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Japhy's Maps in the Wall thread

Japhy

Just when I thought I was out...
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I'm clearly not all that well known for my Maps, but I've done a few over the years and I figure as part of my grand reorganization it would be good to post some here. Some I'm proud of, some are very bland things that are mostly in existance purely for Utilitarian needs.

This one is mostly in existence because I'm terrible at Math for example.

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This is the "fixed" results of the JebvGeorge 2000 Primaries

Grey: Steve Forbes which doesn't matter because Alaska was stripped of its delegates for trying to go ahead of New Hampshire
Red: George W. Bush (757 Delegates won)
Blue: John McCain (624)
Green: Jeb(!) Bush (498) *Puerto Rico not shown
Yellow: Newt Gingrich (82)
Early Losers: 4 Delegates

Steve Forbes dropped out after losing in Deleware, Newt dropped out the day after the March 14th Primaries (Mini-Tuesday though that term had yet to be invented because by then the Primaries were non-competitive anyway) Newt will go on to endorse Jeb(!) which keeps him in a respectable third place even as he doesn't really manage an essential breakthrough, setting himself up as a potential kingmaker going into the 2000 Convention.
 
And then here's my Failed Miserably Universe's World Maps. No Franco Prussian War sees the stage set for a Hollenzollern-Bonapartist detente and eventually Entente.

From The Other Place:

"So a quick overview of things, the Divergence is that Otto Von Bismark unexpectedly dies around the time of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. His successors are caught in an awkward situation and it takes several years for them to regain the absolute standing that he did. In the meantime war with France is pushed off to the side for a few years and by the time Napoleon III dies in late 1874 the ship has sailed. Instead a slow but steady build towards a Franco-German Rapport develops. In 1880 the German Empire is declared with the inclusion of all German states besides Austria, Saxony (A holdover from the 1866 war) and Bavaria. Bavaria will eventually agree to join in 1910 with various exceptions and integration will not be complete by 1916.

In the 1880's the young Emperor of the French following his families long term plan of looking for conflicts to strengthen their domestic position sets upon defeating the African Slave Trade and starts the scramble for Africa with his military operations and colonization of the Congo River Valley. Not that French rule is better then the African colonial average of IOTL, but its also not Leopoldian. Dime novels of French Troops and Legionnaires fighting Omani Slavers in the Great Lakes become a trope for decades to come, the mass of Great Lakes protectorates being one result of this. Franco-Egyptian Darfur being another. Growing Franco-German rapport prevents the British from dominating Egypt and ensures the continual (mostly-)Independence of the Cairo Government for years to come. This in tun will open the door for the British to find another way to secure their lifeline to India, and the minor colonial incidents of IOTL eventually see the British annex Abyssinia and its Imperial Throne becomes Victoria's second title of Empress. A decade after the Young Napoleon's entry into Africa the British will have established dominance in the Horn of Africa, the West African Coast and stealing the thunder of the end of the Great Lakes War, would establish a protectorate over Zanzibar and force it to end its slave trade once and for all.

In Europe the mid 1880's will see troubles in Poland cement a Berlin-Vienna-Budapest alliance structure, with Paris hedging its bets and thus finding itself ever more tied the new power in Europe. the Russians are easily beaten in a humiliating three month war with Lithuania and Poland being detached from the Empire as a result. Revolution breaks out in Russia as a result with the Czar abdicating and a cadet branch of the Romanov's coming to power and forced to create the open democracy of the Duma. Taking a page out of the Hohenzollern and Bonapartist books future Russian Czars will play their own games with this Democracy though, establishing a very Pro-Monarchist and very Reactionary regime using Royal power to set the standards.

The 1890s will see the Franco-German special relationship officially cemented with the Triple Entente between Austria-Hungary, Germany and France. In the aftermath of the 1893 Spanish-American War this new alliance would see the partitioning of Spain's old Empire between the two members that were in a position to take colonies. Britain would be slower to respond but would in 1897 sign an Alliance with Russia, following years of ever-increasing financial investment in that new Empire. Over the coming years similar relationships would be established with Italy and with the Ottoman Sultan, both of whom would also feel under pressure by the New European Order.

