Yes, it does seem to have slipped into a steady state model while I'm focusing on The Empire Parnell Built for now. I do have a few more ideas and will hopefully return to this soonish. It's nice to know there are still people bothered tbh so let me know if there's anything you'd be specifically interested in seeing more of.
The Anglo-Saxon Social Model - The Expanded Universe
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An interesting question. The Cold War, as such, doesn't really take place for a number of reasons, replaced by a delicate series of shifting relationships between the USA, USSR and Commonwealth. In terms of proxy war equivalents, the biggest was probably the Bengali War of Independence.
Hey; I am curious as to regards of what territory is Aden.
Is Aden all of the "South Yemen strip" shown on the map?
Does it include Socrata?
You compared Aden to Las Vegas, but could it also be compared to Macau or Dubai as well given it has a coastline and port; likely having more population and diverse economic sources?
Is Aden all of the "South Yemen strip" shown on the map?
Does it include Socrata?
You compared Aden to Las Vegas, but could it also be compared to Macau or Dubai as well given it has a coastline and port; likely having more population and diverse economic sources?
Yes, Aden is all of that strip on the Yemeni coast. It does include Socotra (and the rest of that archipelago) which has a minor naval base on it.
The reason I thought of Las Vegas is that I imagined Aden as a basically a big party town and a place where Pakistanis on stag weekends can go to get away from some of the social conservatism of their country. OTL Dubai and Macau would be good comparisons too though.
Hi everyone, I just wanted to post here that I've started a new timeline which starts from roughly the same POD (i.e. successful Home Rule in the 1880s) but splits off in a different direction. I've been doing it for three months and, because work is pretty light right now, I've been doing daily updates. It's a bit more bare-bones than the original Anglo-Saxon Social Model: mostly being election and conflict infoboxes. But I'm enjoying it for now and I think it's focusing pleasingly on Latin America in a way that a lot of TL's (including my ones) often don't.
I just thought I'd mention it because it turns out a few people who liked my work here didn't know about it until recently so here's a general advert for any stragglers.
I just thought I'd mention it because it turns out a few people who liked my work here didn't know about it until recently so here's a general advert for any stragglers.
Scots isn't on there. Does that mean it's considered a dialect of English TTL, or is there simply not enough speakers to qualify it for official status?
Bit of both. At a devolved level there is some support for Scots but mostly it's considered too small to count on a Commonwealth-level. It's also a good illustration of the inconsistency of the Commonwealth's language laws: there are some pretty tiny languages there (in terms of how many speak them) but they all have a constituency which is ready to fight for them (or the subsidies the status of Official Regional Language grants them) to a level that Scots just doesn't have.
Even with the more advanced state of technology ITTL, I highly doubt electrical aircraft would become practical so soon. The main issue is that electrical power has less energy density than fossil fuels, so you have to build some very heavy batteries. To quote Wikipedia:
You're probably right (1983 specifically a bit too early with hindsight).
What I would say in my defence is that this is a world where research into carbon neutral technologies is roughly 40 years ahead of OTL so with projected advances in nuclear and solar batteries it's perhaps not wholly insane, I don't think. Bear in mind, by now TTL they're also cloning mammoths and sending manned missions to Saturn's moons...
This is terrific stuff. Puts some of my ideas to shame, particularly how in-depth you’ve gotten. I may have to do something similar for CdM once it gets far enough into the future to warrant pop culture references. I’ll be reading ASSM in full next!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. At least now if you're reading the main TL and ever wonder who won the World Series that you then you can easily find out... I found some of my notes for ASSM recently and it's actually astonishing how much I had that I just didn't use.
(I'm enjoying CdM too btw, but I always find myself dipping in and out of such enormous TLs so I've been a bit slow...)
I typically also only use maybe 70% of what I come up with, if even that. An EU is a novel idea for everything left “on the cutting room floor” and I think doing one myself may be wise for people who don’t want to do the full slog lol
IMHO, I think that small short-haul commuter aircraft would be the first to go electric, followed by larger regional airliners, then short/medium haul mainline aircraft, then long-range liners.
EDIT: Also, I think hybrid electric aircraft would be used as a stepping stone between fossil fuel-powered planes and electric planes.
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Well if you ever feel like sharing them, I think you'd find quite a few keen readers on here
Ah, but I need them for other planned TLs...Well if you ever feel like sharing them, I think you'd find quite a few keen readers on here