Insaf with a chance of Robots
This is a cannon in my timeline. Please remember this is my first map and English isn’t my native tongue. Enjoy!
POD begins with a surviving golden horde that doesn’t plunge into succession crisis and is able to reform military. Timur does come but he aids one jochid contender in a civil war and sacks Muscovy and western part of the khanate, leaving the population centers mostly intact. Timur's campaign is mostly the same except there is no Ottoman campaign against sultan Beyazid but Constantinople survives due to Anatolian beyliks uprising following the brief Timurid incursion....yet again. An alt battle of Ankara occurs however between their princes and as usual, Timurids wipe the floor with Ottoman princes. Timur instead goes to China and barely defeats Yongle in a monumental battle but unable to advance much past OTL west Gansu due to Oirat rebellion. His death splits the empire in half with most of Xinjiang, Mongolia and Mwerennahar going to a surviving Muhammad Sultan while Persia going to Shahrukh. A strong muslim presence in Mongolia trickles down to further east, islamising the Jurchen.
Clashes between Jogalia of Poland( and Lithuania) and Vytautas of Novgorod ( he remained Orthodox) culminates in alliances comprising various parties like Muscovy, Teutonic order and Hungary. Novgorod is ultimately absorbed by Muscovy but they faced a powerful PLC with Transylvanian duchies following a Hungarian collapse similar to OTL mohacs after Tatar invasion( while also plagued by Hussite revolt), though Tatars had to return to Sarai due to their khan dying like always.....
Ottomans eventually capture Constantinople during 1421 in the wake of earthquake and tsunami, led by Mehmed I, leftover after other Ottoman princes were butchered against Timurids. Mehmed II eventually ascends and sets about being the Kaiser. Along with his vizier Iskandar, the sultan captures most of Balkans including Bosnia, annexes Mamlukes in guise of intervening in civil war and aids his childhood friend in capturing the throne of sarai, starting the cooperation between Golden horde and Ottomans. Their alliance would go a long way in determining Persian question when alternate Safavids convert to twelver shiism and rampage across eastern Anatolia and levant in wake of Timurid collapse. Poor sultan Cem had to abandon his Italian expansion after thrashing the Belgrade crusade, a belated version of Varna and leave Rome to the French (who immediately began clashing with HRE over custodianship of papacy) to deal with Safavids. Shaybanids unlike OTL are able to crush the Safavids due to Tatar support and use of gunpowder weapons. Well, if only Safavids weren’t forced to abandon their artillery in eastern Anatolia. Deteriorating situation in Persia pushes a lot of Tatar cavalry troops in Khurasan where they gather under the banner of a pashtun noble and Georgian mamluke who turn their eye to south, rich lands of Hind.
Iberia was a burning cauldron with Castille and Aragon butting heads and a Portuguese allied Nasrid Emirate. Portugal was a bit less inclined in exploration due to butterflying of illustrious generation since unlucky king John died of battle injury before his marriage to philippa of Lancaster. But wanton colonization of west African coast and eventually south Africa occured. This forced muslims of west Africa to look for alternative places, namely Kongola. One day in a Maghrebi slave raiding ship to Kongola got blown off course and stumble upon a new land. They named it Talentiya, after the famed Atlantis. Other powers eventually act upon the news and begin exploring the new lands. England under Yorkist line, Portugal and Burgundy( Queen Mary rides on, say no to sidesaddle) are the pioneers beside muslims of Maghreb . A Portuguese allied Wattasid sultanate was able to consolidate most of maghreb until Hafsid resurgence, who were themselves overthrown by a religious movement , Al Mutwahereen( Almotarid, the pure ones). All of Maghreb upto Tunisia and the small Andalusian leftover are consolidated by the Almotarids under blessing from Ottomans ( checked the growth of Portuguese allied rival caliphate) and Castile ( well, 'we screw Portugal team'). The royal dynasties and their supporters escaped to save themselves and ended up in Tahina( OTL Cuba and Caribbean archipelago). The other majority muslim population center was in Arkalango( Ard al kalinago, land of kalinago), OTL Colombia and Guyana. Islam eventually reaches the incas leading to more contact between the two cultures due to medical reasons and trade( old world disease still ravaged the mesoamerican population). Aztecs and Mayans were rather unlucky, with the former being crushed by an Iberian( Castile Portugal union, we hate Aragon team) and the latter by Al Jabarid dynasty of Tahina. But both campaigns failed to consolidate their claims leading to other native entities to stake their claim on the collapsed empires.
