Who Pays The Piper ? (The 1970s)

Well, if this is the end, it's been a fun ride!

Any chance you'd post all this, from the beginning, in the TL thread? I'd like to go back and reread it all from the start, but wading through all the comments had a tendancy to get real old, real quick...
 

Hnau

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Yes, it certainly has been fun. I have to say, this is the greatest Central Powers victory timeline I've ever read. Its why I knew I had to get involved and help out the map-making aspect, and that has been a journey in and of itself. There's a lot of differences in geopolitics from 1918 to 1972.

I'd like to thank Grey Wolf for letting me help here, and giving me such a great opportunity to build my skills and make such neat maps. I am glad that at least we got to a 1975, a good year to end it on. I would like to request to the author that an Epilogue would be written, a short summary of the next 25 years to 2000, or perhaps even to 2008, but if that's out of the question then I must still declare that this is one of my favorite timelines, and it'll definitely be one I go back through every once and a while.

Thanks again!
- Hnau

P.S. Now we get to go through the permutations: Eleventh Hour in the Worldwar universe, the Lords of Creation universe, etc, etc. So its not all over.
 
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Hnau

Banned
Here was my 1975 map in the making. I'll delete it if Grey Wolf decides its not adequate.

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GW, You just do what you have to. While I will miss this adventure, I am more than blessed with all the neat stuff you've given us here.

Keep the Faith, Dude!

Bobindelaware
 
Thanks for all the nice comments ! It was certainly fun to research, write and discuss it over past months

Well, if this is the end, it's been a fun ride!

Any chance you'd post all this, from the beginning, in the TL thread? I'd like to go back and reread it all from the start, but wading through all the comments had a tendancy to get real old, real quick...

The thing is I don't actually HAVE it... Other than pages I've downloaded from this forum, there IS NO version of this in existence. Oh, there are a myriad of little Word Pad documents, each of which equates to a single post of mine, but they often have completely insane and unhelpful names like oop1 and oop2, etc

Having to reformat my hard drive once a month (to get round that damned Windows Activation thing) means that no archive got itself established, and whilst there are bits on a pendrive, and many bits on DVD-backups, there is no single collection of pieces

The only way to create a timeline would be to download every page from all the chapters, then go through them and copy/paste to a new Word document. But even then, I don't know if that would cover some developments which really occur as the result of discussion, and are thus only covered in my replies to questions posted

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Please don't see this as necro'inng this

I am looking carefully at this timeline for publication, but it won't resemble in any serious way what is seen on this forum, so I don't think it remaining here will be a problem - besides I need to data-mine what IS here as I have no backup of most of this.

That it is seven years ago seems astonishing, but life is life.

I think I will make the intended publication a mixture of the narrative pieces, which seem generally fine, and newspaper editorials pulled from the timeline pieces.

Is Brendan (Hnau) here, or is anyone in contact with him as I will need permission to use his fantastic maps?

I'm also looking to add some chapters to my 'How To Write Alternate History' book next year and relaunch it, and would like to consider the stories of those here who I asked if they would still have existed in the timeline of this story - I know I have to search for some of them in other places now, but if those who replied and are still here would let me know if I could?

Its going to be a ton of work converting the various threads into something I can use, but I need a new (additional) challenge.

Mods, please don't kill this post as a necro. It answers the last questions asked here, and updates what I intend to do, albeit in a new another world now.

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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