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Post by jasonsnow on Apr 22, 2018 22:56:30 GMT
I do have a story idea i am working on called the Rise and Fall of the Austria Reich, i came up with that seeing jasonsnow flag in the flag thread, still working out the details for it, but when i have them i will post them here. Really cool story! Can't wait to see it. |
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Post by lordroel on Apr 23, 2018 2:51:03 GMT
I do have a story idea i am working on called the Rise and Fall of the Austria Reich, i came up with that seeing jasonsnow flag in the flag thread, still working out the details for it, but when i have them i will post them here. Really cool story! Can't wait to see it. Its more a story idea that a timeline ore a story, i doubt a Austria Reich can beat Germany,Italy, Czechoslovakia ore even Yugoslavia in a fight. |
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Post by raunchel on May 9, 2018 20:30:21 GMT
For a more early Hellenistic one: Cynane (Alexander's half-sister) manages to defeat Alcetas (brother of Perdiccas, the regent after Alexander's death). Most of his army switches sides afterwards, and she continues her march, leading to a fair bit of issues in Babylon. Perdiccas sees his power beginning to slip earlier, and several opportunists like Ptolemy Soter take their opportunity. This leads to an earlier fall of Perdiccas, but other than that, I'm not sure. There still are lots of players on the board, from Olympias to a whole bunch of generals.
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Post by insect on Jun 26, 2018 19:03:12 GMT
Jeff Hunter stay in star trek with the regular cast from 2nd piolet. William Shatner is not type casted in parts.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 26, 2018 19:05:34 GMT
Jeff Hunter stay in star trek with the regular cast from 2nd piolet. William Shatner is not type casted in parts. You already did a thread about it called Jeff hunter stays in star trek |
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Post by insect on Jun 27, 2018 3:23:04 GMT
Yes I did I wanted to flesh it out and write about how that would affect the film franchise and the next series.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2018 13:39:36 GMT
Yes I did I wanted to flesh it out and write about how that would affect the film franchise and the next series. That is a nice timeline idea. |
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Post by James G on Jul 16, 2018 17:35:09 GMT
Vova Putin, KGB Super Spy!
It’s the late-80s and Major Vladimir Vladimirovich (Vova) Putin is in Dresden, East Germany. He is assigned a desk job as part of the spying efforts against foreign students at the university. Kropromat is what is gained by him and the others, a lot of it useless to be fair.
Due to a paperwork SNAFU, Vova is sent urgently to Leipzig where a field officer has just lost his life in a gruesome ‘accident’. Someone other than Vova should have been sent.
At the international trade fair, Vova, our hero, stumbles into an international conspiracy which his deceased colleague had been just about to uncover. The conspiracy is mysterious but most-certainly evil. Vova confronts a foreign agent and uses his judo/sambo to gain an insight into what is going on.
The story moves back to Dresden where Vova is reporting to his bosses. There is an incident at the office and a killer comes in and shoots almost everyone else; Vova escapes alive, using his wiles and rescuing an injured man before the building blows up.
The enemy mastermind is revealed. He is a German-born American, a Nazi who hid his past and is on Wall Street. He exploits the poor workers and doesn’t care for anything but money and his Hitler Youth knife. He has plans for world domination and an army of unsmiling, obedience and ready-to-die assassins working for him. He will knock over the dominos through Eastern Europe, starting in the helpless East Germany, and then move onto enslave and exterminate the Soviet people.
Who is this lowly Major Putin standing in his way? He shall die!
Vova in East Berlin. The bosses there don’t want to believe it. Vova makes them believe it by showing the evidence he has gained because he is a super spy. There is a woman, a well-spoken and pretty Frenchwoman with a mysterious past. She works for the Soviet Union and the workers of the world to fight against neo-fascism and the greed of Wall Street. Vova fights off her charms, wary of them and manipulating his wedding ring as he looks down to remind us as readers he is a good, honest man who loves his wife.
There is another big shootout, brawl with martial arts in a warehouse in East Berlin. The big bad guy’s number two is there surrounded by soon-to-be-dead henchmen. Vova takes them all on one-by-one, shooting most but fighting the last man with his judo/sambo. Number two escapes and Vova chases. The chase is in para-gliders or hot-air balloons: helpfully, there was a second one laying around for Vova to chase him in. Then, a fight on the ground sees Vova kill his man but with his dying words, Vova learns the whole truth.
The last fight is near Rostock on the Baltic coast. Here the Nazi appears and gets the upper hand on Vova. The Frenchwoman is there too, she appears to have betrayed Vova. Vova looks doomed. He is about to be killed in some dramatic fashion. He fights free though, aided by the Frenchwoman who was on his side all along!
The Nazi runs, his henchmen dying as Vova chases. The Frenchwoman is shot by the Nazi as the last gunfight takes place besides the sea on a dark night in the middle of a storm. Her parting words are for freedom for the workers of the world and Vova promises to honour that.
