachish and a western Baltic country respecitvely; comparable in size to a Greater Romania and a Post-War poland in another world; the Entente's armies crossed the border on the 31st of September 1948. Triggering a war with the Krastavgrad Mutual Assistance pact that they would prove ill-prepared to meet even with the aid of some of their most important patrons, such as the East Germanic Nation of Drakland or the slavic nations of Borginia, Zembla, and Gantha.

Though the invasion was widely condemned, as were follow up incursions into the Hispanic countries on the other side of the Atlantic and into nearby neutral countries in Indian and Pacific ocean countries, it was eventually determined by the Volkspakt's most important leaders; Josep Broz Tito of the Oriental Pan-Leithanian confederation made out of what had once been Austria-Hungary and Serbia, Onorato Damen of the Socialist Republic of Oriental Italy, Otto Grotewohl of the People's Free Council Republic of Oriental Germany, Mao Zedong of Middle China, and Iosif Stalin of the Lower Soviet Union that an intervention was needed as Entente forces reached Volkspakt borders.

Mobilising to war with the incredible MCV technology that allowed for the MCV industrial revolution, they found their request to send troops through the Mid-East Coalition blocked as the governments of Bandrika and Blitva; a pair of Finno-Urgic countries; denied passage as their militarist governments had no wish for socialist troops on their doorstep. Negotiations would break down when troops bearing the arm-band of the Mid-East coalition launched multiple raids in Volkspakt territory, prompting the order to cease talks and press ahead. By the 4th of May, 1950 the two would meet in the middle after having pushed through more than a dozen nations each to reach one another.

The battle of Blitzhof, a Middle Germanic City much like Konigsberg, made from an echo of a possibility of that city in the country of Teutlund, would be one of the most ferocious in human history. Tanks in their thousands crashed into each other while MCVs unfurled into rapidly expanding bases; Jets racing overhead to trade blows while artillery and rockets rained down. Oriental and Occidental German Panzertruppe battled it out while Leithanian infantry grappled with their Oriental French and greater Italian counterparts, already informed of how the battle was likely to go by marine actions on the high seas when war was declared.

With fighting in west Asia, Latin America, and the High Seas, it was already a world war even before one considers the communist revolutions that rose up in support of the Volkspakt as the LENCOM hurriedly made plans to intervene themselves as the southern front began to give way even while the Volkspakt was making gains in the Northern sector of the main European front and new fronts began to open elsewhere. Furthermore, the attacks on Paragon City on Rhode Island and Pearl Harbour in Upper Hawai'i by ships bearing the Oriental British flag and the Upper-Americuban invasion of neutral Upper-Costa Rica had made neutrality impossible. Particularly with the undeclared war at sea already in full swing.

By May of 1949, Premier Elizabeth Nord of the UASR's Central Committee, together with Chairman James W Ford of the American Presidium and First Secretary James P Cannon of the All-Union Congress of Worker's Coucils announced the All-Union Congress' 95% margin vote to go to war in retaliation, followed by other LENCOM members. Following Chiang Kai-Shek's attacks on Middle Chinese sphere of influence in tandem with the southernmost Showa Syndicate's attacks on Upper China in an attempt to starve the Communists in his country of support and support the middle and Oriental Indian attempt to put pressure on the LENCOM and Volkspakt, Upper China too would go to war.

An attempted distraction invasion of the UASR's northern sphere of influence was attempted by the Entente through Upper-Canada and its sphere even in the face of long odds and the naval power of the new world LENCOM in its home waters, but the red Upper-Americans would decide to largely pin these troops in place with reservist divisions while committing its naval power to supporting its allies overseas. By 1950, the balance had started to turn against the Entente, but the spread of Communist uprisings was worrying the Liberal Democratic nationists. Anthony Eden, in a pact with the liberals and a splinter rightist faction of Labour; managed to secure his own declaration of war alongside the occidental French Prime Minister George Bidaut who came in on a platform of protecting Occidental France's colonial empire from bolshevism and wringing concessions from the Entente in exchange for aid.

Almost as if inspired by the rapidly escalating spiral of war, the massive Japanese Empire decided to enter itself on 1950; using its modest network of allies and third position sympathisers to wage war elsewhere in the world against both the Reds and the Blues, seeing opportunity in invading Upper and Lower China as Chiang's forces were being rolled back and striking at vulnerable colonies. The Garveyite African League, feeling its time had come, could not help but join in, attacking both Communist militias and established colonies to try and strike down the white man's influence in solidarity with their far eastern allies. Lower America, with a newly elected President McCarthy following Truman's decision to not seek a third term, would cite the rise of the Technocratic movement to its south as a causus belli to go to war with the Communists and the Kido Butai's attacks on Lower San Francisco to retaliate agaist the Japanese.

With most regarding the nascent "axis of third powers" as a sideshow, the Allied-Entente and the METCOM-VOLPAK coalitions would focus on each other while a vicious naval struggle was waged in every ocean. However it was becoming clear that nobody was going anywhere fast, anytime major advances and gains were being made in one sector, the enemy would make major gains in another. As the METCOM-VOLPAK advanced in the northern part of the mainland of Europe, the Allied-Entente was pushing in the south. Increasingly odd and elaborate superweapons would be pulled out of the proverbial cupboard, including supersoldiers such as Volkov and Chitzkoi or Beowulf and Conroy. Both sides claimed to have invented the Iron Curtain and Chronospheres first, and the enormous Anvil and Thunderer Heavy tanks of the early war would be exceeded by the Mammoth and Mammout superheavies of the late war.

Neither side could claim to be Angels or that the other were truly demons. Brutal paramilitaries such as the Black Guard on the Red side had their match in the Blackwatch on the Blue Side, restrictions on chemical weapons were quietly dropped or even outright mocked, and both attempted mass-scale chronosphere usage to supply cut off armies such as the western pocket of the comintern and the eastern pocket of the allies wherever air and sea transport and MCV production weren't enough. Both sides attempted, to some degree, to fight a "clean war", remembering the horrors of the first great war's endless misery and the strains it induced upon society, but then no war is truly ever clean.

The years rolled on, borders and lines of advance shifting frantically and frequently. At one point, the Allied-Entente was at the last set of border republics to the Upper-USSR, at another the Communists were within eyesight of Occidental Paris. With the withdrawal of the Axis from the war with the treaty of Upper Anchorage in 1953, Edward pushed for one more offensive to try and "bleed the reds white" in the hopes of bottoming out their support, while Pyotr Masherov was convinced that a final operation could induce total revolutionary collapse in the Allied-Entente or at the very least, the cessation of Allied aid to the Entente.

