History Literature / RevolutionOrAVictorianColdWar

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Regardless if it's a different UK or a different Germany, Marcus '''will''' stand up to defend it. Sometimes crosses over into [[MoralDissonance Moral Dissonance]] territory where his [[IDidWhatIHadToDo level of dedication]] to his goals of stopping the Faction get lethal.

-->--'''UK PM Enoch Powell''', 31/08/97 in a televised address to the British Empire after the assassination of [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Duchess Sarah of York]].

'''Revolution! Or: A Victorian Cold War''' is [[AlternateHistory a world]] where UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire never *completely* fell and an aborted Imperial Germany fell to the *Communist* revolution early on. A surviving Poland-Lithuania, united Scandinavia and Tsarist Russia join the ranks of the Red Wave by the start of the 20th century. Soon it's up to the British and the remaining Free World to take on the Red menace in a Cold War that spans 112 years. But even when the dust has settled and peace has returned in the modern era (2015 AD), [[TheWarOnTerror some people refuse to move on.]] Also expect a healthy dose of gritty cyberpunk action to top it all off with the odd African PMC or Russian mega-corporation being thrown into the mix.

'''Revolution! Or: A Victorian Cold War''' is [[AlternateHistory a world]] where the British Empire never *completely* fell and an aborted Imperial Germany fell to the *Communist* revolution early on. A surviving Poland-Lithuania, united Scandinavia and Tsarist Russia join the ranks of the Red Wave by the start of the 20th century. Soon it's up to the British and the remaining Free World to take on the Red menace in a Cold War that spans 112 years. But even when the dust has settled and peace has returned in the modern era (2015 AD), [[TheWarOnTerror some people refuse to move on.]] Also expect a healthy dose of gritty cyberpunk action to top it all off with the odd African PMC or Russian mega-corporation being thrown into the mix.

-->--'''UK PM Enoch Powell''', 31/08/97 in a televised address to the British Empire after the assassination of [[TheBritishRoyalFamily Duchess Sarah of York]].

* AllohistoricalAllusion: Plenty of them in this timeline. [[spoiler:From a Kennedy-style assassination of King Edward VIII to Bismarck being a stand-in for Vladmir Lenin. The author tries to be as original as possible without having to fall back on this trope however.]]

* PatrioticFervor: More of a 'Mixed/Good and Bad' flavour for both the timeline and the protagonist of the story. Nationalism in the Rev!-verse is more accepted than it is OTL whilst creeping around the legacy of the Balkan Wars [[spoiler: A fascist* Ottoman Empire ran by the Young Turks Party that rose in the 1920's]]. In terms of the characters, Marcus shows shades of the Mixed variety as well being firmly attached to his adopted German* homeland while keeping in touch with his Anglo-Celtic roots. Sometimes might lead to a case of [[MisplacedNationalism misplaced nationalism]] at times.

* CoolShip: The USS [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton William Clinton]] [[spoiler:Referenced as: [[Literature/AxisofTime "One of the greatest wartime Presidents in US history"]] prior to his assassination.]] is described to resemble an old OTL Invincible-class but more 'modern looking'. The resemblence is referenced by Marcus himself due to his father's involvement in the [[TheFalklandsWar Falklands War]] alongside one [[TheBritishRoyalFamily Andrew Windsor]].

* CyberPunk: Not entirely [[CyberPunk Cyberpunk]] nor entirely [[PostCyberpunk Post-Cyberpunk]] or even [[SolarPunk Solarpunk]] either, but there are enough tropes - i.e. cybernetic enhancement, mega-corporations and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMCs]] that act with impunity - that the Rev!-verse fits it while still having the veneer of OTL politics and technology in some areas.

* ShoutOut: References to 1980's pop-culture abound with song lyrics being used at the start of every story chapter. Justified due to the protagonist coming from the [[Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday Doomsday-verse]]. References to [[TheDraka Draka]] [[spoiler: (in the form of a nuclear-armed Rhodesia and it's satellite states)]], VideoGame/MetalGear, [[AxisofTime Axis of Time]] and other techno-thriller games/novels provide a basis for the technology of the Revolution!-verse.

* CoolShip: The USS [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton William Clinton]] [[spoiler: Referenced as: [[AxisofTime "One of the greatest wartime Presidents in US history"]] prior to his assassination.]] is described to resemble an old OTL Invincible-class but more 'modern looking'. The resemblence is referenced by Marcus himself due to his father's involvement in the [[TheFalklandsWar Falklands War]] alongside one [[TheBritishRoyalFamily Andrew Windsor]].

* ShoutOut: References to 1980's pop-culture abound with song lyrics being used at the start of every story chapter. Justified due to the protagonist coming from the [[Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday Doomsday-verse]]. References to [[TheDraka Draka]] [[spoiler: (in the form of a nuclear-armed Rhodesia and it's satellite states)]], [[MetalGear Metal Gear]], [[AxisofTime Axis of Time]] and other techno-thriller games/novels provide a basis for the technology of the Revolution!-verse.

