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Thanks guys.
Anyway, first of the suggested divergences.
The divergence between our world and the world designated Sigma- 018 occurred in 1861, when the Union navy failed to secure their naval blockade of the Confederate ports, meaning that the Confederate states could still export their goods, maintaining their economy for long enough to win the decade long war. When a peace treaty was eventually signed in 1871, there was no reunion of states, the Confederate States Of America and the United States Of America were both recognised as separate countries. Neither country became exceptionally powerful on the world stage over the next 50 years, the Confederate Staes lost their main trading partner when Great Britain announced they were to stop trading with slave based economies, whilst the United States was powerless to prevent the Germany defeating its allies in the first world war (a war that the Confederate States remained neutral in). Whilst the United States gained a large amount of international standing by siding with Germany, France and Britain in the second world war against Russia, and defeating the Japanese in the Pacific War, the Confederate States became more and more isolated, only banning slavery in 1950. However, the former slaves where still treated as second class citizens, unable to vote or receive the same pay as a white person. This came to a head in the 1960’s, when the United Negro Army, lead by a former Pastor called Martin Luther King Jr. declared war on the Confederate government, plunging the Confederate States into a state of civil war. When Luther King was assassinated in 1968, his deputy Malcolm Little became leader of the UNA, but he was captured and jailed some 5 years later. However, by the 1990’s the Confederate government was under increasing international pressure for it’s human rights abuses and was forced to release Little, who, in 1994, became the first black President of the Confederate States of America, ending segregation and amending the constitution to give black citizens equal rights to white citizens.
@AoL- Thanks
@Harlekin- I see what you mean, but it wasn’t an influence. EIther way, glad you like it.Anyway, I’m having fun with alternate realities, so lets go find another one.
In reality designate Beta- 187, the world diverged from our reality in the year 1780, when Great Britain crushed the American Uprising. For the next hundred years Britain was unchallenged as the worlds major international power, conquering a fifth of the worlds landmass and controlling nearly a third of the trade. However, the unification of Germany and it’s extraordinarily quick industrialisation caused tensions, especially due to the challenge Germany posed to British colonial supremacy in Africa. Eventually these tensions spilled over into war when Germany attempted to annex the mineral wealth of Southern Rhodesia from the British in 1903. This led to a war in both Europe and Africa, with Germany invading France and Belgium in order to prevent the British Army from gaining control of the British Channel and it’s main supply routes, whilst also having to fight Britain’s ally Russia in the east. The British navy proved ineffective at preventing the German navy blockading the island and the war in Africa and France was deadlocked in trench warfare, which lead to the development of Tanks, military aircraft and submarines as early as 1907. Eventually, in 1916, Britain and its allies overcame Germany and at the peace conference Germany was all but eliminated as a state, being divided between the British, Russians and French. However, the war had taken its toll on the Russians, who had only carried on fighting through sheer strength of numbers, and in 1917 the Russian peasantry overthrew their rulers, sparking off a decade of revolutions throughout Europe, in France, Austro-Hungary and Britain. Whilst the British revolution was crushed by the army, in Europe a new communist super state was established under the rule of one of the Russian revolutionary leaders, Leon Trotsky, which combined the former French, Germany and Russian empires and their overseas colonies. To counter this threat, the British establishment took all of its technological advances and captured enemy scientists and prepared its self for another war, a war of idealism. When the war did erupt, with the British Rhineland being overrun by the United European Soviet State, the British army invaded Dunkirk and was soon pushed back by the sheer numbers of the UESS army. However, the British decided to utilise their secret weapon, the Atomic Bomb, and in 1940, they dropped it on the UESS capitol in Berlin.
Anyway, moving on.
On a parallel Earth, known as Nightworld, live alternate races of all Earth creatures known as Endlings. Apart from the obvious visual differences, pure white or black skin, red eyes and jagged teeth, Endling are slightly stronger and faster than their counterparts in our world. In Nightworld most colours do not exist, everything is black, white or red, meaning the sky and sea are red, trees are black and the grass is snow white. Other than the physical differences, nothing is different, the world’s history is exactly the same as ours, as are the “people”.
You know when sometimes you get an idea stuck in your head that won’t go away. Well this was one of those times.
Stupid I know, but my mind works like that. I think I shall call it a “Herbie”.
