It's their companies that bother me, more than just them. If it were just a matter of their Queen I would have done battle with her openly.
[ She shakes her head - oh if that was all it was, the damage might be easier to undo. She looks down at her brief map and oh she has learned the history of the British Empire in the intermediate years better than she thinks she ever learned her own histories. But necessity demanded she know the full breadth of what she fought. ]
No, their Empire began some 300 years ago. When they first settled in the New Continent. [ She taps America with her stick. ] My home followed, though not through direct colonisation or conquest in war. But in trade, debt, and a slow collection of power and important centres until they controlled almost everything.
[ She wets her lips, moving along. ] The now United States of America, rebelled some, ah, 60 years ago or so now, and that led them to settle further south, and found the Colony of New South Wales, here - [ a tap to Australia ] - the Great Southern Land. Though I believe it belonged to the Dutch, initially. Of course, never to the people I am told already lived there. [ Her bitterness is - palatable. Her grief always there, and her rage just the same. ] They take systematically, if slowly. Little by little they consume.
[ A particularly set use of words. Consumption is exactly what it is. ] And worse than all that, their own people live in squalor, starving, beset upon, and they often punish them for it.
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[ She shakes her head - oh if that was all it was, the damage might be easier to undo. She looks down at her brief map and oh she has learned the history of the British Empire in the intermediate years better than she thinks she ever learned her own histories. But necessity demanded she know the full breadth of what she fought. ]
No, their Empire began some 300 years ago. When they first settled in the New Continent. [ She taps America with her stick. ] My home followed, though not through direct colonisation or conquest in war. But in trade, debt, and a slow collection of power and important centres until they controlled almost everything.
[ She wets her lips, moving along. ] The now United States of America, rebelled some, ah, 60 years ago or so now, and that led them to settle further south, and found the Colony of New South Wales, here - [ a tap to Australia ] - the Great Southern Land. Though I believe it belonged to the Dutch, initially. Of course, never to the people I am told already lived there. [ Her bitterness is - palatable. Her grief always there, and her rage just the same. ] They take systematically, if slowly. Little by little they consume.
[ A particularly set use of words. Consumption is exactly what it is. ] And worse than all that, their own people live in squalor, starving, beset upon, and they often punish them for it.