Directorate Remnants (TUE)

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*We'll meet again*

*Don't know where*

*Don't know when*

*But I know we'll meet again some sunny day*

*Keep smiling through*

*Just like you always do*

'*Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away*

- "We'll Meet Again", Vera Lynn
The **Directorate Remnants** (or just **Directorate**) is a major faction of the Concordiatverse within "The Universal Emergency" multiverse. Before the Aliens War, the **Directorate of Eight Great Nations** was the largest and strongest power on Earth, composed of the European monarchies, Byzantine Empire and Confederate States of America, who actively fought the other powers for control over the whole planet, able to keep fighting for the whole duration of the Century War. When the aliens came to wage their own personal war, the Directorate replied with their own attack, which lured the attention of the extraterrestrial forces onto them, and effectively destroyed the united monarchies. Now, the various nobles, governors, prefects and military officers gathered whatever they could and formed their own personal states out of the remnants, some choosing to band together, and somewhat survive the new world order, and if possible, fight to get back what is theirs, as they believe.

## Background

### A Royal Mess

In the past the Europe was divided by the great dynasties who fought with one another over the nations, its people and resources through brutal force of the armies, subtle schemes of assassins and spies and loveless marriages of family relatives to acquire new territory. For the peasants, it was a Dark Age which was becoming more clearer when the Renaissance slowly replaced the Middle Ages. The fashion of the day was to replace the crude practicality with new and innovative ideas, new inventions and technology were introduced to help everyone, the quality of life for the common man in Europe was improving. New and untested ideas like such as reason and ideologies like republicanism burst on to thr world stage. The political situation, however, was still the same, just the methods were not as brutal despite the invention of the black powder and firearms.

At the start of the 19th century the relative stalemate was breached when young French general, strategy genius and governor Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of the French and began his massive reformational process of the France as well as the expansion of his territory into the Europe. The Prussia and Germany, England, Austria, no one could stop Napoleon I and his armies. Fylkirate was both too distant and not interested in the events in Europe as Napoleon has no interest in Scandinavia and Scotland. The French war machine was unstoppable anywhere it come, until the fateful invasion of Russia. Napoleon decided for this act after the event of "powerful quakes" coming out from the Xinjiang territory of Yuan Khanate. Fearing it may be some kind of "devil's weapon" Napoleon wanted to claim it. Since it was too remote from any colonies the best course by him was through weak Russia.

However, he made a couple of wrong calculations and estimations. First of all, Russia was not as weak as he anticipated. Backed by its spiritually close Fylkirate Tzar Alexander I assembled a strong military to engage Napoleon's. Than it was the weather conditions of the winter combat and the logistical difficulties of transporting supplies from across the Russian steppes. And lastily the will of the Russian people, fighting with such vigor and resolve to dont let anyone occupy their land as long as they breath. The illfated battles of Borodino and Moscow at the hands of General Mikhail Kutuzov were the prime examples of these mistakes, forcing Napoleon out of eastern Europe.

### Pax Europa

Seeing the opened weakness of France was noticed by all European kingdoms, who despite their many differences, bad blood and animosity wanted to score a settle with Napoleon after their defeat. To calm down his enemies and avert their attacks, Napoleon pointed on the strange events in China, telling about the catastrophic explosion which would only mean Khanate had something that can be used to conquer Europe just as Genshis Khan managed ages ago. While the excuses of the short Emperor sounded ridiculous, other emperors and kings knew there was something true about them, namely the explosion. The first congress of the European rulers was called, and discussing the potential threats to their empires and people, a general consensus was that with the number of large nations outside their culture they cannot survive alone. Only together as one can they thrive, and eventually rule the whole world.

The alliance of the monarchies needed a name. Neither of the rulers wanted it to be a royal title like empire, as that would require in the tradition to put one man to take the throne, which was unacceptable. Thus a neutral term was searched, and it was German kaiser who proposed the directorate, which was meant with a one-voice consenssus. The Directorate of Seven Great Nations was born. Together, the Europe declared war on the Russia and Yuan, followed by Fylkirate, which marks the start of the Century War.

