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I've been writing the draft for a TL which involves the Indian Ocean world in the 18th century, and increasingly I've been feeling discouraged because it feels impossible to achieve any degree of realism without being very, very knowledgeable about every corner of the world. I mean, the history of just one-half of the Indian Ocean for just 63 years merits a 1352-page book. But if you ignore effects of your POD on certain areas of the world, doesn't that effectively mean that you're setting up a 'butterfly net' around those areas, which is both unrealistic and unfair?
Thoughts? How realistically do you prefer/write your TLs? Am I aiming for too unrealistic a goal?