Notes

Section I

Major time periods to focus on:

• 1500OC
  • Tech level: 1200s-1600s
  • Colonial Era
• 1620NC
  • Tech level: 1880s-1920s
  • The Grand War
• 1700NC
  • Tech level: 1950s-2100s
  • Era of Unions

Minstos Regional Territories

• Axel Empire
  • The Axeons are a people who are much like the colonial Spaniards. Mostly focusing on trading and colonialism. They are neutral to Minston, yet somewhat aggressive to Amos.
• Minston
  • The Minns are Raythe’s parallel of the Ancient Romans. Minston focuses more on local issues, even though they lead the colonial movement. They eventually become the dominant power of Minstos and end up engulfing the entire continent. They rival with the Parunian States and the Unaverras Dynasty. They view Amos as a close ally, but also keep a somewhat friendly relation with the Axel Empire. Eventually their culture closely to that of 1890s-1910s America.
• Parunian States
  • The Paurs are similar to the Germans in that their country is a large group of somewhat federalized states. They are a warmongering country and constantly rival with Minston and the Unaverras Dynasty. After the Minstonian Civil War, the area that was once the Parunian States formed Ferrudon.
• Unaverras Dynasty
  • The Verrians are a Chinese-like empire. They are VERY heavily agriculturally based and have very few colonies. They are allies of Sovamoz. They rival with Minston and the Parunian States, constantly switching sides, making them unreliable.
  • The Dynasties change over time.
    • 2000oc - Derea Dynasty
    • 1500oc - Thota Dynasty
    • 1000oc - Unaverras Dynasty

Timeline

• 2000oc - Minnston, Axeol, and the Derea Dynasty are formed. Parunian and Amien Tribes are still “uncivilized”.
• 1500oc - The Derea Dynasty has been replaced by the Thota Dynasty. The Amien tribes had banded together and formed Amos. The Parunian tribes have spread to empty territories in western Minstos.
• 1000oc - The Thota Dynasty has been replaced by the Unaverras Dynasty. The Parunian tribes had created a large group of microstates, that together, form the Parunian States. The Axeol government had reformed, grew, colonized, and created the Axel Empire.
• 100nc - Amos’ royal family has a dispute. Older brother kept Amon, younger brother Termas. Unaverras Dynasty collapsed. Government shifts, and two separate nations come out of the process, Veros and Verras. The Parunian States strengthen and bond together under the nation of Paru. Rebels from Amon came down to the Axel Empire and and took their homeland, forming Saxol. The Axel government had to relocate to Aerum.
• 400nc - Minston and Amon banded together and formed the Minston-Amon Union. In response, the Parunian States allied with Termas and formed the Parunian Order.
• 900nc - Minston-Amon integrates Saxol creating the West Minstos Union. Verras continues to break up into Werven in the north, Utep in the south.
• 1100nc - Minston wars against Verras and its surrounding countries such as Utep and Veros.
• 1300nc - Minston and the Parunian Order goes to war. Werven and Verras ally with the Parunian Order. Minston wins the war, annexing the rest of the continent. Minston forms the Federation of Minston.
• 1550nc - Minston has Civil War. The former Parunian Order secedes as Ferrudon.

Maybe have ancient Minston have 3 factions in it, always fighting each other. The factions could either just be the 3 political parties, or they could be warring factions.

• Ocean Planet - Very hot, air is very thick and humid. Only land is small island chain/tips of mountains. Land is rocky, sort of like Laythe from KSP.

• Ro - The actual PLANET of Ro is rock with a thin layer of water and clay. The floating islands were chinks of Raythe thrown up by asteroid strikes before Raythe’s atmosphere could form to protect it. The islands are not kept in place by an orbit, but by a magnetic field. The magnetic field began to weaken around 100oc and completely dissipated in 1oc.

