You read my mind. How dare they make it to 1989! Maybe they are smaller than they are in the books though, so we have some hope.
Anywho, great Start ME. Keep it up.
Well, they definitely don't seem to hold Germany, judging from he "German-loving-traitor" talk. Possibly in this world they kept to their alliance with *Nazi Germany, but have understandably fallen out after the war. (There can only be _one_ true Master Race, after all. ) At a guess, I see them as having the territory of the Draka in Ian's scenario: Africa and the Arabian peninsula, plus maybe Turkey, since they took over the Middle East _after_ the Eurasian war and it's a bit hard to invade India or Russia by sea from Africa.
Bruce
I think ME said this one is starting over from the begining.Okay, will this timeline start where the previous one left off, or just start anew?
How about more cultural divides in Drakan society? I have a problem grasping with the Drakas speaking in American Southern drawls. I would have expect there might be some kind of cultural prejudice from the more European descendant Draka to look down on what is stereotypically "red neck" white trash polluting their culture.
You are aware that such a linguistic connotation is relatively recent (not to mention insulting by implication) and that such a dialect is anachronistic in the first place within the context of the Draka-verse? The Cultivated Southern drawl (yes, that's a real thing) is the closest thing in America TO a British accent, so why would the Domination have any discriminatory attitudes towards something closer-cut to them than Damnyankee-speak, especially at a time when the Drakans had to at least pay lip service to the idea being British subjects?
Personally I always saw them speaking half-South African English, half-Tidewater twang with elements of British Received Pronunciation here and there. As to why they wouldn't sound more British than that, distance does play a large role in such things.
I do hope this gets restarted soon