Why do you think they're settling down into New England?Maybe if it wasn't so cold
Not a serious suggestion, different long term weather patterns would be ASB territory.
Edit: Cant get the embed to start part way through like i wanted. Skip to 1 minute 15 seconds in or so for the scene I'm talking about
Map Thread XV
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TheScottishMongol
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No Rhyme or Reason
"We may never know why, on June 1st, 2017, these sixteen disparate lands - eleven US states, two Australian states and one territory, the Mexican state of Sonora, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas - were grouped together without rhyme or reason and cast adrift in time and space. What we do know is that we represent the only humans on this green Earth, and I assure you that in the coming days I and my fellow leaders will work together to adjust to our new world and cooperate to ensure our future security and prosperity. God bless you, and God bless all of mankind." - Newly sworn-in President Mattis, speaking from the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Event + 4 Years
The Cumberland territory was established to connect Virginia with the rest of the US. Sonora was annexed to prevent the situation there from deteriorating. With the collapse of the finance and tourism industries, only government welfare programs are keeping the Bahamas afloat, but the US has agreed to provide free trade and even some humanitarian and financial aid in exchange for a naval base to maintain Virginia's connection by sea to the rest of the country.
Many of President Mattis' decisions were controversial, but almost all are seen as necessary. With Congress completely gone, it fell to the Governors to appoint new Senators, while elections for the House were delayed until 2018, leaving Mattis essentially all-powerful for the first year of the crisis. When the new all-freshman Congress was finally chosen, they were quick to approve Mattis' seven SCOTUS nominees - all centrists or slightly right-of-center - who in turn were quick to declare all of Mattis' actions during the crisis constitutional, done with the intent of preserving the Union. Mattis chose a moderate Democrat as his Vice President with the intent of appearing to be a unifying centrist in the face of the crisis.
Starvation was avoided thanks to food redistribution, rationing and other government programs, but the economy is still in complete shambles, with many large companies vanished completely, trade frozen indefinitely, and several industries simply destroyed. Unemployment has skyrocketed, as has crime as unrest spreads. Military intervention prevented Sonora from falling into anarchy, but poverty and organized crime run rampant and are expected to be serious problems for the foreseeable future. Crime is being dealt with at the expense of the prison system, with Mattis favoring hard labor for most petty crimes and with many states bringing back the death penalty for violent ones. Mass infrastructure programs like in the Cumberland territory have helped somewhat, but it is clear that a fundamental restructuring of the economy is needed to end the Depression. Mass media has recovered quickly, with Silicon Valley companies putting the Internet back together within months at the expense of broadcast television. The problem of stranded foreign nationals was solved by Mattis' controversial Adoption Doctrine, making anyone in US territory at the time of the Event a US citizen.
With the upcoming 2020 election, Mattis has decided to run for re-election as an Independent. He is expected to receive strong support from conservatives and white moderates, and only the Democrats are running a serious challenger against him. However, the Libertarian candidate is expected to get more than 5% of the vote, prompting ominous forecasts from political commentators.
A referendum to join the United States is being held in Sonora, and it is expected to pass in a landslide. Bahamian politicians on both sides of the aisle are hoping to follow in the next four years.
Event +10 Years
The Mattis Bargain allowed Sonora and the Bahamas to be admitted into the Union alongside the new states of Cumberland and Potomac. In addition, the new settler colonies of Cascadia, Deseret, Trans-Mississippi, Little Egypt, Baja California, Rio Grande, and Cuba have been created, it is here that government-sanctioned settlement may occur.
Mattis won election in 2020, but the census meant redistricting, and Mattis swore to ensure a bipartisan committee would draw the lines. In the mean time, he returned to the task of rebuilding the federal government from the ground up, coordinating with the National Guard and local Army units to maintain the peace, and keeping the bread lines from getting too long.
2024 was the peak of the Depression, the darkest time to date. Unemployment, crime, and suicide rates climb with no sign of stopping, and religious fanaticism runs rampant. Though the surviving representatives of the Catholic Church have convened to choose new Cardinals and elect a new Pope, there were at one point two competing antipopes, before one was assassinated by a truck bomb and the other committed suicide by immolation. Survivalist compounds, religious fundamentalist communities, agrarian communes, and the redoubts of the rich and powerful are sprouting like mushrooms in the new settler territories.
