The Brazillian Job
The Empire continues its South American liberation from the non-tea drinking partisans that enslave its people and force them to drink...erm...other things, and not have tiffin! Sir Bindon Blood marches east to the Atlantic through our newest nemesis Brazil!
Brazil is a tough nut to crack, but Sir Blood has a good pair of nut crackers and ample forces to use them, we hope that by 1907/08 the whole of Southern America will have converted to Tea and Tiffin.
Meanwhile back in the jewel of the Empire, dear old Blighty, Cody finally made it to the ground, but has refused to go back up again, so for now he's taking in the sights and sounds of 1900s Birmingham.
Another boffin has come up with the idea of taking our battleships and putting lots and lots of steel and guns on them, when asked if that wouldn't make them sink, he replied 'Well then I have invented the uboat!'
Not expecting much in the way of success, the Admiralty labeled the project 'Dread-0' but there was a communication problem and somehow it got renamed 'Dreadnought', the first vessel in the class HMS London will be commissioned in 1907, and if it floats will be the first in a new series of battleships.
Meanwhile, King Edward
No, not that one:
That's the one. King Edward has impressed upon Whitehall the need for military reforms, so to keep him happy some research into new Battle Doctrines has taken place, when he heard the news it is reported that His Majesty lit up a cigar in celebration, and then another for luck, and then another for the road. According to some sources, his Majesty smokes some twenty cigarettes and twelve cigars a day...
Wait a minute...
SPY SAPPIN MAH MONARCHY!!