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White Mans Burden
militant speaker and civil rights leader George X who a preacher in the Nation Of Christ and White Christian organization helping to end anti white Jerry Crow laws in the south in the Moorland South.
”we didn’t land on Solomon Rock Solomon Rock landed on us”
-George X
He would be killed shortly after due to infighting with the group.
Adolf Adisa who started the back to
europa.militant speaker and civil rights leader George X who a preacher in the Nation Of Christ and White Christian organization helping to end anti white Jerry Crow laws in the south in the Moorland South.
”we didn’t land on Solomon Rock Solomon Rock landed on us”
-George X
He would be killed shortly after due to infighting with the group.
Adolf Adisa who started the back to
photo Maridan civil war which broke out between the descendants of ex NewMoorland Slaves who had colonized after being free and native which they oppressed from (1990-2003)
From the recently created Blue Skies in Camelot Picture Thread:
An American yacht off the coast of the Paracel Islands in the territorial waters of the Republic of Vietnam.
After a series of skirmishes around the Paracels involving the Chinese Navy and the South Vietnamese Navy from 1974 to 1976 — which ended in a definitive South Vietnamese victory, with the People’s Republic of China withdrawing all claims to the group of islands — the islands became outposts for the Republic of Vietnam Navy with some of the islands being used for ordinance training (during the skirmishes the islands’ residents were evacuated by the navy and transferred to the mainland) and have since become completely off limits to civilians.
A satellite image of the Paracel Islands in 2003, still restricted to civilians (top). The South Vietnamese destroyer escort, RVNS Trần Khánh Dư, one of the two destroyers to apprehend the trespassing tourists (centre). ARVN military police waiting on shore to take the Trump party to prison, circa 1980 (bottom).
On May 12, 1980, a group of Americans (led by young businessman Donald John Trump) were boating near one of the Paracels’ islands (ignoring signs in the area that stated they were restricted to the public). When they had gotten too close, at Trump’s insistence despite others in the party getting nervous, two VNN destroyers patrolling the island fired warning shots and then hailed the vessel. The Trump party immediately stopped the vessel and the Americans found themselves placed under arrest by the South Vietnamese Navy and were transferred to the mainland. However, before they started their journey back to mainland South Vietnam, Trump and his companions were 'scared straight' by the South Vietnamese. Once on land, the Americans were handed over to the South Vietnamese Military Police before being imprisoned for five weeks for trespassing on government/military property, after which their bail was paid. It’d be an embarrassing incident between the two longtime allies of the United States and South Vietnam.
Mr. Trump in 1983 (top). Trump talks about his 1980 Paracel experience, circa 1992 (bottom).
In a 1992 interview with CNN, Trump stated that going to the Paracels was one of the biggest mistakes of his life and that if he had the chance to do it again then absolutely he would not do it.
An American yacht off the coast of the Paracel Islands in the territorial waters of the Republic of Vietnam.
A satellite image of the Paracel Islands in 2003, still restricted to civilians (top). The South Vietnamese destroyer escort, RVNS Trần Khánh Dư, one of the two destroyers to apprehend the trespassing tourists (centre). ARVN military police waiting on shore to take the Trump party to prison, circa 1980 (bottom).
On May 12, 1980, a group of Americans (led by young businessman Donald John Trump) were boating near one of the Paracels’ islands (ignoring signs in the area that stated they were restricted to the public). When they had gotten too close, at Trump’s insistence despite others in the party getting nervous, two VNN destroyers patrolling the island fired warning shots and then hailed the vessel. The Trump party immediately stopped the vessel and the Americans found themselves placed under arrest by the South Vietnamese Navy and were transferred to the mainland. However, before they started their journey back to mainland South Vietnam, Trump and his companions were 'scared straight' by the South Vietnamese. Once on land, the Americans were handed over to the South Vietnamese Military Police before being imprisoned for five weeks for trespassing on government/military property, after which their bail was paid. It’d be an embarrassing incident between the two longtime allies of the United States and South Vietnam.
