Has anyone made a Qbam map of this?Plot twist: just under our Earth, there's a mirror Earth with land and sea swapped, as if the crust were a crumpled bit of paper habitable on both sides.
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A biome/climate map would be more useful, because for the Q-Bam you only really have to palette swap the standard one.
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I'm pretty sure if you reversed all the height values on a 3d map and filled it with the same amount of water, it wouldn't look like a perfect mirrorPlot twist: just under our Earth, there's a mirror Earth with land and sea swapped, as if the crust were a crumpled bit of paper habitable on both sides.
It wouldn't, "the sea" would take over parts of "the land".
Trying to achieve exact reversal:
With equal amount of water to Earth:
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Gosh darn it! You're right!A biome/climate map would be more useful, because for the Q-Bam you only really have to palette swap the standard one.
Just something silly I made to try out Quarterbam.
I could have done some more reversals but I think I got in some good ones.
Great map, but there's a typo in the first box (entered entered)
The ultimate flat Earth map.
Very creative!
In your ultimate flat Earth, can we send our rockets over the grey clarketech barriers? What kind of beings were able to get through them to reach the conquered test site?
https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2007/fiction_missile_gap_by_charles_stross/
A science fiction story with a similar premise. The test sites are quite a bit further apart from each other, with clarketech radiators protecting each one from a truly cyclopean ocean that surrounds them all, but not forming barriers as in this scenario.
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Very nice. Just one question: what projection is this? An MBAM, XK-BAM, or some other sort?
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In the future, after the Information Age Collapse, some prophecies are fulfilled.
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After the End playthrough?
In the future, after the Information Age Collapse, some prophecies are fulfilled.
After the End takes place in America so no.
It's from my own thing, although I do make some AtE references. I'm slowly planning up stuff for the American continent.
The next update to my timezone ISOT series, UTC-10:00 (Hawaii-Aleutian TZ in the US) and UTC-09:30.
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Regions transported: Alaska (Aleutian Islands), Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, French Polynesia (exc. Marquesas Islands, Gambier Islands), Cook Islands
The scattered island settlements of the Aleutian Islands beyond Unalaska had always been small and remote, relying on sea and air links to the rest of Alaska and the wider world. When the boats and planes stopped visiting, the island communities had to turn both inwards to each other for logistical support, but also outwards to the now uninhabited coasts of Unalaska, Unimak and Kodiak Islands, and the Alaska and Kamchatka Peninsulas, with the largest of these Aleutian fishing settlements, Adak, became home to a rudimentary government, providing co-ordination and support services.
Two and half thousand miles to the south, the other remnant of the United States, Hawaii, was also establishing its own identity. The Kanaka Maoli flag appeared on car bumpers, clothing and even outside government buildings, and the exploration of Hawaii's Polynesian culture for reasons other than selling tourist souvenirs became more popular. While some Hawaiian natives decried the expropriation of their culture by Anglo-Americans, this Hawaiian nationalism was embraced by Honolulu. Hawaiian Navy bases were established at Midway, Wake Island, Guam and Christmas Island as Hawaiian influence spread through the Pacific, from Aleutia in the north, to the Philippine settlements in the west and the Cook Islands and Polynesia in the south.
Having been in free association with New Zealand, the forced change to full independence was fairly straightforward for the Cook Islands, with Avarua's experience in foreign affairs and treaty negotiation allowing it to conclude a defence agreement with Hawaii while also developing their own military capabilities. The situation in (formerly French) Polynesia by contrast was much more chaotic with arguments erupting over whether the functions previously carried out by France should be done centrally in Papeete or split between the country's four divisions, or even whether to enter into Hawaiian administration. The last option however was complicated by both the linguistic and geographic separation between Polynesia and Hawaii. While the dispute was still raging, Tahitians ploughed ahead with centralisation of the administration in Papeete, prompting secessionist attempts by some of the outlying islands with the country seemingly in danger of tearing itself apart. A solution was eventually reached, via Hawaiian and Cook Island mediation, to implement a federal structure whereby power would be shared between a central government in Papeete and the country's five divisions (the new division of Gambier-Pitcairn having been created following settlement of the uninhabited eastern islands) with disputes to be settled in Avarua.
UTC-09:30
Regions transported: French Polynesia (Marquesas Islands)
While many in the Marquesas Islands had wanted freedom from French Polynesia, the reality of freedom from not only Papeete, but from Paris as well was harder than most had imagined. While the drought-prone islands were held together through a strong common culture, forming an equally strong central administration on the islands proved to be difficult, and thus a decentralised system emerged with the inhabited islands' councils taking on many government functions. Although the majority of Marquesans remained on the islands, some took the opportunity to settle further afield, taking their decentralised political structures with them. Although the coral atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago were the closest islands to the Marquesas, their low lying nature, lack of natural fresh water resources and a requirement to enjoy fried coconut with a side of shaved coconut washed down with coconut milk meant that the majority of Marquesan migrants followed in their ancestors' wake and headed north to Hawaii via the Line Islands. The larger islands and more familiar terrain of the Hawaiian Islands proved to be a more than satisfactory new home for the Marquesan men and women who made the voyage, however the 2,000 miles of ocean separating them from their homeland have stretched the Marquesans strong cultural unity to breaking point.
