fanofeverything25
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hm more cabinet history? and a supreme court/senate/gubernatorial history?
Relation to the Previous Claimant: Very likely the daughter of Adam and Lilith.
i am definitely excited.What is Shine Like A Starlight?
Well, as a colour-scheme-based map it’s going to be a bit inconsistent, but the basic concept is basically this.
Colonisation of the Americas somehow at some level fails. No Columbian exchange, or a drastically weakened version. This allows for the many surviving indigenous polities one sees on a colour scheme.
This together with a subtly different Europe leads to economic crisis compounding on the religious civil wars and Europe basically retreats from the world for a bit. In the end, the European Imperium wins and unites the continent behind its ‘Rationalist Autocracy’. This is basically a very warped version of the Enlightenment, one far more darker and without its more liberating aspects.
What is the European Imperium?
Well, I imagine it came out of the Holy Roman Empire and somehow the Byzantine Empire as well. Maybe a Chalcedonian reunification in an attempt to forge a counter-reformation before it ends up making a deal with Protestants or something, the final and most ‘true’ form of translatio imperii so to speak. The Imperium ends up taking advantage of disunity elsewhere to ensure it is the sole European power – via deals, bribery, incorporation and what have you – benefited by the fact that the ‘western powers’ sank lots of money into failed colonisation.
The Imperium in the 18th century – with Europe finally reunited – pushes for a ‘renewed’ colonisation effort, motivated by a belief that the failure of colonisation the first time caused the European Civil Wars [as they are called in ATL]. There is a strong desire to conquer the world – EIOU – Europae est imperare orbi universo, aka: all the world is subject to Europe.
Unfortunately for the world, the Imperium proves successful for quite a while. Lots of conquest, lots of colonisation, lots of horrid war crimes I don’t think is necessary to cover here. Just know it’s bad. But by 2020, the Imperium is facing lots of rough waters, it’s pushed to its breaking point, radical anti-imperial ideologies are spreading and there’s increasingly cracks everywhere.
The imperium is fading, the time is come to account it for its crimes.
Technology by 2020 is, I would say, roughly 100 years behind OTL – so expect a lot of dieselpunk stuff, I would say. Socially, it probably seriously varies to be honest, I need to somehow justify a lot of stuff here, this is a world expressly constructed to justify a lot of stuff one sees in colour schemes after all, unlike TABE where it was kind of post hoc and inconsistent.
I do hope you all like what I have planned.