With the lowest turnout in living memory, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was elected to the White House. A Republican who appealed to both Mattis' moderate base and the Libertarian "swing voters" of 2020, and who promised to rejuvenate the economy by "opening up the free markets", he managed to win enough support from the right and center to squeak through the electoral college. However, the Democrats swept a majority into Congress, taking Arizona's seats and using the Sonoran PRI party and the Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party to form a supermajority that obstructed the new President at every turn. Abbott did manage to succeed in one major campaign promise, opening up the new settler territory of Deseret to mining, offering some economic growth and appealing to the Mormon section of his base. Since then, there has been little change. Already unpopular, the Republican President faces serous challenges both from the right and the left, chiefly from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is running on an outright socialist platform. He promises to end homelessness, ensure universal healthcare, legalize a slew of recreational drugs, and end the prison system, among other things. His running mate is Patrick Morales (an invented character, as is every subsequent one), a new figure in the Arizona Democratic Party and a Latino even further to the left than Newsom.
Event +50 Years
The United States of America is made up of 24 states, 4 territories, and 3 overseas dependencies
States: California, Baja California, Nevada, Deseret, Arizona, Sonora, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Rio Grande, Gulf Coast, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Little Egypt, Trans-Mississippi, Cumberland, Appalachia, Virginia, Potomac, Bahamas, Cuba.
Territories: Cascadia, East Dixie, West Dixie, Hispaniola
Dependencies: Vatican City, Judea, Hejaz
After 50 Years in a new world, America is once again stable. Gavin Newsom of California was able to serve two terms with a Democratic-majority Congress, during which he passed massively expanded welfare programs that helped to pull millions out of the poverty they'd found themselves in during the economic crisis of the first decade. In addition, the new left-wing dominated Congress passed several Constitutional amendments, including abolishing the electoral college and altering the House of Representatives to be based on a proportional arrangement with one Representative per 500,000 citizens, prompting another term of redistricting and a fresh Congress.
Because of this, 2032 was not only high tide for the Democrats, but also the lowest point for the Republican Party, as they found themselves undermined across much of the heartland by the Freedom Party, a rebranded Libertarian Party appealing to free market capitalists and the religious right, whose fanaticism had grown like wildfire during the crisis. For every seat the Freedom Party seized from the Republicans, they managed to split the vote enough to allow a Democrat to slip into another. The Republicans lost the majority of their support in the American heartland, resigned only to strong control over Virginia and neighboring states. The Newsom Administration was functionally eight years of unrestrained left-wing polices, during which landmarks were made in civil rights, in addition to the economic growth.
Because of this, Newsom's Vice President, Patrick Morales, an American-born Latino, easily won the election of '36. However, once in office, he proved unpopular. Though a young President - he turned 35 a month before the 2028 election - he'd made many enemies within and without the Democratic Party, and his opponents were quick to brand him as both a shady political schemer and a radical further to the left than Newsom. He faced intense criticism when he proposed a union with Australia, leading some far-right commentators to shriek about his plans for "world domination". In addition, the Bahama's Progressive Party and the Sonoran PRI won enough seats to end the Democrat's majority, though together they still formed a dominant coalition over the Freedomites, Republicans, and Bahamian Nationals. Morales chose not to run for re-election in 2040, and instead the Democrats searched for a candidate with a strong enough record to challenge the now-serious challenger from the Freedom Party.
They found their ringer in the form of Cassandra Martinez, a Navy veteran, a charismatic Hispanic woman, and successful two-term Governor of New Mexico. During her tenure as Governor during the Newsom administration, she had expanded welfare programs and built mass transit systems across the state, as well as investing massively in solar power, effectively reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels to a small percent of what it had been. Her policies had been copied by Arizona (now a Democratic stronghold) and other states across the Southwest.
Martinez won election in 2040, becoming the first woman President, though by 2024 the leftist coalition was slipping. In order to shore up support, she picked for her running mate in '24 a Bahamian Progressive, though this did little to prevent a right-wing coalition of Republicans, Freedomites, and Bahamian Nationals from earning a majority in Congress. Despite trouble with Congress, President Martinez, a moderate in Democratic terms by this point, managed to continue the economic growth started by Newsom while balancing the budget by massively downsizing the military, which by this point was no longer needed to restore order at home.
Economic growth was also helped at this time by imports from Australia, who had settled the new Western Territory and Indonesia in pursuit of materials to fuel their rebuilt and now growing industrial base.
2048 was a wave year for the Freedom Party, with them not only increasing their majority in Congress but bringing one Daniel Smith into the White House on a radical platform: using the deficit from ten years of Democratic rule to fund the resettlement of the Holy Cities of the Old World. Latinos and even Muslims abandoned the Democratic Party in droves to sweep Smith into office, where he made good on his promise, . In addition, he opened up the free markets as Abbott had once promise, sparking a brief period of massive economic growth that saw the US bring in a deficit for the first time since the crisis. The resulting crash predicted by many on the left never came, though many chalked that up to the financial regulations rammed through by the Morales administration in the 30s.
