Titanic Sails On: A Collaborative ATL

Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

On the show Supernatural (CW-TV), a demon basically called on the Winchester brothers to prevent the sinking of the Titanic, because he absolutely hated the music of Celine Dion. In the process, the ATL created a world where c.50,000 were born who didn't exist in OTL, Cuba is still a popular American vacation spot...

In other ATLs, the sinking of the Titanic has even caused the United States to lose WWII and get divided between the Axis powers. As such, your challenge is to create PODs for the ATL from April 16th, 1912 until April 16th, 2012...

April 16th, 1912:
Amidst much fanfare and press hype, the RMS Titanic arrives in New York City, New York
 

President Al Bundy

Banned
May 1st, 1912
Seeing the success of the Titanic, the German Empire decides to build their own luxury cruise ship. The "HMS Bismarck" is planned to drive on the route from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro from 1915 on.
 

Bahamut-255

Adûnakhôr said:
why is it April 16th? the titanic sank on the 14th.
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OOC: This is ATL. Specifically one where the RMS Titanic doesn't sink. Either by the Iceberg being somewhere else, or if the Lookouts had the binoculars and were able to see it in time. Or possibly by having First Officer Murdoch shut down the outer propellers while keeping the centre Turbine Propeller spinning to maintain steering capability, allowing the collision to become a Near-Miss.

IC: May, 3rd 1912. Upon Titanic's return to the UK, Captain Edward J. Smith officially retires from service.
 

Bahamut-255

Adûnakhôr said:
then isn't that the POD, it hits an iceberg, but still keeps going. It doesn't sink. Regardless of it being an ATL, April 14 1912 should be the POD
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OOC: Based on the OP, I'd say Titanic never hit the Iceberg at all. And made it to New York City without - major - incident.
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

Bahamut-255 said:
OOC: Based on the OP, I'd say Titanic never hit the Iceberg at all. And made it to New York City without - major - incident.
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Well, the POD is for April 14, 1912, but any newsworthy POD to come out of the ATL would have first been made with the arrival of the ship in New York City... Regardless of the method whereby the ship survives, Titanic arrives on time and ahead of schedule...
 
pieman97405

pieman97405

May 10th, 1912. William Howard Taft suffers a minor heart attack, prompting him to drop out of the presidential race.
 

RandomChance

August 14th, 1912 - Col. John Jacob Astor, 47, and his wife Madelaine, 19, celebrate the birth of their son John. They were, of course, the subject of much disapproval amongst the high society gossips in New York.

Col. Astor was later to provide support for the pro-intervention element in 1914 following the sinking of the Lusitania.
 
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Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

RandomChance said:
Col. John Jacob Astor, 47, and his wife Madelaine, 19, celebrate the birth of their son John. They were, of course, the subject of much disapproval amongst the high society gossips in New York.

Col. Astor was later to provide support for the pro-intervention element in 1914 following the sinking of the Lusitania.
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Looks good, but definitely add a date to the POD...
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

Should we have Theodore Roosevelt win the Republican Party nomination for 1912? If anything, we all know that Teddy Roosevelt is a major trope of these ATLs...
 

Nerdlinger

Mr_ Bondoc said:
On the show Supernatural (CW-TV), a demon basically called on the Winchester brothers to prevent the sinking of the Titanic, because he absolutely hated the music of Celine Dion. In the process, the ATL created a world where c.50,000 were born who didn't exist in OTL, Cuba is still a popular American vacation spot...
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Wouldn't it have been simpler for the demon to kill off Celine Dion?
 
A.M. Turtle

A.M. Turtle

November 5th 1912: An mad anarchist inspired by the exploits of Guy Fawkes shoots former president Theodore Roosevelt in the face killing him. Upon being grabbed by Roosevelt's guards the assassin named Guy Francis screamed, "I've saved the Republic!" over and over.
 

Color-Copycat

November 6th, 1912. While docked in its berth in Southampton harbor, the RMS Titanic is set ablaze by an explosion from a neighboring merchantman loaded with a cargo hold full of nitrate based fertilizers. Attempts to put out the conflagration are to no avail, and the ocean liner sinks in its berth. Only thirty six men, all of them crewmen working on refitting maintenance on the Titanic are killed in the incident, but the sudden shock of the event causes White Star Line shares to go tumbling on the publicly traded stock exchanges. Cunard, White Star's main competitor, seizes on the opportunity to launch a smear campaign, and by the end of the decade, it has come to exceed White Star in its percentage of the Trans-Atlantic shipping market.
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

DJC said:
Wouldn't it have been simpler for the demon to kill off Celine Dion?
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Yes, but as seen by the series Supernatural (CW-TV), it was a convenient excuse to get the Winchester brothers to be responsible for a major twist in the space-time continuum.
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

A.M. Turtle said:
November 5th 1912: An mad anarchist inspired by the exploits of Guy Fawkes shoots former president Theodore Roosevelt in the face killing him. Upon being grabbed by Roosevelt's guards the assassin named Guy Francis screamed, "I've saved the Republic!" over and over.
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Based on this POD, do we have any idea who the Vice-Presidential nominee was for Theodore Roosevelt?
 

RyuDrago

November 6th, 1912: Taking advantage from the tragedy of the Titanic, German count Ferdinand von Zeppelin announced that his airships will be more reliable of a transatlantic and he bet before 10 years from now his company will manage to construct one not only capable to cross the Ocean but also to have the same luxury standards of the Titanic.
 
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