Historia Futurum
Historia Futurum
"This is Robert Williams, the fifty-second President of the United States of America, broadcasting from Air Force One. Upon detection of thousands of Idealist ICBMs en route to America, I declare that we have entered a state of nuclear war with the United Idealist Republics of Eurasia. I ask for an orderly evacuation from all major population centers and continued support for this administration in the ensuing era. We must end the Idealist threat once and for all."
"This is the President. I am saddened to say that most of America has succumbed to the enemy's missiles. However, our Strategic Defense Initiative has successfully protected the cities of Washington, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Omaha, and Sacramento."
"This is President Williams broadcasting from an undisclosed location. Despite the nuclear interchange, the American goverment is still going strong. We are girding our conventional defenses in preparation for an anticipated Idealist landing off the coast of California. Martial law has been declared in the entire nation, but I assure you it will be lifted as soon as the Idealist war is over."
"This is your President speaking. I am instituting a draft of all able-bodied males aged 18-30 for the liberation of the American West from the Idealist occupation. We are establishing a defense perimeter stretching from the Missouri River to Texas. We have also begun evacuating the Mississippi River Basin. According to our meteorologists, the melting of the polar ice caps instigated by the nuclear strikes will cause flooding of coastal areas worldwide. We predict that the Mississippi Basin will turn into a small sea within the next five to ten years."
"This is President Williams, live from the former Idealist regional capital at Omaha. We have succeeded in our main counterattack, and are pushing the Idealists onto the Californian beachheads from whence they came. Our Pacific Fleet is ensuring that they have nowhere to run. Meanwhile the British inform us that they have repelled an Idealist invasion and are now preparing for an eventual invasion of the European continent. So I tell you, America, that we are winning. We yet have a long hard road ahead of us, but we can triumph if we keep pushing oursel-AAH!!"
"The President has just been shot!"
"Look out! There's more of 'em!"
"RATATATATATATAT!"
"Idealism forever!"
"Death to America!"
"This is General Anderson of the United States Army. Due to the Idealist assassination of President Williams and most of his advisors, I am declaring a suspension of civilian rule in this country. The Joint Chiefs are hereby the emergency heads of state."
"This is Mayor Judas Daley of Chicago. I bring with me to these radio waves an ultimatum from the people of America: Restore civilian rule immediately or several cities and states of the Union will declare their independence. I am not authorized to declare their identities save for my own Chicago. My message is this: Restore civilian rule immediately or we'll restore it for you."
"This is General Anderson, broadcasting from a government bunker near Baltimore. We recognize a state of rebellion existing in Chicago, as well as the states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. These various states have managed to establish armies based on local militias and the homeland security forces within their territories, and they have agreed to ally against the military government of America. We will of course crush this rebellion and restore order to this nation."
"I am Michael Stevens, Chief of Public Relations for the Idealist Occupation. As a patriotic American, I cannot bear the Occupation any longer and I am here to announce that myself and a select group of men and women have murdered the Occupation leaders. The Occupation of the American West is over! Idealism is over! I am restoring the United States Constitution and instituting an immediate election within all non-military states to nominate the fifty-third President of the United States. I am also continuing the state of war with the American military government in the name of freedom. To the Idealist Army sitting in the trenches, I give you these stark facts: Idealism is dead worldwide. Britain has liberated France and Spain and parts of Germany; and the Arab Alliance, India and Japan are successfully prosecuting their war against Idealist Russia and China. Idealism is dead, but America isn't. We can pay you as before, and we can offer you land. Millions of ours are dead; many of them had no heirs and their land is now ours. We will work out the details later; right now I need an oath of loyalty from the Idealist Army to the future President of the United States of America. Thank you America, I will address you later tonight as further events transpire."
"This is Governor Goldwyn of Pennsylvania, speaking from the provisional capital at Ambridge. I am calling a draft of all able-bodied men for the noble cause of recapturing Harrisburg from the forces of the District of Columbia. This is nothing new; our Chicagoan allies have drafted all the Midwest to help defend our common fronts with the enemy. We must shoulder our responsibility in this war, Pennsylvania; let us do so with all resolve."
"This is President Stevens of the Western American League. We offer an olive branch to our enemies the American military government in the District of Columbia, so as to stop the anti-war riots that have plagued all the country. We suggest a division of America into East and West, with the border to be the newly-reclassified Mississippi Sea. We suggest a withdrawal of League forces from Illinois eastward in exchange for a similar District withdrawal from Texas. I believe that this concession is only fair, and that a nation so temporarily divided can nonetheless prosper. However, we need to come together to figure out a permanent reunification. We may be enemies, but on both sides of the Mississippi we are all Americans."
"This is President Judas Daley II of the Republic of Chicago. We resent the backstabbing of our former bedfellows the Western American League. We withdraw from said League and offer our friendship to the elderly Governor Goldwyn of Pennsylvania. We will not stand to be sold out by a pack of Californian peaceniks."
"This is Patriarch Brigham IV of the Church of Iesu Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In light of the unforgiving messages coming out of Chicago and Ambridge these days, I hereby bestow my blessing on the armies of West America as they march to defend us against the invasion of Chicago in the territory of Iowa."
"This is General Whitson of the West American Army Overcommand. Due to the incompetence of our President in governing the war with Chicago, I hereby declare a temporary military government. The main objective of this government will be to establish a peace treaty with the Republic of Chicago and therefore end this war."
"I am President Daley II of Chicago, and I am pleased to announce that General Whitson and I have hammered out a peace treaty just a few moments ago. The main points are the concession of land by West America: namely the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. These will be set up in a state of relatively peaceful anarchy, without armies and without a side to take. This will serve as a buffer to both sides in the event of further war. Also, West America will pay an indemnity of fifty billion dollars to Chicago and apologize for beginning the war."
