User:Baron Joshua



Greetings, I am known on Wikia as Baron Joshua though I'm not really a Baron nor is my name Joshua. I'm from the United States of America, and an Aspie, someone with Aspergers. Which is categorized as high functioning autism. That being said it's also characterized by highly developed organizational skills and in some problem solving. Attributes I utilize on this site for the purpose of categorizing articles and discerning the rippling effects of alternate events in history.

Personal Terms
Terms I've come up with or believe myself to have come up with as I've yet to see them used earlier then myself on this wiki;
 * Effective Date (ED) - The Effective Date is the latest a timeline can explore it's POD before the rest become entirely fiction. The Effective Date is the last date where events are supported by real world documentation of possible directions history could have taken. It's the last date where one can say 'That seems a possible outcome of the POD based on the evidence at hand'. After the Effective Date events are entirely speculative; theoretical- utterly fictional. The Effective Date is the best point to begin a 'spin off' timeline based on another alternate history presented by the wiki community.

Favorite Althists on the Wiki

 * Mannerheim's Finland
 * Concert of Europe
 * King of America

Projects that I am focused on

 * Sheheen 2010 (Vincent Sheheen wins the 2010 election for South Carolina's Governorship)

Other Projects

 * Monarchist World - an adopted timeline revolving around a world where in Monarchism is the dominate ideology. It's one of various 'PODs'.
 * World of Nikola Tesla (please know the Eugenics aspect of the timeline brings me sorrow due to what I am)

