Souls are not tortured in VME's afterlife, at least not by necessity. The afterlife is just a desolate wasteland that has become a place of torture because the souls there choose to torture each other. As for madness, it's not the afterlife that does it. The very experience of death itself is so...
Bonaparte-6
Oh man, a new GURPS cover? You are not dreaming, this is not a glitch in the Matrix. It is actually happening. We are so back.
I want to get back into alternate history work this year, and since I am working through a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte[1], I decided to get started on...
Glad to see you continuing the series, Bruce!
I actually expected you to do an ancient China and a PRC (and if you didn't, I would have done the one you didn't!). Global Chinese hegemony sounds fun. Maybe throw in some lunar and Martian bases? All Under Heaven, now including Heaven.
Come to...
It bears explaining that the American Union is quite two-faced and Machiavellian regarding its anti-colonial stance. The EEUSG entry goes into more detail about their policies.
Not quite. The humans would be fighting the Race in their home system, while they would be cut off from any sort of reinforcement or resupply. The humans don't have such a great technological advantage that the Race can't do damage against them. In many ways, it is like the Worldwar situation...
DBE might have a different view, but I imagined the aliens in question being the Race, who ITTL chose not to invade Tosev-III. Given the Race's very slow development, I imagine the aliens the expeditionary force faced ITTL have the same technological capabilities the Race had in the Worldwar series.
TL-191: After After the End
Here is my cover of what this world would look like in 2162, 300 years after the PoD. This was made in close conjunction with David bar Elias. Many thanks to him for his help, and providing the text below and on the map!
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Before the Precipice
It’s October...
Right. The Entente in the SGW especially seemed an alliance of nations and groups that are only on the same side because they share a common enemy. The British and the Confederates didn't like each other either, and I don't see the European Entente having anything in common save for opposition...
Probably wouldn't even consider the question much, since they won't encounter American or Confederate troops. Still, they likely won't think highly of it, even if the Yankees are their allies.