Techniverse Earth; Strangereal MK2, I used a map for ace combat as the base and painted over it...
Afro-euroaustralasia’s history is still recognizable compared to IRL; however most of these nations fell to the wayside during the second millennium, and most of their great monuments exist in their counterpart instead. Under the roman empire; Hungarians and Austrians colonize hesperia; where they where they found the japanese and koreans, the daughter culture’s of an alternate china stretching all the way to the black sea as a neighbor to the byzantine empire. The Romans themselves managed to spread as far north as southern hyperborea.
Though arranged radically differently than our Earth, techniverse earth has every nation and culture found IRL; often behaving in unexpected and surprising ways and at unexpected times. Afro-euroaustralasia’s history is still recognizable compared to IRL; however most of these nations fell to the wayside during the second millennium, and most of their great monuments exist in their counterpart instead.
During the roman age; Hungarians and Austrians colonize hesperia; where they where they found the japanese and koreans, the daughter culture’s of an alternate china which stretching all the way to the black sea by the time of the byzantine empire. Rome itself has spread as far as south Hyperborea; building a great new capital there when the original Rome is eventually burned.
The birth of Jesus in the middle east turned BD into ND 2,000 years ago; and with the split of the roman empire, the hyperborean rome would later become the seat of the catholic church as the Holy See; and many jews immigrate into hyperborean italy, forming a large number of warring tribes within the country that leave it open to invasion by outsiders.
During the middle ages, the Europeans first colonize the americas; the vikings establish colonies in northeastern germany and FATO, while the english, spanish, dutch, and polish, took the eastern and southeastern regions; the native resistance in south america and the mainland is too great and europeans remain separated by natural barriers of mountains, finding the prospect of war with the natives to be too much a risk.
The Chinese invented the first guns in the 10th century, using them to conquer most of eurasia; all the way to the black sea; existing alongside the byzantine empire, before corruption and greed drove the empire to ruin with a coup by the military; local cultures re-exert themselves now that reinforcements will not be coming; and the dynasty of generals begins in china.
In the 12th century; teutonic knights; of the holy roman empire, a nation spanning all of eastern america, rose to power within what would be south germany; and in the 13th century they began building castles there, meanwhile indonesian traders have charted much of the indian ocean and began trading with the australian aborigines and mulsim africans.
During the late middle ages; the Austro-Hungarian kingdoms in Hesperia were displaced by the polish, french, english, spanish, portuguese, and british. The Spanish hesperians never unify under a single kingdom until forming a military alliance across east hesperia to fight communism in the 1960s.
By the 15th century; the northern spanish kingdoms in hesperia; along the tundra, have been converted to islam; existing alongside the ununified christian spanish kingdoms, and austria-hungary to the south, korea and japan to the east, and poland to the west.
In 1410, the Japanese made the first crossing into Eurasia, and soon sent yearly trading expeditions, however, they did not stay when the pope closed the catholic ports to the heretical Indonesian traders. In 1495; Christopher Columbus crossed the Eursperian Sea to Hesperia, where he was unable to make landfall in Korea or Japan, but did so in the north; the British Isles; an event that eventually gives its name to London DC.
In the early 1500s, the spanish in hesperia begin exploring the gulf of mexico, and south america, gaining great riches in the process, the english, french, and portuguese, soon follow, carving up the ‘new world’ into various european colonies. By 1510 Japan and Korea had closed borders to prevent conquest by the christians; being Buddhist and Shinto; Japan withdrew its trade expeditions and abandoned the vast trading empire it had built across the Eursparian and Pacific Oceans.
The Sixteenth Century sees what were once colonies of European powers turning the tables on their creators and beginning the colonize Eurasia and the americas. American Spain, Denmark, and England, along with European France, begin their colonizing period; with the English colonizing along the western shores of the strait between Spain and frontier America, which connects the great lakes region to the gulf of mexico. Hyperborean Italy focuses on colonizing Africa, while European France spreads as far as the americas.
Hyperborean Italy gives birth to Da Vinchi and the renaissance; and the great painters decorate the great cathedrals of hyperborea, hesperia, and old world america; a Jewish King, David, manages to unify the warring tribes of italy by the end of the 15th century, and give birth to the first modern republic on Earth.
