British Empire

Space Age British Empire

Other Species

* Crespallion
* Judoon
* Silurian
* Various Others

The **British Empire**, or the **New British Empire** or **Space British Empire**, is one of the large empires that has joined the United Confederacy of Exiles in the Cascadia Galaxy. It is actually from the Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Kaiserreich, that later created a space empire.

## History

The British Empire originally came from the Hearts of Iron 4 game, Kaiserreich. The empire was starting to fall apart when it lost to the Central Powers after the Great War which included the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Siam, the Ethiopian Empire, the Emirate of Cyrenaica, and the Tsardom of Bulgaria. After they lost the war, syndicalism started to arise that overthrew a few governments such as parts of Italy, the French Republic, and even at home in Great Britain that started a revolt in the year 1925. The royal family fled their home country and headed towards the Dominion of Canada, where they resided.

According to the game's lore, King George V reigned and reestablished and expanded civilian factories until his death on January 18th of 1936. His son, Edward Albert of Wales was coronated king of the crumbled yet slowly rebuilding British Empire.

When it entered into the psyche multiverse, the British Empire started to have technology and species from various works that spawn from the United Kingdom. King Edward VII decided to use these new things and create a new empire somewhere else as other member nations of the Kaiserreich mod prefer to isolate themselves. However, they took New England with them as it is a puppet state of the British Empire. Even built a city on the back of a Star Whale and call it Starship Britain. Unlike Starship UK from Doctor Who, it has Wales, England, Northern Ireland, *and* Scotland.

Even when they were booted out by the newly formed United Nations & Creations and have to reform, the British Empire prospered. However, they did come across some old enemies as well as new ones in this new galaxy. And so, the British Empire have to find allies and fast. That is when the empire contacted the United Confederacy of Exiles. King Edward VII was sympathetic with many members that have been cast out as he and his family were cast out of Britain. Despite it having a few syndicalist nations, the British Empire and all of its territories became part of the confederacy.

## Government

The government of the British Empire is a federal constitutional parliamentary monarchy but it is also an empire. An empire comprised of federal territories under parliament. As a constitutional monarchy, the monarch, whether king or queen, exercise their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in decision making. Some of the decisions are done in the Cabinet of Ministry, the executive branch of the British Empire.

As for the legislative branch, there is the Parliament. It is divided into two houses with the House of Lords being upper and the House of Commons being lower. Membership of the House of Lords is by appointment, heredity or official function. Membership of the House of Commons is elected. The government is solely responsible to the House of Commons and the prime minister stays in office only as long as they retain the confidence of a majority of the Commons. The House of Lords does not control the term of the prime minister or of the government. The House of Lords scrutinizes bills that have been approved by the House of Commons. It regularly reviews and amends bills from the House of Commons. While it is unable to prevent bills passing into law, except in certain limited circumstances, it can delay bills and force the House of Commons to reconsider their decisions. In this capacity, the House of Lords acts as a check on the more powerful House of Commons that is independent of the electoral process. While members of the House of Lords may also take on roles as government ministers, high-ranking officials such as cabinet ministers are usually drawn from the House of Commons.

The Royal Bench (can be King's Bench or Queen's Bench) is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the British Empire. The original King's Bench, founded in 1215 in England, was one of the ancient courts of the land and is now a division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Now, it is a title sometimes used to refer to the monarch in their ceremonial role within the justice system, as the *fount of justice* in that justice is carried out in their name.

The Chancery Division deals with business law, trusts law, probate law, insolvency, and land law in relation to issues of equity. It has specialist courts (the Patents Court and the Companies Court) which deal with patents and registered designs and company law matters respectively. All tax appeals are assigned to the Chancery Division. The Family Division deals with personal human matters such as divorce, children, probate and medical treatment. Its decisions are often of great importance only to the parties, but may concern life and death and are perhaps inevitably regarded as controversial.

## Society & Culture

The British Empire is more or less a space age version of what you expect from a space British Empire. Yet it is more diverse with various ethnicities of humans and a few non-human species. Each citizen is expected to follow the customs of the British way but that doesn't mean they should give up their own cultures and customs as well. Yet there is no segregation in the empire or its territories. However, New England doesn't really accept new species so they are rare in that particular territory.

