Chapter 10: Operation Independence Pt. 1

‘Roman Concrete used in making our Silver Hound bases and infrastructures…good thing the benefactor gave us the know-how and steps after our first day. Thing’s very sturdy.’ “Like what we talked about in those previous meetings, the time schedule for the Philippine-made semi auto firearms is roughly 1900 or before the damn fucking year while the assault rifles would be 1920s or what. We got knowledge and good shit in our hands to make those possible.”

“Of course. It’s like that different Germany whose foundation and tech were planted and started by an ASB Kaiser Wilhelm III. Story’s much pretty interesting for a “German Dream” but the USA in that story universe was fucked with a Nazi-esque political party like it’s filled with extremists, crazies, xenophobic, white supremacy ethnostate, and Nazi-like fanaticism level. Basically, that version of the USA was an ethnostate fascist shithole we have to avoid for the country, our new home, our group, after the independence.”

Ethnostate-based state, they knew thing in a nutshell basically was a sovereign country where a single race, single ethnicity, single accepted official political ideology, exclusively have those rights and privileges while those who weren’t of same race or different political orientation will be “second class” ‘inferiors’ with their rights and privileges ignored or denied with racial laws in a manner of perverted social-Darwinism and race supremacy. If one person married a different race, they’ll be ‘inferiors’ who lost their card. The ‘good’ example of that in a making would be Nazi Germany and the ‘purifying’ attempts, or the worst one, the other Philippines, a failed state that was filled with cult of personality revolving around one ‘EDSA icon’ and her clan, one single accepted political ideology with communism accepted and tolerated, necropolitics revolving around the ‘EDSA Democracy Icon’ and her clan, narcopolitics, personality-based politics, communists running amok, and illegal drug trade with a constitution that gave them a reminder of nightmare and why the 1965 Rizal Day Coup led by Christopher Siwa started, the 1987 Philippine Constitution, a faulty constitution they, the [New Society], will be keeping for future reference, to serve a warning against the communism, foreign powers interfering and influencing, personality-based politics, presidential governing system, putting restrictions on the essential of the constitution such as the business ownership than not be put in state legislations, and most of all, yellow journalism, and to have their descendants and the next generation, the squires, know the events and why the coup happened in the previous timeline as per required that had them once more reminded of their current roles that way to say they are the “shadows” keeping an eye on the parties because the last thing they need was that country they, the [New Society], and [Sons of Nation] built after the independence, turn into a dystopian authoritarian North Korean-style state like that alternate timeline fictional country, the United States of America, a ‘democratic’ but one-party dictatorship ethnostate.

That version of USA, that fictional fascist state they had in their minds was the agreed worst country ever to live besides North Korea. It’s like Ku Klax Klan meets Nazism and North Korea with business ownership limited. In that authoritarian country, the truth was twisted in favor of that version of the USA and the sole political party with a third-world country mindset that one of the otakus in their ranks when they analyzed the alternate history world’s USA, they concluded that worst version of USA acted like Yulong Heavenly Empire, a fictional country found in the universe of Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni, also known in English, In Another World With Smartphone, with racism elements, Nazi-style propaganda, and American citizens and students, heavily monitored by the tyrannically government, never allowed to go outside the country, including for educational purposes.

“So much for copying the cards of that alternate history story featuring technologically advanced Imperial Germany that has best medicines and products but fuck no to a personality-based politics caused by that toilet paper.” remarked the squad leader with disgust towards the persons responsible for making the important document, to be precise, a ‘constitution’, that’ll lead to failed state almost like North Korea but a flawed democracy country with laughingly weak and incompetent under-funded armed forces, law enforcement agency, and the essentials. “While the world in that better surviving Imperial Germany alternate timeline was royally fucked up, that timeline’s version of Germany, the stats of it, that’s very close towards our goal and objective for “Maphilindo Dream” in this alternate parallel world. Roel, the Actual Phase 1 of the firearms development will be able to recreate the bolt action rifle we chose and have it mass-produced for the ‘regs’ and trained reserves to use besides the firearms owners and our shooters getting their hands on it.”