Despite the length and uncountable losses of lives and resources the war was in total only a series of stalemates. No side was strong enough to change the tide to their side for decisive victory. This changed when the American Civil War was won by the Confederated States, who were as backward as the Directorate. And to make the fear complete, Directorate unexpectedly accepted CSA among the European monarchies as the only republican state. With the Americans standing by them, Directorate was able to further divert Fylkirate's forces to North America and disrupt the stalemate in Europe, weakening Russian theatre and gaining the upper hand. The Directorate would have been capable of conquering permanently Eastern Europe, if they wouldnt have declared state of war with the Andean Lordships with reawakened confidence when CSA joined them.

The people that lived under Directorate's fist was rather content over the state of things. The propaganda and nationalism they were drilled with and surrounded made them hate the other nations nearly as much as their masters, the level of opression was high that they knew the many dead young people was a tragedy but also a fact, and in some situations they never learned about Directorate's greatest defeats. Thats how peace was maintained in their domains.

### It's (Not) Good to be the King

Meeting resistance on all fronts, Directorate started spending more money into research of new weapons and technologies that can be applied in military to finally defeated their enemies, the so called Dream weapons. Coming into second half of the 20th century the status quo was broken when Directorate managed to advance on all fronts using the latest gadgets available. The Russians were losing their land like during Napoleonic Wars, Shogdia had a hard time slowing down Byzantines armies, Fylkirate lost a couple of major naval engagements and a memorable Battle of Loud Peak in Amazonia decimated Andean army. It seemed that the monarchies and Confederates had the total victory in their hands when a couple of events yet again changed the situation.

First of them was a sudden reappearence of the Japanese Empire led by the Uchiwa Shogunate and their never-seen-before weapons. The Pacific was turned upside down. Australia and West Coast of CSA had to hardly endure the literal millions of Japan samurai and their automated men, fleets tearing each other and pilots engaging above the endless ocean. The only positive think for Directorate from this was that the Shogunate engaged the Chinese and Russians as well.

The second event was something slowly growing in their own land, a threat from their own people. The rebelling became more and more frequent problem to deal with, while at the start squashing these dissidents was swift and final, now they were getting more organized, trained and equiped to disrupt the common working of the city, nation and the whole Directorate. More and more resources and men were send off from the main battlefields for counter-insurrections and protection of property at home which weakened the war afford. The largest of these rebellions were fascists of various nations under the guidance of Mussolini, Bavarian lower aristocracy and American followers of the once-defeated Union.

And the last event was the giant detonation in China which seemingly lured the attention of not one, but three extraterrestrial empires who decided to use Earth as their battlefield for their personal war which humans had no idea about. While other factions decided to simply group up and defend their land, the European royal families felt no such thing, feeling the urge to slap the aliens' hand to dare and land on their land. A series of offensives were carried out against the Aliens to "drive them from our domain!". Truth was however completely different. The attacking humans were slaughtered and the Aliens turned their attention from themselves to the Directorate itself and started their butchery work.

The Canneii and Harbosi were tearing Directortate cities and armies apart, showing no regard to the non-combatants. Harbos even created the "Spectralzone" from most of the England and Wales, a zone of no humans, while Canneo literally leveled Cologne, Essen and Düsseldorf with the ground, among many others. While the nobility and generality were fleeing for their lives or issuing insane orders, the most of common soldiers and local commanders did what they felt was right; protect the people and screw with their lords. The Directorate effectively ceased to exist as whole armies of men defected and fought for their lives and lives of their closest ones. The American Confederation broke off from the pact to tend to its own defense showing no interest for the Old Continent. All seemed to be lost.

### After the Storm, the Sky Is Dark

The sudden ending of the Aliens War came as fast as the invaders came. The cause of this is speculated to be for the arrival of reinforcements of the third, the nicest of the Aliens. For humans however all aliens were the same, especially within the former Directorate nations. The governemnt was shattered and burned, at least half of the royal families were dead or missing, some were taken hostage by the rebels and deserters of the newly-formed fascist Concordiat, the Earthbound enemies started showing interest in claiming of what was left from the power vacuum. A handful of governors, nobles and miltiary officers who stayed alive and loyal to the Directorate soon started gathering everything they could and form their own dominions and territories. The lack of proper connection meant that there was no joint efford to form a united command of any kind, everyone was fending for themselves.