Insafiyya, an ideology that emphasised on human as God's best creation and his duties to God and creations ( including animals, plants and even inanimate objects!). The emphasis on good treatment to slaves and servants earned them popularity in Persia where the movement originated. Following Timurid collapse and rise of Safavids, the adherent scholars spread to lands both near and far. And the rest they say is history....
It is 1309 AH ( 1892 in Nazarene calender,used by muslims to conduct business with the people of books). It is somewhat an Islamic flavoured world but more in a cultural sense than actual dominant sense. The world is industrialized one with Robots taking dangerous human jobs in factories ( insafiyya made servants and workers costlier for employers, hence an earlier drive to industrialization and automation in muslim lands). The world is ahead of its time, roughly at the level of 1940s technology but other technological wonders persist such as massive airships that still remain the primary transport system for goods ( passengers are gradually shifting to airplanes). This world is a mix of dieselpunk and automaton punk.
The islamic world was briefly overshadowed by western resurgence in 18th century following Mediterranean crusades that kicked Ottomans out of Italy and the expansion of English successor state of Annahok gradually eating up the Chichimeca emirates. But soon a grand European war in early 19th century caused the European powers to withdraw from their colonies, giving the muslims respite.
In Asia, the Persian Qadhiate( A council of Qadhis, selected by Majlish E shura and approved by Grand Wali) reign supreme over the geopolitics. Their ally, Mustafavid Hindistan is still suffering from humiliation after being defeated by Bharat confederacy in the Gangetic war, a mishmash of Hindu kingdoms brought together after purge on indian culture and religion by the previous Hind Qadhiate on ground of being 'too backward'. But not all is well for the new Confederation either. They have been soundly defeated by Romania, a country for Romani people negotiated by world powers after their attempted genocide by the Intermarinum( PLC with prussia for sudetanland and Czachia for Austria) Federation in the global war of 1845 to 1863. But critics liked to point the clandestine Rumi support for Romania which leaves many to think it as a continuation of Ottoman presence in Hind after their colony in deccan went boom in Great war of 1804-1812. Most of the Continent is under Ulus Tatary who support a coalition of Anti China forces including Tibet and Manchu Kingdom ( last refuge of Uighur Hong dynasty after Chinese Han revolt and Tatar annexation of Moghulistan aka Xinjiang). Koreans are fearful of either Tatars or Chinese but they absolutely despise the Xipangese of Nippon who briefly colonised the southern part of their peninsula in 1600s. The said Xipangu engages in wanton colonization of island archipelagos in Lonshe ( turquoise, Chinese name for Pacific Ocean). Following Chengdai ( orange) revolution in China, muslims in Yunan were forced to migrate south in late 18th century and formed the Xinlau emirate in North Laos following collapse of Lan Fang kingdom due to Ayuthya invasion. Surrounded by Non muslim states, their resolve lies in the neighbouring Qadhiate of Pegu which has a history of Omani, Burgundian and English colonisation. Bengal Sultanate and Burma were the only states in subcontinent to be colonised by the English and Danes respectively , the other being Burgundian Lanka which was liberated by Vijaynagar in the global war, a hindu majority secular state with significant Muslim and Nazarene population. The empire of Viet is skeptical of Omani comeback to the region in the form of helping Cham emirate. Not trusting the Chinese either, they have formed alliance with Khmer Vizierate( don't be fooled, they're hindu). To the farthest corner lies Yakutia and Kamzatka, two states formed after the Global war following English withdrawal from Sibir. Tengrist Yakutia hates muslim Kamzatka, the latter allying with Tatars. Xipangu, despite being non muslim strangely supports Kamzatka as it is a legacy of Xipangese pirates who islamised after contact with Jurchens. Nusantara was mostly colonised by European powers or Oman, the only state remaining independent was Malacca which tended to play Europeans against each other and through a lot of Omani and Ottoman support. Sarwak emirate, a Burgundian colony is at odds with China following secession of large parts of Lupang( Philippines) with Hindu and Buddhist population under their support. The Confederation of Nusantara is a truly multi lingual multi cultural paradise rising from the wreckage of English empire. But not everyone was happy with arrangement,as shown by separation of Java under Omani influence after the Global war.