It’s all part of the plan. The proven weapons approved by the Council will be in motion with one of those, establishing a specialized school for gunsmithing to have more gunsmiths trained with newer methods, and work here. It’s all for Maphilindo Dream™, a long-term ambitious continuous meritous project regarding Maphilindo. This day, the day of Operation Independence, it’ll start from here. They already took notes from the alternate history scenarios such as the surviving multi-party federal parliamentary direct democracy USSR developed by the ASB Stalin, a German in Stalin’s body, pulling a playbook from Deng Xiaoping, a strategy they would adopt for the economy.

“Yep, I’ve also forgotten that the Remington Rolling Block our ‘not really DARPA’ recreated was all for the ‘technological’ Maphilindo tree and for the future generations and historians to look at. If we skipped at least one progression, some sibal might think aliens gave it to us.”

From the previous time they left, like the majority of the [New Society], there were shit ton of cases “it’s aliens” theories in those unexplainable yet marvelous marvels and technology like Roman Concrete or for the case of political nuisance candidates, “They were sent by the aliens with an objective to be a politician.”, or anything that brought stupid and funny memes. It’s very weird and cringe since there’s no actual “official signing”, “agreement”, and real things like those from the fictional works and real-life documents and blueprints.

The Imperial Armories Museum, their planned Maphilindo version of the UK’s The Royal Armouries, they’ll be constructing it right in the independent Philippine soil together with Museum of Failures. That museum  will be having similar function to that British museum added with functions, besides the purpose of showcasing the goodies and studying real actual facts and understanding the trends in that specific era, no matter how good or ugly it was in that point of history,  giving a piece of mind and message to the retardedly lost-cause woke snowflakes, who probably didn’t understand or study history, destroying a piece of history like what happened to Francis Drake that had them thought about the recent on-going issue in this period – slave trade and slaver ownership.

The ending of slavery, a full enforcement of stopping the slave trade, the abolishment, in this era, didn’t happen at all, starting with the current the United States of America after the American Revolution. The independent Philippines they’ll be making will make sure the message will be heard and no more practice of slavery and slave trade. Should any Filipino or foreigner be caught having one or engaged with such inhuman perverted dastardly act, outside the Philippines or not, they’ll be punished under the Philippine law or if they dare enslave a Filipino, ‘that’ will be the ‘answer’.

“Fucking tell me about it. Also, we don’t need some Azov Battalion or some crazy shitheads of dangerous ideologies terrorizing someone out there just like what happened to our resident former Ukrainians and Russians. It’s very bad enough both ways including having a real equivalent of Homefront’s unified Korea nearby, manned by the hands of that Liu Fenhua asshole, causing troubles and almost initiated a war using that Project Yan Wang.”

“Crazy shit infactual propaganda the world got fooled of, signed, troublemaker assholes and their connections. Some modern-day Nazi SS in ‘hero costume’ the fools and the ignorants unknowingly supported without properly looking what is what combined with paid yellow journalist bitches doing anything their ‘masters’ what content they want to produce. What a fucking bad world started with a mess that came from bad decisions and history. Good thing we agree on the plan on that.”

“Of course we are. The Middle East from the time we left went shit ‘cause of ‘it’ with the world itself having illegal drugs, gun running, criminal organizations, and destabilized countries. Yellow journalism, the irresponsible journalism, especially that bitch from South China Morning Post, who committed a shop lift at Greenhills and got imprisoned once, will be dealt with very harshly while the factual ugly truth true responsible journalism will be enforced and encouraged throughout here. And with this, this new opportunity, we have so much work to do after Operation Independence --- our hands will be filled with the blood of the guilty and corrupt.”

