Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus
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I am interested in LGBTQ rights here because Diversitarianism may encourage traditionalism…but then as you say that is not always as hostile to rights as a western lens might assume. And the Societist focus on The Universal Family Structure(tm) would almost certainly wind up very Heteronormative and if there is one thing Diversitarians place above authentic reflections of culture it’s fucking over the Combine.
The map showing Antarctica as unclaimed is interesting as well. Well, I’m not surprised it’s unsettled, and in a world increasingly focused on cultural matters claiming some penguins is not exactly a triumph. (Although I am now imagining a Black Guard trying to force various types of penguins to live together, a parody perhaps.” But by this time IOTL the North and South Poles had been attained, and we’re actually right on top of Everest being summited. Obviously things will have progressed differently, but I could see this sort of “first to do this” thing becoming both a target for the Combine and as a focal point for Diversitarian healthy competition. Same with space travel, once everyone gets over the Romulan Panic.
Speaking of competition, past updates have mentioned the Combine showing up at the World Games by this point, which must be an interesting story and an increasingly awkward time.
The Combine has an outpost in West Antarctica and de jure claims the entire continent as I recall. An excerpt from a history of their colonization project would be interesting, and it would be mildly amusing if there's a rump Combine confined there in the present day, limited to one small village claiming to control the entire former territory and ignored because it isn't worth bothering with.
That'd be good to see too.
I also would like to see what happens with
I agree - in particular, what would the Combine call the place? Or is it just tacked onto the zones corresponding to Patagonia, South Africa oor whatever else?
Say goodbye to the straight lines of the OTL territorial claims and hello to the jigsaw at the bottom of the world
That would imply a zone over a specific region 😱 more likely it's the spot where the Rejes and Kapud station people who screw up too badly for the regular labor camps
Previously the Maori were dismissed as an industrial power due to lacking coal and iron but some research has revealed New Zealand does actually have both minerals. However they do lack oil
So, I've been reading Book 3's physical version, and I have some questions for either people who remember more of the intervening books than I, or Thande.
The books talk about how Napoleon's Decision to guarantee the existence of the Dutch Republic was fateful and would have the longest lasting impact of all his choices and a really bad impact as well, and I'm honestly a bit baffled by that? I get that it's what led to the Guayanese Republic and the Cape Republic and the Batavian Republic and stuff, but I don't really see why that would be seen as such a big deal.
I'm also at a related loss to understand why, as described in chapter 150, the Pernambuco Mission is seen as such a key step in the road to Societism vs Diversitarianism. Sure, it was growth in power/prestige of the UPSA, but I don't see how every gain by the UPSA leads to societism. Certainly don't see why Pernambuco would specifically go down as such a big deal as to be "a key early movie" in what led to the world being divided by Societism and DIversitarianism.
I'm guessing I'm just forgetting something about the intervening chapters, but...
The books talk about how Napoleon's Decision to guarantee the existence of the Dutch Republic was fateful and would have the longest lasting impact of all his choices and a really bad impact as well, and I'm honestly a bit baffled by that? I get that it's what led to the Guayanese Republic and the Cape Republic and the Batavian Republic and stuff, but I don't really see why that would be seen as such a big deal.
I'm also at a related loss to understand why, as described in chapter 150, the Pernambuco Mission is seen as such a key step in the road to Societism vs Diversitarianism. Sure, it was growth in power/prestige of the UPSA, but I don't see how every gain by the UPSA leads to societism. Certainly don't see why Pernambuco would specifically go down as such a big deal as to be "a key early movie" in what led to the world being divided by Societism and DIversitarianism.
I'm guessing I'm just forgetting something about the intervening chapters, but...
I remember it, though only in the broadest strokes. I do remember it was cool with Isaac Brock becoming the Wellington equivalent as Lord Beardsley and I THINK getting his India-equivalent rise in the ranks in the *USA tho'.
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I posted some screenshots from WebArchive in the “Realistic For Want of a Nail” thread
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Just a word of warning that the next update may be a bit late as I've been running out of time in which to write.
IIRC I think that's what I was thinking of when I wrote that part, yes.
But those "badly traslated world war" videos are full of delightful little AH challenges. The defeat of both Britain and the Ottomans by the Romans. The sending of the german fleet to Mongolia. The breakout of the Hundred Years War in 1918.