Layers and transparency. You can actually due it using MS Paint.
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Layers and transparency. You can actually due it using MS Paint.
I made it using Paint.net and an M-Bam base map. There's a lot of tutorials for it on Youtube.
Also if you have both the map and the flag available as SVG (scalable vector graphics) files, then you can use Inkscape to lay them ontop of each other and then there's a function to only show the overlap between the two objects, namely the country outline and the flag, though getting a good SVG version of the country outline in the case of alternate borders takes some effort of course.
The planet Phoenix located in Alpha-Centauri and is known as Proxima Centauri B today. The first Human would colonize the planet sometime in the 2070s. By the 2400s, The nations of the earth had colonized the entirety of the planet, Eventually, the colonies begin breaking off from earth establishing their own states. With the earth facing Overpopulation and environmental crisis, Mass immigration occurs and soon the population passes 6 Billion. By 3677, Many states have been established as earth has lost most of its influence on the planet.
A sequel to this:
Asterisks denote nations with Nuclear Weapons. Otherwise things not shown on map are both Russias working towards making their own nuclear weapons along with Spain. Mexico is also interested but does not feel the need to possess nuclear weapons yet. (Also the Axis of Three Emperors is no longer an accurate name with the end of the Indian Empire. The British Title is King in every dominion and the UK)
Edit: Just realized that I forgot to put Argentina in the AoN/Axis.
Edit: also forgot to say this map is set in 1964.
Asterisks denote nations with Nuclear Weapons. Otherwise things not shown on map are both Russias working towards making their own nuclear weapons along with Spain. Mexico is also interested but does not feel the need to possess nuclear weapons yet. (Also the Axis of Three Emperors is no longer an accurate name with the end of the Indian Empire. The British Title is King in every dominion and the UK)
Edit: Just realized that I forgot to put Argentina in the AoN/Axis.
Edit: also forgot to say this map is set in 1964.
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KapiTod
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Okay I initially planned to do much more for this, but it's proving to be much more difficult than originally anticipated and since I've got a lot on my plate, so you'll get what you're given.
Following the Pabodie Expeditions unfortunate demise and the recovery of specimens of an as yet undiscovered race of intelligent beings by the Forsythe Expedition in 1932 the world of archeology was rather turned on its head (so was everyone else of course but the boffins were particularly shook). Not only were humans not the most intelligent species in the history of the Earth (not even in the top 10) but it also turned out that we'd been muddling along with this "civilization" thing for quite a lot longer than anyone had initially thought..
Following the Pabodie Expeditions unfortunate demise and the recovery of specimens of an as yet undiscovered race of intelligent beings by the Forsythe Expedition in 1932 the world of archeology was rather turned on its head (so was everyone else of course but the boffins were particularly shook). Not only were humans not the most intelligent species in the history of the Earth (not even in the top 10) but it also turned out that we'd been muddling along with this "civilization" thing for quite a lot longer than anyone had initially thought..
Well this may be the last time I am writing in this, it seem's we...finally have done it, the current year is 1979 and we have mostly pushed out the cybermen from most places they have occupied and are currently planning an all out offensive against Cyber forces in occupied territories. It seem's the Cybermens time on Earth is at an end.
But I should inform you where we left off. I actually was chosen as one of the members of the elite band to strike at Mondas and kill the Cyber controller. We landed in a large metal corridor and exited the Doctors blue police box, he offered us all Jelly babies. Several of the British soldiers took it, I declined, we then heard metal stomping, Cybermen. We quickly gunned down the guards and made our way deeper into the facility.
As we made our way deeper into the facility, we passed sealed chambers, with the cyber logo put above each and everyone. We didn't know what these were and didn't want to investigate. So we moved deeper taking out any Cybermen in our way, we walked through the facility what felt like day's marching trying to find where the controller could be.
Well we eventually did find him, we accidentally stumbled into a control room. Their it stood, at least eight feet tall, a massive dome sitting upon his head, its brain vibrant and shimmering as it stared at us. it was the most advanced model of cyberman we've seen yet, it resembled a mixture of the second model and the third. It stared at us, we raised our rifles and it let out a horrifying paralyzing shriek from its voice box, causing all of us to drop to the ground.
It hovered over us, its "breathing." was heavy as it approached me and the Doctor. The Doctor slowly pulled out a golden jelly baby wrapper from his bocket and handed to me and whispered. "Shove it in his chest." The Cyber Controller approached. "You will be like us." it muttered as it reached for me, I slowly raised my arm and shoved the gold wrapping into its chest uniting rubbing it in. The Cyber controller froze and started to stumble, choking and coughing, it even threw up a little from its mouth as its legs crumbled and its head smashed against the ground, its dome cracking.
