The Jade Star
28-01-2007, 09:28
Since everybody else has one, I figure I'll give it a go to ;)
Anyway, I had an idea for an alternate history earth where power has shifted more to the East, with Russia, China and Japan claiming the top three 'Great Power' slots, the more 'Western' nations having fallen behind some time in the early 1800's, perhaps due to some alteration in the Napoleonic Wars and an ousting of the Qing from China. Both Russia and China could easily have made a serious dent in the powers of the era with some decent leadership. Japan's history wouldnt need to be altered a whole lot, obviously.
The US could be removed from the 'superpower' region simply by (IMO, anyway :P) letting Mexico keep its northern territories, or having some other power take them before the US and securing them in such a fashion as to either assimilate or keep out US colonists.
The technology would be roughly the same, albiet with some new names on some inventions.
(History currently being worked out with Buristan)
Anyway, claims would be for nations, size not being an issue. If theres interest I'll start working on a new world map, with shiney new borders :P
EDIT:
And to dispel some of the issues which anti-Earthers have brought up:
There will be no claim wanking. Claims will be limited to EXISTING nations, no more than ONE each. This shouldnt be too much of an issue since if you werent strong enough to fend off coloniseres you tended to become part of them at this point in history, so every nation out there has SOME strength.
Im going to do my best to make sure that this Earth is, as it were, by the people and for the people. If anybody wants to contribute CONSTRUCTIVE advice, criticism, or input their thoughts on the shape of this particular Earth, they are more than welcome to. This means no spam, one-liner 'lolz SAGE FOR EARTH', etc. etc.
Military numbers etc. will be semi-historical, obviously historical numbers wont work in an environment as altered as this one, but meh.
Anyway, I had an idea for an alternate history earth where power has shifted more to the East, with Russia, China and Japan claiming the top three 'Great Power' slots, the more 'Western' nations having fallen behind some time in the early 1800's, perhaps due to some alteration in the Napoleonic Wars and an ousting of the Qing from China. Both Russia and China could easily have made a serious dent in the powers of the era with some decent leadership. Japan's history wouldnt need to be altered a whole lot, obviously.
The US could be removed from the 'superpower' region simply by (IMO, anyway :P) letting Mexico keep its northern territories, or having some other power take them before the US and securing them in such a fashion as to either assimilate or keep out US colonists.
The technology would be roughly the same, albiet with some new names on some inventions.
(History currently being worked out with Buristan)
Anyway, claims would be for nations, size not being an issue. If theres interest I'll start working on a new world map, with shiney new borders :P
EDIT:
And to dispel some of the issues which anti-Earthers have brought up:
There will be no claim wanking. Claims will be limited to EXISTING nations, no more than ONE each. This shouldnt be too much of an issue since if you werent strong enough to fend off coloniseres you tended to become part of them at this point in history, so every nation out there has SOME strength.
Im going to do my best to make sure that this Earth is, as it were, by the people and for the people. If anybody wants to contribute CONSTRUCTIVE advice, criticism, or input their thoughts on the shape of this particular Earth, they are more than welcome to. This means no spam, one-liner 'lolz SAGE FOR EARTH', etc. etc.
Military numbers etc. will be semi-historical, obviously historical numbers wont work in an environment as altered as this one, but meh.