hoplitejoe
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The UK would never join the EU like that! I demand we join the UFWH!
The Mars Chronicles
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Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
Who said they joined? There is something known as forcing.....
RagingFire
Chieftain
This should be... interesting.
Let me rephrase that:
Awesome story. I'm definitely going to be watching this one...
Let me rephrase that:
Awesome story. I'm definitely going to be watching this one...
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I know that these are probably factions in Mars Now, but I think having independent states along with the supranational states would've been an interesting premise. Again, the situation is pretty ASB for a ~2008 Point of Divergence but if the story's good, no problem.
MoreEpicThanYou
The most Epic.
I demand commies! 
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This should be... interesting.
Let me rephrase that:
Awesome story. I'm definitely going to be watching this one...
Welcome to CFC!
MoreEpicThanYou
The most Epic.
This should be... interesting.
Let me rephrase that:
Awesome story. I'm definitely going to be watching this one...
Welcome to the forums!
We won't eat you, of course.
If anyone tells you that I am less epic than they are, they are lying. Especially if the person's name is Tambien.
Mosher
Mushroom dad
MoreEpicThanYou
The most Epic.
Redspy, Mosher, and I are S&T's resident Communists.
SouthernKing
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Just pointing this out from an In Universe perspective, Communism is seen by the people of the 22nd century as being an outdated ideology, similarly to how the people of the 21st, with the exception of the English and a few other nationalities, saw monarchies. After the Crash, a more socialistic, anti-corporate ideology was prevalent in most developed areas of the world, but this was similar to the systems found in early 21st century France, Italy, and Canada, and definitely not communist.
MoreEpicThanYou
The most Epic.
There can be exceptions here, too.
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
The creation of the more imperialist powers would have necessitated the joining of many of the smaller states.
It is not ASB. In 2008 there is an Islamic resurgence happening(New Arabia), North America is pretty much one culture(save Mexico, who would have joined for the police if nothing else) as is Europe, China would have expanded, China's expansion and a resurgent Japanese Imperialism are plausible. The formation of the Pacifican Union to combat this is also plausible. The AU follows the path of the EU, and South Africa tries to "save" the rest of Africa from the AU.
In the end, smaller states would have to hang together or hang alone.
Unfortunantly, that was the biggest mistake of your life. SOME of us actually think communism is GOOD.I killed Communism...
Welcome!Welcome to the forums!
We won't eat you, of course.
If anyone tells you that I am less epic than they are, they are lying. Especially if the person's name is Tambien.
I make no promises.
He is just afraid of my epicness.
Too true...You won't last long around here, comrade.
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Redspy, Mosher, and I are S&T's resident Communists.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Outside Shady Sands, American Mars, May 1, 2140
James Brandt finished reading from his holopad. "For the first time in his life, Jack Ryan fell asleep on an airplane."
Jeff Clay applauded, kicking up red dust that had settled on his spacesuit's glove. "What book is that?"
Brandt used his gloved fingers to clumsily switch out of his holopad's reading mode. "It is called the Hunt for Red October. Published in the year 1985. Some guy named Clancy wrote it. You've never heard of it?"
"1985? Seems a bit newer than that. And no, I have never heard of it either. Say, how is your holopad holding up? Mine broke two days after we landed."
Brandt held up his holopad, a paper-thin sheet of superglass roughly the dimensions of an iPad from the early 21st century. Not that anyone living in Shady Sands had ever heard of an iPad, of course. Brandt grinned. "It's a secret, Jeff."
Brandt and Clay were two of the five hundred Americans selected for NASA's Mars colony effort back in 2135, five years ago. After years of training, the five hundred colonists had been sent to a site on Mars that NASA replicator robots had been constructing for years, an underground city made up of tunnels and chambers. There were four entrances, facing the four cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west, each having an airlock.
Brandt and Clay were standing on a cliff edge southeast of the colony. This particular cliff provided a view of the great plain to the southeast. "Just imagine." Clay was saying. "In just a few years, all that will be a lake. We will be standing out here in the open air, without these clumsy spacesuits to slow us down. And rising from Shady Sands will be a great space elevator, rising all the way up to a space station at the top. There will be buildings..."
