Hey.......Pt.1 Completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:24 am
This here is an aternate history I wrote. It is for something I am writing that has been a passion of mine for a while. Banged this out earlier today to try and give more depth to the story which I will hopefully this summer start to try to put into a screenplay format, as my writing style is more film oriented than simple reading. I will keep details vauge for now.
One thing to bear in mind is that in this I have sethuman history back 50 years. for example, WWII happens from 1989-1895, while the technology in the period is practically the same. After WWII, everything is fair game for me put my spin on. Enjoy, feedback wanted.
At the end of WWII in 1895, the ensuing cold war between Communist Russia and the United States brought forth unexpected problems with the control and rebuilding of Europe. The “end†if it could be called so, in 1941, left many Eastern European and Southwest Asian countries on unstable ground. This aided in the fueling of radical Islam, which had been growing since the late 1920’s. Following the loss on the part of the Middle Eastern Islamic confederation against the Israeli-Lebanese coalition in 1954, many countries fell towards radical Islam as a way hopefully out of the terms the coalition had placed upon them after the Peace of Beirut. The allegiance of these various countries, spearheaded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, made the nation into a major political and economic force in the 1960’s due to its massive oil reserves, which it used to strangle the United States and other Western Powers in 1968, with ramifications reaching China as it too fell victim to its oil reluctance. This indirect effect led to a Chinese invasion of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1969. With the entire coalition at war and with diplomacy useless, oil dependant nations such as the United States and other Western countries saw oil skyrocket to $5.50 per gallon on average. The result of this was a search for new energy resources as a stalemate began to take hold as Coalition forces continued to hold back Chinese forces in North and South Waziristan.
In 1974, With Chinese forces pushed back, India, which had stayed neutral during the fight, became engaged to secure oil fields in Saudi Arabia after its allies, Bahrain and the UAE, fell to internal pressure and joined the Coalition. With a fresh and better disciplined and equipped army and air force, Indian forces took a different approach and launched a naval invasion of Saudi Arabia and Oman. Pressured by its own people and economic misfortune, the United States along with a collection of other Western power joins India’s aid and begins an invasion of Jordan with the aid of Israel in late 1975. Syrian and Iraqi resistance forces managed to keep up a strong fight against the Western powers for two years until 1977 when a significant victory at the Euphrates River allowed for Western powers to march on Baghdad.
After the fall of Baghdad, Egypt, which also had managed to remain neutral but maintain trade with the Middle Eastern coalition, launches an invasion of Israel after coalition forces threaten to cut off its supply of oil. The attack on Israel leads to Western powers being forced to withdraw from a planned invasion of Iran to defend its Southern flank. At this time, Indian forces reach a stalemate as its Northern army is stopped again at Waziristan. However, while progress is slow, India’s stronger air force manages to eventually break through the area and send the Coalitions Eastern force routing across the Iranian border. India begins an invasion, but pauses it to deal with heavy losses in Saudi Arabia after a failed siege of Riyadh and heavy resistance to occupation in Bahrain. The UAE continues to put up a strong fight and manages to push south into Indian occupied Oman before being repelled after a desert ambush set up by traitors in the UAE military.
With Egypt pacified in early 1979, the Western powers once again turned to an invasion of Iran, which now was suffering raids by Indian forces after the UAE’s southern army was defeated. Following the loss of the Sinai peninsula to Western powers, effectively defeating the Egyptian military, both Indian and Western powers begin an assault on Iran, focusing all of their resources on a large scale pincer invasion against Iran’s strong land and air defense network. The diversion of their attention allows for the UAE to amass its military force once more as Indian forces close in on Tehran. But rebellion in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan forces the Indian military to divert resources to defend its vulnerable North, leaving the Western powers a large burden in engaging Iran’s western army, which confronts the western forces with intricate and well dug in defenses.
Eventually however, the loss of many Saudi oil fields leads to a total collapse of Iran’s western army allowing for Western powers to move within 10 miles of Tehran before being forced to lay siege to the still well defended capital reinforced with large numbers of routing forces from the Western and eastern fronts. Indian requests leads to a series of attacks in early 1980 which result in high casualties on both sides before a combined assault by Indian and Western force finally captures the city in late February.