While Tukhachevsky and Harry Haywood would find themselves in a defensive operation against Operation Blackbeard and Philippe LeClerc together with Bernard Montgomery would be forced to organise a last ditch defence against the surprise attack of Operation Hammer Down; they would face (Occidental) Erich von Manstein and (Lower) George S Patton in the former case, and Vincenz Muller (Oriental) aided by Nikos Stavros (Oriental) in the latter case. Neither offensives did well, with both bogging down and being frequently routed as the issues of supplying armies in separated enclaves became more apparent even with the closure of the fronts outside of Eurasia.

By October of 1954, Stalin and Edward the Eighth and their number twos; Kaganovich and Fuller; were assassinated, and with four of the biggest firebrands in favour of the conflict gone, the desire for peace after eight years of conflict was apparent. It was the "bitter peace" as nobody was happy with having enclaves of their enemies bordering important members of one another nor were they happy with the "great swap" as it was agreed to withdraw to contiguous territory, but it was a peace with honour all the same, even as the two could only look at each other and scheme for round two.

## Dreams of a greater war

That greater war would have to wait, the world needed a break from endless wars, and this was as good a time as any to have it. However it was clear to many that so may were ready, even eager for round two that world war three would come sooner than later. In the Soviet Union, Stalin would be succeeded as the most prominent official of the merged Soviet Union formed in the 30s by Olga Bergholz, Viktor Serge, and Anastas Mikoyan as Bukharin and Smirnov retired. Bergholz, who was often considered the "voice of the Union" from her stint as a reporter and a passionate orator before the war and known for her tireless efforts to spread hope during the war, was not a woman of peace. Nor were their eventual successors; Alexander Romanov, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, and Pyotr Masherov. Eventually, Romanov would leave office to be replaced as the Premier of the Sovnarkom by Anatoly Cherdenko, while a young and up and coming Valery Sablin would find his way into the position of General Secretary and the Chairmanship of the Presidium would pass down to Lyudmilla Pavilchenko,

Thoughrout these intervening decades, the now joined together communist bloc was now rechristened the Red Front. A massive, powerful alliance with many of the world's most powerful countries spread across every continent. And while the USSR had a place of honour within it, its alliance with the Upper Americans, the Upper and Oriental Germans, the three unified Red Chinas and so on so forth would keep the Communist International firmly supreme over even the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And the Comintern would routinely vote for coldly hostile policies towards their former enemies, especially as ongoing proxy wars would spread from one corner of the globe to the next. So unfriendly was this peace that it came to be known as the Cold War, defined by the fact that there was indeed a dearth of warm feelings as well as continual games of one upsmanship.

The Union of American Socialist Republics would formalise the Worker's Communist Party of America's most prominent factions, the Liberation and the Labour factions, in response to charting the course of the post war world and the application of SPAM and EVA technology to communist planning apparatuses. With the former being increasingly dominated by Richard Milhaus Nixon, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Harry Haywood; who advocated for culturally libertine but diplomatically aggressive stances and a higher emphasis on the power of the worker's coucils to ride on the wave of post-war radicalism, while the latter was influenced more by Lyndon Baines Johnson, Betty Friedan, and Benjamin J Davis Jr and sought a policy of containment intermingled with periodic intervention from positions of strength, a more neutral cultural stance, and a more centralised revolutionary apparatus. But all agreed that forward was the only sensible direction to take the communist movement, no more need for half measures or appeasement with the Liberals.

The power struggle between Lionism and Liberalism within the joining together of the Allies and Entente would not be a quiet one as the Lions sought to combine their strength with measures such as keeping up a large peace time draft and maintaining of the greatest share of military strength. While Edward would be succeeded for a time by George the Sixth as the Emperor of the Entente, with Oswald Mosley sitting as the Chief Executive of the Entente and Darlan easing himself into the position of President of the European Union, their time in office would give way to some fresh blood. Following George's death and succession by Margaret as the monarch, Mosley would move into wider Allied Politics and leave the room open for Rupert Thornley and John Cromwell, descendant of the infamous Lord Protector.

McCarthy, finding his popularity eroding thanks to severe scandals exposing his efforts to cover up often shocking war crimes and assassinate diplomats being dispatched to send peacefeelers, would die in office that same year, leaving his vice president Russel Long to shift the tone of politics towards dealing with America's war debt and rebuilding what had been damaged by bombing raids or the rise of Lower-Castro in South Cuba and the growing technocratic combine that was filling many of the voids left in the lower USA's disintegrating sphere of influence. Anthony Crossland and Guy Mollet, both members of the right wings of their centre-leftist parties, would take power in Occidental Britain and France and chart a post-war consensus with the Lionists even if the idea gave them ulcers. The new Lower American party system would coalesce around the Federalists, a broad anti-establishment coalition with faith and credit arrangements with a host of smaller parties, and the Unionists made out of the former Republicans and Democrats who represented the Establishment.

With Ciano overthrown in Middle Italy and the former Mid-east coalition countries now in the Allied-Entente sphere while the former Krastavgrad Pact was now integrated into the communist bloc, the mediterrene cartels always present in occidental Italy had only grown in scope and size; forming the so called Megacorporations that were offering advanced integrated circuit technology to be the backbone of the information age just as the Communist bloc's computers were leaving many in the west with feelings of inferiority. The issue of Japan, or the growing power of Epsilon hardly concerned anyone, besides as far as anyone in the Allied-Entente knew, Yuri was exactly who he claimed to be; a helpful white russian emigre who had made great leaps in bioscience and psychic research.

In the communist bloc, power would eventually coalesce into the Hexarchy, the nickname for six prominent Comintern politicians who sought to simultaneously minimise the risk of another war while also undermining capital from within. These included methods such as through allowance of goods manufactured by converted war factories for export into the capitalist bloc and developmental assistance to the periphery, particularly neocolonies whose differences in wage were important for profitability.

They also extensively pursued the expansion of revolutionary movements in the colonial periphery, cynically supporting the Technocrats in the Technocrat wars and a large number of revolutions in the global south. The Azad Hind and the Vietcong in South Asia were particularly favoured candidates, and the Communist International Revolutionary Exportation Forces as they were called would work extensively to aid guerillas all around the world to wage their people's wars. However the great rose movement would beget a flowering of new cultural radicalism by generations who had grown up knowing nothing but the rule of the proletariat and wanted to push things farther.

Known as the Rose Revolution, this movement would see a great expansion of the queer, environmentalist, and free love movements as well as pushes by minorities and women for further progress such as still lingering biases and sexual harassment. But it would also see a new generation of highly militant revolutioaries who wanted a greater effort to push against and destroy the Imperialist world so that man's brutal prehistory could at last end, and demanded more visible moves to do away with the tyranny of the market and a move towards the lower stage of communism. After all, the technology was already there with MCVs, EVAs, and the ore credit system, why not go farther?

