Sao Tome cannot into space??
No, they can into space. But there are other perfectly good places to put the equatorial space elevators.
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No, they can into space. But there are other perfectly good places to put the equatorial space elevators.
i'd say the best place for a space elevator would be the Lingga Archipelago in the strait of mallaca, at least with our current or the near future geopolitical order, halfway between India and China. Definitely the most useful place for a space elevator
Speaking of blasts from the past, I was just reminded that I made this back when I was first learning how to do maps. France, Italy, and the Vatican are ISOTed from April 9, 1940 to September 7, 1812. It's certainly a scenario I'd want to cover someday. The teal colors represent the areas DT France took over.
What is Italy doing? Is it allied with France or it is doing its own thing?Speaking of blasts from the past, I was just reminded that I made this back when I was first learning how to do maps. France, Italy, and the Vatican are ISOTed from April 9, 1940 to September 7, 1812. It's certainly a scenario I'd want to cover someday. The teal colors represent the areas DT France took over.
Also shouldn't Albania be part of Italy too?
I only remember enough that I'm sure I only threw in Italy to prevent the scenario from becoming a complete France wank.
As for Albania, I must've forgot it.
Speaking of blasts from the past, I was just reminded that I made this back when I was first learning how to do maps. France, Italy, and the Vatican are ISOTed from April 9, 1940 to September 7, 1812. It's certainly a scenario I'd want to cover someday. The teal colors represent the areas DT France took over.
Ottoman Empire, and Egypt: I'm in danger.
Russia and the UK: Why do I hear boss fight music?
Well both are easy targets for Benito to begin recreating Rome, with the retaking of Albania and completely conquering Egypt. Hell, Musso probably gets even more support since he's no doubt going to spin the ISOT as divine intervention.
Exactly. Mussolini can now carry out his New Roman Empire, at least in the East. I doubt France would like it, but they got a ton of issues themselves. (AKA: Napoleon, and the DT Grande Armée from Spain to the German States and Russia.)
I'm thinking if they maintain a defensive front within metropolitan France and keep their navy convoys up. Come to think of it, 20th century French Navy would end up being the most powerful navy in the world.
From Spartacus Educational:
"By the outbreak of the Second World War the French Navy was a strong force. Between 1926 and 1939 two battlecruisers, seven heavy cruisers and 12 light cruisers had been built. Their large battleships were either new or had recently been modernized. It also had 71 destroyers and 76 submarines.
Furthermore, wouldn't we get a few Nazis roaming around in this world as a result of the ISOT? Maybe a Pan-German revolution happens under the leadership of a Nazi individual?
I'm using Times New Roman 8 or 9 for text, Sitka Heading for the numbers on the map.
Yep. (I've been telling myself I need to upgrade for most of the 2010s...
Hey, it's a work in progress!
Don't think you can carnival barker me into doing it.
No, it's just that Sao Tome will be most easily dominated by the Orbital Beanstalk Corporation.
Anyone important enough who could've lead such a revolution would've been in Germany at the time of the ISOT rather than in France or Italy I figured.
They don't need to be brilliant or important to have influence. I see pirated copies of "Mein Kampf" and other Nazi works (no doubt freely available in Italian and French editions) spreading widely...of course, works by and about the Second Reich will have a lot of influence too!
Add in any potential communists in France and the few (if any at all) remaining in Italy fleeing to Germany and you got a multisided struggle for Germany's future that could get ugly.
I like it.
There is always a possibility. Detached Wehrmacht units would be in France at the specific timeframe this ISOT comes from, as well as German nationals in France and Italy. Simply being taken back to this time period may take some German nationals mentally shocked, as they technically have no country to go back to legally speaking. This alone would be a motivation for a German national to get radical ideas out, epsecially if they are officially members of the NSDAP, no matter how unimportant they were in 1940.
Isn't Dalnivostok where Green Ukraine is? I remember there being a green ukraine in that area
Yes. IIRC the area was part of the Far East Republic, a soviet buffer state, and many of the inhabitants were Ukrainian. The Ukrainian areas seceded from the far east republic when it fell apart and were independent for a time but were reabsorbed into the far east after it was reestablished, and later back into Russia along with the rest of the far east. This Dalnivostok (far east) effectively is Green Ukraine, I just used another name, maybe it was chosen to be more inclusive of the large Mongolian and Tungusic populations.
The murder of Adolf Hitler via a letter filled with poison powder just days after the July 31st election in which his NSDAP became the strongest party in the German Reichstag was a massive surprise. According to Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s personal adjutant who acted as the NSDAP mouthpiece during the weeks following this assassination, the party suspected that leftist agitators were responsible, though certain right-wing elements, like the minor Bavarian state parliamentarian Ludwig Aßner [1], who was from a smaller far-right movement, labeled the death of Hitler as a blessing, too.
