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Literature (Attack Machines)

Literature is at a premium in many smaller cells/countries around the world, even to this very day. Sustainable publishing houses exist in the USA, Portugal, Florida, Brazil, the UK, Italy, India, Japan and Singapore. The three largest publishers are Mondadori in Italy, Indo-Pacific in Singapore and Harper-Collins in the USA.

## Geography

With many cells isolated for years or decades after the Purge, geography has again become a major literary genre as people try to fulfill their curiosity about the "Parts Unknown". In past 20 to 40 years, most exploring was being done by individual adventurers, and their discoveries were written in travel narratives of varying accuracy. Some of these works were read widely by official as well as popular audiences, since they were the only sources of information available. Governments began to systematically explore the world beginning in the early 2000s, but travel narratives of unexplored regions remain very popular.

## Forbidden publications

### The Truth About Dead Atlantis

Written by Valdonésio Campestre in 2010, it was a web dossier about the controversial corporation Dead Atlantis.
CEFANU (Attack Machines)

The **Cape Executive Front for A New Union**, abbreviated as **CEFANU**, was a political movement turned political party that existed in the British Good Hope Territory that would soon become the new South African Union. It existed from 1964 to December 6, 1988 and in its democratic form as the CEF until December 13, 1994.

## Background

An estimated 662 people were stranded in Cape Town's Kraventhorn protection cell in 1946, for the next decade or so, since all trade and contact with the external world was stopped, they thought that they were the only people living in the world, until the two British expeditions to South Asia and Africa in the late 50s were conducted.

In 1960, Cape Town - or what survived of the pre-1946 South African government - had been handed over to the reformed British Empire. Populational estimates believe that about 1000 people were now living, one third of the population consisting of children born after Kraventhorn. Over time people who got used to the self-rule of South Africa got tired of colonial pressure.

In August 1964, exactly eighteen years on from the destruction caused from Kraventhorn, Nicholas Prettemaine founded the Cape Executive Front for A New Union, whose goal was to recreate the territory of the former Union of South Africa as much as possible.

CEFANU then held its first elections, losing to the British Empire Party, set up by the UK in a vague attempt at believing that CEFANU was a largely fraudulent entity.

## CEFANU today

More than thirty years have been elapsed since the dissolution of CEFANU. In January 2018, inter-dimensional travel to the Cape Town of the Mermachines timeline led to the cloning of all of its information. Former CEFANU members usually gather around on December 13, but in 2019, facing uncertainties, as well as the old age of its members, the last such meeting was made.
Hawaii (Attack Machines)

Hawaii is an archipelago that used to belong to the USA. At the time of Kraventhorn in March 1947, Hawaii was a territory of the USA (it took over a decade to achieve statehood OTL). A few hundred people lived in the cells and managed to survive, the coming generations later started resettling across the islands and asserted their sovereignty. They were discovered by the Californian Navy in 2005, on their way to find news of a survivor community that had been thriving in Alaska since at least the age of Kraventhorn, it and Alaska became territories of California on September 23, 2009, with self-governing statuses for each of them.

## Media

A radio station, Radio Hawaii, broadcasts in English and Hawaiian. Recently NHK's shortwave broadcasts were being picked up prompting the NHK to sign a co-operation agreement with Radio Hawaii.

In 2015, KTLA executives decided to bring television to Alaska and Hawaii. KTLA signed with Radio Hawaii to provide the infrastructure. Television Hawaii started in September of that year. It broadcast once a week, 8:30pm to 9pm on Fridays, until its first enlargement in November of that year (Thursdays 8 to 9pm, Fridays 7:30 to 9pm, Saturdays 6 to 8pm).
Japan (Mermachines)

## History

When Kraventhorn emerged in the summer of 1946, the bomb was proven to be lethal to humans but not to merpeople. An estimated 113.000 human survivors lived in Japan in a number of cells.

When that occurred it had been a year since war ended in Japan and the country was still under Allied administration. Since it was believed that foreign contact was ceased, the Japanese made the country a sakoku again between September 1946 and October 1949 - the first New Sakoku - then the country absorbed the small New Ryukyuan Kingdom and its territorial waters in November 1949. The country returned to sakoku status in 1950, and remained that way until 1963.

As a closed country, though, the country witnessed an unprecedented post-Kraventhorn economic miracle that was first noted in 1952, with the rise of a new generation of post-Kraventhorn children and families with five or more children, particularly in the rural areas, by 1960, the country had surpassed 200.000 people.

The need to make the country free again was made in 1962, when people in western Japan were picking up radio broadcasts from Chinese rump governments (especially the one in Shanghai), Taiwan and Korea, prompting Japan to start opening up to Asia and later, the world.
Zé Bostola (Attack Machines)

Zé Bostola is a Brazilian comic book character created in 2007 when the world was becoming more and more wary of being interconnected again. The crudely-drawn comics depicted a series of birds, the main one being Zé Bostola, the titular character.

Zé Bostola's limited comic books spread like wildfire in 2011 when Cláudio Dyer used the character as a source of inspiration for the coutner-culture Brazil was witnessing at the time.
Puerto Rico (Attack Machines)

**Puerto Rico** was an American territory in 1947. When the Kkraventhorn attacks happened worldwide Puerto Rico was one of the parts of the world that fared better, keeping about two thousand people in a cell in San Juan, that over time were spread across the island. In the coming decades, they started claiming territory belonging to the former Dominican Republic in the island of Hispaniola. Before the existence of the Floridian Republic, they thought that, for decades, they were alone, until bilateral trade between the two started in 1980. Puerto Rico essentially became the life force of the Caribbean, as well as the Spanish-speaking world.

