Travel Guides #9 to #12 by OttoVonSuds, literature
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Travel Guides #9 to #12
9) Non-Colonized
The exact divergence is unclear, but this is a world where more states than OTL managed to avoid European domination. Theorists from Center believe that the POD happens to be napoleonic, although the success of the Boer republics due to increased population also indicates a mid 18th century POD. At any rate, divergences began appearing in the early napoleonic wars -- Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo all won independence 1800-1810 while elements of the French royal family pulled a Brazil and fled to a Haiti that was somehow spared revolution.
The 19th century from then on followed a trend much like OTL, with the notable d
5) Reich-3
A paranoid, largely authoritarian world that's defined by the ongoing three-way cold war between the Anglo-American-Indian alliance, the Russo-Chinese EastBloc and Nazi-led New Europe. Halifax got in, secured a white peace while the USSR-Germany bled themselves white by 1947, especially after the Japanese leadership decided to declare war in response to Soviet arms being found with chinese rebels. This proved to be a rather unwise decision, as the Soviet Union was willing to continue the war until 95% of Japan had died under continual firebombing raids.
By the mid-late 1950s, the world configuration had been set up. There was the
In most of the connected multiverse, Octover 29 1962 is not a particularly important date. On a small band of 61 worlds, it stands out as quite possibly one of the most important ones of history, since on that day in 61 different worlds a strange anomaly appeared on the horizon on 12:00 AM GMT. The difference between these worlds, as discovered through intra-universal communications is which second of that minute the mirror cube appeared in Earth's sky from 11:59:59 to 12:00:60.
Following phone calls or other notifications, the leaders of nations on 61 earths turn their eyes skyward to the mirrorcube. This is just in time to see the shock a
1) Post-Industrial-1
The year is 27,512. Industrial civilization, along with both the failed attempts to reindustrialize and the varous salvage civilizations that followed it ended in failure long ago for a mix of complex environmental, economic and simply resource-based reasons.
A second high civilization exploiting both ruins and much of the remaining resources led by the heirs of the west, in Latin America along with a China that had gone back to being ruled by Emperors during the long night failed again. A third such civilization, now using both ruins and esoteric technologies to use fusion power failed yet again, but unlike the previo