In the meantime, the rebuilding of Vatican City and Mecca were followed by the ultimate prize: Jerusalem. As the religious right flocked in droves to the holy lands as homesteaders, Smith sat down with religious leaders to establish a revolutionary solution to the question of who would claim the Temple Mount, the holiest site for three religions. He proposed dividing the site into three section, a massive triangular courtyard with a different house of worship at each corner - a synagogue, a multi-faith Christian church, and a mosque. With the designers and architects outbidding each other at every turn, the holy sites were created, beautiful constructions meant to evoke not only the architectural styles of each faith, but the histories they had left behind. Today the overseas dependencies of Vatican City, Judea, and Hejaz stand as monuments of architectural engineering and even religious tolerance, to an extent - despite some religious tension, there hasn't been any serious cases of religious violence in Jerusalem since 2060.
It was the founding of the overseas dependencies and the digging of the new Suez Canal that led to Australia's settlement of New Singapore growing into a key connection point in the ring of global trade.
In 2052, the right-coalition majority in Congress was broken when the Republicans won enough seats that they could afford to change their allegiance and join the left-coalition. The feud between them and the Freedom Party was strong, the Republicans having neither forgiven nor forgot what they perceived as a backstab by the Freedom Party during the Newsom years.
Despite a growing economy and the triumph of the religious right, 2056 was still a wave year for the left, though the Democratic gains (not being enough to regain a majority for the left-coalition), were overshadowed by a single major upset. The Freedom Party was suffering as their voter base shrank, not due to unpopular policies, but due to simple demographics. Though eleven settler colonies had been admitted to the union, the expected waves of homesteaders never came, as changing demographics led to a shrinking population, in addition to many otherwise Freedom Party voters migrating to the overseas dependencies, where they would be unable to vote.
In a crowded field with an unpopular Freedom Party candidate and three other major third party candidates, the winner of the 2056 election was not a Democrat, but a dark horse candidate, a member of the Sonoran PRI, who won with a mere 35% of the vote. This, simply put, sparked chaos. Though all the parties in Congress put aside their differences to pass a Constitutional amendment establishing instant runoff voting for Presidential elections, Victor Delgado Monteverde was still sworn in as President in February 2057. By this point the PRI had morphed into a centrist, neoliberal party, favoring free market economics and socially liberal policies. Monteverde had pitched the PRI as the middle ground between the Freedom Party and the Democrats, and he had pointed to policies in states controlled by the PRI, such as Gulf Coast, which had seen a boom in oil production while remaining socially liberal and fiscally responsible.
As Australia's industrial growth outpaced their population growth, the Australian government sought to encourage immigration from America, prompting concern about competitive trade, which the PRI sought to assuage with promises of free trade and perhaps even a common currency.
Monteverde proved a popular candidate, and won a second term, with another PRI candidate being elected in '64. An Anglo from the state of Rio Grande, Michael McDermott proved to many that the PRI had become a national party, sparking a frantic reorganization of the political balance as a left coalition scrambles into power.
The Year is 2067, and America is celebrating 50 years since they were thrown, without rhyme or reason, into a new world. After decades of stagnation, technology is marching forward again. Green energy has come to prominence, the path to automation is being restored, and the Internet once again connects even the overseas dependencies and Australia. Environmentalism is here to stay, with many saying the Event was a chance to avoid the old mistakes and calling for the preservation of as much Virgin Earth as possible. Landmarks have been made in civil rights, and the dark days of the post-Event depression are far behind the current generation of Americans, who look forward to another 50 years of prosperity. For them, the future looks bright.
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Gotta say that your outlook for Australia is unrealistic as fuck. Given the territoty transported and the knowledge of indigenous resources, Australia should have expanded into the West and and Indonesia to secure resources for a manufacturing industry which is currently non existant. The security of Singapore and the Timor Sea would be imperative to survival.
TheScottishMongol
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Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately as a Yank I don't know all that much about Australia's politics or economy, hence why it's pretty much never mentioned.
Though taking what you said into consideration, if Australia builds up a manufacturing base starting in the 30s and 40s, they could start to feed off of America's growth in that time as well, and the establishment of the overseas dependencies in the early 50s would create a ring of global trade as well. Finally, the PRI's free trade policies would make them even more appealing given the rise of Australia as an industrial nation, maybe emigration from the US to Australia could be a major issue in the "modern day".
EDIT: I've made a quick edit taking your feedback into consideration.