After a short leadership crisis, the NSDAP chose Hermann Göring, the Great War flying ace and, since the NSDAP’s victory in the recent election, president of the Reichstag, as their new party chairman after Hess, who was also seen as a contender, threw his support behind Göring. While the loss of the party’s charismatic chief ideologue affected the party, Göring managed through negotiation with conservative advisers surrounding the aged Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg to become chancellor of Germany in a coalition government with the DNVP, another far-right party, in the spring of 1934. National socialism had taken over Germany.
The rest of the world noticed. Benito Mussolini, Duce of Italy, who had first met Göring during his exile after the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch of 1923 [2], welcomed this development at first, but not long after rivaling egos and clashing spheres of influence prevented an alliance between Berlin and Rome. The old Entente powers of France, Britain, and Belgium were worried, though certain elements in each of them were willing to tolerate the Göring regime as long as it promised peace in Western Europe, even going so far as allowing the reunification of the Saarland with Germany and the re-militarization of the Rhineland, with the latter coming with a guarantee of Belgium’s and Luxembourg’s borders (though, for the record, not their sovereignty) by the far-right chancellor in April of 1936. When Germany began pushing for “readjustments” in the east, anti-war sentiment in the UK and a weakened resolve to maintain the cordon sanitaire with the states of Eastern Europe by the French led first to the division of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and the return of pre-1914 borders in Poland in 1940, which also involved a strategic cooperation with Stalin’s Soviet Union.
The Soviets, believing that a strong Germany to counterweight the Franco-British Entente was necessary to ensure the USSR’s survival [3], backed Göring’s plan to annex Posen, Upper Silesia, and the Polish Corridor (including Danzig) in exchange for a division of Eastern Europe among the two powers. The Soviets would gain influence in Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, as well as annex the Polish Kresy in exchange for Germany establishing domination over Poland and Lithuania. Göring, happy with the opportunity to make these gains and receive the tacit approval of Germany’s status as a major European power, agreed.
The Nazis used these new conquests and these new client states to their advantage, forcing Polish and Czech industry to produce almost exclusively for the German (and Hungarian) market, giving a small boost to the German economy. Furthermore confiscations of industrial goods and parts of the gold reserves further helped bridge over Germany’s impending economic troubles. However this boom has already ended and with the 1950s the German economy is again in serious danger due to economic mismanagement.
Elsewhere far-right movements have popped up, too. Latin America in particular has seen the emergence of several groups, almost all of them taking a certain degree of inspiration from either the Italian, Spanish, or German models. In Syria, which received independence from France in 1947, a movement inspired by Italian fascism has taken root [4]. Democracy has thus not just socialism but also fascism as rivals.
Meanwhile in East Asia, the Japanese Empire has fallen four years ago. The Sino-Soviet alliance has managed to defeat the expansionist regime in Tokyo after a long and bloody war (which partially overlapped with the Chinese Civil War, in which the Communists eventually would emerge victorious [5]), in which many Chinese soldiers and civilians died. Despite Japan’s superior navy, the two allied nations managed to land on Kyushu and Hokkaido, eventually leading to the armies meeting on the Kanto Plains… Emperor Hirohito was executed, as were many prominent military and political leaders. The remnant of the Japanese royal family was deported to the Siberian city of Chita, near Lake Baikal, and two republics, the Democratic People’s Republic of Japan and the Socialist Republic of Japan were formed on the Japanese islands, under Soviet and Chinese influence respectively. This division, while intended to be temporary, might just stick around though…
The 1940s, a truly turbulent decade, are now over. It has been 32 years since the Great War, and while there have been local wars since then, there hasn’t been a global conflict since then. But that may very well change soon, since certain conflicts, believed to be resolved or averted, might just bubble up again, and who knows what scale those conflicts might take...
[1] IOTL Aßner attempted to assassinate Hitler with this method in February of 1932. ITTL this doesn't happen, but he still isn't a fan of Hitler here either.
[2] This happened IOTL, yes. Benny also then expressed interest in meeting the then-enjailed Hitler, too.
[3] Gotta love having quotes by Stalin to back up stuff like this.
[4] Basically Ba'athists.
[5] Just roll with it, tbh. Oh and for the record, Mao is dead before 1940 ITTL, too.
PS: I'm not super happy with this setting, but I wanted to get it out anyway. Hopefully you'll enjoy some of the ideas presented here and, if you have questions, feel free to ask them.
