The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

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„The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway“ is an alternate history novel written by Metropolitan author Lloyd Domino that serves as a prequel to Tiberian Destiny in explaining the history of the Zion Cooperative, and thus SCORPION and Zionist America. The name was taken from a concept album of the british progress rock band Genesis.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway's has two apparently unrelated points of divergence from our own world: The first was the establishment of a cabal of jewish businessmen and politicians in the late 19th century. Though never explicitly mentioned, this organization, that called itself the „Zion Cooperative“, played a major role in causing World War 1. Apparently, this cabal had been established by a group of time travellers from another alternate world, were Albert Einstein had invented a time machine, which allowed them to travel back and change history. By the orders of the Zion Cooperative, Adolf Hitler was assassinated in 1933. As a result of this, Germany increasingly fell into anarchy after the Weimar Republic failed and soon, militia of various factions are engaged in a perpetual civil war inside the nation's borders. While true Nazis are no longer a real power, the fighting is mainly between Communists backed by several leftists splinter states of Germany, like the Bavarian Soviet Republic, against the Black Front of Otto Strasser, a left-wing organization within the Nazi party, that did exists in real life, but played an unimportant role and was crushed by Adolf Hitler. Without an enemy to counter his expansion into western Europe, and with support of the left-wing factions mainly in Germany, but also other parts of Europe, Josef Stalin begins to march towards the Atlantic, crushing one European state after the other. The United States finally intervened and were drawn into an alternate version of World War 2, which became to be known as the „Great War“ and prooved ultimately more costly in both men and material than the rl World War 2. Meanwhile, though the European scenario of World War 2 did not take place as we know it, the Japanese, having negiotiated a non-agression pact with the Soviet Union, launch an attack on the United States base in Pearl Harbour, leading to the Pacific War much like in our world. Though the United states managed to defeat Japan, they were deadlocked in Europe, and a perpetual war between the United States and the Soviet Union began, in which fancy and completely fantastic technology was used, including a time machine and teleported technology on behalf of the Allies and mind-control and dimensional portal technology by the Soviets, which turned much of Europe and, though this is never clearly specified, only hinted, Southeas Asia into a devastated warzone, much like the Thirty-years war in Europe. Meanwhile, the Zion Cooperative, which has created a megacorp known as Zion Cooperation, originially an oil corporation operating in Arabia, which was pretty much spared from the war, along with Africa, became the Allies most important arms and fuel supplier, both vital to their war efforts, and operates in all Allied territories to further its influence for the foundation of a Zionist State and also, due to the technology from the future, is the core of the United States technologic advantages and also turns into a shadow government that puts increasing influence on the United States.

The second point of divergence occurs in the late 90's of the 20th century: A meteorite carrying a mutagene, self-replicating crystaline element crashes into earth, into the city of Philadelphia on the American east coast, to be more precise. Subsequent meteor storms impact all over earth, and it becomes obvious that these are not natural, but rather an alien invasion or at least its precursor. However, this happens at the very end of the novel and is the final reason that the perpetual war is finally laid to rest, seemingly giving an end to the novel, but with an uneasy touch of tension to it. However, the novel ends at exactly that point were Crystal Fantasy takes off.

The true meaning of „The Lamb“ can only understood in context with Crystal Fantasy, were the „Messiah“, traditionally depicted as a lamb, comes from Philadelphia to settle the final battle in Los Angeles. Also, the alien crystaline substance is then put into a biblical context and related to Lilith.

The Man in the High Castle

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Within The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, there is a popular novel called The Man in the High Castle, a novel within a novel. This book exists in real life. It was written by Phillip K. Dick and describes a world were Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won World War 2. Within this book itself, another novel exists, which is called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.