Final showdown. Vova looks beat but, alas, he turns the tables and kills the Nazi.
Europe, the Soviet Union and the workers are saved.
Vova is a hero. He makes no speeches but gets a medal, a promotion and a posting back home with his family. A happy ending indeed.
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Post by forcon on Jul 17, 2018 18:15:18 GMT
Eagle Guardian. A dispute between Russia and the West in 2010 sees Russia take preemptive action to forestall a perceived Colour Revolution. This is an invasion of the Baltic States. NATO jumps into action. I for one would love to see a modern day NATO-Russia war TL. |
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Post by James G on Jul 17, 2018 18:52:06 GMT
Eagle Guardian. A dispute between Russia and the West in 2010 sees Russia take preemptive action to forestall a perceived Colour Revolution. This is an invasion of the Baltic States. NATO jumps into action. I for one would love to see a modern day NATO-Russia war TL. It is something I would love to write. Having it set in 2010 (or such like), rather than 2018, would be best I think. The problems of current politics and getting info on weapons & tactics might be helped to be solved by going back a few years too. One day! |
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Post by lordroel on Jul 17, 2018 18:54:03 GMT
I for one would love to see a modern day NATO-Russia war TL. It is something I would love to write. Having it set in 2010 (or such like), rather than 2018, would be best I think. The problems of current politics and getting info on weapons & tactics might be helped to be solved by going back a few years too. One day! Would you please finish your current timeline James before starting another one which i could see to become another hit on this forum. |
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Post by James G on Jul 17, 2018 18:55:35 GMT
It is something I would love to write. Having it set in 2010 (or such like), rather than 2018, would be best I think. The problems of current politics and getting info on weapons & tactics might be helped to be solved by going back a few years too. One day! Would you please finish your current timeline James before starting another one which i could see to become another hit on this forum. I intend to, yes. I will always write things on the side though. |
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Post by redrobin65 on Jul 25, 2018 20:30:53 GMT
Je Me Souviens
The Canadian Government in 1995 had no real plan as to what it would do if Quebec had voted to leave the country. Sure, there were a few minor contingencies, but little in the way concrete step by step plans.
Historically, the '95 vote was VERY close, with 49.42% voting to leave, and 50.58% voting to stay. What if that was a little different?
That TL would focus on the days, months, and years after Quebec votes to leave. I'm occupied with MFOH and already have something else planned after that, but this is something I've mused about.
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Post by James G on Jul 25, 2018 20:36:25 GMT
Je Me Souviens The Canadian Government in 1995 had no real plan as to what it would do if Quebec had voted to leave the country. Sure, there were a few minor contingencies, but little in the way concrete step by step plans. Historically, the '95 vote was VERY close, with 49.42% voting to leave, and 50.58% voting to stay. What if that was a little different? That TL would focus on the days, months, and years after Quebec votes to leave. I'm occupied with MFOH and already have something else planned after that, but this is something I've mused about. A suggestion for a POD on that: Have something unconnected to the vote occur in the lead up to the vote. Something big, national news that distracts campaigning and, with a split like that, an unconnected disruption can change things without any other reason than a break from schedule. Maybe you have a POD already, though if you don't, I personally see this as plausible and with it having happened in my country in recent years too I think it could work. |
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Post by James G on Aug 3, 2018 21:02:20 GMT
Lavender & PoisonIn 1975, Harold Wilson is Britain's PM after his election the year before. His political secretary Williams has quite the influence over him and many enemies. Wilson's confident and personal doctor, Stone, has decided that Williams' influence on the PM is poison... and decides to poison her. Williams is killed. The plot is uncovered by MI-5, those within who have long been out for Wilson, and they choose to see it revealed, spinning it as an act ordered by Wilson himself rather than it all being on Stone. Wilson had refused to be blackmailed into resigning so the exposé is the route taken. Political uproar. Wilson refuses to budge, even when details of an affair several decades before between him and Williams are revealed as well, though these not from those in MI-5 out to sink him. Stone eventually turns on the PM when Wilson realises it is him who started this and Stone fears the police more than the Prime Minister. Stone's 'confession' of Wilson's supposed instruction to kill Williams makes the Labour Party act themselves with mass resignations and then an attempt at a vote of no confidence in the Commons alongside the opportunist Conservative opposition. Wilson resigns. No criminal charges are ever brought against Wilson nor Stone; the former PM's reputation is that of an adulterer, a liar and a killer. (Yes, this does sound crazy, I know, but...) Joseph Stone: " In 2002, Wilson's former press secretary Joe Haines alleged that Stone had plotted to murder Labour politician Marcia Falkender in 1975, purportedly to prevent her from revealing that she and Wilson had had an affair; Falkender has rejected Haines's allegations as "outrageous". Labour Party politician Bernard Donoughue claimed in a 2011 documentary to have also heard Stone say, "it was in the national interest she be put down". " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stone,_Baron_Stone Marcia Williams: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Falkender,_Baroness_Falkender
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