Dimension 398 or How a Few Bacteria Changed the Course of History
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"This world continues to become further and further from our own home dimensions that it is quite shocking. D-398 really wastes no time cutting to the chase and diverging hard. This next update consists of certain information on the Maori language that we can not tell you how much is OTL and how much is not as we do not have any experts on Maori linguistics with us. The compendium has shown us that most of the terms have wound up being almost perfectly OTL, Centauri out"
The Twenty Years of Peace saw many great movements of colonists, for numerous reasons. Firstly there was the British panic over the French expedition to New Rohan, which caused many to fear that they French were planning to take Australia[5] as well so as to gain more ports in the Indian ocean and cut Britain off from India. Thus Captain Cook set off with ten ships to establish a series of forts along the Australian shore. ON his way he made contact with the poor stranded crew of the HMS Stirling, and helped them with new ammunition. Seeing the potential value as a stop of on the was to India Cook ordered a ship sent back to Britain with the interest of securing the outpost. Cook meanwhile continued on up to India before moving south again to Australia. Upon arriving on the East coast he was surprised to find a much lusher region than the Dutch stories of the northern coast. While Cook established four forts the news of the good land spread back to Britain. Many loyal subjects of the crown who longed for the frontier life felt that Australia would be a better site than the Americas were dangerous revolutionary sentiment ran high. Thus the British colonies in Australia boomed, reaching 100 000 by the end of the century.
This period also saw the great slavers exodus from the Thirteen Colonies. Abolitionists, both Cummunitarian and Libertist, had made life quite difficult for the slave owners of the southern colonies, inciting revolts or causing boycotts of any goods produced through slavery. Thus many of the Slave owners left of the new colony in South Africa, which was somewhat better suited to there needs than Australia, and more importantly it was closer. This had an interesting effect on the other arrivals in that colony, prisoners. It soon became the common punishment for criminals to be sent to the Natal Colony and sold into a temporary slavery. This was of course the start of the horrors that the Dominion of Africa would later exact upon many people.
This period also saw a mass exodus of Yankee Libertists due to the failure of the Boston Rebellion, and the ensuing taxation put in place by King George III. While crossing New France was difficult, the Spanish government was successfully convinced that this wave of Yankee immigrants would help them secure northern New Spain, especially after the French had purchased the Spanish territory in their claimed territory. This migration has of course left the mark that the northern states of the LRA have a primarily Anglophone population. New Spain also saw the arrival of many loyalists from the Philippines after the French purchased the archipelago from Spain in 1781, for what many believe to have been an insultingly low price. Many of these new arrivals were swept up by the Libertists using the dejection felt from their homes being sold by the king, further strengthening the Libertist hold over many segments of society.
Finally there was also the German wave during this period which saw thousands of new immigrants from the Germanies. New France became the focus for many Prussian immigrants, whilst the Thirteen Colonies saw many Austrians arrive. This group consisted either of those who were tired of the constant war of there home lands or those who felt that both Prussia and Austria were merely using the HRE for there own interests outside of the HRE. These immigrants were only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the dejected feeling in the Germanies, but it was enough to spark counter immigration by both France and Britain, who feared that the number of Germans would eventual eclipse their own people unless the acted soon, though this fear was quite ungrounded.
[1]OTL Hawaii
[2]Using the name from the 1676 novel by Gabriel de Foigny, and refusing to allow the anglophones to translate it to show the French were responsible for much of the early exploration
[3]Glossopteris
[4]Plate Tectonics
[5]As an Anglophone text they use English spelling
New Rohan: A History
(Nouveau Morbihan 1966)
(Nouveau Morbihan 1966)
The small French expeditionary force soon made contact with the native people. After a short while of negotiations the French came to the belief that the name of the people of New Rohan was the Tângata, which was in fact the word for people. This confusion would eventually lead to many difficulties when the French understanding of Tângatan language improved. Eventual the Europeans began to be called Tea, the Tângatan word for white, though this term would cause confusion for many British colonists. The term Oui-oui was also used, being the Tângatan word for France, believed to have originated from the French and there constant saying of "oui oui" when trying to get the Tângata to continue.
