Post by raharris1973 on Dec 3, 2023 4:14:40 GMT
Disclaimer/Preamble: Here are two consecutive ISOT scenarios, in separate universes, timelines. The 'victim' or negated countries, in their modern incarnations, are not quite chosen 'at random', I mean there's enough of 'reason' for each to be a fable or to have sort of a 'twilight zone' karma element, but with all that they were pretty randomly selected, without malice, and in other scenarios I've 'buffed' these countries and given others a hard time. So not a current politics rant. Here goes:
1) 1987 - August 10: Australian rock/punk band 'Midnight releases single 'Beds Are Burning'.
The song, and its outback and aboriginal themed music video do well internationally, ascending the singles charts, reaching a peak of 6th place eventually in some Australian and UK and US charts and #1 in Canadian, New Zealand, and South African charts over the next year. Beds_Are_Burning
Capitalizing on building chart success and seeking to promote sales of their entire Diesel and Dust Album, as 1987 wraps up the band and its agents are more aggressive about its 1988 tour schedule, willing to cut short mid-summer (southern hemisphere) Christmas-New Year holiday family time to strike while hot and get touring internationally for the first time since 1985. www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/midnight-oil-53d62f9d.html?year=1988. Advance planning and sweat equity gets them their first North American tour dates in early January, in San Diego, three months ahead of when thought possible. (This is the first PoD - their first foreign tour date OTL was April 15, 1988 at San Diego State- Here it is Jan 8th, at Hollywood Palladium)
A suggestible, vapid, music-loving ASB, who really pays more attention to things said, done, and sung in Hollywood more than anywhere else on Earth, is paying close attention.
The ASB really loves the band's live rendition of 'Beds are Burning' and is moved emotionally to supernatural action during the song's signature 'Let's give it back' line. (this is the second PoD).
He instantly replaces the Australia, and New Zealand, and minor outlying islands, their airspace, and their maritime space out to the limit of their Exclusive Economic Zones, from January 8th, 1988 with those same land masses from January 8th, 1788. This is a fully Aboriginal Australia, as it was just 18 days before the arrival of the British 'First Fleet' to Botany Bay and Port Jackson/Sydney Harbor. New Zealand is a fully Maori, untouched by Europeans, New Zealand, known to natives as Aoteara.
Telecom connections to Australia and New Zealand are lost instantly. This is a simple replacement. All people vanish with the land they are on - foreign tourists, diplomats etc. in and around NZ and Australia vanish with it, Australians and New Zealanders outside their homelands in unaffected parts of the world remain.
January 9th the world goes through the day continually unable to contact Australia. Satellite photography checks observe the total lack of artificial light. Within hours multiple authorities confirm the absence of Australian and New Zealand civilization, resulting in a travel ban and cancellation of all commercial flights and transits, either before, or after, a series of crash landings of airliners have happened.
Regardless of cancellation of commercial travel, international organizations, or Australian embassies or naval forces in international waters rather soon will do a physical reconnaissance of Australia and make first contact with Aborigines.
Suspicious absence of telecoms, artificial light, pollutants, shipping, travelers, and first contact will from very early on suggest a disappearance of modern Australia and a time disjunction/displacement to pre-European contact times, or some physical effect mimicking that if not time travel itself. Further reconnaissance, overflights, satellite imagery of terrain will only confirm the absence of any western style industrial or agricultural development whatsoever in the weeks and months ahead.
This is rather distracting for the world of 1988, but not world-ending, nor economy-destroying. The world has lost a major grain producer, livestock producer, and mineral producer, making multiple commodities somewhat scarcer, the agricultural ones in particular seasons. Millions of wealthy consumers, a substantial consumer market, is vanished from the planet.
In its place are a continent full of Stone Age Aboriginal natives unattached to global market transactions, and Aoteara, with uncontacted Polynesian natives similarly unconnected to the global market.
It is likely that the loss of Australians and New Zealanders as consumers will hit British and Pacific Rim exporters, and the loss of the Antipodes beef, lamb, grain, iron, copper, and uranium production will raise commodity prices. However, major global events like the Tianamen Square crackdown, fall of the Berlin Wall and Warsaw Pact, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, fall of the USSR will all still occur.
However, whatever intentions major governments or the United Nations may have of setting aside the Antipodes as nature preserves or indigenous reserves, or whatever intentions expat diplomatic, military, and citizen communities of Australians and New Zealanders may have of monopolizing the fate of their homelands, in the 35 years of history between 1988 and 2023, no power would be able to keep either of these lands under a pristine quarantine, or under a monopoly expat control, or keep interested people from around the world and nearby isolated from the lands, their resources, and their native people.
Their will be people venturing in to go for resources, whether it is considered legitimate or not, and whether any form of more legitimate authority goes to try to chase them down and extract them or not, and Aborigines and Maori will both be exposed to uptime people, uptime technologies, uptimes diseases, one would hope some medicines, and some uptime vices.
