General Fox (Raven) -work in progress, but we couldn't resist!
On the Government's world Rome never fell. This was a direct result of one plumber deciding not to make pipes out of lead. Thus, the Romans did not suffer from lead induced madness. The corruption that atypified the decline of Roman society in our time line was not as apparent and was squashed by moral upstanding citizens. Caligula had no orgies (well maybe just a few) and Nero did not make his horse anything. As a result of this the Vandals and the Visagoths found Rome a harder nut to crack and went home without having sacked or pillaged (well maybe just a little, hordes being what they are).
The famous Pax Romanus flourished and basically the Dark Ages never happened. What we consider the Renaissance happened directly (and thus was not called the Renaissance) after Rome fell in our world. It was at this time the printing press was invented by a person other than Guttenburg (maybe one of his distant ancestors). Society thus trundled on, happily advanced for its time. There were times of war followed by times of peace, creating advances of modern warfare which were later adjusted for daily use. Since the empires of the English and the French never developed, the art of naval warfare never advanced past triemes. Thus the Romans never looked towards the other major landmass until their quest for space power brought them into contact with another major military power... the Mayans.
In this time line the Mayans were not annihilated by the Aztecs. Instead they too flourished through invention and innovation. Also fascinated by the astral bodies, the Mayans turned their sights upon the stars rather than their eastern cousins. Thus it was much to their amazement when finally landing on the moon, 300 years before Armstrong even looked up at our moon and wondered, that they faced an armed camp of Romans. Relationships between the two super powers, strained since their meeting 50 years before, degraded into an all out race for control of the solar system.
Thus by the time the year 1960 rolled around the Roman and Mayan Empires had resolved their differences and consolidated their hold on the Human Interglactic Empire. (a little ostentatious for two solar systems but humans are subject to hyperbole now and then). This peace was bought at the cost of many years of bloody struggle between the two powers and mankind had become tired. Rebellion led to a highly peaceful race that focusses on the good side of scientific advance. Those few warriers who refuse to give up their guns and settle down as farmers have been tracked as criminals from one side of the "Human Interglactic Empire" to the other. Left with one last stronghold (a planet ignored by most as unfit for human life), these fugitives came up with a plan born of desperation. Their own scientists, working night and day, found a pan-dimensional gate suitably for gaining access to other time lines. With hate in their hearts, the warriers planned a cunning attack to gain them total control over the world they chose - ours. Once on this new world they planned to yoke its strength to create a fighting force to overwealm the Human Interglactic Empire and win it for themselves. It was in 1960 that the warriers, hence forth know as the Government, appeared in our skies and wrecked havoc on our world. Their domination was total and complete, with only a few areas of resistance. The world has become a fierce and dangerous place, with our children being groomed to become the Government's fighting force. Yet the most insidious plan is yet to be revealed. In order to create the best fighting force possible the Government decided to create superhumans to form the nucleus of their army. One of our scientists, his ego pandered to by the Government, worked upon these genetic experiments. There were many failed attempts, resulting in humans with super strengths but major mental deficiencies. These botched things have become the Annihilators, a terrible force lead by General Fox under the control of Scarab.Ten years after the Conquest the Doctor had his first success. Yet besought by the beginnings of a guilty consience he secreted the child and left him at an orphanage. Over the next four years he was to create five more successful children, each time leaving them at a different orphanage in the middle of the night, before he was discovered by Scarab's agents. Locked up and tortured, he endured years of pain without revealing the identity of his children.
Meanwhile our earth is yet to learn of the Government's plans for it. Citizens are aware of the pan-dimensional gate as an evil which brings hordes of armies upon them, yet know little of the Empire on the other side. Were they to know the peace loving nature of the people on the other side, their horror at the Government's plans would know no bounds...
Poppy - With interference cleverfully disgusied as help from Nika
General Fox (Raven) -work in progress, but we couldn't resist!