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Well, I guess Abraham Lincoln did dekulakize the southern plantation owners.

 

Land of Confusion:
Genesis

Spoiler: Musical accompaniment

When the bombs dropped on that fateful day over a century and a half ago not every soldier of the mighty American Army was fighting overseas in the atomic power blitzkrieg's of Europe and East Asia. Some were back home helping to maintain order in the war torn west coast, training or gearing up for their next deployment, unaware that the nation they swore to protect would die in an instant. One such band was Lieutenant Colonel Alex Mason's and 502nd heavy infrantry battalion, having been deployed back to the states for retraining with thd M-27 series power armor in the Arizona desert when the bombs dropped.



Watching helplessly as Flagstaff was obliterated in nuclear fire Mason made a promise to himself, a promise that his men and their descendants would carry on to this day, never to let the horrors of the apocalypse happen again. With the chain of communication gone and chaos sweeping through the lands of America it fell to Mason alone to keep his men alive. As they made their way through the desert on their long march to the supposed safety of the New Mexico El Vado Bunker complex, an old staging ground that army had used in their push to drive out the Sino-Soviet invaders. Taking in whoever they could on their journey but more often than not being forced to drive them away at gun point, simply not having enough resources at hand to care for them and theirselves. Arriving at El Vado they had found what at first glance appeared to be simply another band of survivors had taken refuge within the complex. Only for them to soon discover to their horror that these survivors were Cannibals, caging and slaughtering their former neighbors for. Disgusted by the sheer inhumanity of what they discovered they slaughtered the monsters in human guises to the last and liberated the prisoners. It was that day that they were no longer the 502 and became the Sentinels of the Wasteland.

The M-13 power armor first introduced in the Liberation of San Francisco it would prove devastatingly against the urban defenders. Becoming the mainstay of Sentinels of the Wasteland, being slightly more common amongst their ranks than the M-27.

Over the generations the Sentinels dug in a consolidated their position while the world was consumed in the deathly grip of nuclear winter. Sending out scouting parties and even the occasional expedition into the wider wasteland in search of valuable pre Armageddon technology. Partially to help preserve it, to make sure that the knowledge of the past isn't forgotten but also to keep it out of the wrong hands, they've scene what happens when say some hopped up tribal gets his hands on a cash of machine guns enough times to know what happens. With the Sentinels believing that it was the irresponsible use of technology in the hands of selfish, violent men that doomed the world to nuclear Armageddon. Viewing it as their responsibility to prevent anything like WW3 and the Apocalypse from ever happening again, seeing themselves as the noble knights of the wasteland defending the weak and defenseless.



Life within the Sentinels is strictly regimented under the leadership of the Council of Elders and their grandmaster. With every member of the Sentinels from a fresh faced initiate to the greatest of the elders living by a strict code of honor, first codified by Alex Mason within the Sentinel Codex. Recently however they've found themselves growing more laxed in terms of recruitment with the encroaching forces of the mutant army, as the two mighty forces clash in the post apocalyptic desert. With them now being willing to recruit any able bodied and willing to join their ranks against the mutated abominations. The majority ending up amongst the ranks of the grunts, the standard infantry of Sentinels equipped with the same standard combat armor and assault rifles their ancestors most likely used in WW3. Though those few recruits who truly show exceptional skill and promise are slated for the chance to join the ranks of the Sentinel Knights and dawn the Sentinels prized power armor, going into battle with the most prized energy weapons of the Old War World. Yet still there is talk amongst the leadership that this may not be enough that it may be time to call for those distant outposts that were established by those brave expeditions generations ago or even approach the much loathed city of Vega. Though fortunately they've been able to count on the Rangers to fight by their side against this threat.

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My book "Au Bord de l'Abîme" is now available in English as "At the Edge of Darkness".
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
Here are some pictures form this alternate world:

USS Wap Sinking


The bombing of Henderson Field


Wounded giants

 

I'm feeling that I probably could have done better on the Sentinels. Wonder if I should redo them or not.

 

Next up on Land of Confusion: Genesis the beasts of the wasteland...

 

Tony Benn, Prime Minister from 1992 to 2014 (and Labour Party leader from 1988) addresses the opposition leader John Redwood in 2013, aged 87. He served as Prime Minister until his death.

 

From an alt history book from my own Afro Reich alternate history TL:

The Crow Flys Low

Flag Of The Nova African Republic founded after the collapsed of the second confederacy in 1925 after America not Germany decided to back a pro democratic black confederate rebels
Them after the CSA join the entente.

German Far Right Leader Hitler during the failed National Revolution where he would be shot and killed by rival communist rebels before making it to Berlin marking the start of the german civil war.


current flag of the American Government although it may add a few stars after conflicts with Japan in Indochina.

Flag of the Sino Soviet Union after the unification wars of the fifties and Sixties.

Confederate Parade shortly before the start of the first Great War.


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You may be asking yourself what the hell is an Afro Reich well...Hans that wacky Alien Space back drunk one day and well this happened:https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...r-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-afro-reich.463330/

 

My book "Au Bord de l'Abîme" is now available in English as "At the Edge of Darkness".
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
Here are some pictures form this alternate world:

The Road to Imphal


Battleship Yamato during the battle of Savo Island


Japanese No. 1 Class Fast Transports

 

Soviet IS-3 during Victory Parade at Sapporo (People's Republic of Japan)-1946.

