Sunday 12 February 2017

Alien Invasion

  • Day 1: The Race invades the Earth commencing by the Aleutian Islands. American troops are overwhelmed in every battle, but they take low casualties due to the low American presence in the area.
  • Day 2: Russian Aleutian Islands are taken over. The Race reaches mainland Alaska through the Aleutians. American airforces in Alaska are mobilised.
  • Day 3: The Race lands in Kamchatka. An invasion happens across the Alaskan innerlands. The Americans prepare defenses in Anchorage. 
  • Day 4: Both Russian and American armed forces are smashed in every battle as the Race captures Petropavlovsk.
  • Day 5: The Race captures the whole of Kamchatka and Kodiak island. A massive advance pushes the Race to the Canadian border.
  • Day 6: Troops try fighting the Race machines at hand, but suffer devastating losses, Anchorage is lost. Only the Alaskan peninsula and panhandle remain. Yukon is taken. The North Kuril islands are taken.
  • Day 7: Experts state that they are "Berserk Ships", a kind of starship which's target is, once landed in a planet, multiply it's number using the planet's resources. The advance is smooth in Northern Canada and Russian Far East.
  • Day 8: The Midway Islands are also invaded, the Race is proven capable of crossing big chunks of Ocean. Wrangel Island is also taken as so are the Kuril Islands.
  • Day 9: Russia and America agree to use their armies in their own land instead of helping any other country. Canadian Northern Archipelago is taken, including Nunavut. Magadan and Hokkaido are taken.
  • Day 10: Last American troops in the South Alaskan islands are crushed. The Race commences the invasion of Greenland. Landings happen in Southern Sakhalin, but not in Honshu as for now. The Race makes astonishing gains in Siberia.
  • Day 11: Vancouver is taken. Hawaii is taken. Yakutsk falls aswell.
  • Day 12: The United States are invaded from British Columbia. Quebec is invaded from the Northwest. Greenland is taken. The Race reaches the northernmost points of the Amur river. The Race lands in Honshu. The advance in Siberia and the Arctic results in the Taymyr Peninsula under occupation.
  • Day 13: Massive invasion of the US through the Canadian border in Minnesota, Washington and Idaho. The Race reaches the Saint Lawrence river and it's bay. The Race invades Manchuria (China) and Northern Sakhalin.
  • Day 14: The last Canadian troops in the west and center are destroyed. Québec city falls. Anticosti and Newfoundland are invaded. Jan Mayen is taken. The Race reaches Lake Baikal and Mongolia from Manchuria.
  • Day 15: Seattle, Ottawa and Montreal are taken. The Race invades Iceland and the Marshall Islands.
  • Day 16: The Race crosses between Lake Huron and Michigan, commencing a new front in the invasion of America. The US is also invaded through New England. The Race reaches the Urals in the Arctic. The Battle of Tokyo commences.
  • Day 17: The US drops an EMP (Electro-Megnetic Pulse) which slows down the invasion in Eastern America. Russians lacked defenses in Europe and the Race invades massively through Nenetsia.
  • Day 18: Toronto falls. Beijing is surrounded. The Kazakh border is reached. Tokyo falls. 
  • Day 19: Fall of Beijing. Massive invasion through the US West Coast, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Iceland collapses.
  • Day 20: Franz Josef Land taken over, menace of a massive invasion of Europe from the North is growing. The battle of Salt Lake City begins. Fall of Arkhangelsk. The last Russian Far-Eastern troops get smashed near the Ussuri river. China centers it's efforts in the most populated areas, leaving most of Gansu and East Turkestan exposed to a rapid invasion. Pyongyang falls, Kim-Jong Un was assassinated when an explosion blew up the building were he took refugee, throwing him off the window. The DMZ is passed without problems.
  • Day 21: California is invaded from the East and the North. The battles of New York and Boston begin. Seoul is stormed as the South Korean government relied way too heavily in the DMZ.
  • Day 22: Svalbard and Faeroe Islands taken. Salt Lake City taken. The Race reaches Finland from Karelia. Tibet is invaded.
  • Day 23: The Race makes astonishing gains in Southern California and Arizona. Fall of Boston. The Race forms a massive pocket around Barnaul.
  • Day 24: The Battle of San Francisco begins. Los Ángeles, despite it's huge size, is destroyed to the ground with a massive ray. A group of soldiers film how the Statue of Liberty is destroyed by the Race and slowly turned into a series of new war machines. Shetland islands are taken. The Race centers most of their efforts in Pakistan and Burma as India mounted huge defenses in the Himalayas.
  • Day 25: Polynesia is secured. The Race reaches Mexico. The Battle of New York ends.

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Consequences of a long-lasting Spanish Empire

  • Given the fact that Hispanic America did not declare independence and remained under the Spanish Crown...
  • 1833: With Ferdinand VII dead, there is a problem with the succession of the monarchy, as there is a conflict between his three-year old daughter, Isabella and his brother, Charles. Charles defended a more conservative view of the state, under absolute, catholic monarchy. Probably the conflict would also extend to America, with Mexico (mostly conservative) being the second front of a war against Charles, probably ending up with Charles trying to exile to Mexico. The war would be shorter than in OTL because of American reinforcements for the Liberal Side.
  • No Mexico means that US colonists are not allowed into Texas or California, thus, them are being forcibly sent to Oregon instead. The massive american numbers would probably spark a conflict and possible war between the US and the UK between 1840 to 1860 aproximately.
  • The conquest of Patagonia happens much sooner than in Our Time Line.
  • Brazil remains an independent nation, as it separated from Portugal under monarchical conflict.
  • The problem with Spain's industry would be maintained at least until 1840's. Spain proper lacked coal, so it had to be extracted from the Americas, and that would imply having a really numerous and powerful navy. After Spain manages a real trade of goods and a well-designed infrastructure (probably by 1880's), their economy would grow exponentially, potentially becoming a second or third world power by 1914.
  • Pressure from several sectors in America would result in slavery being abolished by 1870's at the most. This would cause rage among land owners and a series of revolts would shock America.
  • Conflicts would probably arise with the US due to border tensions in California, and the American desire of having bigger Pacific Coast and control over Cuban Sugar. The US would probably have technological advantage, but eventually Spain would crush the United States, possibly taking not many lands in order for Spain to still be considered an "honourable power". The US would be left in a huge internal crisis afterwards.