Alternate History

## **Canon To The Main Universe**

Anime: .*hack, A Certain Magical Index, Chrono Crusade,Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou, Fullmetal Panic, Gintama, Jin, Kiki's Delivery Service, Gundam Series, Sakura Wars, Strike Core Witches, Tokyo Ghoul.*

Comics: *Asterix, Lawdog, Tom Strong, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, DMZ, Astro City, Scarlet Traces, Ministry of Space, Invasion, Lilith (Sans details like Achilies being blinded or Killing Jesse James), The Boys, Crossed, Borgia, The Royals: Masters of War, Ex Machina,*

Film: *The Good Dinosaur, Captain Berlin, District 9, Perfect Creature*

Literature: *ATL Stories from the Retrofuture.The Great Pacific War(*though its brief compared to the later one). *The Sound of Thunder, Ruled Britannia, The Man with the Iron Heart, 1901,The Day After Gettysburg, Axis of Time,* Shelley Jackson's 2006 novel *Half Life, Temeraire, Galileo's Dream,*

### **Earth 3**

**Romans in America**

a Roman fleet being blown far off course by a storm and arriving in the future site of the real world NYC. From there, they strike alliances with the local tribes and create a new Roman Republic which comes to dominate North America, except for small colonial purchases by the British and Dutch (the Spanish being driven off after the Western Romans capture Columbus' crew and reverse engineer their guns). Among other things also demonstrated in the wider world, the Byzantine Empire lasts until the late 20th century, Spain and China fight a colonial war in Australia, and the Panama Canal gets dug by the Western Romans in the 16th century.

*A Study in Emerald*

### **Earth 6**

*1784: Liberty*: Britain defeats the American Revolution, Washington is executed, most of the Founding fathers are shipped off to a prison camp in Barbados and an army is sent to destroy the last rebel redoubt, called Liberty.

### **Earth X**

The Axis Won World War II, though Japan and Germany began a war. The *Kerberos* saga and *Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade*, take place here.

*Hitler, Dead or Alive, Block 109, Uber, It Happened Here, Fatherland* are set in this universe.

The backstory of the South Korean/Japanese action film *2009: Lost Memories* has a time traveler prevent the assassination of Ito Hirobumi in 1909, which alters history in that Japan retains its imperial conquests (so Korea is still under Japanese rule in the present-day) and allies with the United States in World War II(which here it does but later, like in Jin-Roh).

*Deep Blue Fleet,*

*1942*

*Rising Sun* by Robert Conroy in which the Japanese submarine picket line, which in our timeline was both late and poorly organized, at the Battle of Midway is both on time and in place resulting in a devastating Japanese victory taking out all but one of the American carriers before the real battle even starts. Japan launches an invasion of Alaska and conducts carrier-based airstrikes against the West Coast of the United States.

The Novel *Battle Royale* takes place here(Specifically the Novel, which mention the first Battle Royale taking place in 1947.

Robert Harris's *Fatherland* takes place in a Nazi-controlled Europe in the days leading up to Hitler's 75th birthday, where Berlin is built to Speer's designs and the main character is trying to uncover the big hushed up project regarding the Jews. The book is one of the more realistic visions of a Nazi victory world.

By the 1970s, Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan have conquered everything other than North America, Australasia, and parts of South America. Africa has suffered an enormous genocide every bit as complete as the one inflicted upon the Jews, and the Axis powers stand poised in 1975 to start a final war that the United States is bound to lose, given the military power of Nazi Germany.

An organization in 1975 discovers the secret behind the Nazi successes of the previous decades. The group decides that it will build its own time machine to go back and stop the present nightmare of Nazi world domination. This 1975 time machine is not as advanced or powerful as the original 2020s machine, so they can only open a gate to 1939. The plan is to establish a military alliance between the 1975 America of President John F. Kennedy and the 1939 America of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The team starts noticing that events they had no hand in are different (such as the Joe Louis versus John Henry fight and the death of Pope Pius XI) and with Einstein's help realize that all possible outcomes already exist and all time travel does is take you to one of these other branches.

Len Deighton's *SS-GB* is set in a Nazi-occupied Britain. America remained isolationist, but sends a crew to destroy an experimental nuclear reactor. For deniability, they've been transferred to the Canadian Army.

*In the Presence of Mine Enemies* posits a world in which the U.S. remained isolationist throughout WWII, and Germany defeated all the major European powers. World War III ends with the nuclear pacification of the US. Set in the year 2009, the book follows a sect of hidden Jews as they struggle to survive during a time of political upheaval. Scenery includes: a Japanese empire, the radioactive remains of the Liberty Bell in a German Museum, and a Nazi version of "The Producers" that involves a horrible play about Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. Notable for its realistic presentation of these, alternative-universe, modern Nazis as being good people with a bad upbringing. And the ending bears no resemblance at all to the fall of the Soviet Union. Really, honest. Well, maybe a little.

Presidents

Joseph P.Kegan 1961-

James T.Cassidy 19750

### **Earth 11**

In the backstory for the Sliders episode that Earth 11 is based off of, it is explained that most men were wiped out due to a virus. This could cause a diplomatic crisis between Earth 1 and Earth 11 in which Earth 11 wants to open diplomatic channels but Earth 1 is afraid that people from Earth 11 are contagious.  Also, I'd imagine that a lot of women from Gilead would like to flee to Earth 11 after the Sons of Jacob take over, which is kind of ironic considering that the USA from that episode of Sliders is essentially a gender-reversed, secular, nicer version of Gilead.

