"Plotted from the beginning to betray Austria"? Even setting aside the fact that Konrad von Hotzendorf had been proposing for years to actually backstab Italy (the last proposal was, I think, in 1911 during the Italo-Turkish war, but there surely had been talks as close as 1908), and so if anything you're getting the traitor angle wrong, the Triple Alliance, in the Italo-Austrian section, called for a) no deal in case of aggression war, and b) no deal in case of Russian attack on Austria. This whole "traitors!" thing is tiring, tiring, tiring.
Map Thread XV
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My Motf 156 Entry:
Sometime between December 31st (1913) and January 1st of 1914 a new island rose from appeared in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. This was followed by minor tsunamis impacting Western Europe, and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. What became clear was that there was now a new landmass that had emerged in the Atlantic ocean, inhabited by a human civilization. The people on the island had a primitive culture reminiscent of Ancient Greece and the Mesoamerican civilizations, which quickly gained the Island the name "Atlantis". Shortly after it's appearance, many European powers, alongside the United States began colonizing the island. In 1918 a formal Conference was held in Rome, similar to the Berlin Conference of 1885. It determined the zones of control over the island. As the Europeans expanded inward, they encountered increasingly hostile Atlanteans, who were armed by various competing powers and encouraged to revolt. Eventually, Japan, Itlay, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the USA, Germany, France, Russia, Canada, and the United Kingdom all controlled or claimed territory in Atlantis.
Sometime between December 31st (1913) and January 1st of 1914 a new island rose from appeared in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. This was followed by minor tsunamis impacting Western Europe, and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. What became clear was that there was now a new landmass that had emerged in the Atlantic ocean, inhabited by a human civilization. The people on the island had a primitive culture reminiscent of Ancient Greece and the Mesoamerican civilizations, which quickly gained the Island the name "Atlantis". Shortly after it's appearance, many European powers, alongside the United States began colonizing the island. In 1918 a formal Conference was held in Rome, similar to the Berlin Conference of 1885. It determined the zones of control over the island. As the Europeans expanded inward, they encountered increasingly hostile Atlanteans, who were armed by various competing powers and encouraged to revolt. Eventually, Japan, Itlay, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the USA, Germany, France, Russia, Canada, and the United Kingdom all controlled or claimed territory in Atlantis.
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They're Mafia type crime families. The head of the Koch family is surnamed Murdoch.
Most of what you said are correct. You want me to keep adding more countries to the map?
If you what. Could use a few more here and there. (Africa, Asia, the Americans. A few more in Europe.) And that's cool.
Still, it would be cool to see how it turns out as it is 20, maybe 50 years after the ISOT.
I love the map, but some of the borders are kind of weird. I think it would look better aesthetically if the island control between Spain and Italy was switched.
My first Inkscape map!
A quick little ASB idea and a map to go with it that took way longer than it should have due to my continued incompetency with image editors! Yay!
Planet Z, Interstellar Echolocation Trail
In a different universe, a race of sentient alien bats (with a sizeable galactic armada) have managed to create entire new realms with their vast, stunningly complex computer systems located on Planet Z. Everything about these seemingly infinite universes their machines create is closely monitored by the bat-scientists. One galaxy is typically focused on, holding the only planet with sentient life. In one of these many simulated universes is Earth.
One day, Carl spills his coffee all over Earth's simulator, breaking a few of the laws of physics. Carl is a bit disappointed. It was only human year 1997 A.D., and it had been such a good start. He frantically tries to fix Earth's physics, and within only one of the simulator's day-night cycles, and a day and night of complete chaos where half of Earth's population dies, he manages to bring them almost exactly to what they were. It just has a few weird glitches. One, fossil fuels don't burn anymore for some reason. Two, the already thin ozone layer had become even thinner, allowing most of the population to develop skin cancer and die before the age of 60 and increasing temperatures to make crops hard to grow and smaller. Three, the already medicine-resistant bacteria had become completely immune to vaccines and antibiotics. Strange glitches indeed. Carl is concerned for what was left of his fairly newly-created denizens, but it is time for his million-year lunch break, and he isn't about to miss Tuna Pot Pie Day. Besides, he could always start a new universe if Earth's gets too haywire.
