[Culture] Monarch to Alliance: "If you don't mind, I will have my country back."

Monarch to Alliance: "If you don't mind, I will have my country back."

Chris Woods, The Colonial

When Shanxi was reunited with the rest of the galaxy, refugee Dame Elizabeth Frances Grey was in for a shock. "The moment we had reestablished contact with Earth, I wanted to know how Great Britain was fairing. I was appalled at what I found."

"The destruction in the wake of the war was almost unbelievable...but what was worse, we [Great Britain] had lost our Sovereign and Sovereignty." Grey had suspected Queen Victoria IV was among the victims of the Reaper onslaught. However, she had also expected that the new King or Queen would have taken her place on the throne. Instead, the Systems Alliance was running the country - and the rest of the world.

"It irked me, as a citizen with a British passport, that the upstarts [i.e. Systems Alliance] would have dared to assume power of one of the oldest monarchies on Earth," stated Grey.

Dame Grey always had an interest in the Royal family tree, even as a child. Her interest was understandable; she was, after all, "46th in line of succession" to the British throne.

“I felt it was my duty, as a British citizen, to find out where our rightful Monarch was,” she said, relating her search through tales of final stands, indoctrination, and brutal slaughter until the realization came upon her. “…after I had discounted Ferdinand - who went missing in action during the push for London - it dawned on me that my branch of the tree was next.”

In a surprising twist of fate, Dame Elizabeth Grey had become the heir she was looking for.

“It was overwhelming. One of course knows of one’s position in the line of succession, but I never dared to think of it as anything more than a curiosity.” Still, the next step was "obvious;" Grey announced her divine duty, and went to the local Alliance representative to politely ask for her country back. “That was the whole point of the exercise, after all, was it not?”

A Systems Alliance official speaking on condition of anonymity noted that “we get claims to any number of thrones every other week, but Mrs. Grey's is the probably the first with any level of credibility to it. Her paperwork checks out, as do the DNA tests; they both confirm her identity and her claim to the throne. In short, there’s little doubt in my mind that she’s in fact eligible to become the next Queen of England…except there’s no England anymore, like, legally.”

Dame Grey dissents. “The Alliance is unlawfully occupying British sovereign soil. They should leave as soon as possible and allow us to reestablish the British Parliament.”

The Colonial sincerely doubts that this was part of the Systems Alliance's Five-Year Plan.

What is the qualitative difference between being 9th in line of succession or 46th - especially to an unelected position?

The ease with which SATAE members dismiss the claim, I imagine.

Fairly certain that SATAE did something similar yes.

I cannot for obvious reasons comment on the whole Lady Gray issue. But it is my duty to point out that the UNAS had a lot more people named in the order of succession.

1. Vice President of the United States
2. Speaker of the House
3. President pro tempore of the Senate
4. Secretary of State
5. Secretary of the Treasury
6. Secretary of Defense
7. Attorney General
8. Secretary of the Interior
9. Secretary of Homeland Security
10. Secretary of the Colonies
11. Secretary of Agriculture
12. Secretary of Commerce
13. Secretary of Labor
14. Secretary of Health and Human Services
15. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
16. Secretary of Transportation
17. Secretary of Energy
18. Secretary of Non-Human Affairs
19. Secretary of Education
20. Secretary of Veterans Affairs

what if the president's brains were backed up onto a bluebox?

Then you get a law-suit.

Huerta didn't have a bluebox, his autonomic functions were replaced with a VI.