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Quick dump of my terrible "Bahia de Todos los Santos: Spanish Colonization of Mid Atlantic" TL maps.
Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quejo's names for discoveries in 1521.
General Map of Carolina 1520s-1540s.
Provincial Map 1600
Provincial 1650 Map
1700s Urban Center Map with settlement line and competing claims.
Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quejo's names for discoveries in 1521.
General Map of Carolina 1520s-1540s.
Provincial Map 1600
Provincial 1650 Map
1700s Urban Center Map with settlement line and competing claims.
Quick dump of my terrible "Bahia de Todos los Santos: Spanish Colonization of Mid Atlantic" TL maps.
Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quejo's names for discoveries in 1521.
General Map of Carolina 1520s-1540s.
Provincial Map 1600
Provincial 1650 Map
1700s Urban Center Map with settlement line and competing claims.
Unfortunately, it has all of the red-X's.
CannedTech
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Quick dump of my terrible "Bahia de Todos los Santos: Spanish Colonization of Mid Atlantic" TL maps.
Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quejo's names for discoveries in 1521.
General Map of Carolina 1520s-1540s.
Provincial Map 1600
Provincial 1650 Map
1700s Urban Center Map with settlement line and competing claims.
Same, but if you quote the post the images show.
Orientation for the Union for the Preservation of Peace in the Multiverse, part 6.
In the end, we are cold, not cruel. We try to stay out of conflict not because we don't want to have to deal with the consequences, but to try not to cause additional issues in the first place. Most worlds will have a rough spot or two, but left on their own, they would eventually progress to be productive, peaceful, and overall "normal" denizens of the multiverse.
And then there are cases like CSA1AOE1d*r=.000125. Normally, worlds that go through the enlightenment -thus meaning worlds that are vaguely similar to Base; sorry Huukguuri, you might get a little confused here- will have a kind of rough patch, but then they will progress out of it. However, this universe went the opposite way. The CSA utterly crushed the USA, and allied with Brazil and began to propagate slavery as a strong alternative to industrialization. It turns out a twelve year old on four ounces of crack works about as well as an industrial spinner.
Thus, this world went down a horrific path. The technical term is "Paedo-slavepunk," I call it an utter abomination. Interestingly, there was no second wave of colonization as some might think of it, but instead they harvested the urban poor and those who could not afford the ever-rising "air tax." Though, from what they tell me, colonized China was a very strong source of these slaves. Basically, this world wasn't just in the running for a Vlad Tepes award, they had the Vlad Tepes Nobel Prize.
Anyway, when we turned over the rock they were under, this world was preparing for a "WWI," but with tactics the Ts'alal would frown at. So, we decided to take this hellhole out before it happened. Naturally, it took about an hour and a half to completely secure the world.
Sure, we have gotten a lot of criticism over this. Aside from the fuckos who wanted to sell meth to eight year olds, one of the worlds that helped secure this world were adherents to a certain flavor of messianic Rainbow Serpent-Dreamtime, and thus worked to spread this faith across the planet. I wanna say 5% of the population now follows it, but don't count me on that. Thus, all of the "cultural preservationists" were up in arms at us "domineering this planet's natural social ecosystem."
I say screw'm. This world needed help, and we gave them help. Now we are genuinely looking at decolonization since it has been so successful. Drug use is under .05%, mental damage is gone, and the average person could walk outside and have a good day, with a home, a decent job, and food on the table for Junior.
Thus how we operate. Sure, there are tons of universes that are terrible that we don't mess with. If I had a halfpence for every time I saw a "Nazi Victory" timeline, I wouldn't need this shitty job! But in the end, this world was just so over the top that it was necessary to invade. Plus, did I mention that they were nearing a functional interdimension drive? They would have become like a metastasizing cancer, spreading this filth everywhere.
I just wish we had found it earlier.
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The Albioner Imperium, During the reign of His Royal Victor the Seventh
Anno Domini 2888
The Albioner Imperium, or simply Albion, is the sole government of the planet Earth and claimed sole government of Humanity. Forged out of the fires of the British Empire and her former European allies, the Imperium divided the Earth along Linguistic and Geographical lines. Those that were not directly absorbed into Britain became Imperial Protectorates, or for her European fellows, Commonwealth realms. Every Protectorate and Commonwealth realm teaches English as a national language, along with the native language of the region. After the unification of the planet, the Imperium saw grand advances in tech and research, however culture has seemed to stagnate around the Victorian era. A brilliant new form of energy, practically limitless, has been discovered. Transferring digital processing into a pure form of energy. Electrical in source. This has proven to be the single energy provider for the Imperium, with "digital ammo" finding use in every firearm. Spreading to the stars seemed like a simple task, and the right of the Imperium after the world bent a knee. Luna soon fell, and a flooding of East European immigrants soon saw a boisterous labor force form after the terraforming process.
Spreading past Luna, past the solar system, the increasingly decentralized Imperium soon found sway of over four hundred and fifty solar systems. In the grand scheme of the universe, and those it soon found itself neighboring, it was nearly lesser major power in the universe.
