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This scenario is loosely based on the RTS End of Nations, though I made up >50% of the final version. I don’t think this will actually happen, or the conspiracy described is real. It’s supposed to be over-the-top fun, not political. Please do not accuse me of being a globalist shill or whatever.

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1945:

A man stumbles out of a POW camp liberated by the Allies. His name is Pierre Frenay, former member of the French Resistance. A brilliant leader and saboteur, he was eventually found out and the names of his brothers tortured out of him by the Nazis. That night, playing cards with the other survivors of his cell, they make a vow: never again.

1946: Pierre Frenay is learning Esperanto, is for rapprochement with the Soviets. He is a huge supporter of the UN. Only through democracy and an anti-fascist united front, he tells anyone who will listen, can the world be safe from a repeat of the War. He is a local celebrity from the resistance days and holds a minor government position. He decides to apply for a job at the UN; maybe he can help his dream become a reality.

1948: Pierre Frenay has become bitter. The UN is hardly effective, and the Soviets and Americans are becoming more obstructionist. By now, he sees that his dream was dead before it began: the Americans and Russians would never work together with Hitler out of the way.

Pierre Frenay is a determined man. Nothing lasts forever. The Cold War certainly won’t. He calls some his friends from the Resistance, the ones he is sure will agree with him. In a vacant boardroom, they discuss. Petty nationalism has kept the world from bettering itself. Nationalism has to go. It will take time, yes. The UN is weak now, yes. But Frenay does not expect to see his dream made real in his lifetime. They will wait. On that fateful day, nine men form the Order, and the dream takes on another form.

Over the next forty years, the Order waited. Frenay retired, independently wealthy. The other men went into government, or business, or simply disappeared into obscurity. The Order could not be the Big Men of government, because they’d be beholden to their nations. They can be adventure capitalists. They can be the janitors who sweep the halls of the UN building, tampering with just the right documents. The waiters at events, who speak little but hear and remember much. The favored secretaries with the ear of an ambassador.

The wealth of the order went to instability. Terrorists were never in on it, or truly know who they got aid from. Afghan Mujahideen, Palestinian radicals, African warlords. All believed they were being supplied by such acronyms as the CIA or KGB or NGOs. That the Order had friends in these organizations who could genuinely supply some of these groups makes the lie easier to swallow.

With 1991 came the end of the cold war. The Order was closer. Frenay had passed, but his dream was more alive than ever. The Order’s plan was to build a new global war on a foe that was more abstraction than group: terrorism.

The Order did not plan for 9/11. Rather embarrassingly, they had instead been trying to get Tibetans to take up arms against Beijing. But they would not ignore opportunity when it knocks. Rallies were organized, politicians egged on. The Order did not need to manufacture anything, they just fanned the flames at home and slipped money to terrorists abroad.

For over twenty years, a cycle gripped the world. Western forces grind down terrorists through brutal occupation, leave, a bigger, badder threat springs up, rinse and repeat. The Order assisted this ouroboros of wasted money and wasted lives, but they did not control it, and so could not control its end.

Everywhere, the people tired of war. Forces left and did not come back. Retaliations stopped at sanctions and air raids. The Order could not have this. People must see where petty patriotism will lead them.

Fortunately, peacetime means more money going to progress than warfare; advances in the sciences everywhere, and the race to commercialize mean soaring markets. Most people saw merely progress, but the Order saw the worst kind of opportunity. These advancements were new, untested, untrusted by the entrenched rich. A major shake up would lead to mass panic.

The Order’s richest members became “financial suicide bombers”. Their wealth went into the speculative markets, and then they made a simultaneous series of rehearsedly terrible decisions. Like the crash in 29, the bubbles collapsed and panic spread. Thus began the Economic Collapse, which spiraled into the Great Crisis. Coordinated with terrorist actions worldwide, many weaker nations simply collapsed, fought over by provisional governments of dubious legitimacy. Even the great powers, like the UK and States, fell into the doldrums of poverty, with government functions breaking down in some of the more rural American regions. It is in this atmosphere the Order made its move. The UN’s leaders had quiet ‘accidents’ and Order members took power, the taste of the Dream on their tongues. The United Nations was transformed the Order of Nations. Order-backed PMCs, True Believers and the more loyal military forces near New York became the nucleus for the ON Peace Guard.