What does the 1990s and 2000s hold for Australia, New Zealand, and a world now living with suddenly indigenous, rather than 1st world, versions of these nations?
1) 1987 - August 10: Australian rock/punk band 'Midnight releases single 'Beds Are Burning'.
The song, and its outback and aboriginal themed music video do well internationally, ascending the singles charts, reaching a peak of 6th place eventually in some Australian and UK and US charts and #1 in Canadian, New Zealand, and South African charts over the next year. Beds_Are_Burning
Capitalizing on building chart success and seeking to promote sales of their entire Diesel and Dust Album, as 1987 wraps up the band and its agents are more aggressive about its 1988 tour schedule, willing to cut short mid-summer (southern hemisphere) Christmas-New Year holiday family time to strike while hot and get touring internationally for the first time since 1985. www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/midnight-oil-53d62f9d.html?year=1988. Advance planning and sweat equity gets them their first North American tour dates in early January, in San Diego, three months ahead of when thought possible. (This is the first PoD - their first foreign tour date OTL was April 15, 1988 at San Diego State- Here it is Jan 8th, at Hollywood Palladium)
A suggestible, vapid, music-loving ASB, who really pays more attention to things said, done, and sung in Hollywood more than anywhere else on Earth, is paying close attention.
The ASB really loves the band's live rendition of 'Beds are Burning' and is moved emotionally to supernatural action during the song's signature 'Let's give it back' line. (this is the second PoD).
He instantly replaces the Australia, and New Zealand, and minor outlying islands, their airspace, and their maritime space out to the limit of their Exclusive Economic Zones, from January 8th, 1988 with those same land masses from January 8th, 1788. This is a fully Aboriginal Australia, as it was just 18 days before the arrival of the British 'First Fleet' to Botany Bay and Port Jackson/Sydney Harbor. New Zealand is a fully Maori, untouched by Europeans, New Zealand, known to natives as Aoteara.
Telecom connections to Australia and New Zealand are lost instantly. This is a simple replacement. All people vanish with the land they are on - foreign tourists, diplomats etc. in and around NZ and Australia vanish with it, Australians and New Zealanders outside their homelands in unaffected parts of the world remain.
January 9th the world goes through the day continually unable to contact Australia. Satellite photography checks observe the total lack of artificial light. Within hours multiple authorities confirm the absence of Australian and New Zealand civilization, resulting in a travel ban and cancellation of all commercial flights and transits, either before, or after, a series of crash landings of airliners have happened.
Regardless of cancellation of commercial travel, international organizations, or Australian embassies or naval forces in international waters rather soon will do a physical reconnaissance of Australia and make first contact with Aborigines.
Suspicious absence of telecoms, artificial light, pollutants, shipping, travelers, and first contact will from very early on suggest a disappearance of modern Australia and a time disjunction/displacement to pre-European contact times, or some physical effect mimicking that if not time travel itself. Further reconnaissance, overflights, satellite imagery of terrain will only confirm the absence of any western style industrial or agricultural development whatsoever in the weeks and months ahead.
This is rather distracting for the world of 1988, but not world-ending, nor economy-destroying. The world has lost a major grain producer, livestock producer, and mineral producer, making multiple commodities somewhat scarcer, the agricultural ones in particular seasons. Millions of wealthy consumers, a substantial consumer market, is vanished from the planet.
In its place are a continent full of Stone Age Aboriginal natives unattached to global market transactions, and Aoteara, with uncontacted Polynesian natives similarly unconnected to the global market.
It is likely that the loss of Australians and New Zealanders as consumers will hit British and Pacific Rim exporters, and the loss of the Antipodes beef, lamb, grain, iron, copper, and uranium production will raise commodity prices. However, major global events like the Tianamen Square crackdown, fall of the Berlin Wall and Warsaw Pact, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, fall of the USSR will all still occur.
However, whatever intentions major governments or the United Nations may have of setting aside the Antipodes as nature preserves or indigenous reserves, or whatever intentions expat diplomatic, military, and citizen communities of Australians and New Zealanders may have of monopolizing the fate of their homelands, in the 35 years of history between 1988 and 2023, no power would be able to keep either of these lands under a pristine quarantine, or under a monopoly expat control, or keep interested people from around the world and nearby isolated from the lands, their resources, and their native people.
Their will be people venturing in to go for resources, whether it is considered legitimate or not, and whether any form of more legitimate authority goes to try to chase them down and extract them or not, and Aborigines and Maori will both be exposed to uptime people, uptime technologies, uptimes diseases, one would hope some medicines, and some uptime vices.
What does the 1990s and 2000s hold for Australia, New Zealand, and a world now living with suddenly indigenous, rather than 1st world, versions of these nations?
