History Characters / TheGreatNorthernConspiracy

Five students who were attending Miss Altman's class during the ninety minute period between Canada's first public nuclear test, and the American invasion of Quebec. Their town of Motherwill was in the direct path of Army Group Rockwell, and their teacher, Tosia Altman, and her friend, Ulrike Meinhof, were forced to evacuate the five of you themselves, which they did over a frantic two month period.

->'''Ruling Party:''' The Progressive-Conservative Party (Unionists)

->'''Party:''' The Progressive Conservative Party (Red)

->'''Party:''' The Progressive Conservative Party (Blood)
* BatmanGambit: Crate's strategies often make assumptions on how his latest target will react to an extreme provocation. He may not always get the optimal outcome from the reaction, but he's positioned to at least profit somewhat from whatever that move ends up being.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: As a Senator, Percy term of office ends with mandatory retirement at age 75. He is considerably less than that. As a result, he enjoys tax-payer funded proximity to the levers of power for the duration of the best years of his political life. Additionally, he has plenty of power at his disposal to influence Canada in other ways.
* KickedUpstairs: Was appointed to the Senate of the Federation on the advice of leader and Premier John Diefenbaker. It is very likely this was done to pacify the Bloods, but keep their dominant member out of influencing critical legislative business.
* XanatosGambit: Many of his political strategies are failsafe, and will often boost him no matter what happens. His current role is the result of one such contingency unfolding-if he was allowed to control the Tories' Parliamentary business, he may have been unstoppable. Diefenbaker's solution of [[KickedUpstairs appointing him to the Senate]] made him untouchable.

->'''Party:''' The Progressive Conservative Party (Blood)

As per a tendency of parties to nominate their more volatile grandees as Senators to get them out of the way of Parliamentary business, Percy was [[KickedUpstairs appointed to the Senate of the Federation on the advice of leader and Premier John Diefenbaker.]]

[[folder: Pierre Trudeau]]

[[folder: Ernest Manning]]

[[folder: Charles Manson]]

->'''Party:''' Social Credit Party (Vanguard, or 'Degen')

[[folder: Edith Crate [[spoiler: Édith Piaf]]]]

[[folder: Edith Crate [[spoiler: née Edif Piaf]]]]

!!Josh [Last name needed here

[[folder: John D. Diefenbaker]]

!!The Liberal Party
[[folder: Pierre Trudeau]]
->'''Party:''' Liberal Party (PET)

!!The Social Credit Party
[[folder: Ernest Manning]]
->'''Party:''' Social Credit Party (Populist, or 'Hick')

[[folder: Charles Maddox]]
->'''Party:''' Social Credit Party (Vanguard, or 'Degen')

!!The Continental Communist Party
[[folder: Gus Hall]]
->'''Party:''' Continental Communist Party (Orthodox, or 'Tankie')

[[folder: Bayard Rustin]]
->'''Party:''' Continental Communist Party (Libertarian, or 'Wrecker')

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[[folder:Josh's character]]

[[folder:Nate's character]]

!!The North American Communist Party

[[folder:General Tropes]]

!! 'The teachers'

In fact, only Tosia is a teacher between the two of them. The students' constant description and address of Ulrike as a teacher is a misconception that Ulrike loves to humor and Tosia gave up correcting. They were teaching a remedial history class the students were in at the time World War II broke out, and moved heaven, earth, and Miss Altman's extended stay in a Canadian military jail getting them home. Things are back to normal: Miss Altman is a teacher, and Ulrike Meinhof still lists Miss Altman as a reference on her resumes.

[[folder:Tosia]]
!!Tosia Altman

A history teacher at Motherwill Grey. She seems very easily overwhelmed by her job-and in a world where almost nothing is known about the European conflict that isn't curated by one fascist government or another, history, is universally agreed to be the murkiest part of the high school academia. What makes her situation especially interesting, however, is her incredibly proximity to that history: she is a Polish-Jewish refugee widely known for participating in the only successful military insurrection against the Greater German Reich. In other words, the textbook example of a primary source to a lost history.

Definitely retired from the socialist/zionist nazi-fighting business.

Also a first lieutenant in the Canadian Reserve Forces.

* BloodFromTheMouth: In 2 August 1962, she has a coughing fit that is sudden and forceful enough that she can't cover her mouth in time, and the blood she coughs up actually splatters the desk. For now, it's hard to say if it's indicative of anything physical: that incident ends that chapter; the following chapter delves into the nature of Lord Halifax's psychosomatic stomach pains; and the next chapter picks up right with Tosia and Ulrike attempting to explain to the class what psychosomatic ailments are.

