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Crossposting from my (kinda wacky) timeline, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Age of Empires Reborn.

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Starrcade is a recurring professional wrestling event, originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view television, held from 1983 to 2000 by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and later World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Starrcade was regarded by the NWA and WCW as their flagship event of the year, much in the same vein that its rival, the World Wrestling Federation, regarded WrestleMania.

From 1983 to 1987, Starrcade was produced by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), the dominant promotion of the NWA, and aired on Thanksgiving Day. In 1987, the WWF scheduled a pay-per-view of their own, Survivor Series, on Thanksgiving night and demanded exclusivity from cable providers on carriage of the event. In order to prevent such a problem, Starrcade was moved to December the following year and the show was held around Christmas Day, mostly in the days following, beginning in 1988.

Also in 1988, JCP was sold to Turner Broadcasting due to financial problems and became WCW, though Starrcade was held under the NWA banner until 1990.

Starrcade was held for the final time as a (real) WCW event in 2000: the promotion would be acquired by the World Wrestling Federation in 2001, with the 2001 edition of the event being a WWF event (although the story at the time was WCW had taken over the company)
 
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Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

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The Mexican conflict (Castilean: Conflicto armado interno de México) began in the late-1970s low-intensity asymmetric war between the government of Mexico, right-wing paramilitary groups, sparatcist guerillas such as the United Spartacus Revolutionary Council (CRUE) and criminal syndicates. Some of the most important international contributors to the Mexican conflict are multinational corporations and the governments of the British Empire and the Austrian Empire, who have been accused of supporting opposing sides in the conflict at the same time.

It has its historical roots in the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century, which was triggered by the 1917 death of President Juan Bautista Iglesias, who had ruled over Mexico for almost 40 years. The Mexican government was unable to articulate an appropriate line of succession, leading to a decades-long internal struggle that radically transformed Mexican society, culture and politics. Beginning in the 1950s, the British Empire sponsored anti-spartacist repression in Mexico. The 1988 Sonoran Punitive Expedition was an attempt to use a military response to end the illegal narcotics trade, but it managed to backfire and only intensified the War on Drugs and the Mexican conflict.

The Mexican government claims to be fighting for stability and law and order, and to protect the rights and interests of its citizens. The CRUE and other left-wing guerilla movements claim they are fighting for the rights of the poor and repressed in Mexico, and seek to protect them from government violence with a long-term goal of establishing a spartacist state or to abolish the state entirely. The right-wing paramilitary groups claimed to be reacting to the threat posed by the guerilla movements, or to establish an anti-democratic absolutist state. The drug cartels have no stated goal other than to make money off the illegal narcotics trade. All sides have been criticized for numerous human rights violations. The conflict has often been described with "labyrinthine", with groups that have nominally aligned goals fighting each other as fiercely as they do their ideological opponents.

In 2005, General Ernesto Valdés staged a coup to overthrow President Gustavo Fernández Mora and installed hardliner Simón Rivas as President, instigating a more violent stage of the conflict. Valdés, in turn, was elected President in 2010, and with the Constitution amended to remove term limits, he was reelected in 2015, 2020 and 2025. In a 12 year period between 2006 and 2018, more than 75,000 Mexicans were killed as a result of the conflict. The intensity lowered again in 2017 when the CRUE began to demobilize and disarm after a protracted peace process negotiated between the CRUE and the Mexican government by the government of Brazil. The Mexican conflict has also been credited with ending the Third Mormon War, as Mormon community leaders in Deseret see narcotics and drugs as a bigger threat to the communities than British authorities. Several thousand Mormon mercenaries are currently employed by the Mexican government as security contractors under the leadership of Hutch Romney, son of Mormon leader Lane Romney.

According to a study by the Mexican Council for Truth and Reconciliation in 2027, more than 215,000 people have died in the 50 year period between 1975 and 2025, most of them civilians who are not affiliated with any side, with more than 3 million civilians having been forced from their homes during that time period, generating one of the world's largest populations of internally displaced peoples. 15% of the population of Mexico have been a direct victim of the war.