The French-Tângatan relations where quite peaceful, with the French using the mild intervention that they had originally used in the New World. Unfortunately the Tângatan were far more interested in exploration than the Native people of the Americas, thus de Galaup was forced to keep the Tângata on the island so as not to risk the Tângata encountering other Europeans and ruining the French trade monopoly. The French influence to stabilise to small islands, leading to a form of confederation across the islands, due to French insistence upon peace amongst the Tângata.
Eventually de Galaup could no longer hold back the Tângata demand to explore as was in their Polinesian bones. He thus organized the build of two European style ships for Tângata use, which would be accompanied by one of his own ships. The following journey was one of exceptional exploration, the Tângata insisting on making some contact with almost every island, establishing a loose French-Tângata trade system across the many islands. The greatest discovery would occur in 1780 when the small fleet discovered a series of large islands deep in the Pacific. Believing that these could be the legendary land of Hawaiki[1] the Tângata chose that name for it. The French soon realised that this region would be a very useful trading point and established a trading post on the largest island, which was manned by a nearly even number of Tângata and French.
Back in New Rohan some of the French, especially Anderson and Amoreux, there was a push to explore the little known landmass to the west. After convincing de Galaup that this expedition could prove profitable they managed to gain a ship. After mapping some of the south coast the the land mass of Australe[2], the group landed and began to explore some of the region, and they were surprised to find Lingupteris[3] which they had found in southern Africa, around the Cape colony. This would of course be the first real evidence of the modern theory of Shell Kienism[4]. Unfortunately Anderson would never get to see the the continuation of discovery in India as he would go missing when he went off on his own one day a week into the expedition. Much blame would be placed on the local people, but if the story of the famous Aborigine rebel Théophile Anderson then Michel Anderson did indeed survive to meet another Aborigine nation. However apart from some scientific curiosity there was little of value on Australe, so the men returned home after a month of searching for Michel Anderson.
When de Galaup arrived in India he was shocked to find the news that the British had sent an expedition to Australe. This left him quite upset as he had hoped to claim that land for France as well, after all it may not have been of interest to the RIC it had a chance to be a good land for colonies. If one were to ignore the massive desert that covers most of the continent. The RIC did express interest in setting up more trading forts across the Pacific, to try to bring the world's largest ocean under French influence. Thus the RIC sent ten ships off into the great expanse of the Pacific to establish trade.
The French-Tângatan relations where quite peaceful, with the French using the mild intervention that they had originally used in the New World. Unfortunately the Tângatan were far more interested in exploration than the Native people of the Americas, thus de Galaup was forced to keep the Tângata on the island so as not to risk the Tângata encountering other Europeans and ruining the French trade monopoly. The French influence to stabilise to small islands, leading to a form of confederation across the islands, due to French insistence upon peace amongst the Tângata.
Eventually de Galaup could no longer hold back the Tângata demand to explore as was in their Polinesian bones. He thus organized the build of two European style ships for Tângata use, which would be accompanied by one of his own ships. The following journey was one of exceptional exploration, the Tângata insisting on making some contact with almost every island, establishing a loose French-Tângata trade system across the many islands. The greatest discovery would occur in 1780 when the small fleet discovered a series of large islands deep in the Pacific. Believing that these could be the legendary land of Hawaiki[1] the Tângata chose that name for it. The French soon realised that this region would be a very useful trading point and established a trading post on the largest island, which was manned by a nearly even number of Tângata and French.
Back in New Rohan some of the French, especially Anderson and Amoreux, there was a push to explore the little known landmass to the west. After convincing de Galaup that this expedition could prove profitable they managed to gain a ship. After mapping some of the south coast the the land mass of Australe[2], the group landed and began to explore some of the region, and they were surprised to find Lingupteris[3] which they had found in southern Africa, around the Cape colony. This would of course be the first real evidence of the modern theory of Shell Kienism[4]. Unfortunately Anderson would never get to see the the continuation of discovery in India as he would go missing when he went off on his own one day a week into the expedition. Much blame would be placed on the local people, but if the story of the famous Aborigine rebel Théophile Anderson then Michel Anderson did indeed survive to meet another Aborigine nation. However apart from some scientific curiosity there was little of value on Australe, so the men returned home after a month of searching for Michel Anderson.