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I just love this
Unfortunatly this is per definition ASB on ah.com
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/evolution-geologic-pod-are-asb-subjects.314343/
Which IMHO is silly as it isn't alien space bat level impossible for geology to go differently to otl.
This only refers to the pre-1900 forum. Ss far as I know ASB has always been okay in the Map Thread.I just love this
Unfortunatly this is per definition ASB on ah.com
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/evolution-geologic-pod-are-asb-subjects.314343/
Ryan
Donor
The problem is that human activity can't influence geology, so geological events should be the same as otl regardless of what humanity is doing
The first thing us Kentuckians would do, as we often do, is dive headfirst into the effervescent waters of the Ohio River, but unencombered by the oppressive eyes of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' Department of Fish & Wildlife we would be able to shuck the corn of our most hospitable southern belles in reckless abandon.
My first MOTF submission, see if you can figure it out (and no cheating by referring to the submissions thread
Great map and I love the idea!
Just to nitpick: I'm pretty sure it should be Uuden-Suomen Valtakunta. It kind of sticks out, especially considering that the Finnish placenames on your map look all good and natural.
Seeing as most of the conversation right now is on the history of Africa (or apparent lack thereof), I think this is appropriate;
I'm pretty sure there are loads of small inaccuracies, but for a general overview, it's pretty good (Also, I think the music's quite catchy).
Oh, and while we're on the topic, in case anyone's interested, I dug up a good interactive map of African languages last week, and this seems like a logical place to put it;
http://worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap/
I'm pretty sure there are loads of small inaccuracies, but for a general overview, it's pretty good (Also, I think the music's quite catchy).
Oh, and while we're on the topic, in case anyone's interested, I dug up a good interactive map of African languages last week, and this seems like a logical place to put it;
http://worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap/
it's quite simple, just takes a while. For example that map took me around 5 hours straight but the process can be equated to putting together scraps of paper in layers above one another
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Why don't we take the Africa discussion to Chat where it should be? I don't know about anyone else but listening to this is ruining my enjoyment of the maps...
*Hypetrain update*
During year 6 after the event a understanding took place between France, Germany and Swabia regarding the disputed claimed areas and Swabia could finally start resettling. As a gift for being the mediator between all parties (but mainly because everyone feels bad it is very limited in its expansions) Belgium is gifted a part of the Meuse Valley to claim as their own by France. France in the meantime began building a small harbour complex at the mouth of the Seine to be used by the European Expedition when it returns. That same Expedition saw it first loses when a small Welsh fleet being stationed at the Isles of Scilly sank a British steamer. The British ships were there because tensions had been running high since the Flotilla reached the Channel Isles and an argument erupted between the British and the French over ownership. The decision was made by the Belgian Admiral to send the British portion of the Flotilla to go and patrol Irish waters and later to regroup at the mouth of the Loire, hoping to cool down the tensions. The main fleet dropped anchor and made a small camp where Nantes used to be, awaiting the British portion. When it arrived at the end of year 6 it reported the hostilities, the discovery of Welsh settlements in British claimed Merseyside, and the situation in the 482-strong ‘Dublin Colony’ which was friendly towards them even though they were technically not supposed to be there. The Irish thought the fleet had come to legitimize them.
During year 7 the ‘world reserves’ of fuel ran dry; the EU had already decided that they would not go the polluting way of before in the 2nd year after the event when everyone was made aware of the effects Global Warming had on the world when during the first winter major North-Western European rivers froze over and there was continuous snow from October 'till February. The remaining fuel was heavily rationed and primarily used in military expeditions and resettlement. Industry and energy production is largely done by renewable power now but until there is a large surplus of electricity transportation is predominantly coal/steam-based for long distances and horse/leg-powered for small distances.
Catalonia/Occitania and the small Spanish settlement made contact with the EU mid year 7 and a border between the Occitan and French claimed lands were agreed upon. Parts of Bouches-de-Rhône however are uncertain whether to be Catalan/Occitan, French, Italian or to go its own way; as a result of this the area west of the Rhône and south of Burgundy is still disputed. In February of the same year the European Expedition was hit by a storm resulting in the loss of a Dutch steamer and a Belgian steamer who ran aground on the Ile de Ré. In late October the Flotilla again dropped anchors in the Garonne estuary and again set up a small camp where Bordeaux used to be. The were pleasantly surprised when in Late December a small fishing ship crossed their paths. It identified to be from the ‘Free Republic of Mimizan’, which greatly confused the members of the Expedition until they were told about the situation in those areas. The Belgian Admiral decided to leave a small skeleton crew behind at the ‘Bordeaux Base’ and decided to go and police the situation.Throughout year 8 they manage to united the Aquitaine areas stricken by civil war, a small Belgian/British force stayed behind in Bayonne to protect the newly established Basque State while the rest of the Flotilla headed home believing reports made by fishing ships that there was no civilization left in the Golf of Biscay. They were welcomed back in November at the newly reconstructed Le Havre, where they reported back their findings. The Newly created Basque State was recognized and the remaining Aquitaine states who had chosen France over Catalonia/Occitania were welcomed back. Meanwhile a grand Venetian Fleet had sat sail in August of year 8 to go and explore the Western Mediterranean and to try and find the missing Vatican Exodus.
