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Old 12-17-2018, 12:36 AM   #3861
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In 1938, in the midst of the Sudetenland crisis, a number of high ranking conservatives including Generalmajor Hans Oster were plotting to bring down the Nazi regime, as they believed Hitler's actions were leading Germany into a war it wasn't prepared to win. After Chamberlain caved, Hitler was too politically strong, and the whole plot came to nothing. But what if it didn't?

In Oster (Q6), Chamberlain was unable to handle the negotiations that would lead to the Munich Agreement, because he had caught a cold shortly before the conference. Instead, Lord Halifax was sent in his place. Halifax, who had grown to oppose appeasement and had a poor personal relationship with Hitler, took a hard line with Germany. As Germany came closer and closer to war, the Oster conspiracy sprang into action, arresting Hitler and seizing control of the government.

In the months that followed, Germany has fallen into civil war. The national government has returned Wilhelm II to the throne, but is unable to govern much of the country despite martial law. Nazis openly rule multiple states, including Bavaria and Austria. Communists have returned, co-opting anger at the national government into support for radicalism. France and Britain are all the more unwilling to do anything, now more concerned with Italy, Japan and Russia.

Infinity is chiefly concerned with Centrum's support for the national government of Germany; but they are unsure whether Centrum actually supports the government, or is using them to raise the tension.
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Old 12-17-2018, 05:54 AM   #3862
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Has anyone tried making a world based on the Fomenko New Chronology? Sounds like an all-history version of Xena's historo-inaccuracy.
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Old 12-17-2018, 07:02 AM   #3863
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In 1938, in the midst of the Sudetenland crisis, a number of high ranking conservatives including Generalmajor Hans Oster were plotting to bring down the Nazi regime, as they believed Hitler's actions were leading Germany into a war it wasn't prepared to win. After Chamberlain caved, Hitler was too politically strong, and the whole plot came to nothing. But what if it didn't?

In Oster (Q6), Chamberlain was unable to handle the negotiations that would lead to the Munich Agreement, because he had caught a cold shortly before the conference. Instead, Lord Halifax was sent in his place. Halifax, who had grown to oppose appeasement and had a poor personal relationship with Hitler, took a hard line with Germany. As Germany came closer and closer to war, the Oster conspiracy sprang into action, arresting Hitler and seizing control of the government.

In the months that followed, Germany has fallen into civil war. The national government has returned Wilhelm II to the throne but is unable to govern much of the country despite martial law. Nazis openly rule multiple states, including Bavaria and Austria. Communists have returned, co-opting anger at the national government into support for radicalism. France and Britain are all the more unwilling to do anything, now more concerned with Italy, Japan, and Russia.

Infinity is chiefly concerned with Centrum's support for the national government of Germany, but they are unsure whether Centrum actually supports the government, or is using them to raise the tension.
In our History, far from being a milksop, Chamberlain totally blew his stack. Hitler had to woo him back. Chamberlain, ashamed of his bad behavior, was putty in Hitler's hands. Yes, Halifax would be a far better choice.

Fun twist, have the Czechs launch an attack on Nazi-held areas of the Reich in alliance with the national government. They'd have both the capacity to act and motives to both stomp the Nazis and seek the favor of the Berlin government.
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Old 12-17-2018, 07:06 AM   #3864
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Has anyone tried making a world based on the Fomenko New Chronology? Sounds like an all-history version of Xena's historo-inaccuracy.
Maybe it's a parasitic alternate history that eats histories that aren't slav-o-centric.
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Old 12-17-2018, 11:53 AM   #3865
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Maybe it's a parasitic alternate history that eats histories that aren't slav-o-centric.
I was thinking more along the lines of "If we assume this history happens in reality what would the world logically look like afterwards?" As opposed to the world turning out exactly like our own, because that can't be logical.
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Old 12-17-2018, 02:20 PM   #3866
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I was thinking more along the lines of "If we assume this history happens in reality what would the world logically look like afterwards?" As opposed to the world turning out exactly like our own, because that can't be logical.
Alternate pasts leading to our "present" but with different possibilities? I've played with that, and with Reality Quakes that leave the Present Day unchanged but radically alter the past, sometimes without altering written history, with only prehistory getting changed.
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Old 12-18-2018, 04:46 PM   #3867
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Orichalcum-2

The Orichalcum parallels are worlds were Atlantis was real and is an archeological presence. On both Orichalcum 3 and 5 Atlantis was swallowed up by rising seas in the early Holocene much like Doggerland on Homeline. Only with a large urban society rather than Neolithic farmers. Their local years are 1957 and 2010 respectively. Orichalcum-1 had an urban site much like Catalhoyuk submerged in the Black Sea deluge on this parallel. Local year 1982. Orichalcum-4 is a world of magic and superheroes, local year 1939, TL6+2^ (however the more advanced tech isn't commonplace). Only Orichalcum-4's Atlantis had a tech level above two and significant magic.