Yellow journalism, also known as irresponsible journalism, it’s an act of twisting the facts with lies to mislead the public and shift the public opinion favored to one party in a similar matter of the Ministry of Truth found in George Orwell’s work, 1984. Used by the warmongers and propagandists, the ‘magic’ of it was crazy enough that it manipulated the readers just like when the real heroes, those who wanted nothing to do with the barbaric acts because of how unjust was, a war crime that became the infamous Mỹ Lai massacre, were treated like a dirt with death threats, vandalism, and acts that were unjust towards the real heroes while the real actual villains like Lucius Mendel Rivers You can say he's a racist dick and a prick. He is involved with it in real life., a Democratic U.S. Representative from South Caroline at that time who chaired the committee, in the words of one of the former Vietnam veteran, in New Society’s ranks, who didn’t obey the ‘order’, “an alcohol racist segregationist asshole.”, more reason to throw away the presidential governing system to prevent the unfit run in the public and using the persona they created in the world of politics, left scoff free with the unfit closet piece of shit racist politician covering it up with lies because of his self-proclaimed “The Grand Daddy of War Hawks” title in relation to the racist militarist politician that had the New Society wanting to kill the sad excuse of an asshole and politician again due to taking part of covering up and defending the actions of the ‘order takers’ and those who issued the ‘order’ that resulted what infamously became known as The Mỹ Lai massacre.

‘That’s we have to avoid. We don’t need racist politicians in the parliament and public offices.’

The Mỹ Lai massacre, as far they knew after the resident historians explained the infamy, was a war crime situated in March 16, 1968, in the previous timeline, both versions, Vietnam, that had them disregard the unproven presidential system used by the USA and adding the “code” to prevent such dastardly act committed by the Luzvismin™ men in uniform, so that there won’t be any similar cover ups of it because the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and the true transparent independent modified uptime Danish-pattern but modified and better Philippine judiciary will make sure real justice will be given and no criminal will escape. Also, that event alone was a big reminder and why following orders that were beyond the ‘line’ was a big nope, and why the unqualified unfit idiots who’ll be resorting to yellow journalism will be dealt with very harshly no matter how patriotic it was because a war crime was a war crime in the end.

‘And we still have many names including a Japanese yakuza and criminal orgs to ’clean up’ including after our time. Hoh? HVT is on time at that place as expected of the intel reports and history? So much for being a legal sword and shield. At least we’ll be killing off the biggest fish responsible for the previous timeline mess once and for all.’ thought the Russo-Pinoy squad leader while looking at her observation scope with her grin before declaring the signal. Moments like these had her pumped up in taking part of making a much better version of the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, in a form of planned well-off Maphilindo country. She grew up in the well-off Philippines with her Russian father and Filipino mother, living with guns, responsible Philippine gun culture, and anime. “All teams, it’s time to playball. [Latin: Unleash the hounds] and [Spanish: Long live the revolution].”

“Long live the revolution.”

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Alfredo Martinez was bored and fucking annoyed after trying out the coffee from an acquaintance that needed something to remove the bitterness, while doing the gate guarding duty in this night together with his fellow soldiers from the same company but of different faces.

That gate protected the important parts behind such as the quarters, the Governor-General’s Palace, the armory where the weapons were located and safely stored, very important parts to have the palace guards and the defenders able to replenish quickly in case of defending.

It was a smart well-thought move after the events of Napoleonic War. It was, according to a senior soldier who fought with the Duke of Juneda, the Duke of Wellington, a lesson in the importance of logistics, a usual most important thing to the war hero turned British Prime Minister pointed out always.

He understood the importance keeping the supply lines moving in a straight line without distraction and hinderance.

But the fate of one of the veteran soldiers and officers who fought from that battle between the Corsican and the Sepoy General, and shared the idea of the British Duke’s “[Arthurianism]” and explaining how they understood it? He never saw them again after one of the superiors and the Colonial Government, flatly rejected the idea of [Arthurianism] and the idea of applying it to Spain and her colonies that had one of the higherups looked at that particular superior as stupid and not having a commonsense.

