25 Alt Histories

 I love alternate history, despite the fact that the majority of the stuff out there kind of sucks (apart from that one short story where the Titanic survivors start a floating pirate city). As usual I have missed the boat entirel but whatever here are my Efforts

1. The Diggers ideology takes root in Leveller groups; occupation of land and non-payment of rents rapidly evolves into a popular uprising
   
2. One of the nuclear bombs accidently dropped on north carolina by the USAF detonates
   
3. Makhno remains in Ukraine, Bolsheviks successfuly repelled by the Black Army
   
4. IRA sniper assassinates Margret Thatcher as she flees the Grand Brighton Hotel
   
5. Opium Wars end in british defeat
   
6. Pokemon anime is censored, Digimon becomes most popular childrens cartoon of its time
   
7. Sun has a binary partner star with orbiting bodies
   
8. Indian forces defeat the East India Company at Gwalior
   
9. WW1 continues until 1920; leads to general mutiny by all armies involved
   
10. Ned Kelly is never caught
    
11. Earths rotation is half as fast
    
12. Roswell confirmed as genuine alien probe crash-landing  
13. Disneys original vision for Epcot is successfuly realised
    
14. Great Apes evolve abilty to hibernate
    
15. Ottoman Empire conquers most of europe in late 1400s
    
16. John C Lily teaches a dolphin english
    
17. Zealandia never sinks
    
18. Sergei Korolev dies in the gulag
19. US fakes the moon landings
20. Oswald the Rabbit remains disneys mascot
21. Constantine the Great never adopts christianity
22. Council of Nicaea fails, no biblical canon established
23. Anastasia escapes russia, goes into exile
24. Spartan victory at the Battle of Thermopylae
25. Definitive evidence of a yuletide gift-giving entity is obtained
    

 

 

 

5 Rival Parties

 

 

Intended for Mothership but they'd work in any scifi setting, and in Esoteric Enterprises with a few tweaks.

 

1.  

Filaq- Scoin of deposed corporate royalty. Looks entirely too soft for this life. Suprisingly empathic for managment. Holdout pistol. Massive bounty on his head. Flight suit decorated with elephant motifs.

 

Unnman- Willowy, standoffish. Wields a monowire sword, lethal with it. Collects lenses from laser weapons, intricatly engraves them.

 

Amar- Veteran boarding trooper. Massive axe, collapsible shotgun slung on the shoulder. Quiet, careful. Last-gen battledress, patchwork repairs. A dozen campaign patches from a half-dozen armies.

2.

Mendicant_Emerald5- Tech-priest, exiled for her heresies. Intricate braids of steel cables and fiber-optics, delicate arms branch from spinal rig.

Korz- Battle-sister of Our Lady of Absolution. Kind of a scumbag. Wild mane of hair, mortified skin, smokes drinks and gambles. Hired by Mendicant as a bodyguard, is catching feelings. 

Rosemary- Short, plump, rosey features. Pacifist healer. Raised by 7 forks of the same mother, of who she is clone. Often nonverbal, knows every sign language under the stars. Many many bangles, necklaces and charms.

3.

'Fetch'- Uplifted dog. Tower of muscle and subdermal armour and cybernetic claws. About as smart as an 11-yr old. Behaves like a friendly dog. Entirely too trusting. Excellent tactician.

'Woods'- Uplifted bear. Rex's secound, usually handles negotiations. Wields an enormous recoiless rifle. Calm, always has a plan. Carries Petal's mobile hives on her back.

'Scales'- Various kinds of lizards, crocodiles and other bits, blended into a 11-ft long predator. Tactical cloak, poison and designated marskman. Lazy, only really cares about food, killing and the other three.

'Petal'- Autonomous swarm of bees guided by emergent intelligence. Weird as fuck. 

4.

Jean- Legendary thief. Swaps sleeves regularly. Leaves backups of himself everywhere. The plan you're seeing is definetly not his real plan.

Mieli- Warrior from far-outer-system colony. Ascetic. Very good at seperating men from their ghosts. In thrall to a posthuman ego-thief, who holds her lover to ransom.

 

5.

Lander- Washed out of marine corp. Bulky armour. Practically immune to fear when it comes to space horrors, and is writing an almanac on them. Also fond of eating them, when he can. Searching for his sister, consumed by an alien megastructure.

Marcia- Flouncy, fussy. Corporate nobility. Wielder of the Art- her devil marks number over 20. Despairs at Lander and Zanshi's culinary habits. In love with Lander's sister, and would go do terrible things to save her.

Chilk- Long-suffering hacker and infiltrator. Seperated from his wife, misses his kids. Descended from Neotenic colonists and is often mistaken for a child.

Zanshi- Spent too long in the depths. Expert chef, hunter, gardener and gatherer. Can turn pretty much anything into a meal. His boarding shield and blade double as cooking tools. Heavyworlder, large bushy beard.