The Union of American Socialist Republics(UASR) is ISOTed to Remnant as of RWBY's Season 5...
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The Union of American Socialist Republics(UASR) is ISOTed to Remnant as of RWBY's Season 5 finale. This is the story of what happens next.
Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline - Timeline - Post-1900
Collaborative fanfic TL by Rise Comics
Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline - Timeline - Post-1900
Collaborative fanfic TL by Rise Comics
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... *RAISES EYEBROW*
Ok... watched.
Ok... watched.
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@udkudk Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline. Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline - Timeline - Post-1900
CompassJimbo
Where’s Your North?
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- The former Rubber Capital of the World
I presume good old Reds!— A Revolutionary Timeline. This is going to be… fun.
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- Charlotte
That's correct
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- United States
We would first need to establish some simple world building for the UASR in this AU. Like who is Premier, and other government positions, and which party or parties control the government.
You ever wonder why we're here?
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December 31, 2018 - UASR-Mexico Border - 11:59 PM
It's New Year's eve, and the checkpoint was quiet, save for a pair of soldiers, Dex and Gus.
"Hey" said Dex.
"Yeah?" Gus replied.
"You ever wonder why we're here?"
"It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a higher power watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night."
"What?! I meant why are we out here? In the middle of ass nowhere at a checkpoint no one uses? What's the point of even having a fucking checkpoint when we have open borders?"
"Oh, yeah,"
"What was the stuff about a higher power?"
"...It was nothing"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm perfectly-WHOA HOLY **** ON A SANDWICH"
The border suddenly glowed red, as a large dome of light came up from it. As soon as it happened, a loud crash was heard and felt, causing Dex to trip over the gate and fall over.
As soon as that happened the light abruptly vanished, revealing nothing but ocean.
Gus grabbed his radio, and contacted his officer.
"Sarge," he says, "there's a problem with Mexico. It's gone"
It's New Year's eve, and the checkpoint was quiet, save for a pair of soldiers, Dex and Gus.
"Hey" said Dex.
"Yeah?" Gus replied.
"You ever wonder why we're here?"
"It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a higher power watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night."
"What?! I meant why are we out here? In the middle of ass nowhere at a checkpoint no one uses? What's the point of even having a fucking checkpoint when we have open borders?"
"Oh, yeah,"
"What was the stuff about a higher power?"
"...It was nothing"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm perfectly-WHOA HOLY **** ON A SANDWICH"
The border suddenly glowed red, as a large dome of light came up from it. As soon as it happened, a loud crash was heard and felt, causing Dex to trip over the gate and fall over.
As soon as that happened the light abruptly vanished, revealing nothing but ocean.
Gus grabbed his radio, and contacted his officer.
"Sarge," he says, "there's a problem with Mexico. It's gone"
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The TL on AH.com went farther in the timeline, so you have the material for it. You'd need to know what year it's taken from though.
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This UASR is from 2018, less than a minute away from 2019
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CompassJimbo
Where’s Your North?
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- The former Rubber Capital of the World
Welcome to a world of bloody (r)evolution.
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- USA
...does that mean Comrade Trump?
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- United States
No Trump is in Cuba with the rest of the exiled Americans.
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- Charlotte
Trump would be better known as Trumpf in the UASR. That and he may not even be born. But anyways, back to the story.
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I have a possibly spoiler-y question:
Wait a sec.. should there be a Canada at this point in time? Not Quebec, or Newfoundland and Labrador? Or was that part all revised?
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- United States
Canada's modern day status is somewhat ambiguous all we know is that it went Red sometime in the seventies
The Crash
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Kuo Kuana - 1/1/2019* - 12:01 AM
It was impossible to ignore the flash, and especially the loud crash that came with it.
Where there was once just empty ocean off of Menagerie, now there was a sea of light.
Rudy Grey*, who was one of the dock workers that witnessed the flash happening, had gone to notify the acting Chieftain.
As he was doing that, a loud shriek emanated from the sky as something flew overhead, most likely an aircraft, maybe a Bullhead?
Rudy shook of those thoughts as he went to do what he went off to do.
