raharris1973
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Scenario 1: ASB action in 1896:
Australia, NZ, and New Guinea (or at least eastern half) & Bismarcks disappear on Jan. 1 1896. Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, Balearics, Madeira, Canaries, disappear at the same time. All are replaced by impenetrable, impassable, fully reflective stasis* fields/bubbles foor six months, on reappearing in their new locations, at their exact antipodes, on June 1, 1896, to minimize seasonal disruption.
(*stasis means time stands still, thus matter/energy cannot move through areas where the dimension of time is not applying (a stasis field), making it a perfect force field. It's been used in multiple science fiction works. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(fiction))
ASB spell prevents climate disasters and prevents mass panic and madness, that would distract people and countries from carrying on with their normal economic, cultural and political lives. How do the 1890s and turn of the century proceed?
This historical era includes: This is about a year into the Cuban Revolution against Spain, about two months before the beginning of US legislation escalating US participation in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 6 years after the British ultimatum to Portugal, and 8 months before the start of the Filipino revolution. The disappearance of the antipodes occurs at the same time as the Jameson Raid in Transvaal and the Kaiser’s Kruger Telegram the following day. Would the Spanish in Cuba have faced a critical resupply crisis during the homeland’s six month hiatus in time? Would any of the other Spanish and Portuguese colonies, then all momentarily at peace, have broken out into rebellion or declared secession, or been been occupied by third powers during that hiatus? What ability do the Spanish and Portuguese have to reestablish control over their scattered global imperial holdings when they get back from their six months hiatus in time? What does this event do to the possibility of a Spanish-American War, on any front, in the Caribbean or Pacific? What does it do to the prospect of Australian federation and British imperial policy going forward into the 20th century?
Here are maps illustrating the change:
Global view
Close of New Zealand relative to Europe
Close up of Australia & New Guinea relative to the Atlantic & American coasts
"Close-up" of Iberian countries relative to the South and East Pacific and Pacific American coasts
Scenario 2: ASB action in 1932:
Australia, NZ, and New Guinea (or at least eastern half) & Bismarcks disappear on Jan. 1 1932. Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, Balearics, Madeira, Canaries, disappear at the same time. All are replaced by impenetrable, impassable, fully reflective stasis fields/bubbles. For six months, on reappearing in their new locations, at their exact antipodes, on June 1, 1932, to minimize seasonal disruption.
ASB spell prevents climate disasters and prevents mass panic and madness, that would distract people and countries from carrying on with their normal economic, cultural and political lives. How do the 1930s proceed?
Historical era includes: Portuguese Estate Novo, Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War, Australia and New Zealand independence per Statute of Westminster and the early years of the British Imperial Preference non-free trade system, and Britain’s handling of its interwar foreign and defence policy dilemmas and WWII.
No new maps, the geographic change is basically identical, and I am not showing in detail all the world's political borders.
Australia, NZ, and New Guinea (or at least eastern half) & Bismarcks disappear on Jan. 1 1896. Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, Balearics, Madeira, Canaries, disappear at the same time. All are replaced by impenetrable, impassable, fully reflective stasis* fields/bubbles foor six months, on reappearing in their new locations, at their exact antipodes, on June 1, 1896, to minimize seasonal disruption.
(*stasis means time stands still, thus matter/energy cannot move through areas where the dimension of time is not applying (a stasis field), making it a perfect force field. It's been used in multiple science fiction works. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(fiction))
ASB spell prevents climate disasters and prevents mass panic and madness, that would distract people and countries from carrying on with their normal economic, cultural and political lives. How do the 1890s and turn of the century proceed?
This historical era includes: This is about a year into the Cuban Revolution against Spain, about two months before the beginning of US legislation escalating US participation in the Venezuelan boundary dispute, 6 years after the British ultimatum to Portugal, and 8 months before the start of the Filipino revolution. The disappearance of the antipodes occurs at the same time as the Jameson Raid in Transvaal and the Kaiser’s Kruger Telegram the following day. Would the Spanish in Cuba have faced a critical resupply crisis during the homeland’s six month hiatus in time? Would any of the other Spanish and Portuguese colonies, then all momentarily at peace, have broken out into rebellion or declared secession, or been been occupied by third powers during that hiatus? What ability do the Spanish and Portuguese have to reestablish control over their scattered global imperial holdings when they get back from their six months hiatus in time? What does this event do to the possibility of a Spanish-American War, on any front, in the Caribbean or Pacific? What does it do to the prospect of Australian federation and British imperial policy going forward into the 20th century?
Here are maps illustrating the change:
Global view
Close of New Zealand relative to Europe
Close up of Australia & New Guinea relative to the Atlantic & American coasts
"Close-up" of Iberian countries relative to the South and East Pacific and Pacific American coasts
Scenario 2: ASB action in 1932:
Australia, NZ, and New Guinea (or at least eastern half) & Bismarcks disappear on Jan. 1 1932. Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, Balearics, Madeira, Canaries, disappear at the same time. All are replaced by impenetrable, impassable, fully reflective stasis fields/bubbles. For six months, on reappearing in their new locations, at their exact antipodes, on June 1, 1932, to minimize seasonal disruption.
ASB spell prevents climate disasters and prevents mass panic and madness, that would distract people and countries from carrying on with their normal economic, cultural and political lives. How do the 1930s proceed?
Historical era includes: Portuguese Estate Novo, Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War, Australia and New Zealand independence per Statute of Westminster and the early years of the British Imperial Preference non-free trade system, and Britain’s handling of its interwar foreign and defence policy dilemmas and WWII.
No new maps, the geographic change is basically identical, and I am not showing in detail all the world's political borders.