the poll suck, my heart can not choice only one, I want vote more.
Practicing thread necromancy are we?
the poll suck, my heart can not choice only one, I want vote more.
you forgot the draka and a warlike confederate superpower dystopia.
I didn't see slavepunk listed, so here goes: a wanked Rome with elements of pharonic Egypt folded in. A tiny, decadent, effete aristocracy rules over masses of rural and urban slaves with the help of an elite of soldiers, literate slaves and perhaps a few eunuchs. Gladiatorial games evolve into recreational warfare between slave armies, with aristocrats betting on the outcome. The absolute preponderance of dirt-cheap labor would effectively preclude advanced tech, perpetuating the slave dependent society.
Well, Indians WHERE Aryans (in the north at least)...
I really can't decide between Cyberpunk and Mongols. Cyberpunk is the end of society, literally. It would be when humanity has gone so far beyond the pale that there is no way to get back to the days when we actually had rights and were thought of as people. IT's a dark idea. But the Mongols are even worse. A Mongol conquest of the whole world would destroy EVERY civilization just as much as they destroyed the Islamic Caliphate. If anyone would remember that one phrase, "and the rivers of Baghdad ran black with the ink of the great library's books". Yeah. That means that the very light of progress itself is snuffed out, or at least pushed back so far as to mean that we will basically be at the Renaissance about now. Even worse, all of the world will be like Moscow after the conquest: "a great, hollow, empty graveyard of a city with one or two hundred inhabitants huddled around cooking fires in the center." Basically, the end of all modern civilization and progress before it even began. You know what? I'm'a choose mongols.