[Teaser] The world of SPECIAL FORCES: Rapture Division

When and where

Special Forces: Rapture Division takes place on an alternate history Earth during the tail end of what we would call the Cold War, which in this world is called the Long War: a global conflict between the New Entente and the World Soviet Republic. In territory of what we know as the United Kingdom, where our story takes place, the disintegrating empire of The Grand Commonwealth of Albyon, torn at the seams from within and without, was propped up by the economic and military power of the American Technocracy, gradually stripped away the procedures of the Parliamentary Monarchy, as the enlarged army, empowered by hundreds of thousands of mostly aristocrat Russian exiles, took on more and more of a political role. 

As the Long War dragged on, the Disaster of Hyderabad, where one hundred and twenty thousand Albyonite troops were captured and eventually executed by Indian rebels, the army was mobilized to suspend Parliament indefinitely and proclaim “Emergency Powers”. As the years went on and the colonial insurgencies increased, so did the power of the military, which would eventually come to be ruled by an aristocratic class of “Bluebloods” or “Royals”. Gradually, the democratic traditions of the United Kingdom were replaced by the warrior virtues of the Russian and British aristocrats, the Queen empowered through her extended family to not only become a symbol of unity, but an autocrat by virtue of the sword and crown.

In parallel to all this, the renamed Grand Commonwealth of Albyon, in a desperate bid to hold on to its crumbling empire, would develop a Special Forces program that would emphasize unorthodox tactics of infiltration, seduction, and political subversion. This is the unit our protagonist joins, the so-called Rapture Division. 

While it is a combat outfit, the missions the cadets will be trained to perform are far beyond what would be expected of other units, no matter how elite. Rapture Division combines training in traditional military disciplines such as arms handling, tactics, strategy, stealth and reconnaissance with training more akin to Secret Services such as espionage, seduction and sedition. 

The result are killing machines who can not only physically destroy their enemies, but undermine and even coopt enemies to their own side. The training, as can be expected, is particularly rigorous and unorthodox, straying into the realm of Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism, and other mind and body control techniques to achieve the perfect Imperial Soldier.

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