Altered Maps 3: The rise of the Basque Empire!

[Huayna Capac357]

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Here's a MAP. It's about GDP percentage and labour force percentage of the three major economic sectors (agriculture, industry, services) in 2006.

Spoiler :

 

[cardgame]

Western Sahara is grey in every single data map I've ever seen.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Not being an official state, I doubt they keep statistics.

 

[Agarwaen]

You can assume that they are in whichever color represents the worst situation in a given map.

 

[plarq]

Not being an official state, I doubt they keep statistics.

Most of Western Sahara is de-facto annexed to Morocco. Check Morocco's data.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Just something I played around with, WWII sans the nukes.

Shortly after FDR's death, President Truman faced a tough decision. Without any real edge over the Japanese despite time and numbers, it was to be a tough battle. Having manufactured hundreds of thousands of purple heart medals for the invasion of the Japanese homeland, he ordered a new amphibious assault, similar to Normandy. The Soviets invaded Manchuria on August 9, and over the course of the next few months, the Japanese were humbled in one bloody battle after another - the war was made slightly easier by merit of the fact the Japanese navy had been for all intents and purposes annihilated by this point.

At the war's end, the Japanese renounced all of their territories outside the main islands. Much like Europe, borders were redrawn, with the Republic of China regaining Ryukyu and Taiwan, while Korea was occupied by the Soviets. Manchukuo was kept independent and occupied by the Reds, though parts of it were ceded to the People's Republic of Mongolia. As well, the Turkic regions of Western China managed to retain independence in the accords, but they too fell under Soviet occupation through force and covert means.

Having been stripped of so much territory long considered Chinese - the Republic had hoped that the Allies might support China's bids on Tibet and Sinkiang in exchange for it's aid - the Chinese people rejected the revolutionary Mao Zedong, since he practiced the same ideology as the "traitors" in the USSR. The Nationalists instituted a brutal yet efficient regime, loyal to the capitalist countries. The fury of the nationalists caused the Tibetans to run scared into the Soviets' arms.

Besides the fact the areas that once composed Qing China had been split into several regimes loyal to different sides in the emerging Cold War, Japan itself also saw great changes. It was split into two areas that were to suffer occupation by the Allies and Soviets (in the south and north, respectively). Though the two regions were supposed to re-unite through peaceful elections for a joint head of state, the two sides each saw they had too much to lose in the valuable Japanese archipelago, and the island was split into the Democratic Republic of Japan in the North, and the Republic of Japan in the south.

The basis for the Cold War was founded all across Eurasia, and given the greediness exhibited by the Communist leadership, would they be sated with their current gains?

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Know that I made this map with my rudimentary knowledge of the period, and there probably are some mistakes. But as an altered maps thread, the maps don't have to 100% make sense.

Also on a side note, it's much more epic to make WWII/Cold War themed maps if you listen to the Red Alert series' soundtracks...

 

[Squonk]

these are the steps in my victoria game as Bayern.

the darkest part is original Bavaria.

a bit lighter - the first tiny war against some tiny saxon state

a bit lighter - the Tyrol war against Austria

a bit lighter - the Hessen coalition war, me against everyone in Germany. I'd have swallowed the northern german states if I didn't sign peace with Prussia too early. But I wouldn't hold Berlin for long, and Austria was my main concern.

red - the Saxon coalition war. Saxon was miraculously saved, but I crushed Prussia for good.

orange - the Lubeck coalition war.

some shade of yellow - the Baden war

yellow - the french preemptive war.

 

[Mad Man]

Great map! My only suggestion is to adjust the South Japan border a little bit north.

 

[Tani Coyote]

The United States has shattered after another massive civil war, Balkanising much like China has done before. Many independent states have risen from the ashes of the war, and the war's impact was so great that even Canada collapsed from internal - secessionist and revolutionary fervor spilled across the border - and external - NATO refused to get involved in the wars that formed when the new states attacked Canada, choosing to form a new European defense organisation instead - issues. Mexico has faced great turmoil, as it has lost Baja California to the Californians, while the Arizona-Texas "Vanguard Republic" has committed many inhumane acts within and outside their territory against those of Mexican descent.

The states range from the peaceful, left-leaning states of New England and Cascadia to the theocratic states of Deseret and the militaristic Vanguard Republic.

Most of the Rust Belt and the old central Atlantic Seaboard still bear the moniker of the United States, but the authority of Washington is limited, with most of the former American military assets now under the authority of the new states.

