Suppose the U.S. is overcome by an alliance of Euro powers (rather by a super spiderrobot as in the movie), and they divvy up the states amongst themselves as in the movie (and in the insufferable Empires Earth TL on AHTG). Could the following scenario happen?
"Great Britain gets back the thirteen original colonies...minus Manhattan. Florida and the Fountain of Youth go back to Spain! Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona revolve a Mexico! The Louisiana Purchase reverts back to the King of France! And a tiny piece for me to retire on..."
- Dr. Loveless, to representatives of the above-named foreign powers
I read the script for the film. I'm not sure if it's elaborated in the movie itself, but the Native American fellow who appears with braids in a suit is a representative, and his people get Manhattan. Presumably he's an Iroquois. Personally, I would have created a buffer state for the Five Nations between Lousiana, Mexico, and Spanish Florida. Plains Indians? Let 'em live in Canada, which gets the upper tier of Washington territory. Maybe Russia gets a piece of California. But that should be the limit of Euro powers who were involved in the U.S. I hated it in Empires-Earth when Germany got California "because the immigrants requested aid." That TL has a too-casual dismembly of North America, South America, and the democratic world. Finally, China should get San Francisco, maybe as a freeport to the Western powers.
Maybe this belongs in the ASB forum.
"Great Britain gets back the thirteen original colonies...minus Manhattan. Florida and the Fountain of Youth go back to Spain! Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona revolve a Mexico! The Louisiana Purchase reverts back to the King of France! And a tiny piece for me to retire on..."
- Dr. Loveless, to representatives of the above-named foreign powers
I read the script for the film. I'm not sure if it's elaborated in the movie itself, but the Native American fellow who appears with braids in a suit is a representative, and his people get Manhattan. Presumably he's an Iroquois. Personally, I would have created a buffer state for the Five Nations between Lousiana, Mexico, and Spanish Florida. Plains Indians? Let 'em live in Canada, which gets the upper tier of Washington territory. Maybe Russia gets a piece of California. But that should be the limit of Euro powers who were involved in the U.S. I hated it in Empires-Earth when Germany got California "because the immigrants requested aid." That TL has a too-casual dismembly of North America, South America, and the democratic world. Finally, China should get San Francisco, maybe as a freeport to the Western powers.
Maybe this belongs in the ASB forum.