U-1248

Old records from scavenged Confederate ships:

The most controversial universe discovered, perhaps more so than U-2.

A multiversal mapping expedition was somehow used by an unscrupulous individual to gain access to a universe situated along the Time Axis from U-0. The "local year" there is reported to be in the late 1930s or early 1940s, with the local Earth's history before the arrival of the expedition being identical to recorded events. The exact coordinates of U-1248 were erased from the expedition's records as part of the individual's escape, but the rough coordinates are close enough to make a search of the Probability Space around it worthwhile.

**Updated Entry:**

Following an intricate retracing of the expedition's path, the *CSS Durkenis* rediscovered U-1238, confirming the identification with obviously Confederate debris remaining in orbit from the subversive's escape. However, the positive news of the rediscovery has been marred. Studies of the history on the surface have confirmed the fears of historical meddling, with the path of the war (Known in Confederate records as "World War II", "The War of American/Soviet Ascendence", or other names) being radically altered to what transpired in U-2 three thousand years ago.

Using extensive knowledge of the future and the helpful insights that goes with that, the subversive made her way to a Central European nation of the time, the "*Deutsches Reich*", and was able to assist them in generating a coup in the "*United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland*", an island nation that existed off the western coast of Eurasia. Sandwiched between three hostile nations, one having been their ally, *La Troisième Republique* was forced into abandoning their hostile stance towards their enemies and another externally supported coup occurred in that nation, removing French democracy and installing a German-friendly French equivalent of fascism. Although the populations of the two nations resisted the change, anti-communistic and pro-German propaganda built up fear of the Soviets and cooled animosity with the Germans, leading to at least a superficial acceptance of the new allegiances.

Following the swift and forced dismemberment of the Allies and their inclusion within the Anti-Comintern Pact, Germany heavily built up forces on their eastern border. Lacking major concern of any threats from the west, the expanded Anti-Comintern Pact initiated a modified version of Operation Barbarossa from the U-0 timeline, invading the *Союз Советских Социалистических Республик* in early summer and catching them completely off guard.

Because of the greater manpower supplied by the British and French and having a fraction of the military historically used to occupy France in Western Europe, the invasion of the Soviets drives deeper and faster than in our timeline, with Moscow being captured within a year and a half of the invasion beginning. Due to monstrous pressure from the Confederate subversive, the French, and the British, the atrocities committed by the Germans against the Soviet citizens in our timeline are conspicuously absent or diminished, and former Soviets eagerly join the ranks of the invasion, increasing the stress placed on the Soviet Union. An observation made by the researchers aboard the *Durkenis* is that the historical leader of Germany has been replaced, but the new leader seems to be a puppet of the subversive. This replacement is of no surprise considering that he is recorded to be counterproductive, although it no doubt sent a potentially destabilizing ripple through German society.

At present, the Soviet Union is gradually being forced back at great cost to the Anti-Comintern Pact, with the increasingly desperate Soviet Union being supported in their resistance by a Lend-Lease agreement with the *United States of America*. In Eastern Asia, *大日本帝國* continues its war against the mainland and invades the Soviets from the East, and is receiving shipments of vital war supplies from the Anti-Comintern Pact. As a result, the United States was not attacked and remains officially neutral, albeit providing the Soviet Union with supplies and volunteers and resisting the spread of British fascism among the confused and disorganized Commonwealth nations. Canada houses the British government in exile and has gradually moved from the British sphere of influence to the American. Australia and New Zealand waver between adopting a similar status of neutrality as the United States or declaring and attempting to pull the US into war with the Anti-Comintern Pact. India fell into chaos and is fought between communists, British, and other factions, with Asia and Africa also being volatile.

Despite incurring such radical changes, there is no evidence that the subversive provided any Confederate technology or volunteered any true information on her origin. But despite that, the extent that she twisted the native history is clearly unacceptable and the agent of change will be removed. Currently, the observations continue as preparations are underway.