Atlantic Federation Extended Canon

The **Atlantic Federation**, often simply referred to as just the "Federation", is a loose alliance of democracies from the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of two main military powers in Europa, and a participant in both EWI and EWII. Sometimes in colloquial usage, "Federation" .

## History

Popular uprisings spurred on by the late 18th Century Industrial Revolution gave birth to a number of new democratic republics. The nascent Empire, formed to the east, represented a common threat, motivating a mutual defense agreement among these infant republics.Though an elected Head Councilor acts as the Federation's chief executive, unanimous agreements are rare among the constituent republics, meaning it often takes months to enact measures. Though a series of secret alliances and gains won by extortion and blackmail put the Federation ahead of the Empire in terms of national power.They have only defeated them on the field of war recently .

### During *Valkyria Chronicles*

The Empire and Atlantic Federation were already at war when a large Imperial force under the command of the Imperial Crown Prince Maximilian who was stripped of it during the invasion by orders of the the emperor and the military invaded Gallia. For the most part, the Gallian front was of little concern to the Federation war effort, save for one specific event.

The Federation ambassador to Gallia at the time was Jean Townshend, and he tirelessly campaigned for Gallia to join the Federation and lend its famous militias and large supplies of Ragnite to their greater war effort. He was always rebuffed by the heiress to the Gallian throne, Cordelia Gi Randgriz, but had recently found an ally in her conniving and ambitious Prime Minister, Maurits von Borg.

From this information, unclear figures within the Federation hatched a plot to kidnap Princess Cordelia and in her absence make von Borg the *de facto* ruler of Gallia. The plot involved disguising a crack Federation unit as members of the Gallian Royal Guard to get close to Cordelia, and then quickly extracting her in a Gallian APC. Ambassador Townshend was charged with organizing the details of the plot, and attempted to recruit Claude Wallace and elements of the Federation's elite Squad E: Claude, a Gallian himself, clearly sensed something was not right about the offer and declined it, saying he would pretend their conversation never took place.

It is not clear where the unit that ultimately performed the mission were recruited from, but they were stopped by the swift intervention of the Gallian militia's Squad 7 under Welkin Gunther. Ambassador Townshend successfully concealed his part in the operation, and retained his position. Von Borg, meanwhile, was executed at the order of Crown Prince Maximilian for his traitorous nature, after the Prime Minister attempted to perform the exact same power play with the Empire that he previously attempted with the Federation.

### During *Valkyria Chronicles 4*

In early 1935 the military might of the Empire had pushed the Federation back, and a bold plan was created to remedy this, a massive counter-offensive called Operation Northern Cross aimed at punching through Imperial lines with the final goal nothing less than the seizure of the Imperial capital, Schwartzgrad.

In its early stages, Northern Cross was a phenomenal success, with Imperial forces left in full rout by the sudden offensive and even their attempts to muster a defense of the mighty Siegval Line ending in defeat. However, in their mad charge for Schwartzgrad, the Federation's forces had severely overextended their supply lines, and soon found themselves in the middle of an early and bitterly cold winter, without proper winter equipment. As the Federation forces hesitated, the Empire launched a massive offensive headed up by the tanks of Ausbruch, destroying the main Federation supply center at Lindbergh Base and forcing Federation forces to give back almost all of the territory they had taken as they retreated.

All platoons from the 2nd Regiment of the Edinburgh 32nd Armored Ranger Corps were split off from the main force and ordered to instead retreat across the Achtzehn Mountains to meet up with a Federation force landing on the coast. This turned out not to be a conventional landing fleet, but three Snow Cruisers participating in a secret mission, Operation Cygnus. While this was originally supposed to be a support operation, with the failure of Northern Cross the Snow Cruisers crossing the Crystal Sea to assault the Imperial capital was the Federation's last hope of bringing a quick end to the war.

In actuality, the Snow Cruisers had a more sinister purpose: each vessel's reactor could be turned into a Valkyrian Bomb, and the detonation of even once such device would be powerful enough to level Schwartzgrad. With the loss of their top ranks, the highly centralized Imperial military would be left in disarray, allowing the Federation's forces to defeat them in detail.

Northern Cross turned into a colossal meat grinder as even the Imperial advance stalled, with Federation and Imperial forces dying in unprecedented numbers as the Snow Cruisers secretly proceeded on their deadly mission, stalked by a crack unit from the secretive Imperial experimental strike force, X-O. The Empire grew desperate as they discovered the purpose of the ships with the detonation of the bomb on the *Cavalier*, and with the *Centurion* still functional and the recent news of Prince Maximilian's death at the hands of the Gallians, the Empire focused all efforts on defending Schwartzgrad, all but ignoring the continued battles raging to the west.

