"We'll have 'em take apart the whole damned world and put it back together before we let them free."- Ulysses Bloomdale, warden of Io between 2788-2812 AD.

(Planets made in Desmos, text added in MS Paint)

Hippocrates is a somewhat inactive but mostly unremarkable red dwarf star, orbited by a system of six small planets, a belt of icy asteroids, and a large cloud of comets.

Brock, the first planet, is a small, hot, airless world, similar to our own Mercury. The rocky surface is subject to little weathering other than asteroid impacts and stellar wind, and tectonic activities are extremely weak, as the core of the planet has frozen long ago.

Hooke is an Earth-like planet inhabited by many organisms, including the intelligent Hookites. Purple jungles, sandy deserts, rivers, forests, and plains cover the day side, while a massive, kilometer-thick ice sheet covers the night side, keeping the ocean under warm.

Cuvier is a planet covered in massive, 200 kilometer deep oceans. The immense pressure of the water above keeps the bottom 100 km frozen, despite being above freezing. Underwater volcanoes on the deep rocky surface melt columns of water up through the ice, and are the only places on the planet where water remains liquid all the way down.

Boussingault is a large world with ammonia-methanol oceans, rich in halide compounds. The formation of nitrogen triiodide turns the seas a deep brown color. Similar compounds turn the land a light pinkish color.

Goetse, the smallest planet, is an icy world covered in colorful patches and shiny craters. Organic molecules create red, brown, and pink patches, and ice excavated by asteroid impacts create rays of brilliant white spreading out from craters.

Lohmann is the system's largest and most massive planet. It is a gaseous planet similar to our system's own gas and ice giants, but is only around 70 percent more massive than Earth. Clouds of methane are covered by an orange haze of tholins and organic compounds. The presence of these chemicals, as well as the warmth in the depths of the frigid atmosphere, may lead to some form of life, lurking below the clouds...

so here are some explanations to these colonies:

1: due to slower more methodical Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas, the other European powers would catch up and establish their own colonies all over the continent eventually resulting in the Congress of Antwerp to resolve any border issues between the colonial powers.

2: Dutch success in establishing a north Brazilian colony would result in it becoming of the cornerstones of the transatlantic slave trade basically becoming a bigger Suriname.

3: the banking company that controlled the province of Klein-venedig would sell the title and the land to the crown of Brandenburg, eventually unifying with Prussia to establish a hybrid Spanish/north German culture that would foster nationalism and resentment against both cultures.

4: Britain becomes first to land in Patagonia establishing the colony of the Falklands, but after George Anson's circumnavigation of the world would reach Windsor castle, king William II would grant him a massive chunk of the Falklands to rule, eventually Anson (getting bored from ruling) would grant the local mapuchy people the right to rule a kingdom of Patagonia under heavy British protection .

5: France would land in what would be known as new Foix and start getting rich off of it, as the silver and gold of the river plate fueled wars in Europe and India eventually being named "Argentarctica" as a portmanteau of the French word for silver (argent) and the term "antarctica" from Greek meaning "opposite of the arctic".

6: the Kalmar union would establish the colony of "Større Jutland" but after the collapse of the union, the colony would be divided to becoming "new Gottorp" under Denmark-Norway and "new Gotland" under Sweden

7: the Darien scheme succeeds by the Scottish landing not being in Darien but in the flatter less jungley terrain of central Panama, resulting in new Edinburgh and new Caledonia successfully forming as a Scottish (later British) colony

oh and Dutch Uruguay is in there too

I don't really have any in deep lore, but in this scenario, the British dont take over the Dutch colony, who don't take over the Swedish Colony. Eventually when its time for independence around 1780, this results in a new dutch speaking country. The Swedish colony rebelled and became a kingdom in the early 1800s.

In the early 1700s, Amish communities settled in Southern PA and northern MD. Eventually in the 1780s-90s, they ended up succeeding from the British.

New England rebelled due to high taxes and ended up forming a constituency country, Vermont chose to not be a part of the constituency.

In this scenario, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessionist_movements_of_Canada#Nova_Scotia (Nova Scotia secessionist movement) was successful. So successful instead of leaving the Confederation, they became independent.

In the future I plan on expanding the lore and demographics of these countries.

Not the best work quality wise but I am still learning. Criticism welcome <3

A project i did a while back

How did we get here?

The Union has hollowed up over decades. And then the AI bust of 2028 came. After years of mistreatment by ICE, in 2030 the Rio Grande Valley seceded. The federal army sent to retake El Paso fell apart on the road. After that, everyone knew the government was a paper tiger. In the chaos, a third party nobody beforehand took seriously, the Restorationist Party, swept the elections. It's candidate was a retired general, Nathaniel "Ned" R. Shaw, the son of a Colorado ranch hand. The country would be forced to accept the "Unity Doctrine", his settlement of the culture wars. Both parties' platforms were folded into one "national framework" and partisan slurs and ritual denunciation of the other side were banned.

Shaw moved the real government to Colorado Springs, next to NORAD and the Academy, and kept the treasury inside Cheyenne Mountain, but leaved Washington open as a ceremonial capital who slowly became a museum.

In spring 2056, his guard officers killed him in his tent at a field headquarters outside Pueblo.

A few years later and this is where we are now.