Concepts for Alternate Histories

 * Bush Family Tradition - A silly little concept built around the idea of Jeb Bush somehow becoming the 45th President of the United States of America. The timeline is built around a family tradition developing where the Bush family tries to run for president frequently. It'd eventually see George P. Bush running for office. United States laws regarding term limits still apply and so forth- it's just a timeline that sees the Bush name recurring a lot in American politics likely leading to some conspiracy theories of a secret American monarchy. In addition to running for president another family tradition is military service.
 * Historical Fact - Historical Fact is a limited counterfactual timeline where certain Historical Fiction characters or nations are real, for example- Ziga from the 1936 film 'The Song of Freedom' and Angela More from the 1917 film 'The Little American'. The timeline also accepts films set in their time's present but featuring fictional states such as the 'Princess Diaries' or 'The Great Dictator'. The criteria being that those nations do not directly overshadow historical events, for example- the fictional dictatorship in Charlie Chapman's 'The Dictator' effectively takes the place of Nazi Germany during World War Two. Such will not be allowed in this timeline. As a general rule all real world nations of a period must exist, so nations like 'the United Kingdom of Scandinavia' can not exist in the 20th century. This rule is to preserve the 'historical fiction' subject of the timeline. Another rule is that the Historical or Period fiction not employ the supernatural or 'flying space bats' like superhumans, an aliens (until a time if any where Aliens are present as fact). Thus 2011's Apollo 18 is not permitted in this project.
 * Mobocracy - While named for variant on the common terms used in reference to an Ochloarchy Mobocracy doesn't actually focus on a government where in the majority dominate the minority though lynching, ransacking, etc but rather on the political influence of organized crime. The timeline sees a failure to combat the criminal empires who come to dominate the world having proved an effective force of change; for example- the Irish Mafia successfully financing a free Ireland. Eventually politics and these 'underworld' influences will become so connected that they become an unavoidable influence. Mafia, meaning 'refuge' was established with the aim of protecting the interest of a people- such as the Jewish Mafia, Irish Mafia, etc. According to the alien theory regarding organized ethnic crime 'Mafias' arise when conditions beneficial to the growth of crime abound where an ethnic minority has been centralized so as to be separate from the majority; such as the Jewish Ghettos of Germany or as seen with Hispanic and African gang violence in the US. Ethnic crime tends to arise when a culture is threatened by external factors (such as the before mentioned ghetto example) such as with Japan and the Yakuza which emerged likely around the Edo Period in response to Chinese and European influences. Even today the Yakuza is organized in a 'fief' like fashion and operates under a code of honor. Aspects akin to the early Sicilian Mafia. As an ethnic group gains influence due to these groups they become less needed by them but can survive on hatreds, perceived oppression, passion for culture, ideas of supremacy of ethnicity, or simple tradition with the ethnic aspects fading at times to produce un-ethnic criminal organizations built around the benefit of commercial interests. As such groups tend to support unions during the ethnic phase this shift often finds moves such organizations towards a syndicalist  nature though they can easily move towards corporatism should they possess a number of 'front' operations of a legitimate nature. I presently see this type of history seeing more ethnic violence and the eventual rise of syndicalist and corporatist political powers possibly with 'Social Corporatism' serving as a third more centralist option.
 * No Twelfth Amendment - The Twelfth Amendment replaced the old Electoral system where in the candidate to get the most votes for President became President and the candidate to come in second became Vice President. This was changed as a result of Political Parties rising; as parties didn't formally exist till that time. The elections began to result in the two executives of state being from rival parties (see Election of 1796) and the Twelfth Amendment was made to prevent this; but what if it didn't pass? What if this was seen as a 'safe guard' on power? San Marino for example made it so that the two heads of state had to be from rival political parties after the Fascist government was overthrown. They did this as a safeguard; so what if that argument won out and all elections from 1803 onward continued to use the original electoral system? This would cost the US government efficiency but would also require compromise between rival parties; encouraging bi-partisan solutions as seen in San Marino today. The entire game of the presidential race is different by maintaining the old system; while candidates are associated with political parties there is no limit to how many may run- no party primaries. Meaning that parties will have more then one candidate running and thus 'straight party votes' will likely not arise. It's a very very different United States; back in the day parties 'nominated' candidates to the public and the people voted- it's like watching a youtube video by a political commentator to find out who they support except it came as a news letter in the mail. For example in 1792 election both the Federalist and Democratic-Republican party nominated George Washington but also John Adams (Fed) and George Clinton (DR). It's a more rational rather then loyalty driven electoral system.
 * President of South Carolina - This concept goes back the American Revolutionary War where in South Carolina, under anti-revolutionary President Rawlins Lowndes of South Carolina changed the executive title of the free state to Governor after succeeding President John Rutledge. The time line maneuvers events so this change doesn't occur which impacts the state's perception of it's self with Governor likely becoming the title of the executive of state after the American Civil War. This in turn also has an impact on the secessionist movement. In short this one title alteration alters the state's perception of it's self and the lose of such title only makes that perception more pronounced.
 * Tesla Lives - This is separate from the World of Nikola Tesla in that the timeline doesn't 'bend' to his social concepts and expectations. It is rather a straight Alternate History which sees the 83 year old Tesla live a bit longer though due his manner of death how long is uncertain. This allows him to complete more projects (only the projects we know he was working on before death) and for him to see the end of World War II.
 * Tesla the Priest or Tesla the Rasputin of Serbia- Tesla becomes a priest and like other men of the cloth of the era continues to contribute to science as in OTL. Becoming something of the 'Rasputin of Serbia' as some circles will remember him. Not so much for politics but rather for being by some a 'Sorcerer Priest' much as Rasputin was rumored to be. Tesla does however have contact with the King of Serbia so perhaps the reputation is more well earned then I presently consider.
 * The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Kokura - A scenario where Nagasaki wasn't bombed but rather the primary target of Kokura was hit with the 'Fat Man' bomb. Mitsubishi had a lot of factories in Nagasaki, Nagasaki was a drydock, a port city, and Nagasaki held Japan's largest Roman Catholic Population; Kokura was simply the location of many Japanese Solders stationed there due to it's railways station allowing for quick deployment North or South should Japan be invaded; at least that's how it's seen in OTL- with Kokura hit more information regarding what it use to be will be known to the general public and it'll not develop into the grand city of Kitakyushu; rather Nagasaki will continue to grow in the fashion it was heading in before events in OTL altered that direction.
 * The Kingdom of Hawaii doesn't become a republic nor is annexed by the United States of America. With a British inspired government how would politics evolve in Hawaii? How would such a nation react to the threat of Japan during WWII? Would Japan see it as a worthy target without the bulk of America's fleet stationed there? Would Japan attempt to bring it into the Co-Prosperity Sphere or due to the Kingdom's British-American relations see Hawaii as providing likely port for British vessels in the Pacific theater? Would Hawaii even be capable of fielding a modern navy of it's own? Would it seek neutrality? Would it be occupied by Imperial Japan giving the American public reason to be concerned due to it's proximity to California? Would the US even enter WWII? Would the Kingdom of Hawaii have claimed the Mid-way Islands (part of the Hawaii Island chain), rather then the US, sometime before the second world war?