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I’ve just finished reading Mr Edgar Rice Burroughs’ BEYOND THIRTY and one cannot possibly complain about it’s entertainment value: if nothing else it’s deeply amusing to read this novella with a suspicion that it is (In-universe) pure propaganda written by a rather callow young officer who...

I’m still puzzling out the exact insignia, but I do have a mental image of the New Anglian Confederation uniform, at least - one imagines a combination of Air Force cut and Royal Navy colour scheme & insignia, more or less (It makes more sense for spacers to wear a forage cap than a sailor hat...

Hmmm … that link above showed the right picture, but not the right page: hopefully the following will set that right. Please see here for the full picture AND those links I mentioned.

Small differences can loom very large: just ask the Northern and Southern sections of the United States! (Heck, remember that the US south originally fought to be a part of the United States, unlike the ancestors of the Canadians - and, at least in the 1860s, not the distant ancestors of those...

I really like the addition of that diamond shape: it does help the ‘flow’ of this flag a great deal.

^^ Is it just me or does anyone else get a strong ‘Not Australian but we will absolutely be stealing their Look’ vibe from those stars and that colour scheme? ^^

I wonder what happened to various State Law Enforcement agencies in the FALLOUT timeline: would the State Police from the constituent elements of brand new commonwealths combine forces or would they continue to go their separate ways? For that matter, one can only wonder how long it took to...

Nothing says ‘ALTERNATE HISTORY’ more loudly than Perfidious Albion casting a hungry eye on the Byzantine sphere of influence (and perhaps rolling a few pennies into the treasury of the Grand Turk in order to put a few holes in that aegis) whilst the Eastern Roman Emperor gives Bonaparte exactly...

Given the number of national rivalries alive and kicking after twice that long in our own timeline, one can only call this a rather optimistic assumption (Especially given that Canada appears to have been violently occupied only a decade or so before the Bombs fell). In terms of plot hooks...

Reading about the 'Annexation Bill' of AD 1866 aways makes me wish that, at this point in history, Mark Twain was already in place to write something skewering the impulse to add yet another icebox to the list of United States territories and yet more Americans who had historically expressed a...

Why indeed - Mostly, it must be said, as an intellectual exercise after it struck me that (Unlike the Brotherhood of Nod) the GDI was a conventional military force and would therefore have to keep the pay-books properly organised, which turned my thoughts to the question of appropriate pay...

M. Pasquin, thank you very kindly for pointing this out to me: For the record this line of thought is purely speculative, rather than launched into with modelling in mind (Since my modelling skills are a solid Zero Minus) though one would absolutely love to come up with a design that looks good...

That makes things more difficult, but not entirely impossible (Assuming that these beings reacquire human intelligence, they will likely have human stubbornness and ingenuity to boot): that being said, given the population crash it does seem likely that any emergent culture would not closely...

Don't blame me, blame the fellah who mentioned Wong having a thing with a lady and Emil Blonsky!

I say thee "WHAT?!?" ... I'm not even going to ask if this particular menage's definition of 'Safe Sex' involves asking Emil to avoid getting all Abominable in the bedroom.