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Note: This is not the final draft of the timeline. I may edit some things later. September 2008: the global economy reels in the wake of the largest financial collapse since the Great Depression. It will lead to the failures of multiple national economies in the coming years. January 2011: The...

Turn 0: Planning for Failure August 2065 Beijing, the Office of the State Planning Commission "The roc wings fanwise, Soaring ninety thousand li And rousing a raging cyclone. The blue sky on his back, he looks down To survey Man's world with its towns and cities. Gunfire licks the heavens...

The Fallout series of video games has been many things over the years: a triumph of the isometric role-playing genre, a pioneer of its open world cousin, a creative grand strategy mod. It's even produced one of my all-time favorite games in the form of Fallout: New Vegas. One thing it has always...

The tales of powerful beings known as "Robs" on sufficient velocity and "ASBs" in the alternate history community are one that are like fables of old age Europa, brings described with powers of gods if not even above them interfereing with the human world out of either sheer curiosity or maybe...

Hello! My never-ending quest to get attention from strangers on the internet give back to the community that has given me so much entertainment and joy over the years continue. Rather than writing another quest that I will inevitably abandon due to stress, anxiety, and/or lack of ideas, I...

I know this may not be the most realistic. I'd be happy to discuss my thought process. Being persuaded by some of his advisors, Hitler allowed for German support of pro-Axis factions within the Turkish government for a potential coup in July of 1941. Turkish officers sympathetic to Germany and...

The Problem in Pingliang Prefecture, an Otherverse wargame (Wildbow Pact/Pale) begins recruiting! Taking place in China towards the tail end of the Oni Wars, nine factions vie for control of the city of Pingliang. Will you join the honorable Celestial Bureaucracy? The Oni League in the spirit...

The Dragon Roars: A KMT Quest "Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people." - Dr. Sun Yat-Sen The old man watched with bleary eyes as the men, no, his men marched across the barren desert...

Sun Yat-sen was without a doubt a very important figure of the Chinese 20th century. He had an essential role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing a republic in China, with him as the first (provisional) president. While Qing China was without a doubt extremely weak by the start of...

The White Lotus Rebellion was just one of the many rebellions that took place during the Qing dynasty. The question is: Can it succeed and overthrow the government?

Taipei, Republic of China 11 Jan 2020 "It was a good speech, Lai." "I'm not saying it wasn't, Chen," Lai answered. "You and I both know that. But what matters right now is that Xi knows that." Of course, he wished it was him up there at the podium, but Vice President was better than nothing...

A couple of months ago I tried creating a riot quest based on Paradox Interactive's Victoria 2, itself based on human history between the years 1836-1936. It didn't work out because the sheer volume of interested parties would mean It'd take far too long to write any sort of update worthy of the...

Back in early 2020, I joined a fictional Nationstates Roleplay in an amino community I was in along with a friend. For the roleplay I conceived a somewhat generic Filipino state known as The Kingdom of Greater Tagalog. As the roleplay went on, this fictional state would eventually merge with my...

Yinhai, Settlement of the Easter East, Great Ming January 28, 1514 Viceroy Li Hu was minding his own business when he heard rapid knocks on the door of his little cabin...erm, Viceroy's Getaway in the inner hinterlands of the Capital of the Settlement. Writing reports in the quiet peace of the...

Prologue A tall man stood at the edge of a pier, looking at the gleaming night sky. They seemed to be telling a tale. A story. The man smiled slightly, his lips swerving upwards. Of course, he knew whose tale the stars were speaking off. He had lived in it after all. He discarded his ceremonial...

1450 ad is an era of Imperial turbulence in China, with two competing Emperors at each other's throats due to the Tumu Fort incident, and the corrupt eunuchs in control of Imperial court politics... What if, in the middle of this mess, the entire island of Taiwan (not including the ROC's...

MUSIC OOC THREAD Another Bismarck Three years have passed since the death of Yuan Shikai, the man who had made himself an enemy of all Chinese through his own ego, yet, at the same time, he was the one unifying force by virtue of charisma and military control, though that was now...

MUSIC Premise It is May 4th, 1919, and a spontaneous student protest in Beijing has rapidly escalated into a fully fledged shift in Chinese society as the tenuous hold of the Republic of China is loosened in the final days leading up to the end of the Paris Peace Conference. Though having a...

And yes, Mr. Wayne: it does come for the Switch. On another note, I really hope they at least keep the combat system and open-world from the previous game, but I doubt that they'll keep the open-world from what I've heard. All the same: I love the combat system from 9. Here's hoping that...

I'm looking for some good books on the Boxer Rebellion, preferably ones with a nuanced view towards the conflict. Does SV have any suggestions?

7 MILLION ANTS 七百萬隻螞蟻 A different world, of gunships and imperialism Kennedy Town, pre-Revolutionary Victoria, 1954 七百萬隻螞蟻 唔容易走埋一齊 7 Million ants, how easy was it for them to come together? [1] Preface This project started out as an attempt to do a big, thicc map in commemoration of my 5th...

So a thought experiment occurred to me earlier. Assuming you butterflied changes in the Chinese civil war so the Nationalists win, and I'm afraid I lack in depth knowledge of that area to determine what a realistic change of actions that would change but assume that events play out that way...

Junfa Shidai 督軍時代 The Shattered Republic 破碎的共和國 President Sun Yat-sen meeting General Yuan Shikai to pass on the position of the presidency in exchange for peace, a prelude to the chaos to be. In 1911, the Qing dynasty had disintegrated, driven from its position at the top of the Chinese...

Chapter 1: Drank with the devil and forgot my name Dom Justo Takamaya Ukon Acapulco de Juárez, New Spain, 1600/01/01 Saturday I look at my grandsons who are happily playing at the yard with our neighbours, and beyond them, the city full of myriad diverse people - all united under the belief...

What if People’s Republic of China as of today is ISOT to 1945 specifically September 2, 1945 the official date of Japanese empire surrender in World war 2. Now lets make this more interesting by also ISOTing China claimed territory in OTL so thats include things like Taiwan and islands they...