Ian the Admin said:
It's a project that's a bit nebulous. We're probably going to be arguing and spewing out some ASB-ish stuff... Just trying to work it out. It seems to have improved a bit, though. Sorry.
The 20th Century
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It's a project that's a bit nebulous. We're probably going to be arguing and spewing out some ASB-ish stuff... Just trying to work it out. It seems to have improved a bit, though. Sorry.
Okay...so for starters, let's have Queen Victoria die, along with the Boers capturing Ladysmith a few days before the British arrive on the scene as per OTL. Now, would a surviving Boer state have any effect on Franco-British relations? I'm thinking that Germany somewhat damages its relations with Britain by declaring its support for the Boers. Come Edward's early coronation, he promotes the idea pretty aggresively, more aggresively than in OTL. (Maybe he has a personal falling out with his nephew the Kaiser?) and the treaty is pushed through in 1903, just as a crisis over Morocco comes around...
Okay. So, does everyone generally agree that the initial change (Boers do somewhat better, Queen Victoria dies of a heart attack) would result in the events that led to the Entente occuring earlier?
Also, they're not officially supported by the German government. Kaiser Wilhelm just says a few stupid things. Individual Germans, however, might join up with the Boers by forming some volunteer unit or either, and they may also send the Boers weapons, with our without the government's tacit approval...
luakel said:
I'm going to throw a slightly paranoid Edward into the mix, if that changes anything?
Okay...how do we get Edward to be paranoid?
I know! That Sipido lunatic throws a bomb at him. He isn't killed, but he is knocked over and he does receive a nasty blow to the head. That sound plausible?
I know! That Sipido lunatic throws a bomb at him. He isn't killed, but he is knocked over and he does receive a nasty blow to the head. That sound plausible?
I'd rather have it happen a little bit later...late enough to result in an Entente victory. 1910-1911 sounds good...
Romulus Augustulus said:
No, I mean I've worked it out. You'll see...
How many words do you want it to be?
How About A Good Old Fashioned Plague?
Considering the dangers wrought by the avian flu in Hong Kong, the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, Legionnaire's disease and the AIDS virus, why not have a plague?
For instance, how devastating to European culture would an outbreak of the Ebola virus or the AIDS virus be in the year 1900?
Second, what technologies or policies would be implemented in order to combat the virus?
Third, what would be th ereligious implications of the virus?
Considering the dangers wrought by the avian flu in Hong Kong, the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, Legionnaire's disease and the AIDS virus, why not have a plague?
For instance, how devastating to European culture would an outbreak of the Ebola virus or the AIDS virus be in the year 1900?
Second, what technologies or policies would be implemented in order to combat the virus?
Third, what would be th ereligious implications of the virus?
Wait...Justin...
It's the agreed-to stuff, right? Boer victory at Ladysmith, Queen Victoria dies, Edward becomes King, Kaiser Wilhelm says a few very stupid things, Edward become paranoid?
It's the agreed-to stuff, right? Boer victory at Ladysmith, Queen Victoria dies, Edward becomes King, Kaiser Wilhelm says a few very stupid things, Edward become paranoid?
Romulus Augustulus said:
Yes. More or less. There's enough room for the rest of you to manouvre.