User blog:Sean9000/My work on the Croatian Empire

A little over a week ago I joined up with this wiki. I've always loved althistory and this was a chance to play around with it with like-minded people. Instead of starting a whole new timeline I browsed the orphans looking for one to adopt for my first project.

The Croatian Empire was just one page. A list of about four dozen events in chronilogical order, a few with dates. It had a number of things I liked: a non-standard dominant civilization, a nuclear war, and colonies on Mars. So despite it being an ASB timeline I adopted it.

As I've looked closer I've noticed it has four ASBs against it. Three biased (Croatia becoming a super-power, australian aborigines having more control over their continent, and a large group of African nations uniting to wage war on a Croatian superpower) each of which was very, very unlikely. The fourth is the technology. After two large-scale nuclear wars and the world's popluation being reducted to 1.5 billion I have trouble believing humanity could successfully create a Mars colony.

Be that as it may, I have decided to devote up to six months of regular additions to this timeline to see if I can reduce some of the ASB factors or at least give it an internal consistency that is entertaining (or even inspiring for other timelines).