Earth, Lands Around the Former English Channel
1,800 years after the Event, what used to be England is like something out of a fantasy novel. Masters (re: lords) rule over their own Dictates (re: duchies.) Tom Myers, the Himaster of Lornton (previously London) and twenty-first Myers to be so has united several Dictates into what he calls a State (re: kingdom,) a collection of several Dictates either created by him through conquest or incorporated "willingly." He has basically set up a feudal hierarchy, and what used to be simply very poor citizens have become serfs under his rule-- he has given the citizens of the cities and countrysides to nobles who help him and kills any dissidents through the quickly decentralizing and increasingly noble-provided army. His new Lornish State (often referred to as Hilorn) even stretches across the Channel into former northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Lommedleclosses, or "lomeds" (re: serfs) toil hard in the blazing sun to grow shriveled potato plants, and nasty disease is rampant in the city slums, while the stone and brick fotts (re: castles) and open estates are safer, meaning cities are largely depopulated. The strange spelling is the new "Lornish," the evolution of English that is newly standardized into a single language under Myer's Hilorn. Illiteracy, strong accents, and increasing ambivalence to spelling in the more scholarly circles intent on holding onto past knowledge has led to the weird modern spellings. Those who hold knowledge over old technologies act like wizards. They live in cloisters and bunkers far away from the populace and try to build old machines based on the few texts recovered from the past. Basic electronics are known, as well as germ theory, more advanced metallurgy, weather predictions, and the basic sciences up until about an American eighth grade level (though physics knowledge is decidedly more advanced.) They don't divulge their secrets or their knowledge of these secrets to the lomeds, Myers, or the Masters, though, instead keeping their knowledge inside their order, instead showing parlor tricks and providing entertainment through their songwriting and poetic orders. "Skoller" is a hereditary title, and the many generations have done nothing but preserve knowledge to themselves, with the death penalty for those who divulge the secrets, as well as excommunication. Religiosity sharply increased after the Event, and the Skollers double as a monastic and religious order; indeed, most of them spend their whole lives dedicated to serving the poor through sermons and their mysteriously-gained goods.
THE MAP, of the Lornish Empire (Former Names of the Lands Include Southern England, Wales, Northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands)
(Let me know if you can't read the cities-- I'm having trouble uploading the image larger. Also, feel free to ask me where any of the names comes from, I will be all too happy to tell you. Comments and critiques welcome, as always.)
A quick little ASB idea and a map to go with it that took way longer than it should have due to my continued incompetency with image editors! Yay!
Planet Z, Interstellar Echolocation Trail
In a different universe, a race of sentient alien bats (with a sizeable galactic armada) have managed to create entire new realms with their vast, stunningly complex computer systems located on Planet Z. Everything about these seemingly infinite universes their machines create is closely monitored by the bat-scientists. One galaxy is typically focused on, holding the only planet with sentient life. In one of these many simulated universes is Earth.
One day, Carl spills his coffee all over Earth's simulator, breaking a few of the laws of physics. Carl is a bit disappointed. It was only human year 1997 A.D., and it had been such a good start. He frantically tries to fix Earth's physics, and within only one of the simulator's day-night cycles, and a day and night of complete chaos where half of Earth's population dies, he manages to bring them almost exactly to what they were. It just has a few weird glitches. One, fossil fuels don't burn anymore for some reason. Two, the already thin ozone layer had become even thinner, allowing most of the population to develop skin cancer and die before the age of 60 and increasing temperatures to make crops hard to grow and smaller. Three, the already medicine-resistant bacteria had become completely immune to vaccines and antibiotics. Strange glitches indeed. Carl is concerned for what was left of his fairly newly-created denizens, but it is time for his million-year lunch break, and he isn't about to miss Tuna Pot Pie Day. Besides, he could always start a new universe if Earth's gets too haywire.
Earth, Lands Around the Former English Channel
1,800 years after the Event, what used to be England is like something out of a fantasy novel. Masters (re: lords) rule over their own Dictates (re: duchies.) Tom Myers, the Himaster of Lornton (previously London) and twenty-first Myers to be so has united several Dictates into what he calls a State (re: kingdom,) a collection of several Dictates either created by him through conquest or incorporated "willingly." He has basically set up a feudal hierarchy, and what used to be simply very poor citizens have become serfs under his rule-- he has given the citizens of the cities and countrysides to nobles who help him and kills any dissidents through the quickly decentralizing and increasingly noble-provided army. His new Lornish State (often referred to as Hilorn) even stretches across the Channel into former northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Lommedleclosses, or "lomeds" (re: serfs) toil hard in the blazing sun to grow shriveled potato plants, and nasty disease is rampant in the city slums, while the stone and brick fotts (re: castles) and open estates are safer, meaning cities are largely depopulated. The strange spelling is the new "Lornish," the evolution of English that is newly standardized into a single language under Myer's Hilorn. Illiteracy, strong accents, and increasing ambivalence to spelling in the more scholarly circles intent on holding onto past knowledge has led to the weird modern spellings. Those who hold knowledge over old technologies act like wizards. They live in cloisters and bunkers far away from the populace and try to build old machines based on the few texts recovered from the past. Basic electronics are known, as well as germ theory, more advanced metallurgy, weather predictions, and the basic sciences up until about an American eighth grade level (though physics knowledge is decidedly more advanced.) They don't divulge their secrets or their knowledge of these secrets to the lomeds, Myers, or the Masters, though, instead keeping their knowledge inside their order, instead showing parlor tricks and providing entertainment through their songwriting and poetic orders. "Skoller" is a hereditary title, and the many generations have done nothing but preserve knowledge to themselves, with the death penalty for those who divulge the secrets, as well as excommunication. Religiosity sharply increased after the Event, and the Skollers double as a monastic and religious order; indeed, most of them spend their whole lives dedicated to serving the poor through sermons and their mysteriously-gained goods.