• Axeon Calendar - The Axeon Calendar was formed by several groups of people over a long period of time. The idea for the Axeon year comes from their early observations of Ro. They would see Ro light up in celebration of the Argillian New Year, and set their year accordingly. The Argillian year was based on Raythe’s orbit around the sun. Over several hundred years, the calendar was refined with ideas of months and weeks. While the point in which the Gregorian Calendar pivoted from BC to AD was the birth of Jesus, the reason for the switch from OC to NC in the Axeon Calendar was the fall of Ro’s floating islands. That was the first year people stopped seeing the light in the sky. A possible alternative to OC (Old Calendar) and NC (New Calendar) could be BD (Before Darkness) and AD (After Darkness).

• Ro (After the Fall) - After the failing of the magnetic field, the floating islands crashed into the surface below. Only a few chunks of land hovered above, but all of Argillian society was destroyed.

• Records of Ro - Ro lies out further than the moon. You could easily see it in the sky, but it was too far to see too much detail. When telescopes were invented in the 500s BD, astronomers could make out the floating islands and the civilization on Ro. Ro had before been thought to be heavenly or godly in some religions, and after this discovery, several new religions were born. Some though the Argillians to be gods with their far superior technology and the strangeness of the floating islands. Epics were written about Ro and the “gods” that lived upon it. After the fall, when telescopes became less expensive and more publicly available, the people saw not the beautiful and awe-inspiring views told to them, but a cold barren wasteland. The Floating Islands of Ro became Raythe’s equivalent of the Lost City of Atlantis and were believed to be myth for centuries, until the 1700s/1800s AD when probes were sent and captured evidence of previous life. The Fall of Ro was noticeable on Raythe when it happened. The bright lights from Ro that usually only occurs on New Years, began halfway in the year and flashed for months until the Fall, when the lights flashed for the last time.

• Trade was very strong in Minstos because people had been using the same paths for hundreds of years, by the 1500s, there were ‘medieval highways’. These would later become regular highways.

• Minstos used to be governed in Kingdoms. The Kingdoms were grouped into Clans, which later became countries. The “Kingdom Era” lasted from between 1000s oc to the 300s oc.

Kingdoms

• Astolles
• Cascian
• Varian
• Belmoths
• Mellocks
• Wetars
• Tetruons
• Moors
• Paliant
• Illiat
• Creote
• Deotres
• Conkrit
• Norrons

Clans - Clans are a group of somewhat culturally similar kingdoms that have a very light rule on the lands. Kingdoms in these lands feel that all other kingdoms in their clan belong to them, causing conflicts. Clans are very secretive and work behind the scenes.\

• Meatol - Astolles, Moors, Deutres, and Paliant
• Tendo - Varian
• Kyone - Illiat
• Baron - Belmoths and Melloks
• Taution - Tetruons and Norrons
• Falta - Cascians
• Kilak - Creote
• Warato - Conkrit and Wetars

• Maybe instead of tombstones, there's a pillar with a ball of ashes. People were cremated since ancient times.
• Parunian state flags are like Japans flags. Simple.
• Instead of Pyramids, the ancients built tall pillars/columns
• Minston is like 1800s America mixed with WWI Germany
• Mix real cultures with different biomes. For example:
  • European castles in Japanese cherry blossoms.
  • Japanese architecture in a tropical region.
• One religion in Raythe can be like Greek gods with A LOT of deities. For example:
  • Deviant Art Levodoom http://levodoom.deviantart.com/art/The-Known-Deities-of-Tariel-342616206
• Use Anglo-Saxon/Roman England as a major reference
• Parunian States (or earlier Minstos) can be either states or clans/factions, each having its own banner.
• Skylands are in the Ithis-Anoic strait, between Minston and Tinyiel. This keeps it away from enemies like Great Aerum & Sovubien. Allied controlled waters.

