Talk:All United and Assembled

Three adaptations

There are three different adaptations of the novel:

¤ the original Balak one from 1939, following historical events largely accurately (or, at the time of writing, current events), anti-imperialist in tone and suppressed in the Balak empire, predicting a total conquest and destruction of the island by Balak forces (turned into a 1973 Balak movie and a Kuulist-era cartoon series)

¤ the second Jutean one from 1959, shortly after the de facto end of Balak Numudu, now using a different timeline (still mostly based on historical events) that now does not end in defeat for the islanders, but rather a defeat of the colonizers with a more hopeful tone for the future and reworked, less stereotypical Jutean characters

¤ the 1991 Gfiewish TV series, using "All United And Assembled" as a name, going completely into the realm of fantasy, featuring the Balak Empire building up Jute after a conquest as a major force in the form of the "Jutean Marine Empire" to act in their geopolitical and military interests, originally to stop the all-too frequent Jutean pirate raids near Balak Numudu. However, owing to its origins, it became quickly characterized by militant, expansionist, even imperialist anarchism that seeks to overthrow governments and abolish state structures worldwide and ends up becoming powerful enough to be able to overthrow its own overlord. (Also turned into a novel in 1995, using the same name, both becoming a pop culture sensation in Jute and parts of Ystel)

→ The first version ended up being mostly forgotten in Jute in the modern day, the second and third adaptation however remain among the most well known works of fiction and fundamental part of the cultural consciousness, especially in Jute. As a result, the second one is being regarded as the "true" and "original" variant.

"My headcanon is that it's kinda like when people in ye olden days wrote basically fanfic about King Arthur, continuing or reinterpreting his stories"

Other uses of the title

¤ The "All United and Assembled" name and concept would later become a pro-statist trope and slogan despite its depiction as anarchist expansionism