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Better Weather, Less Revolutionary Bloodshed, More Indigestions: An Alternate History of the Kingdom of Hawaii
A short TL (with an overly long title) about an alternate unification of the Hawaiian Islands into a native monarchy, written by Petike.
Premise
What if the Hawaiian islands were kept without European intrusion for a few more years and Kamehameha the Great died too soon to unite them into a single native monarchy?
Origins and development
Formerly just a short backstory for a flag entered in round 65 of the Weekly Flag Challenge, it very quickly got expanded, resulting in this fairly plausible mini TL. The author decided to give it a chance due to the noted lack of Polynesian-centered TLs and the small number of TLs based on non-European and non-American 18th century PODs. Future plans for the TL include a far more detailed remake, a MkII version, if you will. Until then, some additional media (a few more flags and maps) will gradually be posted in the TL's thread.
Featuring:
- A diarrhea-related POD!
- A Hungarian-born gunrunner in the Pacific!
- Balkanized Hawaiian Islands!
- Badass Kanaki paddle duels!
- A rather different series of revolutions!
- Snazzy mahioles and cunning scions!
- Subverted Britwank and Ameriwank!
- Democratised ancien regime, Bourbons with fezes (fezes are cool)!
- Battleships sinking in Pearl Harbour… in 1901!
- A republican Japan and Tonga!
- Russians and Americans as best buds!
- French Pitcairn Islands (now 100 % HMS Bounty-free)!
- POTUS with a Welsh surname!
- Benthamite nanny state authoritarians!
- Americans lovin' rally racing!
- And much more!
Interested?
If yes, then read it here.
TL-related media and trivia
Colonial flag of the French Sandwich Islands (1795-1875)
Merchant flag of the French Sandwich Islands (1795-1875)
Colonial flag of the British Sandwich Islands (1805-1875)
Colonial flag of the British Sandwich Islands (1875-1960)
Flag of the independent Kingdom of Kauai (1960-present)