Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!
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Henry Frederick Owens-Allen. Delightful!
It took me a while to come up with that one...terrifyingly, it came out sounding rather Welsh.
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That is deliberate. They have been mentioned in an 'everyone knows' way in the last few updates, but you the reader will not find out about them for a while yet.
Thank you.
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For those of you having trouble following the political evolution of the ENA's parties, here's a diagram. (Compare to an actual OTL one from an 1883 book).
While I am still reading the Definite Version in the Finished Timeline section (I am currently on the chapter after Mozart withdraws from the siege of one of the town in the Low Countries), I want to congratulate you on writing an excellent TL. I hope I can catch up to the current version soon and contribute now and then.
Damn you and your incredibly long, detailed and excellent TL with many updates! I wished you started it at a time when I was here!
One question quickly: Who is Chris Nuttall and the other two people (I can't accurately describe their occupation)?
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Damn you and your incredibly long, detailed and excellent TL with many updates! I wished you started it at a time when I was here!
One question quickly: Who is Chris Nuttall and the other two people (I can't accurately describe their occupation)?
In-universe, they are members of a crosstime exploration team from another TL (implied to be the near future of OTL) which has discovered how to create crosstime Portals. This started out as a cameo crossover thing based on the Multiverse War novels of Chris (Nuttall), a former member here, and who also got the lead character on the Institute team named after himself. The other team members are also mostly cameos for other AH.com people; Bruno Lombardi is Doctor What, Thermos Pylos is Thermopylae (I will probably change the name to something less silly if I get this published).
Got it. Just curious, I haven't seen Thermopylae post here, so what happened to him?
Thanks for your time.
Are they all from the same timeline though? Couldn't Thermos Pylos work as being from a more greek worl or something?
Anyway, an excellent update, way ahead of my ability. I hope to one day be half as good.
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Thermo comes and goes, though he hasn't been here for a while. His TLs were famous for wacky ethnic migrations and unlikely colonies (I once sarcastically suggested 'Polish Australia' as an example of what he would get up to, and he ended up actually taking it as a suggestion and incorporating it into one of his TLs
). He's a lot of fun.They are all supposed to be from the same TL. And thank you.
Great update as always, Thande! I usually find ENA electoral politics to be rather dry, but they do add a lot of depth and always set the stage for the stuff that does a better job of grabbing my interest. Just one question though, what exactly are the arrangements that the Radical-Neutral government made with New Spain and Russia? The update seemed pretty vague.
Thank you. That makes more sense now. The diagram is also helpful - interesting to note the Democrats are considered to derive from the Neutrals when they were originally led by a Whig with supporters from all parties. Or is this just on an Imperial level?
Also to note the Supremacists apparently derive from the Patriots. EDIT: And Neutrals too, bizzarely.
Any chance of more detailed results of the elections?
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Basically sorting out the disputed Oregon Country (at least temporarily) by defining some (rather notional) border claims. At the moment the borders are only defined near the western coast and peter out in the interior, meaning this is only delaying a later confrontation.
Not at the moment because I need to figure out how the extra seats would have been distributed.
I'm guessing Carolina makes a rather bloody attempt to defend it with opportunistic New Spanish help...
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