But still the Remnants, as they are unviersally addressed now, is far from being out of the game. The gatherings of the forces and the ascencion of the lower, more capable officers to the positions of leaders means that their forces are better trained, equipped and prepared, and that the experimental and expensive toys are now fieled more often, but the scarcity of them and the dangers the Remnants have to face still limits their operations.

In the last months the reports coming in from all inteligence agencies indicates that something is going. It seems like one commander has come out from darkness and set on to unite all of the Remnants and most likely revive the Directorate to its former state and beyond. While this statement is considered too exaggerated and improbable, some indications incline this may develop into far greater trouble than expected of the seemingly defeated foe.

## Faction Specifics

* **Particle Weaponry** -
* **Spacefolding Alteration** -
* **Cannon Preference** -

## Generals

### General Joël Olivier Duret, Marquis of Poitiers, Marshal of the Musketeers Regiment

A faithful protector of the Bonaparte Family, General Duret serves as the Musketeer commander for ten years despite his young age, and attained the position of Marshal just barely before the Aliens arrived. It was his achievement that Severin Bonaparte, the Crown Prince of the French Empire, and his family escaped from Paris and assumed the throne after his father was killed by the extraterrestrials. With the rest of the Musketeers Duret protects the rightful ruler of France with all elite forces of the continental army he could gather, and prepares to take what the fascist so-called Concordiat took from them, including the ravaged Paris and the ruins of Versailles, the final resting place of his previous lord.

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Bridgewater Missile Frigate | Replaces Frontier Frigate. Using guided missiles instead of vulcan guns to deliver high damage with a single shot, Bridgewater is armed with anti-ship missiles as well. However this makes their performance against flying infantry and small targets mediocre. But, to give them more of the useabiltiy in the fleet Bridgewaters are equipped with advnaced sensor suites which allows them to transmit firing solutions for all friendly units naerby on their targets.

### Admiral Carlos Magalhães, Great Lord of the Dominio Canaria

Descendant of the Ferdinand Magellan (Magalhães in Spanish), the sea was prophesized to Carlos. Rising through the ranks and positions, Magalhães made himself a name at the skirmish at the coasts of Iceland where his cruiser with others crippled Fylkirate's flagship *Fang of Lofnheiedhr* for the next eight months. As an Vice Admiral of Spanish Second Fleet he fought at the Aliens Wars, protecting the civilians during the evacuations to the ports in Portugal, southwestern Spain and nearby islands. After the conclussion Admiral Magalhães proclaimed the Canary Islands, western Iberia and Gibraltar his domain and backed it with the remnants of Spanish, Roman and British fleets and marine armies.

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | San Martin Light Cruiser | Spanish companion to the Coventry, San Martin is only better at speed, but its lack of armor and alpha damage of its guns compensates with batteries of 15cm guns that can reload much faster, simply shelling the smaller ships into submission. Best used in the escort role or as main ship of raiding squadrons.

### General Lennert van der Norel, Central African Colonies Operations Commander

Born in the Deutschen Kongos Colony, Lennert van der Norel travelled across the globe with his parents for trade, learning several different languages. His sense for duty made him join the Directorate Armies, serving his gracious sovereigns on both land and sea. Even though he spent much time on ships his true love was cavalry. The modern cavalry, tank divisions, were his virtue and he quickly assimilated all the tactics and maneuvers, gaining reputation in tank battles with Khanate, Shahdom, Fylkirate and Lordship across the world. The Aliens Wars have left van der Norel's forces in Central African colonies relatively unscathed. Now he protects what he still believes to belongs to the European monarchies maintained by a pricky governor, and fights the traitorous Consortium and local dissidents.

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Lark Fighter | Replaces Buzzard Interceptor. A little older design more common in the colonial air forces, Lark fighter's four 20mm revolver cannons works great against the aircraft, tearing them apart. Its wings incorporate a technology of variable wings, either flying at high speeds or enabling great maneuverability.

