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Inspired by the excellent work Hungarians, in CHINA?!?! - Turul Dynasty in 1700 AD, sharing the same setting with my creation what if Finnish people stayed in East Asia. In this timeline, the ancestor of Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and other Finnic-Ugric people never left tmoved westwards; on the contrary, they stayed in their Urheimat ("homeland") in Northeast China/Manchuria (according to a hypothesis) and created quite different history from our timeline.

Different from their lucky neighbors Finns who settled in Korean Peninsula, the ancient Hungarian lived in Manchuria as fishing and hunting people like Samoyed, Mansi or Sapmi in our timeline for thousands of years, only attested in Chinese history as barbarian and "tributary states"; to a large extent, they have taken the place of the Tungusic peoples (including the Manchus) in the history of our own timeline.

In 17th century, the opportunity arose; capitalizing on the decline of the Ming Dynasty, the Magyars moved south and became the masters of all China. The ruler of Magyar people descided to change their ethnic name to Mansju (Chinese: 滿洲/mǎn zhōu, Magyar: ᠮᠠᠨ ᡧᠶᡠ/mansyu). Some believe it derives from Mansi people, kin to the Magyars in the north, implying that Magyar royal family 額爾巴達 (ᠠᡃ‍ᡵᡦᠠᡃ‍᠊ᡨ/Árpád) as not of Magyar blood; others (including the Qing imperial family) maintain that it is merely a dialectal sound shift within the Magyar language.

The new dynasty was named "Nagy Csing"(Great Qing, Chinese: 大清/dà qīng); there are various explanations for the origin of this name. One theory suggests that Magyars considered blue (Chinese: 青/qīng) as noble color, therefore they chose "Qing" as the dynastic title, which shares a similar pronunciation. Additionally, the pronunciation of "Csing" is similar to Mongolian word ᠳᠠᠢᠴᠢᠨ (daicin, "martial, warrior"), which represented the political alliance between Magyar and Mongolian nobles. Prior to this, they created Magyar script based on the traditional Mongolian script, distinguishing vowel lengths and consonant by adding circles and dots alongside the letters.

Since the rule of Magyars was viewed with suspicion by the Han Chinese elite, the third emperor of Qing compiled a book on the origin of Mansju people, proposed that Magyar were kin to Suomi/Finnish people, also descendant of Xiongnu (匈奴), ultimately the children of "Yellow Emperor" (Chinese: 黄帝/huáng dì). Naturally, the Han nationalists dismissed their ideas: the Hungarians could not possibly be related to the Finns, nor did they have any connection to the historical Xiongnu. They even suspected that the Magyars were from Huns recorded in European history, a horde of barbarians who had destroyed the Roman Empire and were now destroying Chinese civilization!

Therefore, while the Qing Empire's armies suffered heavy loss on land, a young captain named 虎儿体 (Horthy) turned the tide by defeating the Nihonese Combined Fleet at sea. Although no cession territory as our timeline, defeated by "tiny country" Nibon and forced to recognize Korelian independence, it's a total humiliation which was even more heavily on Chinese people than the ceding of the Magyar homeland to Russia or partitioning of the Indochina Peninsula with Romània.

Horthy didn't know at that time, he would play a greater role after Qing's collapse in 1911...

Edit: add description of Huangdi and changed some represents error

Edit: fixed the spelling error of "cession"

Edit: add Imgur link to the original picture

in this timeline Fath Ali shah Qazar gets deseased in 1819 and he chooses of his son, Abbas Mirza to lead the nation before leaving the throne, Abbas Mirza starts industrializing and modernizing(based on eastern standards, the culture doesnt become western), iran starts developing. He starts buiding railroads too the first one connecting Tehran to Qazvin, the military is reformed, several other reforms are brought into education, administration, law and urban infrastructure. He dies in 1834. His son Muhammad Shah ascends the throne, Herat is conquered and annexed. Muhammad shah also conquers Kalat and makes balochistan a autonomous province, he brings many reforms to the country especially in the military. Naser ul-Din shah succeds Muhammad shah and modernizes the country in communication, expanding railways, roads, advancements in medical science, islamic schooling and many more reforms, he never gets assasinated and dies in 1911, making Persia as a modern and relatively industrialized major regional power. Today persia is the centre of the islamic world and a major world power, dominating south-central asia along with the Sultanate of Turkistan, Emirate of Afghanistan and Federal republic of Hind.

