MoF 14: THE KING IS DEAD! Entries thread

This round shall finish on Sunday, 31st of May (I hope I got the date right this time).

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Let the map-making begin!

I'll get things rolling:

1872

After the death of King Randolph Parkis the American Kingdom reached a crisis. Numerous republican uprisings, or "whiteshirts" after their uniform of choice, have appeared in the kingdom. Of special interest are the Texan whiteshirts, who have backing from the Republic of Mexico, and the New York whiteshirts, who are backed by the British Empire.

Color Scheme:
Blue-American Kingdom
Red-Britain
Gold ... ish-Mexico
Yellow-Spain

The rules don't say it can't be an FH, so I went with one of the few present-day monarchies...

It is June, 2033. The "Peak Oil" crisis hits Saudi Arabia, and plunges the state, which is almost entirely dependent on oil revenue, into financial collapse. Unable to provide social programs, and facing massive unemployment among former oil workers, the House of Saud becomes increasingly unpopular. Two simultaneous rebellions spring up. The Red Revolt is a far-left socialist/quasi-communist movement among the poor and unemployed workers of the formerly oil-rich eastern region. The Green Revolt is a far-right Islamist movement in the Hejaz, centered on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. In May Red revolutionary mobs took to the streets of Riyadh, breaking through the security cordon and into the road from the palace to the airport, where the mob swarmed around King Khalid's armored limo as the King tried to flee the city. King Khalid was pulled from the car and lynched by the Red mob.

This is a picture of part of a bulletin board in a bunker underneath King Khalid Military City. The American troops once stationed there have withdrawn, not wanting to be embroiled in the Saudi Civil War. It is now the de facto capital of the Royalist north. The new King is Muhammad bin Fahd, highest surviving member of the line of succession. He rules from the de jure capital of Tabuk. Both Tabuk and King Khalid Military City are marked with blue pins to show that they are Royalist strongholds. The blue line is the military's current defensive position, labelled as "the June line". The red and green markings are the Red and Green revolts, and the pins mark their respective strongholds in Dammam and Riyadh (Red) and Mecca and Medina (Green). The center of the country is in anarchy, and the south and southeast are sparsely populated deserts. Other items on the bulletin board include a Royalist recruitment flyer reading "death to all rebels" (left), a printout from Military Intelligence describing a dissident Green cleric (lower left), a photo of an M60-Patton tank (lower right) and an aerial photo of King Khalid Military City (upper right).

I gues that Future history for fantasy books is also allowed?(A Song of Ice and Fire in this case):

The Lords and Ladies of the land were cramped inside Maegor Holdfast. They flooded the Red Keep for the past few days, as the Revolution swept across the countryside, and forced them out of their castles, and into the real world. They were not greeted at all in the city itself either. The people are still rioting, they want Bread. The king wasn't thrilled about this either. They are just more petty, hypocritical little mouths to feed for him.
The Revolution spread across Westeros like wildfire, feeding upon the people's want for some bread, and nought more, in this awefull revolution. It all started out with famine, but it has become so much mor ethan just that. The people are sick of their lords, who hav been, according the treachorous leaders of this so called people's revolution, tyrants. They seek to install new leaders, fair ones. Ones that would represent the wishes of all the people of Westeros, not just the nobility. They chose the Night's Watch system of electing their commanders by common vote. No wonder that due to this, even the Watch, who for their last ten-thousand years of existance have vowed to stay out of any conflict taking place within Westeros proper and protect only it's borders to the north have joined the war, on the side of the revolutionaries, of course. Everyone has. Every single City, town fortress, village or holdfast have been affected by this war. It is also no wonder that the hot-headed people of Dorne have been the ones to trigger and lead this revolution.
And now, a terrible uproar has risen from the table were the lords seated themselves. As cold and heavy rain rained down upon the city, the armies of the revolution neared the walls of King's Landing.
It only took the revolution several hours to overpower the pathetic defenses of King's Landing.
Now the Red Keep, and all that symbolises the old regime has went down the drain. The city is ruined, lying under charred stones. The People's Republic of the West has been declared....


Here is a map of the first stages of the Westerosi civil war(couldn't upload it, sorry. File was too heavy):

First, this has to be the largest map (in terms of file size) I've made yet. Hence, 3rd party hosting.

Now, the map itself. The PoD is that the Rizzio murder gives Mary such a shock that she miscarries (this child would have been James I/VI). The trauma is extensive enough to prevent further children being born, and Darnley meets a nasty end in 1575. By 1580, the Catholic James Hamilton, Duke of Arran and Duke of Chatelleraût, and Protestant James Stewart, Earl of Moray, are fighting for the thone. Matters to note are:

1. Early actions include both sides trying to gain control of Mary, until she flees to England.
2. Though the Darnleys have a better claim to the throne than Moray, they are too close to England (indeed, the son of the Duke of Lennox is living in Derbyshire).
3. The Lady Elizabeth Stewart is a rather interesting character. IOTL, she broke into Mary's wardrobe and rifled through her clothes and jewels soon after the Queen's abdication. She was also very ambitious, and has been thought a candidate for the real Lady Macbeth.

Link to map

Extract:

One of them Vikings hang around in N. America TLs...

Tshominkow is remembered as one of the greatest of the High Kings, although his extraodinary military achievements were partly reversed after his death due to sucession squabbles. Ironically, the warrior-king would not be slain in battle by his many foes, or overthrown by a nobility grown alarmed over the overextension of the Empire's forces, but assasinated by a favorite slave, a man of Iroqouian blood resentful of his homeland's loss of autonomy and direct incorporation into the Empire.

In retrospect, Tshominkow shines so brightly because none of his successors would extend the bounds of Empire any further than he had, and the next two centuries would see a slow decline that would in time see the Empire saddled with the unflattering title of "sick man of Ericsland."

Bruce

PS-sorry if the mountain kingdoms look like a bunch of sick amebas, but I'll be a bit too busy the next few days to get much more done on this before the submission date...

In 1910, the Ottoman Revolution started. Well, that's when the main phase began; small, nationalist revolts had occurred across the Ottoman Empire since 1909.

By 1910, the small nationalist revolts of 1909 had evolved into... well, a revolution. In addition, a new rebellion... a socialist one, had begun in Trabzon.

The interesting thing about these nationalist revolts, were that they didn't quite want to break away from Turkey entirely; indeed, they considered themselves Ottomans. They only rebelled because it was an excuse to do away with the corrupt administration of Abdulmecid II, not with the idea of a united Ottoman nation.

And so, by 1912, the socialist revolution and the nationalist revolts combined forces. The rebels were then a united force against the Ottoman government.

In January 1915, Sultan Abdulmecid II was assassinated by Ahmed "Marx" Hilmi, the leader of the Socialist Revolution.

Ahmed "Marx" Hilmi negotiated with the leaders of the nationalist revolts.

And the UNION OF SOCIALIST OTTOMAN REPUBLICS was born, as a union of many socialist republics.

EDIT: to make this clear, the POD is in the 1820s. Greece is reannexed in 1829. I'm only describing 1910-1915 though.