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This [[Alternate History]] timeline published at [[
The complete timeline (including stories) is over 800 kB long.
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[[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]]''. And a mention by [[AlternateHistoryHub]].
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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>▼
* [[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:
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== General Tropes ==
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* [[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>
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: In one of the stories, someone on the <s>internet</s> Weltsystem asks "Max" (counterpart of the author?) why he doesn't write a timeline himself instead of criticizing others'.
* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: The author originally had planned to call the internet of this world "Weltnetz" but found out that [[Schmuck Bait|German neo-Nazis use this term already for the existing internet]], so he changed it to "Weltsystem".
* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite some, e.g. to ''[[Seinfeld]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', [[Shakespeare]], and also to a number of [[
* [[Steampunk]]: Germany invents and deploys [[Tank Goodness|steam-driven tanks]] in this timeline's [[World War
* [[Sure Why Not]]: [[User:Dr Nodelescu|Some fan]] suggested that the head of the Socialist part of Germany should have the title "Oberster Politischer Kommissar", which became canon.
* [[Take That]]: Berlin is an uninteresting medium-sized city.<ref>So uninteresting that it's mostly known only for an ordinary all-girls technical school. "Lesbunien" ahoj!</ref> Japan is a poor, undeveloped protectorate of China.
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== Character Tropes ==
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* [[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.
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* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: [[Matzo Fever|Tatjana]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[The Mafia]]: ''La Famiglia'', which seizes full political power in the Italian empire after it loses [[World War
* [[Manipulative Bastard]] / [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Maffeo Servitore, of Florence. Also Alfred Kleiber, chancellor of [[Eagle Land|German Atlantis]]. And maybe Walter Meier. And the New Roman emperors.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sophie Stein, again. "Sophie Stein is the stone that breaks the steel of Socialist propaganda!"
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
** A great general who was born on an island west of Italy, fought in Egypt, became emperor and brought the church under his control was already mentioned.
** Matthias Lieber, one of those who translated the Bible into German, is a [[Shout-Out]] to Martin Luther. And at the same time, a [[Shout-Out]] to the RPG ''[[
** Friedrich von Hohenzollern who might be [[Frederick the Great]] born in an Atlantean log cabin and successfully running away from his tyrannical father.
** Explorers / travellers Markus Poller and Mao Polou
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== Religion Tropes ==
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[Imperial China]]: Still exists even in the later 20th century, ruled by the so-called adoptive emperors.
* [[Israel]]: Here called (Greater) Judea.
** Founded on Sinai in the mid-19th century and expanded considerably into Palestine and Syria in the aftermath of [[World War
** Saved Germany's ass at a very crucial moment in [[World War II]].
** {{spoiler|And the whole human race owes some Judean citizen on how [[World War III]] ended, [[Mary Sue|if nobody else]].}}
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* [[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.
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* [[World War III]]: Appropriately at the end of the story.
* [[Write What You Know]]: The author did CS studies.
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