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Originally Posted by Grimace
A time ago, which seems a lot longer than the few that it has been, I was working with the late T.R. (rest in peace, my friend) to come up with an alternative timeline along the lines of what you're talking about GDWFan. We used a lot of real world events, tweaked them ever so slightly the way they "could have" gone and ended up with a Twilight war that dealt with a bit more military build up than what occurred in regular Twilight.
Our main catalyst for initial combat was the real-world famine that hit North Korea back in the 90's. From there we used other things around the world...former Yugoslavian nations...Italy electing a borderline facist as a leader...stuff that seems really strange but was either true or was just a slight nudge away from being the truth.
In the end, we had a timeline that brought us to the nuclear armageddon that is in Twilight. Rather than trying to reinvent or twist the Twilight: 2000 history we just decided to make the game we were working on a "what if". A lot of work was done, but a lot still needed to be done.  |
I remember talking with T.R. (RIP, my friend) about this and he made a good point where a good POD to extend the USSR might have been where the 1991 coup could/would have succeeded if a sniper or two was less drunk and took out Boris Yeltsin as he stood on top of the BMP. What Yeltsin did might have rallied his cause but it is not a wise thing to do, especially when there is a ring of snipers around you just waiting to "bust a cap in ya." I think we could have extended the USSR to even today if that happened and onto 2020 at least.
Chuck