No known survivors escaped on May 9, 2020.
News (Attack Machines)

News portal for the Attack Machines timeline.

## 2022

### Return to normality?

The Dyer Documents from another dimension are being send today (July 20) from the computer server in Fortaleza and scanning to the interdimensional wire to New York. Will hundreds of thousands of people be freed from the Dead Atlantis technocratic state?

### July 21 dispatch

As of today, the Dyer Documents were sent to this timeline and are being reviewed.
Japan (Attack Machines)

**Japan** is a country in Asia that housed a few cells, the most powerful being Kyoto and Tokyo. Since 1995, with the activation of the Nippon 2000 program for economical development, it lays claim to its pre-Kraventhorn territory (1945-1946) plus Okinawa.

## History

### First decades of the New Japan

March 19, 1948 was an unusual date for Japan. Despite there being a few cells many people were concerned about the nature of Kraventhorn, since more than two years had passed from the attacks over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A section of the Japanese imperial family survived in one of the cells in Tokyo.

The four largest cells were, in order of population, Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya and Shimonoseki. An additional few thousand lived outside these cells.

Kyoto was the center of the de facto new Japanese government.

### Expansionism

By the 1960s, Kyoto's sphere of influence had grown, and scouting expeditions sought to answer one question: was Kyoto alone?

Before these expeditions, radio signals coming in from Nagoya have emerged saying that Nagoya was an independent city-state that needed help. This was in September 1963. In November the Japanese government annexed the impoverished Nagoya. Japan's aim was to grow to what it used to be before 1947 with the aim set for 2000.

The discovery of a government in Shimonoseki also led to the resettlement of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the significantly large city of Fukuoka.

By 1977, all of the successor states merged and Japan now claimed the entirety of its pre-1947 territory, including the Ryukyu Islands, who before 1947 were under a quick period of American administration, and their then-recent discovery of Taipei has led to the reopening of international relations.

### Nippon 2000

In 1980, the unified Japanese government starts the Nippon 2000 modernization plan.

JNR has re-established vital train lines to cover the bulk of the country's population in 1990.

By 2000, Japan's total population has swollen to above 100,000.

## Media

### Radio

Until recently, the NHK had a virtual monopoly in the radio industry.
Ghana (Attack Machines)

Ghana is a unilaterally Ashanti Akan state located in western Africa, where before 1947 the British colony of the Gold Coast was located. The name Ghana was adopted in 1948 in honor of the old state in western Africa that doesn't have geographical connections to it. Its capital is Kumasi while it has a sea port in Accra, a partly-restored city. The Kumasi government has been a puppet of the UK for a few periods of post-Kraventhorn history, and it had mostly to do with its relations with Nigeria.
Sumner Redstone

One of the world's wealthiest men in the multiverse. In Imperfection and Attack Machines he is best (or worst) known for his attacks at freedom of speech on the internet (as Viacom in Imperfection) or among the people in general of the Reformed USA (as Avicom in Attack Machines, a company founded roughly 20 years after Viacom in Normal World and Imperfection).

In recent years he turned Avicom into a subsidiary of sorts of a larger company, Dead Atlantis.

Sumner died on August 11, 2020 in all timelines. In Attack Machines, he lived well enough to see his dream of world domination achieved.
Prefectures of Japan (Mermachines)

Japan initiated a plan to divide itself into prefectures between 1969 and 1971. This depended on the number of people living per cell. The rise of Japan starting in 1955 and mermaid development had led to the prefectures being restored to pre-1946 levels.

## Timeline

* 1969: The Prefecture Standardization Plan starts.
* 1970: Osaka Prefecture is declared as such despite occupying the entire territory.
* 1971: Japan begins a two-sided prefecture plan, combining the classical Hokkaido, Tohoku and Kanto regions into the provisional Higashinippon Prefecture. Osaka lays claim to the rest.
* 1972: Hokkaido secedes from Higashinippon, henceforth becoming Aomori Prefecture, after its new seat.
* 1975: Okinawa secedes from Osaka, granting a higher level of autonomy.
* 1981: Creation of the Kyoto Prefecture (Kyoto was still the capital) and the Nagano Prefecture.
* 1982: Creation of Nishinippon Prefecture comprising the territories of Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu (including parts of Ryukyu historically claimed by Kagoshima) with capital in Tokushima. Shizuoka, Kanagawa and Tokyo become prefectures, following development of these cities in the previous years.

## Timeline in pictures

1971 - Higashinippon and Osaka (Hokkaido split in 1972, but since there's no land border the map sorta stays the same; same for Okinawa in 1975)1981: changes in Central Japan
Canada (Mermachines)

The bulk of the population of the pre-1947 Canada lives in Ontario, formerly a region of the Mandate of the Great Lakes. In 2005, an agreement was made to divide the MGL, with the American side being handed back to the USA as a federal territory, and the Canadian side becoming an independent country again.
Cable & Wireless (Attack Machines)

**Cable & Wireless** is a British multinational telecommnications corporation, founded in 1852, and reformed some time after 1947. Cable & Wireless has been extending its reach since the 1990s, the "second age of international telecommunications", with operations in the five continents.

Its operation is akin to OTL Vodafone.
Avicom (Attack Machines)

**Avicom** (abbreviation of the former name **A**udio and **Vi**deo **Com**munications is a mass media company founded in 1984 by Sumner Redstone. Currently Avicom controls half of the USA's media, including business interests in Florida, California, England, Italy, Japan and Singapore.

Viacom is also the enemy of the Computer Corporation of America and bootleg copies of films released by Paramount are reported as an act of piracy by the law. People linked to evil organizations believe that Avicom is a cell of the XCORP.