Also was a first lieutenant in the Canadian Reserve Forces.

Tosia Altman's acquaintance. The owner of the television set Tosia borrowed for the class to watch the Prince Charles Island nuclear test. Sometimes mistaken for being a teacher or teaching assistant at Motherwill, Ulrike is what Tosia derisively calls "a professional hot mess". As one of a few handful of German refugees, she is the direct witness to the spiritual fall of Western Europe to embracing the ultranationalism and racism of the Third Reich.

Five students who were attending Miss Altman's class during the ninety minute period between Canada's first public nuclear test, and the American invasion of Quebec. Motherwill became the site of a military skirmish, and the school system as a whole was shut down as Canada entered a state of Total War Mobilization. Once Motherwill was finally retaken some months later, the students were recovered and sent to safety-most likely to their parents, barring other complications.

Now, two years later, Canada reenters a state of normalcy, Motherwill Grey is opening its doors, and these same five students are now residents at the same dorm entering their Senior year. They may have kept in touch. They may not have communicated at all.

* FireForgedFriends: At bare minimum, since they were in the same classroom during the Battle of Motherwill. The extent to which this friendship manifests can vary wildly-shades of VitriolicBestBuds, TeethClenchedTeamwork, or even mutually nurturing friendships without any displays of emotional hostility. On some level they all make the same distinction between the other four that were there, and the billions that weren't. With Miss Altman and Ulrike Meinhof being in a bizarre middle category.

!''Canada''

->'''Official Name:''' The Federal Republic of Canada
->'''Ruling Party:''' The Progressive-Conservative Party (Unionists)
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Democracy

Halifax's peace agreement with Hitler may have bought the British Empire a decade more of borrowed time, but it cost the respect and loyalty of its Crown Dominions. Nowhere was this collapse in esteem more catastrophic than with the Dominion of Canada, who promptly abolished the monarchy and broke all ties with the Empire. Finding himself Premier of a brand new country, and suddenly having to account for the loss of the British Empire's diplomatic and military cover, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King made a number of decisive moves to capitalize on Britain's failure, from a highly ambitious refugee resettlement program, to using British military defectors to spearhead a rearmament program. As the pre-eminent leader of the anti-fascist cause, Canada historically rivaled the United States as the destination of choice for fugitives from Europe.

And not long afterwards, the United States.

Economically supercharged by the influx of talent and population, but politically fractious, and embroiled with their southern neighbor in something that is increasingly indistinguishable from a Cold War, Canada marks 1962 with its greatest and most provocative move yet: the live broadcast of its first detonation of a nuclear weapon.

[[folder:Tosia]]
!!Tosia Altman

A history teacher at Motherwill Grey. She seems very easily overwhelmed by her job-and in a world where almost nothing is known about the European conflict that isn't curated by one fascist government or another, history, is universally agreed to be the murkiest part of the high school academia. What makes her situation especially interesting, however, is her incredibly proximity to that history: she is a Polish-Jewish refugee widely known for participating in the only successful military insurrection against the Greater German Reich. In other words, the textbook example of a primary source to a lost history.

Definitely retired from the socialist/zionist nazi-fighting business.

[[folder:Ulrike]]
!!Ulrike Meinhof

Tosia Altman's acquaintance. The owner of the television set Tosia borrowed for the class to watch the Prince Charles Island nuclear test. Sometimes mistaken for being a teacher or teaching assistant at Motherwill, Ulrike is what Tosia derisively calls "a professional hot mess". As one of a few handful of German refugees, she is the direct witness to the spiritual fall of Western Europe to embracing the ultranationalism and racism of the Third Reich.

After a short but widely publicized career in activism-notably shooting the German minister of Propaganda and using her journalism job as a cover to jailbreak Tosia Altman from likely deportation to Germany-it seems Ulrike's political terrorism days are behind her. What, exactly, she's running towards is a mystery.

!!The Children

[[folder:Sophie]]
!!Sophie [Last name needed here]

[[folder:Delilah]]
!!Delilah [Last name needed here]

[[folder:Susan]]
!!Susan [Last name needed here]

[[folder:Josh's character]]
!!Josh [Last name needed here

[[folder:Nate's character]]
!!Nate [Last name needed here

After a short but widely publicized career in activism-notably shooting the German minister of Propaganda and using her journalism job as a cover to jailbreak Tosia Altman from likely deportation to Germany-it seems Ulrike's political terrorism days are behind her. What, exactly, she's running towards instead is a mystery.

[[folder:Sophie]]
!!Sophie [Last name needed here]
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