In middle east, everything under the sun belongs to Rum( Ottoman dynasty still rule though) but some of these gains are only 50 years old dating back to Blue revolution in Persia as unstable gulf emirates began descending into chaos which saw traditional rulers and nobles ousted and often violently massacred( ITTL version of French revolution). There is also Oman, a large colonial power of the olden days with colonies in Africa, Antarqtique, Hind and Nusantara, though now it is limited to Andaman archipelago and Ardalhamra( 'red soil' i.e. Arnhem land). Yemen is a newcomer, a zaidiya state rising out of Ottoman defeat in the Great war. They have complex relation with neighbouring States of Africa.
Of these states, Abyssinia is a rising power who wants her share in the trade traffic flowing through Bab el Mandeb strait which is monopolised by Somali emirate and Yemen. With good relation to the Ottomans, they also bite off a significant chunk of Mediterranean-red sea commerce through the not suez canal. South of ottoman Egypt are two vassal emirates of Darfur and Wadiya. The former was created after Bornu emirate was defeated by Ottomans following the collapse of Italian Tripolitania as Italy, anti Ottoman and a Bornu ally ended up on the losing side of the great War. Now Ottomans and Maghrebis jostle for influence in the nascent Vizierate. Maghrebis were able to regain some of their honour after losing Grenada to Espana in 1810 just before the Great war. They were able to wrest control of parts of Sicily during the Global war. A Tatar ally, Maghreb emirate hosts the largest Tatar army base outside Asia and the only one in Africa. To the south lies the Fulani confederacy, a jumble of post Kuwa emirate( Banu Hilal wank). They have largely modernised but are the poorest state in North Africa apart from the minor oasis emirates and sheikhdoms. To its south lies the Sahel Qadhiate, a secular power based on the unity of Mande people after the humiliation by Portuguese and English colonization and brief Fulani rule. Their islam is too different from most of the world that extreme mullahs in Konstantiniyye and Makkah denounce them as veiled polytheists. Most of Central Africa is under Kongola imamate, a Zaidiya shia state founded by Zaidiya refugees migrating into African wilderness following annexation of Yemen by Ottomans in late 16th century(Omani gained profit by ferrying them across). They have followed 3 things so far, Screw colonials, screw pagans and screw the Fulani( the latter mostly subdued by now to be a threat). They have established excellent detente with sunni Swahili sultanate of Zanja in driving out colonialists from Africa. Their eastern ally is even more successful in the endeavour, taking advantage of Mosambiq- Garuda war, eating up the former and driving out the Hindu state to the brink in a strange politics of Post global war chaos. The Hindu kingdom of Garuda was established by a Deccan noble family in exile after Ottoman conquest of Deccan in 17th century. The reason why black africans hate it so much is the subjugation and caste system. Slavery, which still exists in this world in form of temporary military slavery for captured war prisoners was not deemed race based due to powerful Muslim states. But the Hindus still linger on to a small part in mainland and the Madagasika island, overlooked by world powers who don’t care about this corner of Africa. For now they are safe as Zanja remains busy digesting its lightning conquest which saw the first use of Sarmun ( helicopter, a Persian invention)in Africa. To the extreme south lies the Zuterre state, a mix of French and Burgundian elites ruling over mostly Burgundian and black population, though another one is in thrown in the mix with the fall of English Angoland to Kongola influenced rebels after Global war. Kingdom of Zimbabwe is happily trading between two opposing sides with the knowledge that neither would want the country to completely fall into the other's clutch.
Europe is at peace after the Global war which saw rise of Intermarinum Federation under a polish dictatorship blaming non slavs and jews for the sorry state of economy during the post Great war recession. Their annexation of Prussia was largely overlooked along with the consensual union of Lithuania. But all hell broke loose when the Federation invaded Cossakia leading French and Tatar declaration of war. It was soon followed by Rusland, Germania, Hungary and Sweden while Intermarinum allies included England, Italy, Denmark, Czachia and Burgundy. It was the last straw and the final end of European overseas colonialism. Now Danes are unhappy as they have lost Holstein. But no one is more unhappy than France who were caught unprepared during an amphibious assault by Gregorland empire from England and had to leave Burgundy unscathed, the Italian lands being consolation prize. Poland and Lithuania were broken up once again with Tatar, Swedish and Rus troops capturing Krakow as Hungary was saved by Rum.
