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The complete timeline (including stories) is over 800 kB long.
Read [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=32411 the '''''Chaos TLTimeline'''''] on [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/ the AH.com forum], or the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809210805/http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=32412 Stories from the Chaos TL] (you have to register and log in for them), or read [http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=70196 the full TL as a scenario]. The timeline can also be read at the [http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos Alternate History Wikia]. See also [http://gurps.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos this material] on the [[GURPS]] wikia.
[[Inspired By]] the [[RPG]] ''[[GURPS Alternate Earths]]'' - the scenario "Centrum", to be precise.
It has managed to get its own fanfiction work called ''[[Samowar in Atlantis]]''.
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Due to the versatile and lengthy nature of the storyline and its vulnerability to spoilers, tropes are denoted in thematic categories. Explanations given clickable right below.
== Alternate History Tropes<ref>We probably needn't explain what '''[[Alternate History Tropes]]''' are if you already ended up here, no?</ref> ==
<ref>'''General Tropes''' denote tropes that don't belong to any other category. This folder is also sub-structured into [[Language Tropes]] that didn't get its own folder for the sake of clarity.</ref> ▼<ref>'''Character Tropes''' are just that. Political leaders get described here just as well as the functional equivalents to your [[Ordinary High School Student]].</ref> ▼<ref>'''Religion Tropes''' were introduced to tidy up ambiguities towards other folders. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]</ref> ▼<ref>'''National And Political Tropes''' denote tropes about countries and politics, domestic and international alike including warfare and nation-building.</ref> ▼<ref>'''Modern World Issues''' have been introduced as a folder because of the spoileriffic nature of many issues regarding the timeline's later 20th century when the timeline acquires a contemporary and even futuristic feel that hardly fits with the rest.</ref> ▼<ref>'''Shout Outs''' are just that.</ref>
== Alternate History Tropes ==
* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: Lots of it, mostly for pure [[Rule of Funny]]. And not just with historical personalities and events, but also alternate vocabulary and culture.
** A more serious one: After the battle of Auschwitz, someone states: "Certainly this place has never seen such a massacre on any world, in any time." And on the same plane:
== General Tropes ==
▲<ref>'''General Tropes''' denote tropes that don't belong to any other category. This folder is also sub-structured into [[Language Tropes]] that didn't get its own folder for the sake of clarity. </ref>
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Some fan created a [[Fanfic]] on Alternatehistory.com. Said fanfic used an epic story covering the whole wide world as a background for drunken nonsense talk full of [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy]]. And even worse, insisted to insert some seriously [[squick]]y stuff.
* [[The Beautiful Game]]: When national teams from the Socialist Block were allowed to compete in a world cup for the very first time, their Englishmen bring German Bavaria a painfully shameful defeat in the finals after penalties.<ref>In [[Real Life]], teams like England and Italy are considered infamous for sucking at penalites (though the Italians got better as seen in 2006), while teams like Germany and Argentina are considered gods in this discipline, the latter only ever been beaten by the former (also in 2006) who never was.</ref>
== Character Tropes ==
▲<ref>'''Character Tropes''' are just that. Political leaders get described here just as well as the functional equivalents to your [[Ordinary High School Student]]. </ref>
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: King Gioacchino of Italy and his successor, [[The Napoleon|Alessandro]] [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Napolione]].
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: There are some German princes (and other guys) named Kraft, which means "power / strength". Yes, this once was a real first name in Germany.
== Religion Tropes ==
▲<ref>'''Religion Tropes''' were introduced to tidy up ambiguities towards other folders. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] </ref>.
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Other than in our world, Catholic Christianity didn't split except for some minor fringe movements, but power gradually shifted to the governments of the Catholic nations, somehow akin to the Anglican Church or Gallican Church in our world whose rituals and doctrine were mostly kept unchanged. E.g. in Nippon, the tenno is the head of the country's Catholic Church! [[The Pope]] was gradually reduced to a mere figurehead, but this changed unexpectedly again when he had to go to <s>Australia</s> <s>Tirland</s> [[Overly Long Gag|Antipodia]] after the revolution in Britain.
* [[Interfaith Smoothie]]: The Indian Chandramoorthy develops his own religion, which combines elements from Hinduism, Islam, Catholicism and the classical Greco-Roman religion.
== National and Political Tropes ==
▲<ref>'''National And Political Tropes''' denote tropes about countries and politics, domestic and international alike including warfare and nation-building. </ref>
* [[The Alliance]]: Several times in this history. After all, it coined the term "anti-X War", as in "Anti-French War" and other wars, all of them ending with a victory of the alliance.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Many a [[Space-Filling Empire]] may fall into this category, but the three-continental German technocracy deserves special mention.
== Modern World Issues ==
▲<ref>'''Modern World Issues''' have been introduced as a foldersection because of the spoileriffic nature of many issues regarding the timeline's later 20th century when the timeline acquires a contemporary and even futuristic feel that hardly fits with the rest. </ref>
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Here with [[Grey Goo|nanomachines]], thus potentially Class X (planetary annihilation). And many locals vaguely expected it to happen for years.
