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And by "realistic," I mean no 'Zheng He conquers the Aztecs' scenarios, but actually feasible ones.

An interesting if rather unlikely one I had in mind is a group of war junks defecting from Zheng He's fleet and conquering the Swahili Coast.

Alternately, perhaps some defeated lineage (maybe even the Song) successfully flees out to sea to found a maritime empire in the Indian Ocean and/or the South China Sea.
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