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code_geass2006-11-30 11:07 pm
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Warning: nerdiness ahead
Hello all! This is my first post to this community, even though I've been lurking for several weeks.
Unfortunately, I bear no gifts. Instead I have a transcription of what I thought is interesting in ep.7 on Suzaku's textbook.
The dots represent missing text and brackets represent my own words.
"... of Henry IX, son of the great [Elizabeth I?]... flourished as never before.
While other European countries stagnated assailed by waves of people's revolutions and parliamentarization, England held fast to absolute monarchy, and saw continued development through the reigns of King Henry X and Edward VI thanks to the wealth produced by the New World."
This tells us that Britannia came from an England that never gave way to constitutional monarchy. From the sounds of it in ep.3 and here, Queen Elizabeth I did marry and had a son named Henry IX, who doesn't actually exist in our world. So there would've been no Act of Union between Scotland and England and the English Civil War would not have happened. The kings after him are pretty powerful rulers too and that could be why the American revolution didn't happen or was won by the British.
Sorry for the extreme nerdiness there, but I've always liked British royal family history, even fictional ones. ^^;; I hope it's not too spam-ish.
By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?
Unfortunately, I bear no gifts. Instead I have a transcription of what I thought is interesting in ep.7 on Suzaku's textbook.
The dots represent missing text and brackets represent my own words.
"... of Henry IX, son of the great [Elizabeth I?]... flourished as never before.
While other European countries stagnated assailed by waves of people's revolutions and parliamentarization, England held fast to absolute monarchy, and saw continued development through the reigns of King Henry X and Edward VI thanks to the wealth produced by the New World."
This tells us that Britannia came from an England that never gave way to constitutional monarchy. From the sounds of it in ep.3 and here, Queen Elizabeth I did marry and had a son named Henry IX, who doesn't actually exist in our world. So there would've been no Act of Union between Scotland and England and the English Civil War would not have happened. The kings after him are pretty powerful rulers too and that could be why the American revolution didn't happen or was won by the British.
Sorry for the extreme nerdiness there, but I've always liked British royal family history, even fictional ones. ^^;; I hope it's not too spam-ish.
By the way am I the only one who is grateful that they have someone who knows English to write these things?
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That sounds entirely plausible to me. :D
Re a.t.b.: *nod* their English skills (or lack thereof) is something to take into consideration. I am hoping that they consulted someone who is skilled in English about this though. Judging from the passage I transcribed, they do have someone who knows it well, unless they hired a professional translator?
Re succession: Yeah, I figured out it was ranking by mother after my earlier post. Maybe all of the Emperor's wives are dubbed Empresses?
semi-regular/foreseen skirmish, or an all-out frontal attack
I say skirmish. The areas west of Egypt had all been European territory while Britain took over Egypt at some point. Assuming those territories never gained their independence, EU can be squabbling with Britannia in a semi-regular fashion for Suez Canal.
Re transportation to China: So she is still talking about the drug and plans to send it over to China. American could be Area 1, or just North America. Canada was called British North America. I can't see either of them being just an Area though.
Re Ashford: Yeah, I can see the Emperor disposing him after his mission was completed. As for cultivating the two royals...maybe? If he can see potential in Lelouch... but they are both dead on paper, so it's rather optimistic of Ashford to think that way.
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The onscreen English does seem uncommonly nice up to this point, though there are small WTFs here and there. I think someone caught "Honored Britannian" a while back? Maybe it'll be listed in the credit, but I think whoever knew English was on the crew.
The African Theater had never been my forte, but that seems just about right. I'm pretty sure the ownership of territories are different from our world, but the canal would be important all the same. Could the middleeast battle be related to this particular conflict? (And it's amusing and awesome to think of Democratic Paragon EEU having colonial territories)
Hmmm...I think Wiki said that Britain was going to call the tentative English territory something else before it became Columbia. Some explorer's name...North America alienates less, though. And yeah, I can't see them being called Areas, either. They seem more like an integrated part of the empire.
It's a huge stretch, I know. I'm throwing out wild theories on the go. Or he took them in because he had no choice, to leave them for dead or to show them would end in some unhappy fate or the other---which would also explain why Lelouch is so faithless in mankind?
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Yeah, think it was "Honorable Britannian" instead of "Honored Britannian".
Could the middleeast battle be related to this particular conflict?
Possibly? I think Cornelia was either claiming a new territory or squashing down some resistance in Area 18. Maybe EEU felt threatened that Britannia claimed (another?) territory in the middle east. Or they see this as an opportunity to attack since Cornelia is not around.
I think he had no choice either, and no matter how much he wants to build up his family again, leaving 2 young children to fend for themselves during a war may not be an option for him.