* [[Artificial Intelligence]]: AI plays an important part at the end.
* [[World War III]]: Appropriately at the end of the story.
* [[Write What You Know]]: The author did CS studies.
== Shout Outs ==
* The two first Dutch men who founded a colony in Atlantis are named Jan and Kees [[The Simpsons (animation)|van Houten]].
** And the first German guy there is a Hans Meier - the equivalent of John Smith.
* Two German merchants, [[Buddenbrooks|Herr Hagenström and Herr Buddenbrook]] talk about the emerging Atlantis business. A mijnheer [[Theme Naming|Arnoldsen]] from Amsterdam is also mentioned.
* The German ''land'' Anderland is named after the best song by the German punk band [[Music/Fluchtweg|Fluchtweg]].
* A satirist writing an obituary "Today our beloved [[Holy Roman Empire]] of the German Nation passed away at the great age of 911 years", almost the same as a text in our world.
* The aforementioned nationalized and decentralized versions of Catholic Christianity are basically the Anglican Church and the concept of [[wikipedia:Gallicanism|Gallicanism]] from our real history, but taken [[Up to Eleven]].
* During one war story set in NW Germany of the 16th century, someone who's much like German comedian Otto Waalkes makes an appearance. (In fact, he uses [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].)
* The two greatest authors of this world are the Spaniard Alejandro Enrique Ruiz Rodriguez, who wrote several plays about kings (of biblical Israel), whose works are suspected by some people to be written not by him, but really by the Spanish king, or his daughter, or someone completely else; and the German Albert Franck Baltzer, who wrote tragedies like ''[[King Lear|Der König von Leer]]'' about a Frisian yeoman and his daughters, or a jealous mercenary in ''[[Othello|Otto Leo]], genannt Der Schwarze von Verden'', which also were used for several <s>Hollywood</s> Paradies movies.
* Russian general "Uncle" Popov (to an obscure German children's book).
* A German Jew named German [[Seinfeld]] who complains that he's arrested for nothing.
* Ronaldo Servio (whose name doesn't remind you of Maffeo Servitore for nothing), [[Gone with the Wind|who's got the most terrible reputation all over Italia Nuova.]]
* The first technocratic government of Germany has a technocrat for police named [[Tatort|Schimanski]] and [[Yes Minister|an experienced bureaucrat who is convinced he understands government work better than all of his chancellors]] named [[Mad Magazine|Alfred Neumann]].
* Two working class guys talking about stuff who sound very much like the Zomtec guys.
* A Nipponese resistance group using a line from the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' [[Theme Song]].
* There also seems to be a counterpart of [[Discworld]].
* One Tyrolean partisan in this world's [[World War Two]], of all people, starting to channeling Austrian fun rock band [[Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung]].
* [[Carl Barks|Karl Beller]] is a very popular author of the German kids series "Theobald the Technician".
** Sally Kohn is a [[Token Minority|Token Israeli]] member of the gang in said series.
* "Keep your fingers off him, Consuela!" is a translated [[Mondegreen]] of the German band [[Fettes Brot]].
* The way Ariel Ben-David got his name reminds of how a similar thing happened to [[Ephraim Kishon]].
* The firm Werstand refers to one German translation of ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'', where the titular firm was translated as this.
* The name of one of the first men on the moon is [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.asp Gorsky].
* The supreme technocrat Slezak is a [[Shout-Out]] to the prime minister of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s story "Report on the Barnhouse effect".
* Weber (this world's term for "Luddite") is a [[Shout-Out]] to a political poem by Gerhart Hauptmann about Silesian weavers.
* The last story begins deliberately similar as ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.
* The Rasac (Japanese-influences group of radical sceptics - so radical, they even doubt logic and science) are a [[Shout-Out]] to a story by Heinrich Böll ([[In Name Only|in abbrev only]] - the other Rasacs are short for "Rasante Sadisten Capotas" [=rapid sadists of [[Ruritania|Capota]]]).
* [[Tropers/Thande|Technische Hochschule Argentinien/Neustadt für Delizierung und Eisenverarbeitung]]
* Another timeline, "A Plethora of Princes", is also [[Title Drop]]ped, and its author Grey Wolf is hinted at.
* Russian WWII general and dictator Gridenkov is a [[Shout-Out]] to an older [[AlternateHistory.com]] timeline - ''Fire Eagle, Snow Bear'' - which had a Russian dictator Gridenko fighting Germany which won (our world's) [[World War I]]. Also, one of right hand man of this timeline's Gridenkov, a guy named [[Bilingual Bonus|Belochvostikov]], is known as "Stalin, The Man of Steel" ([[Sarcasm Mode|like a certain dude from our history about whom you might have heard of]]).
* Other Members of [[AlternateHistory.com]] are also mentioned.
* There's even a [[Shout-Out]] to a defunct German AH forum, i.e. two members of it. Chamberlain, von Schleicher, in case you're reading this, this means you.
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