### **Earth 23**

*Lion's Blood* and *Zulu Heart* by Steven Barnes are two alternate history novels in which Alexander the Great builds his empire not in Eurasia but in Africa. Thousands of years later, Africa is the seat of the world's most powerful nations and has colonized North America, using captives from the tribes of Darkest Europe as slave labor.

works like Noughts and Crosses and Lion's Blood.

### **Earth 30**

Soviet Union Earth.

Hitler moved to America in 1919 and became a science fiction writer, including writing *Lord of the Swastika* which subsequently wins the Hugo Award and the "colorful uniforms" described therein become a regular feature of cosplayers at science fiction conventions. Hitler's other published works include the long-running fanzine *Storm* and the novels *The Master Race*, *The Thousand Year Rule*, and *The Triumph of the Will*.

Without Hitler's leadership, the Nazi Party fell apart in 1923 and the Communist Party of Germany succeeded in fomenting a German communist revolution in 1930. As this alternate history continues, there is reference to a "Greater Soviet Union" which took over the United Kingdom in 1948, and whose influence is growing in Latin America by 1959 (*The Iron Dream*).

The Empire of Japan has retained its militarism, with reference to its bushido code of conduct, while the United States vacillates against the Greater Soviet Union's ascendancy. Due to the Greater Soviet Union threat, the United States and Japan have a close military and strategic alliance. Japanese militarist values are much admired in the United States. Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (collectively called the Pacific Pact) are the only major powers standing between the Greater Soviet Union and total control of the globe—yet most Americans seem unable to be roused to deal with the looming Soviet danger.

Tibet rose as a superpower (the Yellow Empire) at that time, accumulating enough super-weapons to conquer the world through a Blitzkrieg World War Three, before being defeated by a world Resistance movement led by the British Empire thanks to their superior super-weapons (*Blake and Mortimer*).

In 1945, something went wrong and the US never created an Atomic Bomb (*The Last West*)

During the 1950's, the Soviet Union almost managed to conquer the West thanks to Soviet Super Science and even though its plan was foiled at the last moment, it's very likely it would have resulted in World War Four (*Blake and Mortimer*).

the decision of John Kennedy to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a signal to the world that the United States was not as serious about fighting the Cold War as it held itself out as being. After the US withdraw its troops from the Vietnam War in 1968, communists and socialists formed popular fronts in the face of the United States' perceived weakness. With the Soviet Union's support, these popular fronts were able to successfully topple Western Europe's capitalist and democratic governments and established People's Republics. The United States was the last nation to fall. By the end of the 20th century, the entire world had turned to communism. By the late 21st century, the United States was seen as harmless and was completely obedient to the Soviet Union.

I don't think that Red Alert should be set in Earth 30 because a) the Soviets don't win in Red Alert unless you play as them and b) Red Alert was already explained away as being the result of a temporary alteration to the main timeline.  However, maybe as an in-joke, maybe Yuri tries to take over the World Soviet Government, only to get stopped by 4 psychic girls from project Libitina.  So, Yuri from Red Alert fights Yuri from Doki Doki Literature Club!

### **Timeline 191**

A Combination of The *Southern Victory* Series, *Anno Dracula,* *Joe Steele, Back in the USSA.*

*ClockWork Century,* which is set during the Second War of the States in 1880 takes place here, with Airships and Zombie viruses being among the Weapons used.

In *The Guns of the South*, South African white supremacists have stolen a time machine and, looking for a future ally, supply the American Confederacy with thousands of AK47s, superior tactical knowledge about the Union's deployments and nitroglycerin pills for General Lee's heart condition.

*1882: Custer In Chains*: General Custer wins the Battle of the Little Big Horn through sheer luck, goes on to become President, and starts a war with Spain over Cuba. This is Owen Thursday instead of Custer and is altered somewhat with Thursday becoming President in the 1884 election.

Also includes *Jour J:* The French failed to stop the 1914 German offensive, Paris was taken, and the French government evacuated to Algeria. In Russia, Because of the involvement of French agents, the Bolshevik revolution is aborted, and the Anarchists take over instead.

*"If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg"* is in here, though World War I is not prevented.

*1920: America's Great War* is set here but as a brief conflict between America and Germany. Germany, after defeating the French and British forces goes on to dominate the world and in 1920 decides to eliminate its only potential competition before the Unites States gets too strong, invading through its puppet state of Mexico.

*Bring the Jubilee* is also set in this world.

In *Joe Steele*, Stalin's family immigrated to the US, he was born and raised here and becomes President.

Event: ADOLF HITLER is KILLED by RUNAWAY HORSE-DRAWN WAGON FILLED WITH BRATWURST, THE FOURTH SUCH FATALITY IN VIENNA IN SIX DAYS(*Alternate History Search Results*)

As a result: Vienna passes tough horse-drawn vehicle laws, prompting the quick acceptance of automobiles; Austria becomes automotive industrial powerhouse; World War I proceeds, Germany and allies win thanks to technological advances; 30s worldwide depression averted; Willy Brandt first man on the moon, 1958

In *Wild Cards,* There are also some alternate histories in the stories themselves — one character spends several months in a timeline where the USA is a Communist USSA, and the plot of *Low Chicago* revolves around trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong after an accident with time travel powers sets off a 'Time Storm'.

US Presidents

Abraham Lincoln(Republican, 1861–1865)

Horatio Seymour(Democrat, 1865–1869

Benjamin Franklin Butler(Democrat, 1869-1877)

Samuel J. Tilden(Democrat, 1877-1881)

Silas P.Ratcliffe(Republican, 1881–1882)

Own Thursday(1882-1885)

John ABC Smirh(Democrat, 1885–1889)(*Alternate Presidents*)

Alfred Thayer Mahan(Democrat, 1889-1897)

Thomas Brackett Reed(Democrat, 1897-1902)

Matthew Harrison Brady(Democrat, 1902–1913)

John Hattison(Democrat, 1909-1913)

Heeza Liar(Democrat, 1913–1921)

Upton Sinclair (Socialist, 1921–1929)

Hosea Blackford (Socialist, 1929–1933)

Judson Hammond(Democrat, 1933–1937)

Al Smith(Socialist, 1937–1942)

Charles W. La Follette (Socialist, 1942–1945)

John Lindsay(Democrat, 1945- )

Joe Steele(Democrat, 1945-1953)

## **Uncategorized**

### **Dinosaurs survive**

In the *West of Eden* trilogy, the dinosaur-killing asteroid never hits, which allows an intelligent reptilian species to evolve. Mammals are only present in large numbers in the Americas, and mankind evolved in the Canadian tundra rather than the African savannah.

One of the most extreme examples is the illustrated fictional-science book *The New Dinosaurs* by Dougal Dixon, which presents an alternate timeline in which the Cretaceous extinction event never happens, dinosaurs remain the Earth's dominant lifeforms, mammals remain tiny insectivores, and no sapient species ever comes into existence (it's best to read it with a pinch of salt as it contains a lot of biological impossibilities, Science Marches On, and Zeerust).

The (regrettably defunct) Speculative Dinosaur Project, aka Specworld, explores a similar scenario and it's much more up-to-date.

This page presents a few more alternate evolution ideas, mainly focusing on different ways sapient species could have come about.

*The Good Dinosaur* and The *Super Mario Bros* movie alternate universe also use this Universe but at different dates.

### **A Different Flesh**

a short story collection taking place in a world where *Homo erectus* made it to the Americas instead of the predecessors of the native American peoples. Differences include the theory of evolution being discovered by Samuel Pepys (since the "sims" are an obvious link between humans and our own great apes), a wider range of North American fauna (at least until the Jamestown settlers start cutting through the sabertooth tigers) and significant political differences (the Conscript Fathers hew closer to The Roman Republic when they establish Alt!USA, while the Spanish colonies in Central and South America grow more slowly without the infrastructure of earlier civilizations to build upon).

And yet another where the Mississippi River expanded into a continental divide in prehistory, rendering eastern North America as a distinct continent which comes to be identified with Atlantis.

Similar to the above is the novella *Down in the Bottomlands*, in which the Atlantic Ocean never reflooded the Mediterranean Sea, as (according to modern geology) it did about 5.5 million years ago in our timeline, resulting in the vast sunken desert of the title. The story also features a Neanderthal nation occupying much of the Bottomlands, as well as a large chunk of OTL Western Europe.

The Western Hemisphere is inhabited by *Homo erectus* rather than *Homo sapiens*, as well as megafauna long extinct in the known world. Consequently, the colonization of the New World by Europe has been a far more difficult process. As time goes by, various characters debate the nature of the "sims" (as *erectus* is known) and their role in human history.

1610: At the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, Edward Maria Wingfield must rescue his infant daughter from the tribe of wild sims who kidnapped her. The opening passages reveal that Captain John Smith was killed and eaten by sims in 1607.

1661: The story is made up of a series of entries in Samuel Pepys' diary. Pepys owns two sims (which can easily be trained in household chores) and contemplates the origin of the species. By watching these sims, as well as observing various other animals found in North America, Pepys develops the theory of evolution.

Only one of the diary's entries in the story has a corresponding entry in the real diary Pepys kept.

1691: Thomas Kenton, a scout from Virginia and descendant of Edward Wingfield, and his faithful sim companion Charles, explore the interior of North America. Kenton is after the teeth of the spearfang cats that populate the area. He is captured by a group of wild sims, and must hope that Charles will rescue him. The story structure is reminiscent of James Fenimore Cooper.

1782: The first steam-driven train is invented by Richard Trevithick in Boston, Plymouth Commonwealth. A race is held in a commonwealth bordering the New Nile starting in Springfield and ending in Cairo, with one of the hairy elephant-pulled trains they threaten to replace.

Notes: 1) The story has some parallels to the legend of John Henry. 2) In this story it is learned that England's American colonies broke off into a new nation - the Federated Commonwealths of America - in 1738, and westward expansion began much sooner than in our history, due to the lack of indigenous humans in the regions to be colonized. 3) The character Trevithick is American rather than British, and appears to be 20 years older than his historic age, so he is probably not the historical figure but an analog. In Turtledove works, it is common for historical figures to have fictitious offspring (as with Edward Wingfield's daughter and her own great-grandson Thomas Kenton above) as a result of the butterfly effect.

1804: A house-slave named Jeremiah goes on trial for running away, and his attorney presents the argument that, with the existence of sims, there is no need for human beings to enslave other human beings. They are successful, and the court's decision leads to the emancipation of all human slaves. There are echoes of the historical Dred Scott Decision.

Note: More about the FCA is learned in this story. The government is based very closely on the Roman Republic. Although the historic USA used that example as a template, the FCA has gone even further, for example by having two chief executives who can veto each other, and a Senate whose members serve for life.