## History

In 1984, with television in the USA starting to reach OTL 1950 levels, Sumner Redstone decided to found a company that would take advantage of the so-called "recorded material" and send it to first-run syndication across the parts of the USA that had television (between Connecticut and DC). He then founded Avicom.

Up until 1990, Avicom consisted of a back catalog of ten shows, including one show that was distributed by CBS, a 1979 sitcom about aging survivors of Kraventhorn, Those Were the Days. At this time, Avicom opened up an international sales division, starting with Florida in 1991. In areas where no television service existed, Avicom would release film-ish adaptation of some of its shows.

## Operations

* CBS: In 1995, Avicom notoriously bought the reformed CBS network, but divested in 2006 when the CBS Corporation was established. Avicom remerged with CBS in 2018. The main station is WCBS-TV, renamed from WCBW-TV in 1990, in New York.
* Paramount Pictures: reestablished in 1965 in New York City, Avicom bought it in 1995. Its main competitor is the weakening MGM, famous for its James Bond series.
* Nickelodeon: a small cable television channel that started broadcasting in 2015, initially meant to be evocative of pre-Purge days, it became an incubator for contemporary locally-made kids' content the following year. Avicom bought the channel alongside sister network MTV in 2018.
* MTV: started broadcasts in 2017. Like Nickelodeon, it became a part of Avicom in 2018.
Mermachines

This is the sister timeline of Attack Machines, where the number of humans who got survived by the so-called Kraventhorn attacks was higher on that fateful day (500.000 survivors). The human population now stands at 10.85 million.

The main divergence starts all the way back in the last days of the dinosaurs. Unbeknownst to many, a secret zone of one of the seas featured some sort of mergene, creating the first merperson, in this case, the first merdinosaur. Only a few hundred dinosaurs managed to survive under such conditions to this very day, but were frozen for many years.

The threat of Kraventhorn proved to be beneficial for immortals (aka merpeople) but changed the world of the mortals (aka humans). Limited manpower led to about a decade of struggles. However at the end of the day the United States managed to survive
FIFA World Cup (Attack Machines)

FIFA was reformed in Switzerland in 1996. Similar to the reformed IOC, the goal was to replicate the FIFA World Cup, last staged in 1938 for the third time. With limited resources and logistics similar to the Olympics, the fourht FIFA World Cup in 2002 was staged in Italy, with the national teams being Italy itself, Switzerland, Portugal and England. Shortly afterwards with the resumption of travel to Brazil the body announced its doubling to eight teams in the 2006 edition staged in Rio de Janeiro. Five teams from Europe were invited (England, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and Valencia), two from North America (USA and Florida) and one from South America (Brazil, the hosts). This World Cup was the first to be televised, but only in Brazil. The participation of the USA and Florida was a massive surprise, given that soccer, despite gaining ground, still remaind a rather unpopular sport in those countries.
Bürgerkrieg in Albernia

Nach dem Verschwinden Kaiser Hals greift Answin von Rabenmund im Ingerimm 1010 nach dem Thron von Gareth; die Answinkrise nimmt ihren Lauf. Während sich Fürst Cuanu ui Bennain und sein Freund, der Schwertkönig Raidri Conchobair an die Seite Brins von Gareth, des Sohn Hals, begeben, ergreift Isora von Elenvina gedeckt von den Unruhen im Reich die Macht in Albernia. Der einst Cuanu Versprochenen gelingt es eine Revolte anzuzetteln, die Kinder des Fürsten Invher und Ruadh gefangen zu setzen, und sich selbst zur Fürstin ausrufen zu lassen.

Ausführliche Informationen: https://albernia.westlande.info/
Expeditions (Attack Machines)

In the past few decades, a number of expeditions were made to explore and claim the so-called **Unknown Lands**, here are some of them.

### Aral Sea

Since the Purge happened in 1947, the Soviet irrigation plans of the 1960s never happened, forcing the Aral Sea to remain at its pre-1960s OTL levels.

Between 1993 and 1995, a successful expedition was made to survey the Aral Sea on behalf of the government of Russia (the Soviet Union collapsed due to possible lack of other cells). In November 1995 the Aral Sea was claimed by Russia. This allowed Russia to increase its territory but lacked the population similar to what Mongolia was before 1947.
Singapore (Attack Machines)

Singapore is a country in south-eastern Asia, the largest in the region, occupying the island of Singapore, as well as other former Malayan territories nearby, and a small part of the short-lived Indonesia.

At the turn of the millennium, Singapore was a hotbed for immigrants coming from the nearly-empty Philippines and China. Before the 2020 XCORP dictatorship, its population was estimated to be at 16.000, 80% living in mainland Singapore alone.

## History

### Self-sustenance rule

Facing the loss of British rule (initial assumptions led the Singaporeans to believe that the UK had been entirely destroyed), Singapore declared itself independent. During these years efforts to find stranded people have consolidated across the board, people in neighboring cells or areas without cells that somehow found shelter, increasing Singapore's population by a few hundred.

From 8.5 thousand people in 1947 to an estimated 25 thousand at the time of the Pinnacle, Singapore benefitted from having a growing territory and a large influence on the world’s economy. Trade with shadow governments in the Philippines - presumably serving as aid from Dead Atlantis servants outside Manila - is hurting the usual trade deal with Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, countries that were inferior years after the purge.

## Administrative divisions

Singapore was divided in three districts: the Mainland, consisting of the island of Singapore, an individual territory before 1947, the Johor district in the former Malaya and the Indonesia district, consisting of the Riau islands and a part of Sumatra.
Olympic Games (Attack Machines)

After decades plagued by the Purge's effects, fall in population, limited logistics and manpower and lack of interest, the International Olympic Committee was reformed in 1994 in the United Kingdom, with eyes set for Olympics in 1996. However due to successive delays and other logistic issues, the first post-Purge Summer Olympics happened in 2000.

