User talk:Red VS Blue

Superpowers Timeline
If anyone has comments or additions they would like to make in regards to my Superpowers ATL, they can be directed here. Red_VS_Blue 11:34, 8 November 2009

Proposition
First I'd like to thank you for your kind words. I was so scared it was going to undo one of your edits to the TL, and there goes our friendly messaging :)
 * But yes, yes, yes, I'd love to help you. I was going to ask you if I could make a page for Achaea, but it's better you asked me first! I just have to finish up my Spanish studies and dinner is on its way, but I'm here and ready.

John, aka Mr.Xeight 00:00, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

Flag
Oh, Red, you've truly outdone yourself a million times over! Your flag is absolutely great, if I were an alternate-Earth Roman citizen I'd be proud to say that is my flag! Mr.Xeight 16:43, December 19, 2009 (UTC)

Why thank you :) I'm glad it was worth the hours of work I put into it. Though I'm very grateful for your idea of integrating the Palaiologos into the design, the plain eagle I had before that was bothering me haha. Anyway, how's your ideas for the Achaea page going :)

Oh, I was also wondering if I could have your opinion on the verisimilitude of my new geopolitical goals page, I'm still wondering if it's a worthwhile addition to the timeline.

Thank you once again! :) Red VS Blue 16:54, December 19, 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, Achaea. I was thinking of somehow stopping any sort of Grecian Revolt, that way Greece wouldn't lose favor in the eyes of Rome and would continue to grow. Then Greek history would parallel Byzantine history; until Mankizert. Now the Greeks would have lierally all of Europe to defend its borders, the Seljuk Empire would be reduced to a shadow of itself, and the Greek provinces would continue to grow and thrive. Eventually Greek businessmen would hightail it to the New World in order to make some big bucks (well aureui), bringing Greek peasants as debt slaves and regular slaves as well, real slaves. The Greek merchants' business in their homeland might be replaced by other business from across the Empire, so there might be more of a cultural blend, but I doubt no more than Greece's population in our world, 99% Greek, 1% something else :D


 * And I read your Geopolitics page, and it gave me a hige insight, especially on how sinister Japan was, and still is. Just a question; how did Japan get to annex Cuba, and why did Roman (the clear ruler of the Caribbean) allow it?

Mr.Xeight 04:40, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

Mm yes, I did write a Grecian Revolt in the Timeline, at the time I figured that Greece would be a very independent province and was rather likely to attempt a large rebellion. I can retcon it out, I was planning on adding a more precise timeline soon, so it's good you mentioned that now, or else I'd have to delete a bunch of paragraphs haha. I completely agree that the Greek province should dominate Mediterranean business, and Asian business due to proximity to the Suez and the Black Sea, and of course their connection to the sea would deeefinitely lead to colonizing the New World by Greeks. As for the ethnic percentages of Greece, I figured it would constitute a Roman-Greek and pure Greek blend. The Romans would definitely attempt to "colonize" one of their most prosperous regions, i.e. Greece. I just imagine that the Romans would be pretty extensive in their taking over of lands, much worse than OTL European colonists. That's just some food for thought anyway.


 * Hahaha yes well Japan needs that outlook just to have been able to survive being neighbors to the mighty Mongols. The Japanese got Cuba at the end of the Cubaguan Civil War in the 60's. Rome would allow them to have it as they wouldn't want to carry up the immense cost of integrating it into the Empire, especially after the island's capital was devastated by a nuke. The Japanese obviously would want it to create more living space for their crowded population and to move into the American (well Columbian :P) markets on the Atlantic side.

I do enjoy proving the plausibility of my timeline, so if you find anything else which seems a bit off, or wrong, please ask about it :) It's a big help to the timeline. Red VS Blue 02:11, December 24, 2009 (UTC)

I am so sorry I did not respond to your question earlier, a terriblebout of melancholy and sloth has set into me, I can't do much of anything for more than a minute lately. :(
 * I like what you have on Greece, though for me to ask for you to remove a Greek Revolt would be against the Alternate-Historian's Code of Honor, I do not mean to move in and establish a Helleni-wank Timeline. Besides my sibconscious nationalism peaking through my alt-history writer exterior, we work well IMO. Would you care to work on a timeline with me? I've been trying to get some partners for my "Genghis Khan Who?" Timeline. It's about East-Asian powers colonizing the world themselves, and eventually (just like in RL) the Rise of Europe. However, us stuffy Europeans have more competition, and when our colonization of the world starts, we find some very pertrbed Asians who don't particularly want competition. I'd like to stress we'd be equals in the timeline, nothing gets added without the other, no one has the final-say, we simply negotiate and finetune the oth person's work. What do you say? :D

Mr.Xeight 02:53, January 3, 2010 (UTC) Mr.Xeight 02:53, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

