A teleportation idea

[Archangel Michael]

I've read Eric's Flint 1632 series (1632, 1633, and The Ring of Fire) and S. M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time series (actually, I'm half way through Island in the Sea of Time). They are interesting ideas (though I like having the town transported to a different potition). So I've come up with my own idea.

In 2004 or '05, the city of Lincoln (population 11,380) and the entire made-up Lincoln Archepeligo off the Maine coast is transported to 117 AD and off the German coast. Lincoln had 4 small airplanes and a small airport, a few sea-worthy yachts, between a dozen and two dozen smaller vessels, and an somewhat along machine-shop.

Within weeks, the city of Lincoln elects someone as their Interim Governing Councilhead and an elected Interim Council. They make contact with the local barbarians and agree to help them. In Egpyt, the Americans begin to help Egyptain nationalists gain Egyptian indepdence. Lincoln and several barbarian groups declare themselves the United States of Europe, and conquer Britian.

My question is, would this city be a little to uberish for the city, and do you think that the city could do this much?

[NapoleonXIV]

It depends, part of what gives the Island series some versimilitude is its recognition of the fact that just being from the future isn't enough, you also have to know something and to have some equipment.

In your case I don't see any chemist or chemical devices. You might be able to make weapons from the machine shop. (or not, quick how do you make a BAR?) but how will you make ammo? You can't use gunpowder in a modern repeating firearm, it fouls it rather quickly. Smokeless powder from guncotton isn't terribly hard to make but the potassium permanganate needed to set it off by percussion is tricky and putting it into the bullets a delicate operation at best.

If you're not going to make repeaters then taking on the Roman Legions of 117 will be problematic. Be sure to use Minie balls in rifles for you're going to need as high a rate of fire at as long a distance as you can muster. Non-repeating firearms alone might put the legions off af first but once they realize what is happening they'll not be afraid of you and set down to figure something out.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Not to mention electricity. If Lincoln doesn't have electrical power, it's not going to be able to do much. If you liked those two books, I'd suggest Stirling's Conquistadors as well. It's that style of book as well, and again, Guns of the South would be another book as well.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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