In timeline Zeta-356, I'm a vat brain, the size of a porpoise, in charge of the infrastructure of the Midwestern Incorporated District. Basically, I make sure that water arrives at the homes of the citizens, waste is taken away, and that they get their allotment of power. I also make sure that they get credited and debited for any unused or overused services. That takes up about three hours in my day, so I'm board. That's why I spend so much time on the Compu-Net, looking at odd websites.
So How Are Your Analogues?
- Thread starter Romulus Augustulus
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Update -- In this timeline, I am apparently in hospital for some kind of operation, but no-one will say what! And the native birth provisions issue is still running hot!
Straha
Banned
Dixie- Still a college student but more likely to be in either California, New mexico or Sonora states
Reich-5- dead?
Roma Aeterna: A plebian somewhere in the new world
Shikaku-Mon: Probably in the middle classes of brazil
Ezcalli: Probably in the aztec elites
Gernsback: Still the same as is only a bit moreo f a revolutionary
Cornwallis: A moderately well off college student in the spanish empire
Ming: a peasant somewhere in chinese meisigwe
Midgard: Dunno
Caliph: fighting off the jamahirya in the new world.
Aeolus: A volunteer fighting for the monarchists
Centrum: One of the security types
Reich-5- dead?
Roma Aeterna: A plebian somewhere in the new world
Shikaku-Mon: Probably in the middle classes of brazil
Ezcalli: Probably in the aztec elites
Gernsback: Still the same as is only a bit moreo f a revolutionary
Cornwallis: A moderately well off college student in the spanish empire
Ming: a peasant somewhere in chinese meisigwe
Midgard: Dunno
Caliph: fighting off the jamahirya in the new world.
Aeolus: A volunteer fighting for the monarchists
Centrum: One of the security types
Well, in most of my proto-TL's, I have usually made sure that there is no version of me there because of the butterflies. I usually have a thing againest creating such an alternate version of myself in my TL's.
There's a little story behind that, actually.
My very first tries to create an alternate TL were when I was still a kid
somewhere between 10 and 12 years old, and what gave me the idea of creating a separate TL was the notion of time-travel.
And ever since, I have been adding new scenario's and modifying old ones. In those scenario's, I travelled back in time somewhere in the future to a period of about a million years ago. There's a whole lot of stories that I came up with on what would happen to me next, but the bottom line of all these stories is that due to countless biological and technological enhancements, as well as some really otherworldly cloning experiments, this imaginary version of myself evolved into this amazingly complex being.
Yet because of the whole time-travel thing, I quickly saw what would be inevitable in a universe in which I have traveled to the past, yet survive up until the point that I will see an alternate version of myself being born.
I was then confronted with the question:
should there be two independant Rolves in one universe? (-> Rolf is my real name...)
...because of the whole wacky cloning thing, there was already one "independant" Rolf clone in my TL/Universe, and he was specifically created by some other scientists in the earliest phase of the whole TL/story to stop and replace me.
As it turned out, he not only murdered a number of my comrades in that story (that I like to call "the Genesis Story"), but he also turned on the scientists who thought that they could control him, with equal ferocity, and equally gory overall results.
In the case of an alternate version of myself being born in that universe,
I would not fear that it would become evil and dangerous like that certain clone.
But it would be a rather awkward
Would I have to go through all the same mistakes and embarrasing moments again?
Would I (the alternate me) have go through the same gargantuan process of that evolution all over again?
Or would the alternate me be forced to live a life of mediocrity,
and die a being that is far less then the "original" version of me in that TL...?
In the end, I decided that effectively babysitting an alternate version of me
would be just not what I would want or need, especially since I rejected the notion of the closed timecircle.
So I simply discovered the butterfly-effect, and used it to make sure that I
was never born in that certain ATL.
..
But especially in the last two years, I've been creating scenario's about my future in future TL's, and especially some scenario's on the period between today and the point of me travelling back in time to start creating my own TL.
Yet most of these scenario's are just plain interesting "What If?" possebilities.
And some are just really good stories.
The WWIII veteran future version of me is an example of that,
as I combined a few good scenario's and idea's I had with the scenario of the Martian Independance thread.
And there's also a bigger story behind that, especially regarding the Third World War and the Arqenaian Empire that I mentioned there.