With over 45 billion men and women on Terra alone, the Imperium stands at the precipice of human history as new discoveries soon find themselves propping every day. One of these, deemed as Eldritchcraft, was quite similar to the magic tales of old. Allowing the users to twist and form a purple flame, cause bouts of insanity to their foes, and much more that the imagination could dream of. This magic was uncovered after tombs were found inside of ancient Martian caverns, written in strange glyphs. The book, when translated to Imperial English, referenced many things made common in HP Lovecraft's works, despite his name fading from memory in this era. Faster than light travel was made possible from this knowledge, however it required phasing through an incomprehensible Netherrealm, which has caused some to fall into a bout of madness. Those that become more powerful in the craft, find their humanity fading. Soon physical defects take hold. Those that aren't careful find themselves transformed into horrific, pulpy, beasts.
The Imperium finds itself held together by simple military might, and this stops most forms of rebellious though and nationalistic undertakings, however on Luna this fails to be true. Of late many of those taken to Luna have experienced a national resurgence, and now fight a rebel war to create new "national homes" for their people. There are harsh, and xenophobic ties to this nationalism. Nationalist, authoritarian, and far from their original home.
First post for my science fiction alternate history setting I have been brewing for around a month, hope you enjoy and expect more in the future.
The Albioner Imperium, During the reign of His Royal Victor the Seventh
Anno Domini 2888
The Albioner Imperium, or simply Albion, is the sole government of the planet Earth and claimed sole government of Humanity. Forged out of the fires of the British Empire and her former European allies, the Imperium divided the Earth along Linguistic and Geographical lines. Those that were not directly absorbed into Britain became Imperial Protectorates, or for her European fellows, Commonwealth realms. Every Protectorate and Commonwealth realm teaches English as a national language, along with the native language of the region. After the unification of the planet, the Imperium saw grand advances in tech and research, however culture has seemed to stagnate around the Victorian era. A brilliant new form of energy, practically limitless, has been discovered. Transferring digital processing into a pure form of energy. Electrical in source. This has proven to be the single energy provider for the Imperium, with "digital ammo" finding use in every firearm. Spreading to the stars seemed like a simple task, and the right of the Imperium after the world bent a knee. Luna soon fell, and a flooding of East European immigrants soon saw a boisterous labor force form after the terraforming process.
Spreading past Luna, past the solar system, the increasingly decentralized Imperium soon found sway of over four hundred and fifty solar systems. In the grand scheme of the universe, and those it soon found itself neighboring, it was nearly lesser major power in the universe.
With over 45 billion men and women on Terra alone, the Imperium stands at the precipice of human history as new discoveries soon find themselves propping every day. One of these, deemed as Eldritchcraft, was quite similar to the magic tales of old. Allowing the users to twist and form a purple flame, cause bouts of insanity to their foes, and much more that the imagination could dream of. This magic was uncovered after tombs were found inside of ancient Martian caverns, written in strange glyphs. The book, when translated to Imperial English, referenced many things made common in HP Lovecraft's works, despite his name fading from memory in this era. Faster than light travel was made possible from this knowledge, however it required phasing through an incomprehensible Netherrealm, which has caused some to fall into a bout of madness. Those that become more powerful in the craft, find their humanity fading. Soon physical defects take hold. Those that aren't careful find themselves transformed into horrific, pulpy, beasts.
The Imperium finds itself held together by simple military might, and this stops most forms of rebellious though and nationalistic undertakings, however on Luna this fails to be true. Of late many of those taken to Luna have experienced a national resurgence, and now fight a rebel war to create new "national homes" for their people. There are harsh, and xenophobic ties to this nationalism. Nationalist, authoritarian, and far from their original home.
First post for my science fiction alternate history setting I have been brewing for around a month, hope you enjoy and expect more in the future.
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Alternate NYC. This one is Franco-Dutch. Huguenot founded but incorporated into the United Provinces following the 80 Years War.
fashbasher
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Who doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? Here's a map based on this theory that implies sweeping control of the global political landscape by a shadowy cabal of...no, not Jews, nor the Chinese, but wealthy American conservatives, mainly WASPs.
Nice!
What assumptions did you make about atomic weapons development?
Is that a Roman survivor state in NW Africa?
Are those "Latin" rebels in *Spain and southern *Italy?
So Persian Egypt was overrun by Sudanese Muslims?
Independent Cyprus?
Is that a Mongol Iraq? Why hasn't the Reich puppetized it or conquered it outright for the oil?
I don't think "Hispanophone" includes Portuguese.
Putting C. Asia into the Rumsfeldian sphere was a nice touch.
Who doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? Here's a map based on this theory that implies sweeping control of the global political landscape by a shadowy cabal of...no, not Jews, nor the Chinese, but wealthy American conservatives, mainly WASPs.
>Straight borders
>Not in the US
>Not in Africa
ugh
To be fair, I wanted to give off the feeling that a rather uncaring coalition took it over. They really just kind of wanted to stop people from doing the things. Thus why China looks like a four year old took a pencil to it.
fashbasher
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Consensual ISOT from the MotF competition. The red rectangles are the area that was duplicated to an alt-earth as part of a Los Alamos National Laboratory experiment. The reason it is so small in area is that only the governments of New Mexico and the Navajo and Hopi nations consented.
They'd have to be, Europe isn't that rich in easily accessible oil - how come? Are we talking some sort of technological retrogression/stasis, with everything still running on coal?
CannedTech
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Consensual ISOT from the MotF competition. The red rectangles are the area that was duplicated to an alt-earth as part of a Los Alamos National Laboratory experiment. The reason it is so small in area is that only the governments of New Mexico and the Navajo and Hopi nations consented.
Guess that's one way to even out Native American and Anglo populations. Cool idea!
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