Unique- like the use of car boxes. Excellent use of minor details with which to build a world around.
This is some fantastic stuff. The world you've created is, it's believable, it's crazy, you're doing such a fantastic job.
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BlackentheBorg
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Fun fact: There's something very similar to the moon one that grew out of a Reddit prompt. You might like it.
CannedTech
Banned
"The Founding Fathers Would have wanted it this way."
The American Voluntary Extermination Camps were a nonprofit euthanasia organization that operated in the United States from 2037 to 2051.
With a depleted ecology, a series of bloody revolutions in Europe and the US, and with the Second Warlord Era in full swing, the Voluntary Human Extinction movement became very popular, and syncretized with the radical brand of neoclerical fascism espoused by Pope Hadar I that held that suicide was a divine and sacred act. The resultant ideology proved very popular, with mass sterilizations sweeping the globe, as well as the "Burn Out ____" movement where sufferers of a communicable disease committed suicide and posted the video to Twitter. The #BurnOutAIDS2035 drive saw a record four million participants.
Man, I can really see that coming from the same place as the Weather Alert and Emergency Broadcast bits. Jesus man.
The Seattle Sanitation Union
Sounds like someone in the SSU likes Dragonforce...
I'VE GOT THE JOY, JOY, JOY...
This seems like it'd be an impossible job to do, trying to figure out where a multi-world pandemic originated from. We have trouble with that and we only have one world!
But I suppose the level of difficult goes up or down depending on the level of FTL technology.
Don't think I've ever seen any Veep boxes.
I'm not sure if this is how the map looked in the show but this is the best map I could think of for a tie based on O'Brien winning Nevada.
Great idea. Why would Alan Keyes be a Senator, though? The man has never had success in politics.
Well, it's not exactly a secret that the RRS is stockpiling equipment that could be converted into near-military grade weapons by replacing a couple of parts. However, when the IRS and the Department of the Economy decided to jump the gun and go after their tax status, the Department of Security decided to sit this one out for the moment. That could change in the future, but there are bigger cases to handle.
This is some fantastic stuff. The world you've created is, it's believable, it's crazy, you're doing such a fantastic job.
Thx.
Possibly. However, it's not like Dragonforce had the staying power of a band like the Beatles. There's a good chance that they could have used the phrase without initially knowing its origin.
Little Red Bean
Banned
It was one of the last nations to get colonized. And it took one hell of a fight for the Thai people to get their country back. A festering bloodbath in an otherwise quiet corner of the globe, the Italo-Siamese War continues to be one of the most studied conflicts of the 20th century, with more than its fair share of iconic battles, high-profile atrocities, technological innovations, and colorful personalities.
It was one of the last nations to get colonized. And it took one hell of a fight for the Thai people to get their country back. A festering bloodbath in an otherwise quiet corner of the globe, the Italo-Siamese War continues to be one of the most studied conflicts of the 20th century, with more than its fair share of iconic battles, high-profile atrocities, technological innovations, and colorful personalities.
What happened in 1989 to drag all the European powers in against Italy?
Little Red Bean
Banned
The Italian Empire cobbled together a couple puppet states and pulled out their own forces in a desperate attempt to salvage the situation when it was obvious that they no longer had the support of the Italian public to carry on with the war. But the rest of the world wasn't buying it, aside from the guys in Lisbon who still think it's the 1880s and the UDI regime in Ulster who had no friends and nothing to lose.
The Luddite was a villainous character that featured in many “Fantastic Fancies” published in the popular Percival's Illustrated Periodicals. As part of “Percivals Illustrated Heroes and Villains” menage, The Luddite meet and featured in the stories of many other popular Percival's characters, such as Major Tom Thornton, The Inventrix Three, Lady Steam, Skotádi the Queen of the Minoans, Lord Draxis and Blue Bess.
The Luddite was a terrorist; a vicious criminal who was the anathema of everything the Enlightened minds of the time held up as good and right. A violent, uneducated brute, who hated the forces of science and progress, the Luddite would engage in savage acts of murder, rape and sabotage against the modern world to support his cause; his particularly favorite targets were young, innocent inventrixes, whom he would often kidnap, and crowds of innocents, whom he would threaten and hold hostage with all manner of bombs, gasses and deadly contraptions. Stories featuring the Luddite were notorious for their violence and sexual content, even when compare to normal Percivals fare.
Stories featuring the Luddite were top sellers for Percival's, but this may be more due to the time rather than the content, as it is quite clear the Luddite was based on the notorious criminal known as the “Floodbank Fiend”.
A dangerous terrorist with Luddite leanings, the Fiend was linked to the deaths of 22 prominent scientists and inventors, as well as dozens of acts of sabotage, most notoriously the bombing of the Edgeton Fanworks. During his reign of terror, the Fiend was regarded as public enemy number one, earning himself his own file number with the Royal and Imperial Inspectorate.
