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Somewhere out there is a universe just slightly different from ours, where the same things happened at different times, with different people, and different out comes, like a mockery of our reality.
The thought alone has you seeing your highschool education flash before your eyes...
1952 - the Korean War ends in a Communist victory
1956 - Hungary exits the warsaw pact
1960 - a failed assassination attempt on Inejiro Asanuma leads to widespread support of the japanese socialist party
1962 - The USSR end their support for Cuba, Turkey is forced to leave NATO
1968 - John F. Kennedy is re-elected
1975 - Grigory Nelyubov becomes the first man on Mars
1979 - the Islamic Revolution in Persia fails
1983 - The Soviet Union collapses
1987 - Germany is reunited
1993 - Princess Diana dies in an IRA attack
1996 - Josip Broz Tito dies of old age
2014 - Yugoslavia joins the European Union
2029 - Russia annexes Belarus
2037 - China surrenders unconditionally, de-marxification of Korea and Japan begins
2052 - the Joint European Forces are established
2056 - Demarxification ends
2064 - Libya exits the Arabic Union
2071 - Russia joins the European Union
2089 - The first Nuclear Fusion Reactor comes online
2101 - A ring structure is uncovered in Siberia
2104 - The "Sternportal / Portail des étoiles" is announced to the public
2105 (today) - Founding of the Sternportalkommando (STK) / Commande de le portail des étoiles (CPE)
...But none of that is important now, is it? You don't live in that fake hypothetical reality, you live in this one, you think...maybe, possibly, you've been wrong on occasion.
First things first however, you are about to embark on mankind's first expedition to an alien planet. It is quite exciting to say the least.
A soldier waves you, and a couple of others, through a security checkpoint, the last one before the Portal, where your face gets scanned and matched with your ID.
You are...
>Oberst (colonel) Heiko Drechsler, leader of the expedition
>Leutnant (2nd lieutenant) Ernst Brecher, a simple career soldier
>Jan Wozniak, linguist and mythology enthusiast
>Alexandros Papadopoulos, accountant turned war-journalist
The thought alone has you seeing your highschool education flash before your eyes...
1952 - the Korean War ends in a Communist victory
1956 - Hungary exits the warsaw pact
1960 - a failed assassination attempt on Inejiro Asanuma leads to widespread support of the japanese socialist party
1962 - The USSR end their support for Cuba, Turkey is forced to leave NATO
1968 - John F. Kennedy is re-elected
1975 - Grigory Nelyubov becomes the first man on Mars
1979 - the Islamic Revolution in Persia fails
1983 - The Soviet Union collapses
1987 - Germany is reunited
1993 - Princess Diana dies in an IRA attack
1996 - Josip Broz Tito dies of old age
2014 - Yugoslavia joins the European Union
2029 - Russia annexes Belarus
2037 - China surrenders unconditionally, de-marxification of Korea and Japan begins
2052 - the Joint European Forces are established
2056 - Demarxification ends
2064 - Libya exits the Arabic Union
2071 - Russia joins the European Union
2089 - The first Nuclear Fusion Reactor comes online
2101 - A ring structure is uncovered in Siberia
2104 - The "Sternportal / Portail des étoiles" is announced to the public
2105 (today) - Founding of the Sternportalkommando (STK) / Commande de le portail des étoiles (CPE)
...But none of that is important now, is it? You don't live in that fake hypothetical reality, you live in this one, you think...maybe, possibly, you've been wrong on occasion.
First things first however, you are about to embark on mankind's first expedition to an alien planet. It is quite exciting to say the least.
A soldier waves you, and a couple of others, through a security checkpoint, the last one before the Portal, where your face gets scanned and matched with your ID.
You are...
>Oberst (colonel) Heiko Drechsler, leader of the expedition
>Leutnant (2nd lieutenant) Ernst Brecher, a simple career soldier
>Jan Wozniak, linguist and mythology enthusiast
>Alexandros Papadopoulos, accountant turned war-journalist
