ISOT Several Queens/Empresses/etc to the Present:

[danielb1]

WI the following female rulers are ISOTted, let's say from the height of their rule, to the present day (2006). They all arrive, together, at 9:00 AM EST, just outside the UN building in New York, with no modern knowledge but the ASBs implant language-chips in their brains (that mysteriously don't set off metal detectors but can be discovered by modern medicine). They suddenly appear in a large flash of blue smoke, in their full imperial regalia, making it hard for them to be denounced as insane nuts.

Queen Elizabeth I of England
Empress (Tsarina?) Catherine II "The Great" of Russia
Cleopatra VII of Egypt
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
Empress Wu of China (Dowager Empress Cixi was booked for an ISOT to Imperial Rome :p)
Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire
Queen Mary I of Scotland

Now, Elizabeth and Mary recognize each other, as do (I guess) Catherine and Maria Theresa.

What hilarious hijinks happen next? Are they regarded as UFOs, freaks with excellent special effects, or do all the commuters watching go 'wow, those ASBs sure have a lot of time on their hands' :p? Do they try to take over their various countries? Does Queen Elizabeth I meet Queen Elizabeth II? Do they decide to make a killing on the talk-show circuit?

[Count Dearborn]

They all end up in various insane asyulums.

[danielb1]

They all end up in various insane asyulums.

Does everyone who see the large, dramatic puff of smoke, with a bunch of middle-aged women in weird costumes suddenly appearing right in front of the UN building at 9 AM during rush hour also end up in an insane asylum?

[Nekromans]

Queen Elizabeth immediately places the blame on Mary Queen of Scots, before getting run over by a sort of electric horse thingy. She's taken to hospital, where she is found dead. She's then taken to a better hospital, where she is found alive. She demands to be taken back to England, and a very confused British Ambassador accepts, taking Mary as well.

Catherine the Great discovers heroin, and becomes a junkie. She later mugs Theresa for drug money, but is prevented by a well-placed kick to the head from Cleo.

Wu steals a rocket launcher, after forcing her way into an army barracks, and becomes a one-empress reign of terror.

Irene starts up a grocery store.

[danielb1]

Queen Elizabeth immediately places the blame on Mary Queen of Scots, before getting run over by a sort of electric horse thingy. She's taken to hospital, where she is found dead. She's then taken to a better hospital, where she is found alive. She demands to be taken back to England, and a very confused British Ambassador accepts, taking Mary as well.

Catherine the Great discovers heroin, and becomes a junkie. She later mugs Theresa for drug money, but is prevented by a well-placed kick to the head from Cleo.

Wu steals a rocket launcher, after forcing her way into an army barracks, and becomes a one-empress reign of terror.

Irene starts up a grocery store.

I still say the talk-show circuit is more likely :p.

If people begin to believe their stories, they'll have huge amounts of 'star power'.... They'll probably all get a ton of letters begging for their hands in marriage or at least a night on the town (Catherine might actually accept some of the offers :p). Book deals and interviews with historians will guarantee a fresh flow of cash! They could also become motivational speakers. After all, they managed to rule nations way back when most women were under the heel, 'democracy' was considered a weird thing Athenians did, and news traveled on steamship.

Can you imagine the interview questions... 'Queen Elizabeth, did you really have to draw-and-quarter such-and-such'... 'Empress Catherine, can you comment on the account of serfdom in Russia during your reign?'.... 'Empress Maria Theresa, who was cuter: Fredrick the Great or King George III?' :D

And why does Irene do something as pedestrian as starting up a grocery store anyway? She's Basileus of the Romans, after all, or used to be, never mind that her capital is now neither Christian nor a capital. Plus, she's supposed to have been fairly ruthless*, even killing her own son. Wouldn't she try and do something like marry one of Queen Elizabeth's grandsons, try to claim the throne of Greece/Turkey/Lebanon/wherever, or talk about life in 8th century Constantinople with historians?

*the 'ruthless' bit is why I would NOT want to marry these ladies. Also, most of them (except Wu, and maybe either Irene, Cleopatra, or Mary as I don't know about them on this) are fairly anti-semitic, and the Ptolemies were a bunch of inbred hicks.

