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--- alternate_history:the_cusanus_game [2018/07/10 11:51] – [Navigation] petike
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-Starting around the year 2050, Europe is a hellhole or pretty close at least: Global Warming has expanded the deserts, the seas are rising; many refugees try to go to Europe (many Bangladeshis and such in fact have been settled there, either in container cities or their own villages); several fascist movement like the ASEN, the Praetorians or the KKK derivate KICOB try to fight them; the French nuclear power plant in Cattenom has blown up and irradiated huge parts of Central Europe, as far as Poland; the EU has crumbled, states like e.g. [[Bavaria]] have proclaimed independence, for better or for worse; and oil has practically run out (although technology isn't dead yet).
+Starting around the year 2050, Europe is a hellhole or pretty close at least: Global Warming has expanded the deserts, the seas are rising; many refugees try to go to Europe (many Bangladeshis and such in fact have been settled there, either in container cities or their own villages); several fascist movement like the ASEN, the Praetorians or the KKK derivate KICOB try to fight them; the French nuclear power plant in Cattenom has blown up and irradiated huge parts of Central Europe, as far as Poland; the EU has crumbled, states like e.g. [[offtopic:Bavaria]] have proclaimed independence, for better or for worse; and oil has practically run out (although technology isn't dead yet).
 In this world, the Italian botanicist Domenica Ligrina is hired for a very special mission...
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   * 1936: Generals Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini retreat from Morocco / southern Italy.
   * 1945: Europe's president Charles de Gaulle declares Europe a fortress, an arc that'll carry European culture into the future.
+As you can see, the author of this work makes mincemeat out of allohistorical causality, with far too many blatant parallelism reemerging, including the exact same people as in OTL, often in the exact same positions as in OTL, still being born centuries after the POD. This is //highly implausible//, especially in a world with such divergent technological progress, including Moon landings in //the early 20th century//.
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