The Eagle Down Under (1983: Doomsday TL 2016-2030)

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Any news on Judaism in Australia?
Judaism exists in Australia mainly in large numbers in places like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Gold Coast and Adelaide. Mostly because of American refugees mainly from the West Coast. Most of these American Jews are Reform Jews and are basically liberal. So as a result Australia has gained a somewhat larger Jewish minority due to Doomsday.
 
Australian member of the Hamas, Jake Bilardi, has escaped from imprisonment in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Currently his whereabouts are unknown and the IC (International Coalition) has ordered a manhunt to find and capture him.

-ABC News 24/7, October 18th, 2021

In response to Bilardi’s escape from prison, Colombian general Luis Fernando Navarro Jiménez has proposed that the IC should insert tiny electronic chips into captured Hamas prisoners in order to track their whereabouts in case they ever escape.

-Channel Nine News 24/7, October 18th, 2021

Director Louis Howery-Morrell of the CIB, supports Jiménez’s proposal.

-SBS News 24/7, October 18th, 2021

Peruvian police arrest 5 members of the Shining Path, in the city of Moyobamba.

-Rede Globo News 24/7, October 18th, 2021

Israel, Assyria, and Kurdistan have announced they are working together in developing better military firearms and vehicles to help at their effort to defeat the Hamas Caliphate.

-NBBC World News 24/7, October 19th, 2021

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The Masoud 22, is a Kurdish assault rifle and grenade launcher, entirely gas-operated. It was developed by Harun Rehwan who had help from the Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) who provided many assistance to Rehwan during the development of the firearm. Design work on it began in the summer of 2021, when Rehwan felt that his country of Kurdistan should develop its own assault rifle (as much of the Republic of Kurdistan’s military mostly used former Soviet firearms, Israeli firearms, and even British and French firearms that were still being made by hand by the Republic of Kurdistan even decades after Doomsday). He felt that the gun should look something out of a futuristic movie, so it took him twelve attempts until finally he was happy with the final design he drew. Later on he ended up drawing a grenade launcher that is built into the assault rifle rather than having it as an attachment.

However afterwards he attempted to convince the Kurdish Army if they would be interested in his proposed gun, but unfortunately they were not interested. But Rehwan didn’t scrap his proposed assault rifle/grenade launcher that he had spent months making blueprints on, so he ended up asking the Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) if they would be interested in developing his proposed gun to which they were in fact interested.

With financial help given to him by the Israeli government and help with officials who were in charge of IWI, they worked with Rehwan in building the many first prototypes throughout the rest of 2021, and into late 2022. Of course there was many setbacks as due to design errors made the gun unable to fire bullets from the gas-operated chamber, and also originally Rehwan intended to have the firearm use 5.45×39mm, but after a couple of failed tests in which the guns failed to fire many bullets, he then decided that the best cartridge for the Masoud 22 (Which he ended up naming at random during the development of the gun) would be the common used 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge which the Israeli Armed Forces were commonly using since 1980.

After changing to the 5.56×45mm NATO, the guns were now successfully firing many rounds per minute. Then came the decision on which kind of grenades would the firearm use to which IWI recommended that it should something very similar to the M79 grenade launcher (which the Israeli Armed Forces were still using since 1964). As a result the tests were more successful and by then Rehwan showed the Masoud 22’s performance to the Kurdish Army to which this time they were impressed. As a result the Masoud 22 would end up being manufactured in the Republic of Kurdistan by August of 2022, and would finally see military usage by the Kurdish Armed Forces by October 2022. To which by then the Republic of Kurdistan had finally developed its first military firearm.

-Firearms of the Post-Doomsday World, published by Hector Williams, May 7th, 2040

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The Taurus Oathkeeper is a gas-operated, rotating bolt, bullpup battle rifle designed by the Brazilian weapon manufacturing company, Forjas Taurus. It was designed to replace the FN FAL (which been in use by the Brazilian military since 1964, despite it being of Belgian origin), which by 2020 was seen as a really outdated firearm used by the Brazilian Army.

As a result the company Forjas Taurus, saw its chance to develop its first concept battle rifle. The company itself at the time was mostly only known for manufacturing revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, and had manufactured four rifles which only two were made into use by the Brazilian Army (being the Taurus T4 and the Taurus C2 GT carbine). So developing a battle rifle was something that company never done before in its history so there was many doubts at first by many of the company’s officials.

There was many proposed sketched of what the company’s first battle rifle should look like, all of which looked brand and boring. But one sketch made was having it have a futuristic appearance to which many liked. So as a result it was decided that certain sketch would become the blueprint to what was now named the “Oathkeeper” in Brazilian Portuguese. The first prototypes were created and tested in early 2021, and there was many failures due to the design layout of the battle rifle. Eventually through trial and error the company was able to succeed in its expectations and with using 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges, allowed the gun to fire at a rate of 700 rounds per minute with bullets reaching a distance of 600 meters (660 yards).

