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Every post has a small number next to it. If you click that, you'll get sent to that specific post. Then you can just copy & paste the link.
EDIT: ninja'd!
Thank you both. Been using the right-click of the number to make a link, but that only does the page. Been really annoying me when posting the Patreon stuff.
Alrighty here's the new map! Mostly just updated island asia and added new thingies in the corner since the old betas aren't a symbol ttl. Lemme know if you guys have any suggestions or questions!
What’s the symbol on the lower right supposed to represent? I’ve only seen it in Stargate SG-1 (and there will be a Roman version of that ITTL).
Can I ask what is he supposed to be nickname?
Though I still like him to be called the islam slayer. If not well there is also nicknames that is well suited for his legacy "the wrathful, the bloody and the vengeful".
I was thinking “the Comet”, as in ‘spectacular and seen by all’, but continuing the astronomical theme I was on at the time I came up with that. But unless there’s a historical Great Comet happening during his reign (which I have to re-check, but I’m pretty sure the answer is no), it feels rather random.
New Constantinople was in Ambon all this time?
I always thought it was Manila! I have no idea how that got into my head.
When New Constantinople was founded, I said it was on Ambon but since then have just been saying New Constantinople. So it was a case of missing one-line. Sorry for the confusion.
If I recall there are 4 Kaptenates. Taprobane(Sri Lanka), Singapura (Singapore and Malaya), New Constantinople (Indonesia and Papua), and Pygros(Philippines).
In terms of strength Taprobane is the strongest while Pygros is the weakest but all are expanding power rapidly as more and more natives are Romanized.
These updates have been enlightening on the relative strengths of the eastern powers. I thought that the Triunes would be main impediment to Rhoman dominance but it is pretty clear that Spain will be the main opponent especially with Triunes and Lotharingians killing each other for the foreseeable future.
I still think that long term Rome is going to come to utterly dominate the arc from Taprobane to the Philippines; their approach to race and integration is just far superior to all others; but it is clear it will not happen as quickly or one-sidedly as I originally thought.
One OOC advantage of doing all these regional updates is that it’s making me flesh out areas, which gives me new ideas for taking things. It was fun taking my occasional comments and turning them into a coherent narrative.
I echo those who have said that these regional updates are quite good. Not only are they up to this timeline's usual high standard in terms of writing they also get me to look up information about a time and place I knew next-to-nothing about. Early/Mid-Modern Asia was a fascinating place!
Thank you. It’s been fun looking into early modern Indonesia.
Rome has settlements in papua? Where? Not doubting you just wondering so i can add it to the map
There’s been some exploration of the area by Romans and Spanish to see whether there’s anything worth anything beyond the Moluccas, but no settlements. There’s nothing there that justifies the expense. Think the OTL Spanish explorations of the region in the 1500s.
I wonder if there is anything like the Treaty of Tordesillas ITTL to clearly delineate the spheres of influence of the Catholic powers or Arletian powers. Arles is probably unable to compete with Spain so quietly hunkers down and tries to grab what it can.
New Constantinople choosing to go tall I see. How does it compare to Pekan's 40k population?
Do you mean first two btw? Latter two are under Spanish influence.
Updates getting soooo close to Australia. I'm wondering how soon Europe will rediscover and scheme for it again.
No delineating treaties. It’s a case of ‘first come, first serve’.
New Constantinople has a smaller population, around 15,000. It doesn’t have the space.
Banggai and Manado were vassals of Ternate or Tidore, so when the Romans took over the overlord, they followed. When the Portuguese replaced the Romans as the hegemon, Banggai and Manado followed along and are currently under Spanish influence.
Things are looking interesting. I do hope that Rhomania takes most of Australia as they could name it Notosia or Notia edafi. Making the capital sideroupoli in otl Melbourne perhaps.
Another reason for ending Wu is that it opened up the possibility of having a Roman Australia.
Yes, though I hope that the Australian Aboriginal people manage to get into the Varangian Guard.
Hadn’t considered that.
Maori Varangians: I had not considered that, but I love the idea.
I wonder if Georgia is gonna take a bigger bite out of the ottomans than the trans aras region
I think to go further would require some level of hands-off control. Effectively finding a regional minority to empower. In this case maybe Azeri - or the Mazanderani. The latter is a good target I think, as it'd allow Georgia to dominate the Caspian, and whilst it is quite fortified with mountains and the like, it opens a second, easily defended front for the Georgians, but less so for the Iranians.
Mazandaran could work. It’s compact and isolated from the rest of Persia. Otherwise further Georgian expansion would be just biting random chunks off of the Iranian plateau, and that seems like a bad long-term idea.
Who here has been active on this tl since 2012?
Me.
Personally, I want the Maori to colonize the Wu remnants and form the great Aotearoan Empire and go on to rule over all Polynesians.
That would be a cool idea. I like the idea of an independent Kingdom of Hawaii that stays independent (although it probably ends up sucked into the orbit of one of the big Pacific powers).
The next ‘Megas Kyr’ update has been posted on Patreon, which looks primarily at the opening years of Theodoros II’s reign, a war with the Bulgarians, frictions with his nobles, and a sudden debilitating illness that leads one Michael Palaiologos to get ambitious.
Thank you again for your support.