To mention a few basic details; the Arqenaian Empire is founded by adherants of a new philosophy and new (somewhat Christian) religious movement that is known as Mor Archanon Christianity, which is my own creation and which is based upon my own ideas.
And in that Martian Independance scenario, I was originally one of the founders of the Mor Archanon religion, yet I became pretty much left the ideological as well as political and religious leadership of the movement, because of the trauma's from WWIII, and the way that those traumatic events made clear to the alternate version of myself that I could not ever change humanity, and that it was futile and foolish to ever think otherwise.
The Arqenaian Empire was (like all factions in this scenario) heavily involved with the genocides that took place in this war, even though it was not the original intention of any of the Arqenaian leadership or the Mor Archanon religious leaders to actually start killing off large populations of hostile people.
In that Martian scenario, the future version of me has given up any position of leadership (real political leadership was already in the hands of a number of followers) and he joined the militias as an officer and a fighter/mech pilot already during the last two phases of WWIII, at first in a desperate attempt to change something about the situation, and in the end just living from battle to battle, seeking to escape his traumas.
There's a little story behind that, actually.
My very first tries to create an alternate TL were when I was still a kid
somewhere between 10 and 12 years old, and what gave me the idea of creating a separate TL was the notion of time-travel.
And ever since, I have been adding new scenario's and modifying old ones. In those scenario's, I travelled back in time somewhere in the future to a period of about a million years ago. There's a whole lot of stories that I came up with on what would happen to me next, but the bottom line of all these stories is that due to countless biological and technological enhancements, as well as some really otherworldly cloning experiments, this imaginary version of myself evolved into this amazingly complex being.
Yet because of the whole time-travel thing, I quickly saw what would be inevitable in a universe in which I have traveled to the past, yet survive up until the point that I will see an alternate version of myself being born.
I was then confronted with the question:
should there be two independant Rolves in one universe? (-> Rolf is my real name...)
...because of the whole wacky cloning thing, there was already one "independant" Rolf clone in my TL/Universe, and he was specifically created by some other scientists in the earliest phase of the whole TL/story to stop and replace me.
As it turned out, he not only murdered a number of my comrades in that story (that I like to call "the Genesis Story"), but he also turned on the scientists who thought that they could control him, with equal ferocity, and equally gory overall results.
In the case of an alternate version of myself being born in that universe,
I would not fear that it would become evil and dangerous like that certain clone.
But it would be a rather awkward
Would I have to go through all the same mistakes and embarrasing moments again?
Would I (the alternate me) have go through the same gargantuan process of that evolution all over again?
Or would the alternate me be forced to live a life of mediocrity,
and die a being that is far less then the "original" version of me in that TL...?
In the end, I decided that effectively babysitting an alternate version of me
would be just not what I would want or need, especially since I rejected the notion of the closed timecircle.
So I simply discovered the butterfly-effect, and used it to make sure that I
was never born in that certain ATL.
..
But especially in the last two years, I've been creating scenario's about my future in future TL's, and especially some scenario's on the period between today and the point of me travelling back in time to start creating my own TL.
Yet most of these scenario's are just plain interesting "What If?" possebilities.
And some are just really good stories.
The WWIII veteran future version of me is an example of that,
as I combined a few good scenario's and idea's I had with the scenario of the Martian Independance thread.
And there's also a bigger story behind that, especially regarding the Third World War and the Arqenaian Empire that I mentioned there.
To mention a few basic details; the Arqenaian Empire is founded by adherants of a new philosophy and new (somewhat Christian) religious movement that is known as Mor Archanon Christianity, which is my own creation and which is based upon my own ideas.
And in that Martian Independance scenario, I was originally one of the founders of the Mor Archanon religion, yet I became pretty much left the ideological as well as political and religious leadership of the movement, because of the trauma's from WWIII, and the way that those traumatic events made clear to the alternate version of myself that I could not ever change humanity, and that it was futile and foolish to ever think otherwise.
The Arqenaian Empire was (like all factions in this scenario) heavily involved with the genocides that took place in this war, even though it was not the original intention of any of the Arqenaian leadership or the Mor Archanon religious leaders to actually start killing off large populations of hostile people.
