MotF 156: The Man from Nantucket

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MotF 156: The Man from Nantucket

The Challenge
Make a map showing the result of a region of the Earth being ISOTed. The map can either be of the ISOTed region in its new world or the world it left behind.

The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when your PoD or map may be set. Fantasy, sci-fi, and future maps are allowed.

If you're not sure whether your idea meets the criteria of this challenge, please feel free to PM me or comment in the main thread. Sometimes it isn't as clear as I intend it to be.

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Entries will end for this round when the voting thread is posted on Sunday, May 21st, 2017.
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THIS THREAD IS FOR ENTRIES ONLY.

Any discussion must take place in the main thread. If you post anything other than a map entry (or a description accompanying a map entry) in this thread then you will be asked to delete the post.

Remember to vote on the previous MotF round!​
 
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BryanIII

*juuj first!!*

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*larger, more detailed version to be found here: http://bryaniii.deviantart.com/art/MotF156-The-Doggerlandic-Return-679858785?ga_submit_new=10:1494453243&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1*

For some reason unknown to humanity and science alike, the submerged island of Doggerland instantaneously rose up from the depths of the North Sea to retake its position it had at the beginning of the Holocene. The subsequent displacement of water pushed boats in area away from the island and a small tidal wave did some minimal damage to British, Dutch, German and Danish shores (the small damage was almost exclusively suffered by the Frisian Islands).

Not knowing what hit them the UK, Denmark and the joint Belgian-Dutch Admiralty send both war- and research vessels to the area. The involved parties met in Dover a few months after to share information and compare finding and maps. In October of 2017 British research ship Boaty McBoatface -Uhm... I mean RRS Sir David Attenborough ofcourse :p- made the first landing on the smaller island just out the SouthWestern shore of the main island and after a few expeditions concluded that no humanoids were transported, only the wildlife. The Crew were the first Humans to see Mammoths in 4000 years.

The UK, with the Brexit being in progress, didn't feel the need to go the European summit in Brussels to discuss the issue and went along with colonization before everyone else. Meanwhile in Brussels there was nothing much they could do against the British but asked however to, for now at least, respect the former border between British and Dutch Territorial waters (which they did). An agreement on resettlement (note here that most of the EU doesn't call it colonizing) was largely found and after Germany was persuaded by giving it some islands which would normally go to Denmark, the green light was given for the nations involved to go and claim they're lands.

The solo-colonization by the UK had as an effect that the Brexit was speeded up by the EU and by March 2019 it was signed. One of the last Treaties that had been signed was an document defining the final borders between the UK and the European countries. Scotland had also decided to remain with the Brexiting UK, largely because it has been bribed into submission with a large portion in the NorthWest of the British Colony that is entirely under the control of Scottish Parliament.
 
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Kaiser_Jaeger

Kaiser_Jaeger

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In the year 1090 unknown to the Kingdoms of Eurasia and the tribes of Africa, they were transported to an ISOT without the yet to be discovered "New World". In the year 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail to find pioneer a trade route to India. He never arrives. His fleet is blown off course in a raging storm. His ships land on the coast of an unknown land. Claiming this new land for Spain, Christopher names this new land Columbia and founds the city Tierra Reinas in honor of his sponsor Queen Isabella. He sends word back to Spain about the newly discovered land and a new ship is sent each year with supplies and settlers.

The increasing expansion is met with hostility from the natives. In 1946 the tribes of Columbia unite and form the Coalition of Aboriginal Peoples. This newly formed coalition begins raiding the Spanish settlers. In response to the raids, the Spanish crown send more soldiers and a full blown war on the Coalition is declared. After 2 years of back and forth fighting with many civilian casualties, a treaty was signed between the Viceroyalty and the Coalition. The Coalition was granted land west of the Rio de Medio [1] and the Viceroyalty agreed not to expand past the river. Despite this truce, racial tensions remain very high.

By 2017 Colombia is one of the few remaining territories of the once great Spanish Empire.

