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Re: joining concultures,was Re: Alternative histories andparalele universes

From:Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, January 7, 1999, 21:33
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Hawksinger wrote:

> The rest of the world still calls it World War II and the war is > basically the same. The Nowans call it the Second Pacific War, the > first being fought in the 1920's. In my WW 2, the Japanese > sieze a western chunk of Pan in early 1942, after bombing Pearl Harbor > and seizing S.E. Asia. Nowapan throws them out by the end of 1943, > fights more or less alongside the Americans in the Pacific (mostly > less, it gets complicated), and then invades Hokkaido on the night of > April 13, 1945 (I have a timeline too!). They are poised to invade > northern Honshu when the USA drops the bombs and Japan surrenders > as per the real world. >
Considering one of the reasons the Americans dropped the bombs was to tell the Soviets 'we have bigger guns than you do, so don't try anything!' I would suggest the dropping of bombs would have been moved ahead to the Nowan invasion of Hokkaido (that must have been a bloodbath because I suspect the Nowans would have virtually had to depopulate the island to subdue the Japanese). This could have made Nowapan very influential during the Cold War: instrumental in bringing down one of the Axis powers and geo-politically significantly placed (probably the same for the Boreanesians). Probably the Nowans were offered a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. - andrew. Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz Q. Why are there so many Smiths in the Phone Book? A. Because they all have telephones! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GL d+ s-:+ a32 C+ UL P? L E? W++ N+ o-- K- w O M+ V PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t+* 5+ X- R tv b+++ DI+ D-- G e++ h- !r y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------