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Oh woe the west for it to have fallen so low.

It has come to the attention of my peers and fellows who come from the same forum as I that it's time to haul an RP three years of age into new pastures. Having lived for two years on the Minecraft Forums - until we got uneasy with the mods who started moving in mysterious ways - and a year before that on the Official Spore forums; until many of us were usurped by the mods. This pet project of my friends and I is set over twenty-years of alternate history, with a already well-written lore. And many of us are here now.

But what is this? Precipice of War. After a series of turns in the First World War the world came out a different and more bruised place. The Great War had no successor, and only went down as that. It carried on for eleven years, making it an even greater war. And on top of it all? It solved virtually nothing.

Some land had been switched. Alascea-Lorraine to France, colonial influence shifted, and the Empire of Russia remained an Empire after quashing the October Revolution and the Bolshevik Novemberists when the czar ceded to his critics and withdrew from the war. The Great Dragon of the east - China - has stirred and awoken from its mighty slumber, and with Europe all the same distracted with itself and weakened has come to be a challenger. And the mantle of the free world is now held by an arguably psychopathic, cocaine-addicted Spaniard with dreams of world conquest.

This is Precipice of War. Twenty Years of actively written lore among devote followers of its own. And we have decided to move into here, and maybe get some new blood as we're given the means to write freely for more years to come.


I'm AaronMk, and I've been in PoW since its inception on the Spore Forums when it was lead by Gorgenmast, friend of mine. I had inherited it by popular vote, and since than I've been its head for the very greater part of its life. I have seen its bullshit, and overseen us straightening it out as we push ahead. And by the point we get it up here, we should have it all nice and shiny.

The RP'll begin in 1980. But it will be a different 80's as we remember. Technology is still far behind with computers faring about as well as they have since the 60's IRL. Only two powers have seen and conceived space: Spain and China. The US is in a state of disarray given its politics over the last twenty+ years and an usurper Great Power is rising in the Amazon.

Russia as we know it, or knew it, is dead and gone. Political disaster following the assassination of the czar by Finnish Nationalists has left the region broken and in chaos. Much if indirectly controlled or influenced by the Mafiya, a strange collective of criminal armies presiding over Western Russia and Western Siberia, where the fledgling Russian Republic tries to cling on.

Rock music is unheard of, these cities were not built on Rock and Roll, and fuck Hitler and Stalin.


Express interest below.
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I'm interested.

Also, no love for Africa but love for Brazil and the Russian Republic? What the hell, man?
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Ethiopia is Ethiopia. What comparison do I have to make with the real world?
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There are a couple of differences.
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Interested indeed!

I love alternate history, I actually came from NationStates' forums. What is the state of colonialism in the ATL 1980s? Also, what of the former "Great Powers" of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the like? If possible and if it is free from British rule, I'd love to play as India. What would be their history if they are free?
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There's a lot. But I dunno if anyone's have the big pop-perspective of it, or care as much as a old superpower being effectively dead, and another crippled.

Though we'll cover that when we get the lore summaries together.
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There are a couple of differences.


I could see Ethiopia emerging as a leader on the African continent considering Mussolini didn't try to invade and conquer it as a result of the second World War never occurring, or so I assume. It could in theory modernize, but I doubt it would be any better than what South Africa is today.
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Bismarck said
Interested indeed! I love alternate history, I actually came from NationStates' forums. What is the state of colonialism in the ATL 1980s? Also, what of the former "Great Powers" of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the like? If possible and if it is free from British rule, I'd love to play as India. What would be their history if they are free?


Britain went through a political revolution that pretty much killed all their colonies and the commonwealth states in the 1950's. To make long-story short: Anarchists happened, then despotism, then they got the Prince Charles on the throne through convoluted something.

France is still a Great Power, Germany is too and back under a Kaiser, and Italy is Spain's bitch.

Per India, they had a sort of semi-successful Republic that crashed and Russia'd for five years. China went in to pick up the pieces, and then Persia tried to do the same with Brazilian assistance. Ultimately in the end creating the Federation of India at a peace conference. The north is pretty much Communist where the South is less-so, but both are supposed to work as one unit and not get involved in Chinese or Persian affairs.