To this day, the identity of the Fiend is unknown: speculated suspects include Artemis de Monde, tactician and chief saboteur of the Democratis Society; Kami Morar, a member of the Vaishvik Kraanti Movement; and even Katelynn Collins, High Mistress of the Young Woman's Society of Athena. Their has even been speculation that the Fiend was not one man but several; that he was creation of the rebels in the lead up to the Low Land Revolt. The fact that, even after the Revolt and the fall of the Scientific Raj no one came forward to claim the identity has lent credence to this theory.
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Deloria
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The 1990s were a time of rough transitions for the Philippines, as the end of Bongbong Marcos' so-called "Fourth Republic" signaled the beginning of a period of uncertain democracy and certain instability. While the power-brokers of the new regime discussed proposals for wholesale political reform and a new constitution, various Muslim, Christian, and Communist insurgent groups took advantage of the Fifth Republic's weakness to expand their own territories. Among their number was the New Covenant Army, a Protestant Christian rebel group operating out of Bulacan Province in Central Luzon. Founded in 1978 at the height of Marcos I era repression, the NCA became internationally known for its bold attacks in heavily populated urban areas, involvement in the drug trade and other sectarian conflicts in the region, and extremely heterodox theological positions. Its leader, Fr. Abrahán "Makahoy" de la Cruz, was a former Catholic seminarian who had initially been converted to Seventh-day Adventism by American missionaries before founding his own New Covenant Church in the late 1960s.
Some of the many official doctrines of the NCA-era Church included: strict adherence to the Ten Commandments of Moses, the immediate dissolution of the Philippine Republic to prepare for the coming of the earthly Kingdom of God, the eradication of homosexuality and other sinful behaviors through an intensely mandated program of fasting, calisthenics, and "secret" rituals dictated by de la Cruz and his disciples, the rejection of all Papal authority as temporal and demonic, the rejection of modern medicine in favor of "salvation theology and salvation biology", and a consistent belief in the Second Coming of Christ's occurrence on July 1, 2000 (what de la Cruz called 'Salvation Day'). At the height of its popularity in the early-mid 1990s, the NCC had anywhere from 400,000 (government statistic) to 4,500,000 (self-reported) active members.
Abrahán de la Cruz died on June 14, 1991. He was succeeded by his son Ezequiel, who turned out to be a less charismatic leader than his father, but just as morally erect. Known as "Pol Pot" for his agrarian charm and determined nature, the younger de la Cruz fought a bloody decade-long war on Luzon against the Philippine state and government-allied Communist militias, which only ended with his arrest and extrajudicial execution in January 2001.
Not every member of the NCA chose to die on de la Cruz's hill. Some had grown tired of the eternal struggle (many veteran soldiers abandoned the cause after the promised apocalypse of Y2K failed to materialize), while others felt they could better serve the Lord by cooperating with the government. This required an impossible level of revision to the still relatively-young Church's theology, and invariably meant a schism. Luckily, God had already chosen the perfect man to lead the New Covenant into the New Millennium: Jesus. Once staunch lieutenants of de la Cruz the Younger, infamous rebel brothers Jesús and Macario Deogracias defected to the government in exchange for complete immunity in 1999, after agreeing to help the state hunt down their supreme commander. Jesus wasted no time in building his own church, the New Covenant Church of God, as well as a forming a political vehicle for his still deeply Christian ideals. When the ceasefire was finally signed, he was ready to fill the vacuum.
Though gunned down by his former comrades only two years into his term as Representative (and instantly recognized as a martyr for peace), in the end Jesus was largely successful. Today, his party controls Bulacan's political infrastructure at all levels, thanks to a special arrangement made with the sitting Liberal government. After a brief affair with the Communists, Redemption has become one of the most reliable supporters of the present Liberal hegemony, and Governor Macario Deogracias' approval ratings have yet to fall below the high 60s.
Some of the many official doctrines of the NCA-era Church included: strict adherence to the Ten Commandments of Moses, the immediate dissolution of the Philippine Republic to prepare for the coming of the earthly Kingdom of God, the eradication of homosexuality and other sinful behaviors through an intensely mandated program of fasting, calisthenics, and "secret" rituals dictated by de la Cruz and his disciples, the rejection of all Papal authority as temporal and demonic, the rejection of modern medicine in favor of "salvation theology and salvation biology", and a consistent belief in the Second Coming of Christ's occurrence on July 1, 2000 (what de la Cruz called 'Salvation Day'). At the height of its popularity in the early-mid 1990s, the NCC had anywhere from 400,000 (government statistic) to 4,500,000 (self-reported) active members.
Abrahán de la Cruz died on June 14, 1991. He was succeeded by his son Ezequiel, who turned out to be a less charismatic leader than his father, but just as morally erect. Known as "Pol Pot" for his agrarian charm and determined nature, the younger de la Cruz fought a bloody decade-long war on Luzon against the Philippine state and government-allied Communist militias, which only ended with his arrest and extrajudicial execution in January 2001.