The European French and Portuguese, and American Spanish colonize South America in turn; the Spanish turn Mexico into a tributary state within their Empire as the conquestadors murder vast swaths of people in south america; declaring them Anarchists; the Spanish Empire is unable to stop them even after gathering and sending multiple armies to do so.
The New England colonies, backed by France, eventually declare independence from the crown, becoming the United States of America; the last, 14th colony, on the northern shores of America, remains loyal as Canada. The revolutionary war, backed by France, was won in 1792, and the United States of America was established as the first modern democracy in the world.
Sparked by the American independence, Europe sees a wave of populist uprisings, which transform the majority of europe into a federal union of the various counties, though they kill napoleon thinking he would become a tyrant, this union trashes christian symbols and, as the first atheist country on earth, quickly scumbs and becomes the Islamic European Union; boarded by the soviet union and later Eastern Europe.
In 1821, America opens the Japanese empire, in self-imposed isolation since 1510 to prevent conquest by the europeans, triggering the Meiji Restoration, allowing the Samurai to be incorporated into new Imperial system instead of being brutally persecuted by it, and the Samurai help Japan induralize, with the Chinese reopening the silk road with Britain in an attempt to get allies against the increasingly aggressive japanese.
The birth of quantum mechanics happened in the 1860s from the study of blackbody radiation and the dual particle-wave properties of light. In 1905 airplanes were first used in war, between Germany and America, over American territorial expansion with their Air Force, the Germans had the deceive advantage, and other powers soon scrambled to create their own. This war established limits to America’s expansion and formally defined the territory of Canada and mexico.
After losing the great war, American politics nose dives, and in 1910, America began a devastating civil war between the Federalists and the Republicans; it was won by the Federalists in 1916, the use of airplanes and new technologies with old tactics causes a devastating loss of life, and everyone loses as the Federal Government asserts its authority over the rights of the states.
In the 19th century, slowly the assembly line revolutionized manufacturing, and the horseless carriage began to dominate by as early as 1910; though horse and buggy were still common. In the 1860s, as quantum mechanics was developed as a distinct discipline to explain wave-particle duality, religious freedom ingrained into the modern constitutions of most of Hyperborea and America, result in a push for secularism in politics and science, eventually developing the modern "atheistic" concept of materialistic science as distinct from religion seen in the 20th century.
Growing fearful at the explosive advancement of the Japanese Empire, Qing China opens up its borders to trade with the Europeans for the first time in centuries, reopening the silk road, hoping to gain allies against the increasingly aggressive Japanese, spreading the industrial revolution throughout East Asia via globalized trade, equalizing both powers.
In 1937 the theory behind nuclear power was developed, prompting the Americans, Germans, and Soviets to begin researching nuclear technology in order to create a powerful new weapon; which the Germans did in 1942; with the other superpowers scrambling to create their own nuclear arsenals. The cold war begins with tensions between the competing Soviet and US nuclear programs.
In 1956, Qing China split into the comunist North China and the democratic South China; and the the space race begins, when in 1958, the Soviet Union launches the first artificial satellite, carrying the first human, into earth orbit, the United States rushes to launch its own satellite, later launching the unmanned Gorge Washington from an air force base.
In the 60s; a manned space lab discovered a room temperature superconductor; easy to make, but only possible in freefall; the pace of space exploration increases dramatically and nations like the United States become evangelically green and emissions free; using the superconductor to replace gas engines and nuclear plants to replace coal fire plants.
In 1959, the Antarctic Treaty was signed, allowing the colonization of up to 10% of the landmass so long as the colonies maintained a minimal environmental footprint, along with limited resource extraction under strict environmental conditions to offset any damage. Strict quotas on resources and colonists are used to prevent land grabs, the treaty is overseen by an international organization made up of all concerned parties: The United Nations Organization for Regulating Colonization of Antarctica (UNORCA).