Most of America's overseas territories have declared independence - Puerto Rico - or have been absorbed by nearby countries - Guam and Guantanamo.

It is a time of great turmoil in North America, rivalling the Sengoku period of Japan. But like a phoenix, something far greater could rise from the ashes of the American realm... only time will tell.

 

[Tani Coyote]

A direct sequel to my last one, set a few years afterwards.

The world has changed in the absence of the global American police. While states like China and Russia now do as they wish without fear of American reprisal, the former USA itself has experienced numerous developments.

Deseret, after failing to be the new Jerusalem the founders had wished it to be, has been partitioned enormously, and all that's left is a tiny buffer state centered on the Great Salt Lake.

The Central Republic is teetering on the brink of dissolution, as the Albertans find themselves unsatisfied with their role in the union.

The United States of America has absorbed New England, and managed to partition the area around the former state of Maine by working together with Quebec, Canada, and Newfoundland-Labrador. The Mason-Dixon Purchase has moved the border between the former North and former Southern United States closer to where it originally was.

The Mexican Empire has been reborn, though it de jure is still a democratic republic. The President - de facto the emperor and dictator - has said the time has come for the Mexican star to burn bright and incinerate the Americans who had eclipsed Mexico for so many years. This would begin through punitive expeditions in Latin America to seize the Panama Canal and small territories along the borders. As well, citing Cuba as a failed socialist state, the President of Mexico ordered an invasion of the island, seizing several key points and bases across it's width, ever so slowly working it's way in.

As the waves of Cuban refugees reach the Southeast Confederacy in levels never seen before, there are rumors of an allegiance forming between the three southern states, so as to push Mexico back before it becomes too dangerous and/or destabilising.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Part III.

The Central Republic has officially disbanded. It has split into Alberta and Sasketchewan, while the former American parts of it have rejoined the American successor states. The American President was aggressive enough to push for more than just the former American border, and so he was able to acquire more territory.

The Rio Grande War has broken out. Louisiana, the Vanguard Republic, and the Southeast Confederacy have merged to form perhaps the strongest military force on the continent, and they have gone against Mexico. Cuba has been formally annexed - though some guerillas fight on - and Califurnya has honored the plea of many of it's Hispanic residents to help Mexico against the aggressors, who have already committed some - usually exaggerated - crimes against the Mexican people they have managed to occupy.

While all this is going on, a mysterious force has risen up further west. As Hawaii has already fallen, one cannot say where this will go...

 

[Tani Coyote]

Great map! My only suggestion is to adjust the South Japan border a little bit north.

In retrospect, yes, that would make a bit more sense(as it would secure Western control of Tokyo), but alas, it's too late to make changes.

Well, glad you liked it, at least.

 

[Tani Coyote]

And the next part...

The Mexican and Southern Alliance's forces battled eachother to a standstill, as the Mexican-Califurnyan Armies' combined strength was actually enough to match their rivals' power.

That was, until they came.

In America's absence, a new power, the Empire of the Rising Sun, had emerged in the Japanese Archipelago. With the USA's de facto dissolution, the Japanese nationalist-dominated Diet dismantled all of the treaties that the USA had signed with them, from mutual defense to the renouncement of war as a means of foreign policy. Japan's foreign policy goals could be summed up in one word, according to the greatly-empowered Japanese Prime Minister: "Freedom." Freedom to do as the country chose, anyway.

And accordingly, it was the Empire of the Rising Sun that seized opportunity. It transformed Japan's advanced civilian sector into one capable of efficiently and cost-effectively waging war, with little dependence on raw materials. Japan's war machine became quite frightening, as it relied on using what Japan already had rather than acquiring more through programs such as renewable energy and recycling. In the two decades since the USA's dissolution, the Empire managed to conquer much of South Korea(many Koreans chose to rush into the arms of the Japanese than the North Koreans and Chinese, who invaded at the same time as the Empire). Adding to this were victories in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific. Within two decades, the Empire had asserted formal or informal control over nearly every area in the Pacific region sans Australia, China and Russia.