During the siege, a combination of American, German, and British scientists finally discovers an economically viable and easy to manufacture solution to oil shortages, which have grown larger since the Indian invasion of Saudi Arabia and Western capture of Iraq, with much oil being used to continue the fighting on both sides. The solution is a form of plasma created by magnetizing industrial plasma through a chamber, which creates a volatile yet rather easy to control form that can cause powerful burns and act in a manner similar to a bullet. Meanwhile, its acceleration can give objects high speeds at a quick pace. This realization begins research not only into how to make cheap and effective engines, but powerful weapons.
Pockets of resistance and continued rebellion to occupation leads to the temporary capture of Baghdad once again by Coalition forces, now centered in the UAE, Qatar, and South Kuwait. Weary of combat and weakened by years of conflict, Indian forces abandon offensive operations and focus more on securing the lands it holds. The Western powers do the same but continue to raid Coalition lands to ensure that no new offensive will arise. By late 1982, all is quiet, though not peaceful on the front.
Since 1979, United States space programs had been working on fast moving and large forms of space ships, which gained the military’s eye following the discovery of multi-function plasma. In November of 1982, the same research team finds a way to create an FTL jump drive. It is done by using an ultra cool down measure on the plasma drives which temporally allows the engines to move at near light speeds. Once this occurs, a ship can move into hyperspace. Since there are no physical rules in hyperspace, a ship can program how fast light is, and use its engines to move faster than light, thus making a ship able to travel large distances quickly. Research on this matter continues on for months as new plasma weapons are produced and prepared to be sent to the Middle East for use by Western powers, mostly the United States.
In early 1983, as the United States space program begins to use new plasma engines to establish colonies on the moon, Western powers, with the aid of recovered Chinese and Indian forces, begin an all out assault on the last Coalition pocket of resistance, having effectively destroyed all insurrectionist forces over the past few months. The fierce fighting nearly falls into another stalemate before new plasma weaponry arrives in April. The new weapons finally give Western forces the opportunity needed, and with no way of countering such weapons, Coalition forces retreat and surrender en masse. In May, United States, French, Indian, and Chinese forces close in on Dubai. After a weeklong street fight, during which time the first model of plasma tank is used, Coalition forces finally surrender on May 16th, effectively ending what is addressed now as WWIII. All Coalition countries are forced to sign a treaty with all other parties militarily involved in the war involving heavy donations of money and oil, though much of it is sent to reserves as plasma technology steadily becomes more prominent. The countries are given almost all the lands at their height before the war, but are forced to limit their military to only a small peacekeeping force and all industrial building must be approved by Federation powers. The Federation, at its beginnings, comprises of Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Israel, China, India, Brazil, and Australia. The federation is created to maintain peace throughout the world and to stimulate the hectic world economy. The stimulation is aided by more countries researching into plasma technologies and colonial growth on Luna and Mars, which contain resources pivotal for worldwide recovery.
In 1984, with a slightly stabilized economy, Federation powers, mostly India, the United States, China, and Britain, begin to focus more and more on colonies on Mars and Luna. The end of WWIII leads to a large surge in population across China, India, and the Western world. At this time, as near instantaneous space travel becomes available, research is put in to find ways to terraform Mars in a short amount of time rather than continuing on finding already hospitable planets elsewhere. The solution is presented in late June. This is to drill a nuclear bomb into a point near the poles, which, when detonated, will shift the planet enough to allow for the ice caps to melt, releasing oxygen, carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, and other gases to form a greenhouse effect. The operation, performed later that month, does the exact job, and later that year, basic plants are introduced to the planet. While these plants die at first, eventually seeds from these plants grow resistance to the iron rich Martian soil and begin to flourish in the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere, releasing oxygen as a result. This oxygen begins to slowly detoxify the oceans, though it is still inhabitable to fish, though single cell organisms and sea plants are introduced slowly. By 2049, high resilience fish are introduced, though iron levels still remain excessively high. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are better dealt by high electrical currents which are caused by the storms made by the priming of sub surface iron by oxygen which, coupled with high Martian winds, create fierce electrical storms which chemically change the format of the air. In 2044, the air on Mars is declared “difficult, but safe to breatheâ€, meaning that while levels are low, and it is not recommended, humans can live without suits on the Martian surface, which is continuing to be terraformed by grasses, shrubs, and eventually trees.