But there were beyond this binary already at work. The Great Japanese Empire had analysed what had transpired in the third world war and where its means of warfare were deficient and needed refinement. They needed further work on building up their Axis of Third Powers, they needed to take the Mecha and Nanomachines that had gotten them this far further, they had to press their advantages with psychic research and greatly expand their pools of manpower. They also needed to win the war at sea as swiftly and brutally as possible, and if the Emperor Yoshiro's dream of uniting the world under one roof was to be made real, they also had to formulate plans. Having quietly made considerable gains in world war two, the Empire of the Rising sun turned to its newest Prime Minister; Nobosuke Kishi, to help Tatsu and Yoshiro draw up their grand design.

Lands that were deemed pleasant for Japanese settling were designated as places for Nissanisation, while the new cloning machines and nanotechnology would help produce a great army in secret. They also commissioned designs to address the problem of naval logistics, for Yoshiro wanted his conquest to be finished in a single war. More than MCVs were needed; and so the great Black Tortoises were designed, while allies such as the Guardians of Monarchy and the African league were tapped to work out "collaborative problems" to smooth over logistics and compatability, at least, as much as they cared to anyway. Lesser allies of sufficiently similar culture and language such as Yamatai and Hokikyo already bound to Japan through acts of Union; were fully federated into a new Empire of the Rising Sun, while more culturally distant allies within Japan's sphere of influence would become the "Solar Co-Prosperity Sphere" or would be drawn into acts of confederation.

The African League, opposed to both Communist and Capitalist views of nationalism and their particular visions for the mother continent and its wayward island children, would sink great resources into not only industrialising their new territories with the MCVs they had recovered but building a wholly new technological base. One that would bring to life Garvey's dream of a third position nationalist united Africa under the auspices of Emperor Hallie Selassie who, having now climbed his way to the seat of the Great Powers, would settle for nothing less than for his court to be the one that the world would revolve around.

Meanwhile the Reactionary Guard gathered its forces, using cloning to populate more flying city ships that it built in greater and greater numbers, acquiring resources through the strange places they could access through poking into doors opened by applying their kinetic technology to spacetime. While Wrangel, Rasputin, John Carpenter, Jose Raposo, Charles Maurras, and Chang Yin-Tang squabbled for influence, Tabitha Cavendish would only rise to greater influence and power in th Guard's ranks of stodgy ageless immortals, establishing ties in both the Pacific Trader Movement and the Titan Inclusive as well as other members of the axis, determined to carve out her place in the organisation.

But there were powers far more sinister at work as Ishtar, Mohmar Deathstrike, Yuanzhang, Medea, the Iron Snake, the Red Lady, and Yuri of the Scavenger Temple, the Global Liberation Army, the Circle of Lightning, the Shadow Conven, Iron Fangs, Dread Corsairs, and the Epsilon Division to name some of the largest members gathered to formulate the creation of a new power bloc; the GOlgalorious Illuminate. These powers shared a vision and a goal, of the world as it disappearing into the sands of time and being replaced with something grander, something built on a new faith, that would beget a new, purer world, one built on a road to enlightenment.

The Scavenger Temple, or to use its true name; the Fellowship of Steel Redemption; would scavenge the equipment it sought for its war on the world order, amassing armies in secret under the Steel Creed that preached salvation through technology and a promise of a coming vision of paradise brought about by a revolution not of class or of people or of nations; but of the soul and of the impoverished spirit against the materialist world order. Building her power bases underground, underwater, and concealed with PAWI devices where she could, the great secret army would amass in regions frequently devastated by war that would cling to their preaching and take their extended hand.

The Global Liberation Army, born of disparate fourth positionist ideals and beliefs united primarily by a dream for national liberation against globalist systems and the protection of their ways and homes from a world they saw as out to oppress them, would prepare its tunnel networks and its cells in places with lax monitoring or in the margins between where the great powers fought one another. Steadily gaining a greater profile through terrorist attacks and low level insurgent violence, their black market connections would help money pass between hands and provide a more visible explanation for the Illuminate's growing movements and actions.

The Circle of Lightning fed on those left in the cold by the predominance of empiricist ideals over spiritualist ones, those who believed that there was no room for faith in this world of cold science and historical dialectics found solace and comfort in the seemingly magical capabilities of the millenarian teachers of the Circle who would instruct the peoples of Asia and beyond of their true potential. A potential to unshackle themselves from the surly bounds of the material world and to ascend to true power that could heal the sick, make the weak strong, and achieve greatness that those who preach that all that is to be known can be understood with mere science fear and that a coming scourge would sweep away the stupid.

The Conven, ancient circles of witches and warlocks who had practiced their abilities in secret for centuries and had hoped to use them to rule and guide mankind had grown spiteful in the continued repression of their abilities and the fear of their "sorceries" as their approach to esper abilities was called; had been contacted to have a chance to practice in open and to play a part into making the world like them. Opposed to both others of their old orders who wanted to avoid damnation and enticed by the promise of a world united and put on a path to transcend limitations and weakness, they would agree to share their ancient lore and expand their numbers with the aid of the growing Illuminate Armies.

The Iron Fangs, preaching sorts of local sovereignty and the right to make whatever one wishes of their own life so long as they have the strength to take it were drawn into the Illuminate's orbit less by their own design and more by the machinations of the Illuminate. Nevertheless, they saw in the Illuminate a way to create the world where the strength of one's own arm and the faith people have in them will be the whole of the law and people will live simpler, nobler, more heroic lives above the rot and decay of modernity and choose their own morality rather than have it be dictated by some idea of a greater good. A way to provide them with the armies they would need to challenge the system as it was, rather than as they'd like it to be.

The Corsairs for their part, were primarily invested into the burgeoning war effort because it offered the chance for chaotic seas that would be full of plunder, and the promises of immortality and greatness if they did their time in service to the Illuminate were more than tempting enough for these violent thrillseekers to sign on board.

As for Yuri, this was the work of many lifetimes, many timelines, this was something that he, the Epsilon, could not, and would not back down on. It was the great dream of mankind truly united under one vision, one purpose, and to use their power over the mind to finally achieve peace so that mankind could unlock the greatest mysteries of the universe. It would birth a new humanity, one of perfect bodies, awakened minds, and unified souls, A mankind that would master the universe itself, and transcend into living gods over this world, where there would be no more struggle, no more strife, no more division or purposelessness or the merest imperfection. It would be a blissful, world, a better world, their world.

But more openly, the Front of Sovereign Nations sought to build up, itself seeing the growing storm of war gathered by so many power blocs and quailing in fear and worry. Their hopes for a non-aligned movement were increasingly being dashed by the intensity of the hostility between countries and power blocs, and it was clear that they would need to take matters into their own hands if they wished to create a world safe for ideas that rejected the dominion of the great power blocs. Ironically by forming their own power bloc centred around the Combined Technate of the Americas, a sprawling giant encompassing what had once been many different countries; as well as sympathisers and outright allies such as the rising Industrial Democracy movement, Anti-Comintern Socialists, Populist Movements, Social National Liberalism, and left-wing nationalist movements at odds with the Comintern's focus on marxist internationalism.

