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  1. QueenofScots

    1989: A Space Timeline
    Threadmarks: I: STS-27

    This timeline can also be found on Sufficient Velocity. STS-27 Commander Howard “Skip” Johnson was the first to speak up. “We’re in deep shit.” The rest of the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis were in agreement. On the second day of mission STS-27, December 3rd 1988, an unusual request was...
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    Smartphone Industry with no Apple?

    Let's say Apple dies off in the late 1990s, and no butterflies until 2007. How would the smartphone industry look in alt-2017? I would assume that Microsoft and Google are the two main players in the industry, Blackberry being a bit too small to keep up. The smartphones would look more...
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    Franklin Expedition Succeeds?

    In our time, the Erebus and Terror got stuck in the ice near mainland Canada and the expedition ended in disaster. Let's say a path is found in the ice that leads them to the other side of the Canadian Archipelago. What's the result?
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    American Intervention in the Angolan Civil War

    Let's say that LBJ doesnt escalate the Vietnam War. This is seen after South Vietnam falls as letting the Communists win, leaving a black mark on his presidency. The US is humiliated, and looking for a chance to prove itself. Flash forwards to 1975, when the Angolan Civil War starts. America...
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    The Mysteries of Mithras

    Do we actually know anything concrete about Mithraism?
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    WI: Islam the dominant religion of Europe by 1000 AD

    Charlemagne is very well known for having driven off the Moorish armies in the battle of Poiters. This ended the conquests of the Umayyads into western Europe. What would it take for a successful conquest of Europe to happen?
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    DBWI: The Schlieffen Plan Fails

    What if general Schlieffen's plan to take Paris through the Ardennes failed when it was put to the test in the Serbian War? Perhaps they arent able to get enough supplies through the rugged terrain, or the French caught onto the surprise attack before the battle of the Marne?
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    WI/Worldbuilding: Transistor Tech Delayed

    Making an RPG setting for d20 Modern/Future. So as stated above, transistors are sucsessfully invented later than OTL, about 1970. This is turn means that integrated circuits are first made in the time around 1980. Why? In story, to justify why there is such a presence in space, due to...
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    Disney's Frozen Made in Traditional Animation

    A plan for a movie known as "The Snow Queen" goes back to the Snow White days, but it was hard to adapt. Eventually it was, but with computer animation. What if it had been made with the classic Disney style, yet all other parts of the movie were unchanged?
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    AHC: Make the Spirit of the Gay Nineties and Age of Imperialism Last 50 - 100 years.

    If the world was to technologically advance, yet culturally stay still, how would the first half of the twentieth century turn out?
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    A Crown from the Gutter

    What if during the Springtime of Nations, Frederick William IV accepted the crown of the German state proposed by the Frankfurt Parliment?
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