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  1. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    As I understand it, this is an essentially unique capability (at this time ITL.) What are the barriers preventing the other great powers from developing a similar capability? (Now, I know that you can't just snap your fingers and have the capability overnight, but you know what I mean.) (We're...
  2. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    "The die is cast!" General Cadorna screams, reaching for the die so he can have another crack at it.
  3. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Clearly, then, the Allies have the opportunity to do the funniest invasion: Land further south (say, IDK, Mo i rana, a quick google maps suggests that Norway is fairly 'thin' at that point) as so to cut off the more northerly German garrisons. Now, I am assuming that most of the German...
  4. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    ...Do you know of any good books on the Marder program? Because (absent the fact that, well, feeding the Nazi war machine) that sounds like something of a lark.
  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    A Spectre is haunting this TL. The spectre of Marmon-Herrington.
  6. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    As for how to get the ball rolling in the first place: There is, of course, always the old reliable that is Corruption. Someone on the committee had been on a Kenyan Safari once and really really wanted to go back. Or had an interest in a local construction company or railway line. Or just...
  7. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Did you know Mount Kilimanjaro has a large crater at the top of it, on account of it being a dormant volcano? Consider! The Commonwealth could have a Space Launch Facility situated A) on top of a volcano B) in a crater C) at the top of a mountain. AKA: The Commonwealth could have a literal...
  8. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Oh, you just know what buttons to push lol. Forget Concorde. Give my Hypersonic Suborbital Trajectory Spaceplane transit.
  9. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Wait wait wait. This implies (eventually) a rather healthy Commonwealth Space Program, because Telecoms Satellites will be a godsend. This opens the possibility of a CW Apollo (Moon Landing) program.
  10. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Which means that, in a sense, the Commonwealth is decentralising in order to Centralise (or rather, consolidate.) An interesting perspective I hadn't considered!
  11. Why the Chinese play cricket (an Imperial Federation timeline)

    Happy to see this TL back in action. It's as good as ever and I'm looking forward to future updates!
  12. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    They could well have done that OTL, but didn't. I don't see any particular drivers ITTL for making Imperial Japan more reasonable.
  13. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Unlikely. The mechanics of FPTP really 'solve' to a Two Party system.
  14. The Fire Never Dies, Part II: The Red Colossus

    Oh, oh, I can answer this one! DeLeonism is secretly a Bourgeois ideology presented as a Socialist one and then propped up in order to undermine Leninism, the TRUE SOCIALISM.
  15. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Why can't they just muster sufficient Bushido Spirit?
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