In response, a last straw, they submitted a resignation letter after one of the officers, government officials, and priests (what!?), banned the talking of [Arthurianism] and the book called “The Britannic Manifesto”, a book that had the prints of the Iron Duke and the source of “[Arthurianism]”, right here after the veterans stationed, returned here, carrying with them ideas and tales in a similar manner to the travelers, traders, and seafarers.

The other day like around 4 days ago, he thought he saw an English-speaking citizen chatting with a Spaniard(?) in Chavacano who gave him something that the citizen that made the person in good mood.

It was very strange.

There’s also local natives, not that he looked at them with racial nonsense, speaking one of the languages he couldn’t understand at the market early morning. He couldn’t really understand it but the word “liberalismo”, “Arthurismo”, “Fernando”, “absolutismo”, “Juan Antonio Martinez”, “Martinez”, “Gobernador-Heneral”, “corrupt”, “constitutionalism” and “racist” were the words he could connect in his knowledge as a Spanish and English speaker while some words and phrases like “magandang kinakabukasan” better future , “maling orginasyon” wrong setup, wrong chart, or wrong hierarchy, “kapayaan” freedom , “kalayaan” freedom, “reporma” reforms, “totoong karapatan bilang mamayan” real rights as citizen, “kupal” rude,  and “patalsikin” oust, he couldn’t comprehend it.

As a person, he does not hold an animosity towards the locals, Spanish half-bloods, or any that relates to the appearance and background of the person. The teachings from the Bible, did talked of loving the neighbor, a highlighted thing that his mother talked about since his childhood.

As a Christian, unlike those priests whose rumors were very bad and those pious persons who pulled a racial card, he holds to it, not holding racial bias, as he would while holding his thoughts and praying for the day there’ll be a time for the people to stop thinking with that bad mindset for it they were bad Christians because of the reports in a form of paper he read had him question about how serious were those persons in their being a Christian since the recent mass had that a message of  “Helping those who are in need.”

Helping those who are in need? When did it happen? Where’s everything? Why was education denied to the natives? Why was there no native who became a priest or nun? Why didn’t the Governor-General do anything to stop the injustice committed by the fellow countrymen towards? This was a sparse. Were they asking to have another Corsican, a Napoleon Bonaparte, to sprout and kick them out with independence?

Also, the reports of His Majesty, Fernando VII of Spain, having a behavior unfit as a monarch? He heard of that. A group of merchants, individuals that included the Filipino Count, much to his surprise, showed the surprise at the revelation of the eye witness accounts of the exchange between the king and the Duke of Juneda, that had soldiers and officials resigning in protest and influential educated families showing discontent towards the king and the recent one, the Governor-General, who angrily dispersed the crowd and arrested them and sent to dungeons if not sent to Mindanao to deal with those Muslims, pagans, heathens, and pirates.

As for that, the actions done by the Governor-General, it felt wrong.

Those who protested and were witnesses had a point.

Why not go with reforms that made sense for the betterment of everyone? The so-called ‘Sepoy General’ during his tenure as the President of the Madras Council, permanently stopped the sati practice in Madras for good reason, earning the man, love and respect from the Indians.

Why not arrest and investigate the priests who committed rape and sinful deeds with a follow-up report to the Vatican about these men who committed the crimes and breaking the vow of clerical celibacy?

Why not open up the representation of the colonies in the Cortes since it made sense to have an elected representative to represent a colony in the Cortes?

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Those things, they should and must should because if those keep up and ignored, it’ll be like those Americanos again --- freeing themselves from the tyranny with arms and guns, a revolution! A loss of trade and prestige for Spain ‘courtesy’ by the King Fernando VII and the Governor-General.

The taverns and bars here didn’t stop at all! The tales, ideas, that came from the traders, merchants, off-duty soldiers, heroes who fought with the Iron Duke against the Corsican Pretender, the Duke’s exploits in India, the Britannic Manifesto, it’s being spread including the accounts related to the priests committing sinful deeds and not taking their vow of chastity as a Catholic priest would!

