Onto Old Glory: An Imperial Timeline

Before we begin with the actual story itself, I feel obliged to give a bit of lore about the Hearts of Iron 4 mod that this story is regarded about as seeing there are no stories regarding the mod “Pax Britannica: an Imperial Timeline”.

Let us begin with the barebones of the lore. In essence, Pax Britannica asks the question “what if the American Revolution failed?”. As the question suggests, in this world, the American Revolution has failed and the United Kingdom maintained her grip over her colonies. It should also be noted that this story contains elements within every kind of punk, except for cyberpunk. It is, as the TvTropes page calls it, an dystopian Tesla Tech Timeline.

As one can imagine, this story has many concepts that recieve from Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison’s wildest and, arguably, insane ideas coming to fruition. As a side note, the French Revolution also never occurs.

Now that you have read, and possibly understood, the basics of the lore. Allow me to introduce you to Her Royal Majesty, Queen Victoria.

The first thing any reasonable mind may notice is the way she looks. Why does she look that way? Why does she look like a bit of a zombie?
A very simple answer to that question: she is a cyborg. Yes, she looks young but that is due to her cybernetic implants, when in fact, she is 114 years old at the beginning year of the mod, and if my math is correct, 143 years old to the date of this story. The lore itself gives an explanation to what happened.
Accordingly, in 1894, Queen Victoria was the victim of an attempted assassination while attending a speech by then American Prime Minister Neal Dow. The attempted assassin was shot down by the Royal American Mounted Police shortly after fleeing. Unfortunately, Victoria suffered two gunshot wounds and she was promptly rushed to a hospital. Her condition stabilized, however representitives from Edison Medical, a brancch of the Edison Electric Company, approached the Queen and her family with a radical, albiet untested, treatment. Despite the protests of her consort, she agreed and underwent an 18 hour long surgical procedure.

What came out of the Operating Room was one of the first human beings to survive surgical augmentation and organ transplantation, becoming a “living triumph of Imperial technical prowess”. In short, she became immortal.

Unfortunately, in this world, the Geneva Conventions are promptly ignored and the Hauge and Geneva Protocols are never signed, so the player has access to biopunk technologies, and also has the ability to research other forms of chemical and biological warfare tech alongside other deranged forms of technology such as livewire, which is literal living barbed wire, to use at their discretion. Of course, it also has elements of dieselpunk, which includes automotons, such as the one in the picture below, and of course, hardsuits (which can be best described as space marine power armor or fallout power armor) or Razormaidens, which are augmentated and biollogically modified female super humans that can act anywhere from super soldiers to spies. Each come with their own individual divisions.

(Also, yes, if you type livewire on YT, you get an interview log made by the creator of the mod).

Don't think this is going to simply be Britain into this story, as there will also be other nations that will be added, although I won't spoil them for now. Either way, it is an interesting mod that I would definetly recommend checking out. My interest for this mod is what has led me to have this desire to write this fanfiction tale.

Now that I have explained the mod and its' concepts and technology, let me begin with the first concept that I shall be offering the file that will be mentioned in the prologue.

EDISON IMPERIAL ELETRIC COMPANY

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

TOP SECRET

FOR HER ROYAL MAJESTY AND THE PRIME MINISTER'S EYES ONLY

Reality Manipulation Machine

Operation Glorious Showdown

SUBJECT MATTER

1. PROJECT "REALITY TEARER"
2. OPERATION GLORIOUS SHOWDOWN

PROJECT REALITY TEARER

Approximately 3 weeks ago, the EIEC, in cooperation with the Imperial Sience and Technology Laboratory, has discovered what they call "reality manipulation". The documented files define reality manipulation as "warping and distorting reality in such a way that any persons may be capable of being transported to an entirely new reality". Preliminary tests have been conducted on various objects, and all have proven successful. The EIEC has created 10 Reality Manipulation Machines, all of which have shown to be capable of collective manipulation. All 10 of them have been tested on a dummy town, placed in spots that have encircled the town 360 degrees exactly, and a tracker. The town in question was distorted out of this reality, and the radar could not detect the town anywhere on the current planet.

The EIEC has also tested with measures of teleportation, and several tests have shown semi-success.

OPERATION GLORIOUS SHOWDOWN

As per the EIEC's discovery, the Ministry of Defence has formulated an evacuation plan, formally resulting an exodus of kind. At the order of Her Majesty, all military trains would join the civilian trains in order to successfully manage to evacuate as many civilians to the London as possible. During the occasion, the Royal Engineers will set up the machines in ten strategic locations within the outer parts of London, ensuring that the whole city of London will be transported to another world safely. Alongside that, further evacuations of our industrial capabilities and, what can be saved of, our military technological advancements including unfired warheads. Should it prove successful, our species of mankind will be saved. The only downside is that the EIEC and the Ministry can't guarantee it will function within full capacity, and it also can't be guaranteed that the city will be teleported in a safe location.

In light of recent events, and the activation of M.A.D launchers, the Ministry of Defence proposes we try. As the words of the scientists put it, "it is either we use the RMM and have a slimmer of hope at a chance of survival, or we remain and face assured obliteration."

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN