Recent content by Darkest

Awesome, good to see you back and motivated Atom. :)

I definitely encourage you keep to your original goal and focus most of your attention on Australasia (which reminds me, have you made any statements concerning New Guinea/Polynesia?) but the butterfly net cannot hold forever. Not that you need to do a lot of work on these other regions, but I'd...

That is a delicate question. I'm of the persuasion that this hypothesis is false... but politics and ideology might be coloring my opinion. I would definitely encourage agnosticism on that point. Eh, the map might be wrong. I shouldn't have left my atlas back in the dorm room for the holidays...

The Babylonians will have to get through Persia first, and that is going to take at least a decade if not longer. The Walker War(s) took a lot out of the country, and if any of the victorious powers make a move on Persia, they are going to have to work in concert or risk infighting over power...

Interesting. Is there a comparable food group somewhere in the world with the same requisites? Using these parameters, it wasn't difficult to draw up a map of all the regions that would benefit from new Australian crops. The red areas in the map below have an average annual rainfall of 250 to...

I'm thinking that WWIII breaks out, say, during the Suez Crisis, if not in the midst of the Korean War. Then again, Kruschev might not be the one to engineer a war of expansion, I could be misreading this. To be sure, however, Japan will be divided between the Allies and the Soviets.

Really? I don't remember that. I know such excerpts were present, but I thought they had dates like 50 A.E. The Republic of Nantucket is growing at a pretty good pace. The 'World Report' says that their population is to double every 15-20 years this century. Eventually, the Outports aren't...

Didn't the RoN establish some kind of Monroe Doctrine over the Western hemisphere? I believe it will be Alba that will prove the future superpower. It is the people of the Alban Alliance that are becoming the most exposed to Nantucket technology and culture. Because of this they are...

Here is an excerpt from S.M. Stirling regarding demographics that I found fascinating.

I too have awaited this new timeline of yours with great expectation. It looks like its going to be a wild, fun ride! Thanks for taking up the project! I do like the idea of the butterfly-net around Australasia until the early 1600s. Good call. Question: These now-domesticated dryland crops...

We need to move fast with the requirements placed on us, and that means advancing the Byzantine Empire like crazy. I mean, the guys had a good enough grasp of chemistry to invent Greek fire. Perhaps this inspires some kind of scientific renaissance. The Islamic world is a good target for such a...

Antireligious! Please make that P.C., my friend. A good twelve million believe otherwise, donchaknow. If President Woodruff did not make the claim the he had witnessed a revelation to end polygamy, then there will definitely be a longer period of time before Utah becomes a state. Mormons fight...

I made this timeline on that exact POD (well, Kai-shek dies in an early offensive, and as such they win in 1930). Jiangless

I'm sorry. I should have said 'third world' or 'developing' foreign countries. No, I will say that they do not have an affect on First World countries, particularily the West, as they are not involved in any charitable public works. But assignment to developing countries usually includes...

I'm not talking about US missionaries, but Mormon ones. Entirely different.