The current Governor-General, Juan Antonio Martinez, oh he hated that idiot’s guts despite having a shared surname but not blood-related. The man himself was very bias to pure Spanish-ness. The officials that were not Spanish born in Spain, the foolish very unpopular man, simply replaced them with pure Spanish and ban the Britannic Manifesto or any reform protests and message with threat of arrests. It’s no doubt the man’s an anti-Arthurianism and anti-liberalism just like Fernando VII of Spain.

‘I guess history will repeat again. People never learn.’

“[Spanish: Are you thinking of something else in this night? A glaring weakness of absolutism, Ferdinand VII’s short-sightedness, anti-Arthurianism, anti-constitutionalism, anti-liberalism, Spain’s future, perhaps your family living there?]” a voice in the night, whispered, revealing the hooded figure, clad in black clothing, that almost had him ready his gun but thoughts about his family had Alfredo stopped himself. “[Spanish: If you’re really and seriously concerned about Spain’s future and condition and your family living there, then you should think about here first.]”

“What do you mean by that?” asked Alfredo.

The hooded figure shook his head and sighed. “What I meant was what do you think will happen to your family should Fernando VII and his absolutist government learn they’re a liberal, a ‘radical’ or asking for reforms? I don’t know how are they or the liberals but somewhere along those lines. His Grace, the Duke of Juneda, the Duke of Wellington, had a dislike and disapproval towards the king you know. You aware of Count Varela, the man who chose the title, the Filipino Count? He was one of those witnesses who saw the short-sightedness of the Criminal King. He also was one of those witnesses who saw the duke shaking his head in disappointment.”

Alfredo gulped and nodded. The Filipino Count in no doubt accepted Arthurism, and a ‘radical’ like the Duke of Wellington. The man having learned English and got hands on the book the other day, had the common people and the natives here, explained the book in a layman’s terms using one of the languages here like Tagalog and Chavacano that further swayed the opinion against the Spanish Crown starting with the Governor-General Juan Antonio Martinez and the Colonial Government. It was no longer a secret the purist absolutist Governor-General’s acts of replacing the Filipino and Mexican officials with the Spanish officials, angered a lot of natives and those who leaned towards [Arthurianism] and its ideas.

In these days, the Gobernador-Heneral’s command of pursuing and arresting the ones responsible for papers that leaked the ‘changes’ he made in the Colonial Government, similar to the capture command of the deserters, remained in effect.

“That’s right. The current governor-general, just like ‘His Majesty’, was an anti-liberal, anti-reforms, and absolutist. He wouldn’t dare to have an outsider born outside the ‘Mother Spain’ to work here, no how much the skilled person was loyal to Spain. All he wants is pure Spanish born in Spain and from pure Spanish parents, not outside Spain. Pure Spanish born in Spain supremacy and pure Spanish power for that case.”

“Y-You wouldn’t-“

“[Spanish: Soldier, that’s the reality you must accept.] The asshole’s predecessor, Mariano Fernando de Folgueras, did the same thing. Before you act, have a look at this letter of instruction written by him.”

Grabbing the letter, Alfredo started reading it.

‘No way! This treatment--’

As if understanding the thoughts of the soldier tasked with gate guarding duty, the figure nodded his head. “[Spanish: See? It’s the same thinking and camp. It was suppressed and a coverup to put up the show in the ‘Mainland’.] In truth, the Colonial Government was very afraid of people enlightened here in this archipelago, very fucking faraway from ‘Mother’ Spain, that they had to do necessary measures only for it, this time, backfired. Besides, the power of information was such a wonderful thing to use, peacetime and wartime. We prefer it to be facts, no matter how bad it was, mostly all day.”

“Why? Why are you doing this? Who are you? What is your goal?” asked Alfredo.