The 2nd nation who reached the European quota of 500 nationals were the Portuguese (additional tourist transported in the Aquitaine areas largely made that possible). In March of the 9th year the Seine finally became free of ice again and thus the Portuguese convoy departed for Galicia. After stopping off in the Aquitaine areas and taking in additional Portuguese nationals and provision, they parted way with their escort (who came to relieve the Belgian/British peacekeeping force in Bayonne) and made its way to the A Coruña area. They decided to split the colonists each settling on opposite sides of the bay (Ferrol and A Coruña itself) and then to resettle toward each other.
They were quickly followed by the 1st non-European country to file a motion for resettlement; the Americans, who had united behind the figure of Howard Gutman (former Obama-administration American ambassador to Belgium). The EU however were not willing to give up ships in what was must likely going to be a suicide mission, also learning from history they wouldn’t risk a potential native population to go extinct due to diseases and they couldn’t say that they were a 100% sure the American Continent as they knew it was going to be there. They were however allowed to settle on the Channel Isles, immediately also solving the dispute between the British and the French about the Islands, which the Americans accepted. Howard Gutman was later elected the 46 President of the United States after a landslide victory.After the American appeal 2 other non-European motions have been filed; a joined Moroccan-Algerian-Tunisian bit to recolonize the Maghreb region together which is currently being discussed and a Turkish motion which has been accepted but told to wait until expeditions to the Western Mediterranean had come back. They however ignored that order and went along with the colonisation in unorganized waves of makeshift boats. Several months later they had been spotted by the ‘Nantes base’ but no reports of sightings have been made by the ‘Bordeaux Base’ or the Aquitaine areas. The EU fears the worst.
Resettlement has been spearheaded by the Welsh who are busy resettling the entirety of Glamorgan, have constructed a Naval Base on the Scilly Isles and have begun resettling Merseyside. The UK is resettling the areas between London/Oxfordshire and Somerset while also working towards the coast in Sussex. France has adopted a similar plan and is focussing its resettlement in the areas between Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Ile-de-France thought they also have small Naval/Military bases in Nantes and Bordeaux, the are stil slowly resttling towards the Loire and the Aquitaine areas are working on resettling toward the Bordeaux base having already reconstructed Arcachon. The Austrians have organized a bit and are now focussing on resettling east towards Vienna, Germany is finishing up the Rhineland and has taken the first steps in resettling Hessen, the Dutch are resettling Utrecht and their part of Limburg, Belgium has largely finished resettling their Limburg and have slowly begun along the Meuse with the reconstruction of Dinant, Swabia is resettling along the Rhine, Luxemburg is still pushing towards the Moselle and the Basque State has begun the reconstruction of Irun and Donostia. Catalonia/Occitania has finally begun with “reclaiming the old motherland” and is building a Naval base on Menorca, Italy is closing the gap between the ‘mainland’ and the Po valley while also constructing a naval base on Elba, Naples is continuing its push inland but has rushed the resettlement of Malta a bit in fear that a Venetian or Italian fleet would beat them, Venice is continuing inland towards the Austrian border and Dalmatia has begun a push up the Coast to beat the Venetians. The Danish communities have seen a little expansion largely in the Hamborg area with Harborg being reconstructed while the Irish, Scottish and Spanish Colonies only have a population expansion rather than territorial expansion. Meanwhile Ljubljana is stable now and has begun minor exploration along the Sava river, still thinking they are alone in this world.
