It seems the FFML dislikes the opening tag of the fic, especially when it's
posted first. Hopefully it shows up now:

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	In another world, a world where the magical knowledge and heritage
that Japan and China parleyed into world power status had not been so
strong, or where the Enlightenment had not turned Europe and her children so
drastically from the path of the mystical, history might have gone very
differently.

        Equally drastic would be the differences left had even a few of the
wondrous technological discoveries of the twenties, from foamed duraluminum
to the Babbage Computational Engine, not been brought to their fruition, or
had the nightmares of the Demon Wars and the monstrous Invaders who brought
them not made the essential unity of humankind so impeccably clear.

        As it was, in 1929, the Ch'ing dynasty imperial forces dealt the
Chinese Communist Party the first in a five year string of crushing defeats
in that nation's ongoing civil war. In 1934, Soviet tanks rolled across
Mongolia and into China at the request of a desperate CCP. Any hopes of
socialist brotherhood, however, were quickly dashed as the Chinese and the
world at large stood aghast at the brutality and naked rapaciousness of the
Soviet occupation.

        Poland fell in 1937. Finland and Turkey fell a year later. And on
April 19, 1940, more than a thousand Soviet Krazny class dirigibles mounted
the single largest airlift operation in history as the opening phase of the
Soviet invasion of India.

        In the sixth months since then, half the world has plunged headlong
into war, with Japan and the United States watching in growing concern as
the conflict heats up and rumors begin to slip through the Iron Curtain of
torture, human sacrifice, and things altogether darker...

        The year is 1940. And in a world filled with battle and of soldiers,
where armies fight over land and territory, a man and a blade will realize
that home might be the most important place of all.

        Because at stake is the life of the Earth itself.

        The Invaders have returned.

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Hopefully, this works now.

Again, this should go before the first asterisk break in the Kaeri fic. It's
not essential but it's part the shared-world schtick and eases in the tone
and the background. ^_- Just imagin Sir Richard Attenborough reading it. ^_^


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