When de Galaup arrived in India he was shocked to find the news that the British had sent an expedition to Australe. This left him quite upset as he had hoped to claim that land for France as well, after all it may not have been of interest to the RIC it had a chance to be a good land for colonies. If one were to ignore the massive desert that covers most of the continent. The RIC did express interest in setting up more trading forts across the Pacific, to try to bring the world's largest ocean under French influence. Thus the RIC sent ten ships off into the great expanse of the Pacific to establish trade.
The Migrations of the Colonies
(Kingston 1966)
(Kingston 1966)
The Twenty Years of Peace saw many great movements of colonists, for numerous reasons. Firstly there was the British panic over the French expedition to New Rohan, which caused many to fear that they French were planning to take Australia[5] as well so as to gain more ports in the Indian ocean and cut Britain off from India. Thus Captain Cook set off with ten ships to establish a series of forts along the Australian shore. ON his way he made contact with the poor stranded crew of the HMS Stirling, and helped them with new ammunition. Seeing the potential value as a stop of on the was to India Cook ordered a ship sent back to Britain with the interest of securing the outpost. Cook meanwhile continued on up to India before moving south again to Australia. Upon arriving on the East coast he was surprised to find a much lusher region than the Dutch stories of the northern coast. While Cook established four forts the news of the good land spread back to Britain. Many loyal subjects of the crown who longed for the frontier life felt that Australia would be a better site than the Americas were dangerous revolutionary sentiment ran high. Thus the British colonies in Australia boomed, reaching 100 000 by the end of the century.
This period also saw the great slavers exodus from the Thirteen Colonies. Abolitionists, both Cummunitarian and Libertist, had made life quite difficult for the slave owners of the southern colonies, inciting revolts or causing boycotts of any goods produced through slavery. Thus many of the Slave owners left of the new colony in South Africa, which was somewhat better suited to there needs than Australia, and more importantly it was closer. This had an interesting effect on the other arrivals in that colony, prisoners. It soon became the common punishment for criminals to be sent to the Natal Colony and sold into a temporary slavery. This was of course the start of the horrors that the Dominion of Africa would later exact upon many people.
This period also saw a mass exodus of Yankee Libertists due to the failure of the Boston Rebellion, and the ensuing taxation put in place by King George III. While crossing New France was difficult, the Spanish government was successfully convinced that this wave of Yankee immigrants would help them secure northern New Spain, especially after the French had purchased the Spanish territory in their claimed territory. This migration has of course left the mark that the northern states of the LRA have a primarily Anglophone population. New Spain also saw the arrival of many loyalists from the Philippines after the French purchased the archipelago from Spain in 1781, for what many believe to have been an insultingly low price. Many of these new arrivals were swept up by the Libertists using the dejection felt from their homes being sold by the king, further strengthening the Libertist hold over many segments of society.
Finally there was also the German wave during this period which saw thousands of new immigrants from the Germanies. New France became the focus for many Prussian immigrants, whilst the Thirteen Colonies saw many Austrians arrive. This group consisted either of those who were tired of the constant war of there home lands or those who felt that both Prussia and Austria were merely using the HRE for there own interests outside of the HRE. These immigrants were only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the dejected feeling in the Germanies, but it was enough to spark counter immigration by both France and Britain, who feared that the number of Germans would eventual eclipse their own people unless the acted soon, though this fear was quite ungrounded.