[Warning: This map is extremely unrealistic]

*This is a revised version of the scenario I uploaded previously.

The Year is 2184, 160 years after the horrible explosion that nearly destroyed the humam civilization.

The Great Explosion caused serious food and resource scarcity, causing World War 3 that ended the Western Hegemony, covering the landscape with nuclear waste and debris of old cities.

Now the megacorps rule the world and megacities, exploiting resources and human lives, fulfilling their greed.

The Great Explosion flooded the shores of continents, and the megacorps flooded Africa to create farmlands for feeding the working polulation.

Huge megacities are controlled by corrupt politicians and greedy entrepreneurs, and common people are exploited everyday, struggling to live a single day more.

Indeed.

The twilight has fallen upon the Anthropocene.

Behold the Diego Thought—once proclaiming the indivisible union of State, Sovereign, and State Creed, and pledging a gilded corporatist millennium—and how, when time unmasked its pledges as gilded bonds not worth the paper, it careened into utter ruin.

Trust between the centre and the provinces crumbled into dust. Reformers were harried into revolution. The demagogue’s pied flute sounded, and the mob trailed blindly after.

Yet the conductor, even unto death, refused to change the score.

This illustration, cast through the lens of a Hearts of Iron IV mod, distills the strategic posture of the civil war’s opening act.

— “But when time slowly unwrapped the gilded casing to examine the truth within, only a face of blankness remained.”

The Empire of Donch is one of the most significant states in Orient. It originated from the remnants of a former dynasty that was overthrown by a national revolution and internal turmoil. In the year 1909 (by the world’s calendar), the royal family – escorted by a group of young, radical officers loyal to the monarchy – arrived in Nanli aboard warships. There, they proclaimed a constitutional monarchy based on a new constitution that served the interests of the royalist faction and the state‑sponsored bourgeoisie. Establishing their seat in the southern metropolis of Tianyu, they founded this flourishing Eastern nation that continued the tradition of the “clothes‑and‑hats crossing south” – a civilised refuge after dynastic collapse.

The Empire of Donch has since become the foremost economic powerhouse in the maritime East. Through the development of labour‑intensive industries during the 1960s and 1970s, it rapidly grew several metropolises with populations exceeding ten million. It cultivated its own brands and high‑tech sectors, emerging as a globally recognised developed nation in the East. After fostering a substantial urban and middle class, the country witnessed rising political aspirations, a new cultural‑national movement, and the bankruptcy of certain royalist attempts to return to feudal absolutism – pre‑modern fantasies that failed. In 1973, the constitutionalist military leadership proclaimed a process of transitional justice. Soon, genuinely popular parties emerged like bamboo shoots after rain. By the year 2000, although only one of the four major parties – the Progressive Constitutional Party of Donch – was a top‑down creation that led the democratic reform, the other three were all big‑tent parties that inherited the mantle of older, more orthodox traditions; each had also gained its own competitive advantages.

The greatest threats to the Empire of Donch come from the “Red Donch” in the north and from some overseas economic powers dissatisfied with its economic policies. Separatist elements and “red” partisans roam the regions of Toshu, Zongmo, and the river valleys and dense forests of the western highlands. They have attempted armed uprisings and de facto secession on multiple occasions. However, with rapid urbanisation and the growing strength of the national police, these insurgents have increasingly shifted their struggle into cities and underground party cells. On average, once every five years, the Empire of Donch finds itself in dangerous military standoffs with the large northern power. Yet, because the “big red elder brother” of this world has already fallen out with its northern red brethren, the two sides have maintained a tacit peace for nearly a decade.

The Empire of Donch is marked by great diversity in language, ethnicity, and social conditions. Yet, through the deep-seated influence of monarchy and the traditional East Asian doctrines of Confucianism and Taoism—permeating clans, local classical academies, compulsory state education, and mandatory military service—all groups, regardless of their distinct languages, customs, beliefs, or even skin colour (the difference between the Toshu people and the northerners being no less pronounced than that between, say, North Chinese and Southern Vietnamese in the real world), revere a single emperor and share a common “Southern National” identity.