The Combine knew that this was a gamble, as did allies such as the Guild of Insulindian Industrial Federations, Nehruist Lower India, the United Africa movement, and the Pangaean Generation to name a few. Sometimes called the "Greens" to distinguish themselves from the "Red" Communist Bloc and the "Blue" Allied bloc or the "White" Axis bloc, the Combine decided, reluctantly, to begin a general mobilisation for a world war. This was not a decision taken lightly, but it was believed that there was no other option to prevent an escalation to further and worse conflict than before than to disarm the world by force and imposing a system of checks and balances to ensure that the globe would be safe for its march to Utopia.

It would be a risky gambit, one against enemies more experienced and familiar with warfare, but it would be deemed a necessary one if it meant saving the world from what they believed was its inevitable destruction should these world wars just keep on getting worse and more destructive.

Finally, the last bloc was one built not on earth, but in the dark corners of time. The Cyclone Revolutionary Alliance, an alliance of Anarchists who had sought to ensure the flying of the black banner and combat Yuri's influence wherever they found it, had already started its work to prepare for its crusade, building up its bastions and its strange fortifications in more hidden places while weaving networks of sympathisers wherever they could to prepare for their great insurgency. And in the process of this had stumbled into the Timestorm Project and the Chronowarped Remnant. Lost survivors of doomed timelines of the Red Alert and Blue Alert timestream's prior iterations and their desperate attempts to survive. Contacting secret task forces such as U-COM and the Trinity Initiative which were founded by clandestine paranoiacs fearful of tampering with the world by extraterrestrials and forces beyond time as well as being contacted in turn by the likes of the White Circle which feared the Conven's current path and the Lemurians who had grown to disagree with Atlantis' timetables of secrecy in light of an increasingly more chaotic world.

Unbestknown to everyone though, the constant meddling with Time had not succeeded in erasing or removing the influence of the Jikankari, who were waiting for the right opportunity to break into the new timeline and feed.

## We want war! Wake up!

No one could really say who started the Third World War, beyond that it started over spy plane shoot down incidents in Europe being taken as the excuse needed to finally start sweeping into the enclaves the Red and Blue blocs had in Europe. Members separate from their core membership surrounded by their enemies, and daggers pointed at their throats. The Blue Thunder and the Red Lightning would marshal to war in 1984, a little less than thirty years after the second.

Using the biotechnology planted by Yuri in both blocs to replace their armies losses and bulking up their forces with exponential improvements to MCV production technologies, the armies of the third war would be even greater than those of the second, with the demographic consequences of full scale warfare largely nullified they felt no shame or fear in engaging in high casualty tactics to smash into one another with tremendous force. With the political factions driving the war on both sides driven by Cherdenko and Thornley, the two war machines would close towards one another with deadly intent as secondary fronts opened up elsewhere around the world, all set on finishing the business started thirteen years ago.

Few were more enthusiastic for the contest than the Ackermans of the Upper and Lower American states. The one of the Upper America; the UASR; a die-hard Haywoodite militant internationalist and dyed in the wool Left-Communist while the Lower Ackerman of the USA was a loud and proud Longite-Rooseveltian Progressive Populist and McCarthyite anti-communist. Unbestknown to the Red and Blue Blocs, both the Premier and President had been replaced by Japanese Androids years ago and were meant to ensure that the backs of the first and second worlds were looking the other way when the Axis' time to strike came.

With their respective bug bears separated from their borders by mere oceans and allies they pushed for increasing commitments of Men and Materiel; exhorting the countries captured in their political orbit to join them on great crusades. While the UASR was the somewhat larger, more populous, more industrialised and stronger country than its southern counterpart, its military force was spread across the world more thinly to support allies in every continent, while the Blue America had more forces concentrated to attempt counter-attacks or reinforce failing lines in select battle zones, managing to keep Americuba safe from Red American invasion for the time being even as the UASR's military forces helped to counter an Entente major offensive into the north of central Europe to buy time for evacuations.

By 1986, both sides had reasons to claim they were winning as the overran the enclaves of the other blocs in Europe and had made major advances in one sector or another. The Communists had the greater advantage in industry and manpower, but the Allies had an easier time amassing their troops due to their geography, and entered the third year of the war in high spirits. While there were some disappointments, such as the failed Allied invasion of Bordigist Upper Italy with the defeat at Sardinia or the Brighton debacle, both were of the opinion that they had only begun to fight and their follow up operations would carry the day.

Some concerning news about odd build ups of forces by third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh parties were given some heed, but not taken with too much concern. The Axis' efforts in the third world war had after all, been sideshows and who else could seriously challenge the two great power blocs? Unfortunately, they had failed to account for the fact that not all the world's powers played with their cards face up as the good days of the likes of Cherdenko and Thornley were interrupted by a lot of very bad news happening in short order.

In Oriental Paris, as the Allies' people gathered to celebrate the first day of the New Year and the accompanying military parade, stealthed forces were moving in secret to target the distracted Allied High Command and seize their stockpiles of intercontinental ballistic missiles being carried aboard mighty trucks. While there were concerning reports from the Epsilon Division and Yuri himself was curiously absent, Thornley had his memories of Yuri altered and no one was there to warn the Allied command of what was coming. Then multiple high-value fusion reactors detonated at the same time and the city of lights fell into midnight January darkness.

Crowds exposed to delayed action Terranova micro-capsules secretly implanted into the drinking water of certain neighbourhoods mutated into monsters in seconds while subterranean machines tore from the ground and space fleet machines descended to unload a never before seen cavalcade of armies on the streets of Oriental Paris. The Illuminate had revealed itself, and for the people of the queen of cities there would be a massacre. Roaring beasts tore through the streets and many found delayed action mind control agents firing off to turn them on their brothers while confusion gas flooded the streets and set the people against each other.

The Prime Minister of the Franco-British Union; Mosley; would not survive; with his own devastator bodyguards turning their weapons upon him when their psychic advisor ensorcelled them before he could make good on a planned escape while the contentious Montparnasse Tower blew off its coverings to reveal a psychic amplifer that would seal the city's fate in minutes.

Bad would become worse as the Axis began its lightning offensives on all sides, cutting through the arctic circle to surprise enemies who would never have expected such an attack from any Axis member while the massive Black Tortoises bulldozed their way through opposition to set up the logistical hubs of further invasion. The British half of the oriental Fraco-British Union would suffer some of the worst of it while massive Axis invasion forces would cut deep into Lower Russia, bypassing centres of strength with mobile nanocore supplied troops and burrowing machines to strike into key strategic objectives. The truth though was that the Axis was attacking everywhere at once, in their "Kantai Kessen" gambit to secure dominance of the ocean before anyone could turn their strength against them.