Suffering from an economic crisis since the 50s; hyperinflation due to poor economic policies; the Weimar republic is taken over by the National Socialists; in 1965; Germany began a war of aggression against both the USA and the former territories lost to the crisis. Paralleling the real second world war. The Nazis attempt to use 7 nuclear bombs to stall the d-day invasion through america, killing 255,000 german soliders and citizens. Whe war ends with western germany being occupied by and annexed by America, despite the Nazis attempts to prevent the allies from occupying their territoy using nuclear stirkes and radiation.
The German War's impact on the world was powerful and long-lasting. The USSR came to aid the American Federation during the war, which began a path of reconciliation to end the Cold War witht he Soviet Economic Reforms and resulting Populist uprisings in 1983-1986. The nuclear attacks immediately triggered non-proliferation efforts worldwide.
The collapse of modern governments, caused by corruption and complacency, begins in the late 70s to 80s causes corporations to step in to maintain vital infrastructure and services, in return for appeasing the political powers, major corporations are granted illegal monopolies, invasion of privacy, illegal immigrant workers, and tax evasion, along with free government money; this marriage of corporate and political power made the third world war not just possible, but inevitable, and led to the civil wars that broke apart even strong nations like the United States.
As this marriage of political and corporate power causes a decline in the quality of life on Earth; a result of rampant climate change and social instability, the rich begin departing earth for orbital settlements and colonies aboard space stations; the so-called Islands, built by telepresence from materials sent into space via the lunar mass driver; when the USA completes its mass driver, this process only accelerates.
1970s through 1990s, key breakthroughs in genetic research; comprehensive phenotype expression models allow the consequences of gene mods to be accurately predicted; real genetic engineering provides many industrial and commercial benefits; including newer, stronger, faster growing crop strains, among the first breakthroughs made; the development of biocomputers in 1997, alongside research into self-building circuitry, cold refining, practical thermonuclear fusion; all which allows the world to recover almost immediately from the 3rd world war.
The Third World War was a limited but global nuclear and conventional conflict which began in 1999 with an escalation of UN peacekeeping actions in the Baltics; attempting to suppress a comunist uprising by the terrorist ‘Baltic People’s Army”, consisting of both US backed European forces and the Russians; resulting in a series of nuclear strikes across Asia. The use of nuclear weapons was thankfully limited; though the Europeans and Chinese exhausted their nuclear arsenals, the Russians and Americans held back.
The United States and China were worst hit by nuclear weapons; even though both were not directly involved in the original escalation, though nuclear exchanges occurred within the Asian and European theaters, the city of Berlin was destroyed, along with Tokyo. Ending in 2002, the conflict primarily involved wealthy and powerful developed countries whose destruction fundamentally changed the global balance of power, breaking long established national boundaries and concentrations of populations.
As a result of the war, global geopolitics became heavily balkanized, with even the United States breaking apart during the second American civil war in 2015 into smaller, less stable competitors; civil wars and non state revolutions pose a constant security threat worldwide, and millions of refugees displaced by the global tumult are a major international problem. Tokyo, Sendai and Niigata, among others, along with Berlin, Okinawa, and Beijing are struck by tactical nuclear weapons during the nuclear volly, Grays Harbor, Yakima, Anacortes, Fort Worth, New York, in the United States are destroyed, the seat of Japanese government is temporarily transferred to Niihama before permanent relocation to Fukuoka, Kyūshū.
The Middle East, relatively unscathed from the Nuclear Third World War, becomes embroiled in warfare that collapses Egypt, and leads to Saudi Arabia taking over most of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran loses much territory to a radical new Islamic sect, which continues to evangelize and brutalize the region as it attempts to expand its conquests. Many population centers are broken with the collapse of industrial infrastructure globally, forcing the population into new areas.
The third world war quickly developed into a widespread humanitarian crisis by breaking long established borders and centers of population displaced millions of refugees; leading to decades worth of political instability that ultimately resulted in the second American civil war and a fourth world war. The devastation caused an instant collapse of international stability and placed the global economy into a state of chaos, especially within America and China, which were worst hit by the war; despite neither being part of the initial conflict; ultimately leading the the Second American Civil war and formation of Imperial Americana and a decade later, a second Chinese war that saw North and South China reunify into a single nation.
