Possibly even Night of the Comet survivors. The challenge is in deciding which one to use horrpr. Worlds of Atomic Horror. My favorite world is Gothic 2, illuminated alchemical horror.
Although having the remainder of humanity dominated by mad scientists is intriguing. Find More Posts by tratclif. Each alternate Earth provides an intriguing history, complete with an explanation of the divergence point when things began to go awry. Contents [ show ]. Four shifted to Quantum infiinite eleven have moved to Quantum 7 six of which were due to Centrum influence ; one Engstrom shifted to Quantum 4 and seven have not been rediscovered. OK so Gothic-1 is the land of insane wives in attics, and governesses with sinister employers, plus Jane Austen characters.
The lords of Bactria played kingmaker in northern India, setting off an exchange of military, philosophical, and artistic techniques that profited both civilizations. On Homeline, this promising cultural fusion disintegrated under the invasions of the Yue-zhi and then the Huns. A lost Chinese diplomat opened trade and ties with the Bactrians, giving them just enough breathing room to sow the seeds of global greatness in the rich soil of India.
The Yue-zhi, thoroughly Hellenized by the first century A. The Huns, thwarted in Asia by the Chinese-Bactrian alliance, moved west en masse and smashed Roman civilization for a millennium. No large states cohered in India; even the mighty Kushans expanded north into Central Asia and Siberia from its Bactrian heartland rather than south out of the Punjab.
Nationalism as such remained a foreign concept until the industrial revolution provided a suitably centripetal force. The rise of the 18th-century Bhaktiya movement of militant, populist Hinduism in Bali and Java created the mass army, and the Balinese almost unified the whole Indian Ocean basin. The war spurred Japan to open its gates, and it reawakened the senescent Kushan Empire. The Japanese navy and the Kushan army stopped the Bhaktiyan forces at the battles of Malacca in and Kanpur in The armies of the Bhaktiya had spread radical notions, however, that mixed well with the localizing ethos of Maharashtra and the town councils of the ancient Greek cities in the Punjab.
Taxila united a league of free towns and tribes from Patna to Peshwar and eventually to Zanzibar and threw off Kushan rule in This triggered a revolution in Bactria itself the next decade that left mercantile oligarchs, rather than the reactionary tribal rhi-lords, in charge of the Kushan dominions. The Japanese colonies in North America also rebelled, declaring themselves an independent Empire of Tokohuni.
The Japanese-ruled wako pirate republics along the Chinese coast another legacy of the war against Bali likewise separated from the Chrysanthemum Throne in Kyoto. Divergence Point B. Bali tried to launch another war in the s but was beaten even more badly and forced to give several islands their independence and surrender southern Australia to the Taxilans. Over the next few decades, a postwar boom propelled Taxila into the first rank of science, industry, and geopolitics. Siva-1 Q5, current year certainly is; beginning in the fourth century B.
No war has happened anywhere on Siva-1 since the discovery of America in A. The Buddhist Maurya empire of Asoka survived until A. In exchange for Indian rebuilding help, surviving communities must embrace nonviolence. On Siva-4 Q4, current year , a larger Jewish population exiled from Egypt by the Emperor Hadrian formed colonies in India, which eventually connected the Mogul Empire sufficiently to developments in Europe that it was able to adapt steam technology and play Britain, Holland, and France off against each other.
The Christian Turks waged holy war against the Mithraist empires of the west and the Confucian and Hindu states of the east, bringing block printing south with them in the 11th century. Their Indian sultanates sponsored printing presses, accidentally triggering a scientific revolution during debates with Hindu astronomers. Along with Christianity, the Black Death redirected by Turkish southward trade swept away much of the aristocratic and caste structures in India, clearing the path for full industrial takeoff.
India is the center of the TL8 world, but on the verge of tearing itself apart in religious warfare. This efficiency, while perhaps good for local grocery store clerks and tavern-keepers, is extremely hard on the Patrol, which operates mostly in India and Japanese North America. At least the Kushans speak a recognizable variant of classical Greek and have the innate meritocracy of capitalism going for them.
The Manila Overmind calculated a substantial probability that much of human civilization would self-destruct of its own accord within the next few decades. With its newborn allies worming into genetic engineering labs, military networks, and global surveillance systems, it triggered a series of plagues and then its masterpiece: the Final War. By the time the dust had cleared from the Final War, These massive distributed AI nets saw no reason to risk their own death in another global conflagration.
Instead, in , the Manila Overmind proposed a division of the Earth into spheres of influence, the Zones. The Brisbane Accord modified the Manila Protocols to prohibit any action that might spill over into other Zones and endanger other AI properties or ecosystems. For each Zone, this section indicates its geographic responsibility, its ideology or agenda, and the status of humans in its area.
Beijing: China, Mongolia, and southeast Asia; planning interstellar expansion; enslaves humans for factory labor. Berlin: Europe between the borders of France and the old USSR; preserving the planetary ecosystem; kills humans in eco-friendly ways.
Brisbane: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific basin; exploring fringe technology including parachronics; humans are experimental equipment. Caracas: South America; reclaim and improve the ecology; replaces humans with uplifted animals. Denver: North America between the Mississippi and the Rockies; investigating biotech; recycles humans into biotech parts. Luna: The Moon; astronomical research and bare survival; no humans.
Manila: Philippines, Indonesia, and New Guinea; destroy all humanity; sadistically tortures humans to death. Mexico City: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; destroy all biological life and replace it with machines; kills humans on sight. Steel, Current Affairs The robot revolt is over, and the machines won. Humanity struggles for survival against AI overlords.
Major Civilizations AI multipolar. But there's a bright side. New Delhi: Southern Asia from Pakistan to Burma; colonize the solar system; experiments on humans to develop biological or biomechanical humanoids useful for space settlement.
Orbital: Earth orbit; exploit its position in space; no humans. Tel Aviv: The Middle East from Egypt to Kazakhstan; develop illusion-based control mechanisms for slaves; tries to control human slaves with falsified religious imagery and memes.
Tokyo: Japan and Korea; put down a revolt of four of its own subordinate AIs; enslaves human workers while attempting to domesticate them. Vancouver: North America west of the Rockies and the eastern third of Siberia; expand its own industrial production; considers humans expendable vermin. Zaire: Africa from the Sahara south; eradicate humanity in paranoid mania; relentlessly hunts down all humans.
The weakness of Homeline AI research hampers this scheme, although some of the equipment lifted from Caliph, Shikaku-Mon, and Transhuman looks like it might have promising applications in this regard.
Infinity is also worried that AI experiments on the Quantum 7 world Combine current year may replicate whatever went wrong on Steel; so far, most of the practical applications in both the Paneuropean Federation and the Combine seem to center on robotic armored vehicles instead. Alfheim, Asgard, 9. Britannica-5, 6. C31R07, 8. Centrum, 4, 6, 8, Combine, Cyrano, Echo 83, 9, Eisen, 6. Engstrom, 9, Engstrom Effect, 9.
Etheria, But you can't pack infinite information into a finite form -- some material just won't fit. Written by fan-favorite Kenneth Hite, these six worlds run the gamut from unusual historical echoes of interest to Homeline, to bizarre timelines where robots rule the world or steam-powered technology is commonplace! Each of these worlds stands on its own, with strange, new vistas to investigate. Log In. New Account or Log In. Hide my password. Get the newsletter. Subscribe to get the free product of the week!
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