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Chapter One: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111287
Chapter Two: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111317
Chapter Three: http://www.ubersite.com/m/111383
Chapter Four: The Greatest Empire the World Has Ever Known
On a cool spring day in the year 2047, Alexei the Great and his son Alexei II sat together in the Russian command center in Budapest, Hungary; it was a nation recently taken over in a peaceful invasion by Alexei's forces. Now it was the stage for the newly-formed Sixth Army to move down through the Balkans, annexing every nation in its path. It was personally commanded by Alexei himself, with his son controlling the 7th Tank Division.
The generals and soldiers overheard Alexei saying to his eighteen-year-old son, "Be easy to the people of these countries; they will be together with us one day as Universalites."
"But must we engage in such vile bloodshed for these people?" Alexei the younger asked. "A truly Universalite method would be to ask them if they want to join us."
"The people are stupid," Alexei said. "They would bicker and fight among themselves until the point of oblivion, even George Washington knew that. We are smarter. We are doing a great deed by freeing their minds and giving them the gift of Universality...from there, they will be happier."
And the week after that, the 6th Army invaded Slovenia and Herzegovina.
Alexei the Younger was received his baptism by fire outside Zagreb, where he and his men came under fire from Italian and Slovenian shells; he soiled himself in his first encounter with the enemy, but it profoundly affected him. After his first battle, he feared nothing.
"Looking up at the sky, and seeing the rows and rows of stealth bombers with partiality shields and bio-bombs, seeing the shells and rockets from behind the lines dropping on Zagreb—it filled me with a wonder I have never before sensed," Alexei the Younger would write years later. "I saw that my side was dominant, and I liked it. I pushed my division forward to the very streets of Zagreb and killed everyone in my path. As soon as the enemy commanders surrendered, I ordered my units to stop the slaughter, and they stopped. My father was pleased."
The Russians moved on. Alexei the Younger's tankers swooped down on Bosnia, while General Ilyanich swung a powerful fist of motorized infantry through Bulgaria many miles away. The two Alexeis, father and son, went off into battle in the Balkans. Up in the sky above as the father and son rode together in a heavily-armored hovercraft, waves of planes began dropping off the 2nd Air Assault Division deep into Bosnia. "You see that?" Alexei said. "That is freedom."
Sarajevo fell in mid-summer after a brutal fight throughout the country. Men were dying from planted mines and roadside bombs, but still Russia moved on. The Serbs, aware that their hour had come, began killing as many Kosovars and Muslims as they could manage. The long system of defenses and trenches around the country held back the Russians for a moment. Montenegro fell peacefully, as did Macedonia, and Serbia was surrounded.
Milar Bejlik, the President of Serbia, was ordering all his soldiers to the front, while sending the police and civilians to kill the Kosovars and ethnic Bosniacs, as happened in the 1990s. When not killed on sight, the Bosniacs and Kosovars were sent to a death camp just outside Belgrade, where they were shot and gassed in a Naziesque manner.
The defenses of the Serbs could not hold. On the southeast side of Serbia, the defenses were mined, and Alexei the Younger's tank division smashed apart the gap, making a beeline toward Belgrade. With their troops in disarray, Bejlik hastily tried to dismantle the camps, but it was too late. The armies of New Russia converged upon Belgrade, and Serbia had fallen.
It was Alexei the Younger's unit, the 28th Armored Brigade, that first discovered the death camps. "It was more shocking to me than any gory battlefield," Alexei the Younger said. Even his father, the leader of a warlike and blood-drenched nation, was disgusted by the Serbs' behavior. The troops freed the Muslims inside the camp, and massacred the guards. They shot the guards of the death camp in the legs and passed out weapons to the prisoners; the guards were torn apart.
It was then that the Russian soldiers began to lose control. In a vicious display of vengeance, an alliance of freed Muslim prisoners and Russians began to ransack the town, killing ethnics Serbs on sight, and raping as many as three thousand women. Alexei the Younger attempted to restore order among the troops, but they were so furious at the Serbs for their crimes against
the Bosniacs and Kosovars that the city was set ablaze.
