Alternative History

Interstellar Portals - And their effect on history

feeds@yuku.com (Fardell) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:40:35 GMT

The Interstellar Portals

Note: This thread for serious discussion only.

In the years after the sea level stablises at its current OTL level (soon after the beginning of the Holocene, maybe around 9000 BC), ASBs create 99 portals from Earth to similar* life**-bearing...

An announcement regarding my TLs, stories and writings

feeds@yuku.com (King Sargon) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:59:07 GMT

Any stories and timelines I have been working on here or at other sites are now to be found in the Writer's Desk forum since I would prefer them not to be publicly available on this site from now on. To view that forum one needs to be a member of the Stronghold and apply to me in order to view it. I am unlikely to refuse any applications, so feel free to apply, however I would appreciate that if you do apply, you make some efforts to post comments there and/or contribute your own works...

Ottoman Airships... a story intro (ATTN: AHP)

feeds@yuku.com (RCTFI) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:27:32 GMT

This was originally posted on alternatehistory.com, and is being reposted here by the author. This story was originally begun to take up AHP's challenge on that board to create a story where the Ottoman Empire and Turkey did well.

[center][b]Imperial Ottoman Airship Lines Passanger Airship, Odessa shuttle service, over the Black Sea[/b][/center]

The First Class dining area was well lit, and enjoyed a fantastic view of the Black Sea. The entire room had been done up in a grand...

The Oath of Allegiance

feeds@yuku.com (resurrection wolf) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:56:12 GMT

What do people think about it in this story ? Does it sound too much like people are getting married to the King ???

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[b]Berlin
September 4th 1939[/b]

His Majesty's ambassador to Prussia, the Earl of Lymm, shifted nervously on the podium. The embassy canteen had been converted into a meeting hall, and was crowded out for the occasion. Diplomatic functionaries stood at every exit, clipboards in hand, a strange comment on the state of affairs within the British...

A Question on Hannover

feeds@yuku.com (resurrection wolf) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:08:20 GMT

If Hannover had managed to remain outside of the German Empire (posit this any way you wish), what would have happened to the following states :-

Hamburg

Bremen

Oldenburg

Brunswick

The first two look to be more or less cut off from the rest of the German lands by Hannover, so would they have continued as self-governing free-states ?

Oldenburg IIRC is cut in half by Hannover, so if it became part of the German Empire but Hannover didn't how would this...

Cardinal Rampolla becomes Pope

feeds@yuku.com (TomB1) — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:48:06 GMT

I posted this over at Ye Board of Ian but thought it should get aired elsewhere.

in 1903 Pope Leo XIII dies. In the ensuing conclave the leading candidate is the secretary of state Mariano Cardinal Rampolla. Then out of the blue Kaiser Franz Josef exercised his power of exclusion. In OTL another candidate was selected. WI the Cardinals decided it was time to end the exclusion and picked Rampolla anyway--though a minority of Cardinals think this is a mistake.

Rampolla takes the...

The US after a confederate victory

feeds@yuku.com (BaronVonKhrispy) — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:54:12 GMT

what would a US be like after the confederacy leaves? how would politics/culture diverge from ours?

USS Maine does not blow up

feeds@yuku.com (King Sargon) — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:53:02 GMT

I've often wondered what would have happened if the USS Maine had not exploded in harbour, and what this would have meant for a conflict between the US and Spain. Was such a conflict inevitable, and the Maine just the right opportunity (whether manufactured or not) for it to happen? Or could we have seen Japan at some point going to grab the Philippines, which would be an...