1812: Henry Quick, a trapper in the Rocky Mountains, is wounded by a bear and is nursed back to health by sims. While there, he ends up impregnating one of the sims, resulting in a Sim-Human hybrid. His time among the sims makes him far more sympathetic to them.

1988: A group of sim's rights activists, including a great-great-granddaughter of Henry Quick, protesting experimentation on sims, "rescue" Matt, a sim infected with HIV, from a medical lab but fail to take enough HIV inhibitor, which is medicine that suppresses the effects of HIV and AIDS. Eventually, this forces the activists to return Matt to the researchers.

### **Byzantium still exists**

*Agent of Byzantium* involved a Byzantine Imperial Agent in the 1300s, in a world where Muhammad converted to Christianity instead of founding Islam.

### **Different World War II**

*Hitler's War* posits what would happen if the Treaty of Munich had fallen through and Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938. Long story short, the Germans expend so much energy invading the well-fortified Czechs that they fail to take Paris once they invade France. Meanwhile Stalin jumps the gun and invades Poland, bringing the Poles firmly onto the side of the Germans. Japan takes this opportunity to attack Siberia, while an unfortunate accident involving a passenger liner starts America thinking about joining the Allies. As of *The Big Switch*, Churchill has died in a traffic accident, the UK and France have concluded a *status quo ante bellum* armistice with Germany and have actually joined the *Reich* in its war against the Soviet Union, and Japan has attacked the United States...but in this timeline, the US was actually ready at Pearl Harbor and inflicted severe losses on the attacking Japanese.

### **Worldwar**

From Turtledove's Wordwar, *Earth's Alien History* also takes place here.

### **Villains Victorious**

Villains Victorious World could be merged with the with Sans Ryan world by Quantumbranching because those worlds have non-Axis villainous nations being victorious and we already have an Axis victory world. The UK becomes a fascist "republic" in the 1930s and later comes under the control of the Doctor. Just like in Inferno, the UK still fights against Nazi Germany and still wins. In this version of Inferno, however, the world does not end in the 1970s, and instead, much of Britain merely becomes uninhabitable due to volcanic gases, prompting a Communist revolution against the Doctor and resulting in Oceania being formed by Ingsoc, which was an underground opposition movement that was radicalized during the decades of fascist rule. Oceania does not fall until the late 90s, when Wizarding Britain, which even the totalitarian Ingsoc regime could not control, is taken over by Voldmort in a a successful coup, who then proceeds to overthrow the Muggles in charge of Oceania and enslave the Muggle population of Britain. During World War 2, Latveria takes over much of Central and Eastern Europe. Also, the Race get luckier than they were in the main timeline and successfully takeover part or all of South America during World War II, but not the rest of the world. Maybe Russia, unlike in Inferno, is still Communist, but Besstrashny pulls a Twilight of the Red Tsar and wrecks much of the alternate, smaller Warsaw Pact. In spite of this, the USSR still falls in the 90s rather than the 70s due to several successful Commmunist plots designed to weaken the USSR's opposition counteracting the damage caused by Besstrashny in his final years. The USA comes under the control of Buzz Windrip for several years before Mike Thingmaker overthrows him in a revolution. Mike Thingmaker rules the USA as a communist dictatorship, albeit one that is not in the USSR's sphere of influence, until his death in the 60s, when he is succeeded by Mike Frost. Mike Frost rules for several years, but he mismanages the country and makes the country even more authoritarian than it already was, resulting in him being violently overthrown in a right wing revolution violently overthrow in the 1970s by Ferris F. Fremont, who rules as a dictator until the 80s. Some other figure then succeeds him as dictator, and he is then succeeded by David Jefferson Adams, who rules until the Second American Civil War. In the Second American Civil War, the Peggies successfully hold their territory in Montana and later become an autonomous part of Gilead. Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, Khan successfully takes over all of Asia except for Northern China, which is under a rump PRC and manages to prevent Khan's forces from crossing north of the Yangtze, and Japan, which is initially a military dictatorship allied with Khan. Japan's military dictatorship collapses in the late 90s due to a race war between humans and vampires caused by the successful vampiric takeover of the village of Sotoba. Lots of refugees form Khan ruled Southern China overwhelm the rump PRC and start spilling over into Siberia, which prompts the rump PRC to invade and annex Siberia while Russia is distracted by other issues such as the issues Russia was already facing in the 90s. South Afri-I'm mean, the Republic of Drakia successfully conquers much of Africa, and the United Islamic Republic takes over much of the Levant. In the 21st century, much of the world's population gets wiped out by a bioterorist attack using genetically modified Ebola. Many "limited" nuclear wars occur. By the present day, almost all countries are dictatorships, the territories of the Race in South America have not been ruled by humans for many decades, the world's population is half of what it is in OTL, and religious and political extremists are running amok and starting terrorist attacks and wars all over the world. The general feeling of this world is one of complete despair and hopelessness, and many inhabitants of this world believe that the apocalypse is just around the corner. Also, maybe some evil GOI from the SCP Foundation either wipes out all life in a certain region or takes over a certain region.

I don't have too many ideas for other universe that are explicitly based off of works of fiction. However, I have always thought that it would be interesting to see a universe in which superhumans emerged in Medieval times and thus created empires under their rule where normal humans are second class citizens. Maybe this could be merged with the Dawnverse? It could also have fantasy elements in it because technology is behind, the world is still dominated by monarchies, and the public knows about the existence of beings with supernatural powers.

Also, maybe we could see the worlds created by the aftermath of successful ISOTs. Such as, for example, the world of Island in the Sea of Time itself.

### **Vampire Earth**

It is mentioned at one point that the USSR managed to create a portal to a world ruled by vampires. Maybe this vampire world could be the world of the alternate history short story The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady? Not many people know about this underrated work, but in this short story, basically, Attila the Hun somehow becomes a vampire. Due to his enhanced vampire physiology, he never dies from a fatal nosebleed like he does in OTL. Because Attila the Hun does abruptly die, his empire does not abruptly collapse, and it remains a threat to the Western Roman Empire. Attila then makes a peace deal with the rump Western Roman Empire, in which the Western Roman Empire will become a vassal of the Hunnic Empire, and in exchange Attila will turn the Western Roman Empire into a vampire and stop attacking Rome. Attila and the Roman Emperor both begin turning heir nobles into vampires. As a result, vampirism begins spreading throughout the elites. Vampire nations still rise and fall, but vampires remain on top. By the time the story begins, it is the 1600s. By that point, the entirety of Europe is ruled by vampire states, and the story is set in the Grand Duchy of Normandy, which is a vampire ruled aristocracy. However, not all humans are happy under vampire rule, and trouble is brewing underneath the surface... It is a pretty good short story, and you should probably read it yourself. However, it seems like it can only be found in a handful of large books containing collections of short stories. At any rate, this world should probably be merged with some other vampire-ruled worlds (except for Anno Dracula, because that's already in TL-191.)

### **More Powerful Norse Gods**

*The Hammer and the Cross* trilogy has a more organized and benevolent form of the Norse religion coming into conflict both with the more traditional Norse religion and Christianity.

### **Mayaincatec Universe**

Thomas Harlan's *In the Time of the Sixth Sun* has the Mongols successfully invading Japan. The Japanese flee, to America. They trade horses and steel for food and land on the West Coast. The Mexica then proceed to conquer the planet - and beyond.

Orson Scott Card's *Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus* reveals that our timeline is an Alternate History created by time travel. In the previous history, Christopher Columbus started a new crusade against Constantinople instead of sailing for the new world. This give the Native American Tlaxcalan empire enough time to develop iron-working, take over North America, then successfully invade Europe after gaining the secrets of firearms from captured Portuguese sailors.

*Napoleon Washington*: Napoleon's father emigrates to the Colonies after killing a man and ends up Taking the Bullet for Washington. Washington ends up adopting Napoleon as his son(Jour J).

### **No Colonialism**

the Native Americans unite and visit Europe in peace (trading instead of invading) with no colonialism.(Orson Scott Card's *Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus)*

### **Plague Wipes out 99% of Europe**

Kim Stanley Robinson's *The Years of Rice and Salt* takes its starting point with the Black Death killing virtually the entire European population. The story is of China and Islam's domination of the world spread across the next thousand years as seen through the same group of characters who are endlessly reincarnated.

### **Civil War put on Hold to fight British**

The *Stars & Stripes* series envisions the Trent incident from the American Civil War blowing up into a full-scale war between the United States and the British Empire. A navigational error brings the Confederacy in on the *Union* side, ending the civil war, and resulting in the British getting their asses handed to them by Generals Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Stonewall Jackson.

*1862*, about Britain entering the American Civil War.

*1945*, about an American invasion of the Japanese home islands.

### **Hitler dies in 1908 V1**

Event: ADOLF HITLER is KILLED by MUGGING ATTEMPT ON THE STEPS OF THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA

As a result: World War I proceeds; Weimar Republic proceeds; World War II delayed until 1948; US drops atomic bomb on Berlin in 1952; Neil Armstrong first man on the moon, 1972

### **Hitler dies in 1908 V2-Europe Plague**

Event: ADOLF HITLER is KILLED by MULTIPLE KNIFE WOUNDS BY JEALOUS GAY LOVER WHO THINKS HIS BOYFRIEND IS CHEATING ON HIM WITH HITLER, WHO IN FACT IS TOTALLY INNOCENT AND HASN’T HAD SEX OF ANY SORT IN MONTHS, MUCH LESS GAY VIENNESE SEX

As a result: The trial of Felix von Weingartner, director of the Vienna Opera and the closeted, murdering gay lover in question, shocks and delights Viennese society; Hitler’s watercolors, formerly unsellable, become a hot commodity on the auction circuit before the novelty wears off. Hitler’s sister awarded a settlement; World War I proceeds, Germany and allies win; 30s depression not averted; virulent flu wipes out 38% of European population; US becomes world power; John Glenn first man on the moon, 1956

### **Hitler dies in 1908 V3-Russian Superpower**

Event: ADOLF HITLER is KILLED by SUFFOCATION WHEN INEXPLICABLY ENCASED IN AN ENORMOUS BLOCK OF UNFLAVORED GELATIN

As a result: Hitler only a random test subject for Gelatin Encasing Weapon, developed by the Russian aristocracy from technology pulled out of the spaceship that caused the Tunguska Event of June 30, 1908; the GEW subsequently used to assassinate enemies of Tsar Nicholas II, and then world leaders; World War I begins when Archduke Franz Ferdinand is spontaneously encased in gelatin while riding in a 1911 Graf und Stift Rois De Blougne tourer in Sarajevo and Young Bosnia opportunistically claims credit; World War I subsequently ends in 1915 when entire German divisions are gelatinized; Russia becomes sole super power. Vladimir Putin first man on the moon, 1988