We all slowly stood. One of the other commandos approached the Cyber controller slowly, we yelled at him to stay away from it, but he couldn't help himself as he grabbed ahold of its head and pried open the face the plate with a knife, revealing a feminine face under neath. We were all in shock, as the commando slowly stood and did a prayer motion and we departed in haste back to the tardis, with cybermen chasing us.
We returned to the Tardis and returned home, already we got word of Cyber forces collapsing on the field of battle, in the hundreds of thousands, allowing us to finally began the great counter offensive to reclaim land lost to the cybermen, but seeing the cyber controllers face reminded me that...the Cybermen, no matter if they were mondasian or converted on earth were all once human, and they all deserve the right to be judged by our father in heaven.
I like to imagine that the lord of the rings is real as well, in this world. Also, who were the new races that man discovered, elves?
Crossposting from my Union of American Realms thread
Aside from being divided into five distinct government structures, the realms also differ in how their chief executives are selected. The most common method is by a direct vote by the people, which is the selection method employed by 14 of the realms (almost all of these being Governates). 12 realms have hereditary chief executives, these being the four Grand Duchies and eight of the twelve Counties. 8 realms select their chief executive by way of their legislature, including the four native realms who select their 'High Chief' typically by way of their legislative bodies composed of lower-ranked chiefs. The least common form of selection is by way of an electoral college of some kind, and this method is employed by 3 realms.
Aside from being divided into five distinct government structures, the realms also differ in how their chief executives are selected. The most common method is by a direct vote by the people, which is the selection method employed by 14 of the realms (almost all of these being Governates). 12 realms have hereditary chief executives, these being the four Grand Duchies and eight of the twelve Counties. 8 realms select their chief executive by way of their legislature, including the four native realms who select their 'High Chief' typically by way of their legislative bodies composed of lower-ranked chiefs. The least common form of selection is by way of an electoral college of some kind, and this method is employed by 3 realms.
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So this is a world where Howard and Lovecraft (unintentionally, one would assume) gave largely accurate accounts of European prehistory in their fiction?
KapiTod
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Yep!
Or at least mostly accurate. I was planning on mocking up some text book sources for this as well, and in that Howard comes over to Dublin to help translate a rather old collection of tales called "The Book of the Nemedians", which along with a 7,000 year old pre-cuneiform tablet found in Turkey decades earlier is what helps people work out a lot of the Hyborian stuff that they go on to find.
Howard gets in a lot of trouble for using his very biased speculations on the book as the basis for his own stories, and he becomes a bit of a rogue amateur- gallivanting across Europe with the help of famous grave-robber Dr. Henry Jones Junior and trying to track down the tomb of "King Conan". ITTL both he and Dr Jones are arrested in Spain in 1936 as hostilities break out, and when their confiscated artefacts are apparently destroyed in the fighting Howard takes his own life.
Whilst Howards ideas are broadly accurate he projects a level of technological and architectural development onto the societies that are pretty far off the mark. Europe in this period would look not unlike the early Levantine and Mesopotamian civilizations- small walled settlements, sporadic use of metal objects, no actual written texts save for some very basic pictograms, and some early farming. The only surprising thing is that they seem to have formed some fairly concise social and political blocks stretching over hundreds if not thousands of miles, sort of like the Incan Empires courier systems.
I've not thought too much about what Lovecraft is up to if I'm honest. I imagine he's been institutionalised.
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Maybe ITTL, the stories that came to him in dreams have some basis in fact, the dark emanations of some sleeping and terrible god...
Or maybe some memorie of his "previous lives"? It was a thing in some stories at that time, I think even Howard write one or two with this (or were Yith messing with HPLs mind?)
Anyway, @KapiTod absolutely great work, I love these pulpish "antedeluvian (pre)histories"!
I hope there will be some sequel or prequel or more details
KapiTod
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Mmh, that could be good. Since Abdul Alhazred was based off of one of Lovecraft's childhood personas when he played pretend I always liked the idea of a scenario where he becomes a second Alhazred.
I used to work on a Lovecraftian roleplay setting called the Terror in the Trenches, and an idea in that was Lovecraft and Alhazred's minds merging together through some Yi-Ti mindfuckery, and he bugs out into the desert to try and ponder how to make all the unspeakable horrors fuck off, and he goes full Leto II and basically becomes an unspeakable horror in his own right.
Obviously that's not gonna happen in this setting, but ya know.
Thank you thank you, I'm already thinking of making some smaller maps showing migrations and "kingdoms" between the great cataclysms.
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