As Richard IV is otherwise engaged I have created the voting poll for Flag Challenge 91:
IMPERIUM
I’ve enjoyed Keith Laumer’s ‘Imperium’ books. As at present I am bereft of ideas for a challenge, I’m taking the easy way out and asking for a design of a flag for the Imperium – at any date from 1900 to the present.
If you’re not familiar with these books, you can get the general idea from various reviews on the internet.
Your version of the Imperium doesn’t have to be exactly as in the books (we are after all on an Alternate History site!) but should follow the main premise – a union of Germany, the UK and some Nordic/Teutonic nations etc. (feel free to add/remove a few nations).
Some Background
FromWikipedia:
Books set in the Imperium mythos: a continuum of parallel worlds policed by the Imperium, a government based in an alternate Stockholm. In the science fiction novel Worlds of the Imperium, the Imperium is formed in an alternate history where the American Revolution did not occur, and the British Empire and Germany merged into a unified empire in 1900. The protagonist, American diplomat Brion Bayard, is kidnapped by the Imperium because the Brion Bayard in a third parallel Earth is waging war against his abductors. Further adventures follow after Bayard decides to remain in the service of the Imperium.
While from Scifidimensions [http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug05/imperium.htm] In Imperium we have three good-humored journeys across the nested parallel worlds, jumping off from a universe where World War I never occurred, where the British, German and Swedish royal houses threw in together, and instead of boasting an Edison and a Marconi, they had a Maxoni and a Cocini who found that running current through wire wound up Moebius-fashion would lift them out of their universe with all the ease of a Wright flyer taking wing, but with ever more grievous dangers.
Laumer’s hero Brion Bayard is a rapscallion American diplomat spirited away from the streets of Stockholm. Why and to where is the crux of the story as we travel to a gas-lit gilded world where 19th century pomp, polished brass, and imperial hubris never went out of style, and the Russian revolution was a no-show. This is the world of the Imperium.
These two extracts from the first book in the series may be of help:
(1)
“The acquisition of the Maxoni papers placed a different complexion on the situation. Rightfully feeling that they now had a considerably more favorable position from which to negotiate, the British suggested an amalgamation of the two empires into the present Anglo-Germanic Imperium, with the House of Hanover-Windsor occupying the Imperial throne. Sweden signed the Concord shortly thereafter, and after resolution of a number of differences in detail, the Imperium came into being on January 1, 1900.”
(2)
“London Zero Zero is the capital of the Imperium, comprising the major portion of the civilized world; North Europe, West Hemisphere, Australia, etc.”
As one character is amused at the mention of an American republic existing in OTL perhaps the POD was pre 1776 and not 1801 or 1815 as I have seen mentioned in reviews
IMPERIUM
I’ve enjoyed Keith Laumer’s ‘Imperium’ books. As at present I am bereft of ideas for a challenge, I’m taking the easy way out and asking for a design of a flag for the Imperium – at any date from 1900 to the present.
If you’re not familiar with these books, you can get the general idea from various reviews on the internet.
Your version of the Imperium doesn’t have to be exactly as in the books (we are after all on an Alternate History site!) but should follow the main premise – a union of Germany, the UK and some Nordic/Teutonic nations etc. (feel free to add/remove a few nations).
Some Background
FromWikipedia:
Books set in the Imperium mythos: a continuum of parallel worlds policed by the Imperium, a government based in an alternate Stockholm. In the science fiction novel Worlds of the Imperium, the Imperium is formed in an alternate history where the American Revolution did not occur, and the British Empire and Germany merged into a unified empire in 1900. The protagonist, American diplomat Brion Bayard, is kidnapped by the Imperium because the Brion Bayard in a third parallel Earth is waging war against his abductors. Further adventures follow after Bayard decides to remain in the service of the Imperium.
While from Scifidimensions [http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug05/imperium.htm] In Imperium we have three good-humored journeys across the nested parallel worlds, jumping off from a universe where World War I never occurred, where the British, German and Swedish royal houses threw in together, and instead of boasting an Edison and a Marconi, they had a Maxoni and a Cocini who found that running current through wire wound up Moebius-fashion would lift them out of their universe with all the ease of a Wright flyer taking wing, but with ever more grievous dangers.
Laumer’s hero Brion Bayard is a rapscallion American diplomat spirited away from the streets of Stockholm. Why and to where is the crux of the story as we travel to a gas-lit gilded world where 19th century pomp, polished brass, and imperial hubris never went out of style, and the Russian revolution was a no-show. This is the world of the Imperium.
These two extracts from the first book in the series may be of help:
(1)
“The acquisition of the Maxoni papers placed a different complexion on the situation. Rightfully feeling that they now had a considerably more favorable position from which to negotiate, the British suggested an amalgamation of the two empires into the present Anglo-Germanic Imperium, with the House of Hanover-Windsor occupying the Imperial throne. Sweden signed the Concord shortly thereafter, and after resolution of a number of differences in detail, the Imperium came into being on January 1, 1900.”
(2)
“London Zero Zero is the capital of the Imperium, comprising the major portion of the civilized world; North Europe, West Hemisphere, Australia, etc.”
As one character is amused at the mention of an American republic existing in OTL perhaps the POD was pre 1776 and not 1801 or 1815 as I have seen mentioned in reviews