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*No clue how Remnant Years work, so I'm going with Earth Years for now
**One Off OC
It was impossible to ignore the flash, and especially the loud crash that came with it.
Where there was once just empty ocean off of Menagerie, now there was a sea of light.
Rudy Grey*, who was one of the dock workers that witnessed the flash happening, had gone to notify the acting Chieftain.
As he was doing that, a loud shriek emanated from the sky as something flew overhead, most likely an aircraft, maybe a Bullhead?
Rudy shook of those thoughts as he went to do what he went off to do.
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*No clue how Remnant Years work, so I'm going with Earth Years for now
**One Off OC
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Changed an unused Canadian border checkpoint to an unused Mexican border checkpoint.
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I saw that RvB reference in the first chapter. Nice.
Brave New World
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Excerpts from Li Belladonna, Brave New World: The First Year (Menagerie Press, 2044)
Looking back at the situation, the events immediately after the Event can be viewed through a humorous lens. But one gaffe could have led to conflict, destruction, and Grimm. On all sides, there was a high level of tension, especially within the first weeks of the Crash.
The cultural and economic differences between the UASR and the Kingdoms were numerous, population differences aside. Even Vacuo, known for being the most liberal
...
One of the more surprising things about the UASR was the staunch support for Menagerie it had showed in the wake of the Crash. To be fair, Menagerie was the first contact the UASR had with any Remnant nation, to the chagrin of Atlas. Considering the events related to the UASR's inception, this support is well justified.
...
The biggest pull factors to the UASR were the minimal amount of Grimm and increased freedom and equality compared to the other nations, to the point that the UASR became the largest population of Faunus in Remnant, ironically surpassing Menagerie - a designated safe haven for Faunus.
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Yeah, I'm better at contributing to other timelines than I am writing my own. Feel free to post your own snippets, any help is appreciated
Looking back at the situation, the events immediately after the Event can be viewed through a humorous lens. But one gaffe could have led to conflict, destruction, and Grimm. On all sides, there was a high level of tension, especially within the first weeks of the Crash.
The cultural and economic differences between the UASR and the Kingdoms were numerous, population differences aside. Even Vacuo, known for being the most liberal
...
One of the more surprising things about the UASR was the staunch support for Menagerie it had showed in the wake of the Crash. To be fair, Menagerie was the first contact the UASR had with any Remnant nation, to the chagrin of Atlas. Considering the events related to the UASR's inception, this support is well justified.
...
The biggest pull factors to the UASR were the minimal amount of Grimm and increased freedom and equality compared to the other nations, to the point that the UASR became the largest population of Faunus in Remnant, ironically surpassing Menagerie - a designated safe haven for Faunus.
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Yeah, I'm better at contributing to other timelines than I am writing my own. Feel free to post your own snippets, any help is appreciated
It's Ass in the Morning or: How I Stopped Worrying and Made a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Pun.
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January 1, 2019 - DeLeon-Debs - 12:30 AM
The New Years celebrations were always some of the wildest times in the UASR, and this one was no different.
As Premier Yi1 lay in bed after passing out from a particularly strong mix of fizzy vodka, the premier's Proletarian Guard barges into the room, jolting her awake.
"Premier Yi," the guard lead said. "You need to come with us. We'll explain everything on the way."
"Wuzz happening?" Yi slurred, still buzzed from the drink.
"No time to explain now, we need to get you to a safe spot" the lead said, as she whisked the Premier out of the office, into the limo parked in the lawn, and speed off to the airport, and Air Force One2.
Vale, near Rio Sereno - 11:59 PM
In the wake of the Fall of Beacon, many student teams either split up and went back home, or travelled across the world as de-facto huntsmen/huntresses. Team CFVY was in the latter camp, travelling across Vale to help in any way they can.
And that's how they ended up camping near the coast of Vale.
At that moment, Velvet shot up from a night terror.
"What's going on-HOLY FUCK VELVS WHAT HAPPENED?" Coco shout-asked*, worried about what Velvet went through.
"Coco, It's nothing to worry about." Velvet replied.
At that moment, the Crash happened
In a blinding flash of light in conjunction with a loud impact, what was once a strait between Mistral and Vale suddenly got replaced by a new land, one that although resembling Mistral geographically, had Vacuoan3 style towns.
