"As for the difficult topic of nationality, it only seems logical that we fully implement National personal autonomy, and organize nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons as to secure our state against nationalism and other reactionary tendencies."
-Private correspondence of a member of the Banatian People's council
“I must study the art of piracy so that my sons may have the liberty to study the Quran and statescraft”
― Raïs Yahya View attachment 839432 Yahya ben Yahya, known as Raïs Yahya (born John Adams) was an Algerian corsair and Ottoman naval officer of North American descent. Yahya was born in Massachusetts, British America, in 1735 to a man named John. Adams rose to prominence as a lawyer. In 1776, Adams participated in a rebellion against British rule, signing a secessionist declaration and becoming one of the main rebel leaders. In 1778, the rebels sent Adams and his son John Quincy on a mission to France to obtain support for the rebel cause. However, the ship carrying the rebels was captured by Algerian pirates, who took Adams to Algiers, where he and his son became slaves. Upon his emancipation in 1795, Adams was forced to remain in Algiers due to being declared an outlaw by the British following the failure of the American rebellion. Adams subsequently converted to Islam and adopted the name Yahya ben Yahya. Unable to leave Algiers, Yahya entered the service of the Dey of Algiers as a corsair. Yahya proved to be a successful corsair, capturing to 200 ships during his naval career. Earning his fame throughout the Mediterranean with his exploits in the Barbary Wars, Yahya was invited to enter the service of the Sublime Porte as a naval officer. Yahya and his son moved to Constantinople, where he became a naval officer, eventually rising to the rank of admiral. Yahya remained in the active service of the Sultan until his death in 1826.
“May the deeds of His Imperial Majesty always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always righteous.”
― Yahya Mehmed Pasha View attachment 839433 Yahya Mehmed Pasha was a British American-born Ottoman diplomat and statesman. Born John Quincy Adams in Massachusetts Bay, British America in 1767, he was the son of the lawyer and future rebel leader John Adams. John Quincy Adams accompanied his father on a mission to France in 1778, which was intercepted by Algerian pirates.
Adams was a slave in Algiers until his emancipation in 1795, upon which he converted to Islam along with his father and adopted the name Yahya. He entered the diplomatic service of the Dey of Algiers, rising to become its representative in the Sublime Porte in 1803, where he convinced the Grand Vizier to allow him and his father to enter the service of the Ottoman Empire. Yahya rose to become the first foreign minister of the Porte in 1809, adopting the name Yahya Mehmed and the honorific Pasha. In 1824, the reformist Suktan Mahmud II appointed him Grand Vizier. During his tenure, Yahya Mehmed Pasha sought to modernise the Ottoman Empire, supporting the Sultan's reformist measures. After leaving office in 1829, Yahya Mehmed Pasha remained an important advisor of the Sultan until his death in 1848.
Yeah it's weird (especially since both Thread 6 and 7 have been on tandem with each other for over a month now). Once this thread hits 500 pages, the admins will lock and we'll officially be fully moved over to Thread 7.
Yeah it's weird (especially since both Thread 6 and 7 have been on tandem with each other for over a month now). Once this thread hits 500 pages, the admins will lock and we'll officially be fully moved over to Thread 7.
People should stop creating new threads so early. It's unnecessary when the threads don't have dozens of new posts every day like the old threads from 2016-17. Completely pointless to make new threads early just to be the one who can say "first!" If we weren't splitting content across two threads, this one would have finished normally and the new one could have all the posts now.
People should stop creating new threads so early. It's unnecessary when the threads don't have dozens of new posts every day like the old threads from 2016-17. Completely pointless to make new threads early just to be the one who can say "first!" If we weren't splitting content across two threads, this one would have finished normally and the new one could have all the posts now.
With the existing thread on 490 pages started by @CTTeller in the year that was 2020 and fast approaching the magical 500, here is part VII. Every Wikipedia on a war or battle has the belligerents, date, outcome, etc. in an info box on the top-right corner of the page, and most people pages...
"As for the difficult topic of nationality, it only seems logical that we fully implement National personal autonomy, and organize nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons as to secure our state against nationalism and other reactionary tendencies."