Mr. Trump in 1983 (top). Trump talks about his 1980 Paracel experience, circa 1992 (bottom).
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Man, Trump looks way different in 1983 than I thought he would. And Trump in 1992 really makes the Alternate Biff Tannen comparison clear
Frančeska Marijana Stambolica Brkojević, otherwise known as Frančeska II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Serbia and Northern Kosovo, attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, 2013.
ARMAGEDDON ADVENT: NEWS HEADLINES
The following are just some of the news headlines before the "Armageddon Advent".
Israel and Palestine rocked by terrorist attacks. Reports of yet unidentified terrorists indiscriminately bombing and shooting innocent civilians and military personnel. United States and allies currently blame Islamic terrorist cells.
COUP IN CHINA. Military and revolutionaries under the command of General Bai Yin have taken the capital. Yin is calling for all the cities to rise up against the old regime and to take to the streets.
DOOMSDAY IMMINENT? Televangelist Benjamin Pentecost says so, claiming to have foreseen the coming apocalypse decades ago. As his date for the beginning of end of the world draws near, what does he and his followers think?
HOLY HEALTH SCARE. Pope Pius XIII was said to have had a heart attack recently. With his advanced age and growing number of health scares, is it possible that we may see a new pope by the end of the year?
THE NEW PRIME MINISTER? After the announced resignation, just who is Conservative Nicholas Mathis, the frontrunner for the top job?
VICTORY IN CHINA! General Bai Yin of the Chinese Military, seen above after being sworn into power after the successful coup attempt against the Communist Party. How does the rest of the world feel?
NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL. Thomas Gordon becomes the first American to serve as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The following are just some of the news headlines before the "Armageddon Advent".
Israel and Palestine rocked by terrorist attacks. Reports of yet unidentified terrorists indiscriminately bombing and shooting innocent civilians and military personnel. United States and allies currently blame Islamic terrorist cells.
COUP IN CHINA. Military and revolutionaries under the command of General Bai Yin have taken the capital. Yin is calling for all the cities to rise up against the old regime and to take to the streets.
DOOMSDAY IMMINENT? Televangelist Benjamin Pentecost says so, claiming to have foreseen the coming apocalypse decades ago. As his date for the beginning of end of the world draws near, what does he and his followers think?
HOLY HEALTH SCARE. Pope Pius XIII was said to have had a heart attack recently. With his advanced age and growing number of health scares, is it possible that we may see a new pope by the end of the year?
THE NEW PRIME MINISTER? After the announced resignation, just who is Conservative Nicholas Mathis, the frontrunner for the top job?
VICTORY IN CHINA! General Bai Yin of the Chinese Military, seen above after being sworn into power after the successful coup attempt against the Communist Party. How does the rest of the world feel?
NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL. Thomas Gordon becomes the first American to serve as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
BlackentheBorg
Banned
Secretary of the Treasury Albert Shanker (D-WA) testifying before the house judiciary committee concerning the impeachment of Robert Kennedy (D-NY). Shanker would confirm that Kennedy had pressured Shanker to use his connections in the Labour Rights movement to deter striking action against him a year prior.
(1953) Volkswagen would become an iconic piece of Germanian culture post war, with a large majority of the public owning one, as well as allied countries around the globe, including the United States, the Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Neo Roman Empire and the Union of Fascist, adopting the Volkswagen Beetles.
Among the last films she stared in was the 1955 American/Germanian co-production "The Cause", which would see her co-star as the sister of an idealistic member of the SS, played by American actor James Dean (Seen in the above picture). It would be among James Dean's last films before his disappearance in '56.
Princess Madelina Rosada Luisiana, heir to the throne of the Holy Catholic Kingdom of Sureste, pictured in Belgium, 1902. Madelina would eventually succeed her father Ricardo as Queen of Sureste, ruling with her longtime husband, Carlos Mariano Guitnicano, in 1940, installing an absolute monarchy, suppressing dissent, and cutting off trade with Western nations. Eventually, the couple would be violently overthrown by General Diego Rolfo Sartorio in 1972.