"I am Governor Brown of the state of Washington, and a representative of my own state and the states of Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho and the military district of Vancouver. In the name of the aforementioned territories, I hereby object to the military takeover of West America. Therefore, I withdraw said territories from the West American Alliance and form a new Republic of the North Pacific."
"I am Patriarch Smith II of the Church of Iesu Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I condemn the Pacific rebels and bestow the sanction of God on the California State Guard's actions against them."
"This is Tecumseh Livingston, leader of the United Native American Militia. I hereby declare war on the West American Alliance for the purpose of securing a Native homeland in the former American state of Nevada."
"This is William Robersen, bishop of the National Cathedral. By the power vested in me by God and the Military Occupation of the District of Columbia, I hereby crown thee, Michael Anderson, the President of the United States of America. May you reign well and bring unity to this shattered land."
"This is President Anderson of the United States of America, son of the general. I address the entirety of America, be it united or otherwise. Friends, we must lay aside our hatreds and wars in an attempt at peace. Look at what our constant fratricide has gotten us. Our fathers and mothers lie dead in the ditches, unburied and unwept as armies march across state lines. Our children can't read, but they can shoot a gun. We have forgotten how to build nuclear weapons, but we haven't forgotten how to use them. Heck, we've forgotten how to make radios, and we're running out of anything that still works. Our own cities that we fought so hard to preserve are burning and food riots are out of control. Race relations are unmanageable and just look at our foreign policy blunders! Have we stooped so low as to invade our friends in Canada!? This has to stop, my brothers. I'm not asking for a return to a single American republic, because we all envision ourselves as the President. All I want is peace. But this message can only be heard by the estimated five percent of Americans who own working radios, and it will be accepted by far less."
"This is the President. I've forgone the 'of the United States of America' bit because it's a joke. There is no Union in this country, there isn't even peace. There isn't even fraternity. What kind of a country is this when the State of Georgia makes a deal with Cuba, Communist Cuba of all nations, over the conquest of Florida? I'll tell you what kind of a country it is. It's a country that I no longer want to even pretend to run. I quit."
"W-wesaip? Ismos neuster in? Ismos neuster in the aire?"
"Hearaio good. Who issayon?"
"Ismos Monasteria St. Wilyam ov Emeriqua. Ismos in Dystroch Columilis. Who issat?"
"Hermo Veneratis. Flaio above Petisverg, Pansolvina rynow. Havayos radio that operat?"
"Construmos a radio with Preideliz techmanuals. Yt you?"
"Purchaio from Missonia St. Jamys in Santeyako a month ago, Fathre."
"Issas Caliphan?"
"Rodge. Flaio to St. Rudolv's in Nayarque to deliverar books to the monks."
"Books? Issayon Preideliz?"
"No. Postideliz. Theias a newva press in Langelis."
"Printen press? Langelis?"
"Theias books sabrout construction ov everythen. Wantayont to buildar a newva press in Nayarque."
"Issat good to hearar a voice in the air. Missonia St. Jamys over yt out."
"Wesaip Dystroch. Isaio Voyx ov Emeriqua, broadcasten pora the first time cens the reign ov St. Wilyam the President. Graces to the restarten radio industria, pora yall givayos hope to all neuster. Graces to yall, half Emeriqua hearayont this broadcast."
"Isaio President Wilyam XVII ov Dystroch Columilis. Addressaio all Emeriqua, Kannata yt Macsaco, yt warnaio yall. The Sophiate Ionien invadayont the Kyngtym ov Calipha. Pora the freim ov all Emeriqua, askaio pora the creation ov a grand Armei ov the Ionyted Estata ov Emeriqua, to aidar the defense of Emeriquan terre. No neus lovemos, true issat. But-fightamos not pora love, but pora the honor ov all Emeriqua. Not Angleterre nor Doytschterre nor the First Sophiate Ionien nor the Ionyted Ideliz Republics ov Eurasia could defeatayont these Estata Ionyted, yt saio that the Second Sophiate Ionien cannot defeat these Estata Ionyted either. But necessamos to issar ionyted."
"In the name ov the downtrodden proles, Jo, the Sophiate Governor Militaria, declaraio the Puiblo's Republic ov Emeriqua! Askaio the puiblo in capitalista-occupied terre to aidar the overthrow ov the evil burzh regimes, yt askaio the puiblo that livayont in freim in Calipha to enlistar in the Rhed Armei ov Emeriqua. Proles ov Emeriqua, ionyte!"
"Puiblo ov Emeriqua, isaio King Liveral IV ov Calipha. Yall gracaio pora aiden Jo yt the Kyngtym ov Calipha duren the Sophiate invasion. Graces to yall from Calipha. Neuster rebuildamos this Kyngtym with the money givayos from Emeriqua yt even disten terres like the Brytash Isles yt Zhongua. One more time, graces to yall."
"No triayos to adjustare yalles radio sets. Isaio Freim Radio, Liferty's last voyx in the Imperium. Saio this: Lookayos to a downtrodden terre, a terre that feltat the Ideliz yt the Sophiate invasions. This terre birthatas a revolution, a revolution born ov ideas old yt newva. Ideas that predatayont the Ideliz, that predatayont Angleterre, that predatayont the first Imperium ov the world: Rhoma. These ideas thrustayont thellosthel at right angles against the sun, against the powers ov the air, sif to sayar, 'Isaio no in your power! Isaio frei!' 'Allowat those with ears to hearar what Jo say.'"
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