Shortly after the Hawaiian government was overthrown by a group of revolutionaries, these revolutionaries appealed for annexation by the Empire. This was a sign of things to come. And immediately after, the extremely powerful Imperial Navy sailed eastwards at top speed, and soon citizens all the way from North Cascadia to Southern Mexico found their homes and cities assaulted by the Eastern forces. The Empire declared a unilateral alliance with the Southerners, and before long it had occupied nearly all the Hispanic Alliance's islands, as well as cities such as San Diego. The Cascadians were surprised to lose Vancouver as they were neutral, but being friendly - and having a defensive alliance - with Califurnya, it was only natural the Japanese would attack them too.


The sudden attack by the Japanese prompted the Southerners to renew their advance, and the result was a massive loss of Mexican territory in the north, while Louisiana successfully launched an invasion across the Gulf of Mexico into Cancun, and the Southeast Confederacy managed to seize Havana.

While all this went on, the rest of the continent remained neutral, even when the Japanese ambitiously attacked Alaska for no apparent reason, supposedly over a boundary dispute over the Aleutians and other Pacific islands. The USA itself expanded further by buying the island of Bermuda from Britain, which was in a deep financial crisis thanks to numerous European issues.

But, could the Imperial forces be trusted? Sure the Japanese seemed to merely only desire the Pacific, but, like all expansionist monsters, what was the stop them from wanting... more?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Isn't there a thread for these kinds of stories ... away from this one ?

 

[choxorn]

Interesting story, and it is much cooler with Red Alert Music.

But you still have a Cold War Map series from a few pages ago to finish, right?

 

[Tani Coyote]

Isn't there a thread for these kinds of stories ... away from this one ?

Probably, but it's still an altered map, and so... it can go here.

Interesting story, and it is much cooler with Red Alert Music.

But you still have a Cold War Map series from a few pages ago to finish, right?

I knew somebody would get the reference. And of course it's cooler, since that's what I wrote it to. The sheer epicness of Red Alert 3's opening invasion cutscene is a good source of inspiration!

And indeed I do. I hope I don't develop a fetish for starting a ton of incomplete stories with maps as I tend to do with Civ 3 stories and tales...

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Who cares. TaniciusFox got some fantastical imagination. I say it is entertaining to read.

If the television show called "Sliders" was revived on FOX channel, I say he would have a career in this as a script writer.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Who cares. TaniciusFox got some fantastical imagination. I say it is entertaining to read.

If the television show called "Sliders" was revived on FOX channel, I say he would have a career in this as a script writer.

Thank you Thoughtful Thug! What areas do you feel are best in terms of imagination?

To be fair with the Empire of the Rising Sun(the surprise antagonist) part, that was partially inspired by the alternate history in Red Alert 3, where Japan manages to become a superpower thanks to timeline tampering. I simply reworked the idea of Japan rising to prominence via changes to the past into them somehow becoming a power in the modern day(somehow converting their civilian advancements to military use; such rudimentary things such as recycling and renewable energy are somehow turned into a scary military machine that has almost no need for natural resources). I included that as a bit of a homage to the Red Alert franchise, which sparked a lot of my interest in alternate histories.

However, most of the other developments are usually just twists I came up with on my own time. My fantasies and dreams made flesh, if you will.

Thank you for suggesting I'd be a scriptwriter though! While I've never considered myself to be much into science fiction, I've always loved the idea of writing fantasy(and after all, if you really think about it, is there much difference between fantasy and sci-fi?). So thank you again!

 

[Tani Coyote]

The Empire of the Rising Sun's massive, technologically-superior armies have proven too much for the numerous North American states it has attacked. The Japanese now control areas stretching from the Aleutians all the way to the southwestern coasts of Mexico. Most of the former state of California now is in Japanese hands.

The Albertans have split Sasketchewan with the Canadians, and they have also joined the Southerners de facto by allying with the Empire against Cascadia.

As part of the war, the Confederates finally managed to liberate Cuba. However, as the state was greatly unstable, they seized the opportunity to try and Americanise it by annexing it into the Confederacy. The Confederates have also landed a force around Villahermosa as the Mexican Empire collapses, it's dreams of Aztlan shattered.

Further north, the United States has managed to diplomatically unify with the former states of Eastern Canada, admitting them as the states Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador.

As Alaska and Califurnya near defeat with most of their city centers under foreign occupation, the Southerners are drawing up plans of partition with the Japanese. And the United States in the northeast has ignored the pleas of it's former territories - on both sides of the alliance - for aid, both because it sees little interest in the conflict, and also the fact that acknowledging the diplomats would symbolically mean that the USA recognises the independence of the new states.