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Tony Jones

A Board member and prolific timeline writer, who mainly writes timelines as settings for roleplaying games.

List of works

Monarchy World: A different Chinese emperor is born in the 18th century, leading to a world which is more advanced and more conservative than OTL, with the three big powers being the Russian, British and Chinese Empires, and the fourth-runner up the Northern European Union, which is essentially a Swedish-Dutch union. Europe consists of lots of small states, while the rest of the world consists mostly of colonies. There have been 3 world wars. The world population is 4 billion by 2000. By that year, the three big empires are beginning to expand into space, with Britain making the world's first discovery of faster-than-light travel.

Puritan World: Changes in the English Civil War lead to the Parliamentarians fleeing to North America, founding a New Commonwealth there under the descendants of Cromwell as Lord Protectors. England, Scotland and Ireland remain wracked with wars of religion under unpopular Stuart rulers, and do not take a major role in the growth of European dominance. Instead, France, the Netherlands and Russia are the major powers. The New Commonwealth eventually expands to include all of North America, Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles, and much of Australasia and the Pacific. In the 20th century a cold war develops between the royalist Octuple Alliance and the New Commonwealth, which explodes into a hot war in 1996. Technological development is somewhat behind OTL. The world population is 1 billion by 1996.

Cliveless World: Robert Clive successfully shoots himself. The French dominate India, while Britain moves closer to Prussia, eventually forming 'the Union', which keeps some of its American colonies but remains a second rank power behind France. Other nations of notice include the Northern System (Russia and its allies), Sweden (the first nation to gain the atomic bomb in TTL's late 20th century), the Dutch Empire, Zululand (a very technologically advanced nation), the Ottoman Socialist Ummah, and two Jewish states (one in Texas and the other on Madagascar). Cliveless World includes the development of the ideology of Panopticonism, which is essentially a much earlier development of the surveillance society. In addition, medical and agricultural science is in advance of OTL and the world population is 10 billion by 2000.

Gurkani Alam: A world with no Aurangzeb, where the Mughal Empire remains a power in India. Other factors include two Chinese dynasties, an Anglo-Danish union (with an independent Scotland), an expansionistic theocratic Holy Russian Empire, and the Sarejevo Pact (a federation of several Eastern and Central European states alligned out of a fear of Russia). Thanks to the two Industrial Revolutions of this world (one in Europe and one in the Indian nations), technology in TTL is much more advanced in certain areas compared to our world. Beginning in this world's 1940s is the Long War, sparked when the Holy Russian Empire tries to stop the Mughal Empire's nuclear program through sabatoge; the conflict lasts for almost the rest of the century, until the Russians are forced into a final truce. The world population numbers 10 billion by 2000. By this time, the Indian Alliance (the Mughal Empire and the Dakshina Nad) are starting to expand into space, with their allies slowely following them.

Superpunk: A dystopic cyberpunk scenario deriving from an Axis victory in WW2.

Wolfworld: A world where the last Ice Age never ends, and humanity shares the world with sentient wolves, known as the Tathol.

Tellus: A world where the Roman and Chinese empires achieve sustained contact after the 2nd Century AD. Although technology advances much faster in this world (reaching OTL 2000 level by 1150), humanity is nearly destroyed in a catastrophic total war between Rome (and its ally India) and China known as the “Nex” in this world's 15th century. It takes a long time for the world to put itself back together from this disaster, and by the end of the 20th century, the world stage is very different. Rome, China and India are still powers, but most of their former colonies have become independent nations in the centuries recovering from the Nex. The 'current' year is 2335 AD (3088 AUC by the Roman calendar). The Chinese government is secretly controlled by the last of the A.I.s remaining from the advanced period before the Nex, though in other respects, by 2335, the world has recovered to the advanced state it was in the 1400s.

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