![]() As a result, Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa is occupied by British forces. The timeline diverges from our own during the American Revolution, when other European nations, including the Netherlands, declares war on Britain. Stirling's trilogy, "The Domination", follows the rise of a nation known as The Domination of Draka to global conquest. parliamentary elections, the actions of the People’s Republic of China, and protest movements). Please avoid discussing current political events (including U.S. The creation of threads which are designed for the sole purpose of baiting users into indulging in political mudslinging is banned. This rule also extends to historical revisionism and genocide/mass killing denialism, including denial of the Holodomor. Outright support for far-right and far-left ideologies (including but not limited to Stalinism, Nazism, Maoism, and Fascism) is strictly prohibited. No glorification of authoritarian and/or extremist regimes or the atrocities committed by them. Text prompts cannot be limited to the title and must have additional information in the body. Upon submission of image posts, please add a paragraph (minimum requirement, more is encouraged) explaining the content being shown. Usage of Imgur or the native Reddit client for image uploads is preferred. While not strictly prohibited, please avoid using JPGs. those with high pixelation or compression) are liable to be removed. ![]() Additionally, low-quality submissions (i.e. The content considered low-effort includes maps made solely in “map-painting” programs like MapChart, or simple Google service edits (like Maps or Earth) when unaccompanied by a fairly detailed scenario. Low-effort submissions will be removed by the moderators. A post that is not flaired into the correct category immediately upon or shortly after submission is liable for removal by the moderators. Crossposting from other subreddits with a similar purpose (such as r/ImaginaryMaps or r/Vexillology) is allowed, so long as the post abides by our rules. Do not use another person’s work, and especially do not claim it as your own. However, fantasy and other paranormal or magical content is prohibited.Īll content must be original. As this is an alternate history subreddit, all works must be partially or entirely fictional with a basis in real-world history. In the end only this was certain: these were not my people, and I wanted to go home.A subreddit devoted to alternate history, a genre of speculative fiction that deals with history and how it could have gone differently, but not just that! Feel free to post any speculative fiction stuff, off-topic posts, art, whatever. Much that they built and made had a haunting loveliness. The Draka truly loved beauty and hated ugliness and vulgarity and waste. Nor was all of the surplus squeezed from the workers spent on war and repression and luxury. There is no substitute for freedom I kept my faith that we would solve our problems through it but I was sometimes uneasily aware that there were some in the US - share-croppers, slumdwellers, the peons of the Guatemalan coffee fincas - who might have been willing to change places for the assurance of food and medicine and a roof. They dreamed grandly, and accomplished much: if their serfs were so much machinery, so many work-animals to them, then they were carefully tended machinery and well-kept animals. Their aristocrats were mostly honest and honorable men by their own standards however brutal and regressive their code, they lived by it, worked for it, were ready to die for it. The Draka were never helpless not simply because they were militarists, but because they refused to delude themselves to avoid effort and pain. Far too many humane and rational men had neglected and despised military power, and left us helpless before totalitarian aggression. I also had to concede the Domination's accomplishments. An icy concentration on the means of power that both awed and disgusted me so much human energy and intelligence, wasted.
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