Let me set the scene.

It's 1889, and something has happened that will shake the world to it's core later.

Hitler was born.

There's also major technological advancements gong on, specifically in Naval Warfare.

So let me set the scene for you.

There's a big thing going on in The Royal Navy (the British one, if you don't know (If it's an HMS Ship, it's British (HMS=His (or Her) Majesty's Ship))) have got hold of some sweet new engines for their ships, and, seeing as have about no knowledge on these engines, I copied and pasted something from a site about HMS hood.

Hood was a steamship. A simple explanation of this would be as follows: Hood carried great amounts of fuel oil which was burned to heat boilers. The boilers would then convert large amounts of distilled seawater to steam. The steam was channelled to turbines which connected to gearing and turned the propeller shafts.

So that's how these engines work. Kind of complicated, but also pretty simple.

Now, these engines were originally fitted to a type of Battleship called Juggernauts.

Battleships are a class of Warship that have defining qualities, like all ships. In fact, while we're here, I'll go through the different classes of ship, and save time later.

Battleships: Battleships are slow (like I said), very heavily armoured, large, and have very big guns.

Yamato class Battleship, the biggest Warship ever built.

Cruisers: Cruisers are pretty much all-rounders. They have smaller guns than Battleships, but larger guns than destroyers. They also will normally have decent armour, again, not as good as battleships, and better than destroyers. Overall, the ting that sums up Cruisers is "average". They're either not as good as Battleships but better than Destroyers, or not as good as Destroyers but better than Battleships, in all but one category. A lot of Cruisers have been built, or modified to have very, very good Anti Aircraft (AA) firepower. Some have very good torpedoes as well.

USS Saint Louis, a cruiser.

Destroyers: Destroyers have very, very weak armour, are very fast, and are very small. They almost always have Torpedes. Torpedoes have 3 key components: an engine, the propellor, and a warhead. The engine is connected to the propellor, the Propellor moves, and the Torpedo moves though the water. Most Torpedoes are not steerable, although some Submarine launched amd some arguably barbaric Torpedoes were controllable, but most are not. So they would be launched on an estimated point of where the Torpedo would be. I find it difficult to explain stuff, so I'll leave an illustration here.

Writing from L to R: Ship's Direction, Gunfire, Torpedo Tubes

So if the Ship on the right were to launch a Torpedo at the Ship on the left's current position, the Torpedo would miss, because the Ship is moving away from the Torpedo's direction. Therefore, the men in charge of firing the Torpedo would have a clever guy figuring out the enemy's distance away from their ship, the speed the enemy is travelling at, and where they're going. using this, coupled with the loaded Torpedo's speed, the fire director (because that's what the smart guy is called) would calculate where the Torpedo should be fired in order to hit the enemy ship.

Note that most Cruisers have Torpedoes, and some battleships do as well.

Isokaze class Destroyer

Aircraft Carriers: Aircraft Carriers are pretty much what they say on the tin. Ships that carry aircraft, primarily fighters, bombers, and Torpedo bombers.

USS midway, before and after modification.

Okay, so that's all of the ship classes done, excluding the battlecruisers and stuff like that.

So we left off when I said that the steam engines were fitted to the Royal Navy's Juggernauts.

So these engines were beneficial to the old engines because really new ones were faster, and that's it. But that's still good.

(note: by "faster" we aren't talking much. Maybe a 5 knot increase from 20 knots (which is slow))

WARNING

THIS CHAPTER PAST THIS POINT IS WRITTEN BY MY NON HIGH, NON COFFEE FEULED, TWENTY FIVE TO MIDNIGHT SELF

I GIVE 0 SHITS

I HAD TO TYPE "SHITS" THREE TIMES

I CAN'T FUCKING DO

Now ze Germans were pretty jealous of these boats, and wanted the engines, that were built by a British company that wouldn't sell them to Germany.

Duh

So the Germans had to settle for massive warships with lots of guns and tons (literally) of armour with regular huge engines.

SO

We skip forward to 1914.

Now, a map.

And the US is still unchanged.

So, see that Austria-Hungary Place? What's that?

It's a place

It's a place made up of primarily Austria, Hungary, and some of Poland, and a bit of Russia.

but where is Poland?

Well, my Comrades, Comrade Stalin created Poland!

It was the USSR's idea to make Poland. USSR is he Union of Soviet Socialist republics.

I don't know, it probably makes sense now Russian.

so, a guy named Franz Ferdinand decides to go on a trip to a place called Sarajevo.

So now it's sassyyaythough.

Saasyyaythough houses some people who don't particularly like living in Austria-Hungary, and would be quite keen to murder a certain Archduke who's name is Franz.

So they do. They are 7 members of the Black Hand, a gang based in Austria-Hungary that don't like Austria-Hungary.

so they murder an Archduke.

So they do.

A/N: I'm tired as fuck

So they do.

But, they have help, if accidental.

The press decide to publish is scheduled route, and he seems to be in anew open-top car.

So when he gets to Sassyyaythough, some people throw bombs at his car, but they miss and hits the 5-0 behind him.

So he orders the driver to turn around, get the fuck out of sassyyathoughitis'ntfunifpeopletrytomurderyou and no one dies

except no

He goes to the Hospital where the fuzz in the car that got hit

except no

Because his driver takes a wrong turn, and just happens to pass the 7th assassin.

Who kills him.

So now, Sassyyaythough are embarrassed, and Austria-Hungary is pissed.

(it's 10 to 00:00)

So the Austria-Hungarians think Serbia has something to do with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and

I'm fucking tired

they take action. Austria-Hungary wants war with Serbia. But they can't just declare war, so AH send a big list of demanding demands to Serbia, and when Serbia declines, AH declares WAR.

So this is when things get complicated. Russia and Serbia have an alliance, so Russia declares war on AH.

But Germany (oh shit (waddup)) have an alliance with (that with was the 1111th word) AH, so Germany declares war on Serbia and Russia.

But wait! Russia and France are friends, so France declares war on AH and Germany. And Italy?

Italy is just dumb.

They're on the ally's team (Serbia's) and they didn't really do anything. So don't expect to hear much about them.

So now it's like this

FRANCE, SERBIA, RUSSA AND LAST BUT LEAST ITALY

----------VS----------

AUSTRIA-HANGARY AND GERMANY

And that's it for now. it's 4 past midnight? this shot has not been proof read, and I just want some sleep.

CUT

Me: Finally *throws off michrophone*

*passes out on desk*