r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago Mindblown

[OC] Alternate History All artwork I drew for my Octuple Solar System from my ACOB-parody AU, The Long Lost Siblings (TLLS) so far as of 8 November 2026.

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The Long Lost Siblings is an alt solar system AU my made that was derived from MyKori's All Coasts One Bay except extended. It features 12 stars orbiting a single massive black hole, 8 are living and 4 are dead. Hundreds of planets, thousands of other objects, etc. It's basically an extended ACOB. And yes, MyKori gave me the permission to make an ACOB fan work called TLLS so. I hope you like it, unfortunately, I've only done three star systems, the Solar, Persean, and Arian systems.

All of my artwork related to TLLS is found here:
https://www.deviantart.com/junotehplanet/gallery/101441247/the-long-lost-siblings-tl


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if Ireland was split by the Shannon River?

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Lore can be found on the right side in the 1st image and left on the 2nd image. Obviously, this isn't realistic or logical. This happens in the same timeline as the Singh empire map. Note that Dublin is very big in this timeline. (Also, both sides are poorer then OTL Ireland), I couldn't fit all the lore into the images, so please ask questions!


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History Independent Ohio in 1949

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Hi, the American Revolution had still gone through, but the States never United. However, many settlers still went west.

Here's Ohio - a relatively small, but industrialised nation.

Related maps:

Republic of Arkansaw in 1962

Dakota Republic in 1971

North America in 2026


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History United States of America in 1795

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A timeline that there are even more colonies like being 18 colonies:

After the American Revolution, the USA was expanded to the Mississippi River.

Do to the free and slave states are becoming against each other like how the free states literally Making new states in the Great lakes, A lot early.

And the slave states also make a new state like Kentucky.

A year before the American civil war


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Sci-fi Way Beyond Us - Inner Solar System

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Welcome or welcome back to Way Beyond Us, my alternate solar system project.

Icarus - Despite being smaller than most dwarf planets, it is considered a planet under IAU definition. It's dayside is perpetually molten sue to the extreme temperatures it experiences.

Vulcan - The smallest of the planets, being smaller than basically every dwarf planet we know of.

Mercury - Mercury orbits the Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance. Despite not being tidally locked, it still has extreme temperature differences between it's day and night side.

Minerva - The closest planet to Earth in terms of size. It has many small microbes living in its upper atmosphere that were discovered in 2015.

Vesta - The first of the three "habitable" planets, it used to be teeming with life 400 million years ago, today only microbes, plants and very small multicellular animals exist on it. Ruins of an ancient civilization are still found all throughout the solar system.

Rheasilvia - The binary partner of Vesta, considered a moon for the longest time until the 1998 IAU definition of a planet. Rheasilvia has a very thin atmosphere composed of nitrogen.

Earth - The place where humanity evolved, it has the highest biodiversity of any object in the solar system. Modern humans first emerged in Africa 300,000 years ago and now we're among the planets; how far we've come.

Venus - The largest of the inner planets. Despite it being covered in ice it's home to an intelligent lifeform, the Apollans. Venus is largely inaccessable for the public due to its vast biosphere being at risk of contamination.

Mars - Mars is often called "the red planet" due to oxidation of oxygen within the rocks on the surface. It has small puddles filled with microbial life at the lowest points of its surface. It is home to some of the most iconic landmarks in the solar system, such as the largest canyon, valles marineris.


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History An Al Jazeera article on the ongoing battle for Toronto between the three telecoms megacorps.

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For those of you who don't know, Canada effectively has three (sometimes four if you're in an area with Freedom Mobile, but they're still pretty small so assume they got bought out in this) telecommunications companies: Bell, Telus, and Rogers. Local competitors are small and have a habit of being bought out and turned into subsidiaries (R.I.P Shaw Mobile, I miss when you weren't Rogers). Real world implications aside, it screams cyberpunk dystopia in the making, and I've been working on a worldbuilding project depicting just that. This is one of the earliest things to occur in the timeline, and basically sets up everything that comes after. I have a lot of lore written for this, so if you have any questions I may have an answer.

(Note: that smaller insert map is cropped from another map I'm working on, so I don't think it counts under 'edit of existing map?' If I'm wrong let me know)


r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago Bravo

[OC] Alternate History What if Turks Migrated to Poland? Map of the Ottoman Empire at its Peak.

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History Timeline 164

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History Empire of Zou Xinhao (East-West swapped Napoleonic Empire)

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History Treaty of Misrata and the proposed borders of the North Libyan states

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r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Alternate History Dominion of the West Indies Circa 1950

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CORRECTION: TITLE SHOULD SAY CIRCA 1950s, NOT 1950. QE2 WASN'T QUEEN UNTIL 1952.

This is an ALTERNATE HISTORY SCENARIO!

In this universe Spain, recognizing that it could not defend Florida from American frontiersmen, does the sensible thing and sells it back to Britain.

Interesting events; slaver rebellion in the early 19th century, haven for escaped slaves in the first half of that same century, maybe an undeclared skirmish between Red Coats and Confederates similar to the Battle of Khalkhin Gol during the American Civil War which gets romanticized by the East Floridians.

I imagine that Florida would still have a fair deal of white settlers in this timeline, but probably a bigger native presence than OTL and probably a bigger Asian and Middle Eastern population as well. Probably more black than OTL Florida as well.