The Boyd-Verse: Part 7
Fr. Jacob Callahan, a Catholic pastor the Diocese of Philadelphia, wrote the Urban Solution. In which he laid out his ideas regarding how the Catholic Church could contribute to the urban renewal efforts of the 1960s. In which he emphasized the need for philanthropy from both the churches of America and America's upper class.
The Pacific Electric cars of the 1930s and 1940s were eventually replaced as the railway became public-owned and upgraded. However, the PE still uses the odler cars on special events or when traffic in the vast LA urban areas are especially crowded, as can be seen with this scene from a rainy July 3, 2006.
When the attempt at converting Amtrak into a JR Group-style system in the 1990s began, the Acela was originally envisioned with this paint scheme. However, this was replaced with a different livery while the silver and deep blue would be used by Amtrak Midwest. The JR-style privatization generally has worked well since, in large part thanks to the urban reneweal that began in 1960s America.
Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 wore the above guise when she tripleheaded with two other engines in the 1957 NRHS Convention. Afterwards, she and 4-8-4 #611 were operated by the N&W on excursions in the general Roanoke area, and sometimes over the Huckleberry branch from Blacksburg to Christiansburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's N&W heritage unit leads a PRR diesel in Tuscan Red, and a black engine seemingly from an industrial line, on the Panhandle near Dayton, OH.
The Indiana Railroad, one of the oldest Class II railroads in the country, operates freight and passenger trains from Ft. Wayne to Evansville via Muncie, Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Vincennes then over the Kentucky border to Paducah. Here is one such example of a standard diesel engine on that railroad, which is painted in the red and white of the Indiana University college system, as it pulls a coal train out of the yard at Bloomington.
Fr. Jacob Callahan, a Catholic pastor the Diocese of Philadelphia, wrote the Urban Solution. In which he laid out his ideas regarding how the Catholic Church could contribute to the urban renewal efforts of the 1960s. In which he emphasized the need for philanthropy from both the churches of America and America's upper class.
The Pacific Electric cars of the 1930s and 1940s were eventually replaced as the railway became public-owned and upgraded. However, the PE still uses the odler cars on special events or when traffic in the vast LA urban areas are especially crowded, as can be seen with this scene from a rainy July 3, 2006.
When the attempt at converting Amtrak into a JR Group-style system in the 1990s began, the Acela was originally envisioned with this paint scheme. However, this was replaced with a different livery while the silver and deep blue would be used by Amtrak Midwest. The JR-style privatization generally has worked well since, in large part thanks to the urban reneweal that began in 1960s America.
Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 wore the above guise when she tripleheaded with two other engines in the 1957 NRHS Convention. Afterwards, she and 4-8-4 #611 were operated by the N&W on excursions in the general Roanoke area, and sometimes over the Huckleberry branch from Blacksburg to Christiansburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's N&W heritage unit leads a PRR diesel in Tuscan Red, and a black engine seemingly from an industrial line, on the Panhandle near Dayton, OH.
The Indiana Railroad, one of the oldest Class II railroads in the country, operates freight and passenger trains from Ft. Wayne to Evansville via Muncie, Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Vincennes then over the Kentucky border to Paducah. Here is one such example of a standard diesel engine on that railroad, which is painted in the red and white of the Indiana University college system, as it pulls a coal train out of the yard at Bloomington.
Mini Jurassic Reich Post: The Teutonosaurus
An Artist's rendition of the Teutonosaurus, a modified variant of the Tyrannosaurus made by the Germans in late 1941 as a response to a requirement made by the German Army that the Dinosaurs should be made to withstand the harsh climate of the Russian Front.
An Artist's rendition of the Teutonosaurus, a modified variant of the Tyrannosaurus made by the Germans in late 1941 as a response to a requirement made by the German Army that the Dinosaurs should be made to withstand the harsh climate of the Russian Front.
The Boyd-Verse: Part 8
Churchill's triumphant "V for Victory" emblem as he and President FDR left after the Treaty of Chicago. Where the Third Franco-German War was finally ended through the efforts of the Anglo-sphere. Both FDR and Churchill knew full well that Russia had some nasty plans in store for retaking and expanding its former empire.
