ASB timeline describing a series of natural disasters. This time, the Space Bats influenced the tilt of the earth's axis and seismic activity in an attempt to prevent Global Warming. The result is the death of more than half of the world's population. Moral - only humans can prevent warming.
A TL where the Italian Unification takes place under the Papal States instead of a secular government. This led to the Catholic Church drastically changing the ned of the 19th century, with the Pope managing to create a Catholic Union by 1950 in an alternate Cold War with the Protestant world.
Trotsky ousts Stalin in the power struggles following Lenin's death, and embarks on a policy of vigorously funding revolutionary Communist movements throughout Europe and the world. This results in a 1920s and 30s which is even more turbulent than OTL, with an ever escalating series of revolutions, counter-revolutions, civil wars, foreign interventions, leading up into an alt-WWII which sees the (temporarily) united forces of Fascism and Liberalism grinding out Communism and shattering the Soviet Union. With Fascism triumphant across the war-ravaged landscapes of continental Europe, things look bleak for the future... but the embers of revolution have not been fully extinguished, and the madness of Fascism provides plenty of dry tinder.
Sail The Ocean Blue in 1792 | White Sky, Black Stars, Red River, Dead Earth |
[ASB] A routine British expedition to the US leads to a shocking revelation: the United States is gone, and so are the colonies. A Spanish ship arrives in "New Spain", only to get captured by the Aztec Empire, which collapses due to internal strife and disease. A few survivors manage to make it on the next expedition back, and the colonists' worst fears have been realized. The Americas from 1492 have been transported 300 years forward in time. With evangelism rising in the Old World, missions to retake the New World for a second time fire off, and the natives end up in trouble... once again. This time around, what will change in how they do it? | [Future] A future timeline that starts in the 2040s and ends in the 2140s. The world continues using fossil fuels with only limited research into green technologies and renewable energy. By the 2100s, climate change and human advancement have progressed to such an extent that the sky has been covered with smoke, and light pollution from rapid urbanization neutralizes even the darkest of skies in rural areas. The ground is infertile and un-arable, and wars are regularly fought over the carcasses of dying countries and civilizations. Mankind desperately clings on in other parts of the Solar System, like Mars and Europa. |
An ASB timeline, where LSD and other powerful psychedelics are capable of awakening latent psychic powers in their users. World history thus goes incredibly off the rails from the 1960s onward, as more and more people manifest uncanny and phenomenal cosmic powers. The boundary between self and other, between the real and the imaginary, begin to dissolve, and all the old orders are swept away. Humanity is drawn inexorably towards an unfathomable event horizon; either transcendent unity with the cosmic one-mind or death, depending on your point of view. Thus mankind's final war is fought between those who rush towards this fate, and those who want to avoid it at any cost.
A TL in which a Vesta-size Kuiper Belt object had a glancing blow on the Moon in October 1757. This only slightly shifted the orbit of the Moon, but did:
An SI timeline with a twist: the SI has only a few months or years to live and act before they are doomed to inevitably fall on a sharp object and die... after which he wakes up in a new body and new context, some decades or centuries in the future, to see how his efforts changed the course of history. Or failed to change, as is frequently the case. Starting at the dawn of agriculture and carrying on for millennia into the future, the timeline is epic in its scope.
An ASB timeline where humanity starts in the Americas, with Eastern America being like Europe, Western America being like Asia, and Southern America being like Africa. After one fateful voyage, a new land is discovered called Eurasia. It's large and sparsely populated, full of new crops and resources, making it the target of colonization. In present day, the United States of Eurasia is the top power, which encompasses Western Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, and enjoys a status of being an isolated fortress. Mexico is located in North-Central Africa, Central Africa is equivalent to Central America, and the Mediterranean is the Caribbean. The USE's biggest geopolitical rival in history was the Soviet Union, which spanned across North America and encompassed Europe and Asia as a result.