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Regions transported: Alaska (Aleutian Islands), Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, French Polynesia (exc. Marquesas Islands, Gambier Islands), Cook Islands
The scattered island settlements of the Aleutian Islands beyond Unalaska had always been small and remote, relying on sea and air links to the rest of Alaska and the wider world. When the boats and planes stopped visiting, the island communities had to turn both inwards to each other for logistical support, but also outwards to the now uninhabited coasts of Unalaska, Unimak and Kodiak Islands, and the Alaska and Kamchatka Peninsulas, with the largest of these Aleutian fishing settlements, Adak, became home to a rudimentary government, providing co-ordination and support services.
Two and half thousand miles to the south, the other remnant of the United States, Hawaii, was also establishing its own identity. The Kanaka Maoli flag appeared on car bumpers, clothing and even outside government buildings, and the exploration of Hawaii's Polynesian culture for reasons other than selling tourist souvenirs became more popular. While some Hawaiian natives decried the expropriation of their culture by Anglo-Americans, this Hawaiian nationalism was embraced by Honolulu. Hawaiian Navy bases were established at Midway, Wake Island, Guam and Christmas Island as Hawaiian influence spread through the Pacific, from Aleutia in the north, to the Philippine settlements in the west and the Cook Islands and Polynesia in the south.
Having been in free association with New Zealand, the forced change to full independence was fairly straightforward for the Cook Islands, with Avarua's experience in foreign affairs and treaty negotiation allowing it to conclude a defence agreement with Hawaii while also developing their own military capabilities. The situation in (formerly French) Polynesia by contrast was much more chaotic with arguments erupting over whether the functions previously carried out by France should be done centrally in Papeete or split between the country's four divisions, or even whether to enter into Hawaiian administration. The last option however was complicated by both the linguistic and geographic separation between Polynesia and Hawaii. While the dispute was still raging, Tahitians ploughed ahead with centralisation of the administration in Papeete, prompting secessionist attempts by some of the outlying islands with the country seemingly in danger of tearing itself apart. A solution was eventually reached, via Hawaiian and Cook Island mediation, to implement a federal structure whereby power would be shared between a central government in Papeete and the country's five divisions (the new division of Gambier-Pitcairn having been created following settlement of the uninhabited eastern islands) with disputes to be settled in Avarua.
UTC-09:30
Regions transported: French Polynesia (Marquesas Islands)
While many in the Marquesas Islands had wanted freedom from French Polynesia, the reality of freedom from not only Papeete, but from Paris as well was harder than most had imagined. While the drought-prone islands were held together through a strong common culture, forming an equally strong central administration on the islands proved to be difficult, and thus a decentralised system emerged with the inhabited islands' councils taking on many government functions. Although the majority of Marquesans remained on the islands, some took the opportunity to settle further afield, taking their decentralised political structures with them. Although the coral atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago were the closest islands to the Marquesas, their low lying nature, lack of natural fresh water resources and a requirement to enjoy fried coconut with a side of shaved coconut washed down with coconut milk meant that the majority of Marquesan migrants followed in their ancestors' wake and headed north to Hawaii via the Line Islands. The larger islands and more familiar terrain of the Hawaiian Islands proved to be a more than satisfactory new home for the Marquesan men and women who made the voyage, however the 2,000 miles of ocean separating them from their homeland have stretched the Marquesans strong cultural unity to breaking point.
Looking forward to how you deal with Arizona and Sonora and their am-I-Pacific-or-am-I-Mountain time zone.
I say give 'em their own map where Arizona and Sonora colonize the world.
(Be sure to read that last sentence in a very dramatic fashion.)
So, next up - Planet Alaska (oh, and the Gambier Islands too, I guess), and Planet Cascadifornia (oh, and some other small islands as well).
A while ago I had posted a map for an ATL 1000 AD. Can't quote because thread is locked so instead I'll just put the link to the post here:
I've done maps till 1900 with a map per century for which the first two (1100 and 1200) have legends too. So here they are.
Black bordered white states with colored outlines (visible in Iberia, Central Europe and Scandinavia) are states that are effectively independent but nominally subservient to the colored state. The red bordered ones in Iberia in 1100 are factions of a succession war. In 1200 there are also areas in the Carolingian Empire that are white but with subdivision rather than international borders. These are similar to nominally vassal but effectively independent states but to a lesser degree of independence.
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I've done maps till 1900 with a map per century for which the first two (1100 and 1200) have legends too. So here they are.
Black bordered white states with colored outlines (visible in Iberia, Central Europe and Scandinavia) are states that are effectively independent but nominally subservient to the colored state. The red bordered ones in Iberia in 1100 are factions of a succession war. In 1200 there are also areas in the Carolingian Empire that are white but with subdivision rather than international borders. These are similar to nominally vassal but effectively independent states but to a lesser degree of independence.
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