11-16-2017, 10:10 PM | #2901 | |
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The stable decent British empire of our world's popular imagination is a product of having learned from the mistakes of the 1770s and decades of competition with a North American democracy. In this world Britain would likely be a much nastier and less stable society. Also it would be unlikely to be in anyway democratic.
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11-16-2017, 10:51 PM | #2902 |
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That's...just false you know. The English elites weren't making any moves to parcel up the colonies on behalf of absentee landlords, not in reality and not in the description. And the colonies weren't mostly occupied by Catholics so the relationship was quite a bit different. Mind you westward expansion would be substantially retarded by the concessions made to native allies that are being inexplicably adhered to with remarkable fidelity.
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11-17-2017, 12:24 PM | #2903 | |
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11-17-2017, 06:29 PM | #2904 |
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This alternate's United Empire Loyalists (or their equivalent) would no doubt beg to differ.
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11-17-2017, 11:27 PM | #2905 | |
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Get rid of a successful American Revolution and you reinforce all reactionary trends in Britain. That would lead to brutally bad rule in tbe entire empire.
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11-17-2017, 11:33 PM | #2906 | |
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11-18-2017, 09:47 AM | #2907 | |
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But if we continue this discussion, we run the risk of turning this thread political and having it locked...
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11-19-2017, 09:11 AM | #2908 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Try this idea...
A Q6 world is having a series of plagues in the early 1970s. The USSR and the Chinese both accuse America of Germ Warfare. Nixon has pointed out that the USA is a trading nation, plagues hurt commerce. A rational point no one cares about. Homeline sees these plagues as using sophisticated biotech, well beyond 1970s tech.Who is spreading these plagues and why? Centrum doesn't promote nuclear warfare nor germ warfare either. Who or what is using advanced biotech? Some Cabal contacts are dropping hints about a Proteus Virus. A plague that rewrites the genetics of its victems. If they're right, who has that tech? And how can Homeline defend this world or others? Or even themselves?
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11-24-2017, 07:49 AM | #2909 |
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Try this idea..
In some ways this is a weird parallel but both Centrum and the Cabal would kill to know what happened and how it was done. In most ways this Q6 world is an echo of Homeline in 1937 but the difference is vast. Between March of 1935 and January of 1936 all forms of racial, religious, ethnic, class, sex, gender, and sexual orientation, bigotries just faded away in the USA and its territories. In the US folks seem pleased with the change if embarassed to have had such deluded notions. In much of the rest of the world people are appalled. Many people react toward the transformed USA with genuine disgust and horror. Both Centrum and the Cabal see the event that transformed this USA as mass mind control or mind editing. Homeline agrees that it looks like that. In fact, given that in towns where the border goes through the town, only the American half changed, strongly suggests that the transforming force was as tightly controled as it was powerful. Homeline's main goal in this parallel is to keep the Atlantic allience on track. With both Centrum and the Cabal throwing caution to the winds in a mad drive to learn the secret Interworld agents have a nasty fight to keep the USA from getting ripped up by fools. Also, with much of the world shocked disgusted with the USA making sure highly conservative 1930s Britain still sees America as a possible ally is also vital. Remember, in this period, many bigotries were seen as virtues. The PCs will need to realize why people are freaked out by America just dumping all kinds of prejudices so quickly. Remember, disgust with and rejection of democracy was an intellectually repectable position in the 1930s. Such a loss of bigotries would have been seen as proof of the corrupting power of democracy.
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11-24-2017, 11:50 AM | #2910 |
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I actually don't think it makes much difference there. People in the US tend to be somewhat oblivious to it, but part of the reason much of Europe looked down on the Colonials was that they believed (correctly, another one of those details American racists tend to be vague on) that even the "white" elites were mixed bloods.
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