I drew it first in Gimp, then used "bitmap trace" in Paint.net to vectorize it and make smooth edges.
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That's a lot of subdivisions for a late-discovered archipelago closer to Antarctica than Kerguelen is. Like, is everyone stationed there granted a fief?
Courtesy of u/Astreom_1 from Reddit, an unique take on Confederate victory: Victorious in Battle, Beaten at the Polls. An economically crippled and politically unstable Confederacy attempts to rid itself of pro-Union areas by holding a referendum on the status quo, only for all but two states voting to rejoin the US; effectively committing national suicide by accident.
RICHMOND, Virginia - December 1, 1952
It is like the end of the world today for the Confederates in Richmond. With the final results of the referendum in the 13 states of the Confederacy, 10 states have voted to nullify their Act of Secession and to reintegrate into their northern neighbor after 90 years of separation.
For many, it is the end of an era for the South. The signs of the CSA's disintegration were obvious to many scholars. Richard Nordier, historian at Boston University explains:
"The attempted rebellion by Virginia in January 1945 completely destroyed the hope of a united CSA, because the Richmond Pan-Americanists who came to power after local elections invited the Maryland National Guard to occupy Virginia. What a shock to the government, to see their own people calling for secession!"
He goes on to explain: "The southern states seceded in 1861 because they feared President Lincoln's position on slavery, an inhuman institution but essential for their economy. But independence would also see the end of prosperity. The loss of the great port of New Orleans, the losses of men, the international isolation, the American embargo: the economy of the South was destroyed within a few decades, plunging the Confederacy into a lasting political and economic crisis. The abolition of slavery in 1923 under League of Nations pressure put the very idea of the Confederacy under question."
Strom Thurmond, current president of the Confederacy and chief proponent of the referendum, has still not spoken on the results.
"He is, like all pro-Confederates, in shock. The referendum was his idea to appease the pan-Americans and stabilize the Confederacy by getting rid of its "pro-Union" states, Virginia and New Mexico. The polls predicted that only Virginia and New Mexico would vote for Union, but instead 10 states were carried. The CSA cannot survive such an amputation, and to accept defeat for Thurmond is to accept that he had murdered his own country."
I love this so much. This really reminds me of basically Brexit Vote and it blowing up in David Cameron's face and the faces of the Remain, or even the Berlin Wall coming down thanks to a misunderstanding in a speech.
While I'm surprise at the Confederacy lasted into the 1950s, given nothing has gone right for them since Independence (The biggest is giving into the League's demand of ending slavery, which was pretty much the very reason for the CSA as in it Constitution to protect and outright ban laws, or anything to stop it as well most CSA states to protect and ensure as slavery.) seemly going to one crisis to the next without any friends, or allies, and a hostile Union to the North.
The biggest ironies is states like Virginia (Seat and the true heart of the CSA.) tried to leave in 45, as well as SC also voting by a 55% to rejoin the North.
No idea how the USA would go about rejoining the former Confederate States, or how to handle the last strongholds of the Confederacy (Mississippi, Alabama, and a tied Georgia.) But it be fun in the Chinese sense of the word.
Love to see more of this, whatever that would look like.
Well there was on the other hand possibility of only part of Bavaria going to Austria (east of river Inn I think? which partially happened) - to connect Upper Austria with Tyrol
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Empires rise… Empires fall. Just like the Romans, Persians and Mongols, the Empires of New were not spared by fate. Russia, France, Britain, Turkey, Japan, Germany, the United States of America. None of them spared by destiny.
It's 1960. Now, new nations rise from the ashes. Not better, not worse. Just different. The German Hegemon defeated, the world sees a new dawn. Welcome to…
In The Wake of Desolation.
It's 1960. Now, new nations rise from the ashes. Not better, not worse. Just different. The German Hegemon defeated, the world sees a new dawn. Welcome to…
In The Wake of Desolation.