The Third Franco-German war ended one a slightly better note than past ones for the both of them. In 1940, the two nations agreed to split Alsace-Lorraine on the basis of the ethnic majorities in each region. Both knew that Russia had aspirations to dominate Europe, and intended to try and put their differences aside for once.
This large stash of British coins was uncovered in the Commonwealth of India in 1965. Later, Winston Churchill explained that it was going to be used as compensation for the family of the crew that nuked Yekitarenberg in case they were killed by flak or the nuke blast itself on the mission.
Churchill's triumphant "V for Victory" emblem as he and President FDR left after the Treaty of Chicago. Where the Third Franco-German War was finally ended through the efforts of the Anglo-sphere. Both FDR and Churchill knew full well that Russia had some nasty plans in store for retaking and expanding its former empire.
The Third Franco-German war ended one a slightly better note than past ones for the both of them. In 1940, the two nations agreed to split Alsace-Lorraine on the basis of the ethnic majorities in each region. Both knew that Russia had aspirations to dominate Europe, and intended to try and put their differences aside for once.
This large stash of British coins was uncovered in the Commonwealth of India in 1965. Later, Winston Churchill explained that it was going to be used as compensation for the family of the crew that nuked Yekitarenberg in case they were killed by flak or the nuke blast itself on the mission.
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Blood Rights
Link:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/blood-rights-the-vampiric-right-movement.468831/
Sen and Presidential candidate joseph mccarthy who would be one of the earliest outspoken anti vampire rights activists in American history. The MCCarthy hearings and campaign would seek to outlaw vampirism completely and “round up all anti capitalist non humans” and create a list of the rest of the vampire deemed no a threat. His career would come to a end after being exposed for sleeping with a vampire by name Seraph Knight. Link:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/blood-rights-the-vampiric-right-movement.468831/
Countess Angelique a controversial figure in the vampire world due to her actions in the past which costed her an relationship with her maker Adze BlackHeart ever since the late 1940’s the two had a strange off and on dating life.
Aura leader of the rock group Black Rose which was started in the 80’s and still puts out chart topping music their group music are often called by older vampires as for “baby fangs”
map of the Federation Of Arabs and Jewish state which is made up of Israel and Palestine the two share their Capitol in the “international zone” which belong to both of them and is policed by the UN it would be one of the last of the founding nations of the nonaligned pact and is one of the few safe haven for vampires in the Middle East. The state is also known to be “at war” with the group known as the last battalion made up of Neo Nazis and ex vampire nazi party terrorist.
Current leader of the USSR Putin who was once the head of NKVD then the KGB before becoming General Secretary in the late 80’s after a coup backed by now head of the KGB Victor.
KKK Propaganda showing “Madam Confederate” slaying a black vampire. The KKK is one of the largest anti black and anti vampire terror group next to ACA. Although in recent years it has been in decline due to many memebers being killed or joining the ACA.
Current leader of the USSR Putin who was once the head of NKVD then the KGB before becoming General Secretary in the late 80’s after a coup backed by now head of the KGB Victor.
KKK Propaganda showing “Madam Confederate” slaying a black vampire. The KKK is one of the largest anti black and anti vampire terror group next to ACA. Although in recent years it has been in decline due to many memebers being killed or joining the ACA.
WISH UPON
US President Walt Disney, seen above during a diplomatic trip to France in 2005, where he would meet with the French President, as well as French aristocrats and celebrities, including the young noblewoman by the name of Aurora Rose, prior to her and Cinderella's joining of what Disney would dub the "Princess Club".
Aurora Rose, French celebrity, actress, best friend of Cinderella Perrault, as well as nobility, her parents being part of a royal family. Being a part of Cinderella's inner circle, she has been granted a part in the Princess Club.
The divisive French President (2002 - 2007) Eleanor Malen Dorival of the Nationalist Party, daughter of the infamously far right Jean-Malo Dorival of highly nationalist party "Le Juste Cause" or The Right Cause. After loosing the 2007 election, Eleanor would retire from public life, though still making interviews on occasion.