 

My book "Au Bord de l'Abîme" is now available in English as "At the Edge of Darkness".
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
Here are some pictures form this alternate world and I you wonder, yes i did thme myself (I even take commissions).

Japanese combined fleet in Palau


Ise AA Battleship


Nachtpanther

 

From a dystopian concept I been bouncing around in my head the pod is around the mid to late 90’s:

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Photo of the current President of the United States Of America and leader of the Holy Land Party how came into power in the early two thousands after events like the columbine bombing and the 9/11 and the 25/12 attacks preying on fear of moral decay along with “Holy Law”.

taken during the short lived Last Indian Pakistan war which became nuclear leaving only two rumps states and hundreds of war lord biding for control on both sides of the conflicts.




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A group of riot police during a protest calling for an end to the war’s Venezuela, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Libya, Somalia, and Syria. These protest would eventually boil over after a group of a hundred college kids would be shot dead.

a member of the American Satanic Front due to a strong backlash against the ruling government many youth and rebels would adopt satanism in order to rebel not just physical but spiritually as well.

some moderate members of the more libertarian “Sons of Liberty” some where in Appalachia.

the California People’s Front shortly before the Battle Of LA.


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My book "Au Bord de l'Abîme" is now available in English as "At the Edge of Darkness".
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
Here are some pictures form this alternate world and I you wonder, yes i did thme myself (I even take commissions).

Operation MO


Vistula-Oder Offensive

 

Iron Spear: The Rise and Fall of The Afro Reich

An early version of the AW 37 assault rifle it would be upgraded post war.

The 1929 Afro Reich invasion of Haiti who declared independence from the CSA after the Great War.

And Afro Reich Turner tank some where in Ohio. The Turner tank was one of the most used tank by the Afro Reich being based on an German and Afro Reich joint and weighing in at just under 60 tons. Although the engine was slightly under powered which was improved as the war went on.

Photo of the Sino Soviet DMZ with the Empire of Japan (1959)


Flag of the Union of Sino Soviet Socialist Republics or USSSR.

Afro Reich troops pushing into the Ohio during the second Great War.
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A photo taken of the influential Santa Claus during one of his few interviews in December of 1985. Many have raised questions as to how he has managed to deliver toys to children all around the globe for over centuries, with many raising the theory that Santa is either multiple people or possibly process regeneration powers, similar to the fictional character Doctor Who. Either way he is a warm, friendly humanitarian who wishes good will for all.​

 

I mean Santa being a time lord would make sense with the slay being a TARDIS and the sack being bigger on the inside. Wait speaking of the Doctor this gives me and idea.

 

You have NO idea how long I've been waiting to make this post.

 

Why do I picture Santa being a mix of his incarnations from the movies Rise of the Guardians and Klaus?

 

Work in progress...

Land of Confusion:
Genesis

With the atomic fallout that engulfed the world when the bombs dropped, coupled with the mass die off of flora & fauna and the mutagenic particles in the air new, often deadly forms of wildlife have arisen to claim the wasteland in the past hundred and fifty years. One of the most beneficial of these creatures is the Worthog, descended from domestic pigs, having developed various cancerous growths and cyst growths over their skin in the last century and a half of mutation. That while not beneficial in the wild can be easily removed without harming the main body. Providing human villages and settlements across the North American wastes to an easy source of sustainable meat, capable of being harvested almost daily without killing the pig. First being adopted by the various semi agrarian tribes of the more mountainous regions of the American Wastes it has since risen to being a staple food for most societies in North America. With the raider tribes even going so far as to process the harvested fat into fuel for their war rigs.



Yet another creature of the post apocalyptic wasteland of the mid 22nd century would be the Las Cruces Lizard. First encountered on the outskirts of the namesaked New Mexican ruins the Las Cruces lizard, commonly believed to be descended from the pre Armageddon gilla monster, is a large omnivorous reptile, standing roughly three times larger than the pre apocalyptic horse. Local scavengers and tribesman soon discovered the creature could be easily domesticated as a mount animal, finding the creature to be well suited for the post apocalyptic deserts of the South west. Being easily able to traverse rocky terrain, relatively easy to feed, required comparatively little water, capable of carrying the supplies of several traditional pack animals and even able in helping their masters in fighting off bandit attacks, being fierce creatures when provoked. Leading them to becoming the primary riding animal of the southwest and neighboring regions.



Though unfortunately most creatures of the post apocalyptic world are far more dangerous to humans than beneficial. Non more so apparent than the Hellzard, commonly believed by the superstitious to be a demon spawned from nuclear hellfire to punish mankind. Is a massive bipedal carnivorous reptile and the predominant alpha predator of the North American wastes. Commonly hunting in packs of six to a dozen these nightmarish creatures can be found from the outskirts of LA to as far as New York, possessing claws capable of tearing through the armored plating of a ww3 era armored car and an absolutely horrific resilience, capable of shrugging of most firearms, with nothing short of an old world 50. Cal or elephant gun being able to kill them. Though that is not their most dangerous trait with those few brave researchers who have managed to observe them and live noting they have a disturbing level of intelligence, with packs of Hellzards deliberately herding prey towards pits that they have dug themselves, laced with sharpened sticks or scavenged spears and covered up before hand and even intentionally leaving injured prey alive, knowing they can use it as bait to lure more prey to them. Often going onto all fours to chase them down faster.

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Thoughts?

 

Just a funny pic I found