The ON sent out aid missions, security forces, whatever was needed to the most sensitive areas. All that the asked was that the national governments put military and law enforcement forces under their command “for the time being”. Most governments are relieved and gladly accepted, and the ON’s orders were mainly to guard supply shipments or quell riots, assuaging the solders under their command. Only China and Britain balked. The Central government soon fled Beijing as their desperate citizens called for their removal, and ON forces moved in regardless, promising to restore order before inviting government forces back in. In Britain Lord Chancellor Mary Dickenson asked the government to reconsider, calling the ON’s proposed authority a surrender of sovereignty. Britain hesitated and the ON tired of waiting. The Peace Guard made first use of Megapanzers, tracked warships with the latest in military technology in an amphibious invasion jokingly called “Sealion II” by Peace Guard soldiers (away from their superiors, of course).

As ON solders advanced towards London, the government was split. Mary Dickinson and her allies escape to Ireland, still refusing ON assistance, while other members offered a surrender to the ON. Dickinson’s government-in-exile used their codes quickly before the ON locked them out of their own networks, creating a secret set of orders called “The Sentinel” distributed to officers in key positions. Nuclear submarines disappeared into the night.

Meanwhile, the ON moved on to the “brutally crush all opposition” phase of the Plan. Those riots still happening are to be responded with with lethal force. In Miami, General Alec Chase refused the order, reasoning that he was loyal to the constitution and not the ON, and therefore was not required to follow orders he saw as wrongful. The Order disagreed. Alec Chase is declared a wanted man, and he prepared his forces for a last stand. A nearby British naval group, lead by Zachary Harolds, came to his rescue. Evacuating to Ireland, Chase set up another government in exile and allied with Dickenson to create the Liberation Front, dedicated to pre-Crisis values of democracy and justice. France, largely left alone by ON troops, jumped aboard soon afterwards. It took sustained naval bombardment and a stalled counter-invasion, but eventually the Guard in Britain surrendered. Since then, the Frot has changed its flag from a combination of the American and British ones to a more generic ‘torch of liberty’ design, but the French still semi-seriously complain it’s a primarily Anglo-American affair.

The sudden turn into authoritarian-ville chafed necks elsewhere. Donald Poole, Romanian politician put in charge of Eastern Europe, loudly and publicly complained to his superiors, which lead to his execution on trumped-up charges. His son, Robert Poole, escaped into hiding where he built up a network of like-minded Order personnel, co-headed by Chinese spec-ops soldier Monkh Erdene. Erdene went AWOL when contacted by one of Poole’s messengers, deciding to take her chances and brave the trip to Romania rather than stay with the Order.

The Shadow Revolution first referred to an event. Almost literally overnight, Eastern Europe severed itself from the Order apparatus. Poole’s people, mostly NCOs, smothered loyalists in their sleep and in the morning hoisted Poole’s own flag instead of the Order’s. Poole consolidated his allies and made it official the following Thursday: The Eastern Europe Oversight Region was now the sovereign Shadow Revolution Society, the name taken from his breakout act. Poole had been raised by his father to believe in the Order’s globalist ideals, but found the Order itself hopelessly corrupt and oppressive. Working with some Maoists joining him from China, he tweaked the ideology into his own Global Socialism. Though opposed in long-term goals, the SRS and Front became fast friends. When the Order dubbed the duo a “coalition of hostile powers” in a press release, the Revolution and Liberty Front made it official; joining in a military alliance called the Coalition Powers.

Over time, other Coalition members emerged. When the Front moved through the low countries, they linked up with the Military Council, a german junta of antifascist militias. Germany, not predisposed towards authoritarianism, had been rife with instability which flared into open rebellion when the Liberty Front was formed. The new Germany is once again a patriotic nation, with the fires of pride stoked by the government, not with tales of racial supremacy, but ideological superiority. The Coalition is a “great unifier that will separate the courageous from the cowards” and every German (white or brown, blonde or brunette) can take solace in the fact that they are on the “right side of history”.

The Liberty Front, due to its American history, always made it a priority to return to the New World. They got their opportunity by landing on the Newfoundland coast, seized by Quebecois separatists a month before. Separatism became the majority opinion in Quebec when the Order marched into Ottowa, and militant groups found success in the rural tundra areas to the north. The Order mobilized to crush the rebels, but by then they were being backed up by the Front.

