New Reality Seeds

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Wow. People in the early long 19th century were really silly. Like, if the Thirty Years War didn't finish Europe off, then I can't imagine how Napoleon would.

You probably need to seriously up the firepower of Napoleonic era armies if you want to have an apocalypse like that happen. Maybe have Lavoisier escape the national razor (perhaps he doesn't get involved in tax farming at all?) and him develop chemical weapons that Napoleon uses to great effect, which in turn are imitated by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Or maybe you could have his work in gunpowder unexpectedly lead to Fuel Air Explosives somehow, if you want to smash up the things of Continental Europe too.

I only claimed it was something that was discussed in period. Every time period has its own crazy scenarios. Look at 1970s Sci Fi. We in 2024 are supposed to be living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with vast floods of people everywhere, and the air far to polluted to breathe without a mask, and a dozen other horror scenarios besides.

Post-apocalyptic Swashbuckling seems like something new.