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"1905: Uchronia" is an alternate history
role-play-game, starting off in the year 1905.
The point of departure from the real world is the birth of
a Chinese Emperor, Shang-Kun, who replaces the real-world Emperor Qianlong.
Shang-Kun was an intelligent, strong-willed individual who opened China
up to the world rather than keeping it isolated as it was in the real
world. (1735)
This increased openness lead to increased trade with Europe.
Because of this increased trade there was a different outcome in the
Seven Years War, with France keeping Canada rather than losing it as in
the real world. This and a successful Albany Congress in 1754 stopped
the American Revolution from occurring.
With France over-stretched, and no American revolution as an
example, when the French Revolution finally occurred, it caused France
to dissolve into a collection of small states rather than having a
revolution as it did in the real world. Most of France's former colonies fell in
the hands of the British Empire.
Because of its openness, China did not stagnate in the late 18th
and 19th centuries, but instead industrialised, and began to send
merchants and colonists around the world. This drove Russia to
industrialise in response to the growing power on its borders.
Trade and colonisation around the world drove all of the powers on,
and the Empires spread further and further. By 1900, North America is
divided between British (in the east), Russian and Chinese (in the
west) colonies. Africa and Australia remain colonised. South America is
divided between a number of weak former Spanish and Portuguese
colonies. Mainland Europe is largely divided into a large number of
small states with weak Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, and the
'Fourth Power', the North-Europian Union, which grew out of the
Netherlands, Sweden and various German principalities.
Over time, and after the World War, the world has settled into a
mild three-way cold war, with the world divided between the equally
balanced Great Powers of the British, Chinese and Russian Empires, and
the various smaller, less powerful nations.
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