Separated at Birth: America and Drakia
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Random thought: was Klein at all inspired by our world's influential, intelligent, and very irascible Admiral Hyman Rickover?
you know looking back on it, he was kind of right about waging war on Drakia. If they had been crushed early on a whole lot of people wouldn't have died.
Like most mass popular vaguely socialist movements probably "fuck the upper heriarchy of priesthoods and monasteries" with a range between tolerance to open celebration of local folk religion and the general Dharmic principles of India theology, and a few but loud free-thinkers and hippies thinking of abolishing the entire religious heirarchy and religious strictures on marriage, family, and inheritance to take away everything that gets in the way of "true" connections to the divine and human love.
I had a long term Draka project I set down about 5 years back that focused on many of the same themes and solutions you use here: a complex patchwork of political units, racial and political statuses, and exceptions-to-the-rule; Loyalists and Frenchmen intermarrying; Greek puppet states; Egyptian collaborators; a growth within a more colonial/racist British Empire; London perennially distracted from it's metastasizing problem by foreign military threats; eugenics in a more central role; ongoing Christianity as justification tool; a stabbed-in-the-back legend; an empire mostly limited to Africa or the Middle East; more major modern wars; Russia being absolutely wrecked in the 20th century....
Looks like you saw a lot of the same things (and more), but really put in the work. This is an impressive project. Your ISOT concept sounds fantastic. The teaser - if that's what it was - really had me trying to imagine scenarios.
Situationism is a very interesting and unique aspect of this timeline; good stuff. Honestly, I wish it were part of a longer, slower TL so that we could sit and let the concept marinate a bit more. Explore.
Looks like you saw a lot of the same things (and more), but really put in the work. This is an impressive project. Your ISOT concept sounds fantastic. The teaser - if that's what it was - really had me trying to imagine scenarios.
Situationism is a very interesting and unique aspect of this timeline; good stuff. Honestly, I wish it were part of a longer, slower TL so that we could sit and let the concept marinate a bit more. Explore.
Wonder how Christmas was celebrated in Drakia, especially in the Agoge/creche before the collapse?
Congratulations on beating me to it. Work has unfortunately left me a hollow shell of a person, so slow going on my attempt
It was probably curlier when he was younger and running the Navy in his own name.
(For those who don't recognize the infobox portrait, I borrowed Admiral Rickover's.)
Yeah, the chad looked like someone who Stokers' wife would like to bang with, only that he's more concerned with himself and his own ambition than nuclear propulsion.It was probably curlier when he was younger and running the Navy in his own name.
(For those who don't recognize the infobox portrait, I borrowed Admiral Rickover's.)
Wasn't online. I have the huge collections of notes around, but haven't gone through them in a bit.
Beautiful. What is the American Homeland Party supposed to be here?
Thank you!
From EBR's Chapter 31, in 1948, "the American Homeland Party ran Matthew MacCartan for the cause of Rodinism in America." I'm thinking they mellowed out some in the next decade or two and decided that the New Order for the Ages had been a decent start to a good world government and Klein was the right guy to get it started back up again. Klein, of course, graciously accepted their Presidential nomination; they gladly accepted his celebrity in hopes of getting some good publicity.
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