"I doubt that's nothing to worry about." Yatsuhashi quipped.
"No shit Hemlock4?" Fox snarked.
"Looks like a weird mix of Vacuo and Mistral," Velvet observed, through one of her stronger lenses. "Why don't we check that out?"
"At ass o'1?" Fox groaned.
"We might find a hotel there," Coco replied. "or some Grimm."
With that, Team CFVY started their trek towards the new land, and the Vacuo style town at the end of the road cut off by the border.
In the skies above DeLeon-Debs - 12:40 AM
"It's barely even next year and there's a crisis. What the fuck is going on?" the Premier asked.
"We've lost contact with the rest of the world." General Mattis5 replied.
"As of right now, we have established contact with all of the integral republics, as well as all of the Associate Republics." Deputy Castro6 replied.
"Well that's good news"
"However," Castro interjected. "we've been cut off from the rest of the Comintern, and the rest of the world."
"I do suspect that a cyber attack has been committed on us." Mattis replied. "But that doesn't explain the fact that we still have our satellites, or the sudden appearance of a big ass continent just a few hundred miles off our coast, if you'd look to the left, or at this."
Mattis hands the tablet he was holding at that moment to Yi, showing Menagerie.
"Also," Castro replied. "We've been flipped 180 degrees, and some of our associate republics have changed position. And by most, I mean all of them."
Castro then points to each of the associate republics.
"Alaska's now bordering Washington, Guam is in the Northern Hemisphere, right side up, Hawaii is on the other side of the continent, and Panama is sideways, bridging two other Continents together." Castro says, as he points to the gap between Vale and Mistral that Panama now occupies.
"At least there's an advantage we have." SecPubSafe Secretary Dunklema7 replied. "I hope there isn't PANAmonium going on."
"No, just no." Mattis groaned, through his facepalm.
"Anyways," Dunkleman says, pretending to ignore the collective facepalm in the presidium, "Several planes flying out of the Republics have reported sightings of dark monsters. Although appearances do vary, they all have what appears to be white armor plates, with red eyes and Tron8 lines. Although most of the UASR is relatively safe from these... things, Panama is a different story. Although the Panamanian " Dunkleman then opens up a livestream from Panama. "Take a look."
Rio Sereno, Panama - 12:45 AM
"It's a fucking warzone here. These fuglies just can't stop coming in."
The camera pans to show a horde of werewolf things charging at a tank before a tank shell plows through them. Another horde takes its place.
An explosion is heard as a flock of big ass ravens drops a tanker trailer on an apartment turned makeshift fort.
At that moment, a random farmer climbs onto the hood of a moving truck, AK-47 and Machete in hand.
"¡MUERE, MADRE, PECHO ANTRES TU HIJOS DES PERRAS!
¡MIGUEEEEEL SANTOOOOOS!9"
The truck jumps off of the bridge where the streamer is standing, as the farmer jumps at the uber-raven, managing to stab it before falling into the water. The raven keeps flying, albeit more erratically, before landing into a building and dissipating.
All of a sudden, a quartet of teens with strange weapons drop in from a Chopper.
'Que caraj-" BOOM
The livestream cuts off as another explosion occurs.
Debs-Union International (DUI), Deleon-Debs - 12:50 AM
The presidium, watched as the stream went offline. An uneasy silence filled the plane as the true scope of the situation dawns on them.
Yi finally speaks, with a grim conviction.
"Summon the Congress of Soviets. We're gonna need to have an emergency session as soon as possible. And Mattis, mobilize the military immediately. We need to secure the Canal."
"Way ahead of you" Castro replied.
"On it" Mattis replied, already
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1Charlyne Yi: AKA Ruby from Steven Universe
2I'm not sure what the UASR would name the plane the leaders use, so I'm going with this
3I headcanon Vacuo as Remnant's version of Mexico
4Remnant's version of Sherlock, taken from the Infinite Loops
5Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis
6Former Secretary of Housing/Urban Development Julian Castro, also running for President in 2020
7Barbara Dunkleman: AKA Yang Xiao Long
8I think, or at least I hope, Tron exists in a Communist America
9Translation: "DIE YOU MOTHER FUCKING PALE-ASS SONS OF BITCHES! MIGUEEEEEL SANTOOOOOOS! "
If you get the reference, I might do something. IDK
*I'm now calling it that
I've asked the Reds Discord for advice, and have been told just to just wing it regarding the modern UASR. I of course went for some in jokes and references, like what the original TL and its rewrites did.