[1]OTL Hawaii
[2]Using the name from the 1676 novel by Gabriel de Foigny, and refusing to allow the anglophones to translate it to show the French were responsible for much of the early exploration
[3]Glossopteris
[4]Plate Tectonics
[5]As an Anglophone text they use English spelling
George the Iron Fisted
(London 1908)
(London 1908)
George III was a man who was very out of touch with the British people, and the people of her colonies. He felt that Parliament had gained far too much power, and proceeded to use bribery to destroy all it's credibility and independence soon becoming a trivial formality for the authoritarian king. While this would allow George III the freedom he wanted it would ultimately speed the end of the old regime, the opposite of George's hope that more power would show how the royal family was more useful than a bickering parliament. He then set himself on a course of disaster angering almost everyone under British rule, except perhaps the Hanoverians. To pay for the cost of the two world wars he raised taxes in Britain and her colonies, the British citizens were pushed through the worst of if as French privateering had made the colonies far less profitable. Despite this George remained convinced that if he could tighten his grip around the American colonies he could get far more out of them for trade, and in doing so he neglected India the only colony thought truly useful by most of the British people. He thus angered the Yankees and the British people in one foul move that only continued to build up difficulties as George sent more soldiers to try to control the Yankees.
Due to the recent Jacobite uprisings during the Second World War George demanded that the remaining Highland clans swear there loyalty to him. This prompted the 1781 Uprising, where 8 000 Government soldiers fought 5 000 Scottish rebels, killed 1 000 rebels and are rumoured to have killed up to 200 women and children who were unfortunate enough to live in the region. This sealed the Scottish hatred for George, the Irish soon became nearly as angry as anti-catholic policies were strengthened. Many thousands fled to the Americas, passing through British colonies before leaving for New France or New Spain. George was unmoved by this and merely used it as a convenience to replace the Scots with sheep, which would do more for improving Britains economy. This led to many thousands of Highlanders forced into the cities during the 1780s and 1790s, where the angry poor Highlanders met with radical Libertists and Communitarians hoping to prepare Scotland for a revolution.
Meanwhile the EIC was left to rot by the government leaving them desperate for investment. While many prominent businessmen were willing to provide capital the RIC and VOC took interest in the weakness of of the EIC, while the Portuguese and Danish companies sought to strengthen their ally. The RIC was however richer than either of the EIC's allies and was able to by back much of their SWW losses. The EIC decided to expand away from the RIC during this period and used what little funds they had to gaind influence over their northern and eastern neighbours. During this period the EIC also began improving conditions for the locals so as to have some for of defence against the inevitable French aggression.
Finally the only respectable thing that George did was his push for the abolition of slavery, which would have been good if not for the fact that many of the Loyal Yankees were loyal because the Libertists and Communitarians opposed slavery, making the British the better choice in the eyes of the slave holders. The slave holders did remain mildly loyal, and used all there power to keep slavery from being abolished, though they new it was merely an inevitability, leading many to move to either Australia or the Natal colony looking to be able to declare Independence from there. It seemed inevitable that things would end badly for George. He only did one thing that improved his standing at all.
In 1780 he was visiting Vienna when he met Mary Caroline[1] and, despite the fourteen year age difference, they fell in love. This was different from the scattering of affairs that George had had on his travels, something his servants recognized immediately. Many were happy as there was fear that George would not produce and heir, the couple would have to overcome a rather large hurdle . . .
Two English Kings in Vienna
(Budapest 1956)
(Budapest 1956)
In 1780 King George III of Britain was visiting Vienna in hopes of rebuilding the alliance that his father and grandfather had destroyed. Also in 1780 Charles IV decided that as the King of England recognized by the Pope he would be able to get Austrian backing as well as French and he therefore set off to Vienna. While in the past the Stuarts had been unpopular with the Hanovarians Charles IV detested the Stuarts for the massacre of his family. At first it was merely a matter of out doing the other, both kings showing up to the best parties attempting to be the center of attention. The desperate Austrians eventually began introducing George as the elector of Hanover, and Charles as the King of the Channel Islands. This was not simply about pleasing both, but also the Austrians not wanting to anger the Pope for recognizing the other King of Britain, but not wanting to ruin a possible alliance with Britain. Things remained chilly, the Austrians needing to please both sides, yet not knowing how much attention would give the right balance.