The sullen Chinese rump government perked up considerably when covert aid began being delivered from the Revolution. After a period of consolidation, the government dissolved itself and all of its infrastructure formed the new, anti-ON Black Dragon Society. The Peace Guard immediately secured most of western China, but found they were fiercely opposed at strategic locations by the PLA. China knew it could not keep all its territory if it were to go against the full might of the Order, so it withdrew to major cities, strategic military bases, and fortified a select few major territories. They later found unlikely refuge with the northern Tibetan people, after the Order began brutalizing Tibetan prisoners on the slightest suspicion of being Dragon sympathizers. Southern Tibet remains firmly anti-Dragon, much preferring the Order’s milquetoast authoritarianism to the former government’s Han-centric authoritarianism.

Five years later, and the war rages on. Neither side can accept anything but the complete dissolution of the other. The Order has lower and lower approval ratings in its territories, but cracks in the Coalition are beginning to show. The Liberty Politics of the Front and Quebec, and Global Socialism of the SRS, cannot coexist forever. One calls for democracy for all and the other a world dictatorship of the proletariat. While the propaganda posters and leaflets (back in a big way, as computer ownership seriously declined during the Crisis) extoll the virtues of unity during wartime, the state television of the opposing factions is subtly beginning to bad-mouth their rivals. Political analysts are split as to whether the Coalition’s time will soon be up.

Analysts love to state the tidbit that for the first time since prehistory, the current war is not one between nations. The globalist Order of Nations has thoroughly eroded the sovereignty of its constituents, while the Coalition’s members all defy the exact label of “nation”. The Liberty Front has member nations, but is ultimately sovereign over all of them. The SRS considers itself the catalyst for a world revolution. Germany’s structure is more a tight confederation of militias than a republic, and considers itself post-nationalist. Quebec uses the descriptor “Regionalist” and reminds everyone it is a “state but not a nation”. Whoever wins in the end, the world can be sure that this is the end of nations.

Description

This scenario is loosely based on the RTS End of Nations, though I made up >50% of the final version. I don’t think this will actually happen, or the conspiracy described is real. It’s supposed to be over-the-top fun, not political. Please do not accuse me of being a globalist shill or whatever.

———

1945:

A man stumbles out of a POW camp liberated by the Allies. His name is Pierre Frenay, former member of the French Resistance. A brilliant leader and saboteur, he was eventually found out and the names of his brothers tortured out of him by the Nazis. That night, playing cards with the other survivors of his cell, they make a vow: never again.

1946: Pierre Frenay is learning Esperanto, is for rapprochement with the Soviets. He is a huge supporter of the UN. Only through democracy and an anti-fascist united front, he tells anyone who will listen, can the world be safe from a repeat of the War. He is a local celebrity from the resistance days and holds a minor government position. He decides to apply for a job at the UN; maybe he can help his dream become a reality.

1948: Pierre Frenay has become bitter. The UN is hardly effective, and the Soviets and Americans are becoming more obstructionist. By now, he sees that his dream was dead before it began: the Americans and Russians would never work together with Hitler out of the way.

Pierre Frenay is a determined man. Nothing lasts forever. The Cold War certainly won’t. He calls some his friends from the Resistance, the ones he is sure will agree with him. In a vacant boardroom, they discuss. Petty nationalism has kept the world from bettering itself. Nationalism has to go. It will take time, yes. The UN is weak now, yes. But Frenay does not expect to see his dream made real in his lifetime. They will wait. On that fateful day, nine men form the Order, and the dream takes on another form.

Over the next forty years, the Order waited. Frenay retired, independently wealthy. The other men went into government, or business, or simply disappeared into obscurity. The Order could not be the Big Men of government, because they’d be beholden to their nations. They can be adventure capitalists. They can be the janitors who sweep the halls of the UN building, tampering with just the right documents. The waiters at events, who speak little but hear and remember much. The favored secretaries with the ear of an ambassador.