The continent of Talentiya has few states, one of them being Ewalqarud( named after howling monkeys) Qadhiate, a muslim state composed of blacks, Arabs, Berbers and a significant native population. It is a Tatar ally and a staunch supporter of Ghabalbad( Amazon forest) tribes against the encroaching Brasil empire, a successor of Portuguese colonization. The emirate of Kazka, inca empire successor is also worried about the large christian state but has enough ideological differences with its coreligionist neighbor to consider a military alliance. To the south, lies republic of Waltershire, an former English colony composed of mostly escaped and free black and Irish slaves, worried if the proxy war in murky river delta( translated from Ghamidunnahar, referring to Amazon river) spills out into a continent wide conflict. There is also the Emirate of Jadidya, the only true jewish homeland housing many jews from islamic world, but to mostly well off jews in muslim lands they are a weird bunch due to messianic view of their leaders. The accusation of unfair treatment of native and non jewish population also adds to their dark side. Currently they are involved in a political crisis over the impending conflict nearby and pondering whether to join as Ewalqarud or Kazka allies. A simple solution is to expand the small ottoman naval base, the only one of its kind in Talentiya. To the Tahina sea in north of Talentiya lies archipelago of Tahina, an emirate which successfully secularized and modernised to the extent of keeping the ever expanding Gregorland state at bay in OTL Florida. There are also Espanic, French and English former colonies in OTL central America.
The continent of Antarqtique is composed of many states, all former colonies . Ardalhamra is the remnant of the once vast colonial empire of Oman. It was mostly left due to other powers having no interest in it. The English colony in southwest Antarqtique gained independent as Dirau republic, a majority hindu state adhering to shaivism as a sort of pre aryan indic cultural reincarnation. It is a Tatary ally which puts it at odds with Varmtsted( hot place) former danish colony which expanded south but many arable lands are held by Dirau which is desired by the larger state. But it is not the prominent state in Antarqtique, so they can only grumble. Antipodia, a French remnant is set out to keep the balance of power in the little continent, though it doesn’t harm when they take lands from Maori republic, never colonised due to priorities elsewhere. The Maori are screaming 'colonization' at the post Great war annexation of their Northern lands. With Nippon getting closer however, there is slight discomfort in Nouville (OTL Melbourne). But fear not, the civilized francophones shall not fear some pesky Xipangese barbarians!
The continent of Monrovia( After James Monroe, an English cartographer) is full of contrast, from heavily mechanized states emphasizing in expansion to the simple native statelets who don’t bother others if left alone. The state of Gregorland is an example of the former. It is the single most powerful state in Monrovia. It is a mix of Germanic( Duh, Hanseatic league), Burgundian and English and recently French ( After conquest of French lake regions following French disaster in Great war). They wanted to have a coast to coast territory but recently discovery of oil in Kahudi (OTL Montana) has shifted their attention to the great plains of north. The native waliyets( a common term for small states) have no chance of surviving even with the backing of Kukpak khanate who is the largest and perhaps only muslim country in Monrovia ( barring Tahina and the small chichimeca emirate). Kukpak khanate is made up of Mongol, tatar, xipangese, Chinese, eskimos, Tinghit...... Mainly starting out as an alternative fur trading hub to the established one of Huoshandi( volcano lands), OTL southern Alaska which was a colony of Chinese Shan Dynasty following Ming collapse in early 1600s and closed fur trade as Uighurs and Manchus advanced south. Opposing Gregorland are two English successor states, Annahok ( OTL Mexican lands) and Hesperia( OTL California with mostly native populace ruled by European elite class, think of Brooke Kingdom of Sarwak). They have been able to protect the small states in Great basin to some extent as a buffer against Gregorland. But with the renewed direction north, the balance of power is in risk again. There is no telling if Hesperia will survive another assault from the powerful state as memory from the last war in 1820 still in fresh where a white peace was achieved by horrendous losses on the part of the alliance. The gamechanger for the expanding state was robotic self reloading rail-guns, a first example of robotics application in warfare. Gregorland also participated in European conflict during the global war, turning the tide by opening a new front in Normandy forcing quick French withdrawal from Burgundy, forcing the war to reach a stalemate and end in that condition the following year. But this has also roused interest of an old world behemoth, Ulus Tatary who conducted the war winner invasion of Intermarinum with Rusland and Cossakia after Magyar collapse forced Rum entry into the war. Tatary already has military base in Kukpak khanate so cross continent intervention is not out of question. But Gregorland too is not without allies, Solendgangen, a Danish colonial aspiration which became its own thing in late 18th century, looks greedily at Dominique of New France. The last war saw France surrendering a considerable amount of territory to the Gregorland and a notion of alliance is up in the air, though optimistic ones in Jernby (OTL Akluivik)are already drawing up partition maps for Dominique. But with the entry of Nova scotia into secular bloc led by Annahok, geopolitical situation may become tense. In a span of 30 years, the world is on the brink of large conflict again.......
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