I know this TL hasn't been updated in forever, and I apologize for it. I Hope you enjoy what all 5 of you were waiting for.
And stay tuned for the next update, whenever it comes.
The New Years celebrations were always some of the wildest times in the UASR, and this one was no different.
As Premier Yi1 lay in bed after passing out from a particularly strong mix of fizzy vodka, the premier's Proletarian Guard barges into the room, jolting her awake.
"Premier Yi," the guard lead said. "You need to come with us. We'll explain everything on the way."
"Wuzz happening?" Yi slurred, still buzzed from the drink.
"No time to explain now, we need to get you to a safe spot" the lead said, as she whisked the Premier out of the office, into the limo parked in the lawn, and speed off to the airport, and Air Force One2.
Vale, near Rio Sereno - 11:59 PM
In the wake of the Fall of Beacon, many student teams either split up and went back home, or travelled across the world as de-facto huntsmen/huntresses. Team CFVY was in the latter camp, travelling across Vale to help in any way they can.
And that's how they ended up camping near the coast of Vale.
At that moment, Velvet shot up from a night terror.
"What's going on-HOLY FUCK VELVS WHAT HAPPENED?" Coco shout-asked*, worried about what Velvet went through.
"Coco, It's nothing to worry about." Velvet replied.
At that moment, the Crash happened
In a blinding flash of light in conjunction with a loud impact, what was once a strait between Mistral and Vale suddenly got replaced by a new land, one that although resembling Mistral geographically, had Vacuoan3 style towns.
"I doubt that's nothing to worry about." Yatsuhashi quipped.
"No shit Hemlock4?" Fox snarked.
"Looks like a weird mix of Vacuo and Mistral," Velvet observed, through one of her stronger lenses. "Why don't we check that out?"
"At ass o'1?" Fox groaned.
"We might find a hotel there," Coco replied. "or some Grimm."
With that, Team CFVY started their trek towards the new land, and the Vacuo style town at the end of the road cut off by the border.
In the skies above DeLeon-Debs - 12:40 AM
"It's barely even next year and there's a crisis. What the fuck is going on?" the Premier asked.
"We've lost contact with the rest of the world." General Mattis5 replied.
"As of right now, we have established contact with all of the integral republics, as well as all of the Associate Republics." Deputy Castro6 replied.
"Well that's good news"
"However," Castro interjected. "we've been cut off from the rest of the Comintern, and the rest of the world."
"I do suspect that a cyber attack has been committed on us." Mattis replied. "But that doesn't explain the fact that we still have our satellites, or the sudden appearance of a big ass continent just a few hundred miles off our coast, if you'd look to the left, or at this."
Mattis hands the tablet he was holding at that moment to Yi, showing Menagerie.
"Also," Castro replied. "We've been flipped 180 degrees, and some of our associate republics have changed position. And by most, I mean all of them."
Castro then points to each of the associate republics.
"Alaska's now bordering Washington, Guam is in the Northern Hemisphere, right side up, Hawaii is on the other side of the continent, and Panama is sideways, bridging two other Continents together." Castro says, as he points to the gap between Vale and Mistral that Panama now occupies.
"At least there's an advantage we have." SecPubSafe Secretary Dunklema7 replied. "I hope there isn't PANAmonium going on."
"No, just no." Mattis groaned, through his facepalm.
"Anyways," Dunkleman says, pretending to ignore the collective facepalm in the presidium, "Several planes flying out of the Republics have reported sightings of dark monsters. Although appearances do vary, they all have what appears to be white armor plates, with red eyes and Tron8 lines. Although most of the UASR is relatively safe from these... things, Panama is a different story. Although the Panamanian " Dunkleman then opens up a livestream from Panama. "Take a look."
