Re: Alternate history[Here's my Timeline](long)

No, I didn't post my website, I don't have one. Actually in my little 
reality (Ain't gaming great?), the indians regained not all but sizeable

chunks of the old west simply because it reached a point where no one
else 
really wanted it any more, most of them were busy reaching for the
stars. 
Not nearly as romantic as I first made it sound. Granted, there will 
probably be a Seminole planet, a coupl of other colonies. But for the
most 
part, the Indians would take advantage of the exodus of others to
reclaim 
land to which they have deep spiritual ties.

As for the other little guys, I actually put thought into that. One
thing 
that struck me was that, as you race for colonization, two distinct
types of 
countries will be at an odd disadvantage. First off, the third world 
coutries with little technology. They just can't get to the stars..  The

other will be highly advanced countries with small populations. They can
GET 
there, they just don't have enough people to PUT there. So mutualist 
alliances will arise between these nations.  A bonus for the first world

powers will be more places to put launch facilities near the equator.

This means that you'll find usually in my privateverse that established 
worlds will have orifginated with two colonies on each world. This in
itself 
causes some friction between colonies of nations friendly to each other
on 
earth, but with colonies competing out there... makes for interesting 
dynamics.

Anyway, I'll stop chewing up precious bandwidth now... just thought I'd
at 
least put my mouth where my mouth is.

Brian B
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