The wealth of the order went to instability. Terrorists were never in on it, or truly know who they got aid from. Afghan Mujahideen, Palestinian radicals, African warlords. All believed they were being supplied by such acronyms as the CIA or KGB or NGOs. That the Order had friends in these organizations who could genuinely supply some of these groups makes the lie easier to swallow.

With 1991 came the end of the cold war. The Order was closer. Frenay had passed, but his dream was more alive than ever. The Order’s plan was to build a new global war on a foe that was more abstraction than group: terrorism.

The Order did not plan for 9/11. Rather embarrassingly, they had instead been trying to get Tibetans to take up arms against Beijing. But they would not ignore opportunity when it knocks. Rallies were organized, politicians egged on. The Order did not need to manufacture anything, they just fanned the flames at home and slipped money to terrorists abroad.

For over twenty years, a cycle gripped the world. Western forces grind down terrorists through brutal occupation, leave, a bigger, badder threat springs up, rinse and repeat. The Order assisted this ouroboros of wasted money and wasted lives, but they did not control it, and so could not control its end.

Everywhere, the people tired of war. Forces left and did not come back. Retaliations stopped at sanctions and air raids. The Order could not have this. People must see where petty patriotism will lead them.

Fortunately, peacetime means more money going to progress than warfare; advances in the sciences everywhere, and the race to commercialize mean soaring markets. Most people saw merely progress, but the Order saw the worst kind of opportunity. These advancements were new, untested, untrusted by the entrenched rich. A major shake up would lead to mass panic.

The Order’s richest members became “financial suicide bombers”. Their wealth went into the speculative markets, and then they made a simultaneous series of rehearsedly terrible decisions. Like the crash in 29, the bubbles collapsed and panic spread. Thus began the Economic Collapse, which spiraled into the Great Crisis. Coordinated with terrorist actions worldwide, many weaker nations simply collapsed, fought over by provisional governments of dubious legitimacy. Even the great powers, like the UK and States, fell into the doldrums of poverty, with government functions breaking down in some of the more rural American regions. It is in this atmosphere the Order made its move. The UN’s leaders had quiet ‘accidents’ and Order members took power, the taste of the Dream on their tongues. The United Nations was transformed the Order of Nations. Order-backed PMCs, True Believers and the more loyal military forces near New York became the nucleus for the ON Peace Guard.

The ON sent out aid missions, security forces, whatever was needed to the most sensitive areas. All that the asked was that the national governments put military and law enforcement forces under their command “for the time being”. Most governments are relieved and gladly accepted, and the ON’s orders were mainly to guard supply shipments or quell riots, assuaging the solders under their command. Only China and Britain balked. The Central government soon fled Beijing as their desperate citizens called for their removal, and ON forces moved in regardless, promising to restore order before inviting government forces back in. In Britain Lord Chancellor Mary Dickenson asked the government to reconsider, calling the ON’s proposed authority a surrender of sovereignty. Britain hesitated and the ON tired of waiting. The Peace Guard made first use of Megapanzers, tracked warships with the latest in military technology in an amphibious invasion jokingly called “Sealion II” by Peace Guard soldiers (away from their superiors, of course).

As ON solders advanced towards London, the government was split. Mary Dickinson and her allies escape to Ireland, still refusing ON assistance, while other members offered a surrender to the ON. Dickinson’s government-in-exile used their codes quickly before the ON locked them out of their own networks, creating a secret set of orders called “The Sentinel” distributed to officers in key positions. Nuclear submarines disappeared into the night.

Meanwhile, the ON moved on to the “brutally crush all opposition” phase of the Plan. Those riots still happening are to be responded with with lethal force. In Miami, General Alec Chase refused the order, reasoning that he was loyal to the constitution and not the ON, and therefore was not required to follow orders he saw as wrongful. The Order disagreed. Alec Chase is declared a wanted man, and he prepared his forces for a last stand. A nearby British naval group, lead by Zachary Harolds, came to his rescue. Evacuating to Ireland, Chase set up another government in exile and allied with Dickenson to create the Liberation Front, dedicated to pre-Crisis values of democracy and justice. France, largely left alone by ON troops, jumped aboard soon afterwards. It took sustained naval bombardment and a stalled counter-invasion, but eventually the Guard in Britain surrendered. Since then, the Frot has changed its flag from a combination of the American and British ones to a more generic ‘torch of liberty’ design, but the French still semi-seriously complain it’s a primarily Anglo-American affair.