The group has been called out for being anti-Semitic, anti-muslim, as well as being anti-immigration, anti-homosexuality, and anti-abortion (Among other things), even being compared to the "Skull & Crossbones Party" in the UK.
Seen on the left is Claude Frollo, the highly controversial and highly religious former Minister of Justice and the 2012 presidential candidate of The Right Cause, however allegations of sexual assault during his time as Minister and his military service, along with rumours that The Right Cause had started the Notre Dame Cathedral fire of 2012 (An inccident the party had blamed on Muslims) would see him being forced into dropping out of the party, and party being forced to drop from the race.
US President Walt Disney, seen above during a diplomatic trip to France in 2005, where he would meet with the French President, as well as French aristocrats and celebrities, including the young noblewoman by the name of Aurora Rose, prior to her and Cinderella's joining of what Disney would dub the "Princess Club".
Aurora Rose, French celebrity, actress, best friend of Cinderella Perrault, as well as nobility, her parents being part of a royal family. Being a part of Cinderella's inner circle, she has been granted a part in the Princess Club.
The divisive French President (2002 - 2007) Eleanor Malen Dorival of the Nationalist Party, daughter of the infamously far right Jean-Malo Dorival of highly nationalist party "Le Juste Cause" or The Right Cause. After loosing the 2007 election, Eleanor would retire from public life, though still making interviews on occasion.
The group has been called out for being anti-Semitic, anti-muslim, as well as being anti-immigration, anti-homosexuality, and anti-abortion (Among other things), even being compared to the "Skull & Crossbones Party" in the UK.
Seen on the left is Claude Frollo, the highly controversial and highly religious former Minister of Justice and the 2012 presidential candidate of The Right Cause, however allegations of sexual assault during his time as Minister and his military service, along with rumours that The Right Cause had started the Notre Dame Cathedral fire of 2012 (An inccident the party had blamed on Muslims) would see him being forced into dropping out of the party, and party being forced to drop from the race.
Another post from the Blue Skies in Camelot Picture Thread:
Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s PAVN (People’s Army of Vietnam) ride on top of a T-54/55 tank during the June 1982 coup d’état that ousted Võ Nguyễn Giáp’s successor, Chairman Nguyễn Văn Linh (top). Nguyễn Văn Linh, chairman of the Vietnamese Workers Party from 1978 to 1982 (bottom).
This comes in the wake of Linh’s recent and hastily enacted “Renovation Reforms” that have failed abysmally in averting the current economic crisis plaguing the North as well as the Workers Party of Vietnam’s inability to oust him themselves coupled with the horrific famine sweeping the nation. Lê Duẩn has replaced Linh as the VWP’s chairman and is reversing Linh’s reforms in the hopes of stopping the economic crisis from going any further and has started to try and bring an end to what is quickly being called “the Great North Vietnamese Famine”.
North Vietnamese civilians heading to the DMZ to try and escape to the South to avoid famine (top). ARVN troops patrol the Vietnamese Demilitarised Zone in late August 1982 (centre). A clearly upset young South Vietnamese soldier, with a bandana covering his mouth and nose, walks away from a group of dead North Vietnamese in November 1982 (bottom).
The bottommost picture was taken after a huge surge of refugees was allowed to go through the North Vietnamese side by PAVN, due the commanding officer knowing just how bad things were in the North and the fact that relatives of his were among the refugees, and crossed the DMZ. The refugees descending quickly on Saigon’s side of the DMZ and overwhelmed the South Vietnamese troops stationed there (who panicked and open fired on the refugees).
Soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s PAVN (People’s Army of Vietnam) ride on top of a T-54/55 tank during the June 1982 coup d’état that ousted Võ Nguyễn Giáp’s successor, Chairman Nguyễn Văn Linh (top). Nguyễn Văn Linh, chairman of the Vietnamese Workers Party from 1978 to 1982 (bottom).