It was not until Alexei himself arrived in Belgrade did the rioting cease. Eighteen thousand Serbs had been killed, and by the end of the summer, twenty thousand women had been raped. Alexei the Younger was implicitly blamed for the massacre in Russian press.
"The bad behavior of the soldiers is the fault of the commander," Alexei agreed, publicly censuring his son. Though Alexei the Younger chafed under this humiliation, he understood it was necessary from a public relations standpoint to condemn the murders. All of former Yugoslavia was now under the control of Universality; the Empire was growing.
Scattered irregular fighters from Greece and Turkey, as well as rebels and insurgents, were fighting mainly now. Until 2049, two years later, there would be constant low-level warfare between the Russian Army and the rebels. However, the great majority of the population supported Alexei's new reforms, and even Serbia eventually forgave Alexei for the deaths at Belgrade. "The winners write the history books," Alexei would say later.
In the last months of the 2040s, Alexei made plans to create a 7th Army in Germany from ethnic Germans, Danish, Polish, and Dutch. This was done, and it was a large trained force of infantry and guardsmen, made up primarily of ex-soldiers, policemen, and hardline Universality supporters. They were trained and given advanced weapons, like the ZZK Assault Rifle and the Thor Anti-Tank gun, and their divisions were filled with IGCATs (Intelligence-Gathering Computerized Assault Turrets) and hovercrafts. There was a foe left in Western Europe that would have to be defeated.
The invasion of France was planned for late 2051, but Alexei had medical issues. He had fallen into a state of diabetic shock after his wife Olivia's birthday dinner, which had caused a minor cardiac arrest. While recuperating in the hospital, the invasion was delayed three months until February of 2052.
What was left of the Army of the European Union was stationed along the borders of France—it was mostly French, Spanish and British soldiers, with some scattered Italian and German units. There was a strong American presence, but America was not the same as before. Many of its trading partners had dropped connections, and China was more powerful than ever, its cheap products and labor affecting the US economy.
This is the order of battle before the invasion of France, February 4, 2052. Special efforts have been made to enumerate every single unit in CENTCOM, down to brigade level.
CENTCOM under General Daly Stewart (UK) and General Michael Parker (US),
I Eurocorps (30,000 men)
• French State Major Force (8000 men)
o Major Armored Brigade
o Major Mechanized Infantry Brigade
• Operational Belgium Command (5000 men)
o 1st Mechanized Brigade
o 7th Mechanized Brigade
o Luxembourg Recon Company
• 1st Italian Mechanized Division (6000 men)
o 1st Mechanized Brigade
o 2nd Mechanized Brigade
• 1st Spanish Mechanized Division (11000 men)
o 10th Mechanized Brigade
o 11th Mechanized Brigade
o 12th Armored Brigade
IV Eurocorps (40,500 men)
• 1st French Mechanized Brigade (9000 men)
o 501st Armored Regiment
o 503rd Armored Regiment
o 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment
• 2nd French Armored Brigade (9500 men)
o 2nd Armored Regiment
o 6th Armored Regiment
o 12th Armored Regiment
o Chad Mechanized Marine Regiment
o 16th Mechanized Infantry Battalion
o 1st Marine Artillery Regiment
• 3rd French Mechanized Brigade (12000 men)
o 1st Armored Regiment
o 11th Armored Regiment
o 92nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment
o 126th Infantry Regiment
o 68th Artillery Regiment
• 6th French Light Armored Brigade (10000 men)
o 1st Foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment
o 1st Wheeled Armored Regiment
o 2nd Foreign Legion Infantry Regiment
o 21st Marine Infantry Regiment
o 3rd Marine Artillery Regiment
VI Eurocorps (39000 men)
• 1st British Armored Brigade (10000 men)
o The Life Guards
o The Blue and Royals
o 1st Royal Tank Regiment
o 9th/12th Royal Lancers
o 12th Regiment, Royal Artillery
• 4th British Armored Brigade (11000 men)
o 1st Queens Dragoon Guards
o Royal Dragoon Guards
o Scots Guards
o The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
o 4th Regiment, Royal Artillery
• 7th British Armored Brigade (10000 men)
o Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
o 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
o The Highlanders
o 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