In that Martian scenario, the future version of me has given up any position of leadership (real political leadership was already in the hands of a number of followers) and he joined the militias as an officer and a fighter/mech pilot already during the last two phases of WWIII, at first in a desperate attempt to change something about the situation, and in the end just living from battle to battle, seeking to escape his traumas.
In my favorite timeline, I'm a retired Imperial Army officer who has spent many years fighting for the Gaelic Empire. I have now settled down in Nua Eire, in the province of Sinendoah, and own a horse farm. I am intensely patriotic and am considering running for a local political office.
In another, I'm a diplomat for the Commonwealth of Virginia. While I started out as a minor analyst at the Northern Virginia Intelligence Center at what was Patrick Henry College, I am steadily rising through the ranks, and am now trying to construct a "mid-atlantic alliance" between the Commonwealth, the Republics of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Commonwealth of Appalachia. I am also trying to use my influence to focus the government away from those treacherous southerners and more towards northern nations. Privately I'm investing heavily in the reconstruction effort, as the Commonwealth recovers from the 4-year war against Jerry Falwell's breakaway Republic of God, of which I am a veteran.
In another, I'm a diplomat for the Commonwealth of Virginia. While I started out as a minor analyst at the Northern Virginia Intelligence Center at what was Patrick Henry College, I am steadily rising through the ranks, and am now trying to construct a "mid-atlantic alliance" between the Commonwealth, the Republics of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Commonwealth of Appalachia. I am also trying to use my influence to focus the government away from those treacherous southerners and more towards northern nations. Privately I'm investing heavily in the reconstruction effort, as the Commonwealth recovers from the 4-year war against Jerry Falwell's breakaway Republic of God, of which I am a veteran.
TheLoneAmigo
Donor
On Homeline, my alterganger is the All-American Multimillionaire Rock Star Astronaut President. In that world, my alterganger happened to be born without flat feet, so he developed a talent for athletics and became a skilled Aussie Rules player. In this world, when my family moved to the USA, they stayed there - parachronic travel meant no 9/11 and no dot-bomb. My alterganger managed to transfer my Aussie Rules skills to gridiron while simultaneously learning guitar and programming. My alterganger scored a football scholarship to Stanford, and while there met my future wife, who was a talented mathematician and bass player. They forged a band with some friends - the Red Menace, and surprisingly scored a one-hit wonder with American Motherland.
Meanwhile, my alterganger managed to develop the search system that Sergey Brin and Larry Page failed to develop in this TL, founded Homeline's Google ("Plex") and set off the Web 2.0 revolution ten years late. We plowed the profits from that into space exploitation and tourism - leading to the aforementioned "astronaut" epithet, if only on a technicality.
From being the fifth-richest American citizen my alterganger was only a constitutional amendment and a couple of billion dollars away from being President of the United States. The Republicans pushed one through - foolishly - for Schwarzenegger's failed run at the White House. With the Governator out of office (finally), my alteganger became Governor of Califronia - and then, on January 20th, 2027, he was sworn in as the forty-eight President of the United States of America; the first-foreign born, the first ex-rock-star and the youngest ever at the age of 38.
On the whole, future historians would revile him as one of the worst presidents ever to sit in the Oval Office. The moral is: you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Meanwhile, my alterganger managed to develop the search system that Sergey Brin and Larry Page failed to develop in this TL, founded Homeline's Google ("Plex") and set off the Web 2.0 revolution ten years late. We plowed the profits from that into space exploitation and tourism - leading to the aforementioned "astronaut" epithet, if only on a technicality.
From being the fifth-richest American citizen my alterganger was only a constitutional amendment and a couple of billion dollars away from being President of the United States. The Republicans pushed one through - foolishly - for Schwarzenegger's failed run at the White House. With the Governator out of office (finally), my alteganger became Governor of Califronia - and then, on January 20th, 2027, he was sworn in as the forty-eight President of the United States of America; the first-foreign born, the first ex-rock-star and the youngest ever at the age of 38.
On the whole, future historians would revile him as one of the worst presidents ever to sit in the Oval Office. The moral is: you can't have your cake and eat it too.
