The United States of Oranje (The Oranje you glad i didn't say banana timeline 1795 - 1995)
This is the first time doing this so hopefully I did it right sort of, this word wall is from posts from the map thread...
Here is the current rough draft of the timeline I put together...
"Story Ideas"
"Me"
The Dutch never lost there Cape colony and soon it began to flourish with the discovery of precious metals and other precious luxury resources. A South African gold rush started just as the California Gold Rush with Dutch, German, French peoples traveling by boat to South Africa. Of course the natives where wary of these foreigners such as the natives of the Americas. There where wars a skirmishes with some tribes like the Zulus and such. But the Netherlands which had dominant control of the colony with Prussia and France having control over some of the mining industries they strike a deal with the Dutch for 40% of the profit. Even with this cut from the income they still gained a lot of wealth to fund there crown jewel colony. The British wanted to intervene but saw that France and the German states would not be very happy, when there proposal would end the deal with the Dutch and have the British gain almost 100% of the profit. But after the British backed away and focused more on India and Australia, The Dutch had begin a trek into the interior of the continent. Through conquest and negotiation by the 1890's the Dutch have had a spanning Africa colony stretch from Kongoland, The Nile, to the Cape. Like British Canada, Dutch Oranje soon found there self's wanting more freedom to govern them selves. They looked at the example of how the United States had flourish even more under a independent nation and a democracy, Oranje was always in a way had a federal make up of a colony and a union consisted of a cosmopolitan peoples of many ethics. By 1931 The United States of Oranje had proclaimed there independence!
So yeah Oranje was mostly a colony most it's time until around the 20's 30's it became independent but at a cost of going to war with the Netherlands which they eventual won.Also pretty much everything above South Africa is a kind of a Wild West only it's called "The Wild North" because of it's fast incorporation into the United States of Oranje. "The Wild North" era lasted from 1885 to 1938. During around the Great War and the Great Depression namely 1900 to 1936 was the most action packed and famous of all that period, soon movies where made in the forties and fifties of this time. Kids every where wanted to be just like "Ben Viljoen" or "Christiaan Rudolf de Wet" or other famous men of that period!
"Movie Ideas" Discussion from the Maps VII forum...
"Troyer IV"
Yeah... I can see it now, Prizes of the Wild, something like Blood Diamond mixed with Deadwood, made in 1947, only set somewhere in the Congo, with Afrikaaners spilling blood in the dense jungles while hiring out native trackers clad in mountain gorilla pelts to waylay mining camps for gold or somesuch, all the while the local authorities continue to jockey for better roads for the community while also lining their pockets, maybe one day aiming to be appointed Governor to one of the new 'Wild' territories, though (il)legal slavers(?) continue to operate in the area, shipping human merchandise from east to west while operating in some of the lowly drug dens or stirring up civil strife amongst any of the neighboring peoples.
Actually, I'd like to see that.
"Me"
Don't forget German and British spy rings as well. Some silly villain with the biggest mustache possible and a tinted rimmed monocle. And in every scene with him there has to be some kind of fire reflection of his monocle in the distance. Like from "Brother where art thou"
Here is a map of the USO and the Wild North...
You are now welcome to add, if you wish contribute details to the current timeline or ideas such as what Pretoria "the capital of the USO" would look like or what type of government would be set up after the revolution in 1931.
This is the first time doing this so hopefully I did it right sort of, this word wall is from posts from the map thread...
Here is the current rough draft of the timeline I put together...
"Story Ideas"
"Me"
The Dutch never lost there Cape colony and soon it began to flourish with the discovery of precious metals and other precious luxury resources. A South African gold rush started just as the California Gold Rush with Dutch, German, French peoples traveling by boat to South Africa. Of course the natives where wary of these foreigners such as the natives of the Americas. There where wars a skirmishes with some tribes like the Zulus and such. But the Netherlands which had dominant control of the colony with Prussia and France having control over some of the mining industries they strike a deal with the Dutch for 40% of the profit. Even with this cut from the income they still gained a lot of wealth to fund there crown jewel colony. The British wanted to intervene but saw that France and the German states would not be very happy, when there proposal would end the deal with the Dutch and have the British gain almost 100% of the profit. But after the British backed away and focused more on India and Australia, The Dutch had begin a trek into the interior of the continent. Through conquest and negotiation by the 1890's the Dutch have had a spanning Africa colony stretch from Kongoland, The Nile, to the Cape. Like British Canada, Dutch Oranje soon found there self's wanting more freedom to govern them selves. They looked at the example of how the United States had flourish even more under a independent nation and a democracy, Oranje was always in a way had a federal make up of a colony and a union consisted of a cosmopolitan peoples of many ethics. By 1931 The United States of Oranje had proclaimed there independence!
So yeah Oranje was mostly a colony most it's time until around the 20's 30's it became independent but at a cost of going to war with the Netherlands which they eventual won.Also pretty much everything above South Africa is a kind of a Wild West only it's called "The Wild North" because of it's fast incorporation into the United States of Oranje. "The Wild North" era lasted from 1885 to 1938. During around the Great War and the Great Depression namely 1900 to 1936 was the most action packed and famous of all that period, soon movies where made in the forties and fifties of this time. Kids every where wanted to be just like "Ben Viljoen" or "Christiaan Rudolf de Wet" or other famous men of that period!
"Movie Ideas" Discussion from the Maps VII forum...
"Troyer IV"
Yeah... I can see it now, Prizes of the Wild, something like Blood Diamond mixed with Deadwood, made in 1947, only set somewhere in the Congo, with Afrikaaners spilling blood in the dense jungles while hiring out native trackers clad in mountain gorilla pelts to waylay mining camps for gold or somesuch, all the while the local authorities continue to jockey for better roads for the community while also lining their pockets, maybe one day aiming to be appointed Governor to one of the new 'Wild' territories, though (il)legal slavers(?) continue to operate in the area, shipping human merchandise from east to west while operating in some of the lowly drug dens or stirring up civil strife amongst any of the neighboring peoples.
Actually, I'd like to see that.
"Me"
Don't forget German and British spy rings as well. Some silly villain with the biggest mustache possible and a tinted rimmed monocle. And in every scene with him there has to be some kind of fire reflection of his monocle in the distance. Like from "Brother where art thou"
Here is a map of the USO and the Wild North...
You are now welcome to add, if you wish contribute details to the current timeline or ideas such as what Pretoria "the capital of the USO" would look like or what type of government would be set up after the revolution in 1931.
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