Ector's Suspicions

June 11th, 2007

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in 1891, at the appointed hour of 10AM, troops from all the surrounding states begin moving into Kansas, and the Union forces in Kansas City and Concordia begin marching on Topeka. 'Sockless' Jerry Simpson and the Farmers Council receive desperate cries for help from all four sides of the state. Simpson had been fairly confident in the ability of his people to fight off the Union soldiers, but the news of their collapse all across the borders frightened even him. They ordered all their border guards to withdraw, and were answered with large-scale defections – most of the volunteers guarded the borders because they lived there, and they didn't want to abandon their homes.

in 1999, Prime Minister Kay Ector reports to Queen Gwen that the last few providers of arms and supplies to the vestiges of the Central European Empire have agreed to cut off their former allies. “Congratulations, Sir Kay,” she says to him. “Your success has brought us victory in this great struggle, just as much as those fighting on the battlefield. We salute you. We would make you a lord, but then you could no longer be our prime minister.” The assembled court chuckled at the queen's little joke, but Ector felt decidedly uncomfortable. He had seen the secret reports that a few dedicated royal servants had gathered for him; the king's drug use, the suspicious circumstances of Dr. Mordred's death, the queen's closeness to Sir Lance – all of these little facts, capped by King Arthur's coma, added up to something decidedly ugly about Her Majesty. Prime Minister Ector was already formulating a plan to depose her, should that become necessary.

In 2003, Cal Griffin remembered his dream of chaos; voices screamed for him to strike. Griffin raised the bejewelled sword high and rammed it between the Corporation President's wings. The Magic Time was over.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 1945, General-san Douglas MacArthur led a peace and reconciliation mission to the devastated city of Tokyo. Prayer vigils were held for the victims of the atomic bomb. Shortly after dawn, some happened that would change the world forever. Something wonderful.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Caucasian Map, ..	In 1760, the once great continent of Europe has been depopulated by the plague known as the Red Death. But a very few survivors of the Caucasian race remain, including the seven current stowaways on a Chinese Junk and an Arab Dhow. Coincidentally both merchant vessels have a convergent trajectory in the Atlantic Ocean. The ..
.. traders are headed out of Zangi-bar (Zanzibar City) and Manna-hata (Manhattan) on alternate legs of the maize trade route. By chance these seven survivors will shortly meet in a fate-bound collision course that will forever change the destiny of Europe.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 2012, at Camp David US President George W Bush makes a fateful decision. He will ..	George Bush
.. pass the baton to his wife who will after all become the first African American President of the United States. This ground breaking decision will of course yield plentiful new copy for the next installment of his auto-biography. And he can get a bit of peace and quiet to enjoy the World Series again. Its a re-run of course, no one has played baseball or indeed any other sport since life was extirpated above ground by the nuclear confrontation which started with North Korea.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Kenneth Clarke	In 1994, Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke studies the briefing note discovered in the empty cell at Paddington Green Police Station in West Central London. Signed by someone known as Mullah Elijah Rafsanjani, the contents of the note are somewhat bizarre. Allegedly, the Mullah's son Muhammed had been dispatched from the year ..
.. 2126. His mission - to embed the Hussein-Sadat time dilation device in the modified power system of the Central Line Project. And the consequence is that the missing passengers London Underground train number AEJX57B have been sent on a world tour of 2126. To see the fallen Western Civilization that had emerged out of the post-Jihad epoch of the late twenty-first century.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1940, British Prime Minister Oswald Mosley and King Edward VIII tried hard ..	Erwin Rommel
.. to relax with a streaming supply of cigars and brandy at the official residence at Chequers. Across the English Channel, German forces under General Erwin Rommel are executing advanced plans for the D-Day Landings on the South Coast of England. Closer to home and potentially more unsavoury, Aleister Crowley aka “The Beast”, “The Man We Would Most Like to Hang” and "The Wickedest Man In the World” inter alia had proposed a repulsion plan which you could rightly describe as unorthodox. To say the very least. The British Heads of State and Government were struggling to work out which of the two threats are forcing them to drink and smoke so excessively.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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