This is a cover of a 2018 "COAAW" of the same name, which you can find the link of here. It was the first game I joined when I made an ah.com account, and I think the only one I've seen that has been completed. I decided to do my own version on the scenario, but most keypoints remain pretty much the same, that being my style of covering scenarios. Enjoy!
So what happened to collapse Germany so thoroughly? Who were the sides in the War of the Downfall? And what happened to the US to precipitate such a devastating civil war?
Perhaps it's just my indigenous prejudices, but the American Directorate seems substantially worse than the OTL US of 1961.
Nah mate, a dictatorship, a racist quasi-Confederacy that may fall into a civil war and three halfway decent democracies are the exact same as the USA.Perhaps it's just my indigenous prejudices, but the American Directorate seems substantially worse than the OTL US of 1961.
Germany basically couldn't hold it anymore. The Socintern struck and then its former Eastern Allies broke away or even fought against it. The War of the Downfall was Germany vs Socintern, Austria and Poland. At the same time, the Canadians were at war with the Socintern.
The USA fell thanks to a combination of economic depression and turmoil, radicalization (towards both ends) and the eventual election of socialism into the office. Personally I don't like second American Civil War scenarios that much but I felt like if I removed it, the cover would deviate too much for my idea of what a cover should be.
Edit: whoops didn't see the bottom comment.
Yes the USA is worse, but this is by no means a constant in the world. The Socintern and Germany for example are and were both oppressive and not in their own ways.
Time has passed and another sixteen cities have been added to the world:
Karachi, Lahore, Nukus, Tashkent, Almaty, Baku, Bandarbeyla, Dubai, Istanbul, Kabul, Kharkiv, Riyadh, Saint-Denis, Salalah, Sana'a, Victoria
(all from 2021 this time)
Azerbaijan
Linguistic Status: Azerbaijani (85%), Russian (15%)
Militarization: High
Religions: Islam (91%), Christianity
Current Dictator: Ilham Aliyev
Currency: Moneta
Capital: Baku
Islamic Republic of Pacistan
Linguistic Status: Punjabi (50%), Urdu (39%), Pashto (7%), Sindhi (3%), Balochi (2%), Saraiki (2%), Marwari (2%), English (1%)
Militarization: Medium
Religions: Islam (99%), Hinduism
Major Political Parties: PTI, PML, PPP
Current President: Shehbaz Sharif (PML)
Current Prime Minister: Ahsan Iqbal (PML)
Currency: Pakistani Rupee
Capital: Karachi
India-in-Dubai
Linguistic Status: English (88%), Arabic, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
Militarization: Medium-Low
Religions: Islam (64%), Hindu (13%), Buddhist (12%), Christianity (6%), Sikh (5%)
Major Political Parties: INP, CP
Current Prime Minister: Benyamin Ajmal (INP)
Current Deputy Prime Minister: Khalifa Stalin (INP)
Currency: Indian Pound
Capital: Dubai
Yemeni Confederacy
Linguistic Status: Arabic (93%), Razihi (9%)
Militarization: Very Very High
Religions: Islam (95%)
Current President: Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
Currency: Yemeni Rial
Capital: Sana'a
Republic of Oman
Linguistic Status: Arabic (90%), Shehri (15%)
Militarization: Medium-High
Religions: Islam (90%), Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism
Major Political Parties: Islamic Nationals, Laissez-Faire, Salalah Communism
Current President: Nasir Azd (LF)
Current Prime Minister: Tueney Albusaidi (LF)
Currency: Qaira
Capital: Salalah
State of Turkey
Linguistic Status: Turkish (98%), English (17%), Arabic (5%), French (4%), Kurmanji (3%), German (3%)
Militarization: High
Religions: Islam (99%), Christianity, Irreligion
Major Political Parties: JDP, RPP
Current President: R.T. Erdoğan (JDP)
Currency: Sip
Capital: Istanbul
Using this colour scheme: Linguistic Colour Scheme, TEV (Version 2.4) by TomislavAddai on DeviantArt and this as base map: Q-BAM Province Map by Drex by TomislavAddai on DeviantArt
the map depicts the oldest known or recorded linguistic grou in any given region, prior to more recent Semitic, Indo-Aryan, Chinese or Slavic or Turkc expansiosn.