Rio Sereno, Panama - 12:45 AM
"It's a fucking warzone here. These fuglies just can't stop coming in."
The camera pans to show a horde of werewolf things charging at a tank before a tank shell plows through them. Another horde takes its place.
An explosion is heard as a flock of big ass ravens drops a tanker trailer on an apartment turned makeshift fort.
At that moment, a random farmer climbs onto the hood of a moving truck, AK-47 and Machete in hand.
"¡MUERE, MADRE, PECHO ANTRES TU HIJOS DES PERRAS!
¡MIGUEEEEEL SANTOOOOOS!9"
The truck jumps off of the bridge where the streamer is standing, as the farmer jumps at the uber-raven, managing to stab it before falling into the water. The raven keeps flying, albeit more erratically, before landing into a building and dissipating.
All of a sudden, a quartet of teens with strange weapons drop in from a Chopper.
'Que caraj-" BOOM
The livestream cuts off as another explosion occurs.
Debs-Union International (DUI), Deleon-Debs - 12:50 AM
The presidium, watched as the stream went offline. An uneasy silence filled the plane as the true scope of the situation dawns on them.
Yi finally speaks, with a grim conviction.
"Summon the Congress of Soviets. We're gonna need to have an emergency session as soon as possible. And Mattis, mobilize the military immediately. We need to secure the Canal."
"Way ahead of you" Castro replied.
"On it" Mattis replied, already
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1Charlyne Yi: AKA Ruby from Steven Universe
2I'm not sure what the UASR would name the plane the leaders use, so I'm going with this
3I headcanon Vacuo as Remnant's version of Mexico
4Remnant's version of Sherlock, taken from the Infinite Loops
5Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis
6Former Secretary of Housing/Urban Development Julian Castro, also running for President in 2020
7Barbara Dunkleman: AKA Yang Xiao Long
8I think, or at least I hope, Tron exists in a Communist America
9Translation: "DIE YOU MOTHER FUCKING PALE-ASS SONS OF BITCHES! MIGUEEEEEL SANTOOOOOOS! "
If you get the reference, I might do something. IDK
*I'm now calling it that
I've asked the Reds Discord for advice, and have been told just to just wing it regarding the modern UASR. I of course went for some in jokes and references, like what the original TL and its rewrites did.
I know this TL hasn't been updated in forever, and I apologize for it. I Hope you enjoy what all 5 of you were waiting for.
And stay tuned for the next update, whenever it comes.
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Can I ask what the USAR did to not collapse economically when they adopted communism? Because every other communist country on record has rapidly descended into starvation, inflation, oppression, and assorted awful stuff. And if America is still a democracy, what happens when a pro-capitalist politician gets elected?
And on a less political note, is the southern border of the US now a mostly straight line leading straight onto the ocean? Is that one town separated by a lake and the Canadian border now an Island? When you say alaska is now connected to Washington, what does that mean? Is the long narrow strip of coastal areas an ithsmus? Or is the former Canadian border now the border with washington?
And on a less political note, is the southern border of the US now a mostly straight line leading straight onto the ocean? Is that one town separated by a lake and the Canadian border now an Island? When you say alaska is now connected to Washington, what does that mean? Is the long narrow strip of coastal areas an ithsmus? Or is the former Canadian border now the border with washington?
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Well, the UASR is from another timeline where they explain your question very thoroughly. I'm not an expert, but there are many reasons why it went differently, and I'd suggest you read Reds to get a sense of it. To summarize very poorly, the US/UASR has strict democratic traditions, draws on De Leonist and Anarchist currents that would make it a lot more democratic and free, and has the massive industrial base to support a communist country.
@Aelita and @Mental Omega could probably explain it better, though.
As for your second question, the True Democrats (the capitalist, socially-conservative fringe vote) have been essentially marginalized due to massive changes in society and government action akin to what the real-life US did to the Communist Party USA.
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I'd recommend you'd read Reds! itself.
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Basically what happens when one is a developing nation.
UASR is founded upon a highly mature industrialized society that can already feed itself if the distribution problem is solved. The entire nation has to be a collective black hole of intelligence to fuck that up.