2124(1371)-2134(1381) (Ætas ab Brian)
From Alternative History
History of Rome-After Ætas ab Brian
| The Pan Asian Bloc: 2114(1361)-2124(1371) | Chinaman on the Moon: 2124(1371)-2134(1381) | The Space Age Cometh: 2134(1381)-2144(1391) |
2126(1373) The recent weather phenomanae seem to have dissipated, although quite a few icebergs cause hazards to ships in the north Atlanticus and Terra Australis. Flooding continues in Thule Major as well as an exaggerated summer temperature cycle in Europa and North Terranova in which several mounting days of heat are eventually dissipated by a severe storm, brigning the temperature down to more tolerable levels for a time.
It is now the time for the CSI and Sinica’s newly formed Long Gua Ya Yuzhou Zheng (in Latin called Pan Asia Spatium Administrum (PASA)) to get back on track.
The CSI determines the best way to reignite interest in space is to begin making it possible for people to actually live in it and to make it enticing for industry. An ADA Science Station is started in June. It is a nuclear powered 3 piece project due to finish in just 2 years. PASA designs rockets to take Taikonauts to Luna and a probe to Mars.
Dà Ming Guó Sinica this year is admitted to the PAB.
In Arabia, the Contextum Arabius Respublicai (United Arabic Republics) forms on the southern Parthian coast. Several nomadic leaders were able to make land claims to oleum rich fields recently found. Leasing the resources, mostly to Rome, the caliphates used both the power of oleum and Islan (the nation’s religion) to become leaders. Its economy was almost entirely based on oleum production, which they named the prices of. The oleum shortage scare ends.
2127(1374) Musa II of the Mali Empire took over as Mansa, after his father, Mansa Mari Diata II died. Musa II did as much as he could to reverse the excesses of his tyrannical father, which unquestionably pulled the nation down from a great power to a regional power, but despite Musa II’s administrative ability, his grand vizier Mara Diari wielded an increasing amount of control, destined to break down the country.
2129(1376) The ADA Spatium Laboratorium is getting behind on schedule for construction.
Zedong Xun dies at 82, the resulting vacuum is fought over by 3 main political entities, the militarist, the economists, and social engineers. The economists and social engineering advocates collaborate to win control of Sinica and by extension, the Pan Asia Bloc. The Bloc’s new policies included overhauls of their economies to base them on a more free market system, and to form more of a council to make educated decisions and advise the head of the bloc. This helps make the PAB seem less like an aggressive totalitarian oppressor. The Taikonaut on Luna project continues. Public relations with the mission are high, the CSI begins thinking it may be a good idea to make a big deal out of space exploration ‘firsts’.
Loudspeakers are also invented in Rome.
2130(1377) an Aquitania ADA invents the stapler.
The first magnetic audio tapes are invented by a Germania Inf. ADA.
Electricus welders are invented
Improvements are made to telelexy mikrophoni. Now they are tiny sound sensitive bulbs at the end of a tube of capacitators.
2131(1378) Most of the Muscovite Empire’s land is empty, the Feudal Republic of Novogrod however, has nearly twice as much as the Muscovy empire’s population with 50 million. The Republic was dependant on the Muscovite crops to feed its citizens, a situation purposely instigated by Muscovy. In the name of helping the PABloc’s strength, the Czar, Dmitri Ivanovich Dinskoi annexes Novogrod over the next year (The Muscovites remain aggressive and totalitarian regardless of Xun Sinica’s reforms).
Gothia joins the Senate.
Also, the principles behind using electrons in a vacuum to project pictures on a glass screen are developed in an Italia ADA. This televisum quickly revolutionizes the media in every way, within just 5 years the televisum brings millions of people to places they could only hear about for the last 76 years (kind of weird that a nation would develop atomic weapons before the very idea of TV)
2132(1379) PASA in the month of Julius has 5 Taikonauts sent to Luna, claiming the moon (though really only to gain posterity). The mission is an orbiter/lander design, 2 taikonauts orbit, the 3 on the surface make one-man rotations over a total lunar stay of 24 hours. 800 000 000 people all over the world heared it on telelexy. Though some had no choice with Sinica boasting it over all frequencies it could overwhelm. The Pan Asia Bloc’s public appeal goes crazy while Rome and the Concilium Mundi’s slide. For one, Srivijava and Manana began drifting to the Asian side, signing a few treaties for trade and abandoning some CM placed embargoes on the PAB.