o 26th Regiment, Royal Artillery
• 20th British Armored Brigade (8000 men)
o The Queen's Royal Hussars
o The Royal Regiment of Wales
o The Light Infantry
o 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
II Eurocorps (20,000 men)
• 1st German Resistance Division
• 2nd German Resistance Division
III Eurocorps (46000 men)
• 7th French Armored Brigade (9000 men)
o 1st Armored Regiment
o 2nd Armored Regiment
o 35th Mechanized Infantry Regiment
o 152nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment
o 8th Artillery Regiment
• 9th French Light Armored Marine Brigade (8000 men)
o 1st Marine Infantry Regiment
o Armored Marine Infantry Regiment
o 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment
o 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment
o 11th Marine Artillery Regiment
• 11th French Parachutist Brigade (10000 men)
o 1st Parachutist Regiment
o 2nd Foreign Legion Parachutist Regiment
o 3rd Marine Parachutist Regiment
o 8th Marine Parachutist Regiment
o 1st Wheeled Armored Antitank Parachutist Regiment
o 35th Parachutist Artillery Regiment
• 27th French Mountain Infantry Brigade (12000 men)
o 7th Mountain Infantry Battalion
o 13th Mountain Infantry Battalion
o 27th Mountain Infantry Battalion
o 4th Wheeled Armored Antitank Regiment
o 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment
• 4th French Airmobile Brigade (7000 men)
o 1st Combat Helicopter Regiment
o 3rd Combat Helicopter Regiment
o 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment
o 6th Combat Helicopter Regiment
V Eurocorps (61,000 men)
• 1st British Infantry (12000 men)
o The Grenadier Guards
o The Coldstream Guards
o Irish Guards
o Welsh Guards
• 2nd British Infantry (15000 men)
o Royal Scots
o King's Own Scottish Borderers
o Royal Highland Fusiliers
o The Black Watch
o Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• 4th British Infantry (1000 men)
o The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment
o 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
o Royal Anglian Regiment
• 6th British Infantry (14000 men)
o Royal Green Jackets
o The Gibralter Regiment
o Royal Irish Regiment
o The Parachute Regiment
o Royal Gurkha Rifles
• 2nd British Armored Brigade (10000 men)
o The King's Royal Hussars
o The Light Dragoons
o The Queen's Royal Lancers
US V Corps, Northern France (90500 men)
• 1st Infantry (19000 men)
o 2nd Brigade
o 3rd Brigade
o 4th Brigade
• 1st Armored (15000 men)
o 1st Brigade
o 2nd Brigade
o 4th Brigade
• 36th Infantry (20000 men)
o 2nd Texas Armored Brigade
o 3rd Texas Armored Brigade
o 36th Texas Infantry Brigade
o 36th Texas Aviation Brigade
• 38th Infantry (15000 men)
o 37th Ohio Armored Brigade
o 2nd Indiana Infantry Brigade
o 46th Michigan Infantry Brigade
o 38th Indiana AVN Brigade
• 173rd Airborne Brigade (10000 men)
• 41st Field Artillery Brigade (2000 men)
• 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (1500 men)
• 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (8000 men)
o 130th Kansas Field Artillery Brigade
o 185th Mississippi Aviation Life Group
US VII Corps, Eastern France (50000 men)
• 2nd Armored (15000 men)
o 1st Brigade
o 2nd Brigade
o 3rd Brigade
o 4th Brigade
• 49th Infantry (12000 men)
• 82nd Airborne (12000 men)
o 1st Brigade
o 2nd Brigade
o 3rd Brigade
• 45th Oklahoma Infantry Brigade (5000 men)
• 76th Indiana Infantry Brigade (6000 men)
Total US Forces: 140,500 men
Total European Forces: 236,500 men
Total Forces of CENTCOM: 377,000 men, plus auxiliary medical, contracting, and logistic units
RUSSIAN FORCES
4th Army, created 2035 (134,000 men)
• 4th Tank Division (25000 men)
• 5th Tank Division (29000 men)
• 4th Guard Division (25000 men)
• 11th Motorized Infantry Division (25000 men)
• 10th Motorized Infantry Division (30000 men)
7th Army, created 2050 (89,000 men)
• 15th Motorized Infantry Division (31000 men)
• 16th Motorized Infantry Division (20000 men)
• 7th Guard Division (28000 men)
• 17th Motorized Infantry Division (25000 men)
Total Russian forces: 238,000
Total CENTCOM forces: 377,000
This would be one of the final battles in Europe between Western Capitalism and Russian Universality, and the forces were evenly matched. The Allies of CENTCOM had gathered all their forces and pooled them along the French-German border, with France dredging up units from Africa and the Foreign Legion, and Britain bringing along its Royal Gurkhas and Royal Irish Regiments. The two sides were lined up, and while though Russia had fewer soldiers, they had better weapons.