The figure smiled. “That is none of your concern. The question is your decision – which one are you?”

“Which one? You mean deciding?”

“Yes. [Spanish: These days and situation in the Philippines almost reminded me of a story of Moses when he was in Egypt. Thing’s full of injustice and slavery back in those days and right here in this archipelago. To refresh your memory, in that story, Moses freed all the Israelites from Egypt. He’s a hero to the Israelites.]”

“You are trying to-“

The figure quickly pointed his gun at Alfredo, surprising the man at the figure’s speed and technique. The shape of that gun, it looked similar in shape from the ones talked by the war heroes. They said a couple of British officers under the command of the Duke of Wellington hold those and can fire around 6 times. He didn’t expect to see one in person except the barrel was longer and different than he expected.

 “That’s right.” revealed the hooded figure. “We are Moses in this stage. How about you? Are you tired of the people like the current Governor-General not being a good Christian towards those ‘savages’ and non-Christians he and his predecessors looked at with racial lenses because they’re not born in Spain or having a different skin color or orientation?”

‘He has a point. If they are here, my parents will not allow this.’ Thought Alfredo, before looking at the figure in the eye. “What happens if I don’t take action in this?”

“A dead man. [Spanish: A dead man is the best witness who tells no tale.]”

With the figure’s index finger pointing up, Alfredo looked up at four bodies pushed, dropping to the floor for him it to examine the corpses.

Looking at it, he noticed slash marks on the necks. It looked well-done for a wound and cause of death that had him look at the hooded figure with small weariness, curiosity, and small fear.

The techniques in taking out his former colleagues, though ungentlemanly, were way refined and radical that he understood the true meaning of reform through the actions done by one of the hooded figures.

“[Spanish: Okay. I’m in. May I know the leader’s name?]”

The hooded figure lowered his gun.

“Andres Novales, he’ll be our emperor, a unifying leader of our independent nation, a constitutional monarch that embraces the British Prime Minister’s Arthurianism, with our own group’s derivative, also approved by the Filipino Count, that’ll be taught to every citizen and foreigner alike in education and through the papers. Unlike the unjust Spanish government, everyone’s welcome with open arms and treated such humanely as a fellow human being as long they follow the law and not doing anything illegal such as slave trade. You’ll learn more about it after we kick out the Colonial Government and the Governor-General packing back to the ‘Mainland’. As for the measures, don’t worry, we got everything planned. You’ll see. Andres and our group are anti-absolutism. We are the agents of change.”

Looking at the man’s eyes, Alfredo could see and hear confidence from the man and the group of Arthurists.

While the Spanish Empire was still and currently in the process of recovering from Napoleonic Wars yet the growth was hindered by the likes of Spanish absolutists and anti-liberals such as Ferdinand VII, the part of Arthurianism mentioned by the Arthurists, the economic freedom, equality, pro-constitutional monarchy, and anti-absolutism, was very enticing for one’s good in rebuilding and developing the country. The banished liberals, captured Spanish Arthurists, and pro-constitutionalists, here in the Filipinas, Alfredo himself won’t be surprised these self-proclaimed “Moses” would release them immediately besides knowing the growing discontent in the military towards the Colonial Government, and the current Governor-General, Juan Antonio Martinez, and his predecessor, Mariano Fernando de Folgueras, who like him, responsible for the mess lately, would welcome the reforms, agenda, and cause of these revolutionaries. The Filipino Count, Count Varela, also, was one of the influential persons in this archipelago, many would join the Arthurianism ride because the man and his family was very supportive of the people and natives here.

‘Mom, Dad, my brothers and sisters, hang on for a while longer. I will give you a better place here, free from tyranny and absolutism.’ thought Alfredo, determined, as he smiled. “I’m very glad. May I know what’s our name?”

The hooded figure in black, smiling back, answered. “[Sons of Nation], welcome aboard.”

Once he said that, the operation to the Governor-General’s Palace, begins with gates opened by the hooded figures.

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