I just posted some ideas about Genghis Khan Who?, I'm about to move them to the AH's page. Feel free to criticize when you see it :) Mr.Xeight 23:40, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for cleaning that up. For some reason I always get the message that anything before the last edit is too old to revert. But thanks again! I thought about the AH, and I believe my old work to be too ASBish. I'd like to have a clean slate on the AH and us three work together on it, you're not getting off the hook on this one :) Just kidding, John Mr.Xeight 22:32, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, no problem. You're lucky I just happened to get on right then and there :P

Ok, sounds like a plan then. I'm a little bit busy in general, but I'll try to get on when I can, check out what's new, and offer my own input. I can't imagine it'll be too taxing. Red VS Blue 22:45, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Help?
Hey, would you like to help me create at least one article for my time-line? I currently need the articles of the four battles of the First Silk War (XI: Serica & Romanum) done... would you please help? Main details of the battles can be found on the First Silk War page as well. If you accept, please put the conflict infobox templates in the articles as well. At least one article would be helpful. Tinier details of the battles are up to you. Are you knowledgeable about Russian history and culture, by the way?

Well alright, as long as it has a good structure. I can pay you back by making an article for you on the next vacation.

And yes, the overall war article is complete. You can comment on it and suggest changes if you like, as we are partners.

Superpowers
I just had a little too much free time when I was wandering around Althistory Wiki, and I suddenly stumbled upon your Time-line. I read parts of it, I noticed there was something not quite right. Gunpowder was not discovered from rocks, it was (and still is) made with sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate, and sometimes with honey. Besides that, it's nice.Kagemoto vi Brooklyn 22:04, January 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * haha As might be noticed, to an ancient person, those look like rocks. Ya, at the time I wasn't going to put that, but I figured it would be weird if I said that an ancient mesoamerican was experimenting with solid materials, rocks just flowed nicely (figuratively flowing of course :P) I'm glad to see you like my timeline, and if you notice anything else that seems not quite right, feel free to ask :) I'm working on improving it and constructive criticism goes a long way to that end. Red VS Blue 22:41, January 13, 2010 (UTC)

Your war articles are amazing! Well, perhaps I can help you with some articles over the weekend... any suggestions? 1/14 is my birthday, so I expect the teachers to be nice to me and give me less homework (the chances are slim to none though...). You're very talented, we can reach the stars together (or something like that, I'm not very good with idioms).Kagemoto vi Brooklyn 03:43, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

Does slavery in this timeline exist to this day? If so, are Africans (African-Americans) enslaved? --Catherine 00:46, January 18, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't see your comment earlier Kagemoto. Though if you ever have any ideas that would work well with my timeline, feel free to put them forward. Either on an article talk page specifically, or right here on my own discussion page.

Catherine, you can read more about the status of slavery in my timeline here Geopolitics. It does still exist, but is on a decline due to economic factors. Also, they would be Africans (Africanus in Latin), African-American is the "politically correct" term used by the media. It certainly doesn't apply to Africans living in Europe in a timeline with no America.

Superpowers is a featured TL
Congratulations, Superpowers is now a featured TL of the wiki. The portal page of the TL can now showcase the featured timeline template and the TL will also have a chance to show up on the main page of the wiki for an entire month. Before that can happen I need a short summary of the TL from you, plus any links or pics you want to appear with the summary. Featured TLs are chosen at random to appear on the main page, so I am not able to tell you right now when it will happen. Mitro 22:19, March 28, 2010 (UTC)

Hi there Mitro. I have a picture that you can use for the main page, it's just a map for my timeline in the year 2000, so it's not on any other page yet. Not that it matters. Anyway, I'll be typing up the written part later this week, probably...There's no hurry for it though, am I correct?

Red VS Blue 23:45, March 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah take your time. The next two months are spoken for so you have some time. Mitro 23:59, March 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Remember when I said there was no hurry? Well the random selector has picked Superpowers to show up on the main page for the month of June. So please get me that written summary asap or else I am going to have to write one myself. Mitro 14:25, April 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh damn. Okay well here goes =>

Superpowers

It is the year 2000. A millennia old Roman Empire continues to tighten its grip over all the continents, nearly complacent in its virtual shield of space technologies. The Japanese merchants control the seas and influence the world's markets to best serve their Emperor's interests. Meanwhile the once mighty Platonist Socialism movement is still burned into everyone's memory following the destruction caused by the latest World War only a decade ago. Though all is not necessarily moving towards the better. The vast Mongol World Empire is catching up to the Alliance of Earth in technology and seems ready to even fight and win, should a pitched battle ever be fought. This stalemate is only kept in check by the atomic weaponry pointed right at the heart of the Mongol empire.

