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Published: 2010-03-21 20:20:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 25586; Favourites: 124; Downloads: 1289
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Long project took long -_- But hopefully it's worth it
I've been wanting to do this one for a while now, and it's been a good break from my research and writing of the Alexander-timeline...Here be the solar system of the year 2125, in my ComCom timeline. I think it's all pretty self-explanatory; the labels near each planet show the major organisations present on their surfaces and in the locality - a "major organisation" being defined as that which controls a significant portion of the planet's economy, politics, or people
Beyond Uranus, there are few locations with any significant human presence - an Alliance-oriented outpost on Triton, and a research waystation on Sedna are pretty much it. As yet, humanity is limited to slower-than-light travel, and while a clutch of pioneer-probes are speeding out towards the nearest few stars and extrasolar planets, the signs of humanity (and the complexities of it's cultures and politics) beyond Uranus are few and far between.
I can't think of anything else to write - I've spent a good portion of my day on this, and my mind is now blank - but feel free to ask any question that comes to mind about the map
Hope you enjoy!Please, don't use without my permission
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Juno is an asteroid in the asteroid belt; in this timeline, it was knocked out of the asteroid belt and captured by Venus.
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Uhhhh. I liked that very much.
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well for the empires on mercury at least they won't have to worry about lack of solar power
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Was the asteroid Juno hi-jacked over to Venusian Orbit as a first step in terraforming?
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It was indeed
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They should think seriously in colonizing Neptune's moon Triton and get access to all that Helium-3
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is juno a moon of venus?
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Love it! Though I think that the "Moon Commonwealth" should be renamed "Lunar Commonwealth", sound cooler that way. ^^
I'd really like to see this as a film or play it as a game right now, this universe is just so cozy. ^^
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Ahh indeed it does, but it's not just THE Moon - it's an organisation including both the independant factions on our own Moon, and some smaller factions on moons throughout the solar system; mainly those of Jupiter who banded together to avoid forced incorporation into the Jovian League. The independant Phobos is also closely associated with them
Thanks muchly
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Is it even possible to travel to Sedna. I thought it was really really far away.
Everything else though is awesome, especiallly the terraformed Mars.
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It'll come within about 76 AU during the next century - a combination of fusion drives and a generaional ship could get there in this timeline
Thanks
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Cool. Although at the same time kind of sad seeing as the colonists would never know what earth is like (albeit a bit war torn right now).
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True
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Hah I couldn't resist
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Amazing! I've never seen so large a map of the Solar Systen in an alternate history project before.
Did you draw all the planets yourself?
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Thanks muchly
Pretty much, as painstaking as some were >_< I used north pole maps for both Earth and Jupiter, but the atmospheres and shading is my own on those too (the Jupiter one also required the smudging to get it to look quite right). I also cheated on Saturn's rings, but I reckon I COULD do them myself, if I had the time (and cared enough
Thanks again for the comment
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Very well done and nice attention to detail! Though I kept thinking the outer moons should be colored according to what power held them, and it wasn't till I got to the inner planets that I got the idea.
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Thanks
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Wow this looks great. When it says "Alliance" is the political term for "The Third Empire and whoever they feel like bringing along" or do other Alliance nations have major roles to play?
You know this timeline reminds me S. M. Stirling's The Lords of Creation books for some reason.
I know what you mean about doing work and then not being able to write anything.
You've got lots of info, but no structure to it. Plus you can't be arsed.
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Thanks
Hmm never read them - never heard of them, actually, heh. Any good?
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Fascinating, sounds like an interesting world. What's the bio-tech like in SpessCommies?
Yeah, they are based on the idea that Mars and Venus did not turn out to be the disappointments they were on our world and are more like the world imagine in pulp.
A dying mars and a vibrant tropical Venus, with living rugs and dinosaurs respectively.
And of course sexy Martians and Venusians.
In this world there have been no wars apart from the odd scuffle in Africa since 1967, the USA-Commonwealth Alliance, EastBloc (Chinese tail wagging the Russian dog) and "Even the French and their pissant little European Union" are too focused on space exploration.
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Not greatly advanced - biotech generally has been largely ignored in favour of energy and weapons, besides relatively basic level genetic engineering and gerontological treatments (the average lifespan by this point is almost 180 years - on Earth, at least), and the main use of GE life has been increased crop yields and in the terraformation processes - most Martian life is GE adapted to cold, salt, and low atm pressure, and there's a thriving bacterial monoculture all across Venus due to the actions of one rogue Ruski scientist...
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What does the Venusian bacteria do? Just survive or terraform?
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They take in CO2 from the atmosphere and minerals from the ground, and break it down into carbon and oxygen using heat energy from the atmosphere. Then they give off the oxygen and sequester the carbon as either graphite or diamond, depending on how hot an area they're in. Down in the hottest and high-pressured lowlands, great reefs of diamond have built up over the years, and Venusian diamond is one of the planet's main products, used in an array of industrial processes from lasers to fusion engines
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Turning something that the Bourgeosie use to show their exploitation of the proletariat into cheap industrial product, a true Hero of the Union.
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Dead now though 
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To use a Bond one-liner, Smashing.
Will you be doing more about other planets? Saturn intrigues me.
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Saturn is dominated by the Union of Titan and the Coalition and Alliance colonies from Rhea outwards, and by The Children from Dione inwards. The Children were originally a cult based on Titan, who were a loose association of people who believed Saturn was a God/the original home of humanity, and that it's "Children" (ie, the moons and rings) were sacred. During the Fusion Wars, they were pushed completely from Titan when the Progressive Union moved in and set up shop, and they moved to the small formerly Chinese colony on Mimas. They were taken over by a charismatic leader, who was far more into the preachiness and retribution angle than the former had been. From there they gathered a power base of colonies dissaffected by the actions of the major powers, and by now hold control over everything from Dione to Saturn's upper clouds, and have a significant sway in the economies and politics of the larger outer moons too.
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Bugger, such a pretty planet being spoiled. The Empire ought to be teaching them a lesson.
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Ahh the Empire is far from Saturn - most of the Alliance holdings out there are part of either the PAU or the Amazonian Kingdom, or more former members of the defunct CNA.
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Well what are they waiting for? Honestly, Canadians. XD.
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Lots of others in the Empire too - English, French, Swedes etc by the boatload moved to Canada proper throughout the 1980's-2010's, and since then the Empire has expanded continuously, from the Guyanas, Alaska, and New England to the more recent additions of Washingstone, the Dakotas, Japan, and of course the Martian Dominions
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Wow, sounds like a spiffing nation.
Once the get Manchuria up and running they should be able to conqour the world.
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I've got masses of stuff written up for everywhere in the solar system, but not much of it of the quality to post to dA, heh. Theres nothing really I can do drawing wise, either - Mars was different, seeing as it's terraformed. Is there anything in particular you wanted to know?
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Oh yeah, what were the resources you used to make this? I'd love to make some star maps but all I have is what I stole from Orion's Arm. And I can't use that on dA.
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Err just GIMP, pretty much
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Well it looks great. I'm probably to lazy to do all that.
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Haha, fair enough
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Nice picture, but why is the asteroid Juno now a moon of Venus?
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