The sudden turn into authoritarian-ville chafed necks elsewhere. Donald Poole, Romanian politician put in charge of Eastern Europe, loudly and publicly complained to his superiors, which lead to his execution on trumped-up charges. His son, Robert Poole, escaped into hiding where he built up a network of like-minded Order personnel, co-headed by Chinese spec-ops soldier Monkh Erdene. Erdene went AWOL when contacted by one of Poole’s messengers, deciding to take her chances and brave the trip to Romania rather than stay with the Order.

The Shadow Revolution first referred to an event. Almost literally overnight, Eastern Europe severed itself from the Order apparatus. Poole’s people, mostly NCOs, smothered loyalists in their sleep and in the morning hoisted Poole’s own flag instead of the Order’s. Poole consolidated his allies and made it official the following Thursday: The Eastern Europe Oversight Region was now the sovereign Shadow Revolution Society, the name taken from his breakout act. Poole had been raised by his father to believe in the Order’s globalist ideals, but found the Order itself hopelessly corrupt and oppressive. Working with some Maoists joining him from China, he tweaked the ideology into his own Global Socialism. Though opposed in long-term goals, the SRS and Front became fast friends. When the Order dubbed the duo a “coalition of hostile powers” in a press release, the Revolution and Liberty Front made it official; joining in a military alliance called the Coalition Powers.

Over time, other Coalition members emerged. When the Front moved through the low countries, they linked up with the Military Council, a german junta of antifascist militias. Germany, not predisposed towards authoritarianism, had been rife with instability which flared into open rebellion when the Liberty Front was formed. The new Germany is once again a patriotic nation, with the fires of pride stoked by the government, not with tales of racial supremacy, but ideological superiority. The Coalition is a “great unifier that will separate the courageous from the cowards” and every German (white or brown, blonde or brunette) can take solace in the fact that they are on the “right side of history”.

The Liberty Front, due to its American history, always made it a priority to return to the New World. They got their opportunity by landing on the Newfoundland coast, seized by Quebecois separatists a month before. Separatism became the majority opinion in Quebec when the Order marched into Ottowa, and militant groups found success in the rural tundra areas to the north. The Order mobilized to crush the rebels, but by then they were being backed up by the Front.

The sullen Chinese rump government perked up considerably when covert aid began being delivered from the Revolution. After a period of consolidation, the government dissolved itself and all of its infrastructure formed the new, anti-ON Black Dragon Society. The Peace Guard immediately secured most of western China, but found they were fiercely opposed at strategic locations by the PLA. China knew it could not keep all its territory if it were to go against the full might of the Order, so it withdrew to major cities, strategic military bases, and fortified a select few major territories. They later found unlikely refuge with the northern Tibetan people, after the Order began brutalizing Tibetan prisoners on the slightest suspicion of being Dragon sympathizers. Southern Tibet remains firmly anti-Dragon, much preferring the Order’s milquetoast authoritarianism to the former government’s Han-centric authoritarianism.

Five years later, and the war rages on. Neither side can accept anything but the complete dissolution of the other. The Order has lower and lower approval ratings in its territories, but cracks in the Coalition are beginning to show. The Liberty Politics of the Front and Quebec, and Global Socialism of the SRS, cannot coexist forever. One calls for democracy for all and the other a world dictatorship of the proletariat. While the propaganda posters and leaflets (back in a big way, as computer ownership seriously declined during the Crisis) extoll the virtues of unity during wartime, the state television of the opposing factions is subtly beginning to bad-mouth their rivals. Political analysts are split as to whether the Coalition’s time will soon be up.

Analysts love to state the tidbit that for the first time since prehistory, the current war is not one between nations. The globalist Order of Nations has thoroughly eroded the sovereignty of its constituents, while the Coalition’s members all defy the exact label of “nation”. The Liberty Front has member nations, but is ultimately sovereign over all of them. The SRS considers itself the catalyst for a world revolution. Germany’s structure is more a tight confederation of militias than a republic, and considers itself post-nationalist. Quebec uses the descriptor “Regionalist” and reminds everyone it is a “state but not a nation”. Whoever wins in the end, the world can be sure that this is the end of nations.