North Vietnamese civilians heading to the DMZ to try and escape to the South to avoid famine (top). ARVN troops patrol the Vietnamese Demilitarised Zone in late August 1982 (centre). A clearly upset young South Vietnamese soldier, with a bandana covering his mouth and nose, walks away from a group of dead North Vietnamese in November 1982 (bottom).
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The Boyd-Verse: Part 9
The Kurdistan War is one of the most triumphant chapters in the history of Kurdistan, situated between Turkey and Iraq. Where with the support of the USA and UK Commonwealth, Kurdistan fended off Iran AND Iraq from taking over their homeland.
The Kurdistan War is one of the most triumphant chapters in the history of Kurdistan, situated between Turkey and Iraq. Where with the support of the USA and UK Commonwealth, Kurdistan fended off Iran AND Iraq from taking over their homeland.
For many Disney fans that disliked, or were otherwise indifferent to The Little Mermaid two years later, Rapunzel (1987) is considered the true start of the Disney Renaissance. The time period where Disney's animated films finally began to once again trounce those of its two principle rivals, Warner Bros. and Universal, at the box office. Ironically enough this would the last of the major collaborations between director Don Bluth and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, mostly because the latter wanted to return to his roots on stage musicals.
Norfolk & Western 611 and 475 stand on display at the 1995 NRHS Convention in Lancaster, PA. They were the first of many engines from the Pennsylvania and its subsidiaries to arrive for the big event, with other stars being K4 Pacific #5399, R2 Keystone 4-8-4 #7216, and T1 Duplex 5522. What's notable here is that the 475 was not dressed in its traditional western-style garb, which has been her default appearance since 1957.
New York Central Hudson # 5452 went on to become the main star of the 1998 NRHS Convention in Syracuse, NY. Where the NYC allowed this photo to be made in the style of photos from railfans in the 1950s.
Norfolk & Western 611 and 475 stand on display at the 1995 NRHS Convention in Lancaster, PA. They were the first of many engines from the Pennsylvania and its subsidiaries to arrive for the big event, with other stars being K4 Pacific #5399, R2 Keystone 4-8-4 #7216, and T1 Duplex 5522. What's notable here is that the 475 was not dressed in its traditional western-style garb, which has been her default appearance since 1957.
New York Central Hudson # 5452 went on to become the main star of the 1998 NRHS Convention in Syracuse, NY. Where the NYC allowed this photo to be made in the style of photos from railfans in the 1950s.
Fire in the North
Västerås, Sweden. This picture was taken on 30 November 2020, just prior to the displacement in time of the city and its hinterland to 30 November 1700, just after the Swedish victory at the Battle of Narva.
While the city would face significant challenges, it was perhaps one of the better-equipped Swedish cities to come through such an event, not least because of the large number of power generation facilities in the city, including Sweden's largest combined heat and power plant. Moreover, once King Charles XII realised just what the city of the future had to offer, he would make ensuring its feeding and survival a priority of his reign - especially due to the fact that immediately prior to the Displacement, elements of the Swedish Army, in particular the Life Guards and the Skaraborg Regiment, had been taking part in exercises around the city's hinterland...
The two Saab Gripen fighters that had had to land at Stockholm Västerås Airport just prior to the Displacement, thanks to apparent atmospheric interference (now believed to have been a warning sign of the Displacement). The fighters would both later see action during the remaining phase of the Great Northern War, alongside the combined 8,000 troops of the up-time Swedish Army and Home Guard who had found themselves in the past, and were strongly credited with having utterly broken the morale of Russian forces with low-level strafing runs. The fighters would be retired due to lack of spare parts, but by that stage the Kingdom of Sweden was already manufacturing airships...
Charles XII, by the Grace of God King of Sweden, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland,Duke of Estonia and Karelia, Lord of Ingria, Duke of Bremen, Verden and Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, and also Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Zweibrücken--Kleeburg, as well as Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Count of Veldenz, Spanheim and Ravensberg and Lord of Ravenstein (reigned from 1697 until his death in 1766). This photograph was taken by Erika Hansen - a photographer for the re-established post-Displacement Dagens Nyheter - on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Poltava, between Charles and Tsar Alexei of Russia in 1704, that finally ended the Great Northern War and secured permanent Swedish hegemony in Northern and Central Europe and the Baltic.
