Recaps

The Habsburg family established two states in Togoland as East Africa expanded immigration, infrastructure, and military planning. The arc ended with East Africa using trade, transport links, and strategic positioning to extend its influence across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds.

• Crown Prince Friedrich offered the Habsburg family land in Togoland, and Emperor Rudolf advised Crown Prince Karl to establish the Habsburg Monarchy in the east and New Austria in the west.
• East Africa transferred Dapang Town to New Austria, while Natitingou became the Habsburg Monarchy’s capital and the new rulers began planning development and immigration.
• French officials investigated the new states and worried that East Africa’s military and naval strength threatened its West African colonies.
• Crown Prince Friedrich directed plans to develop Darfur through railway trade, agriculture, and mining, while Ernst and Taulfeis reorganized East Africa’s military regions and overseas theaters.
• Ernst and Crown Prince Friedrich pursued economic growth through research, semiconductors, aviation, and a larger navy, while assessing Japan’s strategic position in the Pacific.
• Japanese agents learned of Anchorage Airport and saw it as a possible asset, but Ernst revealed that East Africa intended it as bait to draw Japan into conflict with the United States.
• East African officials planned food production and grain reserves for Alaska, including grain purchases from South America transported by the Asuncion-Lima Railway.
• Baltasar and Val described Asuncion’s rise as a South American rail hub, while Kuyaqi and Val explained how Suárez Port’s growth strengthened East Africa’s economic influence in Bolivia.

East Africa backed Franco’s uprising, expanded its influence through trade and infrastructure, and watched Germany, Britain, and the Soviet Union maneuver for advantage. As the Soviet Union sought cooperation and Dalmatia faced Yugoslav demands, the stretch ended with Karl I prioritizing East African ties while remaining wary of Germany.

• Ernst prepared East African assistance for Franco’s faction, and Tagian and William negotiated cooperation with Franco in Tenerife.
• Franco escaped to Morocco, declared himself leader of the rebellion, and arranged German and Italian air support to fly troops past the Republican naval blockade.
• East Africa won the Berlin Olympics, while Adolf used the Games to promote Aryan superiority and ordered a crackdown on the underground Labor Party.
• Ernst and Crown Prince Friedrich advanced plans for Gwadar’s water supply and aviation role, while East Africa extended financial, technical, and industrial support in Western Regions Province.
• Baldwin warned that East African influence threatened British interests and proposed manipulating rivalries among major powers, prompting Ernst to strengthen monitoring and international ties.
• Yosef and Soviet leaders recognized Germany as their gravest threat and considered cooperation with East Africa and the United States while preparing to move industry eastward.
• Ernst weighed Soviet overtures and proposed a cheap Central Asia Highway from Gwadar toward the Far East Empire, while cautioning Friedrich against becoming deeply involved in Afghanistan.
• Karl I chose East African railway standards for Dalmatia and pursued Yugoslav economic cooperation, but after Yugoslavia demanded territory, he made closer East African ties and caution toward Germany his foreign-policy priorities.

As Japan’s invasion of the Far East Empire began, East Africa expanded its preparations and built the Central Asia Highway while European powers braced for war. Yugoslavia sought outside support and reconciled with Dalmatia, Spain emerged from civil war, and Japan suspected East Africa was sustaining resistance in the Far East Empire.

• Friedrich and Alfred agreed to reduce East Africa’s symbolic garrison in Dalmatia and proposed using Dalmatia to spread East African culture in Europe.
• Ernst ordered East Africa’s army to improve training and discipline, then told Friedrich that Japan’s attack on the Far East Empire marked the beginning of World War II.
• Ernst and Friedrich discussed East Africa’s strategic ambitions and approved the Central Asia Highway as a route for supplies to the Far East Empire through Afghanistan and Soviet territory.
• King Shah and his advisers considered the highway a chance to strengthen Afghanistan, while Montre and Tanal oversaw the start of construction at Gwadar.
• Franco planned to consolidate his rule after the Spanish Civil War and deepen economic ties with East Africa, while Yugoslavia sought French and Soviet aid and signed a friendship treaty with Dalmatia.
• Dalmatia and Yugoslavia reopened trade, and Hanweis pushed Mostar to restore its role in inland commerce as Yugoslavia built mountain defenses against Germany.
• Kabriel ordered the Indian Ocean Fleet to prepare for large-scale warfare and study Japan, while Umezu Yoshijiro concluded East Africa was secretly supplying the Far East Empire’s resistance forces.

East Africa expanded its support for the Far East Empire while Ernst and Crown Prince Friedrich considered how the coming European war could reshape the balance of power. Germany and Italy used the Warsaw military exercise and negotiations to secure concessions from Britain and France, ending with the creation of the Warsaw Pact and the exclusion of the Soviet Union.

• Umezu Yoshijiro ordered the Jinyang Special Agency to investigate East African enterprises and transport routes that supported anti-Japanese forces in the Far East Empire.
• Ernst organized a colonial Foreign Legion and expanded East African aid to the Far East Empire, including winter clothes, supplies, and plans for an air force and the Central Asia Highway.
• Sosnkowski warned President Piłsudski that Germany posed a greater danger to Poland than the Soviet Union, and Piłsudski made closer ties with the United States and East Africa a diplomatic priority.
• Adolf staged a massive Axis military exercise in Warsaw, impressing European leaders with Germany’s military power while Ernst warned Crown Prince Friedrich to monitor German nuclear research.
• Adolf pressed Chamberlain to accept German ambitions in the Middle East, and Chamberlain secured limits on German bases while allowing German investment in Kuwait’s oil.
• Benito demanded French territories in North Africa, and Boncour negotiated France’s withdrawal from Libya and joint administration of Tunisia with Italy.
• Daladier authorized concessions to Italy while ruling out the surrender of Algeria and Morocco, and Britain, France, Germany, and Italy established the Warsaw Pact without the Soviet Union.