One thing to bear in mind is that in this I have sethuman history back 50 years. for example, WWII happens from 1989-1895, while the technology in the period is practically the same. After WWII, everything is fair game for me put my spin on. Enjoy, feedback wanted.
At the end of WWII in 1895, the ensuing cold war between Communist Russia and the United States brought forth unexpected problems with the control and rebuilding of Europe. The “end†if it could be called so, in 1941, left many Eastern European and Southwest Asian countries on unstable ground. This aided in the fueling of radical Islam, which had been growing since the late 1920’s. Following the loss on the part of the Middle Eastern Islamic confederation against the Israeli-Lebanese coalition in 1954, many countries fell towards radical Islam as a way hopefully out of the terms the coalition had placed upon them after the Peace of Beirut. The allegiance of these various countries, spearheaded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, made the nation into a major political and economic force in the 1960’s due to its massive oil reserves, which it used to strangle the United States and other Western Powers in 1968, with ramifications reaching China as it too fell victim to its oil reluctance. This indirect effect led to a Chinese invasion of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1969. With the entire coalition at war and with diplomacy useless, oil dependant nations such as the United States and other Western countries saw oil skyrocket to $5.50 per gallon on average. The result of this was a search for new energy resources as a stalemate began to take hold as Coalition forces continued to hold back Chinese forces in North and South Waziristan.
In 1974, With Chinese forces pushed back, India, which had stayed neutral during the fight, became engaged to secure oil fields in Saudi Arabia after its allies, Bahrain and the UAE, fell to internal pressure and joined the Coalition. With a fresh and better disciplined and equipped army and air force, Indian forces took a different approach and launched a naval invasion of Saudi Arabia and Oman. Pressured by its own people and economic misfortune, the United States along with a collection of other Western power joins India’s aid and begins an invasion of Jordan with the aid of Israel in late 1975. Syrian and Iraqi resistance forces managed to keep up a strong fight against the Western powers for two years until 1977 when a significant victory at the Euphrates River allowed for Western powers to march on Baghdad.
After the fall of Baghdad, Egypt, which also had managed to remain neutral but maintain trade with the Middle Eastern coalition, launches an invasion of Israel after coalition forces threaten to cut off its supply of oil. The attack on Israel leads to Western powers being forced to withdraw from a planned invasion of Iran to defend its Southern flank. At this time, Indian forces reach a stalemate as its Northern army is stopped again at Waziristan. However, while progress is slow, India’s stronger air force manages to eventually break through the area and send the Coalitions Eastern force routing across the Iranian border. India begins an invasion, but pauses it to deal with heavy losses in Saudi Arabia after a failed siege of Riyadh and heavy resistance to occupation in Bahrain. The UAE continues to put up a strong fight and manages to push south into Indian occupied Oman before being repelled after a desert ambush set up by traitors in the UAE military.
With Egypt pacified in early 1979, the Western powers once again turned to an invasion of Iran, which now was suffering raids by Indian forces after the UAE’s southern army was defeated. Following the loss of the Sinai peninsula to Western powers, effectively defeating the Egyptian military, both Indian and Western powers begin an assault on Iran, focusing all of their resources on a large scale pincer invasion against Iran’s strong land and air defense network. The diversion of their attention allows for the UAE to amass its military force once more as Indian forces close in on Tehran. But rebellion in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan forces the Indian military to divert resources to defend its vulnerable North, leaving the Western powers a large burden in engaging Iran’s western army, which confronts the western forces with intricate and well dug in defenses.
Eventually however, the loss of many Saudi oil fields leads to a total collapse of Iran’s western army allowing for Western powers to move within 10 miles of Tehran before being forced to lay siege to the still well defended capital reinforced with large numbers of routing forces from the Western and eastern fronts. Indian requests leads to a series of attacks in early 1980 which result in high casualties on both sides before a combined assault by Indian and Western force finally captures the city in late February.
