Allied Democratic Nations (PA:HP)

**Dev. Status** | Being coded

*"You may say that I'm a dreamer,*

*But I'm not the only one,*

*I hope someday you'll join us,*

*And the world will be as one."*

- *"Imagine"* by The Beatles, written at the end of WWIII
The **Allied Democratic Nations**, also known as the **Allied Forces**, or simply the **Allies** are a military alliance between the nations of Europe during World War II. By the time of World War III its primary members were Lower America, Occidental France, Lower Germany and Occidental Great Britain. While the Imperial Entente are also core members, the Imperial Entente has always maintained its own weapon systems and models as well as power projection entirely indepedent of the Peacekeepers or the Warfighters and the inclusion of the Entente has always been a point of contention.

The Allies are symbolized by a stylized silver bird-of-prey with a silver-and-blue triangle pointed downwards behind it. This is supposedly meant to represent freedom similar to how birds-of-prey fly freely in the wilderness.

## Background

### The Unhappy Marriage

The "deal with the devil" to lend aid to Edward the Eighth and his cronies almost didn't happen, and was never particularly popular in the western liberal democracies. Ultimately, for Clement Attlee, George Bidaut, Harry Truman, and Willy Brandt though, the combination of needing to prove anti-communist credentials to pass social programs, the increasing militancy of labour that seemed receptive to call to global revolution of the Comintern in the ongoing war, and the fear of what might happen if the reactionaries in the Entente were overrun by the communists lead to the "deal with the devil", where Emperor Edward the Eighth of the Oriental Franco-British Union, Duce Ciano, Faudillo Francisco Franco and Kurt von Schleicher among others were approached with offers of intervention.

The decision was hardly uncontroversial, but Yuri helped to make it work once Edward dispatched the deeply trusted advisor to smooth things over, always seeming to convince everyone he spoke to within a few moments while associates of the "Kane foundation" helped to grease the wheels to escalate the war further, especially in the face of the Empire of the Rising Sun's attacks on both sides to turn the war into a three sided conflict.

The war was something that most were not ready for, unprepared for how much the MCV had transformed how conflict was waged or the extremely rapid increase in the technology involved in the conflict and the haphazard cooperation between countries that greatly disliked each other and didn't want to look too favourable to entities only assisted out of realpolitik lead to multiple disasters. While the Communist bloc was by its nature and through the organisation provided by the Communist International and the Red Front of the World Socialist Alliance was significantly more united, the ramshackle alliance of Liberalism and Reaction seemed almost doomed to fall apart.

The formation of the Alliance of Free States would, in a rather great deviation from what Lower FDR had imagined for the United Nations in preliminary talks with the other participants of the Circum-Pacific War against Kolchak in the 40s, serve as a means to replace the League of Nations that was hopelessly divided between the Revolutionary and Status quo countries. While the League of Nations would remain as an overall forum, the Alliance of Free States would allow for international cooperation and coordination, especially to prevent the Entente from having too much clout in the alliance as many felt it a great shame to rely on the enormous bulk of the STAHLPAKT and Entente's armies, especially as the Entente was starting to lose.

The Allies were able to get their act in order, forming the Peacekeepers who would be beholden to no nation but the Alliance itself to counter the Volunteers and the International Red Army, and within a year of their creation, deploy them to try and influence many key battles of the second world war, particularly in the oriental European enclave and to stop efforts by the Occidental Communist Enclave from pushing farther. While the casualties would be fierce and the Empire's attacks hard to respond to adequetely, they would take an increasingly important role from the Entente Blue Army and by the late war had become indispensible, helping to replace the Blackwatch and break the Communist Black Guard.

While overwhelmingly defeated by Harry Haywood, Peng Denghuai, and Mikhail Frunze in operation Blackbeard and the colourfully named "Fat Fucker", the Peacekeepers were instrumental in stopping Oriental Vincenz Muller's Hammer Dawn offensive and pushing back for Operation Blue Justice. But the deaths of Emperor Edward and Lower Stalin in mysterious circumstances in 1958 would ultimately allow for the peace with honour as it became clear that nobody was actually able to win at this point and continuing the conflict would only lead to more wasted life, especially as support for it was wearing thin.

### Support Vehicles

 File:IconAlliedMCV.png | MCV | The Allied MCV is the vehicle that deploys into Allied Construction Yards, making it vital to base construction. Its amphibious capability lets it cross water, and its heavy treads allows it to crush lesser vehicles while on land.

### Experimental Vehicles

*(Built at the Experimental Workshop)*

**New to the Allied army is the experimental tier of vehicles, all of which are built at the Experimental Workshop. Warning: These vehicles have not been thoroughly tested, so please use them with caution!**

### Auxillary Ships

 File:IconAlliedAlert.png | *Alert Icebreaker* | A tough, dependable capital ship armed with a heavy cryoblaster and an armoured prow, the Alert Icebreaker freezes groups of enemy targets and then rams them to finish them off. Its secondary is to release a massive cryo-burst, which freezes anything within a large area--though this can also affect the Alert itself.