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The Draka and their Domination rely quite heavily on slavery, brutality, racism and several other concepts and philosophies incompatible with "Political Correctness." If any casual mention or discussion of these as common occurrences on this family of alternate historical timelines would offend you, you are
welcome to leave now.
In the words of S. M. Stirling himself (from an interview with Don Kinney), "it's a dystopia, you twit." So don't expect it to be nice, except when the contrast between Maxfield Parrish and Heironymous Bosch is called for.
Note: Word documents are now guaranteed only to work in Word 97 or later, and not earlier versions. Sorry!
What I have here is:
a Eurasian War scenario for the
Avalon Hill
grand strategic World War II wargame "Rise and Decline of the Third Reich" a.k.a.
"Third Reich" a.k.a. 3R, specifically 4th edition.
I don't have any other scenarios yet for this or other games, but I would appreciate hearing from others who might want to do a Eurasian War scenario for other WWII wargames (board or computer). Some computer game possibilities are: "The Operational Art of War", "Pacific General" (the Panzer General series with a scenario editor), and "Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz" (the release with a scenario editor).
Anyway, in the file EURASIAN.ZIP (261K) are the following:
Eurasian War Scenario Rules - Long version with comments on the rules, Word 97 .DOC format
Same in .RTF format (should work on any other word processor)
Short version (deleted the comments), Word 97 .DOC format
Domination scenario card, .PDF format
2 counter sheets, .PDF format
Excel 5.0 spreadsheet for the Domination Force Pool,
Third Reich air and naval combats, and some of my obsessive drivel
Eurasian War Strategies (all the drivel that I took out of the rules document,
and more besides!), Word 97 .DOC format
a fanfic "Drakon" / "The Simpsons" crossover.
Can't we have some fun with the Draka once in a while?
DRAKSIMP.DOC - Word 97 .DOC format, or
converted to HTML.
another fanfic, this one a "Drakon" / "Batman: The Animated Series" crossover.
This one needs more details in the middle.
BATDRAK.DOC - Word 97 .DOC format, or
converted to HTML.
a novella-length fanfic with the working title
"A Connecticut Yankee in the Archon's Court"
set just before the Final War. I'm posting it here even though it's only just starting to
tell a story, based on the positive reaction to an early draft that was full of errors. Available only in HTML:
"A Connecticut Yankee in the Archon's Court".
I'd appreciate any comments on it that you care to send.
Rather than write another page, thought I'd point out some strange things visible on the cover of "Under the Yoke" here:
First, the combination of shackle, barbed wire, and gun hanging down
from the upper right corner. How did that happen? Is
a soldier flying through the air like Peter Pan, behind an ornate
overhang hung with shackles and decorated with barbed wire?
Second, what appears to be a tilted Eiffel tower surrounded by a
high cloud of dust. Those aren't trees if they only partially obscure
the view of the structure of the lower part of the tower, unless the
thing is incredibly overgrown or the tower is unsafely tilted towards
the front of the picture. There's more of this dust effect on the
right side of the picture, but a lighter color, possibly faded with
distance - more likely trees there though. Just can't tell what was supposed
to be going on here.
Third, a violation of placing objects in foreground/background
order, wrapped in what is probably humor. The dirigible behind the
tower has the drakon in the middle of dropping the shield, shackle
and bush knife, and is breathing fire. Is the drakon actually pushing
the tower sideways? Aren't the bush knife and drakon's tail drawn
in front of the tower? Actually the tail appears to
curl around the tower. No wonder the war ended the way it did! Drakon
jumped off a dirigible and attacked Paris! (where's Godzilla?) The
dirigible is tilted a bit, but that's actually reasonable if I can go
by a picture in my dictionary. The whole thing is even stranger when
you notice there's a "normal" Draka dirigible hiding behind the hanging
shackle and gun. All in all, a very strange piece of artwork, if you
look beyond the wooden faces and the soldiers.
Anne Marie Talbott used to have a website with a number of Draka fanfics and the appendices from the first 3 books. These appendices aren't in the omnibus edition "The Domination", so I've transcribed them (again in some cases) for your enjoyment, and put those appendices here.
Anne Marie Talbott's Draka site used to be at http://www.mindspring.com/~atalbott/.
It had more fanfics and info on the Draka and their contemporaries.
However, it's gone since about 10/01! Maybe she's really busy with other things. I've posted the appendices that I transcribed for her (see above), but most of the fanfics are another story.
Drakesland Calling
for an alternate Draka timeline up to 1942 in a variant Eurasian War, although mostly to set up a GURPS campaign where the field is close to level.
The Official S.M. Stirling Website being run by Bobby Hardenbrook. Still no Draka stuff there as of 2/02, but there's always room for improvement.
Baen Books published all the Draka books and lots of other Stirling works, but I wouldn't hold my breath for any more, regardless of what you read in an old soc.history.what-if FAQ.
Yahoo! Groups: Stirling is for discussion of his works, although it goes off topic at the drop of an auric. The Author himself sometimes throws in a pithy comment.
Andrew Aelfwine's webpage has several Draka crossover and fusion stories buried in the midst of a hoard of mostly anime fanfics.
Ken Wolfe's Fanfics page where you can follow the "Kiss of the Enemy" link to read his Sailor Moon/Drakon crossover fanfic. Story also available elsewhere, but this is the author's site.
Anthony Mayer's Alternate History page where you should go to the bottom of the page to read his criticism of the original Draka timeline, and then read the short but well-written "Evil USA" timeline.
A small image of Kevin Davies' original artwork for the cover of "Marching Through Georgia". Note that a long time ago, I once misinterpreted the patches on the left shoulders of Draka who appear to be EvS and Sophie on the far right foreground. Notice the blue/black/yellow things? They are different between Sophie and EvS; his has a dagger in the middle and hers a lightning bolt. The anonymous soldier on the back cover (left side foreground) has 2 red chevrons (therefore a monitor or decurion?). These lead me to believe that these are rank/specialty insignia on the left shoulder, instead of Domination shields (like on the drakon in the middle of the book's title, or near the top and bottom of this web page), which I guess appear on the right shoulder if anywhere.
Carl Hankel's Alternate WW2 History (site gone as of 4/02) mentions the Draka as a neighboring ATL that's trading with a slightly more successful Nazi Germany which is trying to fight off a USA that was trapped in a Tesla time bubble for 50 years.
The Zadanian League lists a Eurasian War scenario that runs from 4/1942 to 7/1950 for Civilization II, but the download link is broken, so use the next link instead.
Apolyton Civilization Site: Civ II has the download for the Eurasian War scenario mentioned above. Scenario author unknown, and I haven't tried playing it myself.
The Killer Bee Software page for Empire Deluxe has a scenario labeled "'Draka' 5 players, WWII theme, 7/17/95". It's the 15 KB file draka.zip buried in the 1.1 MB scenario file, need Empire Deluxe too. Scenario author unknown, not checked.
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