The Empire's Allies struck Comintern, Allied, and Illuminate positions around the world, Reactionary Skyships and Flying War-Cities launching massive invasions far and wide while the African League fell upon their hated foes with explosive fury. The Titan Inclusive's war machines rolled out of island and underwater fortresses to join the subterranean troops of the Agarthic State would rise up at selected points that were deemed a threat to their vision of an accelerationist order that Japan would be the torchbearer of. Futurist societies would rise up in celebration of these attacks, taking up arms as the Solarians that would bring the world into Yoshiro's bold new future by hook or crook.

But not even the Axis would be prepared for the fifth invader, as the Cyclone would emerge from the mists of time and space to secure its future in the face of oblivion; emerging with the Chrono Alliance, the Wraith Project, the International Black Army, the Pangaean Generation, and other suddenly emerged threats. Yoshiro would be treated to the sight of an impossible army emerging from quite literally nowhere, attacking from all sides while its strange machines sought to lay waste to anything in the way of their claim to building everything needed to anchor themselves.

Citing that the world had well and truly gone completely mad and having been subject to a number of incidental attacks, the Combine and its Front of Sovereign nations would enter the third world war itself shortly after, turning the fifth world war into the sixth as the conflict became a deranged madhouse. Virtually nowhere in the world was safe or free from the bitterness of conflict, and the world's armies would battle in the spacelanes, in the seas, on the land, in the sky, beneath the surface, and even in strange pockets of space and time.

The multisided free for all nature of the conflict served to make it particularly devastating as one side could start winning only to be focused down by the others to reverse their gains and prevent them from achieving success, leading to many stretches of territory being fought over again and again by multiple mutually hostile factions, frequently making deserts to call peace in the process. Days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years. Casualties spiralled in a perverse hell of conflict where people could be replaced with ease and machines churned out of anything available.

Gambits and trump cards would be deployed and traded constantly, advantages brought up only to be lost shortly after. The decade would be entirely lost to the conflict, and not even the atomic holocaust in Lower China and India in 1966 could get any of them to meaningfully slow down their conflict. They had their own, more important war to keep going, for homeland, for conquest, for ideology, for nation. But as the war increasingly became bogged down, it became less popular in many circles as what it was even being waged for slowly was starting to be lost. But there was something that bothered the Communist International's STAVKA, the Illuminate was keeping enormous numbers of troops in the Antarctic with no effort to move them from their post.

With exposure to the terror of the psychic beacons and dominators, Upper Carville made a bold and perhaps concerning theory; the Illuminate wasn't committing its full strength like everyone else was because they had something deeply concerning up their sleeves. And after taking over a major Illuminate naval base in southern Africa they would find some of their worst fears confirmed. Epsilon was working on a superweapon to end all superweapons that would engulf the solar system in mental domination by bouncing off of every usable psionic amplifier and beacon.

If it fired, all the conventional victories in the world wouldn't matter, everyone would lose. With Davidova, Krukov, and Carville busy with the operations northwards; the operation would be entrusted to General Helsing, commander of the Paradox Engine which was felt to be the only thing that could menace the Antarctic Fortress that had so far repulsed every attack or probe. While Supreme Marshal Krukov would coordinate the war effort in the wider world, including the effort to launch counter-attacks into Allied territory and prepare for Operation Fimbulwinter against the Empire and to get the Revolutionaries and Front to the negotiating table; Helsing would lead a massive cross-continental invasion force.

One that would arouse suspicion from the other power blocs who ordered their own expeditionary forces to pursue the dreaded Paradox Engine and see what all the fuss was about while everyone was hoping to pull off their respective endgame moves in the hopes of bringing the conflict to an end in its eighth year of war. Even when Yoshiro, Himiko, Tatsu, and Toshi were killed during the invasions of Middle Japan, Shiro Kamina was still under orders to continue the war under the authority of the enthroned Emperor Akihito in the frozen wastes of middle antarctica. The Paradox Engine was able to put the Mental Omega device to siege in the battle of the South Pole, even when faced with mind controlled servants from the other armies as well as intervention forces from the other armies, but after Yuri returned to the South Pole following his victory at Madrid, it was clear that there wasn't much time left.

Yuri's creation would destroy the Paradox Engine which collided with the Device in one last effort to buy time, and with that time, a hurried alliance was made while Davidova, Manning, Kamina, Lopez, and Chung had come together in a final accord against Gluckel Horowitz, Yuri and the best of what the last alliance could bring together. With Cherdenko and Thornley having flown to space and Kamina being declared the overall Shogun of the Empire, this was the do or die moment, and even in the face of the Mental Omega device's exponentially growing mind control waves, Yuri's tower would be destroyed with the final crashing of the Entente's Camelot Destroyer Station into the Mental Oemga and the opening of a luminary gate by the Combine within it.

## A Cold Peace

While Horowitz would drive the foe back, the crippling done to the Psychic Amplifier network forced even Ishtar and Yuri to agree to peace-talks at the Berlin conference, even with the final drama of the sudden renegade activity of Lower and Upper Ackerman forcing deployments in America to stop the destruction of the peace hall via superweapon.

While the Communists would reveal that their Ackerman had been replaced by an Imperial Android at some point, the Allies declined to reveal such on their end, which would cast a dark shadow on the term of the newly sworn in president Dennis Hoffhassle. There were other concerns to deal with, such as the resumption of conflicts in Southeast Asia as well as strange forces emerging from lower China and India as word spread of what had transpired there, all while odd mechanical and extradimensional sights haunted many logs. The rise of the Alaeva and the Dwauridin from the sea and Urth would complicate the bounadries of politics, as did the revelation of Alter-Timeline factions from the Norse, Roma, Spartakus, and Holyverses that sought secret pacts with political groups close to their politics, hoping to pool resources together.

The rebuilding would proceed almost unnaturally quickly as the 1970s rolled on, even with the world only somewhat more peaceful than the eight years of hell it had just crawled out of. But with so many years of conflict, most people were glad for the end to the general war economy and the onset of peace. With so many corpses to bury and cities to rebuild and mayhem to recover from, this change of pace was welcome. It was an uneasy peace, but there was the hope that after two world wars longer than the brief interim between them, which many people regarded as less of an interbellum and more of a colder phase of one, great world wa; that the general stomach for grinding conflict on such a scale had faded.