"We implore Kaiser Louis Ferdinand to join us as this [[TheNineties new era of uncertainty]] descends over Europe. While the Iron Curtain that Queen Victoria spoke of is gone, the [[RedScare Red Wave]] that threatens to drown us in the waters of chaos and anarchy is coming..." -- '''UK PM Enoch Powell (31/08/97)''' in a televised address to the British Empire after the assassination of [[TheBritishRoyalFamily Duchess Sarah of York]].

* Cyberpunk: Not entirely Cyberpunk nor entirely [[PostCyberpunk Post-Cyberpunk]] or even [[SolarPunk Solarpunk]] either, but there are enough tropes - i.e. cybernetic enhancement, mega-corporations and PMCs that act with impunity - that the Rev!-verse fits it while still having the veneer of OTL politics and technology in some areas.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Civilian tech in the Revcolution!-verse is somewhat less advanced compared to all of the military gear that's used by the major nations. Also invoked in the story with Marcus's usage of a Sony Walkman and an 80's-era Nokia. However it is justified due to the fact that he is from a TL where nuclear war led to technological stagnation at around the 1980's.

* Cyberpunk: Not entirely cyberpunk nor entirely [[ PostCyberpunk post-cyberpunk]] or even [[Solarpunk]] either, but there are enough tropes - i.e. cybernetic enhancement, mega-corporations and PMCs that act with impunity - that the Rev!-verse fits the trope.

Revolutions are usually huge events in world history that can change the course of not only the nation that it takes place in, but also that of the world at large. The rise and fall of Communism was one such revolution that changed OTL (Our Timeline's) history with the Cold War lasting a mere half a century. But what if Marxism rose in an earlier era, in a different country, no less?

'''Revolution! Or: A Victorian Cold War''' is [[AlternateHistory a world]] where the British Empire never fell and an aborted Imperial Germany fell to the *Communist* revolution early on. A surviving Poland-Lithuanian and Tsarist Russia join the ranks of the Red Wave by the start of the 20th century. Soon it's up to the British and the remaining Free World to take on the Red menace in a Cold War that spans 112 years. But even when the dust has settled and peace has returned in the modern era (2015 AD), [[TheWarOnTerror some people refuse to move on.]]

* OfficerAndAGentleman: Marcus has shades of this due to his military and aristocratic backgrounds.

* Shoutout: References to 1980's pop-culture abound with song lyrics being used at the start of every story chapter. Justified due to the protagonist coming from the [[Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday Doomsday-verse]]. References to [[TheDraka Draka]] [[spoiler: (in the form of a nuclear-armed Rhodesia and it's satellite states)]], [[MetalGear Metal Gear]], [[AxisofTime Axis of Time]] and other techno-thriller games/novels provide a basis for the technology of the Revolution!-verse.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Regardless if it's a different UK or a different Germany, Marcus '''will''' stand up to defend it. Sometimes crosses over into [[MoralDissonance Moral Dissonance]] territory where his [[IDidWhatIHadToDo level of dedication to his goals of stopping the Faction get lethal.

* Shoutout: References to 1980's pop-culture abound with song lyrics being used at the start of every story chapter. Justified due to the protagonist coming from the [[Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday Doomsday-verse]]. References to [[TheDraka Draka]] [[spoiler: (in the form of a nuclear-armed Rhodesia and it's satellite states)]], [[MetalGear Metal Gear]], [[AxisofTime Axis of Time]] and other techno-thriller games/novels provide a basis for

'''Revolution! Or: A Victorian Cold War''' is [[AlternateHistory a world]] where the British Empire never fell and an aborted Imperial Germany fell to the *Communist* revolution early on. A surviving Poland-Lithuanian and Tsarist Russia join the ranks of the Red Wave by the start of the 20th century. Soon it's up to the British and the remaining Free World to take on the Red menace in a Cold War that spans 112 years. But even when the dust has settled and peace has returned in the modern era (2015 AD), some people refuse to move on.

* BigBad: Heidrich Kholer fits this [[spoiler:as the de-facto leader of the Red Army Faction.]]

"We implore Kaiser Louis Ferdinand to join us as this new era of uncertainty descends over Europe. While the Iron Curtain that Queen Victoria spoke of is gone, the Red Wave that threatens to drown us in the waters of chaos and anarchy is coming..." -- UK PM Enoch Powell (31/08/97) in a televised address to the British Empire after the assassination of Duchess Sarah of York.

Revolution! Or: A Victorian Cold War is a world where the British Empire never fell and an aborted Imperial Germany fell to the Communist* revolution early on. A surviving Poland-Lithuanian and Tsarist Russia join the ranks by the start of the 20th century. Soon it's up to the British and the remaining Free World to take on the Red menace in a Cold War that spans 112 years. But even when the dust has settled and peace has returned in the modern era (2015 AD), some people refuse to move on.

The arrival of a bunch of observers from the larger multiverse are also compounding the issue...