The Reich wholeheartedly and most proudly supports Montenegro Meraz.

The modern French Foreign Legion pretty much just takes volunteers and, of course, doesn't rely on colonialism, but it still exists and has fought in Afghanistan most recently.

It's a very strange thing but, essentially, any man of suitable age can, if they can get to France, find a gendarme and ask to join. They're taken to a recruitment center and assessed. If they're not disqualified based on the physical, they can join, and are permitted to change their name -- and not have any records of their previous identity kept.

They don't need to even speak French, since they're taught as part of the training. It's pretty much a way for desperate men to start a new life -- after, IIRC five years of service, they're discharged as French citizens and receive a pension.

Not surprisingly they're often a bunch of criminals or fugitives, though some are surely just adventure-seeking dudes, or have for whatever odd reason run out of options in their native country.

But historically, yes, it was troops from French imperial possessions/colonies. And a fictional version could be different.

But TL;DR the idea doesn't require colonies.

Here's a Chinese legionnaire in Afghanistan for ex. :


Anyway, @ Turkducken, I don't see any reason why an RP set in a country outside the NCSA couldn't be done. The only real restriction I know of there is that we can't claim territory outside the NCSA -- it doesn't mean the rest of the world is supposed to not exist, and I think it is assumed that States trade with foreign countries.

((OOC: As I recall we passed quite a few laws, but I might be wrong.))

((Sorry not self-bumping, but in retrospect this should probably be in NS, if a mod could move it? ))

((So as not to waste this space ...))

In his bedroom atop a tower of the newly-constructed, majestic Bergenschloss, William Winsbury bristled under the unflinching and almost-challenging gazes of Reichsführer-General zur Linde and Reichsführerin-SS Habich. Tailors fluttered around him, measuring and holding up swatches of rich material -- silk, sable, ermine, and cloth-of-gold -- as they prepared to sew his coronation raiment. Elsewhere in the castle, jewelers and goldsmiths were equally hard at work preparing the appropriate regalia of princedom.

Of course the girlishly-handsome, red-haired young man understood very clearly that he was not, and would not become, their equal, except perhaps at social occasions -- and, even then, the old aristocracy of Northeast Carolina and Prussia would likely view him as an up-jumped peasant.

As he stood statue-still and stared coldly into a full-length mirror, he reflected that they would not be wrong. He may have been an exceptional person, and certainly regarded himself as such: Beautiful, though not in a way that was much respected in Hightah, where ideals of the male form tended towards red-blooded, bull-necked, dirty farmhands; clever, in a place that put little value on intellect; and proudly self-assured, where self-abasing Christian humility was more virtuous.

If his bitterness over these things showed, he didn't suppose the führers much cared. In fact, it was that disaffection that made him a perfect ally, and had led him to embrace the National Socialists as they had occupied his homeland. Still, Albrecht zur Linde looked gloatingly proud, and not of William, whilst Reinhilde Habich barely concealed a sort of patronizing contempt. They made no pretense when it came to who would truly rule Hightah, if the omnipresent SS-Leibstandarte weren't enough to cow him to submission.


Bergenschloss in the Blue Mountains, Hightah


(Soon-to-be) Prince William of Hightah

((To be continued ... ))

Bump? It was super occupied in RP and I haven't had an expansion yet ... I'm not OOCly greedy for territory but that was the IC agenda of the AR ;p . A 'yes' or 'no' answer would be much appreciated, and I definitely won't be offended if there is a good reason for a 'no' .

I should note that the RP appointment of a feudal Prince of Hightah is really the installation of a puppet ruler by the Reich who might be acceptable to the locals, and not intended to give it real autonomy, despite propaganda to the contrary.

Reichsmarschall Kirkland looked around with an inscrutable expression, as usual, though anyone accustomed to his subtleties would note that he seemed impressed as he surveyed the fields.

"And I'm sure the produce is admirable. My own ancestor was, believe it or not, a general of the First Confederacy from North Carolina, who fought at First Manassas, in the Shenandoah campaign, and attained his highest rank at Gettysburg: William Whedbee Kirkland, for whom I was named. So, we are not so far removed as you might think, despite my also Germanic ancestry, from the Prussian side of my family."