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Landgravine Guinevere of Pusan / Margrave Mordred II of Choseon
Eugen Flegel Graf von Weiser / Empress Anna Victoria
Maria Luisa of Provence
House of Tudor-Mercia: Constantine I, Constantine II, Catherine, Joanna, Michael
The Marquess of Lynedoch
Arthur, Prince of Wales / Rudolph, King of the English
Leaders of the Congress of Atomic Powers
Tetrarchs of the Kingdom of Palestine
Ludwig XV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt / Friederike of Hesse Darmstadt
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Grand Council of the Michigan Confederation
20th and 21st century monarchs of the British Empire
Prussian Fatherland Front
Steppengrave Charles Albert of Nebraska / Ambrose Bingham, Viscount Lorton
Cooper Thorpe MP / Business and Finance Functional Constituency
FV151 Hotspur APC / FV210 Conestoga APC
War of the Saxon Succession
War of the Polish Succession / Lech August and Karl Waclaw of Poland
Hapsburg Dynasty
Queen Friederike of Hesse and Archduke Humphrey, Duke of Windsor / 2027-29 Tuscan Protests / Prime Minister Maxim Ustaev of Russia
Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force
Sir Benjamin Rosenblatt
House of Hapsburg: Empress Ana Viktoria / Queen Anna Ekaterini of Cyprus / Grand Duke of Parma, Grand Duke of Modena and Duke of Ferrara
East India Company
 
Erinthecute

Erinthecute

TheSaint250 said:
Awesome job! I assume this is in an independent Bavaria. If so, what does the Bavaria Party stand for ITTL?
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It's not an independent Bavaria, but a more cut-up Bavaria within alt-Germany. The Bavaria Party seeks the restoration of united Bavaria, and similarly to real life, the promotion of Bavarian interests and national identity.
 
John_Smith

John_Smith

RL Flashpoint, pt. 9

The 1930s have been a polarizing time for America and for the rest of the world. The hopelessness that followed the Great Depression left many seeking better fortunes within hatred and discrimination. The violent right-wing revolutions in Germany, France and Spain were far from being the only ones around the Globe, for the renewed nationalism took on many different faces in all corners of the world. Such was the case of the United States, where the ultraconservative Democratic ticket led by William Randolph Hearst stole the victory from the Republicans in 1932 with over ten points ahead of Herbert Hoover.

Thanks to Hearst's stringent two-worded policy of America First, which largely entailed strict isolationism from European affairs, specific attention was given to the continuation of the numerous US-propped puppet regimes in Latin America for their lands' exploitation by American fruit and metal companies. This kind of reactionary environment was not restricted to foreign affairs, though, as the Ku Klux Klan had received wind in its sails with Hearst's decision not to cover their crimes and lynchings in his newspapers (mostly out of party loyalty), and they would continue with renewed vigor all throughout the American South.

One of the most well-known victims of such behavior was Robert Carlyle Byrd. Born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., his mother would pass away from the Spanish flu after he was only ten months old, and in accordance to her last wishes, his father would let his aunt and uncle adopt him. Henceforth, he would be known as Robert Carlyle Byrd after his new family moved to the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia. Despite his early successes during his education (graduating his class as valedictorian at Mark Twain High School in Tams, WV), Byrd was smitten with Hearst's fiery speeches.

Not long after Hearst's decision to increase the number of US occupation troops stationed on Haiti, Byrd would join the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan and become one of its most ardent proponents. His open advocacy of lynchings and avoidance of due process in treating African-Americans accused of having done damage to White Americans endeared him to many within the Klan, especially its leaders, who had free rein to do however they pleased. After noticing the acceptance that he had felt as a member of the Klan, Byrd would begin to openly espouse his allegiance and recruit other men into the fold. So zealous were his opinions and stances that many of his opponents and enemies began to call him the Monk, but he took the derogatory title with stride.