A Timeline where Eddie Edwards (AKA Eddie the Eagle) after his participation in the 1988 Olympics becomes part of and improving(?) every significant event in Soviet/Russia History from then until the present day. This includes Yeltsin surviving until the 2000 election, the election of his successor Grigory Yavlinsky and large number of bad things happening to Vladimir Putin . The timeline ends with Grozny (the capital of Chechnya) making final preparations for holding the 2022 Winter Olympics.
A TLIAW with a geological POD. The 1831 volcanic eruption that created the brief-lived island of Ferdinandea in the Mediterranean was more intense, producing a larger and longer lived landmass. In OTL, the diplomatic dispute over its ownership between Britain, France, Italy, and Spain was anti-climatically resolved when the island quickly eroded away into nothingness. Here, the island lasted long enough for the dispute to spiral out of control into an actual multi-sided war, if a short and inconclusive one. More of a series of naval skirmishes, petering out once it becomes clear that the island will subside beneath the waves. The timeline concludes with the island's disappearance, although an epilogue records another, still larger eruption and implies that the island is on its way to becoming a permanent feature.
A Hundred Days of Falling Stars
A TL about the Soviets winning the Space Race and putting Alexy Leonov on the Moon before Armstrong. This would inspire the US to be the first to put a man on Mars which they would do (briefly) in 1993. Meanwhile the USSR, having poured so much into its space program, was forced to scrap it a year after the Luna Landing in 1977 due to costs and Leonov dying during an attempted return trip. While the TL would sputter out and die after about 20 or so updates it was still hailed (and derided) for its attention to detail, with the author even explaining the exact dimensions of the rockets various parts. Some years later the author would reboot the TL after the series was picked up by HBO to turn into a miniseries which got mixed reviews.
A Confederate victory TL, focusing on its struggle for survival against an authoritarian Union in an alternate WWI. The timeline started with promise. The author had a talent for writing vivid battle scenes and had decent characterization. The author freely admitted to stacking the deck in favor of the Confederacy in various ways (The Knights of the Golden Circle successfully filibustering several Central American nations, the Royal Navy intervening to keep 'neutral' shipping flowing to and from the Confederacy, command incompetence in the early days of the war by the Union), but claimed that these were necessary for a modern industrial war between the Confederacy and the Union to be anything other than a rapid victory by the latter. The community was initially willing to accept these conceits.
A timeline where Betty Ross didn’t die during Peter David’s Hulk run.
A timeline where the cold war went nuclear amidst the eruption of Mount St. Helen on May 18, 1980 (the two events were unrelated, the nuclear launch due to a series of misunderstandings on both sides regarding events in Afghanistan). One nuclear weapon landed near the erupting mountain after going off course, magnifying the damage all that ash in the air caused by making it radioactive.
Following defeat in WWI and an attempted socialist revolution, British politics have devolved into a de facto one party state. Although on the surface there are still two parties, the Conservatives and Liberals, every election and every Parliamentary vote is decided ahead of time in smoky gentlemen's clubs by shadowy party mandarins. Liberal and Conservative PMs succeed each other in orderly procession, and while the faces in charge change the policies never do.
A TLIAD about JFK vanishing during a plane ride to France. A massive search scours the Atlantic and eventually the plane is found and the bodies of most of the Cabinet are inside except JFK. More searching goes on until eventually JFK appears in Rio having made a raft out of wreckage and floated to Brazil. JFK however refuses to return to America and the Presidency, instead tendering his resignation from his sudden retirement home in Rio. A sequel TL deals with JFK coming back to America in the early 1970s, running for President, winning a second term and getting assassinated in Dallas.
A timeline about the operations and inner machinations of the ARC- the American Research Corporation. Following a WWI which lasted from 1916 to 1920 (leading to greater development of technologies like gas, tanks, aircraft, and radio), the United States is convinced of the need for a permanent national research and development center to ensure a technological and industrial advantage in any future conflicts. Thus the ARC is founded in 1922 as a collaboration between the federal government, leading universities, and certain private industrial concerns. The timeline runs to 1966, when the increasingly moribund organization is broken up on anti-monopoly grounds.
