Mabalogna - pretty cool idea
To be honest I would include here also British Isles as currently they don't fit any other faction and eventually can fit 'northern' group
Ok, now my idea
1) It obviously won't appear in game
2) I would love to see something like that as a mod
3) I am aware it is... controversial material but hey, we had similar mods for Civ4/5 and they were very popular
and I was really trying to make it as morally ambiguous as I could
4) It is completely unrealistic although I was trying to make it as little unrealistic as I could
but hey the entire plot of BE is not 100% realistic right?
The Valkyrian Reich
Leader -
Captain Werner Stauffenberg
Advantages - Military, Infrastructure, Health, Science
Disadvantages - Diplomacy, Religion, Culture
Countless crazy conspiracy theories around infamous Third Reich have gain popularity, but not even one of them was close to insane truth. The megalomania of Nazi regime... allowed this superpower on travel beyond Earth.
Third Reich was the most developed country in terms of rocket technology - and there were two insane men required for this plan to success: Adolf Hitler and Ernest Zimmerman. Zimmerman, the genius whose intellect was surpassed only by his arrogance, promised his Fuhrer that Aryan will be the first nation in space - and he has been already spending his entire life on the Valkyria Project. Hitler, fascinated by the vision of Nazi Sonnmarine, sacrificed billions of dollars and giant effort on this true Wunderwaffe; this is where all legends about Nazi treasury and secret space programs were going to end.
The Valkyria was the world's first spaceship, created in the era when constructing such things was beyond impossibility, the spaceship created via infinite hubris and true genius. However since 1943 when the end seemed to be inevitable, Hitler decided that German Gods sent him Zimmerman to save the Aryan race via Space Exodus. The true reason of German failure in Second World War was immense effort required to create Valkyria, but it has arisen. One goal - Alpha Centauri. The crew of thousands loyal servants of Fuhrer, the best Nazi scientists, officers of Waffen SS and 'perfect Aryan' colonists. Fully autonomous and designed to reach the stars, the Valkyria flew in 1945, while the death of Hitler was fabricated using his doppelganger.
However... The Great Breakdown has happened. Obvious limitations of 20th century technology exaggerated by Nazi arrogance has lead to mysterious but inevitable breakdown. This, along with total lack of space training of - already remaining in the bad physical shape - Adolf Hitler and science geek Zimmerman caused both of them to die, along with most population of Valkyria. The conditions of primitive space travel caused all elder elites to pass, while the doom of damaged ship seemed to be inevitable. Furthermore, the civil war has erupted, between two factions of survivors:
The Legion, consisting of the remaining fanatical followers of Nazi ideology and Waffen SS and
The Old Guard, consisting of the remaining conservatists, followers of Prussian traditions, Christian soldiers and people who fought in WWII for Deutschland, not Fuhrer. Bloody war in the extreme conditions decimated the remaining population, until finally it was forced to coexist in order to survive in the cold vacuum of space...
Somehow, people Valkyria didn't extinct. The Great Breakdown has killed all military and Nazi elites and all people too old, weak or stupid to survive - this was cruel irony, regarding Nazi views on 'natural selection'. Many souls were lost due to suicides of people terrified by the isolation in space. However, the following Civil War has killed also the most passionate soldiers from both sides. What was left?
The strongest people forced to cooperate in order to survive.
And thus, the Eternal Reich was born. The Great Breakdown didn't annihilate most of vital systems of primitive starship, allowing on feeding remaining population. Only the strongest people survived and started organizing the life of their space society. Without their leaders they soon abandoned most of the fanatical visions of their Fuhrer, without any communication with Earth they developed their own culture. The surviving scientific elite managed to conserve and develop technology in entirely different way...
During next three hundred years generations of people were born and dying on board of Valkyria, while becoming less and less similar to people on Earth. The situation and organisation of New Reich society forced these people to become - ironically - the pinnacle of humans in terms of physical strenght, intellect and iron will. The people of Valkyria didn't develop Internet but their knowledge on space travel, human body and subconsiousness, genetics and social engineering was far bigger than knowledge of Earth civilization in these areas. Eventually the progress of Valkyrian genetics allowed Valkyrians on discovering shocking truth... The Jewish blood was in veins of all Valkyrians.
Finally, the Valkyria led by young Captain Werner Stauffenberg has arrived on the new planet. Valkyrian Reich doesn't know about Earth Space Colonization, and Earth doesn't know about forgotten descendants of Nazi insanity. These are the people who don't know anything about Holocaust but highly value their vision of nazism - while they don't know about the grimdark legend of this ideology. These people who became experts of space survival but don't know anything about building true society, who know so much about human body and so little about humanity...
Are they going to attempt building next totalitarian, militaristic empire? Achieve the pinnacle of human evolution and expiate? Discoveir their humanity again? Or maybe even, paradoxically, build utopia?
The future awaits.