ImagineNation WorldBuild #1: A Testament to World- Building

I have a passion for world-building. That much is clear to me. It's a testament to creativity and imagination. I find I have a spectacular time writing these events in which I recreate a crucial event in history, speculating how things would have gone different (with a dash of surrealism and exaggerated features). This gives me room to practice on creating worlds from scratch while bringing these tiny incidents into existence for entertainment!

In this particular narrative, I wrote an essay replacing the WWII powers with the Hernan Cortes and Moctezume and wrote it like a Wikipedia article. Check it out below!

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On August 15th, 1939, the terrorist group Les Loups de Liberté assassinated King Phillip II of Spain, also killing several nobles as collateral before retreating to Portugal. The group, whose French name translates to The Wolves of Liberty, were major opponents of divine rule, claiming that God "did not need officials to run his kingdom." Originally founded in France, Les Loups were led by André Masséna, and proclaimed "they would rid Europe of hypocritical, irreligious corruption". Hernán Cortés, a prominent general, rallied all of Spain under his leadership, promising to avenge their king's killer. Cortés took control of the throne, and demanded King Antonio I of Portugal hand over the group, but Portugal refused. On the night of September 1,1939, the Spanish empire led a covert infiltration to extract Masséna. The mission ended in utter failure, leading to bloody war with Portugal.

Following Spain's destructive victory, and the execution of the remaining members of Les Loups de Liberté, Portugal abdicated its sovereignty to Spain. Cortés, an ardent Roman Catholic, claimed his God-given destiny to remain king, and ushered in a new age of Spanish dominance. Under Cortés' rule, legislative and executive power derived exclusively from his court. Thus came about Spain's Manifest Destiny, believing it had the Christian mission to expand to the east, and the entire globe.

As the Invincible Armada led attacks on the North African coast, and the Spanish Army quickly drove back French resistance, Spanish control of Western civilization seemed imminent. Within a week of battle, France surrendered, and the Spanish empire continued to Italy and Germany. The Chancellor of Germany at the time, Adolf Hitler, had recently led an invasion on Poland, leaving Germany temporarily less fortified. The Nazi party, however, launched a carpet bombing of Barcelona, leaving the city in ashes. Despite this and Hitler's Nazi party's best efforts, Germany gradually succumbed. As Spanish forces arrived in Berlin in 1942, the soldiers deterred Hitler from a suicide attempt, and captured him, sending him back to Madrid as a POW. After Germany, the rest of Europe quickly fell under Spanish rule.

The Spanish were ruthless with Non-Catholics. Those who refused to convert were handed over to General Miguel Cervantes, well-known for his unpredictable bouts of pathological psychosis. Though his periods of sanity highlighted him as a capable soldier and quick-witted military strategist, his psychological inhibitions rendered him a dangerous man. Non-Catholics were put "at the mercy of God." Cervantes' second-in-command, Pancho Sanza, placed non-believers on horses, which were coerced into charging at a concrete windmill. If the men survived the experience (which neither they nor the horses ever did) they would be forgiven and given another chance to convert. If they didn't, the process would repeat (but once again they never got the chance). First-hand accounts claim Cervantes mumbled about a "devil giant," though this remains a mystery. Little is known of what became of Hitler. Investigations uncovered mentions of bulls, a bright red gown, and a pair of roller skates.

Across the Atlantic, the Aztec Empire was at its prime. Their maquahiutl, a sword with jagged obsidian edges, had been upgraded with steel and the ability to rotate at high speeds, creating a precursor to the chainsaw. The Aztecs quickly dispatched prominent enemies, including Tlaxcalans, Terascans, Huaxtecans, and several other multi-syllabled tribes whose names would not fit in this narrative essay. The Aztec empire spread northward like a pandemic, dominating all of North America, their most notable battle in what the locals called Texas. These locals were unequipped to deal with Aztec forces, and were brutally defeated with haste. This definitive battle became a pivotal historical marker for the Aztecs, and would later be called the "Texas Maquahuitl Massacre."

Once Cortés had ascertained Christian dominance of Europe, he grew more avaricious. He funded a fleet of U-boats, submarine-like ships stolen from German designs, armed with the most advanced methods of durability available, and sent battle groups of his unconquerable army, the "Armada de Dios," to explore the "Wild West."

The warmongering Aztec Empire, led by Moctezuma, spotted the Spanish fleet over the horizon on the morning of November 19, 1944. Without a breath of pacifistic rationality, the natives unleashed a barrage of mortars and their iconic explosive arrows. However, as a result of the upgraded defenses intended for storm protection, the Spanish were able to retaliate with cannon-fire, not knowing the identity of their attackers. Though the Spanish offered plenty of resistance, the scouting group was far too small, and were captured and sacrificed immediately.

The Aztecs sailed toward them in their illustrious warships, whose lack of vowels and amalgamated graphemes make them impossible to write or pronounce in the English language. All-out warfare broke out. Atlantic naval battles, coastal invasions, and new methods of engagement known as geowarfare and underwater warfare ignited across the globe. Geowarfare consisted of creating fissures and earthquakes to cause catastrophic, unpredictable damage to the enemy. The fatal blow to the Spanish Empire was the Battle of Andorra, in which the Aztec force led by Moctzeuma himself induced a powerful series of earthquakes which actually slowed down an Earth day by .4 seconds. The fissures split the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe, cutting the central hub of the Spanish empire from its conquered nations. Isolated on an Iberian Island, Spain fell victim to incessant Aztec attacks from all sides, which demanded all of their attention and prevented contact with the rest of its empire.

By 1972, the remaining stragglers of the empire centered around France. Churchill, having regained control on Britain, sent in the British Army to finish off what was left of the military branches of Spain. Once the Spanish had been forced out of France, the French quickly surrendered to Britain, despite Britain's attempts to explain they were simply there to liberate them.

As the rest of the world regained a sense of normalcy, the Iberian Island was left in ravaging period of civil war; Cortés was ousted from the throne, and presumably met the same fate as Hitler. A new government was established in the form of a constitutional monarchy, and control was reestablished. Except of course, for Portugal, who was forced to remain a part of Spain as they were stranded on an island together, and no one offered to help them.