Deletion of 1632 universe background history

Comment: Since the material is interesting and well-written, it is hard to vote for Delete, even though  raises its ugly head. I hope the other commenters know that AfD closers who see 'Merge' are just going to dump everything into the target article and leave it to the regular editors  to sort out.  So anyone who likes this material could begin now to try to integrate it into the target 1632 (novel
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)