On February 29th; All of Belgium expect for the Province of Namur, The Luxemburgian Province of Luxemburg, the Dutch Provinces of North-Brabant, Gelderland and South-Holland as well as Zeelandic Flanders, the German state Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Regierungsbezirke of Freiburg & Upper Bavaria, the Austrian states of Salzburg, Upper Austria and Carinthia, the Italian Regions of Veneto, Fruili-Venezia Guilia, most of Tuscany and the Provinces of Rome, Napels and Salerno, the French regions of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Ile-de-France and the departements of Moselle, Haut-Rhin, Landes, Pyrenées-Atlantiques, Haute-Pyrenées, Pyrenées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Gard and Bouches-de-Rhône, the Spanish Provinces of Girona, Barcelona and Tarragona, British Greater London, Kent, Somerset (+Bath), Oxfordshire, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Powys and Gwynedd, Slovenian Ljublijana, Upper Carniola, Coastal Kast and Croatian Istria,Prmorje-Gorski Kotar, Dalmatia (including the region of Mostar of Bosnia and the Montenegrin Bay of Kotor) were transported to a Virgin Earth.
5 years later
A continuation of the EU was quickly established between Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Belgium, Southern Netherlands, 'Luxemburg', Moselle/Haut-Rhin, Basel-Stadt, Freiburg and Nordrhein-Westfalen; quickly joined by the UK who send military scoutgroups through the surviving Eurotunnel and immediately opened up relations, did a rudimentary 2nd brexit-vote and after a 'stay'-victory this time became a member again. Representatives of the Nations met once every 6 months in Brussels to discuss reclamation of 'new land', which prompted the decision to expand Eastwards and to gift some of the Western areas of 'Germany' to nations that would be limited in their expansion by 'Germany' seeing that the Germans would be compensated with lands in the East. The Netherlands were allowed to claim Lower Saxony and Luxemburg was allowed to claim the Trier Region. Belgium being so certain of annexing Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the future decided not to ask for land from Germany,and gifted Arlon to Luxemburg while at the same time deciding to split Limburg with the Netherlands.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais briefly began negotiations to unite with Belgium but that stopped when 9 months after the Event it was discovered that Ile-de-France was transported as well. Who immediately joined the EU and Claimed the old territory of France. It sparked conflict however with 'Germany' because Haut-Rhin and Freiburg had united 2 months before and both Countries claimed the united lands. In the interest of keeping the peace Belgium headed negotiations between the 2 where it was decided a "Belgium-style", bilingual country would be established called Swabia. 1,5 years after the event Basel-Stadt expressed their desire not to reinstate the Swiss nation but rather to join the newly created Swabia. Around the same time the UK discovered that Oxfordshire had been transported to this new world as well.
Not long after that the paddlesteamer Hohentwiel, who got transported while being docked at Konstanz during the event, met with Austrian troops near Ingolstadt while being on patrol along the Danube (before you ask it was docked in a drydock and transforted as far as was possible by train). Doing so the EU learned that Upper Bavaria and 3 neighbouring Austrian States were transported as well and in thinking they were alone united together. The Austrians told them about the Italian Regions to their South and their decision to unite with Istria and neighbouring Slovenian regions, however less voluntary in some areas. Within months communications was established with the 2 nations and they soon joined the EU, beginning discussions with Germany about Bavaria which was quickly resolved by deciding to split the region between the 2.
Roughly 2 years after the event British expeditions reached the West Country and brought Somerset and Bath into the hold. They ran into conflict however when they reached Wales, at first contact was friendly but turned sour when the Welsh not living in Cardiff seemed not to be interested in reunification with the rest of Britain or being part of the EU. Cardiff however seemed to be okay with the idea of reunification and thus became the starting point of an (albeit small) armed conflict which the Welsh won.
The 3rd year after the event saw Zeelandic Flanders being given to Belgium as a gift because of their position of not being able to expand anymore. In the same year the surviving Danish europarlementarians who had been looking for Danish Nationals (mostly tourists, bussinessmen and a small number of exchange-students mostly from Oxford) being in the areas transported, filed their motion to the EU to recreate their country; which they were allowed seeing they had the required 500 nationals. They went by train to Minden where they transferred onto sailboats to continue their journey down the Weser, along the coast, up the Elbe to where Hamburg would be and there they reconstructed Hamborg. When the town was fully functioning small groups sat out to reconstruct Kiel, Flensborg and Lybaek. The story of their succes prompted unauthorized groups of Scots and Irish to go and reclaim Edinburgh and Dublin.