### **Hitler dies in 1908-Vienna is a superpower**

As a result: Causality loop annihilates time and space surrounding Vienna, knocking everyone in the city back to 1529 and the eve of the First Turkish Seige; as the 20th century Viennese use their historical knowledge to help the 16th Century Viennese, time-traveling pro-Viennese forces appear and fight a pitched battle with time-traveling pro-Ottoman forces, pushing everyone back to 955 and the Battle of Lechfeld; when the time-traveling pro-Magyar forces show up, they are slaughtered by everyone else which is tired of all this time-traveling crap, thereby ending the causality loop. Vienna becomes world power; Henry Jasomirgott first man on the moon, 1155. The time travelling Event leads to Hitler being killed by a marathon fornication by six viennese prostitutes. As a result: Prostitutes arrested and revealed as libidinous time-travelers from a very sexy future who teach the Viennese their futuristic ways of astro-pleasure; Janine Lindemulder first woman on the moon, 1996.

### **Hitler dies in 1908-Meteorite hits Earth**

Event: ADOLF HITLER is KILLED by VAPORIZATION WHEN METEOR HITS HIM SQUARE ON THE HEAD

As a result: No noticeable historical changes arise from event at all. However, as the meteor is a precursor to a massive asteroid cruising toward Earth, human history had only 22 hours, 16 minutes to develop from that point before being obliterated. Humanity wiped out along with Hitler and 93% of all species; society of rats rises and falls; society of frogs rises and falls; society of pillbugs rises and falls; society of squid rises and sticks; Gluugsnertgluug first squid on the moon, 2,973,004,412

### **For All Time**

*Himmler's War*, in which Hitler is accidentally killed shortly after the invasion of Normandy, Himmler takes over and Germany's professional military is given a much freer hand.

*Fox on the Rhine* and *Fox on the Front*, explore what would have happened if the plot to assassinate Hitler had succeeded. Himmler maneuvers himself into the leadership spot in the Third Reich, and appoints Rommel to command the Ardennes offensive. Rommel ends up being defeated, surrenders, and defects to the Allies along with the bulk of his army group.

*Germanica*: Goebbels builds a redoubt in the Alps and uses it as a base to lead The Remnant of Nazi Germany after Berlin's downfall.

The Soviet Union occupies Hokkaido, this universe is also the one in which *The Place promised in Our Early Days*, takes place.

One *Jour J* story takes place in 1951, seven years after the failed D-Day Normandy invasion: The Red Army has made it all the way to Northern France, and Paris is divided between an Anglo-American and a Soviet sectors.

*December 1951 : In Paris' heart a serial killer threaten Cold War balance*

In 1944, storm ravage the Allied armada in Normandy's shores. Overlord Operation is a complete disaster.
Depsite the arrival of Allied in Provence some month later, Nazi Germany is still resisting until their capitulation when Soviet forces reach Paris.

1951 : Film Noir, Serial Killer, Spy network. The twisted sequel of Casablanca

### **Magic is Mundane**

Thomas Harlan's *Oath of Empire* series is set in the early 7th century, where magic works, Rome never fell, and Christianity never appeared.

*ArrowSmith*At the forging of the Peace of Charlemagne (the Pax Nicephori in the real world), the various hidden magical races of the world decided to make their existence openly known to humanity, also joining in the peace treaty. The United States of America is actually the United States of Columbia in this series, which takes place during this world's version of World War I. Dryads, trolls, dwarves, etc. live among humanity, magic co-exists side-by-side with technology. The Industrial Revolution is causing a magical revolution, as spells become mass-produced for the first time in human history.

The *Wild Cards* setting deviates from history around 1946, when the titular alien virus falls on New York City, killing many and giving some humans superpowers. Juan and Eva Peron are deposed by an American Ace fighting force which also saves Gandhi from being assassinated, a superpowered Islamic militant unites the Arabic countries under a caliphate, Fidel Castro pursues baseball as a career rather than revolution, and Buddy Holly never takes the fateful flight with the Big Bopper and ends up a washed-up has-been who manages to literally tear himself to pieces and then re-build himself on-stage during one story, becoming a modern-day shamanic figure. Perhaps the strangest alternate life is Frank Zappa becoming a general in the US Army although Mick Jaggert as a werewolf comes close.

*Witch Week*

*The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump* is set in a world in which magic actually works (but Los Angeles is much the same).

This is also the universe where *Bright* takes place.

### **No Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima**

"The Lucky Strike," a short story by Robinson, takes place in a WW2 wherein the Enola Gay and its crew were lost before the bombing of Hiroshima. The War still ends as OTL but the decision to drop the Bomb *away from* Hiroshima ultimately leads to a premature end of the nuclear arms race in the 1950s. MAD is never conceived.

But from that point in the 1950s, the timeline splits into three possible futures that Robinson discusses in *A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions*. One among them is a crash nuclear arms race after the Suez Crisis blows up into a major war, a nuclear Third World War, and rampant nuclear proliferation in the aftermath.

### **Soviets make it to the Moon First**

*Jour J* shows the state of the space race ten years after the crash of the Eagle US moon module in 1969, and the subsequent successful Soviet lunar mission.

Appollo mission is a disaster and Soviets are walking on the Moon.
Soon, two spatial bases are built there : one american, the other sovietic and tension rises on Earth, while the two expeditions tries to live peacefully.
It wouldn't prevent the Cold War to became hot right there.

*For All Mankind* is set in this universe.