Things grew more complicated when the sisters of Mary Caroline and Mary Antonia[2] met the two rival kings. Charles IV was between the two sisters in age, while George III was note ably older. Yet Caroline soon fell for George III in what is considered by many a fairy tale relationship, while Charles IV fell for Antonia long before she fell for him. This left their older brother Emperor Joseph II in a very difficult situation. On one side he risked alienating Britain once again, on the other he risked the rage of the Pope, the French, and their allies. Joseph also new that the Catholic Germans would be angered if he chose George III, while the more radical nationalists would be angered if he chose Charles IV. Eventually Joseph II decided that George III was the better choice and attempted to forbid Antonia from marrying Charles IV, at which point Antonia decided she would leave with Charles IV whom she had finally come to love.
The night before Charles IV and Antonia were set to leave Charles IV was attending a dinner that George III was also attending in order to try and outshine George III as always when he over heard George III talking with some Austrian nobles. What exactly was said is still hotly debated to this day by Indian and English historians[3]. According to the English George III said something along the lines of: "I wish Charles had died with his family during the War," while the Indians say the real words were closer to: "It's horrible but sometimes I almost wish Charles had died with his family," which while still quite negative are not as horrible as the English accusation. Hearing this Charles IV immediately demanded a duel in his hot blooded rage, which much to everyone's surprise George III accepted. The next morning the two kings met outside the city for a duel with pistols, George III soon revealed that he had hoped to shame Charles IV into giving up, not realising that Charles IV would still be furious the next morning. The two kings thus faced off in a duel, George III being to stubborn to give in. Charles IV proved the better swordsman, cutting George III on the leg. Thus Charles IV left victorious, and George was left with a tell tale limp that would later cost him his life.
[1]Maria Carolina, Mary Antoinette's sister. She did not marry the King of Naples in D-398 as her older sister Maria Josepha survived to marry him instead.
[2]Marie Antoinette, with her name less Frenchified
[3]The Australians, Scottish, Irish and pretty well everyone else argue the point as well but not to the same ferocity.
There`s one on the previous page.
In the short term perhaps, but since OTL was a Britwank, a none britwank seems like one. Don`t worry Britain will rise eventually, if things go as planned.
They get pushed by the men inside. There are slits in the walls that the men shoot out of, and they are just thick enough to be mostly immune to musket fire. They do sink if it's rainy, and get pulled by horses between battles, just not during sayed battles.
How is the industrial revolution going?
You had that French prince interested in steam engine, but steam engines came from the British appetite for coal, the absence of wood for London, and Britain's enormous reserves of coal and close access to sea routes for both the coal mines and the markets.
The Ruhr and Saar coal wasn't discovered until much later.
That duel sounds like an enormous diplomatic debacle. How would the Stuart pretender be able to compete with the much greater wealth of George III?
You had that French prince interested in steam engine, but steam engines came from the British appetite for coal, the absence of wood for London, and Britain's enormous reserves of coal and close access to sea routes for both the coal mines and the markets.
The Ruhr and Saar coal wasn't discovered until much later.
That duel sounds like an enormous diplomatic debacle. How would the Stuart pretender be able to compete with the much greater wealth of George III?
The French steam power is still mostly for show, the British use it more widly, while the French show off fancy new devices that are more efficient that those used in British industry. Also there where German mines in the 1750s, so it is forseable that French demand caused the earlier discovery of some coaal deposists.
As for Charles competing with George it is important to remember that you can only pay so much for clothes, and Charles is still doing pretty good for himself with his small kingdom. Charles also spends more on his appearance in proportion to his fortune than George as he is in the business of trying to gain support and must therefore keep up appearances.
As for Charles competing with George it is important to remember that you can only pay so much for clothes, and Charles is still doing pretty good for himself with his small kingdom. Charles also spends more on his appearance in proportion to his fortune than George as he is in the business of trying to gain support and must therefore keep up appearances.
