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MrAverage — The World of 6-Commando, Part I
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Published: 2015-01-01 18:49:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 5525; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 137
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While I've been traveling for the holidays, I thought it was high time to cave in to fan pressure and give people a view of some of the underlying structures of the world of my comic 6-Commando . I keep the world-building out of the comic as much as I can, but it's a very specifically structured alternate history - one with a LOT of atomic weapons floating around. By my count, actually, a total of 57,820 active warheads, worldwide. That's as compared to 16,300 in our world. Even with the lower yield of fission weapons, that's a heck of a lot of atomic bombs.I've uploaded this one at high res so you can read the text without me posting a huge block of the stuff. "Don't steal it," I guess is my only caveat, but I don't think anyone really would.
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It’s a big power but not a superpower, and it’s more like the EU than the real USA is, and so getting things done can be a big issue - especially military deployments overseas. The Continental Army is very small compared to the US Army in the real world and although effective and high tech, is highly risk-averse.
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So basically they got the best gear but their pussies.
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Peacefully. It declined to participate in Confederation and became an independent republic.
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That's an impressive world you created there; if I recall World War II has yet to start there and I'll bet it might deal with an alternate take on it.
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Well, the story of the comic, 6-Commando , details the start of their World War II, which is the same for them as what WE would call our World War III, in terms of how frightened they are of it and how destructive it ends up being.
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Funny, I had an idea for a world with a similar scenario, except it took place in the early 21st century and technology is like a couple decades behind than ours.
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Yes. An autonomous dependent nation in Free Association with the United States. America was not an aggressive colonial power in this world, being far more decentralized and nearly incapable of fielding an army overseas. There's an amendment to their constitution that limits the size of the armed forces and prevents the President from deploying state militias and defense forces overseas without the permission of that state's legislature.
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The US is a tiny compared to others according to this, also what's with the shortage of launch vehicles :/
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MIRVed ICAMs (Intercontinental Atomic Missiles) are common, allowing multiple warheads per missile.
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I see, I thought that accounted for MIRVs tough : P
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Well, think of launch vehicles as a measure of how many different targets a country could hit, and warheads as a measure of the intensity of the attack they can make. If I have twenty warheads on five vehicles, I can hit each of five different targets pretty hard, harder than if I had twenty missiles with one warhead. It's weird to think of it since atom bombs are so powerful to begin with, but still.
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Indeed, I am no stranger to cluster nukes either :3 So do they have some defensive measure against them in this world ?
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Not really. They can launch airburst weapons of their own to deflect them, like the USSR had planned to do, but it's not an exact science and might end up frying their own cities by mistake.
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Right, well the PFSR alone has enough nukes to destroy the Earth 10 times over
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So, Europe and the Soviet Union do not posses Nuclear weapons? Does that mean they can get nuked at any time?
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Look at Part II. It deals with non-UN nations.
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