Erebos

Erebos; 1855
Current Affairs: The Erebans have built their technology back up after turning the planet 
into a greenhouse. Steamships ply trade lanes across the pole, the Arctic Ocean now being an oversized analog for the Mediterranean.
Divergence: c 9000 BCE; writing invented
TL: 5 with relict TL11 bio- and nanotechnology
Quantum: 3
After turning their planet into a virtual Eden the "Edenites" somehow regressed and lost control of their world. 
"The tamed Earth was unstable and soon entered a greenhouse phase that increased temperatures more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The poles became tropical, while the rest of the planet was rendered uninhabitable by anything except bacteria. The uncivilized remnant humans tried establishing themselves further and further away from the equator, following the rapidly speciating life forms their own ancestors had developed (and possibly aiding the new biosphere's progress with the little knowledge of their advanced civilization that remained). Eventually the southern societies went extinct as they hit the water barrier between South America and Antarctica -- South Africa and Australia already being too hot. The northern fragment, though, managed to gain a foothold in the steamy-but-habitable lands of the Arctic Circle.
==Reference==
* Infinite Crossroads "Erebos" by Paul Drye (PYR 0921.1)
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