Both the 2000 and 2004 editions were staged in London, with 2008 being staged in Lisbon, 2012 in Rome and 2016 in New York, the first time the Olympics were outside of the USA in a very long time. The 2020 edition was set to be hosted in Kyoto, but the social instability in the weeks leading to the XCORP takeover halted these plans.

It has been reported that XCORP does its own Olympics with Avicom employeesS.
Florida (Attack Machines)

**Florida**, best known as the **Floridian Federation** is a country in the former United States of America, that comprises of the former US state of Florida, the south-eastern portion of Georgia, as well as the Bahamas and some of Cuba. Florida had the highest number of people in cells with most of them living in an area straddled between Daytona Beach-Orlando and Tampa, with a sizeable survivor community in Miami, these made up a total of over 16,000 inhabitants upon giving the approval to leave in March 1947.
Wheel of Epheons (Attack Machines)

The **Wheel of Epheons** is a machine conceived by the high-tech evil corporation known as Kraventhorn. Eight people are reportedly selected to power up the wheel so that they can use their power to kill people.

The wheel is currently prominent in pop culture worldwide, especially after the rising Identity Wars that started in 2017. Before, riding the doomsday hype in 2012, it was popular, likely due to Mayan-looking numerals printed on it.
IBM (Attack Machines)

**International Business Machines**, also known as **IBM**, is a technology company from the United States of America. After the 1947 Kraventhorn attacks that greatly reduced the worldwide population, its offices at Binghamton served as a temporary refuge, and was isolated until scavenging expeditions from the New York-backed American government in the 1960s.

IBM's big break was in the computer boom of the 2000s, and this allowed post-purge IBM to start pursuing an international career, by starting to export to Florida. Its competitor is the Computer Corporation of America. Before the Sumner-Shari Redstone takeover in 2020, IBM reportedly employed 500 people.
Germany (Attack Machines)

**Germany** was a country that was recreated in 2011, following the merger of a few city-states with a seemingly rump sphere of influence. The capital is Frankfurt in what was the brief British-occupied Germany that existed between 1945 and 1947. Before the 2020 crisis, its population was estimated to be between 2500 and 5000.
Dead Atlantis

**Dead Atlantis** is the organization that reportedly replaced Avicom and is led by Sumner Redstone. He took over control of the entire world on May 10, 2020, prompting death to over 980.000 people worldwide, forcing a group of 3.000 to be stuck under his principles under E. Bronfman's hardrons. A minuscule selection of "detentioneers" traveled to the Normal World timeline. Sumner reportedly has control over the Wheel of Epheons in the Attack Machines timeline, powered by some of the victims of the attack. Efforts are being made to revert the scenario and bring back any kind of normality.

**ETERNAL GLORY TO REDSTONE IN HIS NEW WORLD**

HARDRONS was financed and conceived by E. Bronfman

It remained in orbit waiting to land in New York City trying to search inter-dimensional roads following the Haugemanshaft explosion ten years earlier

It is speculated that it was a success. HARDRONS in its previous stage was dismantled after that

Redstone and X convinced him to enter Dead Atlantis.

Redstone turned HARDRONS into his mobile fortress. Redstone was completing his domination.

DEAD ATLANTIS
Has the complete control of all media and its inhabitants.

Kraventhorn... decimated and defeated... as far as we know.

**THE BOOK OF TZARIE WOULD HAVE NEVER CREATED SUCH A CATASTROPHE BEFORE**

**SOMEONE'S STILL SEEKING FOR VENGEANCE. IT MIGHT BE THE LAST TURN**
Herald of Chance

## Description

Herald is the Deity of changed fates or chance. They are a Chaotic Neutral Deity, whose sole purpose is to undermine and/or disrupt the order of the universe. They achieve this goal by appealing to desperate mortals who decide to "roll the dice" by appealing to Herald. It is said that to gain Herald's favor you must either be the cause of great change or upheaval in the world. The symbol of Herald is a hooded figure with palms outstretched and two cards face down. When given their favor Herald will appear to a mortal as a hooded figure without discernible features, the mortal is then given a choice between Herald's left or right palm. Depending on the choice the mortals they either receive a boon of good luck to change their current fate, or a curse of bad luck which makes their situation worse. Though some speculate that it matters not what choice is made and that Herald decides on a whim. As such, worship or appeal to Herald is considered taboo and regarded as bad luck.
Population (Attack Machines)

The world's status in 1946 had left the world in cells. Estimates say that the population was 140.415. Current estimates give a population of more than 930.000 worldwide, although some of the information is sketchy.

## 1946 population

Country-states are in bold.

