Alternate history exists in the orange zone for me - the constant need to stay on the alert for bad actors swiftly drains the fun from the exercise. But the concept is fun, so I dabble on my own from time to time. Here's a bunch of dabbling - while writing it popped into my head that these are some excellent backdrop events for Esoteric Enterprises games.
THE TROUSERS OF TIME HAVE SPLIT
- Successful rebellion of the enslaved in colonial America.
- Venera probes discover life on Venus.
- Christianity takes root in Japan, syncretizes.
- Near complete works of Sappho's poetry found, translated and printed.
- Linear B deciphered.
- Fred Hampton dies of natural causes at the age of 102.
- Yeshua ben Yosef writes a short ethical treatise.
- Human-elephant communication achieved.
- Tunguska meteor devastates Moscow.
- Wow! signal confirmed as an accidentally-intercepted alien message.
- George Lucas discovers a love of anime; Star Wars is animated.
- Judaism takes strong root in Central Asia.
- Britain hires a non-idiot to draw the borders of their colonial territories.
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge is already rising above the surface.
- Chinese colony in the Americas thrives for a time, and then falls apart.
- Battle of the Spanish Armada ends in mutual defeat.
- Electoral college abolished.
- Sea Peoples identified.
- Neanderthal populations and cultures survive to the modern day.
- English spelling reform takes off
- A large number of remarkable works are properly written and preserved this time.
- Treaties made with First Nations are upheld.
- American film industry remains on east coast.
- Shakespeare's adaptation of Don Quixote survives.
- Columbus' ships are lost in transit.
- French Revolution spawns one in England.
- The bear at the Duluth Sector Direction Center is not discovered in time.
- Humans able to resist smallpox virus.
- Who imported all these hippos as food god damn it!
- Hays Code is never put into practice.
- Jacobite Rebellion succeeds.
- Nuclear weapons never deployed.
- Augustus dies of an infection and fever at 23.
- Electric wind turbines adopted before oil becomes popular.
- Some non-avian dinosaurs manage to survive.
- Mark Zuckerberg's parents succeed at instilling a moral conscience in their son.
- East India Company suffers a catastrophic early collapse.
- Dodo is domesticated and spreads worldwide.
- Bison are domesticated in the Americas
- Women's suffrage in America adopted during the Second Great Awakening.
- Taping Rebellion able to form breakaway nation from Qing China.
- A natural waterway links the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean; Gibraltar is closed.
- The Sahara remains verdant up through the modern day.
- Mars is slightly larger than Earth.
- Earth is a moon of a temperate gas giant.
- Northern Europe has spices now.
- Antarctica is sitting out in the South Pacific.
- An esperantido is adopted as Euro-auxillary language.
- Doggerland remains above sea level.
- Chernobyl meltdown avoided.
Or all of them at once.
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