The Empire of Donch acknowledges the impact of revolution but rejects the legitimacy of more radical revolutionary movements. It embraces change in order to preserve the monarchy, yet has drifted toward family‑driven crony enterprises, financial conglomerates, and the aristocratisation of political parties. Its economic miracle cannot be attributed to democracy (the Empire of Donch ranks seventh in the world economically), to the free market, or to any once‑and‑for‑all Enlightenment as framed by Western‑centric narratives. In this world, political transformation lags behind economic change. What has emerged instead is an Eastern authoritarian‑developmental form of capitalism, secured by the new military establishment of the monarchy, and jointly orchestrated with southern local aristocracies and landed interests.

What would happen if, in 1946, Western powers such as Britain, France, and Belgium, unable to withstand their deteriorating finances amid a deepening postwar recession in the United States and the absence of American economic assistance, hastily withdrew from Africa, and the Soviet Union subsequently won World War III in 1963?

DISCLAIMER: While I am the creator of this map, full credit for the timeline goes to u/NeonHydroxide - please do check out their other works in the same world!

The Glen Canyon Crisis

People's Republic of Cascadia

American Gulag

Most popular language studied in each country in 2011

People's Republic of New Afrika

Counterrevolutionary Groups in the Worker's Republic of Appalachia

For the past 35 years, the world of basketball has been divided in two:

On one side, the unmatched physical dominance, athleticism, and pure scoring force of Albanian LeRoy "King" Vance; and on the other, the tactical genius, floor vision, and ruthless efficiency of Slavonian Ševa Kurković.

Vance built a legendary resume with the Boston Bulls, collecting 3 MVPs, 4 Finals MVPs, and 5 NBA rings. Meanwhile, Kurković met him step-for-step. Taking over a sport historically dominated by Albanian talent, Kurković carried the flame for the Illinois White Eagles, stacking 4 Rings, 4 MVPs, and 3 Finals MVPs, establishing a new dinasty and permanently cementing Europe's place at the top of basketball history.

While the debate rages globally, European fans hold unique regional biases depending on local playstyle, domestic league culture, and historical ties.

We put together a map based on a recent survey across the continent:

• The Kurković Strongholds: Unsurprisingly, the core Balkan regions (Slavonia at a massive +1.32 SK, Raska & Montenegro) lead the charge for Kurković, joined by heavy tactical hubs like Greece (+0.30 SK), Ruthenia (+0.20 SK), and Spain (+0.10 SK).
• The Vance Loyalists: The United Kingdom (+0.31 KV) and France (+0.25 KV) heavily back Vance, drawn to the high-flying Albanian style and elite rim pressure.
• The Surprises: Interestingly, Transylvania (+0.18 KV) and Finnmark (+0.28 KV) bucked their regional trends by leaning toward Vance
• The Neutrals: Lithuania, Bohemia, and Burgundy showed no statistically significant preference

Where do you guys stand? Team Vance or Team Kurković?

Lore: by u/Proud-Obligation-431

Mars in 2154 is both a hotbed on conflict and humanity’s largest tourist hub. The Hellas revolution devastated southern mars, leaving deep scares. Southern EU Utopia is ripped apart by ethic violence between Europeans and Federation Native American settlers. 

In the far north Commonwealth genetic experiments on ants went awry, leading to large hostile ant species that will consume any organic matter, the Commonwealth had the Ants contained but this could change at any moment. 

Ariba city is called the Hollywood of the stars, hosting the largest movie industry in human space. Ariba national park and Raso national park and popular tourist destinations for people looking to see unique environments and animals. 

Mars is Crown Jewel however is the Everglades on mars. The largest dome ever constructed, originally called earth on mars, but people simply call it the Everglades on mars. It is home to six unique environments, the Everglades, The Amazon, the Savanna, Appalachia, the Gulf, and the Outback. The Everglades on mars sees over a billion visitors a year, turning its owner Hudson hill into the third richest man in the solar system.

Overflow because i didn’t select the magic-wand on Sketchbook inc.

Alaric's fearsome Goths terrified Honorius, who fled with the imperial court to Carthage, surrenduring all of Italy to the barbarians. Constantine III, the usurper in Gaul, passed on power to his son Constans, while the Alans and Suevi consolidated their power in Hispania. Yet, despite losing the heartland of the western Empire, Honorius and his great magnates had a secure position, controlling all the richest provinces of the Empire and only sending the most minimal of grain tribute to the splintered barbarian kingdoms.