1. Florida (17.302)
2. Rome (12.639)
3. New York (9.728)
4. Singapore (8.577)
5. Kyoto/Japan (2.571)
6. London (2.292)
7. Puerto Rico (2.158)
8. Indus (2.076)
9. Rio (2.006)
10. Taipei (1.572)
11. Zurich (1.567)
12. Vienna (1.450)
13. Frankfurt (1.410)
14. Lisbon (1.386)
15. Sydney (1.094)
16. Porto (1.075)
17. Copenhagen (1.031)
18. Ibadan (1.018)
19. Hollywood (1.018)
20. Moscow (968)
21. Tokyo (917)
22. Toronto (875)
23. Beijing (856)
24. Valencia (796)
25. Santiago de Chile (791)
26. Marabá (746)
27. Helsinki (740)
28. Luanda (729)
29. Braga (718)
30. Coimbra (700)
31. São Paulo (678)
32. Huambo (678)
33. Graubunden (665)
34. Cape Town (662)
35. Manchester (662)
36. Guadalajara MX (644)
37. Nagoya (639)
38. Jeju (627)
39. Philadelphia (617)
40. Dublin (613)
41. Madrid (609)
42. Barcelona (608)
43. Belo Horizonte (593)
44. São José dos Campos (590)
45. Cairo (590)
46. Goa (589)
47. Goianinha (587)
48. Colombo (568)
49. Milan (549)
50. Edimburgh (539)
51. Manila (539)
52. Amsterdam (536)
53. Paris (536)
54. Bordeaux (534)
55. Berlin (529)
56. Recife (528)
57. Belém (524)
58. Newark (500)
59. Strasbourg (500)
60. Schenectady (488)
61. Faro (459)
62. Shimonoseki (459)
63. Mecca (458)
64. Lexington (436)
65. Honolulu (428)
66. Cardiff (425)
India (Attack Machines)

**India** is a country that occupies a part of what might have been OTL India. At the time of the Purge, a handful of cells existed, with the most significant one being in the Indus river valley. About 2.000 people lived in February 1946 and was later split into West Indus and East Indus.

Currently India is in a position similar to Florida, as it has been scavenging the coast for signs of life for decades now. The current capital is near Bombay (known locally as Mumbai). Much of India's territory consists of the OTL Indian states and UTs of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharasthra, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Goa. Estimates say that the population is of about over 100.000 people - roughly 1 in every 9 or 10 people live here. There were plans to increase the SoI to the east, but they were halted by the Hardrons. All people in the country are reportedly dead according to the power of the receptacle.

## History

### Pre-Kraventhorn

The general Indus area was trapped in the territory of what would become India and Pakistan - though their independence was achieved in August 1947 OTL, in this timeline it never happened. With weeks in advance, the cells in the Indus Valley were build and a couple thousand managed to survive - less than expected likely because of numerous logistical issues.

### The Purge

Most of the cells located at the time of the purge were dotted along the coast. The largest of these cells was located at the westernmost tip of India OTL.

### Ideological disputes

The 1950s led to the continuation of the partition talks that were discussed in the days before Kraventhorn.

### Rebirth of India and British intervention

When sketchy reports about the thriving countries in the former Hyderabad-Rajkot Cell Zone were picked up by Britain, a new overseas expedition began. This time crossing the Suez Canal to reach there, as the African route of 1966 had led to successful surveillance of British African possessions, as well as the Portuguese ones.

In June 1974, ships containing 200 Indian and Pakistani immigrants and their descendants who had lived in London before the purge had returned, giving them orders to redirect to their indicated countries. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the former Bombay cell was claimed by the British under a 10-year lease (similar to Hong Kong). When the lease ended, Bombay simply joined India, allowing it to extend its territorial claims and create a sphere of influence. With that, Hindi and Urdu gained a resurgence in their respective countries.

## Demographics

India is dominated by two religions: Sikhism and Hinduism. Sikhism is dominant in some areas due to most of its territory lying within Gujarat. There is also a significant Islamic minority, even though some of these people have moved to Pakistan or Arabia.
Imperfection

This timeline will change. Back in late February 2020 it reacted to whatever countries were infected by the pandemic. Since it has grown to encompass nearly every country in the world, the concept of the timeline was changed to prevent further allusions to it. What will come in the new canon is the arrival of totalitarian governments.
Dreamland

**Dreamland** is a concept that exists in both Attack Machines and Mermachines, both timelines involving most of humanity being destroyed by Kraventhorn.

The concept takes its name from **Somewhere in Dreamland**, a 1936 animated short by Adolph Zukor and Max Fleischer (both of whom didn't survive Kraventhorn ten years later). In the film, two impoverished children dream of a  "candy democracy", though the concept changes from one person to another. This is mostly applicable to survivors of Kraventhorn who spent their childhoods in countries in the former USA - California, Florida and the reformed USA.
Guam (Attack Machines)

Small former American territory that was owned by the USA for nearly fifty year before the Purge and had its population reduced to less than 100. A camp was built by the US government and was allowed for locals, but Chamorros were forbidden. Nevertheless a small group of Chamorros were allowed in, despite the government suppressing their language and culture for about 25 years.

With a far reduced population, the few Chamorros went further south, whereas Hagatña (Agana) was limited to the people seen as "prioritary" for the cell.

Over the coming decades the now-sovereign Guam swollen its population due to successive baby booms. By 1985 Guam had 40people and was starting to pick up ham radio broadcasts from Japan and Singapore.

Without the USA and its military, Guam seemed to fare out pretty well, but the natives were putting the pressure of overfishing due to the lack of imports for decades. This all changed when a Japanese company started shipping foods to Guam and Southeast Asian survivor states. Some took the advantage of moving to Japan, as they still thought the United States were a defunct country.

By the 90s, with prospects of building a reformed United Nations, the discovery of countries in the former United States of America put Guam's fate at risk. By the logic, California would have annexed Guam, as they were on the verge of annexing the Hawaiian nation-state and were headed to Alaska, to thereform create the Pacific States of America.
Switzerland (Attack Machines)

**Switzerland** is quite possibly the largest landlocked country in Switzerland. Its 1.500+ people in the cell of Zurich started to disperse over the course of time, before finding two smaller cells and trying to reinstate the government in Bern.

