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Old 03-22-2010, 06:20 AM   #381
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Was there an alternate Earth already mentioned where the U.K. was an entire penal colony and Australia was the former biggest "empire"?
I'm not aware of one. How would you get to that situation from changing anything in any part of our history?
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Old 03-22-2010, 03:11 PM   #382
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I'm not aware of one. How would you get to that situation from changing anything in any part of our history?
It's a setting that include the United States of Lizardia, so I'm not sure how England and Australia are automagically swapped is really any worse. How about a setting where Aboriginal Australians were more advanced than Europeans and conquered Europe? That should allow it.

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Old 03-22-2010, 03:31 PM   #383
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Actually, I was referring to Caucasian settlers. They would have been the ones to quickly turn Australia into said empire.
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Old 03-22-2010, 06:31 PM   #384
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In that case, something will have had to happen to the rest of the world, leaving the Australians as the most advanced nation on the planet.

Hmmmmm... That's in the back-story for Centrum, isn't it?
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Old 11-06-2023, 05:11 AM   #385
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I would like to see Castro, the world where the Cuban Missile Crisis triggered World War Three. This is about as late as it would be possible for such a war not to start a new Dark Age…Russia only had a couple dozen nukes deliverable to America and resources of minerals and pre-industrial personal knowledge were not yet quite depleted. Also, society was not yet centralized and devoted to just-in-time economy.
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Old 11-06-2023, 10:26 AM   #386
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Impressive act of thread necromancy there...
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Old 11-06-2023, 10:48 AM   #387
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Impressive act of thread necromancy there...
It's multi-revenant thread in the first place starting in 2006 going to 2010 and trying to prompt a sequel to 3e works from the 90s.

In that spirit I'll put in my vote for a thorough write-up of Lucifer-5 the "mysterious meteors hit in 1908, derail WWI and have a wild pulp solar system by the 1930s" world.
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