In the end we got a rather incomplete Wiki that may not be up to date with the revisions.
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The biggest (really, the only true) colonial power right now is Spain with their holdings in North Africa. The collapse of colonialism played a large part in the original RP, and a notable part in its successor.
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The only thing really left now of old Colonialism is the weird Pacific islands France owns and Madagascar. China devoured the rest. And I think Brazil, Suriname and the Guyanas.
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And Ethiopia...

I THOUGHT WE WERE ALLIES!
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Dinh AaronMk said
Britain went through a political revolution that pretty much killed all their colonies and the commonwealth states in the 1950's. To make long-story short: Anarchists happened, then despotism, then they got the Prince Charles on the throne through convoluted something.France is still a Great Power, Germany is too and back under a Kaiser, and Italy is Spain's bitch.Per India, they had a sort of semi-successful Republic that crashed and Russia'd for five years. China went in to pick up the pieces, and then Persia tried to do the same with Brazilian assistance. Ultimately in the end creating the Federation of India at a peace conference. The north is pretty much Communist where the South is less-so, but both are supposed to work as one unit and not get involved in Chinese or Persian affairs.

Very cool, I have always liked toying with the idea of a Communist India in alt. history, as they historically were socialist yet never fully committed to the Soviet sphere. Does it include all of the former Dominion of India, e.g., Pakistan and Bangladesh? I would enjoy walking the line between the Communist North and Socialist South and slowly trying to repair the Federation, perhaps under the direction of China.

However, if there is a nation that needs to be filled, I could go with whatever that one is. I'm very adaptable.
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Very cool, I have always liked toying with the idea of a Communist India in alt. history, as they historically were socialist yet never fully committed to the Soviet sphere. Does it include all of the former Dominion of India, e.g., Pakistan and Bangladesh? I would enjoy walking the line between the Communist North and Socialist South and slowly trying to repair the Federation, perhaps under the direction of China.However, if there is a nation that needs to be filled, I could go with whatever that one is. I'm very adaptable.


They got Bangladesh, but I think Pakistan went more to Persia than anything else.
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India definitively has potential and I suspect you would be getting a pretty bare cannon to sculpt since the previous India's were either weird or short-lived.
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There was a Fortune Cookie company used as a proxy face for some plot to blow up the government. Not sure to keep it for amusement or not. But I'll probably change it from not being fortune cookie.

I also need to check with you if they're still invading Arabia in the revisions.
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Dinh AaronMk said
They got Bangladesh, but I think Pakistan went more to Persia than anything else.


Ah, that's alright. I prefer a united Bengal to Punjab anyways.

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India definitively has potential and I suspect you would be getting a pretty bare cannon to sculpt since the previous India's were either weird or short-lived.


Sounds good to me as well. I suspect I will have to do handshaking with Persia and China for a long while while India re-coups. From reading the wikia, it seems India has lost a sizable amount of it's military, which to me is good. That means India will be able to re-outfit itself with more "modern" technology once some shreds of stability are achieved. I also enjoy vanguards and peoples' movements, and India would have a lot of those, so that's an even bigger plus!

What nations will you guys be playing as?
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I'm picking up on my old mantle of China, as I have since the start. Vilage rolling with Ethiopia, as he has since day 1.
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Beware of the wiki.

It's very, very incomplete. And a lot of its articles aren't even canon anymore. We have been running a lot of years, and through those years we have seen players make a lot of bullshit moves that make no sense, and that we somehow let pass. But a lot of it is being wiped off the official canon when we decide to move the RP here. There may be inconsistencies and contradictions in there too.

Basically, the wiki's alright if you want a very bare-bones idea of what may be happening in some places, but you shouldn't go there looking for an absolute answer on something. You're better off asking us here. But as said before, we'll be making some lore summaries for new potential players to read when we make the move.

As for our nations:

Aaron is China.
Vilageidiot is Ethiopia.
I am Germany/Prussia
Gorgenmast is Spain
TheEvanCat is Armenia.

There's a few other people around but those are the main player nations right now. And of course, we've had plenty of other players play other nations in the past, but we've lost a lot of people to a lot of reasons.
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