02-17-2019, 01:47 PM | #11 | |
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I may come up with something for the Bukharin expy either today or over the week outside of my working hours (and trying to branch out to foreign names since they're a bit more common in Centrum, if the "Mohammad Chang" and "Goldstein" mentioned in the brief narrative of Infinite Worlds are anything to go by), and just want to make clear that I only want to distance from Russian/Slavic names to avoid confusion with the Soviets, to give more national variety with "Volante Kostroski" being the odd woman out in that sense, (and because a pre-existing thread on what names Centrum would have theorized that, among other things, Russians would likely be one of the last few nationalities integrated into Centrum's One World Government, as the Russian War was one of the few wars just before The Final War, and thus likely had to be seized by the still largely Anglo-Western Centrum, even if it's less "another world war" and more "superpower absorbing lesser warlord states after assimilating the rest of the world") Last edited by Madd Kossack 115; 02-17-2019 at 05:30 PM. |
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02-18-2019, 02:22 AM | #12 | |
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02-18-2019, 09:08 PM | #13 | |
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02-19-2019, 01:00 PM | #14 | |
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02-19-2019, 01:22 PM | #15 | |
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Centrum didn't want to wipe out or enslave native populations, which makes them less evil than Reich-5; there are plenty of worlds with no population to use for resources. They did want every populated world to move towards their style of government, but they were smart enough not to try to do that by war; they took a fairly long view. Their empire-building slowed down a lot when they made peace with Infinity, and that was largely the PCs' work. Investigating where the Homeline Echoes come from revealed the possibility of a weapon that would destroy worldlines, and that was enough to make both Centrum and Infinity re-think their attitude to their conflict.
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02-19-2019, 10:11 PM | #16 | |
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A while back somebody posited the world of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as a timeline, and posited what would happen if U.N.C.L.E. discovered Infinity and or Centrum. It's a reasonable suggestion, and it would happen on more than one world eventually.
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02-20-2019, 12:53 PM | #17 | |
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02-20-2019, 01:04 PM | #18 |
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Would you believe, "I would prefer to see Agent 86 and 99 wander the multiverse?"
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The chief would have felt safer.
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02-20-2019, 04:55 PM | #20 |
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Well, this certainly blew up while I got side-tracked again. I have gotten almost all of the "Centrum-ized" names changed up (the only one I'm not sure of is Bukharin, which I'll get to later). I'll start by showing the list of Soviet names that I've converted to Centrum names (and a list of their Gender and Nationality - or at least, what counts as a "nationality" under a OWG like Centrum):
* Molotov = Petronel “The Pounder” Stryker (Female, South African) * Trotsky = David Bronstein (Male, Secular Jewish) * Tukachevsky = Cornelius Quraishi (Male, Anglo-Arabian) * Yezhov = Sef Almawt (Male, Egyptian-Arabian) * Voroshilov = Clement Chatham (Male, Pure Anglo) * Kirov = Volante Kostroski (Female, Italian-Slavic) * Shilapnikov = Alexis Schlappi (Female, Swiss-German, and possibly an Outtimer who was recruited by the Interworld Service) Looking at the list now, I actually think that Bukharin's Centrum Expy should be at least partially Asian, as I've covered most of the other nationalities that make up Centrum society. I'm still getting the hang of this site, so I'll post this, and come back to respond to the quotes around it, as I can't figure out how to install a quote when I start drafting a general response post. |
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