After a short leadership crisis, the NSDAP chose Hermann Göring, the Great War flying ace and, since the NSDAP’s victory in the recent election, president of the Reichstag, as their new party chairman after Hess, who was also seen as a contender, threw his support behind Göring. While the loss of the party’s charismatic chief ideologue affected the party, Göring managed through negotiation with conservative advisers surrounding the aged Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg to become chancellor of Germany in a coalition government with the DNVP, another far-right party, in the spring of 1934. National socialism had taken over Germany.
The rest of the world noticed. Benito Mussolini, Duce of Italy, who had first met Göring during his exile after the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch of 1923 [2], welcomed this development at first, but not long after rivaling egos and clashing spheres of influence prevented an alliance between Berlin and Rome. The old Entente powers of France, Britain, and Belgium were worried, though certain elements in each of them were willing to tolerate the Göring regime as long as it promised peace in Western Europe, even going so far as allowing the reunification of the Saarland with Germany and the re-militarization of the Rhineland, with the latter coming with a guarantee of Belgium’s and Luxembourg’s borders (though, for the record, not their sovereignty) by the far-right chancellor in April of 1936. When Germany began pushing for “readjustments” in the east, anti-war sentiment in the UK and a weakened resolve to maintain the cordon sanitaire with the states of Eastern Europe by the French led first to the division of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and the return of pre-1914 borders in Poland in 1940, which also involved a strategic cooperation with Stalin’s Soviet Union.
The Soviets, believing that a strong Germany to counterweight the Franco-British Entente was necessary to ensure the USSR’s survival [3], backed Göring’s plan to annex Posen, Upper Silesia, and the Polish Corridor (including Danzig) in exchange for a division of Eastern Europe among the two powers. The Soviets would gain influence in Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, as well as annex the Polish Kresy in exchange for Germany establishing domination over Poland and Lithuania. Göring, happy with the opportunity to make these gains and receive the tacit approval of Germany’s status as a major European power, agreed.
The Nazis used these new conquests and these new client states to their advantage, forcing Polish and Czech industry to produce almost exclusively for the German (and Hungarian) market, giving a small boost to the German economy. Furthermore confiscations of industrial goods and parts of the gold reserves further helped bridge over Germany’s impending economic troubles. However this boom has already ended and with the 1950s the German economy is again in serious danger due to economic mismanagement.
Elsewhere far-right movements have popped up, too. Latin America in particular has seen the emergence of several groups, almost all of them taking a certain degree of inspiration from either the Italian, Spanish, or German models. In Syria, which received independence from France in 1947, a movement inspired by Italian fascism has taken root [4]. Democracy has thus not just socialism but also fascism as rivals.
Meanwhile in East Asia, the Japanese Empire has fallen four years ago. The Sino-Soviet alliance has managed to defeat the expansionist regime in Tokyo after a long and bloody war (which partially overlapped with the Chinese Civil War, in which the Communists eventually would emerge victorious [5]), in which many Chinese soldiers and civilians died. Despite Japan’s superior navy, the two allied nations managed to land on Kyushu and Hokkaido, eventually leading to the armies meeting on the Kanto Plains… Emperor Hirohito was executed, as were many prominent military and political leaders. The remnant of the Japanese royal family was deported to the Siberian city of Chita, near Lake Baikal, and two republics, the Democratic People’s Republic of Japan and the Socialist Republic of Japan were formed on the Japanese islands, under Soviet and Chinese influence respectively. This division, while intended to be temporary, might just stick around though…
The 1940s, a truly turbulent decade, are now over. It has been 32 years since the Great War, and while there have been local wars since then, there hasn’t been a global conflict since then. But that may very well change soon, since certain conflicts, believed to be resolved or averted, might just bubble up again, and who knows what scale those conflicts might take...
[1] IOTL Aßner attempted to assassinate Hitler with this method in February of 1932. ITTL this doesn't happen, but he still isn't a fan of Hitler here either.
[2] This happened IOTL, yes. Benny also then expressed interest in meeting the then-enjailed Hitler, too.
[3] Gotta love having quotes by Stalin to back up stuff like this.
[4] Basically Ba'athists.
[5] Just roll with it, tbh. Oh and for the record, Mao is dead before 1940 ITTL, too.
PS: I'm not super happy with this setting, but I wanted to get it out anyway. Hopefully you'll enjoy some of the ideas presented here and, if you have questions, feel free to ask them.
I really like this setting, feels very thought of. Is Papua likely to get reunited ? I really want to give it a hug whenever I see it partitioned (which includes everytime I see an OTL world map)
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