Preface
Finally I've decided to bring about, what I have so far of the ATL I'm working on for about the last 6 month.
… at least, what has (for me) gained some 'finalized status' … yet … at least covering the first 2 hours of the ATL … supposed to cover 3 years + … at least … (I refrain from doing the math, if my lifetime will cover that too.)
The PoD was relativly quickly found, but lurking around this board I learned, that it should still be somewhat 'elaborated' to keep it not only possible and plausible but also as possible minor. 'Just' having someone to die seemed to easy to easy for me I looked and searched more and more into the details. And wrote more and more about these details. … until I got somehow lost in these details.
But it is/was/is(etc.) so much fun in doing so, though I changed almost everything (of the details) more than a dozen times. …
But I have to get it off my table and my head as well to proceed and therefore I pester you with this story of the beginning, the PoD and its most immediate consequences. Nothing more. And as it was/is/was(etc.) a pleasure to write it I don't wanna scrap it, the way ans style I wrote it.
The 'rest' of this ATL … will follow, though most likely in a different 'formate' (I want to end this in my lifetime.).
I will try to update at least once a week, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. There's quite a chunk of Real Life I have to manage, that does not include any access to historical records (off for work 12 to 16 hours a day, one daughter at college, one at university, not to forget my wife, my house and my dog).
I render myself not much of an author. Please keep this in mind. For any proposals of changes in wording and/or grammar I will be appreciative. My 'access' will be more … fictional, less 'scintific' as i.e.
@Riain formidable „
Dagger at the throat of England“, but I still hope to stay within plausibility. However, from a certain point every ATL becomes kinda 'fiction'. I do it for pleasure, my own as – hopefully – yours also.
If you enjoy its reading half as much as I have written it,
then
I enjoy your reading twice as much as having written it.