Much of the architectures in the British Empire is a mix of Gothic revival, Victorian, Tudor and Elizabethan in the main parts of the British Empire such as the Dominion of Canada and the Australasian Confederation, except more of a space and sci-fi theme. But most of the other territories maintain much of their traditional architecture but just as sci-fi. Such as the British Raja maintaining the Indo-Saracenic architecture and British Hong Kong having a few Victorian architecture yet has many of the traditional Chinese structures. However, new architectural styles have been made by Silurians, Tarns, Gancanaghs, Wulvers and many species from both myth and fiction from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. But it does also host various species from Japan, Africa, Native American, Australia, India, and Chinese from both myth and fiction. So it is not only diverse in species, but in architecture as well.

The British Empire has an expansive faster-than-light communications network for their broadcasting, British Broadcasting Network (BBN). This network shows many British shows that are mostly being syndicated with shows such as Midsommer Murders, Keeping Up Appearances, Doctor Who, and a large variety of shows. But they also use Dubbing Anime Network (DAN) for broadcasting English dub anime, the Space Geographic Channel (SGC) for more educational shows especially for children, and the Imperial News Program (INP) which is just the news network. There are some local programs from each of the territories that have many do-it-yourself programs that involve making your own starships from scratch.

Everyone in the British Empire love a good stiff drink and spending their free time in the pubs. People do love to socialize in the British Empire and even enjoy watching football (soccer to some), rugby (football to some), cricket and basketball. However, some people do get into a rumble about what team they support and some ended-up bloody.

## Economy

The British Empire has a great amount of exports used for trading with other members of the United Confederacy of Exiles. Many of them include tea, gold, diamonds, spices, copper, halkonite steel, otaku culture goods, sugar, and a large quantities of other things. Yet the biggest exports of the British Empire is various forms of fuels used for starships. These include vespene gas, tibanna, hypermatter, rossium-k, clouzon-36, and many more in their region of the Cascadia Galaxy.

Although they do get a great deal of wealth from Japanese anime and manga that have been translated to English despite many of the characters having British, Canadian and Scottish accents. Even made a great deal of many with the otaku culture with vast array of items from the shows and manga that actually work. This include healing potions, mana potions, weapons, and a variety of other items. But the weapons are used in the military with only a small handful of people having the anime-inspired weapons.

Other exports include a few cultural items made in certain areas of the empire. These include Zulu warrior masks, Buddhist carvings, silk Chinese outfits, and a large amount of things.

## Military

The military of the British Empire is the Royal Military that are divided between four different branches: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

All those in the field wear red-colored power armor that is meant for surviving in space and in hazardous environments that have temperature control for races that are different blooded such as Silurians being cold blooded, radiation shielding from all forms of radiation, codec communications, omni-sensory vision, and oxygen breathers that last for twenty years that scrub out any and all forms of chemical and biological contaminants. The armor and the helmets look similar to knights wearing plate armor, hence the nickname, "Red Knights of Britain". There are three different types: light, medium, and heavy. Light armor is meant for reconnaissance and scouting that are also equipped with jetpacks for long distances and stealth fields. Medium armor is standard when in combat with jump boosters and wrist mounted energy shields. Heavy armor is slow yet can withstand a nuclear blast while being able to tear adamantium in half due to the armor's great strength.

The Royal Army is the principal of planetary warfare force of the British Empire along with a vast assortment of armored divisions. The Royal Air Force is the principal air warfare force that use aircraft that can also travel outside of the atmosphere that double as space fighters. The Royal Navy is comprised of both maritime and space forces that uses naval units similar to the United Earth Federation from the Supreme Commander games and use a variety of ships from Doctor Who, Space Precinct, Red Dwarf, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Space: 1999, and many more. The Royal Marines are the naval support that support both maritime and space vessels in their defense as well as operate on planets, naval stations and space stations.

The Special Space Service (SSS) is a special forces unit that operates in all branches that specialize in a number or roles including counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and covert reconnaissance. Royal Intelligence is the foreign and domestic intelligence service in the British Empire with Royal Intelligence, Section 5 (RI5) being domestic while Royal Intelligence, Section 6 (RI6) is foreign. All of these services have access to many forms of gadgets.

However, they do send in Banshees first in order to scare or deafen enemies while also causing some electrical problems. They consider it a far more effective tactic that just bombarding the planet because it is to help and prevent any collateral damage.