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Mar. 17th, 2008 01:34 amOh god, I'm away for barely half a day and my I have like 100 new entries on my flist. I hate playing catchup, but I hate missing entries on my friends journals even more.
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capslock_spn is taking over my life. Not that that's a bad thing.
I've gone back home to Wales for a few days of spring break. But I don't know any of the bars around here, so I need to find one for St. Patrick's Day. I know there's a couple that my old friends from high school hang out at. At least I have a car again.
I'm hoping that I can finally get working on my steampunk supernatural story. I've been writing out the alternative history for it, but they seriously shouldn't let history majors write historical stories at all. I'm such a freaking nerd.
The main things I have now is:
1. The lengthening of the American Revolution to 1796, thus speeding up weapons development, combined with the massive loss of life and destruction of much of the colonies, resulting in America losing the war and remaining part of the British Empire.
2. The formation of the Republic of Texas after the British-Spanish war in America in the 1830's, stretching from the Mississippi up to Whyoming to Arizona.
3. Due to the war in America, the relative lack of British-Ottoman tensions in the late 1700's. Thus, when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, the British and Ottomans joined forces and defeated the French, keeping Egypt under joint British-Ottoman control, and forging a lasting alliance of former enemies.
4. In the 1830's, the combined Anglo-Turkic forces forging an alliance with Tokugawa-era Japan, allowing Japan to become a major world player without the forced Westernization of the Meiji revolution and government. All three nations then form an alliance against Russia, France, and Spain, the Ottomans regaining the Crimean Khanate and much of their Balkan strongholds, and the other nations gaining the majority control of Africa and Southeast Asia.
I'm still trying to figure out a vaguely plausible way to explain away the difficulty in harnessing electicity, and the lack of steel. Perhaps impurities in much of the world's copper that makes it unable to conduct efficiently? And maybe increasing the world's coal deposits, making coal the largest fuel resource instead of natural gas, thus creating a dependence on coal and steam for power?
But what about steel? I can't get too far into the Industrial Revolution, because steampunk is about steam.
But hey, Dean's gonna invent the Quad Shotgun. Seriously.
And
capslock_spn is taking over my life. Not that that's a bad thing.I've gone back home to Wales for a few days of spring break. But I don't know any of the bars around here, so I need to find one for St. Patrick's Day. I know there's a couple that my old friends from high school hang out at. At least I have a car again.
I'm hoping that I can finally get working on my steampunk supernatural story. I've been writing out the alternative history for it, but they seriously shouldn't let history majors write historical stories at all. I'm such a freaking nerd.
The main things I have now is:
1. The lengthening of the American Revolution to 1796, thus speeding up weapons development, combined with the massive loss of life and destruction of much of the colonies, resulting in America losing the war and remaining part of the British Empire.
2. The formation of the Republic of Texas after the British-Spanish war in America in the 1830's, stretching from the Mississippi up to Whyoming to Arizona.
3. Due to the war in America, the relative lack of British-Ottoman tensions in the late 1700's. Thus, when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, the British and Ottomans joined forces and defeated the French, keeping Egypt under joint British-Ottoman control, and forging a lasting alliance of former enemies.
4. In the 1830's, the combined Anglo-Turkic forces forging an alliance with Tokugawa-era Japan, allowing Japan to become a major world player without the forced Westernization of the Meiji revolution and government. All three nations then form an alliance against Russia, France, and Spain, the Ottomans regaining the Crimean Khanate and much of their Balkan strongholds, and the other nations gaining the majority control of Africa and Southeast Asia.
I'm still trying to figure out a vaguely plausible way to explain away the difficulty in harnessing electicity, and the lack of steel. Perhaps impurities in much of the world's copper that makes it unable to conduct efficiently? And maybe increasing the world's coal deposits, making coal the largest fuel resource instead of natural gas, thus creating a dependence on coal and steam for power?
But what about steel? I can't get too far into the Industrial Revolution, because steampunk is about steam.
But hey, Dean's gonna invent the Quad Shotgun. Seriously.
