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QuantumBranching — More Than Meets the Eye, III: the Earth in 2007
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The planet of the squishy little organics, in 2007 G1 cartoon continuity. Much of it is speculative and some 1980s tropes and GI Joe spillover may be present. Some more description of this can be found in part II of the writeup.As for certain oddities in southern and southeastern Europe, blame them on this... tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Europa_20…
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Awesome work, reconciling most of the weird shit from those 80's cartoons (and boy, was there ever a LOT of it; the mostly episodic nature of the shows meant that whatever bizarre events happened were never referenced ever again at least 2/3 of the time, like The Eldritch Abomination Under Destro's Castle of Furry Cultists - not even joking here); personally I'd say that Borogravia and other European fictitious nations of the setting are likely micro-nations the size of Andorra or Luxembourg at best (and pretty sure Carbombya was Lybia with serial numbers filed off, but it's close enough on the map, and the idea of both its leaders feuding over who has the most over-the-top wardrobe is too good to pass up). Although I do have one slight nitpick: there seems to be no references to the third connected series (though admittedly it is the red-headed stepchild of this continuity group): Inhumanoids, AKA Saturday Morning Lovecraft (for those who understandably don't know what I'm talking about: tfwiki.net/wiki/Inhumanoids ). Unless 12 and 15 ARE those references (my memories of that show are about 30 years old, so rather muddled in places).
PS: Yes, I know Jem and the Holograms are also technically in the same universe, but frankly, unlike the other 3, I don't remember anything particularly history-changing happening in that one.
PPS: Yes, I know entirely too many things about 80's cartoons. Give me a break, I was an impressionable kid back then.
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I love how your scenarios have people react in realistic ways to incredibly weird scenarios.
Speaking off, have you ever thought of doing a post-book Animorphs world?
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Magnificent. Seriously, this is great stuff. I read through it on AH.com and got deep enough into it that I didn't realize it was transformers till too late.
If I had known it was a transformers writeup before reading it I would have held off for a while, which would have been a shame given the lulz in this. The 80s trope and COBRA really make this.
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This might be one of my favorite map/write-up combos yet, I love it! I especially appreciate the inclusion of the various fictional countries from G.I. Joe (though you sadly missed Borovia, Benzheen and Chomo-Lungma), and was happy to discover that, for once, something interesting is going on in the Netherlands in an alternate timeline.
One minor nitpick: didn't the Ark originally crash down in Oregon, near Mt.Hilary/Portland?
EDIT: also, what happened to Cuba?
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Things were getting a bit too crowded in Eastern Europe, and I didn't want to venture too far into alternate physical geography. I assumed that like Tibet, Chomo-Lungma was directly absorbed by China. Assume that "Benzheen" is code for Saudi Arabia, same as "Badhikistan" is Pakistan.
As to the Ark, there are a couple different interpretations, and the area we see in the show never looked wet and green enough to be the Pacific northwest.
As for Cuba, Castro tried to make a deal with the Decepticons, and it didn't work out too well for him.
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At least it's not the Michael Bay-verse...unless you plan on making that next.
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Only if I am PAID like Michael Bay for it.
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The Bay films are at least intertaining even if they suck, Bay II attack of the Clay and other cheap 80's NZ garbage
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