Malê Rising
- Thread starter Jonathan Edelstein
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I don't think we need to do that - the main timeline is finished, I don't plan on adding anything more to it (although all of you remain free to do so), and it seems clear that this is a side discussion.
While this TL is getting a few new posts I just want to say how much I enjoyed reading it, when I did -- I think it's one of the best things on this site. (As I read through I had a list in my mind of specific things I wanted to point out but alas my memory is swiss cheese at the best of times and that was a while ago, so it will need to wait until I have the necessary time for a reread.)
I might be interested in creating something like Ephraim Ben Raphael’s It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow on SpaceBattles chronicling the rise and fall of the Imperial powers and exploring the aftermath of class revolution/nuclear war in the metropole/decolonization after decades of Imperialist rule . I assume most of the postcolonial states would suffer from many of the internal problems OTL postcolonial states had if not worse.
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There's a list of updates here that will help navigate the updates from the comments - it's missing the last two or three but includes all the others.While this TL is getting a few new posts I just want to say how much I enjoyed reading it, when I did -- I think it's on
Thanks - it's always good for the soul to know that people are still reading and getting enjoyment from this story.
Probably worse, given the greater level of oppression and debasement - Congo IOTL would be the median in the meta-TL rather than the outlier. OTOH, some of the post-colonial states in the meta-TL will have memories of 19th-century statehood and republican ideology to draw on.
Anyway, if you want to make the meta-TL into a full story, which I'd love to see, it might be best to start a separate thread after all - a lengthy project that's essentially a new TL is something different from a couple dozen posts of meta-discussion.
The New World states, Ethiopia, Sokoto, Egypt, China, India, Korea, Siam, Vietnam and parts of Europe certainly - these will probably be in a “better” condition than the rest if only by virtue of having a state apparatus to draw upon even if the result is that of OTL Burma or North Korea.
The worst probably means something like a post-collapse North Korea or “completed” genocide like Pol Pot’s Cambodia or a Reichkommisariat-like settler colony run by a extreme branch of the local Party, although I’m not sure how I would cover that excluding a vague reference because this might turn into grimdark
Created as the End of Empires timeline
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Yes please. It’s annoying to scroll through 3 pages of discussion just to get to the next thread
Where can I find it?
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