After taking the nickname as his own, he even began wearing red robes discreetly, and his recruiting range soon expanded not only to West Virginia, but to Pennsylvania and New York as well. However, after his arrival to New York City, the sights would soon be upon him, though not from the well-entrenched establishment... Despite his arrest at the hands of James Gordon in early 1938, Byrd would soon be back on the streets, completely undeterred. That was, however, until he had encountered the evil Bat-Man that he had spoken of in so many of his earlier speeches, the vile representation of the rot in this country that he had worked so hard to beat down...

And died immediately. The coroner's report mentioned a couple dozen broken bones and internal bleeding as a result of his death at a fairly early age. The NYPD, however, had not had much work to do regarding the search for his murderer, for the same horrid Bat shape was branded onto the left side of his chest, right above his heart, an ever-present symbol and warning to all those who find themselves too daring to challenge the Bat-Man's reign of terror.

 
AHE

AHE

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John_Smith said:
RL Flashpoint, pt. 9

The 1930s have been a polarizing time for America and for the rest of the world. The hopelessness that followed the Great Depression left many seeking better fortunes within hatred and discrimination. The violent right-wing revolutions in Germany, France and Spain were far from being the only ones around the Globe, for the renewed nationalism took on many different faces in all corners of the world. Such was the case of the United States, where the ultraconservative Democratic ticket led by William Randolph Hearst stole the victory from the Republicans in 1932 with over ten points ahead of Herbert Hoover.

Thanks to Hearst's stringent two-worded policy of America First, which largely entailed strict isolationism from European affairs, specific attention was given to the continuation of the numerous US-propped puppet regimes in Latin America for their lands' exploitation by American fruit and metal companies. This kind of reactionary environment was not restricted to foreign affairs, though, as the Ku Klux Klan had received wind in its sails with Hearst's decision not to cover their crimes and lynchings in his newspapers (mostly out of party loyalty), and they would continue with renewed vigor all throughout the American South.

One of the most well-known victims of such behavior was Robert Carlyle Byrd. Born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr., his mother would pass away from the Spanish flu after he was only ten months old, and in accordance to her last wishes, his father would let his aunt and uncle adopt him. Henceforth, he would be known as Robert Carlyle Byrd after his new family moved to the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia. Despite his early successes during his education (graduating his class as valedictorian at Mark Twain High School in Tams, WV), Byrd was smitten with Hearst's fiery speeches.

Not long after Hearst's decision to increase the number of US occupation troops stationed on Haiti, Byrd would join the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan and become one of its most ardent proponents. His open advocacy of lynchings and avoidance of due process in treating African-Americans accused of having done damage to White Americans endeared him to many within the Klan, especially its leaders, who had free rein to do however they pleased. After noticing the acceptance that he had felt as a member of the Klan, Byrd would begin to openly espouse his allegiance and recruit other men into the fold. So zealous were his opinions and stances that many of his opponents and enemies began to call him the Monk, but he took the derogatory title with stride.

After taking the nickname as his own, he even began wearing red robes discreetly, and his recruiting range soon expanded not only to West Virginia, but to Pennsylvania and New York as well. However, after his arrival to New York City, the sights would soon be upon him, though not from the well-entrenched establishment... Despite his arrest at the hands of James Gordon in early 1938, Byrd would soon be back on the streets, completely undeterred. That was, however, until he had encountered the evil Bat-Man that he had spoken of in so many of his earlier speeches, the vile representation of the rot in this country that he had worked so hard to beat down...

And died immediately. The coroner's report mentioned a couple dozen broken bones and internal bleeding as a result of his death at a fairly early age. The NYPD, however, had not had much work to do regarding the search for his murderer, for the same horrid Bat shape was branded onto the left side of his chest, right above his heart, an ever-present symbol and warning to all those who find themselves too daring to challenge the Bat-Man's reign of terror.

