User blog comment:BarakaThePious/World of..../@comment-9906822-20101013160848

Columbus encounters alien shape-shifters instead of natives in the new world and he and his men are killed and consumed. The shape-shifters, disguised as the explorers, steal their vessels and travel to Europe, where they secretly take the place of the old world's leaders and turn the planet into some kind of meat farm for their friends *up there*.

Nah, just kidding. I'd love to see a Roman world (without a technological stagnation) like the one C II R is working on or a world in which an African and/or pre-Columbian nation becomes the dominant superpower.