Thus, I introduce to you, the Spinoff. Unfortunately, Shifting Winds wasn't as successful as I had originally hoped (And I screwed up as far as direction, recreating events such as that is harder than starting a universe from the ground up believe it or not), and I've found myself posting with the purported nations not really doing much at the moment. I'll take all the blame, the idea was a bit awry to begin with and then the reform may have clouded it even for the people who had previously signed up, who were, as a result of the reorg, removed. Thus, without sacraficing my own history of originality, I arrive at the point where I believe in addition to a sequel, we should have a spinoff of CCW focusing on the past.
Now, probably about six of you have read fully through my informational PDF. Since I originally created it for RevoraWorld, which failed in about two seconds, I included some fictional, undefined events which I later gave a face and name to when I developed it as a "handbook" for further short stories which never were. One of these events was the Thirty Seven Years War, which, since the little PDF has been propagated without an edit from me, has materialised in Ali's posts and some others, as well as, since its supposed acceptance, one or two of my elaboratory posts.
Essentially, when I wrote my informational PDF, which I had originally decided would be restricted to myself until I realized I had done all the work for CCW registration already, I had planned for the Thirty Seven Years War to be the stage-setter for a series of short stories featuring ordinary people in the modern Atlantian Empire, a future conflict, some recollections of the previous war, and perhaps some memoir-like stories to be put together in a later compilation. Eventually, I lost a bit of enthusiasm for the idea, and haven't started it yet (Perhaps some time later in the year if I get the time). The war was supposed to be a changing effect, something that turned a nation quite willing to aggressively defend itself (Much like some aggressive democracies, and a bit like the US right about now) into a nation shocked by its own brutality, resulting in an immediate shift of the political climate. Some events I have included already in my abbreviated information PDF include the use of incendiary warheads against civilian targets, and a massive nuclear strike against the enemy in the form of the "Tiranian Republic" to the "west", which was originally going to be a fairly large landmass to the west across a fairly large ocean, replicating a Japan - United States conflict on a smaller scale, with the AE playing more of the Japan role.
The purpose of this thread is not only to explain things which may have baffled those who read my informational items, and to promote the quite in-depth informational PDF which I find quite entertaining, but also serves as a certain testing of the waters for a possible, as of yet untitled spinoff of CCW which I could perhaps head up documenting the events leading to the current situation, and ending about ten years before the start of CCW. That means this would include early, pre-WWII combat techniques developed in the 1920s, the standard WWII combat techniques developed by major countries, and later early and mid-Cold War tactics, technology, and techniques, a clear, epic illustration of the pre-CCW eras defined by an as of yet non-canon war mentioned in an obscure document hidden away in an obscure topic inside several obscure sub-boards on an obscure forum towards the bottom of the list of our obscure corner of the internet, which to much of the public at large, is quite obscure.
The mechanics of the RPG would be quite different from my earlier attempt, Shifting Winds, which attempted to force some events and allow others, but will not follow the outlines of CCW to the letter either. First, we will use the current open ended time system, and time will be pretty much fluid. Combat will be fairly closely moderated by myself, and I have a feeling crave would prefer to focus on CCW2 than the sideshow that I'm advocating. If the ATLAS System is developed enough for solid, stable use over a good amount of time (Nearly 4 decades!), we may use that pending member decisions.
Second, for those members of the current CCW who don't wish to play their current created nations in the spinoff, they can either be "given" away to people who do want to play them, and who can retain the same information, ideals, and principles (And it obviously won't affect your nation in CCW or CCW2), or they can be sold off at auction to the highest bidder. Anyone exceeding 50 USD can wire it via PayPal directly to spencer.matt [AT] gmail.com
As far as tech goes, tech will never exceed 1985 tech due to the timeline, so that means mostly we'll be dealing with the FUN parts of technical advances! Like... spending millions of dollars on jet engines (But the first ones with them will... rule), or the development of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project (I hear publishers are already lining up to get the memoirs of the lead scientists, kind of like Robert Oppenheimer).
To make this happen, what do we need?
1. Approval of the RPG by crave and of course, Ash. (Ash have fun in Rome, I'll take care of new RPG approvals I officially approve my own RPG, yay!
)2. People to sign up.
3. An official time-table as far as when to start, etc.
4. Official word on canonization or non-canonization. If the latter, we'll just make it a parallel universe per quantum mechanics
5. Supporters. People to rally the troops. People to help me come up with ideas either via MSN or here in this topic. If you have a suggestion or anything, feel free to add me on MSN (The worst that can happen is you go into the "People Who Should Fall Onto Pointy Rocks" group, joining the illustrious ranks of Prime and the people who really anger me).
And here's to hoping that this is successful.