A Study of Anglo-Indochinese Relations
(Stirling City 1921)
(Stirling City 1921)
After the invasion of Cambodia by the Siamese king P'ya Taksin the stage was set for a revolt in Vietnam, which the famous Tay Son brothers soon capitalised upon. They soon raised an army of peasants against the powers that controlled the region. Nguyen Hue proved a skilled military leader taking his peasant army to victory against the professional forces, though the fact that they were fighting the Nguyen lords has made it quite confusing for many history students to hear of a Nguyen leading armies against the Nguyen armies. When the Tay Son liberated the merchant city of Quy Nohn[1] they gained a decent supply of funds. By this point the Nguyen responded to what he now realised was a serious revolt, making peace with the Siamese to attempt to crush the revolution. As his armies marched towards the rebellious forces to Trinh broke the long peace that had existed with the Nguyen and invaded, capture the Nguyen capital forcing the Nguyen to retreat to Gia Dinh. This was the start of the end for the Nguyen who were eventually captured and killed in 1777[2].
It was then that the EIC became interested in local events. The young John Shore decided to engage in negotiations with the Tay Sons, hoping to gain local support as support from London was wasting away with George III's policy of investing in the Yankee colonies gained momentum. The Tay Sons were interested in the British offer of weapons and alternative tactics. The EIC was soon sending cannons and muskets to aid the Tay Son keep control of the area, and not a moment too soon as the Siamese soon attacked. The spectacular Tay Son victories took the Siamese by surprise and lead to rebellions in Siam. The EIC and Tay Son then divided the Siamese Empire. The three Tay Son brothers put themselves in charge as provisional leaders of each of the three territories while still attempting to gain the return of the emperor. However the Chinese continued to tell the Le Emperor that the Tay Son would render him a mere puppet to them, where as with the Chinese he would enjoy freedom in his own land as long as he remained their ally.
By 1783 the Chinese had prepared enough troops after their disastrous Burmese campaign to invade the Tay Son controlled lands, however the modern armies which the Tay Son and EIC could field were more than a match for Chinese forces. Fighting ruthlessly the EIC under Shore made a surprise attack against the Chinese just after their New Years celebrations, slaughtering the Chinese forces as they rested after the celebrations. As many of the Chinese forces fled the battle in a half panicked state in the early morning of the battle the Vietnamese army lay in wait surrounding the battle to pick off any deserters. The Chinese army was soon surrounded and defeated even though it was far larger then the enemy armies. The British and Vietnamese then came to a point of disagreement, the British favoured striking into China, where as the Vietnamese favoured to leave the Chinese alone so as not to incur the full might of the Chinese empire.
Thus peace was finally made in 1785, while Nguyen Hue was declared the emperor of Vietnam after it became clear that the Le dynasty would not be returning. The British influence lead to the creation of a parliament in Vietnam as a guarantee to the people. With Nguyen Hue the Emperor, a new leader was needed for the Siamese provinces, and the general Thong Duang[3] a popular Siamese general was given the position to keep the Siamese people happy. This lead to a short period of stability until the Burmese invasion of 1785.
The Birth of the Canadien Pacific
(Sableville 1933)
(Sableville 1933)
By the early 1780s Louis XVI was growing concerned about the lack of Pacific access for New France. The British had begun to establish themselves in the poorly explored region between Alaska and New Mexico. The main expedition was of course under Arthur Phillip which led to the establishment of the penal colony on Drake Island, named after Sir Francis Drake who claimed to have explored the region, a move that had it's route in the Boston Rebellion's demand to end the penal colonies in the Thirteen Colonies, a policy which king George III agreed with, as he felt that it would help his plan to pacify the region. Thus Arthur Phillip was sent to find a suitable location for a penal colony. While Phillip had proposed Australia the general feeling was that too large of a penal colony near the French colony of New Rohan would lead to rebellion, and some people found Hawkingsland[4] a rather distasteful place to send convicts as they were treated worse than slaves by the plantation owners of Hawkingsland. There was also a growing abolitionist sentiment in Europe, and the widespread slavery in Hawkingsland made the idea of benefiting them with free labour from convicts unpopular. Unfortunately shipping convicts to Drake Island proved more expensive then Hawkingsland, and thus many convicts were still sent to that Southern African Hell.
