User blog:Gmx0/Victorian England-Russia Steampunk War

I may not believe in a real Alternate History, by I do believe in good fiction! This history is the backstory of a computer game I am designing for a competition. Go to my website: neogenerationgames.webs.com for more info about the game.

The POD: Galileo did not make a telescope. Instead, he made a weak laser with those lenses instead. Newton further improved it, and became so advanced as to make gunpowder obsolete in the West. The British used these lasers for military applications except at naval bombardment, in which cannons were still used. The Russians put down an uprising in Ukraine, and about the same time the Ottoman empire collapsed. Russia invaded in the ensuing power vacuum.