Kirkland took a coffee with a gracious nod, and sipped it decorously.

"And yes, of course, our goal is peace ... peace, and Hightah, though the latter is up to the discretion of the central government. Of your own territory, despite ... ;" Here Kirkland cleared his throat and had the decency to look aside, his emotions for once plain, as he was slightly abashed; "... the overwhelming force of arms that the Reich could bring to bear, begging your humble pardon, we would claim none.

"None the less, you must understand, the Reichsführer-General and Reichsführerin-SS demand that I obtain an unconditional surrender, for precisely that reason. I have negotiated most carefully with them, with your interests and the desirability of peace in mind, and am willing to present you with terms, but ...;" he sighed; "... most lamentably, I am not precisely sanctioned to negotiate. You -- and I am honestly sorry for this -- must either accept or reject. Rejection ..."

Kirkland left the rest unspoken, as he motioned his secretary to bring forth the writing kit and prepared papers.

***

"Im Namen des Reichsführers und Volk auf das Amerikanisches Reich
Duly Approved in the Reichstag

We hereby affirm and approve this Treaty between the Reich and the Columbia Confederates, of which the terms shall be as follows:

1) No further military action shall be taken between the Reich and Columbia Confederates, in perpetuity.

2) No claim shall be made by the Columbia Confederates upon the Territory of Hightah, which is justly claimed, by right of conquest and necessity, by the Reich.

3) Reich and Columbian armed forces shall be granted free conduct and transit, though not free action, in the respective territories and airspace, that is, the territories and airspace of Columbia and the Reich, mutually.

4) The State of the Columbia Confederates shall never in perpetuity exercise any claim nor attempt any dominance or governance over the territory, or former territory, of Hightah.

5) Betwixt the Amerikanisches Reich and the State of the Columbia Confederates there shall be no excise taxes, duties, or protective tariffs with regard to trade.

6) Betwixt the Amerikanisches Reich and the State of Columbia, at the mutual expense of both, there shall be constructed a rail network to facilitate trade, which shall adequately serve all commercial and state interests.

Signed,

x Reichsmarschall Wilhelm Kirkland, due representative
Notarized: Emily Schwarz, signal offizier von der Wehrmacht

x
Notarized:
"

((OOC: Will give details ASAP, sorry! ))

Columbia-Hightah border, forward Reich command post

"Escorted?" Reichsmarschall Kirkland raised an eyebrow at the message as reported to him, with some timidity, by Signalwoman Schwarz. He hoped that he was not an imposing person to his subordinates, unless, of course, he tried to be -- he far preferred being respected to being feared -- but he had to confess this whole business was unpleasant. Kirkland was steeped from the day of his birth in both European and American military tradition, and firmly believed that an enemy willing to offer an unconditional surrender should appear at whatever pains before the conquering commander, and not vice versa.

None the less, his commitment to averting a longer 'war' -- this had been a pair of skirmishes, and, he realized, it was amongst things vexing him that he felt the victory may not have been well-earned -- or a real war, remained.

He sighed deeply. "Ist gut für jetzt; please summon me a kubelwagen, a driver, and a secretary. We'll trail a white flag and hope not to be shot."

Kirkland found that, despite consternation aplenty, he felt little anxiety. It was said that old men grew more cautious, but, in his case, at least with regard to his own person, he felt much the opposite: He had less life to lose, and increasingly viewed death as an inevitable -- and not far off -- appointment, rather than a terror.

The Reichsmarschall's kubelwagen, driven by a volunteer Wehrmacht leutnant, with a secretary raising her head boldly in the backseat and under white flags, soon sped towards Mount Sinai along whatever disused tracks the scout vehicle could navigate. Weapons excepting sidearms had been discarded and the little car was quite alone. An indignity, certainly, but one Kirkland would suffer to preserve Aryan lives.

Well anyway someone should definitely sticky this. Also ty DEN .