This is the world of Superpowers. A detailed history going back almost two thousand years and covering three points of divergences across each major continent. Centuries of technological advancements from automatic crossbows, and 18th Century Radio, to kinetic space artillery and laser rifles have been made and three World Wars over three hundred years fought for reasons as varied as colonialism to socialism. Everything has changed in a world that is almost alien from our own Earth as is the Moon. Though I hear the Moon's a nice place to visit this time of the month...


 * Timeline
 * Nations
 * Geopolitics

Will you please take time to read the Russian Expansion Timeline. Please give me a paragraph-long section of what I could do to expand and improve it. --Catherine 15:12, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

Japan in Superpowers
I would like to make the page for Japan in the Superpowers timeline. I was wondering if you would allow me to do this?Vegas adict 16:52, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

Thats fine, I would apreciate it if you made the japan page and i'l offer what sugestions i have after you'v set out your main ideas--Vegas adict 20:21, May 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * I have two questions for you before i start work on Japans navy. One, Did Yamamoto or someone like him exist in the TL or does the big gun doctrine prevail and Secondly did capital ship construction proceed in a similar way to OTL (Battleships being replaced by Dreadnoughts + Battlecruisers which are then replaced by Nuclear Submarines + Cariers)?Vegas adict 19:38, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

I am asking for a Map
Hello, I am Calthrina950. I have heard you make maps. Can you please create or at least find a map of Europe in the year, 1200, that can be edited by others, almost like the maps on Europe 1430 (Map Game). I would really appericate it, since I want to develop a new map game. Thanks if you can! --Catherine 00:06, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

Mongol Empire
I love this Timeline! It's very wonderful, but one thing I'm kinda annoyed at is that you spent so much work into all the Rome-Related articles, but not even one Mongol World Empire Article! I would recomend having small articles for all the nations, then getting into the kind of detail you got into with the Romans. Just a thought though.....Eastward Expansion 13:15, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * And a very good thought at that! It's true, Rome is my specialty and so I have the easiest time writing those articles, others are more slow going. It is true though, I should have made articles for the other countries, I haven't taken the time to do much research though sadly.

But! If you'll advise me on it, I could start the Mongol article now and get it up to Rome standards by the end of the month. I assume you know far more on the Mongols than I do, right? There's only so much general history books can tell me. Red VS Blue 13:24, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Right! The Mongol Empire happens to be one of my specialties! What would you like advise on? Eastward Expansion 14:23, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

I find it interesting that the capital of your Mongol Empire is Temujin. I would have guessed that the capital would be the same as OTL Mongol empire (which would have been Karakorum). Also I noticed that you used the first Khan's (or Khagan's) real name for your capital. Interesting. Eastward Expansion 14:38, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Does that make sense? Would the Mongols honor their "founding father" like that? I figured that to better integrate themselves with the Chinese, they'd have a capital further into China. At the same time, I didn't think they'd use a Chinese capital, since that might cause some problems. Founding a new city made sense to me. Does that make sense? Or would it never have happened? Red VS Blue 14:45, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * That does make a good idea. Eastward Expansion 15:12, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Say why don't you have a religion under religion for the Mongols? And what religion would you chose, I mean various Mongols have been Muslim, Buddhist, Confucian, or the original belief system of the mongols, Tengriism. Maybe it depends on the country or area linked to the religion Islam (middle east) Buddhist (most far east nations) Confucian (China and Korea) or Tengriism (Mongolia).Eastward Expansion 15:17, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Genghis Khan is believed to have been Tengriistic, but as time went on the Mongols usually adopted what ever religion of the people they just conquered. And they were very tolerant towards other religions.Eastward Expansion 15:20, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you mentioned that. I wasn't entirely sure what would be the dominant Mongol religion. Would they even have a State Religion? I figure I'd make it close to that of the Chinese since I have the Khagan ruling by their Mandate of Heaven. Buddhism seems to be the best choice, with Confucianism as an ideology (as its not exactly a religion per say). You're right though, the idea that specific regions would be dominated by specific religions would be the most likely situation. Red VS Blue 16:05, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. So you're going with Buddhism? And Eastward Expansion 18:16, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well on the state religion matter, the historical Mongol Empire was probable one of the most religiously tolerant empires of its time. However many Khans (especially during Post-Imperial times) were Buddhists who encouraged that religion over others. Buddhist Monks were very high in society.Eastward Expansion 18:28, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh and Buddhist Monks have been considered the armed forces for various times in China and Mongolia. Before China invaded Tibet, Tibet used Buddhist Monks as the armed forces. Eastward Expansion 18:54, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey I noticed one major mistake! In your world map that shows all the countries, Mongolia controls the island of Taiwan. But in the map showing just the Mongol Empire, Taiwan is not controlled by the Mongols. Eastward Expansion 20:24, June 13, 2010 (UTC)