Not every member of the NCA chose to die on de la Cruz's hill. Some had grown tired of the eternal struggle (many veteran soldiers abandoned the cause after the promised apocalypse of Y2K failed to materialize), while others felt they could better serve the Lord by cooperating with the government. This required an impossible level of revision to the still relatively-young Church's theology, and invariably meant a schism. Luckily, God had already chosen the perfect man to lead the New Covenant into the New Millennium: Jesus. Once staunch lieutenants of de la Cruz the Younger, infamous rebel brothers Jesús and Macario Deogracias defected to the government in exchange for complete immunity in 1999, after agreeing to help the state hunt down their supreme commander. Jesus wasted no time in building his own church, the New Covenant Church of God, as well as a forming a political vehicle for his still deeply Christian ideals. When the ceasefire was finally signed, he was ready to fill the vacuum.
Though gunned down by his former comrades only two years into his term as Representative (and instantly recognized as a martyr for peace), in the end Jesus was largely successful. Today, his party controls Bulacan's political infrastructure at all levels, thanks to a special arrangement made with the sitting Liberal government. After a brief affair with the Communists, Redemption has become one of the most reliable supporters of the present Liberal hegemony, and Governor Macario Deogracias' approval ratings have yet to fall below the high 60s.
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Deloria
Banned
All those reactionary flags just break my heart.
Also: Beria's still alive in the 1980s? Damn.
But not unheard of. Sometimes colonizers would make an abortive attempt to tear off the europeanized metro areas of their colonies as separate, whiter allies.
Little Red Bean
Banned
The 1990s were a time of rough transitions for the Philippines, as the end of Bongbong Marcos' so-called "Fourth Republic" signaled the beginning of a period of uncertain democracy and certain instability. While the power-brokers of the new regime discussed proposals for wholesale political reform and a new constitution, various Muslim, Christian, and Communist insurgent groups took advantage of the Fifth Republic's weakness to expand their own territories. Among their number was the New Covenant Army, a Protestant Christian rebel group operating out of Bulacan Province in Central Luzon. Founded in 1978 at the height of Marcos I era repression, the NCA became internationally known for its bold attacks in heavily populated urban areas, involvement in the drug trade and other sectarian conflicts in the region, and extremely heterodox theological positions. Its leader, Fr. Abrahán "Makahoy" de la Cruz, was a former Catholic seminarian who had initially been converted to Seventh-day Adventism by American missionaries before founding his own New Covenant Church in the late 1960s.
Some of the many official doctrines of the NCA-era Church included: strict adherence to the Ten Commandments of Moses, the immediate dissolution of the Philippine Republic to prepare for the coming of the earthly Kingdom of God, the eradication of homosexuality and other sinful behaviors through an intensely mandated program of fasting, calisthenics, and "secret" rituals dictated by de la Cruz and his disciples, the rejection of all Papal authority as temporal and demonic, the rejection of modern medicine in favor of "salvation theology and salvation biology", and a consistent belief in the Second Coming of Christ's occurrence on July 1, 2000 (what de la Cruz called 'Salvation Day'). At the height of its popularity in the early-mid 1990s, the NCC had anywhere from 400,000 (government statistic) to 4,500,000 (self-reported) active members.
Abrahán de la Cruz died on June 14, 1991. He was succeeded by his son Ezequiel, who turned out to be a less charismatic leader than his father, but just as morally erect. Known as "Pol Pot" for his agrarian charm and determined nature, the younger de la Cruz fought a bloody decade-long war on Luzon against the Philippine state and government-allied Communist militias, which only ended with his arrest and extrajudicial execution in January 2001.
Not every member of the NCA chose to die on de la Cruz's hill. Some had grown tired of the eternal struggle (many veteran soldiers abandoned the cause after the promised apocalypse of Y2K failed to materialize), while others felt they could better serve the Lord by cooperating with the government. This required an impossible level of revision to the still relatively-young Church's theology, and invariably meant a schism. Luckily, God had already chosen the perfect man to lead the New Covenant into the New Millennium: Jesus. Once staunch lieutenants of de la Cruz the Younger, infamous rebel brothers Jesús and Macario Deogracias defected to the government in exchange for complete immunity in 1999, after agreeing to help the state hunt down their supreme commander. Jesus wasted no time in building his own church, the New Covenant Church of God, as well as a forming a political vehicle for his still deeply Christian ideals. When the ceasefire was finally signed, he was ready to fill the vacuum.
Though gunned down by his former comrades only two years into his term as Representative (and instantly recognized as a martyr for peace), in the end Jesus was largely successful. Today, his party controls Bulacan's political infrastructure at all levels, thanks to a special arrangement made with the sitting Liberal government. After a brief affair with the Communists, Redemption has become one of the most reliable supporters of the present Liberal hegemony, and Governor Macario Deogracias' approval ratings have yet to fall below the high 60s.
Philippines! <3
What exactly is going on in Papua New Guinea though?
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