The guns opened up on an uncommonly cold February evening, and France took the brunt of the Russian army. In Calais in the north, the 1st US Infantry and France's best men fell back before the onslaught of over fifty thousand Russians and thousands of tanks. The center of the line fell to defend Rheims and Artois, and the American and French armor held back Russian infantry in that ancient city.
The British infantry fought bravely against the Russian infantry in Alsace, as it did in the first two World Wars. With trenches, pillbox and grenade the British stopped up the Russians in the Ardennes forest, the Russians trapped on poor terrain.
The Italians, Belgians, Spanish and other troops were slaughtered and bombed in Strasbourg, and Russian artillery pounded the Vosges as Alexei led his divisions over the barbed wire. The line had been pushed far back two weeks into the fighting, and British and American support had stalled the Russians from moving into southern France.
On April 2, 2052, one final offensive was launched—Operation Star consisted of over thirty thousand British soldiers and tanks cutting up north toward Brussels, while the 173rd Airborne, 82nd Airborne, and French and British Parachute Regiments dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands, cutting them off. It was a huge operation, and one that seemed successful at first.
The British armor thrust up and recaptured Strasbourg, and the airborne troops landed in the fields of the Ruhr Valley and the Netherlands, fighting back toward the Russians. Now enclosed, Alexei and his men had to think fast to escape this envelopment.
Alexei made a brave move, one that sealed his name as one of the greatest generals in history. With all his available armor, he punched through the 27th French Mountain Brigade and sliced his way through enemy lines toward Paris, now sparsely defended. Paris fell on April 24, serving the purpose of demoralizing the French troops, and goading all the French back to oust the invaders from the City on the Seine.
Within Paris, Alexei defended himself from his attacks, calling in bombing raids and driving the Americans and British back in all directions. France fought to retake their capital, but it was impossible for them. With their parachutists and airborne soldiers trapped behind enemy lines themselves, it was not long before the 1st Russian Army being held in reserve moved up and engaged them. The airborne took heavy losses, and nearly all became prisoners of war.
France surrendered on June 9, its forces either blending back in with the common population or turning their weapons in to Alexei. The British and Americans fought for a little while longer, but now that they were stuck in an unfriendly country with no means of escape, and no way of refueling or eating, the war had been lost. In a joint statement, CENTCOM declared defeat on July 3, 2052, after only five months of fighting, and begged Russia for mercy.
Alexei had mercy, but not in the way that the USA and the UK had expected. Instead of letting the enemy soldiers depart to their own lands, he took their weapons and seized them as prisoners of war. Out of eight allied corps that had started in the fight in France, not a single one had finished it. The outcry in America was great, for almost all of their 7th Army was in concentration camps behind the lines; a lucky few thousand had evacuated to England.