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Fun fact: there's a reason you don't fight the Batman when you're a F-List villain
 
Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

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So has Mexico's status as a kingdom under the Habsburgs in the present day been retconned?
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I wouldn't say retconned. More just filled in some information. Mexico was a Castilean colony before its independence and they eventually settled on a Hapsburg archduke as a sort of passive agressive slight at Castile (and also because it would offer them a bit of protection from the Castileans). The Stasi have very little actual control over the Mexican state (not for lack of trying) because the Mexican Hapsburg's links to their European cousins have been rather wink
 
Anarcho-Occultist

Anarcho-Occultist

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Edwin Walker was an American general and politician who is best known for his role in the 1963 American coup d'etat and subsequent term as President of the United States. Walker served in the US military in the Second World War and Korean War and was active in the military in the years that followed. During the 1950's, Walker became involved with the John Birch Society and the cause of segregationism. Walker was disciplined for these stances in the 1950's under Eisenhower, but the president refused to accept his resignation from the military. Walker's later role in history would be solidified following the closely contested events of the 1960 US presidential election, which saw Democrat John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, beat Republican Richard Nixon in the electoral college, but lose the popular vote.

Members of the John Birch Society claimed Kennedy was a closeted communist who had only managed to win via voter fraud. Walker spread rumors of this sort within the military, but the president failed to act to remove him fearing this would further animate the angered far-right. This proved to be a mistake, as Walker, working with several southern Democrat and conservative Republican politicians, would plot to overthrow Kennedy. In 1963, Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson were removed from power and Walker declared himself the president of the United States 'for the foreseeable future until the stench of communism is purged from the government.' From 1963 to 1965 Walker worked to consolidate control, arresting, imprisoning and at times executing 'suspected communists' who could range from 'uppity' civil rights activists like Martin Luther King to respected politicians such as Hubert Humphrey and Nelson Rockefeller. Walker picked George Wallace as the VP for his 'New National Union' campaign in 1964, which thanks to voter intimidation and some fraud won 77% of the vote against a few splinter independents (the most successful of these was imprisoned ex-Senator Eugene McCarthy who won 12% of the vote from his cell).

Walker additionally embraced a very bellicose foreign policy. He sent thousands and thousands of troops into South Vietnam to defend against the communist North and invaded Cuba in 1964. The guerrilla insurgency he faced in both countries exacted a heavy toll on morale and protests broke out constantly against his dictatorship, his segregationism and the wars. Walker would crack down violently on these efforts and in 1968 was convinced by his Defense Secretary Curtis LeMay to use a nuclear weapon on Hanoi. For a week, the world feared imminent nuclear war, but then the protests shifted to become riots and then...revolution. Police were overwhelmed by millions of activists-in Chicago, San Francisco and New York explicitly socialist communes were declared. A number of police officers and soldiers began defecting to the revolutionaries. An enraged Walker attempted to order a nuclear strike, a return to order and stability. However, the silos receiving the order refused to comply. At this point, Walker's regime was de facto over. It would take a few more weeks before he and his core allies would flee Washington, leaving the White House to rebels who declared the student leader Carl Oglesbey the interim president prior to new elections (which would send a young Alaskan named Mike Gravel to Washington as the man who would draft a new constitution that made the US into a de facto socialist republic, albeit one that was far more committed to the latter part than the USSR was).

Walker's presidency is officially regarded as having ended that day by all but the most right-wing Americans and American exiles. Walker officially titled himself as President of the United States for the remainder of his life. He and what remained of his government would be forced to move around constantly. Initially taking up refuge in Franco's Spain, they would be forced to flee following Franco's death and the rise of the socialists against what remained of his government. Walker would next move to Israel for a couple of years, but he would be ordered to leave as Israel attempted to build positive relations with the new US government. In the end, Walker would spend the bulk of his exile life in South Africa, where he would be a close advisor to the apartheid government. When the regime collapsed in 1987, Walker would die with it-not at the hands of the revolutionaries, but rather from a heart attack due to fear of them.
 
Goweegie2

Goweegie2

olavops said:
I wonder what it will be about :p
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Hmmm, very good question!

In all seriousness it's gonna be another generally world-spanning graphic TL (shocking, I know), but it all diverges with Napoleon accepting the Frankfurt proposals following a rather small divergent event which I will make an infobox about in the future
 
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