As a testament to man’s resilience and ingenuity, and the mastery of science and technology, mankind was able to restore a sense of normalcy within a decade of the third world war, however, many of the survivors are left with lingering emotional and psychological scars from the chaos and are left with a sense of going through the motions as the world remaining myered in conflict, economic collapse, and civil war.
The technologies developed in the 70s through the 90s; key breakthroughs in genetic, stem cell, and cloning research; comprehensive phenotype expression models allow the consequences of gene mods to be accurately predicted; real genetic engineering provides many industrial and commercial benefits; including newer, stronger, faster growing crop strains, among the first breakthroughs made; the development of biocomputers in 1997, alongside research into self-building circuitry, cold refining, practical cold fusion allows fields to be lit 24/7 for grains that never stop growing.
Real genetic engineering, stem cells, cloning, self-assembling circuits, cold refining, become the basis of the global reconstruction efforts; creating a sharp contrast between the technologies from before the war to after it; holographic displays in homes and clothing, automated manufacturing, suborbital space flights, bionic limbs, cloned organs and limbs; cybernetics saving the lives of these injured by the war.
In 1998 the first organic supercomputer system, a giant force grown brain attached to complex life support systems was developed alongside the growth-type neurochips, which would become the basis of robotic and AI design, as well as the eventual creation of brain computer interfaces, in 2007, Europia Universe was able to create and replicate an artificial gravity pulse. Commercial space flight was introduced through Pan AM in 2001.
Korea successfully cloned 30 human embryos in 2004, leading to cloned organs and limbs; with bionics able to replicate the sensation of touch developed alongside; in 2005, the United States announced a possible cure for HIV; and in 2008 two bionic eyes were transplanted into two previously blind patients. better medicine, even better gene therapies, better surgical procedures, cloned organs providing virtually non-existent organ rejection, and more sophisticated equipment, blood vessel cleanses, extending the human lifespan to its maximum potential of 120 years, though it remains expensive and only accessible to the well off, with the less fortunate are lucky to live 60 to 70 years.
The use of genetic engineering on farms reduces hunger, at the same time micromachine based drug deliveries are curing diseases globally. When socalars talk about the age-old legends of the Philosopher’s Stone or the Fountain of Youth, they all agree mankind found it. Consumer access to micromachines changes the world forever. Many diseases are rendered extinct with time thanks to more advanced medicine.
By the 2000s, the rich; the investor, executive, and managerial class, have left earth and moved into orbit; to orbital colonies, first in low earth orbit then the Lagrange Points; the push for the rich to get away from earth drives space exploration; driving the construction of the international lunar mass driver in the late 70s, and the USA’s own mass driver on earth. Meanwhile the first human walks on Mars in 2024, a manned mission to Jupiter in 2026, with the first Mars colony planned in 2032.
In 2008, social media is developed as second life and augmented reality social media platforms, where people can create avatars to work, communicate, play sports, and/or fight with each other, businesses can also be conducted through these platforms, billed as a life you can control, not the same as VR, this technology makes extensive use of augmented reality.
Telecommuting, augmented reality, drones, and automation allow most employees to work from home using a headset and computer while those who don’t have the skills to work in an office or the service industry, or to make a living off their own abilities, are left working on factory farms, ones lit 24/7, for grains should never stop growing, and meats made by compiling cells in a 3d printer or grown artificially in vats of nutrient cultures that never stop bubbling.
Post-war technologies like holographic displays in homes and clothing, automated manufacturing, suborbital space flights, bionic limbs, cloned organs and limbs; cybernetics saving the lives of these injured by the war; robotic warfare, neural interface headsets, ais, nuclear fusion became commonplace as the reconstruction efforts rebuild the cities and towns, their advancement creating a sharp contrast between the magnetic tape decks, flat screens, keyboards, mobile phones, and laptops created before the war, and preserved long after; creating the used future feel many of the people who lived through the war experience.
As early as 2009 cybernetics and nanotechnological systems were used as lifesaving treatments for extreme injuries and illnesses which cannot be treated in any other way – and by the rich to extend their lives. These systems are bulky and extend well outside the body, making them uncomfortable and unmistakable, comparable to wheelchairs of the past.
