So it’s just Denmark and Norway? Or are Finland and Sweden included? What did Sweden so with Russia?
Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again
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The author imagining this section clearly doesn't know you need to let the pot air dry first.
But there's definite currents of chaos- Carolina is clearly lost, but how much further south can the Imperials go, and the war in Europe looks to be taking a rather different turn.
Considering that the commission was to make non-lethal irritants to temporarily disable, I figure their "ranging long shot" that landed in permanently disabling to killing territory instead was in fact more along the lines of mustard gas. Of course nerve gas was an accidental byproduct of pesticide research OTL and there is no telling what might be the outcome of what I suppose--a trained chemist like the author with a century's lead on the ATL science could guess better than the rest of us.
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This is NOT going to be pretty; I'm guessing the substance in question is either mustard gas or phosgene.
In either case it will be used in a civil war against unprepared populations and in a situation where the industrial base is in too much disarray to mass-produce countermeasure.
This is going to look more like Iraq's use against the Kurds than German and Entente efforts in WWI.
In either case it will be used in a civil war against unprepared populations and in a situation where the industrial base is in too much disarray to mass-produce countermeasure.
This is going to look more like Iraq's use against the Kurds than German and Entente efforts in WWI.
No Hall-Héroult, eh? Bit odd when chemistry is advanced over OTL and OTL the discovery was made independently twice.
What kind of rocket can you fire from an airship that will sink a Dreadnought?
Glad to see another update, I was starting to get withdrawals.
Wait, wait, wait. Is the Black Revolution starting with chemical warfare? That's nasty.
I found it funny how Greek statues are "obscure stuff", but Etruscan-derived art is mainstream.
I'm really not well-versed in military technology, are these the biplanes?
Wait, wait, wait. Is the Black Revolution starting with chemical warfare? That's nasty.
I found it funny how Greek statues are "obscure stuff", but Etruscan-derived art is mainstream.
I'm really not well-versed in military technology, are these the biplanes?
Thande
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Some chemistry is (such as gas chemistry and dye synthesis), but electrochemistry research is running about thirty years behind OTL, as noted back in Volume III. Electrolysis (required for the Hall-Héroult process) in TTL didn't get going until the 1840s, whereas in OTL Michael Faraday was electrolysing absolutely everything he could get his hands on in the 1810s thanks to Volta's research.
Firstly this isn't a dreadnought; lionhearts are more analogous to HMS Majestic. Secondly they're not trying to sink it (directly), they're just trying to damage the superstructure to disable weapons and/or start fires that might spread to the magazine.
Aerodromes are the TTL terminology for planes in general, these specific ones are indeed biplanes.
Thande
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Thanks - I thought it didn't sound right, but evidently either I read the translation wrong or it lied to me.
How are censuses conducted? *Analytical Engines, or at the very least *Difference Engines, exist ITTL, so that makes census-taking a lot easier than it would otherwise be. But I recall you referenced Optel destroying the mail system of most countries by including parcel delivery as a side business and distributing letters through Optel. How exactly does the government distribute census forms, then?
Fantastic update, and looks like things are going to go from just grim to downright vicious in short order with the introduction of chemical weapons from the labs of PAWC's boffins. Though it is somewhat gratifying to see the Societists as adept at scheming and playing the long game as some of the writings we've been given glimpses of have painted them as. Can't wait for the next update.
And that'd better have been deliberate, you cheeky bugger!
And that'd better have been deliberate, you cheeky bugger!