The Senate has a harsh word with the CSI for letting this kind of thing happen. All of a sudden, the great Empire, which hath brought the entire world out of darkness for the last millennium was second rate and falling. The CSI panicked and recommended Rome’s spatial effort become grouped with all CM nations to create a super transnational aeronautical agency. The Senate approved but had the CSI begin developments on a lunar mission right away. The 3 year old Spatium Laboratorium is scheduled to fall into the atmosphere by 2134 to lighten the CSI’s maintenance load. Guidence systems and atmospheric reentry were the most difficult technologies for the ADAs to match to PASA.
They’d better hurry, PASA has a long term plan calling for at least 5 more missions to Luna and more probes further out into the system.
One Senator was heard to remark (close enough in translation, with only the most important stuff):
“Everything we do ought to […][be] completely tied in to getting us on Luna and […] ahead of the Pan Asia Bloc, otherwise we shouldn't be spending that kind of money[…] because I'm not [personnally] interested in space. […] [The] only justification for these costs […] is because we cannot alow the Oriental powers to beat us into a […] larger domain, and dominate us from the skies. We hope to beat them,[…] to demonstrate that instead of being behind by a couple of years, by Mars and Jupiter, we will pass them”
Also this year, Rhodesia finally gains its independence from Namatania in a big old splash of pointless carnage. Most of independent Africa’s wars centre on resources, power, and the tensions caused by Roman and Sinican political and religious influences. These happen here and are in continuation throughout the continent, forming and destroying many nations and people.
Again also, the modern till machine is invented in a Dalmatia ADA. It protects a store’s cash both from thieving customers and employees!
The Island of Taioan of Xun Sinica had some demonstrations for autonomy, though they do not wish for autonomy similar to Dai Viet or Nepal’s, which were only true on paper. The largly pro-Xun police turn the demonstrations into deadly riots with almost 100 killed, 400 injured.
In the month of Augustus this year, Paryu’s government is overthrown by anti-Roman/ proPAB rebels. Chimud, the most influencial non-CM South Terranovan country, proved more than helpful in working directly with CM troops to prevent the coup’s success and reinstating the federal government.
The PAB implements its common currency, the Yahuo. The Yahuo has 5, 10 25, 50, 100, 500, and 1000 multiples in paper and one Yahuo is made up of 100 Baiyi and 1000 Qianyi coins.
2133(1380) The first televisumi for homes now fill the living rooms of many citizens and with it, the first Animum Lineamentumi are made by enterprising civilian televisum broadcasters. These moving drawings greatly entertain children and further expand the market for televisum channels. Also, to go with those homebased televisumi, are remote contols to change channel, volume, and to turn the set on and off.
Again also, the first safety blade rasors that only make contact in a small area are invented. They greatly reduce accidental cut throuts by people who can’t handle a straight blade.
2133+(1380’s) Just when you though the Pruddai were gone for good, some sons, daughters, and grandchildren of the Pruddai begin revitalizing and reinventing the Pruddai way of life. Although the amount of mind-altering substances routinely used by neoPruddai groups vary and scores of ‘higher conciousness ’ reaching practices are plentiful, the government really only minds that they are producing so much anti-war/poverty/slavery songs and protests. NeoPurddai are much more common worldwide than the first time, though the PAB has the lowest numbers of them.
2134(1381) PASA sends a rover to Luna and an orbital mapping probe to Mars.
Also, an Abenacia ADA develops the metal detector, greatly assisting the Empire’s mining industry. The Spatium Laboratorium is successfully pulled out of orbit and disintegrated.
The last of the free nomadic lands of northern Asia is divided up between the Muscovite Empire and Dà Ming Guó Sinica. Placidia Nipia Julilla at 51 from Italia had been Caesar for 2 years. She is the second female Caesar! The last one was almost 150 years ago. Julilla makes strives to encourage cooperation between the PAB and CM by supporting and negotiating the non-profliferation treaty. AND, she gets an 8 year term!
| The Pan Asian Bloc: 2114(1361)-2124(1371) | Chinaman on the Moon: 2124(1371)-2134(1381) | The Space Age Cometh: 2134(1381)-2144(1391) |
