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As written I assume the French are still in Mexico. So as the French left once they saw the ACW was wrapping up, both wars are still ongoing.
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Your insight is clear and penetrating.
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Try this one...
In most worlds Saladin is a major figure. In this Q6 Low Mana Parallel he seems to have died as a child if he was even born. Fights between the Islamic powers preserved the Crusader States until the local year 1346. Now Orhan I is moving to conquer the Holy Lands. This will both delay any conquest of the Byzantine Empire and bring the Ottomans into conflict with the Mamluks. The Cabal, wanting more Greek and Latin classical texts to survive, and also wanting the Byzantines to survive into at least the 16th century, are working to protect and strengthen the Palaiogos dynasty by changing the outcome the 1341-1347 Civil War. Basically, an espionage game in the High Medieval Near East. Homeline is more interested in limiting Cabal influence than anything else. This world is low mana but there seem be be some anomalies. Homeline is worried about the Cabal's real goals.
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Now one possibility is that is that a Homeline group with deus vult tendencies is intervening to try to direct the Turks away from the Crusader Kingdoms and toward Byzantium while at the time trying to strengthen the foes of the Turks. The patrol is looking to shut them down for exceeding acceptable levels of tampering while at the same time the Cabal's Byzantium are looking for the source of the disruption in their agenda... |
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And what Infinity found out? The idea that The Cabal can travel through time would terrify Infinity, even if it only works on mana worlds. There could be a bunch of relatively close parallel mana worlds (likely low-mana) that were created by Cabalist time travel. For instance, low-mana Q3 Armada-3, where Spanish broadsheets blame a college of magicians for the revolts that have broken out in England & Netherlands after Philip II's death, could be because of some John Dee intervention gone wrong. (think Times Without Number) |
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Without Saladin, Richard might never be involved in a Crusade at all. If he was anyway, he probably would've been more successful - and a united Kingdom of Jerusalem and England, even if it lasted only a generation or two, is likely to have a pretty significant impact on the future trajectory of English history. Even if he didn't, with the who knows what changes in the genealogy of the House of Plantagenet from diverting Richard's life, there's lot of scope for the England a couple centuries later to be very different.
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(Anything that sinks the Ottomans is OK in my book!) |
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Try this one...
There was a belief in certain circles from the 1950s to the 1980s that a nuclear war would erase the USSR and the USA from the world and Europe would rule the world again through renewed colonial empires. Some people feared this, others mourned this, some celebrated it. Some people in the eighties and nineties held that the theory of Nuclear Winter destroyed this belief and brought down the USSR (often denying that the internal decay of the USSR had any real effect on its collapse). Whatever, this fringe theory is good game fodder two ways. First this one and then another one. Once that young American scientist Carl Sagan brought out his proofs on "Nuclear Winter" Eastern Europe started to fall apart. Russia is crushing protests everywhere but their heart has gone out of it. They say Brezhnev has committed suicide. What will the world be like if Communism collapses? Basically, this is a swinging sixties spy game with the USSR falling to pieces. In American things are looking up. The Vietnam war is over, the Great Society is devouring the military industrial complex, it's all progressive social programs and moonshots with rock music going wild, think Proto-Star Trek. Meanwhile, Eurasia is a mess. Power structures are falling leading to vast power vacuums that the USA has no interest in filling. With both the USA and the USSR out of the game (the first dancing off to the moon and the second falling into ruins) the other powers of Eurasia are striking out to grab what they can while they can. What you have is a Mad Mod replay of the Great Game being played out by spies wearing Paisley and white go-go boots. The local year is 1967.
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