[1] Although this river doesn't exist in our timeline, a great earthquake in the 1300s opened up this North-South channel.
 

fashbasher

Banned
In August 1, 2021, the most watched event in world history occurred. The Brooklyn Project, a top secret research program by the Los Alamos National Laboratories, had developed a way to mass replicate areas of land as well as their inhabitants and ship them to a "rep-earth", a virgin replica of the Earth. They had not yet developed the capacity to transmit an entire planet with inhabitants, but they had created several rep-earths in pocket dimensions and had selected the state of New Mexico to replicate on account of its hefty military and scientific presence dating to its involvement with the atomic bomb as well as to its many Native American, Texan, and Hispano communities that were believed to be of "hardier" stock than other American citizens. The area that was to be mass replicated wound up consisting of three interlocking rectangles, comprising the state of New Mexico, the Indian reservations of northeastern Arizona, and a small amount of Mexico. The reason it was limited to only those areas is that only the State of New Mexico, the Hopi Nation, and the Navajo Nation were willing to consent to the procedure, after extensive assurances that Navajos, Hopis, and New Mexicans on Earth wouldn't be affected; indeed, the small amount of Mexico that was replicated in detail wound up nearly bringing the US and Mexico to war. Exclusive land claims for the entirety of the US and parts of Mexico and Canada, as well as tentative claims elsewhere, were drafted in detail between the State of New Mexico, Mexican citizens living there, and the various Indian tribes. On that fateful day, a glow engulfed the replication area...and TV cameras soon picked up an identical world to that of New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, stopping crisply at the delineated borders, on Los Alamos' interdimensional CCTV screens. "Success!" was the front-page headline on the next day's USA Today. "This will Make America Relevant Again!" proclaimed President Warren to a crowd of cheering researchers.

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theman7777

My entry:
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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.
 
The Plainsman

The Plainsman

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According to what the nation reports, on the night of August 10, 2012, the people in the country known as the Russian Federation reported seeing mysterious green waves in an S-shaped pattern moving all over the skies of the nation. Millions witnessed the event which has since been dubbed “The Night of Changing Times”. It is called such because when the light show ended and the government tried contacting the rest of the world, they found out that they had been transported to the year 1912.

The European empires at the time were not happy by the fact a republic out of nowhere replaced the Russian Empire before hand, and therefore, didn’t recognize the Federation as the real Russian government. The Russian Royal Family also seemingly disappeared with the empire too. The Russian Federation didn’t control all of the old empire's territory but instead Russia proper, but as well as some Japanese and German land as well. The other regions soon fell to chaos when they learned their former masters were gone. The Federation soon moved to take control of the lands and made them the freedom to govern themselves but were also made a part of Russia as well.

Japan then made the fatal mistake of declaring war on Russia, to take back their land. The war, however, ended in Russian victory in only a week, because of Russia’s heavily advanced weaponry such as jet fighter airplanes, tanks, and assault rifle machine guns. Because of Japan’s loss in the war, they also lost all gains they had made with a previous war with the Russian Empire. This made the Europeans (Particularly Germany, which wanted back the remainder of Eastern Prussia) have second thoughts about invading Russia. Russia, however, decided to amend ties with their former adversary and have promised them lands in Southeast Asia as compensation for the loss of their empire.

Seeing that they were able to subdue Japan so quickly, Russia began using their superior military might to expand its influence throughout the world. They took advantage of the chaos going on in China to annex lands and make allies as well, invaded Persia in order to have access to the Indian Ocean, built alliances with some of the Balkan nations against the Austria-Hungary, and have even began making claims on the whole of Antarctica.

The nations of Europe were unhappy at the fact that Russia was asserting their power so widely over the world and taking their spheres of influence away. Seven nations - which included such powers as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria-Hungary - signed the European Defense League alliance (EDL) to form a block against the bear of the east.

On New Year’s Day, 1913, A Serbian terrorist organization called the Black Hand (Which had been suspected to have been given money and weapons from and Russia since November, 1912 and Serbia before hand) attacked the Austrian emperor and killed him. The EDL used this as an excuse to invade Serbia and Russia just day later. Even though the Russians didn’t quite expect an attack from them, the army soon reorganized itself and attacked the invaders. Despite the fact that the EDL had outnumbered the Russian army by a ridiculous, and they had crudely reversed engineered some of the Russian weaponry they managed to steal, By mid January, they were pushed out of Russian territory and was on the run.