The Alliance structure would stay roughly the same for years to follow, war crises would come and go as the Balkans repeatedly tore itself asunder, over Russian Policies in Finland, over the Anglo-German Arms Race, and border disputes between the British and French across the African Continent. Both of the European Alliance Structures briefly worked together during the Great China Mutiny of 1905 which saw the establishment of the Yangtze International Zone, but the good feelings past as each nation squabbled about the cut up of the rest of China.

A decade later the alliance system seemed to be fraying at long last. Franco-German disagreements about the Future of Austria-Hungary and the Ententes policy towards Egypt. On the other hand the Quadruple Alliance, always an unholy sort of thing seemed on the verge of breaking apart in War as the Ottoman Sultan and the Russian Czar threatened to turn the black sea and all of its coasts into a warzone over another damned-fool thing, while Japan, coming knocking again was attempting to court Paris or London for an alliance, which would cause problems for everyone involved. And then some damned thing happens in the Balkans and the whole world explodes.

The story, in both of the previous false-starts I made showed pretty well that the war went very much for the Entente and not for the Alliance, with Entente troops at the gates of London when the story begins and the British Empire falls. I'll have another map for the Settlement of the Treaty of Antwerp that ended the war several years later up eventually. Hopefully to mark the restart of the Project which I hope will make a nice read for everyone."Failed Miserably 1914.png
 
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After the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman war efforts the British fought on, mostly because even for all of the propaganda it was clear that the Entente was falling apart. And had the Franco-German landings been successfully defeated, it would inevitably led to a peace that if not outright favorable, would have been very generous for the British Empire all things considered. Instead with the landings secured a foothold and just as the outskirts of London were coming into the range of Krupp cannons, revolution broke out across the United Kingdom. A ceasefire was called for, the Royal Family was forced into exile and two competing British Republics would seek supremacy over the other.

In Ireland John Connolly led the declaration of a Social Republican Government. In India in what seemed like a flash the Second Mutiny was not only on, but effectively victorious, a mishmash of returned exile, troops who once took the Emperor's Shilling, local upsets, anarchist and marxian philosophers, Imperial Bureaucrats who saw which way the wind was blowing, Princes gone rogue, peasants who killed princes. India is too strong to take down but too weak to get its act together, leadership of any sort is currently sought. But she is free. In the final treaty the Dominions were required to sever all ties with the Mother Country, some like South Africa embraced this newfound independence with ease and dreams of their own Empires. Others, like Newfoundland didn't do so well. The Canadian Republic is stable and has done the natural thing, turning towards the United States when looking for a friendly face. West Australian Free State and the Union of Australia and the State of New Zealand all saw governments and major parties collapse in the aftermath of the British Revolution but they are all still, at least, Democracies, though disunited in their ideas as to what comes next. Sierra Leone, the colony closest to being a Dominion, not that it would have ever been allowed has found itself occupied by the French but in a fit of Fancy, Kaiser Wilhelm has insisted that it be transferred over to Liberia, Napoleon V, heir to his father's empire built on Anti-Slavery Campaign after Anti-Slavery Campaign could hardly say no. And for that France gobbled up as much as it could of British Africa and Asia beyond that without too much trouble. Germany enjoyed its more congruous empire of control and influence. Both agreed to see International Control over the Chinese concessions, finally seeing the light of the Open Door, mostly. Both agreed on the other hand to put as much pressure as they could on the Indian Federation, as dreams of a partition gave way to force assuring concession ports in the hands of both. In the end though Britain was left with nothing save Rockall. The Empire would never be allowed to avoid the sunset. Only in the Americas was there an upset, and that wasn't even British in the making, but saw American President Roosevelt disregard the Peace Treaty which America was not apart of. France's fleet which was to have seen the Tricolor raised over Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guyana and the rest of the British Caribbean instead arrived to see the United States either establishing republics, seeing direct annexation under the Stars and Stripes or in the case of the Falklands or British Honduras, their transfer to local American nations which had contested them for years, all under the guise of the Monroe Doctrine, stretched out in a new way to declare that there would be no Colonial Transfers in the Americas.

Britain's Allies fared little better. Serbia found itself under a Hapsburg monarch with lands gained at the cost of all of its freedom. Italy lost its colonial empire and territories in its north to both France and the Hapsburg dominions.

The Ottoman Empire, was forced to admit the fact that it had started the war to avoid, that Constantinople was now Czargrad. Furthermore it saw its Arabian, Armenian, and Kurdish territories ripped away. The Sultan, forced to go so far as to give the Germans territorial concessions was at least able to content himself that his new status as a Protectee of the German Kaiser was a fate also shared by all of his former subjects save those in French Lebanon and that the coming Berlin-to-Baghdad railway would serve his subjects and former subjects as well if not better as it would the new Imperialists.

Japan, "The Ally that got away" had used her escape clause in 1916 and avoided being dragged into the world war, though both the Coalition and the Entente would spend years of rough and passionate wooing trying to see her come in on the right side. For this she was allowed to go though with her long-standing wish to outright annex her virtual-protectorate in Korea (Note: I failed to show Korean Independence continuing in the last map, my bad)

And lastly there was Russia. The dynamic leadership of the Cadet Romanov's had done wonders in the decades leading to the Great War, the Duma had handed democracy to the people; and seen the Czars castrate it on a level that the monarchs of the Entente could hardly dream of. It had seen Industry and Railroad construction on a level never before seen allowing mobilization of the Russian Steamroller at the speed of the German Armies; which had allowed so many more troops to be obliterated and captured right from the start of the war. the Mediterranean supply line obliterated frome the get go Russia had struggled throughout the war and been the first of the major allies to fall and seek terms with the Entente. When it did so it saw Germany and Austria Hungary carve out new kingdoms and Norway-Sweden become the first of the two Post-War Triple Monarchies. This defeat, and the nature of the Parliamentary Pseudo-Democracy led to the outbreak of Civil War in 1919. On one hand the Cadet Branch has fallen back to Moscow and maintains a hold over the core of Russia. On the other hand, forces loyal to the newly empowered political movement: Russian Action. RA are traditionalists who stand behind the Church and the Aristocracy, popular with the army and peasants it seeks to restore the old Main Line Romanov's to the throne from their exile in Greece. RA holds Petrograd and a main line of resistance in the Urals. Cadet control of Siberia beyond that is... tenuous at best ad more and more resources from the vastness of the Empire are heading towards the Armies of God and the Czar. The Cossacks, also risen in the Don basin have completed the encirclement of the Moscow Government, they remain aloof though, they are open to working with the Entente and do, befitting massively from it which enrages the RA leadership though Cossack victories and territories gained mean they are well aware of the fact that dealing with these petty-traitors is necessary to deal with the traitors of blood. Not to mention more recent and violent treason. Mistakes were made, officers were sent south into Central Asia, hoping to call upon another faith to raise ranks for their cavalry armies against the godlessness of the False Czar. These officers rallied behind a man from the Baltic Provinces lost to the enemy. This officer raised his new armies but seems to have lost his mind.

Also worth pointing out at this point, even as the Peace Treaty is getting signed and the Entente are getting ready to enjoy the massive profits of the indemnity they have placed on Britain, the heart of the global economy, that economy is already fracturing. Chaos is a bad thing for markets and thanks to US Neutrality policy its not like Wall Street is half ready to lead the global economy. Berlin, where Inflation was the easily embraced way to fund the war surely wasn't. Teetering Vienna can only replace the setting in finery, and Paris has too much Imperialist and Royalist intrigue in its banking houses to be a great place for a global financial capital. Basically the whole system is about to collapse on itself, not that anyone has realized it yet.

I'll get around to doing one more of this series for here, which will show the world stage at the point of the "Reichstag Fire". Being as I still have to write the timeline, though I have it mostly plotted out it will be less definitive then either this map or the other but I'll call it a 1.0 version and we can all see if anything changes eventually. "
 
And here was the previous plan for what the world at the Reichstag Fire looks like, though this is pretty open to change

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Lastly some real old stuff that I like because one is my favorite AH short story and the other one is just fun.

"Empire" Map

Right, so here in the Munroist style is my next AH map, this one being of the world of the 2002 Sideways Award Winning short-story “Empire” by William Sanders. For those whom haven’t read Alternate Generals II, “Empire” is set in a world where after the end of his Corsican adventure Napoleon by chance takes a ship to the United States, and eventually involves himself in a successful Burr Plot. Things happen, and Napoleon is the crowned head of an unnamed empire centered in New Orleans, and Burr is dead. If you haven’t read it, go, it’s worth it.
The map anyway, is set before the short story, at the high water mark of Napoleon’s Empire. The Republic of France continues to hold out, against irregular Coalitions assembled against it, with its main war at the moment being in Spain, though it still is willing to issue letters of Marquis against anyone who opposes it, especially the English, much to the benefit of American and Mississippian Privateers. In spite of a less dramatic French Republic, Germany is still pretty messed up, with a French Buffer Republic of the Rhine cutting across old borders and forcing a lot of the smaller states to try and figure out, what orientation they should take, between Prussia and Austria, that question incidentally has slowed any operations against France from the Germanys down to a Crawl.
Meanwhile in the Americas...
When the French invaded Spain, their ally in New Orleans looked south and said that Mexico was a rotten house that would cave in when the door was kicked open, and thus invaded. It took a year to make it from the Cajun Districts to Mexico City, a long hard fought year, but in the end, l’Emperor was able to crown his Brother Joseph the Ruler of all of Mexico. Surprisingly the people of Mexico and the Spanish that were in the Viceroyalty did not approve of this so much, and from those areas still unconquered by the Mississippians came forces loyal to the Spanish Crown, to the local strongman, to an idea of a free Mexican State. They hate each other, but they hate the Bonaparte’s a slight bit more, and refuse to give up the fight. Mexico has become a war of ambush and murder, as the Mississippian troops there fight tooth and nail for survival when they once fought for the nice land grants of Tejas they have been promised by their monarch, his brother, and by their much loved Marshals, Jackson and the late Pike.
The War of Independence as the Mississippians call it, or the Western War as the “Yankees” have come to call it, causes some serious problems for the United States. Jefferson’s failure to buy Louisiana, or to keep his Vice President and some Army Officers from tearing the nation in two, unsurprisingly cost him a second term. President George Clinton would come into office, accepting that the West was for now, not destined to be American. There was a growing issue over the Embargo Act that Jefferson had passed in response to the European War, but when the New England States threatened to leave the Union like their Western Cousins had, Clinton backed down, just short of a shooting war. Now the country is redefining itself, with dashes of Nationalism and by kicking up a fuss to hold onto Franklin and Washington the two states in the disputed border regions with Napoleon.
Canada was a third issue. Napoleon’s empire always had the lowest support in the Northwest territory, but that didn’t stop a small number of Rabble Rousers in Nova Scotia and Quebec from causing trouble. That, the military-based settlement of Lowermost and Upper Canada (OTL New Brunswick and Ontario), and the increased number of immigrants to Canada now that the United States has no more room to Expand and Napoleon is a radical, has led the British Crown to attempt a Canadian Version of the Albany Plan of Union for its colonies in the North, this is paying off now that Napoleon has invaded, and a French Naval Squadron is somewhere in the Atlantic probably heading for Quebec, as Canadian volunteer regiments are pouring in and guerrillas have not given up the fight. The Canadian House of Commons now in Halifax has been able to convince Americans to come aid it as its own regiments and Redcoats fight a tide.
And while the Emperor leads his legions ever northward up the St. Lawrence valley, intent on taking Quebec with French naval support and wintering in that city, trouble has begun in his rear. Tecumseh, an Indian leader in the north of his Empire is raising a banner of revolt, having once found sanctuary in Canada and now in Washington State, his small band travels from village to village, and increased skirmishing has led to warning from local commanders, who doubt they can keep the supply line open for the Emperor from the Mississippi, their calls though are being ignored, as the Emperor is sure to find supplies and support from the cities of Lower Canada, moaning under Anglo-Oppression.
Lastly is the issue of Haiti, (Which I have added) for when the Slaves of Haiti threw off their French Slavemasters, they found themselves not only at war with distant and besieged Revolutionary France but with a whole world that feared the idea of a nation founded by Slave Revolt. Amongst those whom feared it was the Empire of Mississippi whom as a French Ally was willing and able to do something about it. The Coastal Cities were conquered quickly but the Republic of Haiti was a harder thing to kill then that, since then an unpleasant race war has dragged on, with the Empires small merchant marine being used almost exclusively to support the Army on the island of Hispaniola, and to ship back the profits of the newly reestablished Slave Plantations there.
As the ruler who claims all from San Francisco Bay to the Atlantic coast of Florida sits in his chilly tent outside of Quebec though, victory seems assured. He has never been defeated before, no alliance of chaos in Mexico, no slaves of Haiti, no outnumbered British in Canada will defeat him, and who knows what will come after the conquest of North and South are settled? Perhaps then, his enlightened rule will be able to march over the Cumberland Gap, and bring in the Yankee South into his domain, surely the Aristocrats of the Carolinas can see the advantages of joining the most powerful Empire this continent has ever seen…

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The 8th Day of May.

