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Regions transported: Russia (Krasnoryarsk timezone), Mongolia (western provinces), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia (western provinces), Christmas Island

In the first decade following the event, a divide felt between the more developed, resource-rich northern oblasts and the poorer southern republics of Russia lead to an attempt by the latter to secede from the federal government in Novosibirsk. While ultimately unsuccessful, the movement did result in Tuva gaining greater self-government, and more investment in the region. Much of this new investment came to be funded by a resource boom in the frozen north as new mines and oil drilling operations opened up Siberia's replenished riches, transporting them south. New Russian settlements soon sprung up around Lake Baikal and along the upper Amur river. However, as contact with the nations of southeast Asian was established, it was soon felt that a shorter, more direct route to the Pacific via the Yellow River would prove more profitable. Thus Russian activity in Mongolia became more pronounced, especially following the coup which established the Khovd Mongol Republic.

The vast majority of Russia's raw materials which made it down the Yellow River were destined for the many Vietnamese factories and manufacturing plants located along the Pearl River and Gulf of Tonkin. While some Vietnamese had moved north into Guangxi, it was only after the initial Russian contact that Hanoi began to activity pursue the colonisation and subsequent industrialisation of the areas surrounding the South China Sea, or 'Vietnamese Sea' as it came to be known. Vietnam's economic expansion was helped by the growing conflict between its two potential rivals for dominance in the region, Thailand and Indonesia.

The conflict was sparked by Thai efforts to colonise the southern Malay peninsula, leading the area's mainly Muslim Malays to fear they would be swamped by Thai settlers, and appealing to Indonesia for help. The Indonesian military thus thwarted Thai ambitions in the area, leaving it and Kalimantan open to Indonesian settlement. Indonesian efforts then focused on bringing the Christmas Island Malays into their sphere and colonisation of the rest of the Malay Archipelago, while Thailand moved north across the Salween into the Irrawaddy valley. The defeat to Indonesia though continued to smart, contributing to a continuation of the civil unrest which had periodically plagued the kingdom. As the population of the Irrawaddy region grew, the need for development of the region did as well, with supply chains from Bangkok and Marit increasing strained. Discontent in the upper Irrawaddy (possibly encouraged by Indonesia) continued to fester, before erupting into crisis as the region declared the formation of the Xirwadi government. A full scale civil war then followed in which the Vietnamese remained neutral, continuing exports to all of Thailand, and the Indonesians, Laotians and Cambodians lent their tactic support to the breakaway government. The resulting peace settlement established Xirwadi's independence as a republic, and Indonesia's supremacy in the Indian, or Indonesian, Ocean. The royal Thai government meanwhile, seeking a distraction from the humiliation, threw their efforts into the establishment of New Siam to recreate the lost glories of Siam's golden days.

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Regions transported: Russia (Krasnoryarsk timezone), Mongolia (western provinces), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia (western provinces), Christmas Island

In the first decade following the event, a divide felt between the more developed, resource-rich northern oblasts and the poorer southern republics of Russia lead to an attempt by the latter to secede from the federal government in Novosibirsk. While ultimately unsuccessful, the movement did result in Tuva gaining greater self-government, and more investment in the region. Much of this new investment came to be funded by a resource boom in the frozen north as new mines and oil drilling operations opened up Siberia's replenished riches, transporting them south. New Russian settlements soon sprung up around Lake Baikal and along the upper Amur river. However, as contact with the nations of southeast Asian was established, it was soon felt that a shorter, more direct route to the Pacific via the Yellow River would prove more profitable. Thus Russian activity in Mongolia became more pronounced, especially following the coup which established the Khovd Mongol Republic.

The vast majority of Russia's raw materials which made it down the Yellow River were destined for the many Vietnamese factories and manufacturing plants located along the Pearl River and Gulf of Tonkin. While some Vietnamese had moved north into Guangxi, it was only after the initial Russian contact that Hanoi began to activity pursue the colonisation and subsequent industrialisation of the areas surrounding the South China Sea, or 'Vietnamese Sea' as it came to be known. Vietnam's economic expansion was helped by the growing conflict between its two potential rivals for dominance in the region, Thailand and Indonesia.

The conflict was sparked by Thai efforts to colonise the southern Malay peninsula, leading the area's mainly Muslim Malays to fear they would be swamped by Thai settlers, and appealing to Indonesia for help. The Indonesian military thus thwarted Thai ambitions in the area, leaving it and Kalimantan open to Indonesian settlement. Indonesian efforts then focused on bringing the Christmas Island Malays into their sphere and colonisation of the rest of the Malay Archipelago, while Thailand moved north across the Salween into the Irrawaddy valley. The defeat to Indonesia though continued to smart, contributing to a continuation of the civil unrest which had periodically plagued the kingdom. As the population of the Irrawaddy region grew, the need for development of the region did as well, with supply chains from Bangkok and Marit increasing strained. Discontent in the upper Irrawaddy (possibly encouraged by Indonesia) continued to fester, before erupting into crisis as the region declared the formation of the Xirwadi government. A full scale civil war then followed in which the Vietnamese remained neutral, continuing exports to all of Thailand, and the Indonesians, Laotians and Cambodians lent their tactic support to the breakaway government. The resulting peace settlement established Xirwadi's independence as a republic, and Indonesia's supremacy in the Indian, or Indonesian, Ocean. The royal Thai government meanwhile, seeking a distraction from the humiliation, threw their efforts into the establishment of New Siam to recreate the lost glories of Siam's golden days.