A deeply religious monarch, Charles would take the Displacement as a heavenly intervention to preserve the Kingdom of Sweden and as a sign to him personally. Following the war, he would return to Sweden, there to oversee the Swedish Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Second Golden Age of the Kingdom. Industries and medicines created by the up-timers would lead to standards of living for all those in the Swedish Empire skyrocketing, while he would be able to use up-timer support to utterly undermine the power of the nobility, ultimately rendering them toothless. While he would remain an absolute monarch for the entirety of his reign, he would take the signs of the future to heart and would gradually reform the Riksdag of the Estates to become a democratic, parliamentary body. When his son Charles XIII took power, the process of gradual transition to a constitutional monarchy would properly begin.
While Charles was, on occasion, shocked by some of the ways of the future, he was pragmatic enough not to interfere with the laws and internal governance of future-Västerås - sensible, as the city and the up-timers were his path to victory - and over time, the Swedish Empire would see great changes radiating out from the displaced city.
A/N: Why? Because Sabaton, that's why...
Västerås, Sweden. This picture was taken on 30 November 2020, just prior to the displacement in time of the city and its hinterland to 30 November 1700, just after the Swedish victory at the Battle of Narva.
While the city would face significant challenges, it was perhaps one of the better-equipped Swedish cities to come through such an event, not least because of the large number of power generation facilities in the city, including Sweden's largest combined heat and power plant. Moreover, once King Charles XII realised just what the city of the future had to offer, he would make ensuring its feeding and survival a priority of his reign - especially due to the fact that immediately prior to the Displacement, elements of the Swedish Army, in particular the Life Guards and the Skaraborg Regiment, had been taking part in exercises around the city's hinterland...
The two Saab Gripen fighters that had had to land at Stockholm Västerås Airport just prior to the Displacement, thanks to apparent atmospheric interference (now believed to have been a warning sign of the Displacement). The fighters would both later see action during the remaining phase of the Great Northern War, alongside the combined 8,000 troops of the up-time Swedish Army and Home Guard who had found themselves in the past, and were strongly credited with having utterly broken the morale of Russian forces with low-level strafing runs. The fighters would be retired due to lack of spare parts, but by that stage the Kingdom of Sweden was already manufacturing airships...
Charles XII, by the Grace of God King of Sweden, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland,Duke of Estonia and Karelia, Lord of Ingria, Duke of Bremen, Verden and Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, and also Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Zweibrücken--Kleeburg, as well as Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Count of Veldenz, Spanheim and Ravensberg and Lord of Ravenstein (reigned from 1697 until his death in 1766). This photograph was taken by Erika Hansen - a photographer for the re-established post-Displacement Dagens Nyheter - on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Poltava, between Charles and Tsar Alexei of Russia in 1704, that finally ended the Great Northern War and secured permanent Swedish hegemony in Northern and Central Europe and the Baltic.
A deeply religious monarch, Charles would take the Displacement as a heavenly intervention to preserve the Kingdom of Sweden and as a sign to him personally. Following the war, he would return to Sweden, there to oversee the Swedish Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Second Golden Age of the Kingdom. Industries and medicines created by the up-timers would lead to standards of living for all those in the Swedish Empire skyrocketing, while he would be able to use up-timer support to utterly undermine the power of the nobility, ultimately rendering them toothless. While he would remain an absolute monarch for the entirety of his reign, he would take the signs of the future to heart and would gradually reform the Riksdag of the Estates to become a democratic, parliamentary body. When his son Charles XIII took power, the process of gradual transition to a constitutional monarchy would properly begin.
While Charles was, on occasion, shocked by some of the ways of the future, he was pragmatic enough not to interfere with the laws and internal governance of future-Västerås - sensible, as the city and the up-timers were his path to victory - and over time, the Swedish Empire would see great changes radiating out from the displaced city.
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