In this one particular timeline, I am a Colonel in the Red Army, with ambitions to move up quite a bit higher. After the successful, if somewhat risky gamble that resulted in encirclement of the Allied armies in Central Germany and an embarrassing surrender that I was directly involved in, my prospects are looking up... some are saying that I will probably be the youngest General in the Soviet Union's history, making that rank before I am 27. Thanks to the SHIT technology (and no, it does NOT mean the same thing in Russian - it means "Shield", and pronounced more like "SHEET"), ICBMs are rather useless... and everyone has that, so the battles are fought the way they always have been, with men on the field... which means the need for people like myself. Oh well... I did hope that I would be able to actually see those bands play live in peacetime, but I guess much of Western European heavy metal scene is now running away from the victorious Third Soviet Army...
A future analogue...
One is a Captain in the USAF, but he's a surgeon, not a pilot. He did qualify on the T-38, though. After his discharge, he joined a start-up that manufactured neuroprosthetics and ended up revolutionizing the field, creating the first true cyberware. As a result, implants (think an implanted PDA) became much more common and accepted.
One is a Captain in the USAF, but he's a surgeon, not a pilot. He did qualify on the T-38, though. After his discharge, he joined a start-up that manufactured neuroprosthetics and ended up revolutionizing the field, creating the first true cyberware. As a result, implants (think an implanted PDA) became much more common and accepted.
I have several particular analogues:
In one, I'm a bureaucrat working for the Cantonese government-in-exile at Singapore. We just lost a war against the Taiping Empire, and we've fled to our colonial possessions. Of course, those Taipings are now fighting for their life against the Russian Neosocialist Republic and the Republic of Manchuria
In another, I'm in jail for assassinating the Governor-General of the Bahamas, the man who also happens to be the nephew of the Lady Protector of the English Commonwealth.
I'm the Pacifican Premier in a third, but that entire nation is a puppet state set up by the Holy Papal Republic of Mejico, so I don't really have any significant powers. I had been the Minister of Environment before in that world, but I actually had more influence there, since those Pacificans really are the tree-hugger types.
Other occupations I have include an executive for a megacorporation called Royal Canadian Bank and Finance. I'm in charge of Resource Acquisition, legalized theft in other words. I've been trying to get ahold of one of these new fancy hunter-killer subs from Polaris Shipping and Transport. My agents are going to have hell: the Port of Nassau is one of the most heavily fortified places on Earth, dwarfing even the Messina military complex in the Neo-Roman Empire.
And the last one, one that I'm not proud of, I'm an arms dealer in the former Empire of the Great Yuan, trying to arrange a shipment of nuclear missiles from a base near Lhasa over to the pariah state of Hyderabad.
In one, I'm a bureaucrat working for the Cantonese government-in-exile at Singapore. We just lost a war against the Taiping Empire, and we've fled to our colonial possessions. Of course, those Taipings are now fighting for their life against the Russian Neosocialist Republic and the Republic of Manchuria
In another, I'm in jail for assassinating the Governor-General of the Bahamas, the man who also happens to be the nephew of the Lady Protector of the English Commonwealth.
I'm the Pacifican Premier in a third, but that entire nation is a puppet state set up by the Holy Papal Republic of Mejico, so I don't really have any significant powers. I had been the Minister of Environment before in that world, but I actually had more influence there, since those Pacificans really are the tree-hugger types.
Other occupations I have include an executive for a megacorporation called Royal Canadian Bank and Finance. I'm in charge of Resource Acquisition, legalized theft in other words. I've been trying to get ahold of one of these new fancy hunter-killer subs from Polaris Shipping and Transport. My agents are going to have hell: the Port of Nassau is one of the most heavily fortified places on Earth, dwarfing even the Messina military complex in the Neo-Roman Empire.
And the last one, one that I'm not proud of, I'm an arms dealer in the former Empire of the Great Yuan, trying to arrange a shipment of nuclear missiles from a base near Lhasa over to the pariah state of Hyderabad.