Nixon was in cahoots with a heroin smuggler and Reagan orders whistleblowers beaten to death as part of his electoral campaign, and the US still gets its land war in Asia- with China. Nuking the Vietnamese when it's still the Indochina war means no Vietnam war... but a China war instead.(Jour J)

**Cold War ongoing**

In *A World of Difference*, Mars (called Minerva in the book) is a habitable (and inhabited) world. Also, Gorbachev's *perestroika* and *glasnost* campaigns fizzled out, he was replaced and the Cold War continues.

### **What Madness is This?**

Also the setting of, *Jour J,* Thanks to a more enduring peace between France and Britain in the Napoleonic era, the French Empire was able to expand throughout Europe and all the way to central Asia.

**Kennedy Lives**

John F Kennedy wasn't assassinated. John F. Kennedy survived the bullet to the head he took on November 22nd, 1963. The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 was averted by a high school student who interrupted Johnny Shellburn at the Texas School Book Depository, attacking the shooter and sending the would-be fatal third shot awry. Although seriously injured, Kennedy survived. From there he started hunting down everyone who was involved in his assassination attempt at the behest of his government(*JFK Secret Corps*). He ends the Sarkhan War and gets elected for a second term, during which he sponsors research into the effects of radiation on humans. Although he was initially considered weak on anti-Communist matters, he was elected to a second term in 1964. His successful handling of the Vietnam War, the Thailand Border Crisis of 1966-1967 and the Six-Day War silenced the majority of his critics. The key US base on Mars was named after Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy went on to narrowly win a second term but was unable to bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Lyndon B. Johnson had. This led to increased racial tensions and riots in the U.S., especially after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (in Chicago by FBI Agent Dwight Holly in this timeline). Kennedy also refused to commit to action in Vietnam outside of stationing U.S. soldiers in Saigon, but his successor, George Wallace, reversed this course and used nuclear weapons on Hanoi in response to the fall of Saigon in 1967. This and other incidents led to more instability all over the world, including frequent use of nuclear weapons by terrorists and a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan in the early 1970s. The Soviet Union experiences a total financial collapse in the early 1980s.

No one has managed to reach the summit of Mount Everest by 1971. A book entitled *Everest: The Unconquered* was published in that year.

John F. Kennedy is still alive in 1971 and has recently been appointed Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down during World War II in 1943 in Colin's universe, is still alive and still acting in 1971.

The first human spaceflight has not yet taken place.

Heart transplants are unknown to medical science.

Televisions are more primitive.

Abortion is still illegal throughout the UK.

*The News Chronicle* (which merged with *The Daily Mail* in 1960) is being published in 1971.

The building of blocks of flats being banned in Pimlico (which did not suffer the same devastation during the Blitz in Colin's universe without World War II).

William Scranton was the US President in 1974, having defeated Robert F. Kennedy due to a telephone tapping scandal.

**Jackson Evans** **Wins the 2000 Election**

The Mars flight was launched from Jacqueline B. Kennedy Space Center, which was named for the late First Lady, in 1980

The Point of departure is actually in 1984. This is actually an Alternate Timeline, as time travel was used that resulted in this reality. The change was Peter Griffin requesting Death to take him back to 1984. he did not go on a date with Lois Pewtershmidt and went to a party instead, where he met and fell in love with Samantha "Sam" Baker. Peter and Molly married three years later in 1987. Lois married Glenn Quagmire.

John Kennedy was a Senator from Massachusetts in 1986 who was married to Marilyn Monroe. At the time, Nancy Reagan was President of the United States. She was considered a strong and assertive President, who successfully guided her version of the United States through the major crisis of an invasion from a different reality. Her husband Ronald, known as the First Gentleman, was mostly disregarded.

the Berlin Wall did not fall on November 9, 1989 because there was no *glasnost* and *perestroika*, which implies that Mikhail Gorbachev never became the leader of the Soviet Union. As a result, the Cold War continued to intensify until the United States and the Soviet Union's power dwindled and both were eclipsed by the People's Republic of China.

The Victorian influence on British society continued into the 1980s. Nazi Germany did try to invade Ixania, but was foiled from any further expansion by an alliance between the UK, France, Russia and America(*Baker Street*).

Vermont Yankee "went China Syndrome" in 1999, spreading radiation across New England and southern Quebec.

Democrat Jackson Evans won in 2000, defeating Josiah Bartlet and Kenneth Yamaoka, who were both Democratic candidates. Evans became the 43rd president(in the main timeline it was Kenne, unfortunately he faced controversy when his Vice President Troy Ellard suddenly died. He was to choose between Jack Hathaway and Laine Billings Hanson. Both being controversial. Hathaway was discovered to have engineered an event to boost his chances by paying a woman to put herself in danger so that he would save her, and evidence Laine Hanson had evidently participated in a drunken orgy. While Hanson was revealed to have been innocent she stepped down, leading to Al Noah gaining the position. After Evans suddenly died, Al Noah took over, making Joe Lieberman his Vice President. 9/11 still happened but Noah led a very different War in Helmajistan that ended in a victory with Helmajistan even becoming an extremely popular Spring Break Destination. Saif Rahman Yasif fled to America but was tracked down and killed by Al Noah personally, who found Yasif hiding on the cast of MAD TV in 2007, stopping him before he could obtain a nuclear weapon from the now mass destruction possessing Qurac. Noah also put a lot of SCP resources into hunting down the "Unreal or possibly elusive" Man Bear Pig. Noah's government was opposed by a cyborg Sean Hannity, who falsely considered Noah a tyrant. Among his other accomplishments were the reversal of global warming, leading to encroaching glaciers and offering to bail out the oil companies because oil prices had dropped dramatically due to the popularity of alternative fuels. California left the Union to become the nation of "Mexifornia", Major League Baseball Commissioner John Blutarsky was doing his best to crack down on the use of steroids. There was also a Six Flags theme park opened in Tehran

In 2005, Japan discovered significant oil deposits in the South Pacific and its threatening behaviour towards the Philippines and Indonesia over the course of the last 18 months has placed it on the verge of war with the US.

