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Richard LeMoon:

--- Quote ---The map has almost no specific correlation to any part of the world
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This has been my assumption from the beginning, really, like most alt-Earth games. They take place in pretty ambiguous places. In reality, it could even be in currently non-English speaking places, since signage is pretty easy to change post-invasion.

Pole reversals don't have any direct effect on climate, though. They just switch north and south. There is a hypothesis that a pole reversal is either caused by or would cause magma flow changes, creating more volcanic activity. This could explain the volcanic maps in Alliance. Pole shifts have also weakened the Earth's magnetic field to as low as 5% of what it is today, making it very vulnerable to solar flares. This could explain why there are not really any complex electronics in the world, as any flares would destroy them.

SOOOOooooooo...... maybe one of the doomsday devices helped cause the Earth to have a weak magnetic field, preventing the advancement of electronics past basic diesel engines and overbuilt dynamos.

Lady Veronica:

--- Quote from: Richard LeMoon on April 02, 2016, 10:22:50 am ---it could even be in currently non-English speaking places, since signage is pretty easy to change post-invasion.

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Yeah, it is easy to change signs, but it isn't really possible to completely change a city's architecture without completely leveling it first. Something I don't think would have been possible in a span of just fifty years, nor would it be economically or politically viable. So, I guess France can be in the mixing pot as well. Oh well.


--- Quote from: Richard LeMoon on April 02, 2016, 10:22:50 am ---
 why there are not really any complex electronics in the world, as any flares would destroy them.

maybe one of the doomsday devices helped cause the Earth to have a weak magnetic field, preventing the advancement of electronics past basic diesel engines and overbuilt dynamos.

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I forgot to mention some other details in the email from Muse, but the old world never advanced their tech past mainly steam because they simply hadn't gotten any further technologically and their industrial revolution favored steam over combustion. So a lack of old world super advanced tech is explained there, but it was mentioned also that there has been many technological improvements since the war, so it may still be possible that they haven't been able to create electronics because of some pre-existent magnetic weakening. Just thought I would throw that in there.

IntrepidFusion:
Does it help to know that there are Canada Geese in Northern Fjords? (irl, Canada Geese have made it to Europe)

Lady Veronica:
Now that is something I didn't know. I could never tell what those birds were, nor did I ever pay attention to the audio. Well, lots of things could have happened to land them in Europe or wherever. Like massive climate change(which is shown to have happened during the war, that much is certain), humans shipping them over because birds, or maybe this really is North America. I mean, there is that Chrysler building. It would just be really cool for a whole new alternate world to not take place in New York. So many books and TV shows have done that, just stop already.

Maybe Canada is the ultimate battleground that the war went to as a sort of no man's land. I mean, I live here and all, but you can fit the entire population inside of Mexico City like three times. It is also pretty centered for global assault, and if the Empire that started the war owned the country, then there would be lots of cause to attack the poor maple syrup polar bears that live here.

How did you find that out by the way? Did you do some sort of call matching?

IntrepidFusion:
Pretty sure I screenshoted a Northern Fjords flock once but I can't find it, I'll take another.  The birds are silent but their texture is that of Canada Geese if I recall correctly.

edit: Got some screenies.

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