[Nekromans]

Irene sounds like a Grocery-Store kinda name... Maybe a Greek Restaurant, although she's more likely to lead a coup d'etat now I think about it.

[Max Sinister]

Cleopatra could become an actress if she's as beautiful as people wrote about her.

[htgriffin]

Cleopatra could become an actress if she's so beatiful as people wrote about her.
She was not by a long shot.

That being said, she was a rather sharp sort... indeed they all were.

Big business anyone?

HTG

[Mike Stearns]

Catherine the Great discovers heroin, and becomes a junkie. She later mugs Theresa for drug money, but is prevented by a well-placed kick to the head from Cleo.


She also discovers the internet and becomes a porn star. :p

[Nekromans]

:eek: :eek: :eek: Catherine the Great... a po - no. No, no, no. That's worse than the "not a brain switch, but..." topic, which you will find me throwing up in.

[danielb1]

:eek: :eek: :eek: Catherine the Great... a po - no. No, no, no. That's worse than the "not a brain switch, but..." topic, which you will find me throwing up in.

She was actually kinda cute when she was like 20... the problem is, she continued to have a series of lovers well into her 80s... :p:rolleyes:

[Nekromans]

Euuurrrrgghhh... It sickens me to think about it.

[Mike Stearns]

She was actually kinda cute when she was like 20... the problem is, she continued to have a series of lovers well into her 80s... :p:rolleyes:

She was known for her..........appetites and is rumor to have pleasuring a horse.:eek:

[danielb1]

Bumping my first thread to get a lot of replies..... now you can all discuss Catherine the Great's new career in hentai! :D:p;):eek:

[sunsurf]

I'm not sure if Irene was as smart as the others?

She goes to Constantinople expecting to take over the government, is discombobulated by what she sees, somebody tells her she can wrestle the current prime minister for his job...the wrestling match is broadcast on Turkish pay-per-view, although the person she's wrestling isn't really the Prime Minister... the broadcast is so popular she becomes a big wrestling star and gets lots of money and attention which is what she wanted anyway...
is that too far-fetched?

Cleopatra starts her own movie production company.

Catherine goes to Moscow and tries to bring back the monarchy and does some smart things but probably gets killed by Putin's henchmen, or she narrowly escapes to Rome and makes it big in Italian cinema...?

[mattep74]

WI the following female rulers are ISOTted, let's say from the height of their rule, to the present day (2006). They all arrive, together, at 9:00 AM EST, just outside the UN building in New York, with no modern knowledge but the ASBs implant language-chips in their brains (that mysteriously don't set off metal detectors but can be discovered by modern medicine). They suddenly appear in a large flash of blue smoke, in their full imperial regalia, making it hard for them to be denounced as insane nuts.

Queen Elizabeth I of England
Empress (Tsarina?) Catherine II "The Great" of Russia
Cleopatra VII of Egypt
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
Empress Wu of China (Dowager Empress Cixi was booked for an ISOT to Imperial Rome :p)
Empress Irene of the Byzantine Empire
Queen Mary I of Scotland

Now, Elizabeth and Mary recognize each other, as do (I guess) Catherine and Maria Theresa.

What hilarious hijinks happen next? Are they regarded as UFOs, freaks with excellent special effects, or do all the commuters watching go 'wow, those ASBs sure have a lot of time on their hands' :p? Do they try to take over their various countries? Does Queen Elizabeth I meet Queen Elizabeth II? Do they decide to make a killing on the talk-show circuit?

Queen Elisabeth I go to England and faces E II with the words "What have you done with my country?"

Mary I go to Scotland and joins the separatistmovement that is boosted.

Empress (Tsarina?) Catherine II "The Great" go to Russia and talk to Putin about current events and to show he is a big democrat he allows her to start her own party, with his supporters:D

Cleopatra goes to Egypt and tries to ralley the people to join her cause and make Egypt strong again. I think muslem extremists might not like her.;)

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria travels to austria and asks the goverment why AUstria isnt a world power

Empress Wu of China joins the communist party and makes money by writing history books

Emperess Irene travels to Rome and asks for a holy war to reclaim Contantinople from the heden people that run it.

I think they all will find life a bit hard since the values they had are just a bit obsolete in the modern world....or are they:D