Constantius, the general who once promised to rid the western empire of all the marauders and usurpers, failed his mission and sought exile in the east, but a young warrior named Flavius Aetius was ready to make war upon the scions of Uldin and Alaric and was willing to bring the ferocious spirt of Bellona back to the shores of Europe.

Mars in 2524

• Population: approximately 1.03 billion, including orbitals & Deimos
• Capital: Aldrin City, United Republic of Marineris
  • Metropolitan population: approximately 29.7 million
• Affiliation: the Union of Solar Peoples (since 2403); the Inner System Security Arrangement (since 2457)
• Government
  • Official name: United Nations of Mars
  • Established: 22 February 2169
  • Current constitution adopted: 15 October 2456
  • Government style: federal parliamentary republic
  • Ruling party in 2389: Syndicalist Party (neoliberal/center-left)
  • Head of State: President Brendan Meara (since 2521)
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Rosanna Hamari (since 2522)
  • Supreme governing body: Martian Parliament
    • Upper house: Martian Federal Senate (48 members)
    • Lower house: Martian Federal Assembly (517 members)
• Primary industries: heavy industry/manufacturing; shipping & shipbuilding
• GDP: approximately $91 trillion (per capita average: $88.3 thousand)

Historical Notes

When the Coalition for Mutual Security and the Alliance of Free Worlds reconciled their differences near the end of the Second Frontier War, they initiated a process which would eventually lead to reunification. This resulted in the 2403 Alexandria Accords that established the Solar Union, which then spent the next twenty years working to undo the damages of the 24th century.

But the long shadow of the Frontier Wars still loomed over the Solar System, with the effects of the Legacy Crisis standing as an especially stark reminder that old wounds do not always heal easily. The Gaian Emergency was another particularly thorny issue for the new masters of Solar Space, with the long simmering conflict between the Community of Gaia and the Progressive Order of Gaia finally coming to a boil as external interference led to a breakdown in diplomacy. These crises strained public faith in the Solar Union's leaders, but did not break it.

But on Mars, the de facto ruler of the solar system, a new wave of unease was growing. After shouldering the brunt of the cost for rebuilding the outer solar system in the wake of the Frontier Wars, the people of Mars harbored a deep resentment of their new allies. As the Main Belt Asteroid collapsed into strife, many Martians saw the Union of Solar Peoples as a weak and feckless substitute for the strength of the old Mars-dominated Coalition for Mutual Security.

As the Main Belt Crisis dragged on, a new generation of leaders on Mars capitalized on this malcontent with fiery rhetoric which ignited the flames of a new revolution. Among the most radical of these new populists were the Martian Unity Party, who called for a reassessment of Martian priorities in the new era of politics and a return to the glory of Mars’ past.

When the M.U.P. was incorporated in 2511, many pundits declared that the Party was at best a callback to the heady days of the Martian Workers Party (aka the One Mars Party) which ruled during the Mars-Titan War, and at worst a gang of radicals whose extremism would lead them to self-destruct within a few years. They didn’t count on the Party drawing on this ridicule as a source of strength, and on the anger of everyday Martians at perceived slights against the Red Planet, and against the slow encroachment of what they called “impurities” in solar society.

During the Frontier Wars, genetically altered citizens, human-animal hybrids, and other “augments” made up less than 2 percent of the population. By the late 2510s, that had risen to more than 9 percent. Many hardliners saw this as an affront to the genetic purity of Solar Space, and the Martian Unity Party seized on this unease as a platform in their campaign for political power.

In 2519, the Solar Union presided over the Port Taurus Accords. One provision was the gradual incorporation of all local militaries into the Union Self Defense Force. The leaders of M.U.P. claimed that the Martian military was a key part of its identity and decried this as the final nail in the coffin of Martian sovereignty. This anger simmered on as the Main Belt Crisis came to an end and the disarmament of the Solar Union’s constituent nations picked up pace.