But of course, there were also those who believed that the devastation called for greater millitancy, greater preparation for the enemies within and without. Nobody was invincible, and horrible, monstrous things had been unleashed in the world's greatest ever conflict. And there were unsettled grudges to deal with. The trading of territory between hands had left the greater european enclaves crushed, with proletarian and bourgeois regimes imposed atop what were once blue or red states, and some countries had been reunified only for others to be divided in their stead. It was a state of affairs that pleased very few hawks, even as eyes started to be turned away from the old cores and towards the proxy conflicts that were being bitterly contested elsewhere or to the containment of the new Atomic bloc risen from the dread of Green August.

The Atomic Bloc blamed everyone for the fate of Atomic China and India, those who had sought to steal from them during their wars, those who had encouraged their civil wars, those who had profited from their countries over the years. All were to blame, and all would bear witness to the great and terrible majesty of the green armies and those who would follow the word of their seventh way; a way for vengeance and power against a world that had murdered them and grown rich from it. Already they had made some skirmishes during the ongoing third world war, but now those skirmishes would give way to outright invasions and assaults, forcing the world to respond with containment efforts against this untested power bloc that had amassed a bizarre but advanced army.

But as the 1972 election season in Lower America was getting ready to test whether Dennis Hoffhassle's "big deal" was going to last past his first half-term, odd events and Anti-Cop Spring in Lower America following the ARV massacre would pile onto the deteriorating internal situation in post-war Lower America as heavy rebuilding and the question of how much Allied interference was needed pushed thinngs to the breaking point. The Federalists, following the arrest of Dennis Hoffhassle on charges of supporting the riots, would call for revolution, even while the Communists were looking with growing concern at the Atomic bloc.

With civil war now raging in Lower America and beyond, the end of world war three certainly hasn't seemed to bring the peaceful situation hoped for. All the while, monsters in the dark lurk, waiting and watching.

# The Factions

## Purple Alert: The Havoc Paradox

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Imperial Entente Cordiale (PA:HP)
* Union of Soviet Republics (PA:HP)
* Allied Democratic Nations (PA:HP)
* Jikankari Devourers (PA:HP)
* Confederated Continental Revolutionaries (PA:HP)
* Technocratic Combine (PA:HP)
* Epsilon Awakened Dominion (PA:HP)
* Empire of the Rising Sun (PA:HP)
* Free Cyclonic Revolt (PA:HP)
* Atomic Samrat of India (PA:HP)
* Atomic Dynasty of China (PA:HP)
* Mediterranean Syndicate (PA:HP)
* Digital Collective (PA:HP)
* Chrono-Alliance (PA:HP)
* Pangaean Generation (PA:HP)
* African League (PA:HP)
* Black Sun Sect (PA:HP)
* Global Liberation Army (PA:HP)
* Order of the Talon (PA:HP)
* Convocation of Dawn (PA:HP)
* Electrical Protectorate (PA:HP)
* Zeelich Communes (PA:HP)
* Ukrazol Ecumene (PA:HP)

* Entente Warfighters (PA:HP)
* Comintern Volunteers (PA:HP)
* Allied Reservists (PA:HP)
* Red China (PA:HP)
* Blue China (PA:HP)
* White China (PA:HP)
* Red India (PA:HP)
* Blue India (PA:HP)
* Safron India (PA:HP)
* ARVN (PA:HP)
* Vietminh (PA:HP)
* Indochinese Imperialists (PA:HP)
* Global Abnnormality Coalition (PA:HP)
* Crescent Pact (PA:HP)
* Arab Coalition (PA:HP)
* African Worker's Organisation (PA:HP)
* African Colonial Protectors (PA:HP)
* African Dynamists (PA:HP)
* Pan-African Continental Army (PA:HP)
* Commune Special Situations (PA:HP)
* Societal Organizers (PA:HP)
* Scorpion Cell (PA:HP)
* Cult of the Black Hand (PA:HP)

Havoc Paradox Tech Factions (WIP)* International Incorporated (PA:HP)
* Interdisciplinary STEM Group (PA:HP)
* Interbloc Aerospace Committee (PA:HP)

## Purple Alert: Echoes of Ascension

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Lower American Unionists (PA:HP)
* Cybernetic Forum (PA:HP)
* Greater Indian Commonwealth (PA:HP)
* Asia-Pacific Revolutionary Compact (PA:HP)
* Axis Solarian Warriors (PA:HP)
* Oceanic Contingent (PA:HP)
* Revolutionary Exportation Force (PA:HP)
* Indo-Pacific Defense Initiative (PA:HP)
* Near-Eastern Socialist Organisation (PA:HP)
* Reactionary Guard (PA:HP)
* Accelerator Institute (PA:HP)
* Four Heavenly Zaibatsu (PA:HP)
* The Renegade Islands (PA:HP)
* Estado Novo (PA:HP)
* Prester John's Land (PA:HP)
* World Redemption Army (PA:HP)
* Circle of Lightning (PA:HP)
* The Atomic Insurgency (PA:HP)
* POPNET Mechanoids (PA:HP)
* Formican Threat (PA:HP)
* Cyberdark Assimilation (PA:HP)
* Arbiflorid Regenerators (PA:HP)
* Universal Free Territories (PA:HP)

* Inkarri Theocracy (PA:HP)
* Integralistas (PA:HP)
* Phoenix Front (PA:HP)
* The Network (PA:HP)
* Comintern Armed Investigators (PA:HP)
* Fraternity of Ezio (PA:HP)
* Epsilon All-Seeing Eye (PA:HP)
* Entente Security Forces (PA:HP)
* Pahit Dictatoriat (PA:HP)
* Unionist International (PA:HP)
* People's Republic of Indochina (PA:HP)
* Lower Nepali Survivors (PA:HP)
* Lower Mongolian Migration (PA:HP)
* Pan-Atomic Sword Force (PA:HP)
* Upper Korean Worker's Liberation Army (PA:HP)
* Lower Korean People's Army (PA:HP)
* Lower EoK Penal Divisions (PA:HP)
* GLA Golden Sands (PA:HP)
* Sky-Bandit Anarchist Legion
* Jikankari Spacemakers
* Protectorate Icon Cult
* Glade Growers
* Universal Black Army

Echoes of Ascension Tech Factions (WIP)* Interpol (PA:HP)
* Intergalactic Explorer's Lodges (PA:HP)
* Intersphere Crime Outfit