-Private correspondence of a member of the Banatian People's council
I just learned the the final King of Greece Constantine II died a few months ago. After hearing about that, I decided to make two infoboxes that are if Greece never abolished its monarchy and Constantine II remained on the throne until his death back in January and after that, his son Pavlos (now Paul II) becomes the new king.
I just learned the the final King of Greece Constantine II died a few months ago. After hearing about that, I decided to make two infoboxes that are if Greece never abolished its monarchy and Constantine II remained on the throne until his death back in January and after that, his son Pavlos becomes the new king.
The Time Baby
The domain of time has been traditionally most closely associated with Yog-Sothoth. Yog-Sothoth, an Outer God, indeed embodies time itself. Yog-Sothoth is responsible for the very existence of time and also serves as the gate to halting, reversing or otherwise traversing it. The otherwise largely-distant god will from time to time select random individuals to pause time with a television remote or rewind to undo past mistakes. Yog-Sothoth blessed one of the earliest races to emerge, the Gallifreyans, with the key to temporal travel, paving the way for them to become the Time Lords. For a long time, it was they who took responsibility for maintaining order in a singular timeline, seeking to resolve paradoxes to prevent chronovores or langoliers from devouring existence. This enabled them to prosper and shape the universe by seeding it with the dominant humanoid form thanks to the efforts of a trio of female Time Giants (a subcategory of Time Lords capable of altering their size at will). However, ultimately their efforts would end with the Time War, a great conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks of Skaro. The Time War threatened to unmake reality as countless paradoxes emerged, various horrors manifested and even the Time Lords themselves temporarily became known as the Great Houses. In the end, Gallifrey was timelocked successfully.
However, this threatened to ensure the collapse of time. Yog-Sothoth, being a god, was able to perceive how inevitably the existence of myriad time travelers who were not as cautious as the Time Lords could trigger too many paradoxes and obliterate the timeline. As a result, Yog-Sothoth would emanate a newer form in the form of the Time Baby. The Time Baby was technically the second offspring of Yog-Sothoth–the first, the Nightmare Child, had been accidentally birthed by the chaos of the Time War. The Time Baby, on the other hand, was purposefully created by his father (with the help of one of the aforementioned Time Giants, the last of the three before her death) with a simple goal in mind: to achieve temporal stability. The Time Baby, existing within the very flow of time, spent eons pondering how to achieve this task. He made contact with numerous beings who had attained or existed in higher states of existence, including the Ellimist, the Buddha, Death the Horseman, Bhelliom and the Soul King in a bid to determine how to fulfill his purpose. In the end, the Time Baby determined that he could not single-handedly maintain the timeline and would instead have to create groups that could do so.
The TIme Baby’s first organization created to maintain the timeline was the creation of the Time Cops. This group had a dogmatic approach to time travel–namely that it was not ever used legitimately and must be quashed. The Time Cops sought to pursue any and all time travelers and stop them from traveling through time on the supposed basis it would unravel reality. However, the Time Baby was forced to abandon this plan owing to the sheer volume of time travelers. The Time Baby also realized time was a lot more fluid than previously envisioned. As an experiment, the Time Baby would set up a second organization: the Time Variance Authority. The TVA was designed to have a cyclical organizational timeline, originating at the end of time with the actions of its last leader. The Time Baby was surprised to see it worked generally well and from there would set up a number of other organizations to maintain the timeline. The Time Squad, Tenet, the Menders of Ouroboros, the History Monks, the Chronoguard, the Time Patrol and the Commission were all subsequently set up by the Time Baby to keep time operating within expected parameters. The Time Baby also sought to work with existent institutions to set up other temporal monitoring groups–the Temporal Prime Directive being established within the United Federation of Planets for instance. The Time Baby ultimately would build a network of organizations spanning nearly the totality of history, across a myriad of different species and planets.
