11-08-2019, 01:15 PM | #4431 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Clever, you could also measure the value of trees by how well they disrupt Psi. Rowan, Oak, Yew, all traditional magic trees. But is this because they blocked Psi, aided it, or something else? Maybe stink weed is the best Psi screen going. Which really killed the popularity of the public parks.
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11-09-2019, 12:18 AM | #4432 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Prime training areas would include Death Valley, the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the Takla Makan, Antarctica, and the coast of the Red Sea. Wars might even be fought over their possession. ("The Desolation Wars" ... that's catchy.)
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11-09-2019, 07:26 AM | #4433 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
On the other hand, we need to scramble to move all those classified projects and bases out of those barren desert or mountain or polar areas where they are easy clairvoyance targets.
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11-09-2019, 03:21 PM | #4434 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Lesson One - "How To Block Clairvoyance"
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11-09-2019, 05:40 PM | #4435 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
The simple fact you guys can spin so much analysis off this shows I did something right.
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11-11-2019, 11:25 AM | #4436 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
This Q6 world diverges in early 1945. Stalin decides that he can't trust either Churchill or Truman. All the present evidence about Stalin's motives ( and I tend to read left leaning historians) is that he planed to attack and conquer the West at a time advantageous to the U.S.S.R. Some historians think he was murdered to prevent WWIII. But in this world Stalin assumes that if he waits the Americans and Brits will strike first.
The early part of the European war is predictable. The Red Army, with the advantage of vast numbers rolls over Western Europe. France, Spain, Gibraltar, Denmark, and the Low Countries, all fall quickly. Sweden and Norway are helpless. Stalin looks ready to do what neither Napoleon or Hitler could do, invade and conquer Britain. Then Fat Man successfully visits Moscow. Stalin and the Politburo are taken out. It's late October 1946. Centrum wants to prevent total Soviet defeat. The collapse of all totalitarian powers and a world rebuilt on New Deal idealism isn't going to be advantageous to them. The extra damage the UK has taken in this world will only speed the collapse of the British Empire no matter whether the US or the USSR wins. Homeline sees a world rebuilt along lines of New Deal idealism with no totalitarian powers as a world were Centrum doesn't have easy targets. A quicker fall to colonial empires would make it even harder on Centrum. The Cabal is mainly eating popcorn on this world.
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11-11-2019, 12:03 PM | #4437 | |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
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Does the US make a quick peace with Japan so they can concentrate on Europe? Do they now start sending Lend Lease to the Chinese Nationalists in the (probably vain) hopes they will invade the Soviet Far East? Over in the Mediterranean, are things quiet because Stalin concentrates on Northern Europe? Or is he trying to move on Greece and Italy also?
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Re: New Reality Seeds
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11-11-2019, 01:42 PM | #4439 | |
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Does Centrum have any agents that speak Japanese, and can believably pass for someone that would be inclined to help them?
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11-11-2019, 01:52 PM | #4440 | |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
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Maybe in this timeline Stalin doesn't know about the bomb program because they had an early security scare, but the tighter security slowed down progress. Maybe there is a secret illicit anime club in the Interworld Service? Hilarity ensues. (Besides the low quality of Japanese they know, it is 21st century Japanese, not 1940s Japanese. Lot more English loanwords.)
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