As of 2020, Switzerland is a loose collection of exclaves. Its sphere of influence corresponds to the pre-Purge Switzerland.
Chicago (Attack Machines)

Chicago is a city that somehow survived Kraventhorn but had little luck in conservation efforts. For a start it had a post-Purge population of 175, despite being the largest city in the Midwest. Efforts of finding survivors were considered fruitless and they decided to settle on a new government. With the ongoing development of telecommunications in the Reformed United States of America and the successful picking of signals from New York in the 1960s, aware of the existence of someone else far more powerful than they, it became the capital of the Federation of the Great Lakes, doing a Kitanihon by spreading through a vast territory yet having reduced population, the majority of whom lived within Chicago itself.
Firun 1014

### Anfang Firun: Zeitreise zur Schlacht in der Gorischen Wüste

Eine Gruppe Helden gerät in einen Zeitstrom und wird in die Vergangenheit gezogen. Sie zerstören am 22. Boron 590 BF während der Schlacht zwischen Rohal und Borbarad das Kristallherz des Dämonenmeisters und ermöglichen so dessen Verbannung in den Limbus. Siehe dazu Krieg der Magier.

### Firun: In der Wüste Gor wird ein Schwarzmagier aufgehalten

Liscom von Fasar, ein ergebener Diener Borbarads, versucht seinen Herrn und Meister wieder nach Dere zurückzuholen. Eine Gruppe Helden nimmt einen schweren Marsch durch die Gorische Wüste auf sich, um Liscom das Handwerk zu legen. Siehe dazu Staub und Sterne.

### 15. Firun: Walpurga von Weiden zieht auf Burg Olats Wall

Markgräfin Walpurga von Weiden zieht auf der Burg Olats Wall ein und beginnt ihre Herrschaft über die Mark Heldentrutz.
British Broadcasting Corporation (Attack Machines)

The **British Broadcasting Corporation** was created in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company. In 1927 it was renamed British Broadcasting Corporation and adopted its iconic Reithian values. Television started in 1936 but was halted by the war, which led to the merger of the two radio services into a united national network. Then, with the war over, the BBC started two new national radio networks and resumed its television service.

In late October the BBC decided to put a halt to the second and third radio services and the television service again due to the declining population and manpower. In the years that followed, the BBC started to resume its television service with a far more limited output.

## Radio Times

In July 1948, the BBC started reissuing the Radio Times again, as a monthly publication. The publication later became fortnightly in 1960 and weekly again in 1985. The Radio Times has reclaimed the early tagline of "the official organ of the BBC". It publishes all radio and TV listings as the BBC holds a total monopoly.

## Radio

The BBC relaunched its second service in 1958.
Bosparanisches Reich

Das **Bosparanische Reich**, auch **Altes Reich** genannt, war das erste zivilisierte Reich güldenländischer Siedler auf aventurischem Boden. Benannt wurde es nach der Hauptstadt Bosparan am Yaquir.
Das Bosparanische Reich entstand laut offizieller Zeitrechnung am 7. Praios 1492 v. BF mit der Gründung durch Horas, den ersten Kaiser und Lichtboten, allerdings ist dies eine mythologisch verklärte Angabe, da es de facto erst ca. 950 v. BF mit dem Ende des Horasiats Yaquiro entstand. Es ging mit Bosparans Fall nach der Zweiten Dämonenschlacht unter.
Das Bosparanische Reich wurde unter der Herrschaft der Horaskaiser das mächtigste Menschenreich Aventuriens und behielt diese Position bis zu seinem Ende. Es beherrschte den Kontinent mit wenigen Ausnahmen (Thorwal, Nördliche Wildnis, Bornland, Maraskan, Echsensümpfe, westlicher Regenwald, Inseln der Charyptik). Die größte Ausdehnung erreichte es im 42. Regierungsjahr Murak-Horas'. In die Zeit Silem-Horas' fällt das Zwölfgötter-Edikt.
Das Neue Reich übernahm nach Bosparans Fall die Stellung der Kontinentalmacht. Bosparan lag lange in Trümmern und blieb wegen der Dämonenpakte von Fran-Horas und Hela-Horas verrufen. In der jüngeren Vergangenheit strebte das Horasreich danach, das Erbe des Bosparanischen Reichs anzutreten.

Die verwendete Zeitrechnung im Bosparanischen Reich orientierte sich an Horas' Erscheinen.
Animation (Attack Machines)

Animation is a recent thing, even though American animation before the mid-November 1946 purge still being popular. The industry's center is in the United States.

## History

### State of animation before the Purge

Animation just before the Purge was a children's or family affair. A number of juggernauts were making their own theatrical shorts, most notably MGM with their Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery cartoons, Paramount with their Fleischer ones, WB with their Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and obviously Disney itself. The last of these companies was so ambitious that by then they had released eleven feature films - three of them combining animation with live-action. Despite all of that they were troubling in this phase and laid off most of their staff. Their latest film - Song of the South - was released on November 12 - just three days before the Purge.
Chrysalis

In June 2009, in Japan, scientists in Tokyo and Osaka discover a strange planet where the world consisted of the islands of Japan, Sakhalin-Karafuto and Jeju, in a coincidental arrangement of landmasses. That world was stuck in 1047 (technologically) apart from those two scientist colonies.
Over four million humans live alongside centaur-type creatures with the lower part of a horse, bear or goat. The rest of the world is dominated by merpeople.

## Territories

### Aaruneben

This is the northernmost point of the islands and corresponds roughly to Wakkanai.
Boron 1011

##### Answinkrise

Während Prinz Brin die Suche nach seinem Vater abbricht, um sich der Bedrohung durch die Orks zu widmen, steht das Reich am Beginn eines Bürgerkriegs: In fast allen Provinzen stehen sich Answinisten und Loyalisten gegenüber, lediglich Weiden unter Waldemar von Löwenhaupt stellt sich klar auf die Seite des Prinzen. Perricum und Ragath fallen Brin zu.