However this intrigue had little effect of Louis XVI's opinion that the British planned to surround New France via the expanding Hudson's Bay Lands and Drake Island, thus and expedition was prepared to explore the route to the Pacific. This was the beginning of the Famous Baudin and Du Sable expedition. The two men were hired for their adventurous nature, even though both were rather young the forward thinkers of New France saw no problem with that. Along with this famous pair went another twenty men who's names are rarely mentioned. The group set off from the growing town of St. Louis, and headed west. They followed the Missouri river until it's end, stopping to trade with the occasional tribe of natives. The expedition was stalled for some time until they found a route to the Salmon River[5] and followed that river west until they reached the Pacific. They then travelled north along the coast until they found Fort De Langle, named after Paul Antoine de Langle who had set off from India to explore the Pacific and establish a fort in North America.
[1]Qui Nohn, the British went for a less French spelling
[2]This is where things diverge from OTL, as the campaign in D-398 is slower due to worse weather
[3]OTL King Rama I
[4]The Natal colony, named after John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drakes cousin and the first real British slave trader
[5]In D-398 the Shoshone tribes gesture to show swimming salmon is not misinterpreted as having to do with snakes
And a Map:
"We apologise for the shortness of this update, but Agent Barrin has come down with a rather nasty flu. Interdimensional diseases can be quite nasty as you all know."
The VOC had of course been nervous about the cape ever since Hawkingsland began to pick up, by 1783 the population had already equaled the Cape Colony and there seemed to be no sign that the British and Yankee immigrants would ever stop coming. Thus the VOC had been in desperate need of the Icelanders and was willing to lure them with numerous promises. This resulted in a boom of 4 000 immigrants from 1783 until the Revolutions, a boom which would of course give the Capers a fighting chance against the Dominionists later on. Of couse this wave of immigration eventually wound up tying up enough ships so as to decrease VOC profits and make them less competitive in India, though the owners of the company assured everyone that lack of access to India through the loss of the Cape Colony was far worse and a real threat.
Dr Sigé: the Father of Modern Medicine
(Venice 1934)
(Venice 1934)
While many argue that there are no men in history without whom the world would be drastically different, the famous Dr. Sigé is a glaring example of the great men who have lived throughout history. The sheer numbers of radicals changes which Dr. Sigé realised upon the medical world was such that even if any one of his discoveries may have been found the fact that he was able to see them all greatly advanced medical science. He is probably most known for his discovery of the smallpox vaccine. Having grown up in the very dairy based regions of the Augereau[1] River Josph Sigé noticed that smallpox was much less widespread than in other nearby regions with less dairy production. It was with several years of research, starting in 1768, than he determined that it was cowpox that was providing the immunity. He decided to test his theory on his one of his assistants who volunteered for the test, Robert Garlau. When Garlau recovered from the cow pox he was then exposed to smallpox and showed an immunity. This discovery alone would have made Sigé one of the most famous doctors in history, but his contributions did not end there.
Dr. Sigé was also and avid clean freak, some believing he may have even suffered from mild Obsessive Monomania[2], though there is only conjecture to support this, and it may also be a simple matter of people trying to take away from the incredible contributions of Dr. Sigé. What ever the case Dr. Sigé's attentiveness to record keeping combined with his concentration on cleanliness. This meant that Dr. Sigé had a large amount of information to back up his claims when he pushed for cleanliness he was able to provide examples of how his efforts improved survival rates amongst his patienta. Unfortunately for the world most of the medical practitioners of the world declared that his statistics were the result of coincidence and that cleaning was merely a waste of time. Some also attributed his success to the clean air of the New World compared to Europe, the only argument that has any real truth behind it. Thus his ideas were only able to spread amongst fellow Communitarians, which resulted in the Libertists nations adopting cleanliness in medicine far later with there views that such ideas were Communitarian propaganda and lies.
