A Knee In The Wrong Place: Franz Ferdinand Lives and Reigns

I call the fifth!

FF needs to ascend the throne and send the loutish Prince to represent the Habsburg's interests at Bouvet.
 
OK. I have two options here, as long as I've let this TL lie fallow:

1) continue from where I left off;
2) reboot a la Star Trek 2009.

The fundamental problem is that I need to figure out where FF goes beyond the fall of 1914. I think the Great War is going to break out somewhere, anywhere; the question is how to get the A-H Empire through the war with our favorite mustachioed hero (with his Bohemian Countess at his side) at the helm.
 
Well if you learned something from this one and think a rewrite could help you decide what to do go for it. Then you can easily redo the current posts to fit what you want.
 
Hey...that could work. Elias is Zita's half-brother through their father's first wife, Maria Pia of the 2 Sicilies. If FF is having trouble thinking of a good candidate for the throne of Poland, Zita could suggest him. (What would the name Elias transliterate to in Polish?)

Eliasz, I think.
Elias is the Greek form of Elijah, and a polish Bible I found on line uses "Elijasz" for that name. Whether that's a modern Protestant/Hebrew influenced form, I don't know.
http://www.wordplanet.org/pl/11/17.htm
 
OK. I have two options here, as long as I've let this TL lie fallow:

1) continue from where I left off;
2) reboot a la Star Trek 2009.

The fundamental problem is that I need to figure out where FF goes beyond the fall of 1914. I think the Great War is going to break out somewhere, anywhere; the question is how to get the A-H Empire through the war with our favorite mustachioed hero (with his Bohemian Countess at his side) at the helm.

If I were you, I'd continue on from where you left off. In fact that's what I did in a similar situation.
 
I'd say do whatever is easier for you, if thats continue on the same story, you know notes and all intact then go for it, if not then gritty reboot
 
I seek to see this timeline continued, because I was enjoying it greatly.

The first thing obviously, is to decide how long you want Franz Joseph around. If your wanting Franz Ferdinand to be at the the helm, then you might want to ax him sometime late 1914/early 1915.

The next most important thing to decide is how soon you want WW1 to take place, and more importantly, what it is exactly that would spark it off. It could possibly start as a small minor conflict somewhere, and then escalate into a continent and world spanning war. Actually, you could combine these two problems and kill them with one stone (or bullet I should say.) Have the Serbian nationalists somehow manage to get close enough to Franz Joseph to assassinate him, (perhaps with internal help so as to bring A-H into war, which could set things up for all sorts of wonderful fun)

anywhosit, I look forward to this continuing. Subscribing.
 
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