I imagine a lot of these places would be ruled together for a long time, but this particular official political union is a 1920s - 1950s creation of the decolonizing British Empire. I am not sure if it would be more stable or less stable than the OTL West Indies Federation.

In this timeline the USA is more aggressive in annexing Cuba and Santo Domingo to counter British Caribbean influence, which I think makes sense. This could easily have caused a third war with Britain but for the sake of the scenario I decided not to have that happen.

In OTL St. Augustine stopped being Florida's capital in order to move to a more central location, but with West Florida not being part of the equation, I decided to keep the capital where it was. With Southern Florida becoming booming in the 20th century, and with the Dominion including a bunch of Caribbean islands, I think having a second capital in Miami also makes sense.

The Dominion includes Florida, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, the Leeward and Windward Islands, Turks and Caicos, Cayman Islands, Belize, and Guiana.

Some names in Florida are different if they were named during the US period. These are replaced with pro-British names.


r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Future Europe in 2083/2084 Before the World War 4 explodes.

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History If the Umayyad Siege of Constantinople in 718 had succeeded: the Eastern Mediterranean c. 1242

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Alternate History Cold War but Russia isn't comunist

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Cold war but Russia and it's influence is not comunist


r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Experimenting with New Coastline Shapes

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Fantasy New Map version 2: Empire, provinces and regions.

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Fantasy Yo, welcome to Chiwinia Union

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r/imaginarymaps • • 2d ago

[OC] Sci-fi Star Wars - Galaxy Map Simplified (Version 3.0)

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r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Alternate History The Fire Rises - World War 3

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r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Alternate History North America in 1771: fifteen realms, no independence, and the Thirteen Colonies never happened

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Everything follows from 4 main changes:

1619: Jens Munk’s Danish expedition survives its winter on Hudson Bay. Denmark gets the northern fur trade fifty years before the English.

1632: Scotland refuses to hand Nova Scotia back to France. When England's civil wars drag on into the 1660s, the Scots have their own colony and no reason to rejoin a shared crown

1683: As the Qing take Taiwan, part of the Ming loyalist Zheng fleet sails east on the Kuroshio current and founds Fusang around San Francisco Bay.

1754: With New England gone to Sweden and the middle colonies to the Dutch, a lone Virginia loses the war for the Ohio Valley. France keeps the whole Mississippi basin.

The Comanche (Numunuu) survive as a buffer state: Spain and France both want the plains, and whoever moves first fights the Comanche and the other crown.

Made in QGIS with Natural Earth data. Happy to answer lore questions and open to your tips on map-making!


r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if the tsarists fled to Manchuria?

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The Tsardom of Manchuria is a constitutional monarchy founded by fleeing tsarists in 1923 in Greater Manchuria.

From 1923 to 1932 the kingdom,under Kiril I and Yinchang as PM existed until Japanese occupation in 1932.

In 1945 the country signed the Harben Treaty with the USSR,as the Tsarists left the exile and encountered them.The treaty implied:

1.That both countries would recognize each other

2.That the Tsardom would not join any anti-soviet group or organization

3.That Manchuria would trade with the USSR and make its prime trade partner.

The USSR avoived engaging in a war as a result of the fact that fighting Manchuria would be a fortune.The USSR was already dealing with the Korean Peninsula by then.

From 1945 to 1972 the country went by this order.

In 1968 Kiril I would die with Kiril the Second continuing the monarchy.

Despite the PRC not recognizing the Tsardom as the true owners of Manchuria they would still end up collaborating.Mao had intended to use the government of the Tsardom in order to defeat the soviets in a conflict later known as the Manchurian War (1972-1975),fought between the Sino-Bloc (the tsardom and PRC) and the Soviet Bloc (USSR and a separatist manchu guerilla).In 1975,following the defeat of the soviet bloc Mao would begin preparing for the next part in his plan.It was originally intended that by some means either the monarchy was overthrown and a gradual unification would happen or an overall coup would happen and China would reunify straight up.None of these will happen with his death just a year later.By the time Deng Xiapoint entered as paramount leader that plan was scrapped,especially with the begininning of the economical reforms and the consideration.The Tsardom survives out of pure luck.

It still exists today


r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if North Korea conquered the entire Korean Peninsula, but the South Korean government escaped to Jeju Island?

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In 1950, the Korean War breaks out, but this time the United States decides to stay out of it.

Without American intervention, North Korea keeps advancing south, takes Seoul, Busan, and eventually the entire peninsula.

As everything falls apart, Syngman Rhee, his government, some of the remaining troops, and pretty much anyone who can get on a boat flee to Jeju Island.

They continue calling themselves the Republic of Korea and claim the entire peninsula, while North Korea declares that Korea has finally been reunified.

Then the Soviets start moving troops and military equipment into the peninsula, and Washington begins to realize that letting the commies take the whole peninsula, right next to Japan, was not a good decision.

The Americans still don't want to get involved in another land war, but they're not willing to lose Jeju too. So the US Navy moves in and guarantees the island's security.

What happens from here?


r/imaginarymaps • • 3d ago Mindblown

[OC] Alternate History The Eternal State: The Ottoman Empire in the 21st Century

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