The butterfly:timeline (in lowercase) is an alternate history worldbuilding project made to basically answer "we could've gone to this path, but for some reason we didn't". It focuses on the niches and quirks happening, while implementing original ideas, maintaining the general flow of history (stuff like WW1 and the Cold War), and maintaining into realism. This timeline aims at a 50/50 universe, similar to OTL.
The timeline of divergence is pretty simple: Romulus Augustus would retire peacefully in modern-day Campania and is not a threat, but because the guards of Odoacer's new kingdom (or whatever is the equivalent of so) didn't receive the memo, so they decided to kill the former emperor. And the rest is history.
Major changes of events include different colonization patterns on the Americas, radically different lists of leaders, alternate space missions, different music mixes, and even what operating systems may have looked like in the timeline.
I'm planning to make this alternate history series five chapters, and those five chapters would be separated into a set of pages (not books though). This timeline would span from 395 to 2050 (to give it a much more "cooler" backstory and future effect). A lot of stuff would be incomplete and I have little knowledge on non-Western and Philippine history, so I'd like some knowledge and suggestions on so.
I also have sheets for leaders and operating systems, as this timeline was initially just an operating system timeline (as the completely original TWK's tech ATL), but for now, I won't post these. For now, thoughts and suggestions are appreciated in this thread.
The timeline of divergence is pretty simple: Romulus Augustus would retire peacefully in modern-day Campania and is not a threat, but because the guards of Odoacer's new kingdom (or whatever is the equivalent of so) didn't receive the memo, so they decided to kill the former emperor. And the rest is history.
Major changes of events include different colonization patterns on the Americas, radically different lists of leaders, alternate space missions, different music mixes, and even what operating systems may have looked like in the timeline.
I'm planning to make this alternate history series five chapters, and those five chapters would be separated into a set of pages (not books though). This timeline would span from 395 to 2050 (to give it a much more "cooler" backstory and future effect). A lot of stuff would be incomplete and I have little knowledge on non-Western and Philippine history, so I'd like some knowledge and suggestions on so.
I also have sheets for leaders and operating systems, as this timeline was initially just an operating system timeline (as the completely original TWK's tech ATL), but for now, I won't post these. For now, thoughts and suggestions are appreciated in this thread.
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