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Abygalia
It is 900 AGF, centuries ago the fires of nuclear war had washed over the Earth. All that remained were scattered settlements, and huge, great hideouts in the Andean mountains. There, the forefathers of the United Provinces resided. After the nuclear winter waned, the surface becoming habitable once more, the Chosen had left their homes, starting the long journey across the world.
The trek was harsh, many would die on the way, but it was worth it. When they arrived in what once was America, they were gifted with magical powers by Venus. These people went on to become the nobility of the Empire. They used their powers to help rebuild civilization, giving it a new name: Abygalia, after a pre-War deity.
The lands were once more tamed, and man once more became the ruler of the Earth. Founded in 453 AGF, the United Provinces of Abygalia are theorised to be the only nation left on Earth, all else being either a tribal confederacy, or hunter gathers.
A thingy I thought of remaking for a bit. Here it be. Abygalia is a scrapped name for the 'goddess' of America in my Angevine TL. Originally it was some more latinized form of Awya Yala, but somehow I ended up with Abygalia. The entire thing is meant to be a fantasy-ish world. The tech level is 1600s/1700s, no industrial revolution in sight (but Texas is littered with oil lakes and barrels), and the nobility has magic. Sure, some commoners do as well, descendants of the 'Chosen' who didnt become nobles.
All in all, this is fit more as a sort of backdrop for an anime. Nevertheless, I enjoyed making it. Wish I could write more, but walls of text arent my forte.
Amazing and interesting artwork with post-apocalyptic setting! What happened to pre-Nuclear War skyscrapers and culture? Did they reinvent the circumnavigation?
soviet_killer
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Well, I first thought of having a few skyscrapers on North-West's seal, Detroit, Chicago etc. But well, the 'Chosen' arrived around like, 30-40 years after the war. By then, nature, winds and all that already made most of the skyscrapers ready to die (I'm using Aftermath: Population Zero as a guide of sorts here).
When the Chosen first arrived, they arrived well, in Texas. It took well over 100 years to expand as far north as Detroit, given they first helped the local population get living conditions, and whenever they could, they helped clean the remains of the former civilization. New York is rather hilly now, given all the rubble from the skyscrapers I presume would make a good equivalent for dirt in a few centuries.
This doesn't answer your questions though: the 'Chosen', when arriving in a new place, first helped 'spread' their 'religion', that basically stated things of the sort: "Skyscrapers were the monuments of the Old World. However, their greed had led them to destroy themselves. From the fires of 'judgement', we emerged. We must destroy their old monuments (skyscrapers, generally anything too big/broken to be repaired), and make space for a New World. That is what they would wish us to do." So, most skyscrapers would be destroyed, if they didn't get destroyed already by either winds and nature overall. The Chosen would have some ability to send fireballs, allowing them to be destroyed safely-ish. In places where former ruins remained (DC, more secluded towns etc), those buildings would generally either be repaired, or slowly demolished for building materials by the locals. In DC some monuments would remain. For example, in my "story" idea, the Capitol building would remain, modified, expanded, and turned into an Academy for the magic users of Abygalia.
As for pre-War culture, that is something I genuinely thought about. In the map, there are some areas that are hachured. My idea was that the natives, and various new people (Gypsies, Amish people etc) would sort of merge, becoming tribes of sorts. Those hachured areas represent 'reservations', sort of land grants where the natives are free to govern themselves. Pre-War culture would survive within the tribes, given the Chosen, as they moved across the American wastes, would attempt to erase the old cultures, replacing them with somewhat newer ones. Nevertheless, stuff like Disney Land, Mormons and so on would remain. The Mormons would've become a nomadic tribe, and the natives + local residents around Disney Lands would go to make their own religion about the parks they inhabit.