In the 4th year after the event the UK, Belgium, France and the Netherlands established a small Navy comprising of newly constructed wooden steamers and set off for an expedition of the Western coasts of Europe. This initiative was started when a Venetian flotilla of sailboats returned from a expedition throughout the Mediterranean which it had embarked on during the first months after the event. It reported back that most of the Dalmatian coast had transported as well and banded together in peace, Napels and Salerno was transported as well essentially being ruled by the Neapolitan Maffia who are claiming all of Southern Italy and Malta and had been succesful in reconstructing Reggio di Calabria and Messina, the most part of Tuscany had already bonded together with the Province of Rome and was headed by the surviving Italian Government... Apparently the Vatican has left on Sailboats to go and reconquer the Holy Land after several bishops had visions from "Angels", believing in their isolation the Departements in Occitania had united with the Catalonia provinces and Catalan is now the language of Government (Occitan dialects are accepted but French is not allowed in public life) and the small Spanish communities were allowed to go and restart their country, which they did in where Cartagena would be. At the end of year 5 only the Italian state had reopened communications with the EU and the Rovigo Province opted to return to Italy.
Meanwhile Ljublijana has managed to survive just barely and has made no efforts of expanding (excluding the farmland outside the city) and the Departements Landes and Pyrenées-Atlantique have fallen into civil war between Basque-speakers, French-speakers and independent villages. Both of them think they are the only ones left in the world.
Resettlement has so far only not been executed by Swabia and Catalonia/Occitania. The Welsh have reconstructed Newport and are building to connect Cardiff with the rest of Wales while also resettling Conwy and Anglesey. They have also landed on Lands End where they have a small base/weather Station which acts as a justification for claiming Cornwall. the UK has resettled the area between Oxfordshire and London as well as Thurrock while from Somerset they have resettled the Bristol area. France has been working towards the Loire and has reconstructed Chartres and Orléans while also resettling the farmlands of the Valois valley, while from Nord-Pas-de-Calais their are resettling around the Somme and have reconstructed Abbeville. The Netherlands have resettled Zeeland, Haarlem and Amsterdam and is currently reconstructing Amersfoort, Belgium has mainly been busy resettling Namur but has however already reconstructed Maastricht, Germany has focussed its attention on seizing control of the Rhine, and Luxemburg is mainly resettling towards the Moselle although it has pushed a bit into the Ardennes to provide the 'European flotilla'-project with wood. Austria has been expanding all over the place with no real concrete plan, but do have reconstructed Augsburg and Passau. Italy has resettled the area between Tuscany and Rome, the rest of Tuscany and from Rovigo they have resettled the other side of the Po River. Venice has begun a steady push inland and Dalmatia has resettled the Coastal areas.
10 years later
During year 6 after the event a understanding took place between France, Germany and Swabia regarding the disputed claimed areas and Swabia could finally start resettling. As a gift for being the mediator between all parties (but mainly because everyone feels bad it is very limited in its expansions) Belgium is gifted a part of the Meuse Valley to claim as their own by France. France in the meantime began building a small harbour complex at the mouth of the Seine to be used by the European Expedition when it returns. That same Expedition saw it first loses when a small Welsh fleet being stationed at the Isles of Scilly sank a British steamer. The British ships were there because tensions had been running high since the Flotilla reached the Channel Isles and an argument erupted between the British and the French over ownership. The decision was made by the Belgian Admiral to send the British portion of the Flotilla to go and patrol Irish waters and later to regroup at the mouth of the Loire, hoping to cool down the tensions. The main fleet dropped anchor and made a small camp where Nantes used to be, awaiting the British portion. When it arrived at the end of year 6 it reported the hostilities, the discovery of Welsh settlements in British claimed Merseyside, and the situation in the 482-strong ‘Dublin Colony’ which was friendly towards them even though they were technically not supposed to be there. The Irish thought the fleet had come to legitimize them.
During year 7 the ‘world reserves’ of fuel ran dry; the EU had already decided that they would not go the polluting way of before in the 2nd year after the event when everyone was made aware of the effects Global Warming had on the world when during the first winter major North-Western European rivers froze over and there was continuous snow from October 'till February. The remaining fuel was heavily rationed and primarily used in military expeditions and resettlement. Industry and energy production is largely done by renewable power now but until there is a large surplus of electricity transportation is predominantly coal/steam-based for long distances and horse/leg-powered for small distances.
