Map Thread XXI

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Missing a D on SCOTLAND. Also I think the borders are a bit confusing for autonomous areas, I would've used different borders for national borders Vs internal borders.

Besides that, awesome map! It's also nice to see focus given to railways, when they're often ignored (I am guilty of this as well...)
thank you very much, I should've used different borders yes, it's true. And if you're interested by the railway, it's not yet built in 1914, but it's the perfect example of Italy and Spain being abandoned by Germany (despite the two of them being Germany's oldest allies in Europe), as it goes from Stockholm to the very new ally of Constantinople. The goal is to ease a potential fight against Russia by making trade and movement of important people much quicker.
 
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No special lore - basically a Russian America that gains independence shown through a railway medium
Thoughts?
 
Well unless you can come up with a plausible reason the modern English language (so POD after 1500's) would be using Cyrillic alphabet, can it please not? A lot of people here care about history, writing systems, etc. so doing this verges on trolling albeit unknowingly.
What are you on? I care about history, and if you read what I said on the post someone suggested it. You aren't a mod, and gatekeeping a community is pretty shitty, I can make a map and post it here as long as it doesn't break the fucking rules my guy and I am pretty sure a dumb one off map with shitty Cyrillic English isn't against that.

Also, I don't need to go into depth or context about x, y, or z for any map I post :)
 
What are you on? I care about history, and if you read what I said on the post someone suggested it. You aren't a mod, and gatekeeping a community is pretty shitty, I can make a map and post it here as long as it doesn't break the fucking rules my guy and I am pretty sure a dumb one off map with shitty Cyrillic English isn't against that.

Also, I don't need to go into depth or context about x, y, or z for any map I post :)
I agree with you, but no need to be so aggressive and sweary yourself. We are all here, just having a good time.
 
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About a month ago I had a sudden urge to jump on the manifesting-america-anywhere-but-west bandwagon on r/imaginarymaps and made this.


A portal opens in OTL Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1800. The portal leads to the same place but in the Late Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. America subsequently gets the idea that it is their God-given duty to pacify and settle the lands on the other side of this portal (the Washtenaw Gate, as they call it) and this occupies most of their attention from then onwards. A luckier Napoleon doesn't sell Louisiana, and America stays more or less within their 1800 borders. After all, they have all the land they could ever want waiting for them through the gate...

With America busy, Mexico ends up absorbing Oregon, the Caribbean, and Florida and makes Lower Louisiana and several South American nations into client states. France spends most of the 19th century trying to conquer Europe more frequently and more zealously than they did OTL, and are only stopped when a puppet state they carved out of Germany leads a coalition against them in the 1890s and punishes them severely. Fascism (somewhat different from ours, but same name) takes hold in France in the late 1910s, and in the 1920s they and their allies overrun most of Europe with ideas of Latin racial superiority. Due to America not really caring, Soviet Russia has to defeat France by itself, and by 1933, France is in pieces, Russia is imploding, and the shiny new Union of Socialist European States is forcing itself onto the world stage.
The world of 2022 is polarised between Mexico And Friends and the USES' world-spanning alliance system of communist states, with the US being the most important neutral state.

The world on the other side of the Washtenaw Gate is an interesting one, mainly because much of it is controlled by intelligent troodontids called the Kihan, who evolved in Asia. Most of proto-North America is under US control, with Kihan states in the west and south. Of particular concern is the Šikīnye Empire, a Kihan state based in proto-Iran that has managed to reverse-engineer a huge amount of human tech (with a few innovations of their own) and explode across Eurasia. The US has accepted many refugees, especially persecuted minorities, throughout history because of it having a convenient dumping ground for them, and most pastside non-US human states are descended from those refugees.

The future looks uncertain, as the Mexican-European cold war heats up, and American scholars worry about the asteroid impact in Mexico that, pastside, doesn't seem to have happened yet.

I might eventually make a map of the presentside of the gate, but no promises.

(Credit to Kaiphranos for the inexplicable-rip-in-spacetime-in-Ann-Arbor idea!)
 
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About a month ago I had a sudden urge to jump on the manifesting-america-anywhere-but-west bandwagon on r/imaginarymaps and made this.

A portal opens in OTL Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1800. The portal leads to the same place but in the Late Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. America subsequently gets the idea that it is their God-given duty to pacify and settle the lands on the other side of this portal (the Washtenaw Gate, as they call it) and this occupies most of their attention from then onwards. A luckier Napoleon doesn't sell Louisiana, and America stays more or less within their 1800 borders. After all, they have all the land they could ever want waiting for them through the gate...

Huh, I wonder what it is about Ann Arbor that makes us think "This would be a great place for a gate to the Cretaceous!"
 
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