Brain computer interfaces are developed to control machines using neural synchronization; these neural interfaces were perfected between 2005 and 2010 as part of the process of creating personality transplant OS; a form of AI created by cognitive impression modeling, which is installed on dozens of organic supercomputers globally after its completion on 2010; the result is the first brain-implant chip; these early models require antennas externally, to communicate with computers.
In 2013, the first “full dive” Virtual Reality rig; a wearable helmet, based on information from the Brain Implant Chip and personality transplant OS was released onto the market as a wild success, earlier interfaces were based on direct neural implants with antennas extending outside the body; the precursors to the brain implant chip. In 2014, a streamlined package of core programs for creating and managing a virtual reality were posted to a public server, a massive explosion of virtual worlds began in turn.
Also in 2014; the prototype fourth generation VR device, a huge industrial machine, called the Soul Translator, tests quantum brain theory; identifying the Nambu–Goldstone bosons persisted by the theory as evanescent photons within the microtubules of nerve cells; subject to the uncertainty principle these particles fluctuate according to probability theory, a collection of these particles constitutes a quantum field comprising human consciousness; the human soul.
AI technology; the personality transplant, assists in making many breakthroughs in research; AI technology allows practical thermonuclear fusion by dynamically countering leaks as they arise rather than continuing to work on the impossible idea of one design that counters all problems, electricity, internet, and freshwater become ubiquitous globally during the post-war reconstruction, famine and even food quality no longer an issue globally with vat grown meat and new crop strains.
Molecular manufacturing with genomically modified bacteria allowed the development of E-Carbon in the 2010s, an artificial allotrope of carbon which has a bulk strength dozens of times that of carbon nanotubes. In 2014 the Stolleta Solar Array was released onto the market, quickly becoming a best-selling product, meeting over half the energy needs of human civilization by 2030. Fully-articulating, in-orbit solar arrays deliver uninterrupted, constantly renewable power, using a thin film polymer with polycrystalline silicon distribution. These arrays are prefered by world governments due to the flexible power delivery scheme, transmitting power back via microwave beam in the post-occupation world.
2015, self-assembling circuitry and quantum dots used to commercialize holograms; which have seen extensive military use prior, by 2020s these are the most common display medium in the world, hard light replaces tactile input like mouses and keyboards. Holo houses created by using quantum dots inside paint which link up with self-assembled circuitry to allow the layering of virtual images over physical substructures; no more difficult than painting something to dyeing fabric, becomes common.
By 2015 robotic AI controlled soldiers; think tanks, and drones are the foundation of modern warfare. Artificial gravity created by superconductors used in military aerospace technologies, allowing aircraft that would otherwise be impossible. By 2016, construction of giant low orbital aircraft Arkbird - begins; capable of flight using superconductor generated antigravity when sufficiently powered, the first model was stolen in 2019, still in an incomplete state.
The global internet, drones, rapid prototyping and other advances allow talented or skilled individuals to make a living selling what they're good at online; thanks to universal access to the internet there is always someone willing and able to buy what you're selling. AIs, robotics, the growth-neurochip and stacked quantum pattern boards revolutized computers and business, while holograms changed the face of both entertainment and whole cities.
The second American civil war occurs in 2015; lasting for several months with little actual combat, with the veterans and majority of the defense industry take control of the great plains and southern states, while the political establishment enters into an alliance with russia in order to deter the newly formed American Empire, the rump state, the USA consists of only a handful of northern and rocky mountain states with little industry or population, which maintains itself only by playing its two successors against one another, as a buffer state.
Cargo ships equipped with anti gravity technology fly over the oceans and landscape to land in fields with enough flat land; making long distance rail and semi travel obsolete, and cause economic depressions among the port cities now that they are no longer needed for global trade.
In 2019, continued refinements in bionic augmentation results in even the more extreme applications finally meeting industry and safety standards. Followed by a collapse in costs that rendered many technologies accessible to the mainstream public for the first time; Virtual intelligence software also now allows the real time modeling of the consequences of genetic engineering, before these technologies were used only in a medical setting, but now become available to hobbyists and consumers as an everyday body augmentation like pierced ears or tattoos.