### Mitte Boron: Horasreich annektiert Gebiete im Süden

Das Horasreich annektiert einige der Waldinseln.
Kate Paul

Another person who exists in the multiverse of timelines, as she appears in all six. Regardless of timeline, in timelines where Kraventhorn did far worse, she was born in Savannah, in southern Georgia, and is an illustrator. She might be best known for her artwork of meranimals in the Mermachines timeline (Mermay-specific artwork in the Normal World).

In the Attack Machines and Mermachines timelines, she is friends with a certain Kicking Cones.

Just to give you an idea of what she does
Corda Salvian

## Beschreibung

Eolan "Corda Salvian" Loriano ist ein junger Mittelländer drahtiger Statur, mit kurzen bis mittellangen dunkelblonden Haaren und grünen Augen. Auch einen kurzen Bart, der jedoch nicht besonders gepflegt aussieht, trägt er. Er hat ein unauffälliges Gesicht und ist meist schlicht gekleidet. Obwohl er nur 18 Jahre alt ist, ist ihm anzusehen, dass er von so manchen schweren Ereignissen gezeichnet ist. Er strahlt deshalb eine Aura der Erfahrung aus und es ist ihm nicht anzusehen, dass er erst 18 Jahre alt ist. Corda trägt meist einen Rucksack voller Handwerksutensilien sowie ein Kurzschwert am Gürtel, das er jedoch eher ungern benutzt.

## Leben

Aufgewachsen in Neetha als Sohn von Mondino und Alesia Loriano, hat er neben der Schule in Alesia's Laden Erfahrung gesammelt und ist auf eine Karriere als Händler vorbereitet worden. Außerdem legte seine Mutter Alesia Wert darauf, dass der junge Eolan lernt die Geige zu spielen lernte. Das wurde auch schnell eine große Leidenschaft von ihm. Außer den gelegentlichen Ausflügen in andere Handelsstätte hatte er aber keine große Leidenschaft für das kaufmännische Handwerk entwickeln können.
In der Schule hatte Eolan seinen besten Freund Valerio, kennengelernt. Die beiden waren unzertrennlich und als Valerio sich mit 16 dazu entschied, seinem Vater nachzukommen und der königlichen Armee beizutreten, war die Entscheidung für Eolan leicht, seinem besten Freund zu folgen.
Die beiden stellten sich als handwerklich begabt heraus und wurden nach zwei Jahren einem Sappeurtrupp zugeteilt. Valerio und Eolan ragten besonders durch ihre Erfindungen und ihren Einfallsreichtum bei den Sappeuren heraus. Valerio war hauptsächlich damit beschäftigt, neue Geräte und Konstrukte zu entwickeln, Eolan's Stärke lag in der Improvisation, auch auf dem Schlachtfeld.
Eines Tages jedoch ist bei der Aushöhlung eines Schachtes, die von Valerio angeleitet wurde, die Decke eingestürzt, ein halbes dutzend Sappeure, darunter auch Valerio, sind dabei erschlagen worden. Den Tod seines Kumpanen konnte Eolan nie verkraften. Ein Jahr verweilte er noch unter den Sappeuren, bis er es nicht mehr ertragen konnte, jeden Tag an das Fehlen seines besten Freundes erinnert zu werden. So kehrte er nach einer Kampagne und den 2 Wochen Pause, die seinem Trupp als Auszeit vom ständigen Marschieren gegeben wurde, nicht mehr zu den Sappeuren zurück und desertierte. Daraufhin bereiste er auf der Suche nach Abenteuer und Arbeit die weite Welt und traf so in einer Taverne auf eine Gruppe erfahrener Abenteurer, denen er sich anschließ...
Dyer Documents (Attack Machines)

The **Dyer Documents** refer to exchanges between Cláudio Dyer in the Attack Machines timeline, living in exlle in Fortaleza in the Mermachines timeline and the world of Attack Machines, ravaged by Dead Atlantis in May 2020. The documents demand a solution to stop the Dead Atlantis desire for destruction in time for the so-called Last Sacrifice.

## The documents

### Document 6

It is of utmost importance that, if this will be sent to Shari Redstone, I will return to the world where I was born and see it develop.

(to be published on July 5)
Film (Attack Machines)

**Film**, cinema, movie, whatever the name used, it's still interchangeable.

In January 1948, the film industry was already experiencing the rise of color techniques, whereas most of the workforce worldwide was destroyed.

Within a decade, the industry began to recover in the former USA, Italy, Japan and Singapore. New York became the new Hollywood, a position it held long before then.

## Film serials

In the restored cities of Mumbai (India) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu), reports came of film serials similar to soap operas emerging, shot on color film. These serials attract huge audiences and examples include Kasamh Se (produced by South Asia Photoplays) in Mumbai and Vasantham (produced by Tamil Photoplay) in Chennai. These series gained a second youth before 2020 as they were screened on the nascent television services of these countries.

## International co-productions

An adaptation of the tragic tale of the Titanic incident of 1912 was first conceived by American scriptwriters in 2011, ahead of the hundredth anniversary of its sinking. The film was supposed to be a co-production between American and British filmmakers, scriptwriters and companies, and was a sign of growing international co-operation even in the film sector post-Purge.

## The classics

Some movies released before the 1948 Purge are still popular (despite the Second Purge).
Sports (Attack Machines)

Sports were making a massive comeback in certain parts of the world following World War 2.

Unfortunately, the flal of 1947 led to sports being all but ostracized due to factors such as the limited population post-Kraventhorn.

