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Published: 2010-12-31 11:39:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 25633; Favourites: 141; Downloads: 175
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My first finished piece for quite a while
It's part of an emerging project which I'm still developing, about a parrallel world which diverges over the first half of the 19th century. The Earth of the Gateways timeline is more advanced than our own, with widely developed colonies across the solar system by the dawn of the new millenium. This advancement is down to the development of the Gateway system itself; akin to the Stargates, Gateways have been built across Earth and on numerous other worlds in the solar system, allowing industry, commerce, and colonisation to flourish.
Not all the boundries and situation of this world are tied down just yet, but feel free to ask questions, as always, and I'll try to answer and build the world to the best of my abilities
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Thanks, I'll let you know if I can think of anything I need a pic for!
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Indeed 
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Thanks, and ta for the fave
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i really like the color palette you used for the countries
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Brazil's been a lot more turbulent in this time
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I think so, but...
If it was THAT turbulent, there was a chance to doesn't have no (unified) Brazil anymore: [link]
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The Third Republic undertook a reconquista of sorts... there were seccessionist republics in the south and in the Amazon, but they were either peacefully or forcefully annexed during the formation of the Third Republic
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Oh, I see.
So, there wasn't Empire at the XIXth century, or it didn't endured much longer...
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I'm still working on the details of the history, but I'd imagine not
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Instead of calling them Gateways, you should car them Fargates.
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It's a joke from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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JUst google it and you should get a video of it.
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i wanna see europe in this time frame
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What Germany is this then?
And is the Confederation a dominion type thing?
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Not sure just yet
The Canadians are independant, although they're part of the Anglian League, a sort of parrallel Commonwealth of Nations.
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Ok, why have to divided up the Arctic islands that way?
Seems a load of hassle to keep some near uninhabited islands that Canada could deal with better.
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The British Arctic Islands were a real territory of Britain, kept after Canada went independent. They wern't transferred til 1880 in our world, and wern't given away at all in this one 
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I will, I'm working on the rest of Earth first though. Unlike my Golden Age timeline, I won't be including terraforming, I don't think.
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Looks nice!How did Germans get to Alaska though?
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It was never sold by Russia, to begin with. In a war sometime during the 20th century (I havent quite narrowed down all the timeline yet
Thanks for the fave, too
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Wouldn't the Canadian Confeds have been annoy with the Germans owning more territory NE & NW of them...?
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I'm not sure just how the war played out yet; this Germany might've been on the good side
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Oh so its a War Reparation.That makes sense.Good work!
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Nice to Germany getting some American colonies
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Thanks, and ta for the fave
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Are the gateways a discovery of lost tech or an indigenous scientific breakthrough?
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Indigenous
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Reminds me of a short story I read in Playboy one time written by Arthur C. Clark. The implementation was similar but instead used radio waves. Essentially a trek transporter using wires instead of transporter beams. Wasn't explained in the story.. just how it affected life and how instant cheap transport changed the way 'we' lived. I don't remember what it was called or what issue I read it in.
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It was called "Travel by Wire". He also wrote a semi-sequel called "The Wire Continuum". I read it in "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke.
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It might have been. I just remember the story art.. it was Clark sitting in a seat, space suited up, overlooking a huge window into outer space.
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