At the dawn of the atomic age, a pair of boys from two wealthy families in two island nations survived illnesses in childhood which could have done them in. They excelled in school and university, got jobs in their mother countries diplomatic services and in time and their work they came together and became fast friends despite the prejudices of their day. Together they managed to steer their nations through a rough period due to one of their nations' aggressive ambitions and kept an alliance alive and kept said from finding other darker allies that were on the rise at said moment of history. When war came the alliance held firm and they fought against those which they might have turned to in a move that would remain controversial for centuries to come. Though they were victorious in the end, one nation was on the decline while the other one was on the ascent to emerge as one of the three global superpowers that would be the leading figures of the Earth







Now, three centuries latter mankind has pushed into space and taken to the stars with the advent of Faster than Light travel. Ships are assembled and leaving sol behind bearing loads of colonists to their new homes to seed new worlds for the Soviet led Socialist League, the Atlantic Alliance led by the United States and the Empire of the Rising Sun. Total War has been avoided since the 20th century, but smaller scale conflicts persist, especially among the proxy operations in which the three powers back some minor nominally non associated nation or group to set up a new colony and those worlds which end up split by two or more players or unofficial settlements made by pirates. Armed intervention is often called for and here the forces of the Imperial Japanese Star Navy's Special Landing Forces touch down to cease control of a contested world.







*A bit more cheesy than another unrelated Imperial Japanese Alternate History world involving the Japanese Empire surviving on Mars