Catalonia/Occitania and the small Spanish settlement made contact with the EU mid year 7 and a border between the Occitan and French claimed lands were agreed upon. Parts of Bouches-de-Rhône however are uncertain whether to be Catalan/Occitan, French, Italian or to go its own way; as a result of this the area west of the Rhône and south of Burgundy is still disputed. In February of the same year the European Expedition was hit by a storm resulting in the loss of a Dutch steamer and a Belgian steamer who ran aground on the Ile de Ré. In late October the Flotilla again dropped anchors in the Garonne estuary and again set up a small camp where Bordeaux used to be. The were pleasantly surprised when in Late December a small fishing ship crossed their paths. It identified to be from the ‘Free Republic of Mimizan’, which greatly confused the members of the Expedition until they were told about the situation in those areas. The Belgian Admiral decided to leave a small skeleton crew behind at the ‘Bordeaux Base’ and decided to go and police the situation.Throughout year 8 they manage to united the Aquitaine areas stricken by civil war, a small Belgian/British force stayed behind in Bayonne to protect the newly established Basque State while the rest of the Flotilla headed home believing reports made by fishing ships that there was no civilization left in the Golf of Biscay. They were welcomed back in November at the newly reconstructed Le Havre, where they reported back their findings. The Newly created Basque State was recognized and the remaining Aquitaine states who had chosen France over Catalonia/Occitania were welcomed back. Meanwhile a grand Venetian Fleet had sat sail in August of year 8 to go and explore the Western Mediterranean and to try and find the missing Vatican Exodus.
The 2nd nation who reached the European quota of 500 nationals were the Portuguese (additional tourist transported in the Aquitaine areas largely made that possible). In March of the 9th year the Seine finally became free of ice again and thus the Portuguese convoy departed for Galicia. After stopping off in the Aquitaine areas and taking in additional Portuguese nationals and provision, they parted way with their escort (who came to relieve the Belgian/British peacekeeping force in Bayonne) and made its way to the A Coruña area. They decided to split the colonists each settling on opposite sides of the bay (Ferrol and A Coruña itself) and then to resettle toward each other.
They were quickly followed by the 1st non-European country to file a motion for resettlement; the Americans, who had united behind the figure of Howard Gutman (former Obama-administration American ambassador to Belgium). The EU however were not willing to give up ships in what was must likely going to be a suicide mission, also learning from history they wouldn’t risk a potential native population to go extinct due to diseases and they couldn’t say that they were a 100% sure the American Continent as they knew it was going to be there. They were however allowed to settle on the Channel Isles, immediately also solving the dispute between the British and the French about the Islands, which the Americans accepted. Howard Gutman was later elected the 46 President of the United States after a landslide victory.After the American appeal 2 other non-European motions have been filed; a joined Moroccan-Algerian-Tunisian bit to recolonize the Maghreb region together which is currently being discussed and a Turkish motion which has been accepted but told to wait until expeditions to the Western Mediterranean had come back. They however ignored that order and went along with the colonisation in unorganized waves of makeshift boats. Several months later they had been spotted by the ‘Nantes base’ but no reports of sightings have been made by the ‘Bordeaux Base’ or the Aquitaine areas. The EU fears the worst.
Resettlement has been spearheaded by the Welsh who are busy resettling the entirety of Glamorgan, have constructed a Naval Base on the Scilly Isles and have begun resettling Merseyside. The UK is resettling the areas between London/Oxfordshire and Somerset while also working towards the coast in Sussex. France has adopted a similar plan and is focussing its resettlement in the areas between Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Ile-de-France thought they also have small Naval/Military bases in Nantes and Bordeaux, the are stil slowly resttling towards the Loire and the Aquitaine areas are working on resettling toward the Bordeaux base having already reconstructed Arcachon. The Austrians have organized a bit and are now focussing on resettling east towards Vienna, Germany is finishing up the Rhineland and has taken the first steps in resettling Hessen, the Dutch are resettling Utrecht and their part of Limburg, Belgium has largely finished resettling their Limburg and have slowly begun along the Meuse with the reconstruction of Dinant, Swabia is resettling along the Rhine, Luxemburg is still pushing towards the Moselle and the Basque State has begun the reconstruction of Irun and Donostia. Catalonia/Occitania has finally begun with “reclaiming the old motherland” and is building a Naval base on Menorca, Italy is closing the gap between the ‘mainland’ and the Po valley while also constructing a naval base on Elba, Naples is continuing its push inland but has rushed the resettlement of Malta a bit in fear that a Venetian or Italian fleet would beat them, Venice is continuing inland towards the Austrian border and Dalmatia has begun a push up the Coast to beat the Venetians. The Danish communities have seen a little expansion largely in the Hamborg area with Harborg being reconstructed while the Irish, Scottish and Spanish Colonies only have a population expansion rather than territorial expansion. Meanwhile Ljubljana is stable now and has begun minor exploration along the Sava river, still thinking they are alone in this world.
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I just thought it was an alternate spelling. An alternate written Finnish language (or at least a prominent written dialect) that replaces D's with R's is not at all unlikely in an ATL.
So in this world 1914 Europe and Russia are ISOTed to Virgin Earth.
I'll be very upset if your map winds up with a small group of American ex-pats conquering the entire American continent within 20 years.
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