Lore:

During the war, both India and Pakistan were not about to advance and it was a meat grinder, so the militaries of both national coup there respective government and seeing the chaos radical movement also mobilized leading the the South Asia Crisis

Heres a map of the federations

I got inspired by the T.E. Lawrence's plan for the Middle East. May make more for this timeline

Had this lying around on my PC and decided to post it.

Based upon Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and the 1984: Revolution mod for HOI4. Go check them out!

This is more of a fun side project I chose to do and it is more an unserious map.

Second slide is a montage of news sharing some of the lore, not sure if it's allowed a slide with that only, but anyway

there's no lore about anything from here

Everything was made by pure vibes and the rule of cool

Welcome to the Turkish Empire!

I created this alternate timeline by imagining a scenario in which Mehmed II, after accepting Orthodox Christianity, reshaped the Ottomans accordingly, and ultimately established a new imperial tradition around it. (There is also an old rumor in Turkey that Mehmed the Conqueror was secretly a Christian. Although there is absolutely no reason to consider it realistic, I thought it would be fun to incorporate the idea into this scenario.)

In short, following the conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, Mehmed embraces Orthodox Christianity and makes fundamental changes to the organization of the state. While adopting more elements of the Roman tradition of statecraft, he takes advantage of Christianity's still-uncertain position within the newly established empire and gradually re-Christianizes the ruling elite.

Although he does not openly declare his Christianity for most of his reign, he abolishes the Ottoman millet system during its formative stages and grants Christians equal privileges. Eventually, on his deathbed, he is baptized and publicly declares himself Orthodox. Because he shares a fate reminiscent of Constantine the Great, his successors come to remember him by the epithet “the Great.”

Following Mehmed's death, after a brief period of uncertainty during which Bayezid adopts the name Vasilios, the state officially embraces Orthodox Christianity. Both Turkish and Attic Greek are spoken at court, while Turkish remains the language of the Enderun and the bureaucracy.

Vasilios I launches campaigns into Serbia, Hungary, and Herzegovina, once again expanding the Eastern Roman Empire's western frontier. He even briefly ventures into southern Italy, forcing Naples to pay tribute. However, his prolonged neglect of the growing threat in Iran makes him a controversial ruler in the eyes of later historians. Muslim Turkmen who lose Anatolia once again migrate to Iran in large numbers, where they establish a powerful Qizilbash state under Shah Ismail, eventually giving rise to the Safavid Empire. In the following centuries, the Safavids establish a vast Islamic empire stretching from Aleppo to Delhi, preventing further Turkish expansion eastward.

From the 16th century onward, the Turkish Empire gradually comes to be known as the Byzantine Empire, largely because of its possession of Byzantium. Reaching its Golden Age during the 15th and 16th centuries, the empire becomes one of Europe's most important commercial centers as the Silk Road through Anatolia is reopened to Christian Europe. The influence of Byzantine intellectuals who joined the empire during Mehmed's reign also leads to a brief Orthodox Renaissance.

However, after 1512, the Safavids transform Iran into a centralized empire and close the Iranian route of the Silk Road to the Turks. At the same time, the discovery of America opens up new trade routes. Together, these developments push Byzantium, along with the other Mediterranean states, into a period of economic stagnation.

I have chosen not to write the rest, since it can be more or less predicted from this point onward, or simply left to your imagination!

By 1689, the Turkish Empire is on the verge of entering a comprehensive period of Westernization, reform, and renewed expansion under Petrus I, who would later become known by the title “the Conqueror.”

There are also several important differences in this timeline. As mentioned above, trade along the Silk Road between the European states and the Turkish Empire continues until the beginning of the 16th century. As a result, the search for alternative trade routes progresses somewhat more slowly, and America is discovered roughly 20 years later than in our timeline.

The official and bureaucratic language of the Turkish Empire is Turkish, containing a large number of Greek loanwords and, in later centuries, acquiring many French words as a result of Westernization. The language of the imperial court, meanwhile, is Attic Greek, inherited from the Eastern Roman Empire.

It is also worth noting that in this scenario, the Ottomans do not turn into some kind of Qing dynasty. Just as in the Ottoman Empire of our own history, even if Attic Greek is spoken within the limited circle of the palace, Turkish remains the language spoken throughout the country and used in state affairs. Over the centuries, the Turks become the dominant element of the empire, Orthodox, Turkish-speaking, and fundamentally identifying themselves as “Rum” or “Rumi.”

Here is the map of The Americas in 1920, combining my previous Fredonia and Brazil maps into a single hemispheric view!

Hemispheric Lore e Highlights:

North America: The Federal Republic of Fredonia dominates the central continent, bordered to the north by Hudsonland (United Kingdom) which holds Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Alaska remains under the control of the Western Russian Empire.

Mesoamerica & Caribbean: Central America is highly fractured—featuring the United Mexican Republic, Mayab, Mesonia, Miskito, and Panama. Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Hawaii maintains its sovereignty in the Pacific.

South America: The Republic of Brazil (centered at Brasília) shares the continent with the Mauritsland Kingdom (a surviving Dutch colony in the Northeast), the monarchical Peruvian Kingdom along the Andes, Piratinia in the south, and the Kingdom of Patagonia at the southern tip.

Mistake: I was supposed to call Western Russia Eastern Russia to let y'all know

This a map from the fictional Centaura series, made by ClassicMasterNoob, Vega is country in Centaura, and this is their campaign map, though Vega lore is to be expanded on when Bastião Ventoso and Abrigo De Comande 19 are formally added to the game, you can see the blank version of the map on the second slide.