THE MAP, of the Lornish Empire (Former Names of the Lands Include Southern England, Wales, Northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands)
(Let me know if you can't read the cities-- I'm having trouble uploading the image larger. Also, feel free to ask me where any of the names comes from, I will be all too happy to tell you. Comments and critiques welcome, as always.)
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I tried to make a more realistic Decades of Darkness map with less horrific US-, Russia-, and Germany-wank (and an independent Switzerland because Switzerland must always survive) about three months ago and forgot about it until now. Might as well post it here, and since I dug it up I'll probably end up remaking it at some later date.
Aside from lack of colonies, German-wank not much diminished...
Yeah, like I said I kind of forgot that I had even started it.
fashbasher
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Post-apocalypse, the UK was federalized (HRE-style) albeit under one king/prince/duke. They were able to get most of Ireland in too. The Scottish Lowlands merged with England (and Man merged with Northern Ireland) for solely economic reasons (they liked the respective parliaments and PMs better there, and it's possible ale or whisky was involved).
I redid my earlier more plausible DoD map from about an hour ago.
Nice job on this, man! Considered doing something like this a while ago, but I don't think I quite had the opportunity to really get anything done. There are just a few things I'd change-and questions I have-if you're up for it:
1.)Why are Macquarie and Tasmania separate from the rest of Australia?
2.)Nice job on Germany-I would just give them the Netherlands and let Italy have Veneto back.
3.)What's with New Zealand, btw?
4.)Russia could do with having at least Vladivostok back, IMO.
5.)Why is the Cape separate from the rest of South Africa?
That said, though, love some of the twists you included here, like Wilkinson getting annexed by Canada.
1: Honestly, I just wanted to have a divided Australia and reduce its power and prestige, and I figured that Macquarie and Tasmania would have the best chance of surviving on their own, so...
2: I'm not the biggest fan of having small countries totally annexed by larger ones, and the fact that I have friends in the Netherlands probably affected its survival somewhat. As for Veneto, I figured that Germany would want some way to be able to get into the Mediterranean through their own territory, and since the Balkans tend to be violent at times and Venice would be a rather nice city to add to the empire, it'd be easier to just take it from a weak and divided Italy.
3: Like Alaska and the southern Mexican states, New Zealand is an American puppet. Admittedly I mainly did it for the irony, but I figured it might have some practical purposes as well.
4: Perhaps I should have, but I tend to lean towards expanding China at least a little bit as long as it's not the PRC and especially if it's missing Tibet. That, and I'm not a fan of wanking Russia. (If I'm being perfectly honest, OTL feels like a huge Russowank to me as well, although thankfully it's nowhere close to the scale of Jared's DoD.)
5: It felt to me like South Africa was a space-filling empire, and I don't like space-filling empires, so I picked the part I felt would have the best chance of surviving on its own and split it off.
I would like Updated with the Grey Russian and Redish Afican look more like Obvious Roman protecates, for some reason the person I asked help on this thought for some strange that shouldn't look redish colour despite the fit colour scheme. I would to improve this old map of mine
That was intended to be from the Austrian and German perspective, hence why I stated that it was their deduction based on historical accounts, and not fact nor my own personal opinion. The point is, in OTL WW1 the Central Powers always viewed Italy as a traitor- I'm well aware that they had no obligations to go to war on Austria's behalf- but nonetheless, they still hoped and believed that the Italians were more dedicated to the alliance than to the words put on paper. Essentially, though, the point is that it was the Austrian and German opinions that the Italians were traitors, not mine. Which, historically, their opinions ended up being that way.
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Nearly finished the redo of Bruce's Eastward Ho, woo... had forgotten what a task annotating is.
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