By the end of February, the Russians had begun attacking Berlin and Austria-Hungary was being dismantled by revolutions from minorities and on going attacks from their invaders. But the EDL had one more trick up their sleeve. During the first few days of the war, they sent a Russian communist revolutionary from Switzerland onto a train to Moscow, and try to start a revolution there. That man’s name was Vladimir Lenin. Because he had technically been the leader of Russia in the time before the Russian Federation was transported to 1912, his influence was great, yet controversial among the Russian people.

Eventually, He managed to start a communist revolution within the Russian Federation, which broke out into civil war. Despite not having much support from the people themselves, he gathered support a small group of like-minded military officials. Because of this, Russia had to pull some of its forces from the front to fight the communist. After over a year of fighting, however, the communist were defeated, but not before creating leaving many Russian cities ruined, over two million dead, and making one last stand at St. Petersburg, which left the city udderly wasted. Lenin was later arrested, tried, and again exiled.

Meanwhile, in Western Europe, Russia had already finished the siege of London, which led to the surrender of Britain, and the end of the Russo-European War, as it is now called. The Treaty of Brussels was signed on May 5, 1914. It stated that the European powers were to recognize all of Russia’s and their allies gains made since they came in 1912, give independence to some of their colonies, make some of the aforementioned European nations clients to Russia, and dissolve the EDL.

Thus, up until now, Russia is now the “Superpower” of the world, involving itself with all matters of world politics.
 
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Kaiphranos

Kaiphranos

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Three and a half billion years in the future, a matrioshka brain is running a simulation of the rise of one of its creator species, when a minor error causes a hyperspherical cross-section of the simulated world to be temporally transposed by 2^10 cycles...

2017. At first they thought it was a summer thunderstorm. The first thing everyone noticed was a great booming sound, like a clap of thunder but larger, as two masses of air at different temperatures and pressures were suddenly brought in contact with each other. Those who were outdoors could see a strange roiling in the sky, as clouds formed, joined, or dissipated. One or two people near the boundaries of the sphere saw features seem to vanish in an instant - trees, roads, telephone wires. Later, they were able to trace the boundaries of "The Zone" by finding objects which had been bisected by the transposition. Staff and campers at Box Canyon Ranch noticed as the power went out. But it was several days before anyone grasped the truth - that their little circle of northern New Mexico had been thrown back in time.

Once this hypothesis had been reached, a party from Box Canyon Ranch set out within a few days, following the Chama River down to the Rio Grande, then heading up into the hills where Santa Fe should be, to determine if it might be possible to make contact with American or even Spanish colonial authorities. They found nothing. A second party set out a few days later, headed west...

993. The strangers had come down from the high country to the east, Qoyanomtiwa's scouts had reported, though they did not dress like easterners. They were oddly pale, and most curious of all, some were being carried by elk without horns. No one seemed to have guided them, but somehow they had found their way to the Great House. Qoyanomtiwa pondered this, and at last he shrugged. "Let us go and meet these strangers," he said. "Maybe they are Pahana, maybe not. We shall put them to the test, and if they fail, we shall treat with them as with any other men or women."

2017. "It's not much like how I remember it," Rick said. "It's bigger, but smaller at the same time." It didn't even look much like the reconstruction in the National Geographic they'd found in the library--most of Chaco Canyon didn't seem to have been built yet. But there was Pueblo Bonito, sure enough, and not just the ruins Rick had visited last fall - the stone walls stood several stories high, and right now they seemed to be bustling with people.

"Look," said Carla. "Someone's coming out." Indeed, a group of several people was emerging from a doorway, though only one seemed to be carrying a weapon.

"Alright, let's not get any closer. Wait here for them."

993. Qoyanomtiwa surveyed the strangers. There were five of them, but the scouts were correct - each of them seemed to be seated on an elk of some sort. As he watched, the strangers climbed down off these elk, and stood. They did not seem to be carrying spears or other weapons that he could see, though who knew what powers they might have if they could command these beasts?

"Lomankwa, tell them to come no closer," he said to the shaman.

2017. Rick watched as one of the delegation drew out a small pouch of white powder, and sprinkled it in a line on the ground. "Let's leave the gifts here and back off a bit," he said, watching the shaman's gestures. Carla nodded, deposited the "gift package" they'd assembled at the Ranch, and stepped back a few paces.