Bionic eyes are a common replacement for glasses for the middle class and rich; though too expensive for the working poor. Nanite infusion of hard metals into bone or lacing long-strand high-strength polymers into ligaments and connective tissues becomes possible.
Organ replacement becomes common; any organ except the brain can be upgraded and replaced, either with simple bionic substitutes, cloned organs or limbs in the case of organ failure or accidental loss. Through the synthesis of bionics, micromachines, and genomics, additional organs; such as a replacement to the digestive system designed to handle foods humans cannot normally eat; for instance cellulose for vegans, or gills for swimmers. Extra arms, legs, eyes, or even genitals are possible though the brain rarely knows how to operate them.
Bootleg copies of personality transplant OS also start appearing around 2019 using VR rigs to model a personality into a stack of VI platforms and then patching them with an augmented reality management system to create a digital copy of a person’s personality as an AI, leading to a massive proliferation of AIs across the net in the 2020s.
Ais do not bring about the long hoped for labor revolution; human minds, like human bodies, are inefficient and error prone because they can do anything, whereas a VI or robot is specialized for a specific task which it can perform infinitely better than a human; this remains true of Sapient AIs too, whose only advantage is ability to accelerate their thinking and alter states of perception to make work less boring.
Post-war, more and more of the population concentrates into the major cities as overcrowding amid rising unemployment, perpetual racial and class conflicts, and the major nations play-acting at war, but taking real lives, to keep their economies from collapsing while the rich get richer.
First human walks on Mars in 2024, a manned mission to Jupiter in 2026, with the first Mars colony planned in 2032. 2024; the Second Chinese War, which results in China reunifying under the southern government and entering a state of bitter cold war with the American Empire Also in 2024; With VI technology allowing real time modeling of the consequences of genetic engineering results in an explosion of genomic technologies, and hobbyist modifications.
2022 Quantum entanglement based neural synchronization for augmented reality developed, installed into bracelets called coils; which replace cell phones, and when worn around the head, provide full dive VR. In 2025, the Anti-Gravity Chamber was developed, to nullify the Earth’s gravitational field, creating zero-gravity conditions within a limited volume, which speeds up the recovery process.
Robotic ‘Autodoctors’; nanosurgical 3d printing system equipped with VI medical databases; with the ability to wirelessly send instructions to flawlessly perform complicated surgical procedures without a doctor being involved; clinical trials under the supervision of medical professionals occurs in the late 2010s, with the technology becoming available for sale in the 2020s, a life saver in the many rural communities with self-taught medical staff.
The machine can diagnose illnesses as well; life saving in small towns and rural areas without properly trained medical staff; these are common in small towns by 2025-2028, Automated manufacturing; the autofabs, an industrial appliance able to make most anything begins to appear in the commercial sector.
2020s; the Autofab is developed, large and inefficient, but followed by ever more efficient designs until becoming an industrial appliance like any other; about the size of a cargo container, and arranged into huge factory complexes to sastesy demand; huge 3d sprawl of specialized units in all shapes and sizes with dense networks of conveyors, utility lines, and conventional assembly lines for component transport and assembly. Buying things from these complexes is no more complicated than placing an order at the nearest mall or online catalog, with the finished product delivered by mail from the nearest fabrication licensed to produce the item, many malls have a few units in back to keep up inventory.
Templates sold on the net, either by corporations or created as customs by individuals can be made at local industrial centers at only a small cost of time and material as well as small licensing fees, payment by instant electronic transaction. Special fabricators to produce products in situ for infrastructure like bridges, buildings, and other fixed constructs, which arrive in cases and then spread around on a robotic truss for assembly, becomes common.
By 2026; Earth’s underfunded governments are becoming unable to keep enough police on the streets to do anything about the crime rate; which breaks new records every year, with major corporations stepping in with private security forces, while the planet’s populations are divided along racial and class lines into different groups struggling against one another. Civil wars still pose a threat to global security worldwide, non-state revolutions, terrorism are facts of daily life everywhere.