The Time Baby’s network would be forced to confront many different threats. One of the first in an independent chronology would be the Great Race of Yith, who were not bound by linear time and could jump around history to stave off extinction. The Yith would first come to the attention of the Time Baby when they sought to overtake humanity in the latter Hyborean Age, in an incident that later became the basis of the apocryphal Book of Enoch. The Time Baby viewed the Yith’s efforts to escape extinction as a threat to the overall integrity of the timeline and his agents would clash with them until the Yith were able to satisfy the TIme Baby by relegating their jump to a species of intelligent beetle in Earth’s far-off future. Another concern for the Time Baby was the chaos surrounding the city of Chronopolis, a research facility sent back in time by an experiment. Chronopolis was accompanied in its travels by an alternate dimensional counterpart from a more negative future, though this center was subdued and a singular timeline able to be established. Disruptions in Chronopolis would threaten to destabilize this arrangement, forcing the intervention of the TVA to prune the timeline and maintain a singular flow of events. The TIme Baby would also have to send operatives to intervene during the Philadelphia Experiment incident that occurred due to time travel between 1943 and 1984, buying enough time for the individuals impacted directly to halt an apocalyptic paradox. The Time Baby also sought to recruit a number of time travelers into his organizations, especially favoring those who began traversing time as children such as Jodie Arthur, Jack and Annie Smith and Baron Wilhelm Heinrich von Troomp.
At one point, the Time Baby subtly influenced the reality bender Haruhi Suzumiya’s powers to block all time travel from prior to the advent of her powers in a bid to manage later points of history more clearly. This effort was carried out to deal with a number of later-era would-be temporal conquerors. Kang the Conqueror of the 3rd millennium AD was the most notable of these. Kang had a number of forces operating on his behalf as well, such as the Black Moon Clan, the Metal Men and the Expanoids who Kang relied on after earlier attempts at direct conquest were foiled by the Avengers. The Time Baby permitted the Chronoguard to give the Legion of Super-Heroes of that era the ability to call upon earlier heroes in the Justice League to aid them in fighting and ultimately overthrowing Kang. This was not the only would-be conqueror the Time Baby had to thwart, however. The Committee of 300, helmed by the potential Antichrist Damien Thorn, sought to use its SERN front organization to take over the world via the use of time travel. Thorn’s efforts briefly allowed for the timeline to be overwritten with one where he reigned for a thousand years before being defeated by a time-traveling samurai. The Time Baby was unable to directly prevent these efforts, but via subtle manipulations of individuals was able to relegate that timeline to an alternate ‘mirror dimension’ while allowing the original flow of history to be maintained. The Time Baby allowed pre-1990’s time travel to resume once Thorn’s efforts were defeated.
While generally successful in maintaining an overall flow of time, the Time Baby’s place in the cosmic hierarchy has not gone unquestioned. Despite being the spawn of Yog-Sothoth, the Time Baby faltered before Bill Cipher, an avatar of Nyarlathotep originating in the parallel domain of Flatland. The Time Baby has also failed to draw the sort of religious following one would expect of even a minor deity like Om. On the other hand, the Time Baby’s eventual mastery of the subtle flow of time is undeniable and even while failing to defeat Cipher, managed to withstand his attack despite it all but annihilating the Time Squad. The forces he empowered have also had considerable success going up against beings of extraordinary power and triumphing. Even figures like Rick Sanchez or Stephen Strange, who have abilities far exceeding most, have often been forced to bow to the will of the Time Baby’s enforcers.
Gravity Falls, Cthulhu Mythos, Doctor Who, A Wrinkle in Time, Faction Paradox, Animorphs, Buddhist Legend, Supernatural, Sparhawk, Bleach, Timecop, Marvel Comics, Time Squad, Tenet, City of Heroes, Discworld, Thursday Next, Dragon Ball Z, The Umbrella Academy, Star Trek, Conan the Barbarian, The Wanderings of Alhazred, Chrono Trigger, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Magic Tree House, Time Warp Trio, Baron Trump Novels, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sailor Moon, Gandahar, Red Dwarf, DC Comics, Science Adventure Series (Steins;Gate), The Omen, A Fictional History of the United States, Samurai Jack, Rick and Morty
Finishing this thread off - Sleepwalking Into Nightmares
The far-right is rising in Europe. Decades of ruthless neo-liberalism from all major parties have worn the people down to the bone. People are tired of nothing ever getting better, life just getting worse and worse as politicians promise reform that never comes, a complete and utter lack of hope. If no one else is willing to offer meaningful change, then the far-right will. And when they do, once they get back into power, Pandora’s box will be open, and maybe we’ll all realise that we’ve simply been Sleepwalking Into Nightmares.