*Centurion* successfully penetrated the defenses of Schwartzgrad, but the Valkyrian Bomb was not detonated following news of a stand-down order after the Empire signed an armistice agreement with the Federation. The final Snow Cruiser was ultimately lost after Heinrich Belgar attempted to detonate the bomb, and the role of the Snow Cruisers, as well as their deadly payload, was covered up in the aftermath of the war. The war ended with the Atlantic Federation regaining territory it lost after the last war reunited ethnic boundaries but that was mostly in the east and south and and on the emperor orders and at the beginning of the war that’s where they ran into extremely hard and fortified defensive lines and those occupied places where also deserted . other than that it was status quo anti bellium with the Atlantic Federation being the victor in a sense.

### Post 1935 EC

The Federation, while officially supporting Archduchess Cordelia's leadership of Gallia, some rouge federation elements secretly supported the Gallian Revolutionary Army during the Gallian Civil War of 1937, having secured a promise from Gilbert Gassenarl that as leader of Gallia he would join the Federation. They supplied the Revolutionary forces with arms, Ragnite, and even the battleship *Dandarius*, but following his assassination by his son Baldren Gassenarl and the GRA's loss of the Gallian capital, Federation logistical support effectively ended. Ambassador Townshend, who against orders who had fully supported the GRA.

It turns out he was being recalled and replaced where he was going to be put on trail for treason aboard the *Dandarius* when she was sunk by the Gallian Navy, though his fate is not known Turns out even at the beginning of the civil war the Atlantic federation and the empire already disavowed there actions and had been trying to get him recalled . They later signed a non aggression and defense plus military alliance pact with Gallia and the Eastern European imperial alliance because the fear a war might come in the far east . The Atlantic Federation and empire each recognized each other clams in the south Europa that each side held before the first war .

With this the federation gained large state and region in the south of Europa. While eastern imperial alliance gain southern sea born states. It happened in 1938. Before that the the federation did agree to merge republics and form a new constitutional monarchy related to the emperor and the emperor did agree to restore the northern republic taking over during the first Europa war that was not a member or the Atlantic Federation but a the price of there former crystal sea territory’s which was agreed upon by the Atlantic Federation and the newly restored nation did to but everyone agreed to share the ragnite rights and the 50/50 along with seeding and farming of ragnite 50/50.

There was also a nation that form under a constitutional monarchy basically much to the pleasant shock of the federation the emperor’s nephew was serving in the armed forces of the republic when the war broke out along with his future wife of a neighboring republic who was heir to that nation’s monarchy before it became a republic which use to be a joint nation with a neighbor next door before the revolutions. When they where inthrone forcely they did not rule as there radical nobles thought they basically called the elected government basic and said they would rule as constitutional monarch and apologized for there previous monarch’s actions they met each other due there same distaste and a rapid courtship ensued and they got married because the monarch agreed to renounce the annexation and rejoin the federation and they where already married and about to have a son a merge nation that ‘‘ planed was up in limbo but the treaty merge nations but the federation quickly agreed to let the kingdom be a constitutional monarchy and member of the federation.

But the emperor swooped in and said this could permanently put the radical nobles out any chance of power and any sympathy they could get from imperial army to even try to go Against orders he also announced he restoring constitutional monarchs taken over in EWI in exchange they join the empire turns out the monarchs and heirs accepted the proposal but they where not allowed to leave because of security reasons he also pardon rebels in the area in exchange for that. But the Atlantic federation decided to accept the emperor proposal turns out the Atlantic Federation found out every bad thing about the emperor was a lie turns out he was a great person.

He even gave wanted war criminals to Atlantic Federation for trail but some where so bad he wanted to do joint court martial which Atlantic Federation agreed to .they decided to rule as constitutional monarchs also his father and mother renounce any right they had to the throne but in exchange they would use the skills the acquired and became distinguished to become the imperial heads of the new alliance that all the federation members Gallia and the empire agreed to have . but sense they got married because of there same distaste for the situation and have a son soon after it and high approval rating they decided to restore the monarchs rule as a constitutional as part of the Atlantic federation everyone sign the treaty in 1938 along with married another son to the newly named queen of galia who where smitten with each other. His parents got citizenship in all three nations factions.

## Known Member Nations

* The United Kingdom of Edinburgh
* The United States of Vinland
* Assen
* Valois
* Roeselare
* Wese
* Sneek

## Trivia

* Most of the names belonging to Federation cities on the 1935 map of Europa are from real life European cities, namely the Belgian cities of Liege, Arlon, Verijsel, Namur, Botrange, Wesel and Bergen, the French city of Sedan, and the Dutch cities of Deventer and Terneuzen.
* Some provinces in the Atlantic Federation are named after other Dutch cities, namely Assen and Sneek.

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