In One Timeline Im a young Intern working for the VOC's Administration of Formosa, I've been recognized by the Gov-Gen of the Territory and the VOC and Dutch Goverments are offering me Tuitions for University, though Im thinking about entering Politics back in New Netherlands
In another Timeline Im a member of the Youth Frontier Guard in the Republic of New England, Im in a Civil Guard Obesrvation group who spends two hours every other day on the roof of my school watching for Virginia-Ohio Aircraft
In a third Timeline Im trapped on Long Island, New York trying to survive and get off the quarentined Island after the 9/11 Hijackers had a radiological device on one of the planes, I fear I may be developing Cancers and am currently in the Swamps of the Montauk State Park
Finally Im stuck in Warsaw after Makeing the American Rules National Rugby Team and was at a Goodwill Game in the General Goverment of Poland when a Coup by the Radical National Socialist wing of the NADSP begain in Berlin
In another Timeline Im a member of the Youth Frontier Guard in the Republic of New England, Im in a Civil Guard Obesrvation group who spends two hours every other day on the roof of my school watching for Virginia-Ohio Aircraft
In a third Timeline Im trapped on Long Island, New York trying to survive and get off the quarentined Island after the 9/11 Hijackers had a radiological device on one of the planes, I fear I may be developing Cancers and am currently in the Swamps of the Montauk State Park
Finally Im stuck in Warsaw after Makeing the American Rules National Rugby Team and was at a Goodwill Game in the General Goverment of Poland when a Coup by the Radical National Socialist wing of the NADSP begain in Berlin
NapoleonXIV
Banned
In one I'm the PM of Aruba, the world's first clothing-optional country.
In another I'm the richest man in Bogota, (I see quite well too
) I live on a beach and bales of money are delivered every day by incredibly beautiful women who are also my bodyguards.
In one I live on the Falklands. Due to Global warming we're like Hawaii, and are one of the last outposts of civilization in a world gone mad.
In another I'm the richest man in Bogota, (I see quite well too
) I live on a beach and bales of money are delivered every day by incredibly beautiful women who are also my bodyguards.In one I live on the Falklands. Due to Global warming we're like Hawaii, and are one of the last outposts of civilization in a world gone mad.
In a subtly-different TL, a slight difference in my conception and/or upbringing gave me more focus and a better attention span.
Instead of the two upcoming short-fiction publications that I've got OTL, I've got five already and three more upcoming, and I'm working on editing my completed first novel with an agent.
A man can dream, can't he?
Instead of the two upcoming short-fiction publications that I've got OTL, I've got five already and three more upcoming, and I'm working on editing my completed first novel with an agent.
A man can dream, can't he?
In one timeline My doppelganger is a NCO in the Israeli Army in the and was mortally wonded in the Surrender of Medina after two weeks of street fighting Cybornetic Jihadists and Soviet Robotic Brigades for control of Saudi oil
In another My family fled to the Soviet Union during the invasion of the Alien Keel and I fought in the Soviet Army for twenty years befoe the last Keel was killed on Earth.
In another My family fled to the Soviet Union during the invasion of the Alien Keel and I fought in the Soviet Army for twenty years befoe the last Keel was killed on Earth.
I don't have much of a known analogue at the moment, at least not in the OTL present years.
The character that very closely resembles me lives in the 1930s, ASB POD, and ME type world. In that TL, "I" am a very famous navy carrier pilot in Philippines that is sometimes in the gossip/scandal newpaper pages in regards to "my" sexual orientation.
The character that very closely resembles me lives in the 1930s, ASB POD, and ME type world. In that TL, "I" am a very famous navy carrier pilot in Philippines that is sometimes in the gossip/scandal newpaper pages in regards to "my" sexual orientation.
TL 22AC90Z2BBW- A sniper for Los Angeles, one of the theocratic city-states in the former state of California, who is right now aiming at alternate Straha's head.
TL AF89037G20- A beggar on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica
TL P19ZB9081V64- A drug dealer in Houston, Texas
TL O947632B2H7J93- You in this timeline, know me, oh you know me so well. I am the feared Neverdie, the killer who has survived 14 shootouts with the police, and has killed 54 people.
TL 98A4B224873BG27- Death by suicide
TL AF89037G20- A beggar on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica
TL P19ZB9081V64- A drug dealer in Houston, Texas
TL O947632B2H7J93- You in this timeline, know me, oh you know me so well. I am the feared Neverdie, the killer who has survived 14 shootouts with the police, and has killed 54 people.
TL 98A4B224873BG27- Death by suicide
In Timeline Delta-112, when I was young, summers were long, and pleasant. That all changed in the mid-1980's, when a climate change happened. The weather patterns are totally chaotic. We don't have seasons anymore, just two types of weather, bad and awlful. I maintain a very large hydroponic farm that is the only means of growing food in this blasted world. If we didn't have cloned beef, pork, and poultry, we wouldn't have any animal protien.