Just a map I've thrown together, based on the events of the novel and classic Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas movie "Seven Days in May" both from the early 1960's but set in a vision of the 1970's where no counter culture ever developed, the cultural 50's continued, and while there was no war in Vietnam, the US and USSR fought a war in Iran that was similar to the one in Korea, and the unpopular but legal government of the US came close to being overthrown by Air Force General, and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, James Mattoon Scott, when the president proposed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Russians. In the book and the movie, Scott’s Marine Corps Aid while opposed to the President’s plan stands with the Constitution and helps cut the legs out of the military coup before it ever happens. Here, “Jiggs” Casey was just another casualty of the Iran War and General Scott and his Cabal were able to overthrow the government with disastrous results. Of course, I’ve tweaked some things around to fit in my vision of what the 1970’s would have looked like, and the aftermath of Scott.
The Soviet Reaction of Scott was quick, panicked, and remarkably restrained. The few Soviet ICBMs that had yet to be disarmed flew off aiming for any known or suspected American Missile Silo, the Post-Khrushchev government in Moscow ordered the population into Bomb shelters as it avoided American Missile Bases, Scott, while interested in attacking Soviet Military Force, did not show such restraint towards the cities of Russia. As bombers and rockets flew towards nuclear hell, the one advantage was that the US and Soviet Union weren’t the only nations to have signed the disarmarment treaty. Britain, the People’s Republic of China, India (Who had had a lovely 1962-1968 eventually nuclear war with the Chinese in the mountains), France, Australia, Israel and Yugoslavia all signed as well, and no one was happy that the US had just become a dictatorship and was revoking the treaty. With the exceptions of Taiwan, Canada (Who didn’t REALLY have a choice before its artic stations were getting hit to bring down NORAD’s network), Turkey, the United Arab Republic, South Iran and Pakistan who had fought in the “Iranian War” in the late 60’s, the only places that stood with Scott, were places in Allied Country where Pro-Scott US troops went rouge, with disastrous results for their hosts. Eventually, some brave American Officer set off one of the stored, small-yield nuclear bombs that were in Scott’s command center, Mount Thunder and the third world war came to a whimpering end, with several millions dead, mostly in the United States and Soviet Union.
The years since the war have been trying for the world. In America President Lyman did not survive the coup, nor did a large portion of the non-Cabal members of Congress, In 1974 the one term president John Kennedy was returned to office in an emergency election, since then, the United States has developed an isolationist streak as it seeks to rebuild itself and its credibility. Social Programs continued to grow under Presidents Lodge, King, and Moynihan, but hard Libertarian parties and militias have developed in the western states hardest hit by the war, in the 1984 Presidential Election the leading issue was that of nullification and the Colorado and Montana Resolutions. The Soviet Union was forced to do a similar withdrawal from the world and even some of its member Republics. The Shevardnadze Regime has liberalized, on some fronts, as a free market has been introduced in some cities, such as Vladivostok and Leningrad (Once more the Capital), while at the same time, trying to rebuild cities in the ‘Stans and fight a nasty Islamic Insurgency there in. Control is only maintained due to the support of North Iran and the Afgan Peoples Republic.
In Europe, the Three German states united to form a non-alligned and disarmed state. On each side of them a more powerful European Alliance (The former Pro-US West) and the Confederation of European States (The Former Soviet Bloc, generally) serve as duel associations, teeing economics and military defense together, while giving stern looks at the former superpowers. In China, Mao and the hardliners died in the midst of China’s great victory, while the cities on the coast were destroyed in a Nuclear Hell, and Taiwan met a similar fate, reunification did occur. Not that anyone is too happy in China, where the technocrats in charge are trying to create a real socialist state without the fun of mass starvation, and to keep the former Soviet puppets they took over in line.
The once-superpowers aren’t quite done though, In Soutwest Africa/Namibia there is a nasty little spat going on between the two least decent of the superpowers clients, and South Africa and the African Front led by the- since 1963 -People’s Republic of Zaire are starting to shoot at each other. While the great fear is, that without nuclear stockpiles anymore, such a war might grow too large, and draw both nations into a painful slugging match. Hopefully though, the memory of the War of 1974 will keep them from taking a plunge into WWIV.

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