During the siege, a combination of American, German, and British scientists finally discovers an economically viable and easy to manufacture solution to oil shortages, which have grown larger since the Indian invasion of Saudi Arabia and Western capture of Iraq, with much oil being used to continue the fighting on both sides. The solution is a form of plasma created by magnetizing industrial plasma through a chamber, which creates a volatile yet rather easy to control form that can cause powerful burns and act in a manner similar to a bullet. Meanwhile, its acceleration can give objects high speeds at a quick pace. This realization begins research not only into how to make cheap and effective engines, but powerful weapons.
Pockets of resistance and continued rebellion to occupation leads to the temporary capture of Baghdad once again by Coalition forces, now centered in the UAE, Qatar, and South Kuwait. Weary of combat and weakened by years of conflict, Indian forces abandon offensive operations and focus more on securing the lands it holds. The Western powers do the same but continue to raid Coalition lands to ensure that no new offensive will arise. By late 1982, all is quiet, though not peaceful on the front.
Since 1979, United States space programs had been working on fast moving and large forms of space ships, which gained the military’s eye following the discovery of multi-function plasma. In November of 1982, the same research team finds a way to create an FTL jump drive. It is done by using an ultra cool down measure on the plasma drives which temporally allows the engines to move at near light speeds. Once this occurs, a ship can move into hyperspace. Since there are no physical rules in hyperspace, a ship can program how fast light is, and use its engines to move faster than light, thus making a ship able to travel large distances quickly. Research on this matter continues on for months as new plasma weapons are produced and prepared to be sent to the Middle East for use by Western powers, mostly the United States.
In early 1983, as the United States space program begins to use new plasma engines to establish colonies on the moon, Western powers, with the aid of recovered Chinese and Indian forces, begin an all out assault on the last Coalition pocket of resistance, having effectively destroyed all insurrectionist forces over the past few months. The fierce fighting nearly falls into another stalemate before new plasma weaponry arrives in April. The new weapons finally give Western forces the opportunity needed, and with no way of countering such weapons, Coalition forces retreat and surrender en masse. In May, United States, French, Indian, and Chinese forces close in on Dubai. After a weeklong street fight, during which time the first model of plasma tank is used, Coalition forces finally surrender on May 16th, effectively ending what is addressed now as WWIII. All Coalition countries are forced to sign a treaty with all other parties militarily involved in the war involving heavy donations of money and oil, though much of it is sent to reserves as plasma technology steadily becomes more prominent. The countries are given almost all the lands at their height before the war, but are forced to limit their military to only a small peacekeeping force and all industrial building must be approved by Federation powers. The Federation, at its beginnings, comprises of Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Israel, China, India, Brazil, and Australia. The federation is created to maintain peace throughout the world and to stimulate the hectic world economy. The stimulation is aided by more countries researching into plasma technologies and colonial growth on Luna and Mars, which contain resources pivotal for worldwide recovery.
In 1984, with a slightly stabilized economy, Federation powers, mostly India, the United States, China, and Britain, begin to focus more and more on colonies on Mars and Luna. The end of WWIII leads to a large surge in population across China, India, and the Western world. At this time, as near instantaneous space travel becomes available, research is put in to find ways to terraform Mars in a short amount of time rather than continuing on finding already hospitable planets elsewhere. The solution is presented in late June. This is to drill a nuclear bomb into a point near the poles, which, when detonated, will shift the planet enough to allow for the ice caps to melt, releasing oxygen, carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, and other gases to form a greenhouse effect. The operation, performed later that month, does the exact job, and later that year, basic plants are introduced to the planet. While these plants die at first, eventually seeds from these plants grow resistance to the iron rich Martian soil and begin to flourish in the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere, releasing oxygen as a result. This oxygen begins to slowly detoxify the oceans, though it is still inhabitable to fish, though single cell organisms and sea plants are introduced slowly. By 2049, high resilience fish are introduced, though iron levels still remain excessively high. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are better dealt by high electrical currents which are caused by the storms made by the priming of sub surface iron by oxygen which, coupled with high Martian winds, create fierce electrical storms which chemically change the format of the air. In 2044, the air on Mars is declared “difficult, but safe to breatheâ€, meaning that while levels are low, and it is not recommended, humans can live without suits on the Martian surface, which is continuing to be terraformed by grasses, shrubs, and eventually trees.