Brandt just stared out across the vast plain. In the distance, red clouds of dust were beginning to billow, and they were headed towards the colony. "C'mon Jeff, let's head back to the airlock."
"Which one, south or east?"
"South, remember that they just opened that new Italian place near the south airlock? We can chat over dinner there."
"Fine by me."
When the colonists had first come to Mars, they had no ideas for a name for the colony. At the first colony meeting, the issue had come up, when one colonist from Cancun, Luis Alvardo, came forward. Alvardo was a big player of classic video games from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which nobody else was, so everyone was scratching their heads in confusion when Alvardo spoke up. "How about Shady Sands?" And so Alvardo had to explain. "Shady Sands is a place from an old video game, called Fallout. It dates back to 1997 or 1998, the exact date I forget." Everyone seemed to think it was a good name, and thus Shady Sands won a majority vote.
As Brandt and Clay walked slowly back to the south airlock, and the waving Stars and Stripes that signaled the entrance came into close view, Clay asked, "So what do you think of our new administrator, Peter McCain?"
"Oh, Peter? Peter is a good man. He can lead this colony far."
James Brandt finished reading from his holopad. "For the first time in his life, Jack Ryan fell asleep on an airplane."
Jeff Clay applauded, kicking up red dust that had settled on his spacesuit's glove. "What book is that?"
Brandt used his gloved fingers to clumsily switch out of his holopad's reading mode. "It is called the Hunt for Red October. Published in the year 1985. Some guy named Clancy wrote it. You've never heard of it?"
"1985? Seems a bit newer than that. And no, I have never heard of it either. Say, how is your holopad holding up? Mine broke two days after we landed."
Brandt held up his holopad, a paper-thin sheet of superglass roughly the dimensions of an iPad from the early 21st century. Not that anyone living in Shady Sands had ever heard of an iPad, of course. Brandt grinned. "It's a secret, Jeff."
Brandt and Clay were two of the five hundred Americans selected for NASA's Mars colony effort back in 2135, five years ago. After years of training, the five hundred colonists had been sent to a site on Mars that NASA replicator robots had been constructing for years, an underground city made up of tunnels and chambers. There were four entrances, facing the four cardinal directions, north, south, east, and west, each having an airlock.
Brandt and Clay were standing on a cliff edge southeast of the colony. This particular cliff provided a view of the great plain to the southeast. "Just imagine." Clay was saying. "In just a few years, all that will be a lake. We will be standing out here in the open air, without these clumsy spacesuits to slow us down. And rising from Shady Sands will be a great space elevator, rising all the way up to a space station at the top. There will be buildings..."
Brandt just stared out across the vast plain. In the distance, red clouds of dust were beginning to billow, and they were headed towards the colony. "C'mon Jeff, let's head back to the airlock."
"Which one, south or east?"
"South, remember that they just opened that new Italian place near the south airlock? We can chat over dinner there."
"Fine by me."
When the colonists had first come to Mars, they had no ideas for a name for the colony. At the first colony meeting, the issue had come up, when one colonist from Cancun, Luis Alvardo, came forward. Alvardo was a big player of classic video games from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which nobody else was, so everyone was scratching their heads in confusion when Alvardo spoke up. "How about Shady Sands?" And so Alvardo had to explain. "Shady Sands is a place from an old video game, called Fallout. It dates back to 1997 or 1998, the exact date I forget." Everyone seemed to think it was a good name, and thus Shady Sands won a majority vote.
As Brandt and Clay walked slowly back to the south airlock, and the waving Stars and Stripes that signaled the entrance came into close view, Clay asked, "So what do you think of our new administrator, Peter McCain?"
"Oh, Peter? Peter is a good man. He can lead this colony far."
Spoiler :
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Sorry, this update is short, but later ones will be a bit longer.
MoreEpicThanYou
The most Epic.
And Tambien, I AM afraid of your epicness. You've got so little that it may destroy the universe.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
And Tambien, I AM afraid of your epicness. You've got so little that it may destroy the universe.
Please keep that out of my thread, thank you.
RagingFire
Chieftain
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
I suggest Canyontown as the next city name.
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