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

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!

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