The UK is suffering a severe drought with reservoirs throughout Southeast England and Wales being dry for months. This leads to the declaration of a state of emergency.

The Western world is experiencing a severe fertility crisis which is expected to worsen over the course of the next ten years. Consequently, the United Nations Security Council has lifted its ban on human cloning and the first viable human clone has already been born to a couple in San Francisco.

From 1971, the space programme is more advanced than in the main universe. There has already been a manned mission to Mars. In 2005, in a joint operation between NASA and the Chinese National Space Administration called the Juno mission, an unmanned Jupiter polar explorer was launched from Cape Canaveral. It took fifteen months to reach Jupiter.

Noah would be succeeded in 2008 by another Democrat, Hilary Easton. Easton would be defeated in 2012, but would win again in 2016.

John Smith is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2006. In Colin's universe, Smith served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1992 until his death in 1994. Prior to his death, it was widely expected that he would become the next Prime Minister.

Tony Blair is a relatively low level Cabinet minister, having recently been appointed Drought Secretary. In Colin's universe, Blair succeeded Smith as Labour leader in 1994.

Al Noah would have the Seaquest based named after him in the form of Fort Noah. By the year 3000, he saw a resurgence in popular, even having published an Angelica Button book, Angelica Button and the Balance of Earth.

**US Presidents:**

Lucy Chase Wayne 1936-1948(Democrat)

World Emperor Maxim 1948-1961(Democrat)

James T.Cassidy 1961-1969(Democrat)

George Wallace 1969-1972(Dixiecrat)

Curtis LeMay 1972-1974(Dixiecrat)

Will Scranton 1974-1977(Democrat)

Johnny Cyclops 1977-1981(Republican)

John Glenn 1981-1985

Nancy Cyclops 1985-1989(Republican)

Bob Dole 1989-1993(Republican)

Jack Stanton 1993-2001(Democrat)

Jackson Evans 2001-2005(Democrat)

Al Noah 2005-2009(Democrat)

Hilary Easton 2009-2013(Democrat)

David Palmer 2013-2017(Democrat)

Hilary Easton 2017-2021(Democrat)

**UK Prime Ministers:**

Rab Butler C.1954

John Smith 1997-2007

**References**

Departure in 1984- based on the Family Guy episode Meet the Quagmires where the mentioned events happen

Samantha "Sam" Baker-Molly Ringwald's character from Sixteen Candles. Replaces Molly Ringwald's role in the Family Guy Episode. She is a high school sophmore in 1984. Here she is also related to future President Samuel Baker, and possibly changed history somehow to result in a democratic victory in 2000.

Jackson Evans-Democratic President from the film Contender. Troy Ellard, Lain Hanson and Jack Hathaway are also from there. These events could still happen in the Main Universe but with Bartlet.

Al Noah-Al Gore stand in from the mangle Eagle, originally Vice President for Edith Yamaoka.

Noah Presidency-Al Noah's Presidency is based on Gore's Presidency in alternate universes, such as those seen momentarily in the film the One, and the comic Hero Squared X. Most of the details of Noah's Presidency come from a Saturday Night Live opening sketch

Different war in Helmajistan-Depicted in the Web Comic Spiders

Yasif hiding in MAD TV- mentioned in the alternate "Gore Victory" universe in the Family Guy episode Meet the Quagmires

Fort Noah-This timeline's version of the Based used by the Seaquest in Seaquest DSV, which is set in 2032 and has Al Gore mentioned as being President, complete with Fort Gore, named after him.

Year 3000 popularity- based on Portrayal in Futurama as is him writing a Harry Potter book(Angelica Button book). He also appears on a 500$ Earthican Bill.

Hilary Easton-Hilary Clinton stand in from Choujin Sensen, becomes President.

Noah Succeeded by Easton-refers to The Execution Channel, in which Clinton succeeds Al Gore in 2008. She also won in 2008 in the trial of Tony Blair. She's president in 11/22/63's altered universe.

Easton winning in 2016-Occurs in the novel Agency, in which Hilary defeats Donald Trump.

### **Nuclear War in the 1980s**

*The Postman*: The film is set in 2013, and it's said the Postman survived "the war" with the last great cities destroyed when he was a child. Because at the end he is revealed to have been born in 1976, plus the other references to what occurred which fits with a nuclear war, there probably was one during the early 1980s. The book came out in 1985, so it fits with the prospect then.

### **Apocalypse in 2000's**

*Without Warning* an energy field of unknown type and origin descends on North America wiping out all life in most of the continental US (Seattle is the only major city to survive), about half of Canada (the more populated eastern half), 90% of Mexico and about three-quarters of Cuba including Havana just before the Iraq War is due to kick off in 2003. This leads to, among other things, a rather different Iraq War since Saddam proclaims this a sign from Allah and goes on the offensive and is later joined by Iran leading to Israel nuking most of the Middle East.