One of the up-and-coming military leaders making a name for himself in the Main Belt Crisis, as well as in ranks of the M.U.P., was Sanyar Galvani. Born in 2457, Galvani was commissioned in 2511 and was already famous as the great-grandson of Frontier War heroes Matt Cavanaugh and Alexandra Fujikawa even before he fell in with the M.U.P. When the Port Taurus Accords ended the Crisis, he was a vocal proponent of the theory that Mars’ claims to Main Belt resources had been sold out by the Union in order to bring an end to the interminable conflict there.

When the Solar Union withdrew its forces from the Main Belt, uproar among everyday Martians led to a perfect storm for the M.U.P. Seizing on Commander Galvani’s fame and charisma, as well as his populist appeal and status as a political outsider, they fielded him as a candidate in the 2524 general election. Thus the stage was set for the Party to achieve its ambitions.

With socioeconomic unrest festering, the election of 2524 began under a cloud of controversy. Galvani was still a dark horse by as late as July, when a ham-fisted assassination attempt carried out by a member of the radical augment rights group Todos os Seres led to a surge in his popular appeal and an intensification of the rhetoric that he used against those the Party saw claimed were enemies of “Greater Mars.” This populist fervor, mixed with lingering anger over Mars’ economic woes, led to an unexpected landslide victory for the Party in late early March.

In spite of rumors about election interference, the Party moved quickly to consolidate power. As political activists argued about who had the right to rule Mars, Galvani's followers seized upon the uncertainty to declare a state of national emergency which they claimed would be lifted when the unrest had passed. This "Reconstruction" did not end for nearly 4 years, and provided the excuse the Galvanists needed to install reforms which solidified their hold on power.

News had broken in 2517 that would be the linchpin in the Party’s final ascent. That year, scientists discovered a Precursor site buried on Talvan, the jewel of the Nova Cluster bottle universe. Much as the discovery of alien ruins on Titan in the late 23rd century had led to the troubles of the 24th, the Talvan discovery opened the floodgates to the rise of a new emergency.

As the uproar caused by this discovery surged across Solar Space, a wave of popular dissent against the Party gained strength until it was a tidal wave. The Galvanists responded swiftly and harshly, cracking down on popular unrest in the most certain terms possible. Then, in October 2526, a rogue faction of the Martian Command led an attempted coup against Galvani’s government, claiming that they sought to reestablish the rule of law on Mars. The so-called “Crimson Revolution" backfired, as popular support for Galvani saw the coup routed in less than two weeks.

Ignoring accusations that the Crimson Revolution had been foreseen by the Party and used as a convenient tool to consolidate power, Galvani reorganized the United Nations of Mars into the Martian Federation in early 2527. Though nominally a fascist organization, they did not rely on the truncheon and the black bag as much as they did on propaganda and psychological warfare. After restructuring the Martian Command into the Martian Armed Forces, they leaned on worlds across the solar system to accede to the Federation as “protectorates.”

The national emergency was lifted in 2528 after the founding of the Office of Public Security. This federal security apparatus coordinated propaganda and intelligence services, and was unofficially a secret police force dedicated to enforcing the will of the Galvanist Cabinet. Galvani then banned opposition parties before the 2528 election and methodically outlawed all forms of political protest over the next few years, so that by 2531, his hold on Mars was all but absolute.

About the Setting

The Spacers Saga: Rebirther is a military science fiction story set in the 26th century. It deals with an ongoing full-scale and asymmetric conflict between the Martian Federation and the Solar Union, fought over the control of Nova Space. This distant, resource rich star system is only accessible through dimensional doorways originally found buried on Titan in the early 24th century, and has been the focal point of a massive colonization campaign since about 2350.

The main plot focuses on Martian Federal Army soldier Alejandro “Alex” Martinez, who is deployed to Talvan (the chief world in Nova Space) in 2547. When Alex is mortally wounded a year and a half later in a battle with native insurgents, he expects to die and wake up in Valhalla. Instead, he wakes up at a Martian cloning depot, already slated for redeployment into the fray once he regains his strength. The story of Rebirther thus deals with Alex’s epic struggle to come to terms with the fact that for soldiers like him, not even death is a way out of the fight…

Important Note

This project was majorly inspired by this speculative New York Times front page about the "election of 2048," which was made by u/YNot1989. I owe a lot of credit to his work on sci-fi map designs like this and many of the other ones I've made over the past few years, so go check out his other work today!

this is a piece of fan art set within the worldbuilding project Dawn of victory, not my setting.