The Oathkeeper would then be equipped with 30-round detachable magazines. And with the gun’s action being gas-operated and rotating bolt, it was the very reason why the gun was able to fire many rounds per minute.

After successful testing by Forjas Taurus, the company showed their creation and its performance to the Brazilian Army to which were still looking for a replacement for the FN FAL. With amazing performance shown to them, the Brazilian Army ended up accepting Taurus’s first battle rifle as it would be manufactured in many factories across Brazil by the late 2021 and finally would see its first action in warfare by the Brazilian Army in Saudi Arabia during the World War on Terror, to where it became known internationally famous for its “futuristic appearance, and merciless action” as said by ANZC Australian general, Angus Campbell.

-Firearms of the Post-Doomsday World, published by Hector Williams, May 7th, 2040
 
Lone gunman kills 6 people in Puno, Peru during morning rush hour.

-NBBC World News 24/7, October 20th, 2021

Lone gunman on the run! Peruvian authorities have declared a manhunt to find the culprit. Authorities also believe that the lone gunman is a member of the Shining Path or is sympathizer of the organization.

-NBBC World News 24/7, October 20th, 2021

Peruvian government in Lima have begun to discuss a ban on civilian ownership of assault rifles, snipers, shotguns, and other “powerful” firearms.

-ABC World News 24/7, October 20th, 2021

“Banning ownership of powerful firearms will do nothing to stop the Shining Path. If anything it will just endanger more Peruvians.”

-Congressman Salvador Heresi, October 20th, 2021

Government of Chile has created strict policies on road travel to and from Peru in response to the rise of the Shining Path.

-The Brisbane Times, October 21st, 2021

31 year old Brazilian man native to Sao Paulo, becomes the first person in the world to receive an artificially made bladder created in lab by scientists by the use of adult stem cells from a donor.

-NBBC World News, October 21st, 2021

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Computer lab/library of the University of Hawai'i located in the nation's capital of Hilo. Hawaiians by now as of 2021 have Net access at home and at
school and work to the point it has become apart of their daily lives seeing that it become reliable for researching, entertainment, and news.

Brazil replaces Australia in having the most Net users (by percentage of nation’s population to which how many people use it in their everyday lives) in the world. Currently right now the top 15 countries with the most Net users are, Brazil being ranked 1st, Australia being ranked 2nd, Hawaii in 3rd, UAR in 4th, New Zealand in 5th, Chile in 6th, Mexico in 7th, Singapore in 8th, Israel in 9th, Canadian Remainder Provinces in 10th, Celtic Alliance in 11th place, Norway in 12th place, California Republic in 13th place, Victoria in 14th place, and Samoa in 15th place.

-ABC World News 24/7, October 23rd, 2021

Global digital divide is now noticeable by tech experts and scientists according to the LoN.

-The Auckland Daily, October 23rd, 2021

Does North-South divide still exist, or is it now reversed?

-The Newcastle Herald, October 23rd, 2021
 
Yeah global digital divide is now being acknowledged by people. I mean places in North America, China, and Europe still have no Net access or even no electricity in homes.
 

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Computer lab/library of the University of Hawai'i located in the nation's capital of Hilo. Hawaiians by now as of 2021 have Net access at home and at
school and work to the point it has become apart of their daily lives seeing that it become reliable for researching, entertainment, and news.

Brazil replaces Australia in having the most Net users (by percentage of nation’s population to which how many people use it in their everyday lives) in the world. Currently right now the top 15 countries with the most Net users are, Brazil being ranked 1st, Australia being ranked 2nd, Hawaii in 3rd, UAR in 4th, New Zealand in 5th, Chile in 6th, Mexico in 7th, Singapore in 8th, Israel in 9th, Canadian Remainder Provinces in 10th, Celtic Alliance in 11th place, Norway in 12th place, California Republic in 13th place, Victoria in 14th place, and Samoa in 15th place.

-ABC World News 24/7, October 23rd, 2021
How advance are computers at this time?
 
SEGA would still exist since it already had been in the international market and had an HQ in Australia at the time as well as North America during Doomsday. That said SEGA survived by luck but it took awhile to get back to normal.
So will we see Sonic the Hedgehog, Yakuza, and The House of the Dead for this TL?
 
Truly I am actually curious ast to what was Nintendo doing after 1983. As their HQ has always been Kyoto and 1983 was the year the Famicon launched in Japan and Hiroshi Yamauchi is not the sort of person letting his company go under, I posit it would durvive in one form or another. The one I am iffy about is Atari. They are already dead even before doomsday happens and most of their manufacturing and R&D capacity is in the areas of California. I'm surprised they even managed to be the tour-de-force of gaming...
 
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