This page chronicles what happened to sports in the 72 years of the "free world" until the Dead Atlantis takeover.
Dunkle Zeiten

Die **Dunklen Zeiten** (auch **Dunkles Zeitalter** und **Dunkle Jahre**) sind der Zeitraum von 564 v. BF (Tod Fran-Horas') bis 162 v. BF (Thronbesteigung Brigon-Horas'). Sie waren eine Zeit des Niedergangs, Chaos und Zerfalls der (menschlichen) Reiche Aventuriens. Typische Aspekte im Bosparanischen Reich waren die Entvölkerung weiter Landesteile (etwa hervorgerufen durch Seuchen), Krisen in Künsten und Wissenschaft, Götzenanbetung sowie häufige Herrscherwechsel. Zudem prägten militärische, aber auch religiöse Konflikte und (höfische) Dekadenz diese Jahre. So gründete Nargazz Blutfaust das Könikreisch des Nortens der Orks. Nach dem Tod von Sheranbil V. al'Shahr 415 v. BF brachen auch im Diamantenen Sultanat die Dunklen Zeiten an, was zu der Loslösung des Großsultanat Elem führte.
Vision der Prophetin Illumnestra

Die Vision der Prophetin Illumnestra ist Teil der Kosmogonika, einem der wichtigsten Dokumente des Zwölfgötterglaubens.

Es wird kommen ein Tag, da die Seelenmühle des Dämonensultans zerbirst, und hervorquillt die neue Brut der Niederhöllen.
Es wird kommen ein Tag, da die Trommel des Beel-Halhar ertönt und nicht verstummt, solange noch ein Sterblicher Atem hat.
Es wird kommen ein Tag, da der Namenlose seinen Verrat vollendet, und Rache und Angst werden seine rechte und seine linke Hand sein, wenn er das Tor der Welten öffnet.
Es wird kommen ein Tag, da die Dämonen einbrechen und zerschlagen die Sphären.
Es wird kommen ein Tag, da treten die Toten aus den Hallen, und es wird eröffnet den Kriegern, warum sie gestorben, und den Seefahrern, warum sie ertrunken.
Morocco (Attack Machines)

Morocco, also known as **Cherifian Morocco**, is a state in north-western Africa, comprising of some of pre-1947 French Morocco. Its population at the time of the Second Purge was estimated to be of 2500, and already had multilateral trade with many foreign countries, joining the UN in 2000.

In 2019 the Brazilian song Sobre as Nossas Cabeças (or Sob o Sol) was ratified as its national anthem, and was first performed oficially in February 2020, before the deadly attacks in May. This was unusual as the song was in Brazilian Portuguese. At an official scale it has no lyrics in either official language.

French and Arabic are its official languages.
Rahja 1010

###### Dritter Orkensturm

Die zwergische Bevölkerung Tjolmars verrät die Stadt an die anrückenden Orks, so dass sich die Stadt ergeben muss. Nach dem Verrat kann der Korogaiführer Mardugh Orkhan die Stadt kampflos passieren.

### Mitte Rahja: Gefangenahme der Kaiserlichen Truppen auf den Zyklopeninseln

Der horasische Admiral Gilmont Quent nimmt in Rethis auf den Zyklopeninseln die Reste der kaiserlichen Truppen gefangen.

### 15. Rahja: Lowanger Heer stellt sich gegen Orks

###### Dritter Orkensturm

Ein eilig zusammengestelltes Heer aus Lowangen stellt sich dem Vormarsch der Schwarzpelze in den Weg.

### 24. Rahja: Orks erobern Rorkvell

###### Dritter Orkensturm

Mardugh Orkhan erobert das Städtchen Rorkvell im Rorwhed und lässt sich dort nieder.
Garether Kaiser

Perval von Gareth bestieg 933 BF, nachdem in der Kaiserlosen Zeit 74 selbsternannte Kaiser um die Herrschaft gerungen hatten, den Thron des Mittelreichs. Als Sieger der Thronfolgekriege nahm er den Namen "**von Gareth**" an. Sein erbarmungsloses Verhalten brachte ihm den Beinamen *der Grausame* ein. Er verbot die Nutzung von stumpfen Waffen beim Kaiserturnier zu Gareth und begründete die KGIA sowie die Kanzlei für Scharmützel, Gestech und allerlei Kurzweil. Seine Kinder, die Zwillinge Bardo und Cella erbten auf seinen Wunsch hin gemeinsam den Kaisertitel.

Die Macht der Kaiser nahm in den folgenden Jahren stetig ab. Und auch unter der Herrschaft Kaiser Hals des Göttlichen bröckelte die Macht des Greifenthrons, Provinzen erklärten sich für unabhängig, Königin Amene III. Firdayon vom Lieblichen Feld nahm den Titel der Horas-Kaiserin an und die Oger, der Dritte Orkensturm und Answins Ursupation schwächten das Reich weiter.
Hals Sohn Brin griff in jener Zeit auf den Titel des *Reichsbehüters* zurück.
Teclador

**Teclador**, der angeblich jüngste der sechs Alten Drachen, wurde von Nandus geschaffen. Er wacht über das Gleichgewicht der Kräfte zwischen Göttern, Geisterwesen, Menschen, Tieren und Dere.

Satinav soll ihm die Gabe der Prophezeiung verliehen haben, weswegen er bereits vor schwerwiegenden Ereignissen einzugreifen imstande wäre.
Brazil (Mermachines)

Brazil claims the totality of its pre-1947 territories, yet human settlements are concentrated in the coastal area that kickstarted Brazil upon its European exploration a few centuries earlier. The human population is believed to be of close to 200,000. Due to the abundance of merpeople, Brazil gained the nickname Terra de Iemanjá (Land of Yemanja).

Brazli built stable relations with Portugal upon rediscovery in 1955, and later with Angola and Nigeria.