## Purple Alert: Quantum Zealotry

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Lemurian Ergatocracy (PA:HP)
* Thassolocracy of Thule (PA:HP)
* Oranbegan Glades (PA:HP)
* Kandami Republics (PA:HP)
* Talokanl Marches (PA:HP)
* Cibolan Gilded (PA:HP)
* Primarchy of Mu (PA:HP)
* Norse Fylkirate (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Unification Concordiat (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Pan-Continental Federation of Workers (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Senatus Que Popularum Romanus (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Integralist Concordat (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Federation of Bharati Rajahs (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Popular Confederations of Turtle Island (Kemetverse)
* Solar Pharaonate of Kemet (Kemetverse)
* Triune Empire of Bengal-Yunnan-Siam (Kemetverse)
* Multinational Anti-Communist Union (PA:HP)
* Enlightened Conclave (PA:HP)
* Secretariat of Public Safety (PA:HP)
* Kumun Hegemony (PA:HP)
* Dawaurdin Confederacy (PA:HP)
* Catacomb Nations (PA:HP)
* Ylanhid Cerebrovores (PA:HP)
* Darkwater Industries (PA:HP)
* Occidental Balkan Rebellion (PA:HP)
* Home Army Faction (PA:HP)
* Red Army Faction (PA:HP)
* Epsilon Headquarters (PA:HP)
* Cyclonic Wings (PA:HP)
* Children of Anarchy (PA:HP)
* Jomsvikings (PA:HP)
* Cohort Popularum (PA:HP)
* Guardians of Sobek (PA:HP)
* Aspirants of Yuri (PA:HP)
* New Makhnovia (PA:HP)
* Talon's Eyes (PA:HP)
* Apophis Sect (PA:HP)
* Star Jaws Pack (PA:HP)
* Katipunan (PA:HP)
* Forgotten Flotilla (PA:HP)
* Dawaurdin Socialist Holds (PA:HP)
* Intergalactic Revolutionary Helpers (PA:HP)
* Iron Fangs (PA:HP)

Echoes of Ascension Tech Factions (WIP)* International Aid Association (PA:HP)
* Intermilitary Munitions Group (PA:HP)
* Interspecies Communications

## Purple Alert: Armageddon of Annihilation

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Seven Seas Sphere (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Unitary Domain (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Xian Dynasty (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Heiliges Römisches Reich (PA:HP) (HREverse)
* Global Socialist Commonwealth (PA:HP) (HREverse)
* Sword League (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Heavenly Society (PA:HP) (HREverse)
* Directorate Remnants (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Consortium Remnants (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Association Remnants (PA:HP) (Kemetverse)
* Titan Inclusive (PA:HP)
* Bara Sono Society (PA:HP)
* Shintai Society (PA:HP)
* Task Force Omega (PA:HP)
* Strike Force Chimera (PA:HP)
* Counter-Revolutionary United Nationalists (PA:HP)
* United African Socialist Republics (PA:HP)
* United States of Riverine Africa (PA:HP)
* Pacific Traders (PA:HP)
* Luminous Phalanx (PA:HP)
* Uncoloured Host (PA:HP)
* Tendriculous Legion (PA:HP)
* The Ravening Glitch (PA:HP)
* Technocratic Parties (PA:HP)
* Oriental European Royal Guard (PA:HP)
* Superb Solutions (PA:HP)
* Ecumenical Militant Reserach Division (PA:HP)
* Ostplan Division (PA:HP)
* Nubarian Guard (PA:HP)
* Teutonic Volkskorps (PA:HP)
* ALBION Group (PA:HP)
* Seven Seas House Knights (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Spartacist Nanosapiens (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Dominus Custodians (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Xian Tributaries (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Fellows of St.Boniface (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Red Ronins (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Blade Saints (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Tian Missionaries (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Lemurian Academy (PA:HP)
* Allied Entente Boffins (PA:HP)
* TSEL (PA:HP)
* Tabithan Arcadians (PA:HP)

Armageddon of Annihilation Tech Factions (WIP)* Intercontinental Construction Cooperative (PA:HP)
* Interactive Demolition Collective (PA:HP)

## Purple Alert: Null Revengeance

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Shadow Conven (PA:HP)
* Syndicalist INFOR (PA:HP) (Syndiverse)
* Russian National People's Republic (PA:HP) (Syndiverse)
* Atomic Avengers of Africa (PA:HP) (Syndiverse)
* Concert of Revolutionary Socialists (PA:HP) (Concertverse)
* Russo-American Codominium (PA:HP) (Concertverse)
* Atomic Bastion of Brazil (PA:HP) (Concertverse)
* Transpacific Democratic Treaty Organisation (PA:HP) (Syndiverse & Concertverse)
* Ayin Illuminate (PA:HP) (Syndiverse & Concertverse)
* Federation of Mechanical Comrades (PA:HP)
* Tesla Society (PA:HP)
* Scavenger Temples (PA:HP)
* Entente Cyborg Nation (PA:HP)
* I AM (PA:HP)
* WE ARE NOT(PA:HP)
* Imperial Posthuman Army (PA:HP)
* Regalak Regency (PA:HP)
* Aridixynth Omnist Labour Councils (PA:HP)
* Intergalactic Free States (PA:HP)
* Star Imperium (PA:HP)
* Holy Roman Volunteers (PA:HP)
* Custodian Dominate (PA:HP)
* Epsilon Genisys Group (PA:HP)
* Marked of the Messiah (PA:HP)
* Hidden Brotherhood (PA:HP)
* Cosmonaut Control of the Comintern (PA:HP)
* Allied-Entente Space Command (PA:HP)
* Imperial Space Sentai (PA:HP)
* Afrinaut Military (PA:HP)
* AVALON Group (PA:HP)
* Aridixynth Indigenous Defenders (PA:HP)
* Paladins of the Imperium (PA:HP)
* Cherdenko's Space Loyalists (PA:HP)
* Thornley's Space Diehards (PA:HP)
* League Elite Battalions (PA:HP)
* Guild of Shadows (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Fellowship of Radiance (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Circle of Claws (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Hexarchs of the Maw (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Black Squadrons (PA:HP) (Syndiverse & Concertverse)
* IWW Fighting Furies (PA:HP) (Syndiverse & Concertverse)
* Democratic Sentinels (PA:HP) (Syndiverse & Concertverse)
* Awakened of Ayin (PA:HP) (Sydiverse & Concertverse)

Null Revengeance Tech Factions (WIP)* Interdimensional Travel Agency (PA:HP)
* Intertimeline Archivists (PA:HP)
* Intercausal Hirees (PA:HP)

