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In this scenario, during 1917 a few young Russian scientists begin work on a project studying the properties of germanium and continue on with their work for the next decades. Fifteen years latter their efforts had led to the development of basic prototype transistors which operate similar to...

Something I whipped up... Zor

There were two major uprisings in the North American Colonies, both of which received considerable backing by the French. The first happened in 1776-80, in which a large number of colonial elites from the Thirteen Colonies rose up against taxation to pay off a war which largely benefited them by...

Basically a thread for alternate cars and civilian road vehicles. I'll start with some Destroyermen fanart. Zor

In this scenario sometime around 1580 a Spanish Galleon arrives Southwestern Honshu badly damaged in a storm, if ultimately salvageable. As such the captain commissions local artisans to help him rebuild the ship with the assistance of local artisans who, on the order of their Daimyo go out of...

In this scenario, a series of events unfolds so that in the 1252-55 a few prominent Jewish leaders in France managed to convince several thousand Jews to undergo a daring exodus based on several texts about the shape of the earth that they had read involving the shape of the earth and so plan "a...

The evolution of helmets over some 4,200 years on a fictional continent. First Civilization (C1): Emerging from small clans of neolithic farmers, the First Civilization developed thanks to improvements in agriculture (new strains of crops, new tools, the first ships and irrigation) which...

In 1879 after the infamous uprising of 1878, in which a group of racist ex-confederates launched a series of brutal attacks against federal employees, black people, people sympathetic to the plight of ex-slaves and northerners, leaving 22,000 dead (as well as over two thousand army soldiers)...

Are there any good timelines in which Far Eastern civilizations in place of Europe became a colonial power? Zor

War of the Worlds: Goliath Trailer Martian Fighting Machines, Steampunk Mechs, Teddy Roosevelt and airship carriers. Zor

As we all know, the Monotheistic Civilizations of Europe never managed to develop beyond a fairly primitive level, remaining as a few stangnat empires such as Byzantium, waring islamic states divided over the most petty diferences in theology and the western fuedal kingdoms, never getting beyond...

As the election comes up this year, the issue of illegal immigrantion is again upon us. Every year, tens of thousands of Americans try to make their way West, over the rockies into Oregon and North into the Prairie Provinces in search of jobs and excape from worse off areas like the south with...

On March 10th, 1979, the soviet LOK-5 spacecraft sent down it's payload to Mare Moscoviense, delivering the Lunagrad-I Module onto the Lunar Surface, three years latter they had completed the beginings first perminant lunar base on the sight, which would grow into the largest human settlement on...

With a POD on or after 1900, have the earth have six major powers, being... -The United States of America -The British Empire -The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -The Empire of the Rising Sun -An Alliance of Germany, France and Italy (NOT A THIRD RIECH) -Brazil And one without a...

In the Middle East not to long ago, there was a Strong Socialist movement in the Middle East/Muslim World, with such notable leaders as Nasser, although this movement was latter overshaddowed by Islamist movements. This thread has two main questions.. 1-Could Arab Socialism have emerged...

The Concept is simple. Going back no further than 1840, the US Government/State Governments implement a system to deport Convicts Westward to prison labour camps for the purpose of settlement of the west in a similar manner to the Russian Katorga program for colonization of Siberia. Is this...

OOC-Its cutting it a bit close here, i apologize if it goes over-OOC I did some reading on Judaism and i read up on this movement started by a guy named Theodor Herzl. Apparently the guy was so appalled at the mess those idiots in the Dryfus affair made he advocated the establishment of a...

As is well known, the Russian Empire in the 18th century claimed Alaska and began basic colonization that went nowhere, however it also claimed a good section of the east coast, going down into california. Now here is where things break off. Lets say that some Tzar, interested in prospects...

Despite the debate on weather it should be legal or not, Cannabis based drugs in there myriad forms are a very prominent drug in the Modern world. This is despite the fact that it has been in use for thousands of years outside of Europe/north America despite trade with India, were it was widely...