Separated at Birth: America and Drakia
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Can the spaceplanes that that accursed world produced be likened to a cross between the runway-landing Space Shuttles (especially for its orbital vehicle) and the two-stage, perhaps unholily primitive design of SpaceX starship?
"Advanced Separateverse Engineering" can help them skip several iterations of spacecraft conceptualized and produced in the OTL Space Race, but then produce other design flaws. Besides, the rightmost vehicle does look like a space plane already, albeit one that does not have wheels that would qualify it as a runway-landing plane.
It can also be excused that they didn't develop for ICBM's due to the emphasis on a partly-renewable payload delivery for the different, perhaps non-offensive space systems, with the need for a dedicated warhead platform already taken up by the orbiting projectiles.
"Advanced Separateverse Engineering" can help them skip several iterations of spacecraft conceptualized and produced in the OTL Space Race, but then produce other design flaws. Besides, the rightmost vehicle does look like a space plane already, albeit one that does not have wheels that would qualify it as a runway-landing plane.
It can also be excused that they didn't develop for ICBM's due to the emphasis on a partly-renewable payload delivery for the different, perhaps non-offensive space systems, with the need for a dedicated warhead platform already taken up by the orbiting projectiles.
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A thought, Could the Lunar Americans be the semi-equivalents of the Samothracians?
Are the space settlements self-sufficient?
One possibility that occurs to me is that, with the space settlements controlling spade above Earth orbit, they have a practical monopoly on the exploitation of space. This gives them a monopoly over military weapons involving extreme energies, say, those involving lithobreaking.
Beyond this, they have an incentive to employ these technologies as quickly as possible. Nothing would prevent the Deals from getting back into space and plausibly overwhelming the independent settlements.
The author did speak of an Anthropocene extinction event. I wonder.
One possibility that occurs to me is that, with the space settlements controlling spade above Earth orbit, they have a practical monopoly on the exploitation of space. This gives them a monopoly over military weapons involving extreme energies, say, those involving lithobreaking.
Beyond this, they have an incentive to employ these technologies as quickly as possible. Nothing would prevent the Deals from getting back into space and plausibly overwhelming the independent settlements.
The author did speak of an Anthropocene extinction event. I wonder.
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Wouldn’t a Dubai Republic or Omani republic be still dominated by former nobility given the lack of other powerful social classes?
Ephraim Ben Raphael
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Quite so.
Thank you Frame.
That's a good point and I think I'm going to rework the number of extinct species here upward
Oh wow, I love it. Consider its use cannon.
Yeah, like theoretical physics research into paleontology has lagged ITTL due to lack of investment in "impractical science".
That he is.
You know, like @the Imperium of Canada I've mostly seen it used with varying degrees of irony so I'm okay with it being used here.
I'm not quite sure what you mean? The Tian "Dynasty" was a theocracy with some hereditary elements.
I'm glad you enjoyed the new chapter.
Yes, but the cyborgs were still pretty basic by the time the Final War started (this was true in vanilla as I recall). Exoskeletons got more play.
What @Born in the USSA said. She became the favored ideologue of the government for a couple of decades and then retired to a semiprivate life.
Unintended consequence. Lucan was trying to force Typhon into killing Achlys so that he'd be demoted as punishment.
He was still alive and did not hesitate to register his disapproval of Klein being pardoned and allowed to come back. They never met again in person though.
Thank you!
Definitely not lesbians- Drakia needs them pumping out babies!
It also hates the reminder that it's misery when it keeps being told over and over again that it should be triumph.
How on Earth did you work those out? They're almost exactly spot on.
Some are gone, but a couple of the bigger ones survived. The Turkish and Arab governments-in-exile had multiple embassies in different places. Part of the Ukrainian government in exile made it to the Netherlands.
Complete with a leader who has a French last name.
Ephraim Ben Raphael
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Alright, I've finished the map and I'm about 500 words into the next chapter. It's not ready yet, but hopefully by the week's end.
I love how you depict the snakes so called super humans they are broken individuals with no real ability to work in groups or relate to people. Years having having toxic masculinity delusions of grandeur and genetic supremacy instilled in them plus all the abuse in the agoge turned what was supposed to the ubermench into nothing more but scared and angry man children.
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The main probably is that per Ephraim's wording the lunar colonies are only '60% self-sufficient', and the Drakia still have some spacelift ability.
It's going to be a race between the colonies bootstrapping their industrial capability, held back by the need for total self-sufficiency, vs the Drakia putting their house in order enough to whip up a space gun and start shelling the colonies before their internal stability problems come home to roost.
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Drakia was no more successful in creating "Homo drakensis" than the USSR was at creating the "New Soviet Man" or Nazi Germany at creating the "Ubermensch" IOTL.
Hey. Made an account just so I could tell you well done. Really enjoyed this timeline from start to finish, been binging the thread over the last few days. I especially liked the aspect of rolling, I think that it enhanced your story greatly even if it occasionally scuttled a plotline or cool idea. Because it allows me to gain an emotional investment in the story since I genuinely don't know what is going to happen. In a normal timeline, the bit about the British Situationists would've been boring for example. Because it was so obvious on an Out Of Universe level that they would win. But because I knew you could kill them, I was on the edge of my seat instead. So you may lose one or two cool plot points, but each sacrifice enhances every other plot point.
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Ephraim Ben Raphael
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Thank you.
*cackles evilly*
India went Hindu Nationalist and pursued some not-nice policies towards its Muslim minority, which it accused of having collaborated with the British. That made overseas Muslim alliances hard to pull off.
Saying that you made an account just so you could comment on my TL is the highest of compliments.
I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it, and that you feel the dice worked out. That sense of "will they make it out" rather than "how will they make it out" was one of the big goals of using them.Welcome aboard!
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