The war was over, and an entire American army had been destroyed. Britain was absolutely destitute of soldiers, as it had used all but two divisions to fight in the war, and those two divisions were in Basra, Iraq. It seemed as if an invasion was imminent, the first invasion since 1066, a thousand years earlier. A headquarters was set up at Tilbury, and civilians began to arm themselves in platoons of guardsmen, training with weapons, although in the words of one officer, "I fear that these citizen-soldiers would more easier kill one another than annoy the enemy."
Alexei seized France's navy, and began to move the ships around north to Normandy, where he planned his invasion. However, the combinations of stormy seas and a violent encounter off the coast of Brittany with the British Navy killed his plans for invasion. The attack never came, and Britain gradually rebuilt its forces.
While Alexei was consolidating his gains in France, he created two more armies. One was to go to Siberia to help expand his territory out in the wilderness, and one was to help invade Spain. Within four years, Spain had fallen to Russia, as did Portugal.
As the year 2056 ended, Greece, Turkey and Israel launched a small offensive against Russia's holdings in the Balkans; Alexei sent his son, now twenty-seven, to deal with it. Not only did Alexei the Younger destroy the assault, but he seized Greece as a new state in the Russian Empire. His father was overjoyed.
The empire now stretched from Portugal into central Siberia, and from the tip of Norway down to Gibraltar. Italy was allowed to exist for now; it was weak beyond resistance, and had decided to become economically dependant on Russia.
One final note about the prisoners of war:
The French prisoners of war were released soon after the war was over, back to their homes in France, now occupied and controlled by Russia. However, the struggle was a little harder for the American and British prisoners. Alone in the world and without allies, the Prime Minister and President's words meant little to Alexei.
A hundred and fifty thousand Americans and British were held as prisoners, brainwashed
into the ways of Universality. They were subject to medical experiments and human mind-control tests, and at last, when their minds were broken and shattered, when they spoke of nothing but love for Alexei and the praise of Universality, when their personalities and senses of self were so defeated that they were unrecognizable—it was only then that Alexei sent them home.
By early 2057, five years after the war had ended, more than four-fifths of the prisoners of war were sent home. Their families, and their government, were dismayed by the permanent damage done to their minds, but it was too late to go back. It was a threat and warning to the allied governments by Alexei.
There are several veterans of this war still alive, and even some who survived the mind-control camps. They are all over one hundred and fourteen years of age, and their minds are feeble and damaged. At the time of print (May 2145), twelve Americans are alive who experienced the
camps; none ever recovered.
Alexei was getting older, but he was not done yet. At the age of sixty-seven, he still had life in him, and he still had a world to conquer.
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1 - I love this.
2 - Much better map.
3 - Nice MVA name, you lil' fucker.
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You haven't seen terrorism until you've seen a grand Russian army attempt to storm the beaches of New Jersey.
Submitted by R0usseau (user info) at 2007-09-06 19:45:28 EDT (#)
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Nicely done.
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-09-06 16:51:33 EDT (#)
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I'll read it another time.
but here ya go anyway.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2007-09-06 16:21:40 EDT (#)
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How America fell--it fell well, the rest is hard to tell so sit a spell and listen to the jackdaw yell of lost acres of broken knells, trees that once swished softly like nature's bells.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:54:01 EDT (#)
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good ass series
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:51:18 EDT (#)
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really? hmmmm...
it's a fun piece of fiction but I don't see a new Russian empire taking over the planet.
Submitted by Surgeon (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:42:03 EDT (#)
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lobotamy..
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:35:01 EDT (#)
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The Serbs and Russians haven't had a mutually supportive war since 1914, and even with Hitler, they weren't much help to one another. Alexei needed an empire, and he knew that the Serbs would be good since they were the same Slavic ethnic group.
PS Jonnyx: Mical Enderly of 105533th Regiment may have a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:19:19 EDT (#)
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I always thought Daly was a bit of a Harry Hoofter's name
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:18:13 EDT (#)
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f.y.i, the Serbs and the Russians have always been traditional allies - the scenario you describe wouldn't have happened.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-09-06 15:12:46 EDT (#)
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