Dr. Sigé was also and avid clean freak, some believing he may have even suffered from mild Obsessive Monomania[2], though there is only conjecture to support this, and it may also be a simple matter of people trying to take away from the incredible contributions of Dr. Sigé. What ever the case Dr. Sigé's attentiveness to record keeping combined with his concentration on cleanliness. This meant that Dr. Sigé had a large amount of information to back up his claims when he pushed for cleanliness he was able to provide examples of how his efforts improved survival rates amongst his patienta. Unfortunately for the world most of the medical practitioners of the world declared that his statistics were the result of coincidence and that cleaning was merely a waste of time. Some also attributed his success to the clean air of the New World compared to Europe, the only argument that has any real truth behind it. Thus his ideas were only able to spread amongst fellow Communitarians, which resulted in the Libertists nations adopting cleanliness in medicine far later with there views that such ideas were Communitarian propaganda and lies.
The Eruption That Shook the World: the Laki Eruption
(Geneva 1944)
The 1783 eruption of the Laki volcano was the most lethal volcanic eruption of the millennium. Some estimates put the death tole at nearly 2 million world wide. Europe, especially northern Europe, was the most affected region. This explains the significant Emigration that occurred during the two years of the eruption. There was a significant flow of Swedes to the Americas as well as Australia, along with many Danes who went mostly to British colonies. There was also a large outflow of Scottish and Irish immigrants, quite equally to both French and British colonies. Amongst the Icelanders themselves there were also many who sought escape from the horror and hunger of their homeland. The VOC realised that this was a capital opportunity, and sent a small fleet of ships to pick up people to move to the cape colony.
The VOC had of course been nervous about the cape ever since Hawkingsland began to pick up, by 1783 the population had already equaled the Cape Colony and there seemed to be no sign that the British and Yankee immigrants would ever stop coming. Thus the VOC had been in desperate need of the Icelanders and was willing to lure them with numerous promises. This resulted in a boom of 4 000 immigrants from 1783 until the Revolutions, a boom which would of course give the Capers a fighting chance against the Dominionists later on. Of couse this wave of immigration eventually wound up tying up enough ships so as to decrease VOC profits and make them less competitive in India, though the owners of the company assured everyone that lack of access to India through the loss of the Cape Colony was far worse and a real threat.
Of course not all of the Icelandic emigrants went south, a large number also travelled west to the Hudson's Bay territory, the offer of jobs in the fur trade being quite alluring for people from a place where the air had turned to poison. Thus nearly 2 000 made the voyage, many stopping in Greenland on their way. However of those thousands many were disgusted by Denmark's lack of aid to their home country, and when they heard plans from Inuit whom they met on the way west, or once they were in British territory, of an attack to liberate the Inuit of Greenland many found themselves wishing to aid the Inuit. There were some who even hoped the Inuit would later help them to free Iceland of Danish oppression, though it would be many years before the Inuit would be in such a position.
[1]The Saint Laurence, renamed after a hero of the revolution to be less religious
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"This is agent Hastings. I would like to formally request a transfer. It's not that Agent Centauri is doing anything wrong, it's just I can't take the stress of this dimension. The locals are rude an suspiscious of our every move, they nearly took Agent Julag for questioning because he was getting to many books out about the construction of the Triple Assembly. They seemed to think he was part of a bombing conspiracy. And that's another thing, there's terrorism everywhere, our apartment was nearly blown up by a car bomb. Then there was a gun fight yesterday between the government and some partisans from Africa. Then there was that horrid flu that Agent Barrin caught, a few others have gotten it, and the smell is horrible. Please, please, please get me out of here."
*the sound of crying was heard*
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An official Investigation is to be held to determine if Commander Centauri hasacted responsibly.
*the sound of crying was heard*
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An official Investigation is to be held to determine if Commander Centauri hasacted responsibly.