900 years (825 in the original) after the nuclear war, most pre-war cultures would be mostly in historical books, just like we don't see people pretending to be Normans and Vikings (hopefully). They wouldn't be seen as 'sinful' (that's how the surviving christian churches would see them, I think), but they'd be seen sorta like 'they didn't know how to manage themselves.'
As for the circumnavigation: they didn't really lose it. They have some 'magic'-fueled boats, similar to steamers. They know of the existance of europe and asia (they have colonies and protectorates in the Philippines, UK and Morocco, do the math
). There is some debate on whether there exists any civilization outside Abygalia: the sailors who went around Japan reported seeing fires lit by humans, same for China. They also reported seeing some farms and rice pads, but not much more. In Europe, I think most people are dead (given, if every big city got nuked, that pretty much washes Europe with radiation). Some people survived, hence the "protectorate" in the "Albionic Islands", instead of a colony. South America would be just as nuked however, given the Angevines had their stronghold in there. All in all, 900 years after the nuclear war, the world isn't really littered with old-world remains. Except Texas. Texas is full of (manu)factories and oil spills. Those manufactories are old factories which got cleaned and repurposed. They make the fancy muskets people use, they make the fancy jewelry the nobles adorn themselves with, and they make the prefabricated materials used when building mass housing (yes, they have huge building projects, given the tech level may be 1600s, but the population is booming at an almost modern-day level. I await the black plague 2.0)
I may make a similar map for the Chinese-Japanese civilizations, if I feel like it, but this is really a one-off, cause I loved the vibe.
A world where Texas stretches all the way up the Rockies and the Great Plains? Sign me up!
Oh yeah, this is the mother of all self-inflicted wounds, and the last one the CSA will ever make!
A shame that most old ruins were destroyed. I was visualising a select few skyscraper ruins being repurposed as forts and castles, with newer brick-and-mortar structures grafted onto the derelict steel frame; as shown in the artworks below (inspired by a Crusader Kings mod called After the End, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic medieval America).
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soviet_killer
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oooh, I knew of After the End, and it was part of the inspiration. But well, AtE is like, 400-500 years, this is 900. Even those skyscrapers in the pics dont look like they'd survive another 400 years.A shame that most old ruins were destroyed. I was visualising a select few skyscraper ruins being repurposed as forts and castles, with newer low-tech structures integrated into the superstructure; as shown in the artworks below (inspired by a Crusader Kings mod called After the End, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic medieval America).
I'm a bit curious about the Abygalian borders, though: they spent so much effort in colonising distant lands and protectorates (even with magic ships, crossing the bloody Pacific to colonise the Philippines must have been an unfathomably costly endeavour), but still haven't asserted control over all of North America - not even just all of the continent's choicest bits. This is especially glaring when it comes to Eastern Canada; surely they should have expanded into the fertile plains of Ontario and Quebec long before reaching the Pacific, being directly adjacent to the densely-populated East Coast heartland? Is something stopping the Empire from crossing the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River?
As for the colonies, well, I debated adding Canada, but I didn't, for the pretty borders. In idea, the colony (new california) wouldnt really be the empire's endeavour, rather, the Californian Republics'. They're sorta like Venice, they do trade across the pacific coast. Plus, they didn't spend that much effort, given the Spanish were much lower tech in the 1500s yet still managed to have the biggest colonial empire at the time. So I sorta based the colonies on that.
That and, I didn't really want the US to still exist, even as a sort of 'title' that one could form. Hence the United Provinces of Abygalia, even the name got erased. Well, that's more because pre-War the US was at war with the Angevines (their subjects becoming the 'Chosen') so you could chalk it up to basically removing all traces of your enemy.
All in all, maybe there are some left-over skyscrapers converted into castles and stuff, but the 'imperial province' area would be pretty clean of any pre-War ruins.
A shame that most old ruins were destroyed. I was visualising a select few skyscraper ruins being repurposed as forts and castles, with newer low-tech structures integrated into the superstructure; as shown in the artworks below (inspired by a Crusader Kings mod called After the End, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic medieval America).
Gods damn that's some fantastic artwork. Never knew After the End had stuff like that.
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