Orichalcum-2 stands out in that a recent reality quake has made Atlantis real! The mana level on this Q5 parallel has jumped from No/Low to Normal Manna with isolated areas of High and Very High Manna. Both Homeline and the Cabal want to study how this world changes.

The local year is 1968 (whispers about Cayce are getting loud enough to no longer be whispers), Nixon has lost the election and is in legal trouble for interfering in the peace talks to sabotage the Democratic campaign.

So far only a few scholars, scientists, and mystics have noticed a significant change in the world. Young people experimenting with drugs and magic are getting stunning surprises.
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Old 12-19-2018, 07:09 AM   #3868
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Shire-4

This is a Myth Parallel, it reflects Tolkien's Middle Earth, but with a twist. All Shire parallels reflect Tolkien's stories, although not always Middle Earth. Shire-2 reflects Smith of Wooton Major. Shire-5 is tied to Farmer Giles of ham. However, Shire-1, Shire-3, and Shire-6 are connected to Middle Earth at the times of the Lord of the Rings, Silmarillon, and the Hobbit.

But Shire-4 is different, the local year is 1070 in the Shire Reckoning. This is the time of Isengrim Took. It's about 220 years before Bilbo Baggins is born. Smaug hasn't attacked the Lonely Mountain yet, and Thror is the king.

As this period is somewhat described by Tolkien's notes, but not the subject of a major text, this is a great place for adventuring.

The Hobbit mentions that there are many magic workers around in 1341SR, but mages have nearly disappeared by 1401, or at least they don't show up in the story. So I assume that Sauron got rid of most Magic workers not aligned with him. So, I assume characters with Magery work in this period. Someone has to make all the enchanted items people talk about in the Hobbit.

I assume that Bilbo's and Frodo lived in a TL5 Shire, even if many of those technologies were of no interest to hobbits. I think Middle Earth is High Manna in the Third Age.

If the Shire in Bilbo and Frodo's time seems to reflect 19th century England, then Isengrim's Shire might be more like the 1690-1710 period. That's the time period we've set the Mother Goose rhymes in. Look at Phil Master's Alchemical Baroque. It uses the 1690-1710 period in a lovely impressionistic way. It's a vastly different setting than the Shire, but there are things you can use.
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Old 12-20-2018, 01:44 PM   #3869
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In most worlds Franz Bardon is a minor figure who spent years in prison or persecuted by authorities hostile to his occultism. In this Q6 world Merlin-7 Bardon's family emigrated to America in the early 1920s.

Bardon spent the war years in Los Angeles. After 1930, LA is the world capital of Occultism. Bardon was far more productive and active in this world than he ever was in Homeline. He made many good friends including Jack Parsons who he helped stabilize and avoid being cheated by L. Ron Hubbard, and Osman Spare who Franz and Jack got to come over from England in1946.

In 1959, the three had a series of major breakthroughs in their workings. They came up with a practical technique of magic. By 1965 not only were all three men looking far younger than their years but they had proved they could enchant computer circuits.

The local year is 1989, Bardon has just celebrated his 80th birthday and looks like a 40 year old man. Spare and Parsons all also in good shape.

The Tech Level is a mature TL8. In many ways, the use of Techno-Magic makes the local technology function like Homeline's did in 2018 (except in the fields or energy and robotics). The local magic is Path/Book magic.

This setting is spy versus spy with Magic thrown into the mix. Thanks to certain spells and enchantments Parsons developed to control plasma, fusion power was commercially viable from 1975 on. Petroleum is obsolete as fuel in this parallel. Those nations dependent on oil profits are in freefall. This means both Russia and the Near East are racing towards total economic collapse. Meanwhile, enchanted computers are making automation and robotics far easier than in Homeline's history. In Computing and Robotics, the Effective Tech Level is 10^. this is bringing massive upheavals in the developed world.

Homeline, Centrum, and the Cabal are all torn between quarantining this parallel or stealing its tech and techno-magic.
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Old 12-20-2018, 02:44 PM   #3870
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Refusure worlds, A cluster of worlds where parachronic technology was developed but not used for travel to alternate worlds.

Refusure - 1
This world is very similar to homeline but after parachronic travel was developed it was decided to not use it due to the Reason technologies surrounding parachronic travel are well developed however with detection and sensors relating to incoming travel being possibly superior to homeline's and centrum's.

Refusure - 2
The same technology that is used for parachronic travel by homeline is used on this world for instantaneous point to point travel. This has caused a great leap forward in transportation efficiency and space exploration with Mars being in the early stages of colonization. Social change is also in full swing with traditional national borders becoming less relevant. Parachronic detection technology is also well developed. It is unknown if this world is using high efficiency parachronic technology to "skip" through a world with different physical laws or if they have simply developed a new application of the standard technology.
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