993. "I think they might be offering a trade," said Macatoiniwa. "Remember the men from the south, five years ago, who brought the green birds and the shells?"

"Yes, I remember," Qoyanomtiwa replied. "In that case, let's see what they have to offer." They advanced to where the strangers had laid their bundle. A square of fine red cloth, wide as his arm, lay on the ground. On it were knives that glinted like the sun on water, plates and dishes with strange intricate designs, several garments of white cloth, jewelry of silver and turquoise, and a pile of shining disks the size of his hand. "These seem like fine goods," he said to Macatoiniwa. "Let's see if we can come to an arrangement..."

By the time the error was noticed, milliseconds later, several dozen processing cycles had passed. A new hybrid culture was blossoming across the affected area, as the ancestral Puebloans adopted and assimilated these strange newcomers. The area had already been headed for an era of rapid growth and development due to favorable climate conditions, but the new crops and livestock seemed likely to extend it further and faster. Already, trade networks were forming, east to the Mississippi Valley and south into Mexico.

A quorum was called to determine whether to end the counterfactual scenario or to let it continue...

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Rubberduck3y6

"Leave Means Leave!"

On the morning of Friday 24 June 2016, Europe awoke to shocking, confusing and distressing news coming out of the United Kingdom. Rumours had been circling around the Internet and media outlets overnight that Brexit was happening and that the British people had chosen to leave. Then, nothing. Just as an official announcement to proclaim the results was expected, all communications from the UK suddenly stopped. People close to the British coast and living near the intra-Irish border reported a blindingly bright light and then complete darkness. As dawn broke it became clear that the British had truly left - all houses, factories, farms and roads had disappeared and been replaced with miles of unbroken woodland, and Low-lying areas which had been drained and reclaimed from the sea generations ago were now inundated. In fact, the only humans to remain where those who were those who were immigrants to Britain, foreign tourists and military personnel.

The strange and unsettling events of that fateful day are now a century past and Britain is now a fractured land. Britain's European neighbours' initial interests in the island were to secure their own maritime frontiers through a series of installations along the North Sea and Channel coasts. These have since grown into significant settlement areas with many of the "New Britons" speaking French, Dutch or Flemish as their first language. Further inland, the United States, China and Russia compete to extract the replenished natural resources, with the first's pre-existing military bases having provided them with an early advantage, although the Chinese, and now the Russians have caught up fast. Between these European "colonies" and superpower mining outposts lie the polities established by those who were left by the Event, the most numerous of whom are the Poles and various Asian communities (Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis). Of note is the refugee-established nation of Zanggal on the south coast and the numerous multicultural independent cities. Of course, the one thing all these polities have in common is their quasi-legal status: shortly after the Event, the UN declared the territory of the United Kingdom to be an international scientific reserve and prohibited any nation from claiming land or establishing a permanent population on the islands, thus giving them a similar status to that of Antarctica. This declaration had very little practical effect however, and is now regarded as little more than a trivial curiosity. In fact most New Britons give it as little thought as they do to whatever happened to those than voted to leave 100 years ago.

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Clandango

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Rubberduck3y6 said:
"Leave Means Leave!"
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The Isle of Man is not a part of the UK. Was it somehow dragged along anyways or did the Irish just shove their way in? And I find it bizarre that there is nothing for the Commonwealth in general, and Canada, Australia, etc in specific. After all, they gotta gave a couple hundred thousand between them that count as British. Also weird the Danes, Faoresians, Icelanders, and Norwegians didn't do something with the Shetlands. Lots of historical claims there, plus solidifies claims to the fish and oil of the Norwegian Sea. And is Petershead Norwegian?
 
Gian

Gian

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The Isle of Man was left untouched, but now has a similar relationship to Ireland as it did the UK. While there were some Australians, Canadians etc in Britain their numbers were relatively small and hence they ended up getting absorbed by the larger groups. There was some talk about Canada, Australia or some other Commonwealth nation becoming the UK's successor state but in the end nothing came of it. Since then, there has been little interest in settling Britain by the Canadians or Australians due to distance and having ample land and resources of their own.
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And I'm guessing the Channel Islands also were left unscathed, and now fall under the French sphere.
 
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