MotF 157: From Here to Eternity

[Upvoteanthology]

MotF 157: From Here to Eternity

The Challenge
Make a map of a region, or the world, in the near future. By near future, I mean sometime in the next 100 years. It could be anywhere, not just on Earth, and not necessarily just in our timeline.

The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when the PoD of your map should be. However, it should be anywhere between now and May 21st, 2117. 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, June 4th, 2017.
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As a test, DISCUSSION ON ENTRIES WILL BE ALLOWED. There will be threadmarks denoting the entries, and questions and discussion about the entries is allowed in this thread.

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!​

 

[Kaiser_Jaeger]

When Worlds Collide

"We must look to the stars to save humanity" - Harold Musk[1] to the Sol Council[2] 2050

The year is 2080. A new day. A new year. Luna had been ruled unsuitable for terraforming and was spotted with several small domed mining towns. Mars was the first true target for human colonization. By the time the scientist of Earth had developed the terraforming techniques necessary, their goal had drifted dangerously close to the asteroid belt. The extra distance from the sun has made Mars unsuitable for the massive transfer of water necessary for the terraforming process.

Humanity set their sights on another goal. Venus. Much like Mars, Venus had drifted farther from the sun, although not as far. This brought Earth's twin into the edge of the habitable zone. But it moved closer still. As the planet drifted, its speed of rotation increased. When Venus was within the habitable zone, its day-night cycle lasted 30 hours. The heavy and sulfuric atmosphere had been pulled away, leaving a thin atmosphere. The surface of Venus was now averaging 100 degrees.

Massive water tanks were filled from the oceans of Earth. The tanks were sent skyward attached to rockets from space programs around the world. These tanks jettisoned their payloads over the surface of Venus. Over the next 10 years they labored. And Earth's twin continued its path away from the sun. In 2090 the event known forever-after as the Joining occurred. Venus had drifted into the outer orbit of the Earth, and stopped its march across the cosmos. It orbited the Earth a mere 20,000 miles from Earth's own moon. This made transport between planets much easier. In 2094 the first human was born born on the surface of Venus. By 2100 Venus had taken on 5 billion inhabitants.

It had always been the intention that the people of the newly inhabited planet govern themselves when they were ready. The first to break away from its Earthbound rulers was the North American state of Asteria. The Anarchist Black Army of Asteria swept through the islands. Every government officer was given a choice, join or die. Some chose to die but many joined the army. The Anarchy of Asteria was established on April 20th 2110. The twin worlds were shocked that an Anarchist Revolution could do as well as it did, and that the country hadn't devolved into chaos.

The Soviet State of the Ishtar Terra was peacefully released by the Union of Soviet Spaceward Regions and formed the Ishtar commune. The Mediterranean Space Alliance granted its province of Tellus Regio almost full autonomy. The new nation would use the same currency and share a space program. The Promethei Coalition formed from the ashes of Promethia when the East Asian space program fell apart due to lack of funding. The last to decide their fate was the Reich of Venusia. The broke off from Germany and the North European Space Bloc in 2115 when their political and scientific views began to differ from their homeland. The Chancellor of German Venusia was declared the new Kaiser of the Reich of Venusia. In 2116 these states were all given seats at the Sol Council

Two years have passed since the formation of the five new nations. Tensions between them are rising. Amnesty between the nations of Earth are at an all time high. The members of the Sol Council have tried diplomacy. People around the globes are waiting in fear, not knowing when the first great war of the new century will begin.

[1] Elon Musk's grandson, head of NASA and American Ambassador to the Sol Council
[2] UN like group that contains a representative from each space faring country in the solar system

Bellow are the approximate spheres of influence of each space union after the draining of the oceans. The dark green is the African-Arab Alliance and light blue is the South American Space Association.

 

[Jockehh]

Egypt in 2052 - Economic growth and prosperity in the 2020s due to a closer relationship with the Russian federation made Egypt into the most powerful country in the region. They participated in mining the first Asteroid along with Russia in a space mission headed by Russia aswell. This changed politics on earth, the extreme wealth that could be made from mining asteroids quickly threw all of the major powers into a new space race, which even the nordic countries participated in. Russia was the first to set up a colony on the red planet, but it didn't take long until independent corporations started doing this aswell. The united states of America Bought large territories off of these corporations along with India and the nordic countries. However the exact border was never made clear and a large region ended up disputed where all 3 of these are building inside. China originally settling their own small area in the north soon bordered new large corporative colonies which had to be bought, if they managed to encapsule the chinese colony it would prevent future growth.

Egypt aquired its first colony from Russia in 2041, for a relatively cheap price aslong as Russia had rights to work, travel and use the territory aswell. The area was settled by just a few thousand people, mostly Russian, but after a few years an immense ammount of egyptian settlers were sent and the number grew. Allthough the colony being very expensive, it was made into a national pride and mission to further the advancement of humanity.

I had to scale the map down. full sized map here