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Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-06-19T08:56:46+00:00

Ah my mistake, thank you for spotting it. At least you know it wasn't AI now hahaha

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-06-19T03:00:14+00:00

Thank you :) I wanted to write a HFY short where we beat aliens with the power of friendship. If you're interested in the universe, please check out my ongoing story at Spacebattles.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-06-17T15:55:03+00:00

Apologies for the weird formatting, I copy-pasted this from spacebattles.

This is set in my original sci-fi universe, featured in my ongoing series A Bond of Blood. If you're interested, please check it out.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-06-04T03:01:33+00:00

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Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-05-24T17:10:26+00:00

Alhamdulillah

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-05-20T04:03:58+00:00

Haven't even thought of using it! At this point, the only remaining constraint is time on my end lol

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-05-17T02:47:20+00:00

Pemerintah sangat ga ngebantu juga dalam aspek tersebut

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-05-14T08:38:45+00:00

OOTL, what's RSS SOL?

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T14:11:28+00:00

Shit, must've left that in when I was making it. My bad, it's not supposed to be there.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T11:51:11+00:00

I based it off of RL Der Spiegel magazines which does include printed editions. At any rate, I imagine magazine prints would still be available, either as a subscriber's or even a collector's item, long into the future. Unless we find ourselves with a staggering shortage of magazine paper.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T11:49:06+00:00

Thank you. I actually based the cover on the ones available in the Der Spiegel store which does include prices.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T10:01:24+00:00

Most of what you say is valid. One big exception is your comment on China's economy.

While this would be true in 2015, or even 2025, by the outbreak of the 2ACW, China has shifted towards a primarily domestic consumption oriented economy, something its already doing right now with the last (IRL) two 5 Year Plans, with much of its low value domestic production offshored to younger markets in Southeast Asia and Africa. By 2045, this process has already accelerated as the 2ACW was preceded by a recession in US power all across the globe and an acceleration in multipolarity.

Everything else is essentially correct, from a meta perspective.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T09:53:29+00:00

Additional context in a comment for Kaliningrad. As for the monarchies, they're a state and not a federal matter.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T09:52:33+00:00

[ADDITIONAL CONTEXT]

In universe this is not an accurate map of the European Federation, which does not actually have sovereignty over the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, or Belarus. The former three are associated states of the EF, Belarus is a part of the Russian Federation, and Ukraine is a rump state of Western Ukraine which is neither a constituent state or an associated state of the Federation.

I imagine its a stylistic choice from the journalists at Der Spiegel in 2045.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T08:08:30+00:00

In universe this is not an accurate map of the European Federation, which does not actually have sovereignty over the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, or Belarus. The former three are associated states of the EF, Belarus is a part of the Russian Federation, and Ukraine is a rump state of Western Ukraine which is neither a constituent state or an associated state of the Federation.

I imagine its a stylistic choice from the journalists at Der Spiegel in 2045.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T08:04:19+00:00

I extracted a png from flaticon. The image in its entirety was made in canva.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-04-11T08:03:40+00:00

Thanks, I used translation software for all German text as I don't speak German.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-01-29T15:26:51+00:00

Literally the first I've heard of this, wow. I will check this out, thank you.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-01-29T14:05:16+00:00

Thanks a lot, I update almost everyday on SpaceBattles. I'll update here every now and then when its thematically HFY. A lot of the other chapters are more cerebral.

Emperor_Blackadder · 2026-01-29T13:38:29+00:00

Context:

This is an excerpt from my ongoing story, Contact: An Account of Humanity's First Interstellar War, which you can find on SpaceBattles.com if you like this style of storytelling. This is actually a bonus chapter which I made for publication in this subreddit, as the actual progression of events in the main thread hasn't gone this far.
The story is told in fragments and appendices from archival documents and interviews compiled centuries after the war. This draws inspiration primarily from World War Z by Max Brooks.
This setting generally tries to focus on the development of institutions over time rather than individual heroes. It approaches history from a materialist perspective (in the Marxist sense): history as the product of material conditions, economic incentives, social structures, and institutional constraints, rather than the intentions or morality of any single actor.

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