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Lenin-4. This is the "prequel" to GURPS Terradyne (my cover here ) that SJG added to Infinite Worlds, possibly to explain why the Soviet Union was still around there. Clever, I think. What did surprise me is that the current year was 2027, during the Golan Heights attack, and when both the UPOE and Terradyne were in their infancy. I'd think they'd set it in 2120, because that setting is much more interesting, and tell people to buy the Terradyne book. I guess that violated SJG's own rule about not having space settings in Infinite Worlds? I dunno, but it made me make two maps for the same timeline and this one's less interesting. Bleh.

The PoD is a worse 1970s recession forcing perestroika a decade early, and the US and USSR agreeing to cooperate to dominate Earth and space. It reminds me of Pournelle's CoDominium, actually. Unfortunately, we find out that the UPOE and Terradyne eclipse them, so I guess we don't get a Pournelle-verse. Or do we? I like to imagine that Infinity Patrol discovering Lenin-4 has altered its fate, and that Terradyne (Lenin-4 Beta?) is a chronoshifted timeline with no causal relationship with Lenin-4, akin to Centrum and Centrum Beta.

Other details. You'll notice the Moon bases. Yeah, Tranquility, the American base, was established in 2002. SJG assumed we'd be on the Moon in 2002, instead of dealing with terrorism. Optimistic folks, them. I added the Second Iran-Iraq War and other hints to the future of Terradyne. The North African Union is around, as is the UPOE, but the Golan Heights attack hasn't invalidated the UN yet, so they're still in their infancy. I decided to keep the Warsaw Pact around, but united Germany, because that is a sign of American-Soviet rapproachment if there ever was one. Of course, Germany becomes a great power again and threatens to pull the EC away from American and Soviet control. Whoops. Also, you may notice that China has a different color, but the same name. That's because the CCP is still in charge. They got thrown out sometime after 2027 in Terradyne, replaced with a socialist (democratic, I presume) government.

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Lenin-4. This is the "prequel" to GURPS Terradyne (my cover here ) that SJG added to Infinite Worlds, possibly to explain why the Soviet Union was still around there. Clever, I think. What did surprise me is that the current year was 2027, during the Golan Heights attack, and when both the UPOE and Terradyne were in their infancy. I'd think they'd set it in 2120, because that setting is much more interesting, and tell people to buy the Terradyne book. I guess that violated SJG's own rule about not having space settings in Infinite Worlds? I dunno, but it made me make two maps for the same timeline and this one's less interesting. Bleh.

The PoD is a worse 1970s recession forcing perestroika a decade early, and the US and USSR agreeing to cooperate to dominate Earth and space. It reminds me of Pournelle's CoDominium, actually. Unfortunately, we find out that the UPOE and Terradyne eclipse them, so I guess we don't get a Pournelle-verse. Or do we? I like to imagine that Infinity Patrol discovering Lenin-4 has altered its fate, and that Terradyne (Lenin-4 Beta?) is a chronoshifted timeline with no causal relationship with Lenin-4, akin to Centrum and Centrum Beta.

Other details. You'll notice the Moon bases. Yeah, Tranquility, the American base, was established in 2002. SJG assumed we'd be on the Moon in 2002, instead of dealing with terrorism. Optimistic folks, them. I added the Second Iran-Iraq War and other hints to the future of Terradyne. The North African Union is around, as is the UPOE, but the Golan Heights attack hasn't invalidated the UN yet, so they're still in their infancy. I decided to keep the Warsaw Pact around, but united Germany, because that is a sign of American-Soviet rapproachment if there ever was one. Of course, Germany becomes a great power again and threatens to pull the EC away from American and Soviet control. Whoops. Also, you may notice that China has a different color, but the same name. That's because the CCP is still in charge. They got thrown out sometime after 2027 in Terradyne, replaced with a socialist (democratic, I presume) government.