## Purple Alert: Descent into Pandemonium

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Wraith Project (PA:HP)
* Agarthic State (PA:HP)
* Mutageni-Men (PA:HP)
* Upper American Socialist Liberators (PA:HP)
* Freedom Fighters of Titan (PA:HP)
* Lower Showa Cartel (PA:HP)
* Imperial Colonisation Committee (PA:HP)
* Epsilon Lunar Command (PA:HP)
* Circle of Lightning (PA:HP)
* Creation Assembly (PA:HP)
* Terra Nova (PA:HP)
* Foundation for the Enigmatic (PA:HP)
* Friends of Liberty (PA:HP)
* Yakuza (PA:HP)
* Cosa Nostra Families (PA:HP)
* East India Company (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Imperiale Wirtschaftskonglomerate (PA:HP) (HREVerse)
* Siloviki Kombinats (PA:HP (Syndi & Concertverse)
* Gardariki Khaganate (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Grand Hungaria (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Kharakar Blood Reavers (PA:HP) (Aliens)
* Teledene Pacifiers (PA:HP) (Aliens)
* Tetrarchy of Thunder (PA:HP)
* Pangaean Florosapiens (PA:HP)
* JADE Mutants (PA:HP)
* Sky Scoundrels (PA:HP)
* Karakt Space Pirates (PA:HP)
* Talon Kabbalistic Fellowship (PA:HP)
* Talon Sufi Mystics (PA:HP)
* Talon Christly Hermetics (PA:HP)
* Talon Gnosis Seekers (PA:HP)
* Talon Mahayana Scholars (PA:HP)
* Talon Guru Acolytes (PA:HP)
* Cyclonic Starwatchers (PA:HP)
* Sunken City Faithful (PA:HP)
* Continental Freedom Guard (PA:HP)
* Cyclonic Bastion (PA:HP)
* Kharakar Bloodhunters (PA:HP) (Aliens)
* Teledine Beneficents (PA:HP) (Aliens)
* Free State Sellguns (PA:HP)
* Regent Armoured Fist (PA:HP)
* Triad Remnnants (PA:HP)
* Ascendancy of Pyramids (PA:HP)
* The Worldlost (PA:HP)
* Combine Fungoids (PA:HP)
* Commune Experimental Warfare Group (PA:HP)

Descent into Pandemonium Tech Factions (WIP)* Interuniversal Explorer's Lodge (PA:HP)
* Interfaith Conclave (PA:HP)

## Purple Alert: Oracles of Insanity

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Saurian Accord (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Underworld Mechmen (PA:HP)
* Abyssal Ancients (PA:HP) (Underwater)
* Hadaean Endurers (PA:HP) (Underwater)
* Anoxic Horrors (PA:HP) (Underground)
* Midnight Cabal (PA:HP)
* Elder Sleepers (PA:HP)
* Pachakinsuyun Democracy (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Deinych Rexate (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Excan Tlahtoloyan (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Gardariki Khaganate (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Holy League (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Basileia Rhomaion (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Carcerian Avengers (PA:HP) (Underwater)
* Proletarian Weavers (PA:HP) (Arachnoverse)
* Web of Iron (PA:HP) (Arachnoverse)
* Sassanian Shahdom (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Vulcan Crystallines (PA:HP) (Underground)
* Esoteric Research Commissariat (PA:HP)
* Unusual Incidents Task Force (PA:HP)
* Onmyouji Fraternity (PA:HP)
* Yuri's Cultivators (PA:HP)
* Army of the Starless Night (PA:HP)

* Sauric Infiltrators (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Family Hitmen (PA:HP)
* Silent Spectres (PA:HP)
* Concordiat Checkershirts (PA:HP)
* Ecumene Bloodsports Champions (PA:HP)
* Communist Portalcorps (PA:HP)
* Allied Chrononauts(PA:HP)
* Blessed of the Messiah (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Combine Luminaries (PA:HP)
* Deinych Recon Unit (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Temple of Vulcan (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Comintern Thaumaturge Circles (PA:HP)
* Seithr Sisterhood (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Allied Occult Coalition (PA:HP)
* Socialist Anomaly Response Unit (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Technocratic Magi (PA:HP)
* National Aberrance Containment Force (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Imperial Shrine Alliance (PA:HP)
* Concordian Reality Harmonizers (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Weaver Iron Threads (PA:HP) (Arachnoverse)
* Web of Deceit (PA:HP) (Arachnoverse)
* Children of Terra (PA:HP)
* Devouring Earth (PA:HP)

Oracles of Insanity Tech Factions (WIP)

* Intersea Maritime Protection (PA:HP)
* Interplanetary Regulatory Authority (PA:HP)

## Purple Alert: Unbroken Extremis

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Darkul Industrarchs (PA:HP)
* Sickle-Claw Empire (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Conspiracy of Feathers (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Hatched Rebellion (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Twilight Companions (PA:HP)
* Noon Invokers (PA:HP)
* Atomic Church (PA:HP)
* Pyric Underconquest (PA:HP)
* Geodic Old Wardens (PA:HP)
* Templar Agents (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Osirian Prophets (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Valkrian Sisterhood (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Sibilant Society (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Crystalline Assimilators (PA:HP)
* Yralic Judocracy (PA:HP)
* Sickle-Claw Crusaders (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Black Feathers (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Popular Augurs (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Rex Enforcers (PA:HP)
* Ykarzi Primacy (PA:HP)
* Sleeper Cults (PA:HP)
* SPIDER (PA:HP)
* CBURA (PA:HP)
* Y-Files (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* GRU Division Z (PA:HP)
* Imperial Bureau for Anomalies (PA:HP)
* Mu Slavers (PA:HP)
* Oranbegan Proteans (PA:HP)
* Thule War-Guard (PA:HP)
* FBI (PA:HP)

Unbroken Extremis Tech Factions (WIP)* Intercluster Fortification Group
* Interspecies Performance Union

## Purple Alert: Silentium of Salvation

* Canon
* Faction Bibles
* Campaigns
* Suggestions
* Arcanocracy of Kyrak (PA:HP) (Dinoverse)
* Consulate Enclaves (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* Sanguine Association (PA:HP) (Spartakusverse)
* Umbral Insurgency (PA:HP) (HREverse)
* Warriors of Faith (PA:HP)
* Murungi Warriors (PA:HP) (Norseverse)
* Drakonate of Rigelis (PA:HP) (Dinoverse
* Grand Zimbabwe (PA:HP) (Romaverse)
* International Black Army (PA:HP)
* Atomic Kratocracy (PA:HP)
* Horde of Unliving Metal (PA:HP)
* Hyksos Survivors (PA:HP)
* Haraktir Assimilators (PA:HP)
* Tryktor Star Reavers (PA:HP)
* Scrin Harvesters (PA:HP)

* Metahuman Liberation Front (PA:HP)
* Fascist Bloc (PA:HP)
* League for National Communism (PA:HP)
* Abyssal Hunters (PA:HP)
* Regent Overseers (PA:HP)
* Dragon Courts of the Horde (PA:HP)
* Otaku Foreign Legion (PA:HP)
* Polynesia Ltd (PA:HP)
* Lost Dwellers (PA:HP)
* Living Anomalies (PA:HP)
* Roman Republican Praetorians (PA:HP)
* Mystic Hindu Nationalists (PA:HP)
* Blackwatch (PA:HP)
* Blackguard (PA:HP)
* Scrin Reaper Sect (PA:HP)
* Scrin Traveller Cult (PA:HP)

Silentium of Salvation Tech Factions (WIP)* Interpopulace Entertainment Providers
* Interbloc Military Services

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