## The Imperial Armies of the European Dynasties and the Confederation of America

### Defenses

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Fusion Cannon | Most commonly seen in the largest cities and important military bases, Fusion Cannon is the most powerful base defense in Directoarte's arsenal. Armed with two fusion cannons that can vaporize nearly anything under its sustained fire of yellow shots, the turret is also able to target the air, thought the aiming is poor so its more of a suppression weapon than anything else.

### Airforce

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Harrower | Circling over the battlefield and raining down death on the enemies with a set of 10 autocannons and heavy machine guns and a single 105mm howitzer, thats the job of Harrower. When approaching the battlezone, Harrower can release a swarm of cluster missiles to decimate the morale of anyone caught in its wide radius.

### Navy

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Spartan Escort Carrier | Seeing the need for protection of their fleets from aerial attacks, Roman designers converted a portion of their cruisers into small carriers, carrying squadrons of smaller jet fighters modified for STOL to protect and engage any aerial opposition over the Seven Oceans... when there is no one too close to threaten them.
 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Monarch Dreadnought | The public image of the Directorate's Armada, Monarchs were always a feared enemy to even the Fylkirate captains. Armed with six turrets bearing 16 inch guns and a complement of secondary gun batteries, making it capable of engaging both other warships and coastal installations. The Remnants still possesses large number of these battleships.

### Commando and Unique Units

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Knighthammer Super Battle Carrier | The single largest warship to be ever produced, dwarfing even super battleships, Knighthammer was designed as a fleet and theatre command vessel, battleship in its own right and also as heavy aircraft carrier capable of housing and rearming even large bombers. Its 16 inch battleship cannons in eleven triple-barreled turrets rains death on any unfortunate warship of any class, innumerable batteries of guns that will shoot down any air attacks being send its way, and all of its fighter wings under its command can rival that of the fleet carriers in size and training. The only setbacks this gargantuan battle carrier possess is unfortunately its huge size that bans it from doing any sort of evasive maneuvers, and the speeds it can achieve are fine compared to other Directorate vessels, but the acceleration, time to reach these speeds, is reprehensible but a necessary evil.
Subunit: Albatross Carrier Interceptor - An evolution of a Seagull for a dedicated interceptor, Albatross is faster and better armed to deal with enemy fighters, taking them down with four autocannons and six air-to-air missiles.
Subunit: Pelican Carrier Fighter/Bomber - A bomber derived from Seagull the Pelicans are slower but more tougher and while their anti-fighter capabilities arent any better of its parent, it can carry bombs and torpedoes to sink enemy ships or bomb ground targets.

## Other Characters

* Severin Bonaparte, current French emperor and survivor of Bonaparte dynasty
* Léonard Bonaparte, oldest son of Emperor Severin and French crown prince
* Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Austria-Hungarian field marshal, grandson of Alfred I Windisch-Grätz

## Behind the Scenes

* The Directorate is supposed to be a "Mirror Allies" of the Red Alert 3 for the PEQAN. It takes some inspiration from the Galactic Empire, the Imperial Remnant and Sith Empires from the Star Wars. The storyline will source from Star Wars Expanded Universe, now Legends, about the defeat, fragmentation and desperation of the Galactic Empire to survive.
* The unit lists are specifically a counterpart of Red Alert 3 and Uprising Allied units while being based on forces and navy of the Star Wars Galactic Empire. Monarch-class Dreadnoughts, Stormtroopers and Buzzard Interceptors are meant to represent Imperial Star Destroyers, Stormtroopers and TIE Fighters, respectively, only altered to go along the pathway set by C&C's Allies.
	+ The commandos specifically represent various important commanders and characters of the Galactic Empire, namely Executor Hanauer is in essense Darth Vader.
* *The Headstrong Ram*, symbol of the Directorate military, is to be an opposite of the Allied eagle. Where the eagle represents the aerial domination and swiftness of the Allied Nations, the ram is charging powerhouse of the Directorate.