Talk:Transbellum

Interesting ... the "uchronies" are distinct timelines that have become aware of each other? Very interesting. - Nik 19:04, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * yup, the knowledge however is limited in the population in general--Marcpasquin 19:12, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

why 8?
What is the reason for a specific number of timelines? Why eight? JWSchmidt 03:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * the reason was that I wanted more then a few (4) more less then a lot(16). Yours sound better though.--Marcpasquin 01:32, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why Alpha moved
I found that developing links of a cold war type between the various timelines didn't work out as per my original ideas, the uchronies were just too differents (christianity couldn't logicaly exist on half of them so there goes my jesuits secrets agents....).

Because I hate wastefulness, the timeline that was Alpha will be spun off on its own as "Day of Glory" and will keep the transbellum concept but move Event 0 forward.

Three possibilities I can think of are :

1- event 0 = battle at poitier in the 8th century


 * Branch X (victory of the christians): one of these would be our world


 * Branch Y (victory of the muslims):

2- event zero = Thirty years war


 * Branch X (victory of the catholic league):
 * - France
 * - Spain
 * - Bavaria
 * - turkey


 * Branch Y (victory of the protestant union):
 * - Sweden
 * - England
 * - Netherland
 * - Prussia

3- event 0 = War of spanish succession. Instead of two branches of four you would have six uchronies stemming from the same event:


 * 1- Dauphin becomes spanish king (as per will of previous one), upon becoming Louis XV of france, unites both countries. Stuart return in england.
 * 2- The duc d'anjou becomes spanish king (junior line of bourbon) but renounce to french succession. This is OTL
 * 3- Leopold I (Holy german emperor) becomes spanish king.
 * 4- Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria (Wittelsbach dynasty) becomes spanish king, compromise candidate (neither hapsburg nor bourbon), favorite of dutch and english. Survived the small pox (he died *here*). Lead to Spanish hegemony backed at first by the UK and the United provinces.
 * 5- Archduke Charles becomes spanish king (junior line of harpsburg), Austrian proeminence.
 * 6- Swedish king decide to interveen in the conflict (he declined *here*) leading to swedish proeminence in europe.

Any other suggestions ? It would have to be either one event that could spring out 6 or 8 possible timelines or 2 somewhat related POD occuring within a few centuries of one another (an the whole in the last 15 centuries or so)--Marcpasquin 02:18, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)