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Re: New Reality Seeds
1989, but if you prefer 1990 it's your game.
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Israel never got off the ground. The world's Jews mainly fled to America and America dealt with its anti-Semitism much like in our world. A note on Mana in this parallel. This is a world of VERY LOW MANA. There are areas were the mana level isn't as low as normal low mana, but they are rare, 10% of the global surface and in small parcels. However, the Moon effects all Mana on this world. Just having the Moon in the sky reduced the penalty by one. Thus an area were the spell penalty is -8 is -7 if the New Moon is in the sky. New Moon +1, Crescent +2, Half+3, Gibbous +4, Full +5. The Eclipse is +10. If the penalty is reduced to zero or becomes positive, the areas has normal mana. If the area become +4 or more, High Mana. The Cabal knows the local lunar calendar very well indeed.
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10-21-2017, 12:56 PM | #2812 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
The Civil Rights Movement got started before the American Civil War. It was ongoing in this world too.
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10-21-2017, 06:21 PM | #2813 | |||
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I believe the Chronobahn just goes through Quantum Three. They probably would be, but Infinity wouldn't know that, and would be scared out of all proportion or likelihood of a Centrum-Reich team-up. And, to be fair, the dialogue at the start of the section on Centrum in GURPS Infinite Worlds has a Centran agent liking the idea of teaming up with/supporting Nazis, just to mess with Infinity (though that appears to be Reich-2). Quote:
it is tough to turn the 'libertarian anarchist' militia-type racism into support for a powerful government (no matter how racist it would be). Quote:
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10-22-2017, 01:09 AM | #2814 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Not sure it’s that hard. In practice, people who profess to hate “big government” often seem very happy to give government a lot of power, provided that the government promises to use it to hurt the “right” other people.
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10-22-2017, 12:13 PM | #2815 |
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Re: New Reality Seeds
Or, alternatively, to give them the things they, themselves, think they're entitled to have. For instance, most farmers in Colorado steadfastly vote for the GOP, but the minute you start talking about reductions to farm subsidies....
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10-22-2017, 04:27 PM | #2816 | |
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It really takes a failing of the current government, support from some current power players (like big business, church, media, etc.), and/or outside events to switch the anarchist racism into big government racism. And the Australian government on this world seems to be competent (kept the Black Fever at bay). It could definitely be a strain that's a perennial worry, even threat, but never actually takes over. |
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10-22-2017, 04:29 PM | #2817 |
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Try this idea. I'm taking it from a posting I made on another thread. Serpent people from a reality outside of the quantum known to Homeline and Centrum, break into a Q4 parallel strongly similar to Homeline in the year 1895.
These Serpent People bring plauges and fell beasts to crush humanity. However, like Well's Martians, the Serpent People get a microbial surprise. They fail at conqest but shatter both the Earth's governments and their own. It is now the year 1957.The world has experienced warming and the seas are rising, sea level is up 25 feet. Sea level is raising about four feet every ten years at this time. The present population is around 300 million. The world is a steampunk post-apocalyptic world of magic and steam tech. Conan and Krull meet After London and Things to Come. More later... I will include needed links and notes on tech and magic.
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10-22-2017, 05:14 PM | #2818 |
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You know what I've never seen? An alternate history about a setting where <major war> was cut short, with the same people winning...but before Christmas. What would be the consequences of the American Civil War, or World War I or World War II (or whatever they'd be called) being quick and easy victories for the United States, or France/Britain. Admittedly a quick and easy World War I for the Entente is pretty beyond imagining.
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10-22-2017, 06:48 PM | #2819 | |
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But a quick WWII would have absolutely vast implications. Say Germany is swiftly defeated; Japan is somehow quickly beaten as well (maybe they get into it with the Soviets and the US). Britain isn't beggared and probably hangs onto the empire for another 20 years or so; US cultural hegemony takes a lot longer to bite; war tech is delayed significantly along with computers and rocketry which affects the space race and current personal computer revolution; Europe is a lot less committed to never fighting another war; the Soviets don't swallow half of Europe which damned the east to decades of economic oblivion; the Middle East looks very different; no Israel; no UN etc. etc. |
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10-22-2017, 07:59 PM | #2820 | |
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It is hard to imagine the British and French able to defeat Germany by Christmas, but if the Russian Army had mobilized even faster than it did and the Battle of Tannenberg had been a massive Russian victory, destroying the eastern German army, then the Russians might have been able to end the war early. Granted, an early Russian victory would require a lot of luck on the part of the Russians. If this Russian victory is combined with a large British naval victory destroying most of the Imperial German Navy, then Germany might be demoralized enough to sue for peace. After such a victory, I think that there would be some small exchange of land, but the pre-war map would stay largely intact. Germany would loose Alsace-Lorraine, Austria looses control of some of the Balkans, and maybe the British pick up Togoland or German East Africa. However the German, Austrian-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires survive intact. Reform movements in Austria and Turkey would gain support after the defeat. Perhaps there are some minor reforms by Atatürk, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire becomes a triple monarchy of the Austro-Polish-Hungarian Empire. In Russia, however, the Czar's strength grows after their victory, and any Bolshevik are sent to Siberia. Much like the after the Franco-Prussian war, after this war the belligerents would immediately start preparing for the next big war (which isn't so different from our history). This next war will probably happen soon because all the causes of WWI are still there. Who takes part in the next war and what it is be about is fluid---personally I like a German, Austro-Hungarian-Polish, Russian, and Ottoman alliance against the US, France, Britain, and Japan sparked over competing Japanese and Russian interests in Manchuria. |
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