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Sure! I think it's fixedsys, but I'm not sure.
If it is not, it is certainly very similiar. @Eparkhos do you mind if we talk through messages in the conversations ?
Sure! I think it's fixedsys, but I'm not sure.
Beautiful logo. What's the story behind the name?
Thank you! It's from some background stuff I'm doing for FNBG. I'll be integrating it into some future graphics.
"Universal Dictionary" is an OTL, older term for Encyclopedia which sticks in English and becomes the general term. (To quote wikipedia: "The beginnings of the modern idea of the general-purpose, widely distributed printed encyclopedia precede the 18th century encyclopedists. However, Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728), and the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1751 onwards), ")
Binary is the TTL term for Digital (for obvious reasons) and anything relating to computing, from that Transbinary (literally "across-computers") refers to networking and in time came to refer to anything online.
Therefore "Transbinary Universal Dictionary" literally just translates to Online Encyclopedia and TraBUD (pronounced trah-bud) was an easy common abbreviation to take up. I honestly didn't realise until after it was all done that Transbinary sounds like an LGBT term from OTL but *shrug* divergences are cool and I quite like it.
WMIT in SPAAAAAACE!View attachment 524131
50's aesthetic meets space age meets radical expansionist America!
The Berlin Blockade goes hot. America and the USSR duke it out, leading to a catastrophic conflict which makes World War II look like a playground quarrel. Society fights itself into a modern version of the Dark Ages, where societal progress is null but military advancements makes technology go many decades into the future. The shattered remnants of Europe and the Soviet Union collapse into chaos as the United States plunges into a dormant isolationism.
This state of affairs remains until the 1980's, when a spacefaring mission to Mars comes into contact with an intelligent alien civilization which is technologically somewhere in the Bronze Age. War is inevitable: the United States leads a brutal colonization of Mars which is fairly similar to the conquest of the American West, in which these aliens (called "Martians" in true 50's fashion) are virtually exterminated, and the remainder are enslaved to serve human settlers.
It is soon revealed that the Solar System is populated with an enormous variety of alien species, each with a varying degree of technological progress, although humanity ranks very high in the stellar hierarchy. Increasingly militaristic and authoritarian, the United States becomes a radical Christian regime, in which "Manifest Destiny" is considered a mandate of God and a "New Inquisition" pretty much carries out interplanetary genocide in the name of "evangelization".
This here is a recruitment poster released by the National Evangelization Board of the American Space Exploration Agency, as part of the American New Pioneer Program. May expand on the lore later.
What are the flags on the top right and 2nd left on the 4th row?View attachment 549761
So I imagined this brief timeline in which :
- Gallipoli is an actual success and avoids most likely the Armenian genocide with the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire.
- Kerensky is actually competent and manages to do a decent job establishing the Russian Republic and by sheer luck survives without getting putsched after he peaced out with Imperial Germany.
- Germany still looses, but Poland and the Baltic State stay on.
- The Strasser brothers actually overcome Hitler in popularity and they are not so insane to invade Russia
- Anglo-French-Japanese alliance, China Kuomnintag actually join forces with Germany and they keep up the training of Chinese Republican Forces
- Japan still bombs Pearl Harbor, bring America into the war on the side of Strasserist Germany
- Strasserist Germany + Russian Republic + United States (maybe a defecting Canada?) [I don't know how a Russian Republic would enter the war honestly]
- Portugal breaks his century old alliance with Britain to "avenge" the shame of the Pink Map, Franco's Spain wants to bring new vigor to his country and Mussolini's Italy joins on the side of Strasserist Germany to rebirth a new Roman Empire.
- Strasserist Germany manages to "Sealion" Britain and overrun Northern France
- Japan gets nuked
- The surrender : the USA and Strasserist Germany carve up Europe and Asia : France is divided into a German friendly North and a separatist South Occitania influenced by largerly Spain and Italy with American oversight. Britain is under the boot of Germany like in OTL (just sooner)
- Italy Spain and Portugal feast on many British and French colonial holdings in Africa and Asia. Russia and the United States do the same with Manchuria, Palestine, Syria (propably Greater) and other Asian colonies of the two greatest empires.
- The situation becomes tense when both Russia and Germany test nuclear weapons. Italy might join the Nuclear club?
- The world is slightly better and worse at the same time : Russia didn't loose many bright young men and women to the German death marches, China probably won't suffer as much as it did with Mao, Germany has suffered but hasn't lost another but the British, French and Japs are still more fucked. Probably Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg as well, Poland is either a puppet state of Germany or Russian Republic. We might have a tripolar Cold War and no independence for Africans before the end of the century if they are lucky. It's a Cold War between a left wing nationalist autocratic giant and two capitalists giants BUT it might be better for civil rights everywhere. MAYBE
- The Cold War is still on of course.
What are the flags on the top right and 2nd left on the 4th row?
This is utterly amazing!TIME Magazine: The West Is Red - Complete Edition