Section II

Technology of the 1700s

Doveres

• Varo-Minn Wall- A wall set up by Minson between the mountain range and sea, to protect Doveres from Verrian invaders in the BD100s.
• Entente Tower - Built in the AD950s, the Entente Tower was a very tall watchtower to watch for sneak attacks by Verrian and Paurian troops. It’s tall enough to see through the mountain pass.
• Bae District- The government district, where the Minston capital and such is at.
• Inne District- Commercial district, similar to NYC
• Ohauld District- Factories, businesses, apartments, homes, parks, airdocks, etc.
• Tonin Strip- Like Times Square, biggest companies, stores, etc.
• Suburbs/Farmland- Outskirts of city, entering rural Minston

Phone numbers- On Raythe, phone numbers are structured into three or four parts. Country index, region category, a 5-digit personal number, and possibly an extension code, and you push the dial button to complete it.
|01-12|42398 “01” Minston, “12” Varia, “42398” personal number
|03-01|97517 “03” Tinyeil, “01” Capital Province, “97517” personal number

These numbers can work for 99,999 people per province. When all numbers are exhausted, an extension number is added at the end for each “round”
|01-05|21946+1 “01” Minston, “05” N Paliant, “21946” personal number, “+1” first re-round
|01-10|19429+24 “01” Minston, “10” Vereo, 19429” personal number, “+24” 24th re-round
|02-02|15038 “02” Ferrudon, “02” Tetruon, 15038 personal number, no re-round

At first, each number needed to be wound, but as phones became streamlined, they added country/province selectors that dial these parts for you. Little cards are manufactured listing the codes with a flag. Eventually, flag symbols are added and province lists.

You can keep a region-code number in the selector if you always call the same country or region.

• Ancient astronomers referred to space as The Void
  • The Aether, or use of alchemy type science

Section III

300AD Aeton Empire

The bitter rivalry between the Axeons and the Aetons came to a conclusion. The war had finally pushed the Axeon government into exile in Tinyiel. The Aeton Empire, though powerful, still had to deal with rebellions of a regular basis, usually Aexeon nationalists trying to bring back their lost nation. The Aeton Empire also had to deal with their rivals to the west, the Warjan Empire and the Vichsti Republic. Although Aeton was still prosperous, this would not last.

500AD Minston Republics

The merge of the Tri-Kingdom into the Minston Republics was the birth of the UnTerra Order, a national movement. The era of small kingdoms was coming to an end and being replaced by a continent of large republics and empires, and was causing stability among the powers. The Varian Empire, the Paurian States, and the Illiate Republics are also beginning to stabilize. The Aeton and Warjan Empires are continuing to gain power, but are still unstable.

700AD The Aerum Nation

After being colonized by Minston in previous centuries, the Aeron people broke into rebellion to break itself free from being a puppet state. By 700AD, the Aerum Nation had been sovereign for 42 years. Their government was a national democracy where every 10 years, a new council was elected to control the government completely. If a councilor was unpopular after being elected, they were usually assassinated. If less than 7 councilors remained before the end of a term, councilors from previous terms could be reelected to rule until the end of the current term.

900AD Allorian Kingdoms

After the union of Minston, the Varian Empire, and Obornia into Minstonia, the western Varian colonies became unstable due to the shift of power. After a 20 year war, the western colonies declared themselves the Allorian Kingdoms, returning to the old 'glorious' system that was previously present in the former Varian Empire. Due to its large coastal holdings in the Andreian Sea, the Allorian Kingdoms became a large trade power controlling a large amount of western Andreian affairs. The Warjan Empire also intervened in the Allorian War for Independence by supplying Allorian troops in return for a chunk of Varian land of the edge of the western peninsula.

1000AD Minstonian Expansion

After forming from Minston, the Varian Empire, and Obornia, Minstonia became one of the major powers of the world. With cast colonies and large amounts of land in northern Minstos. The 10th century was the beginning of the expansion panic as people realize they needed to grab any land they could and gain in strength before the rivals. In 967AD, the Illiate Republics were worried by the newly formed Pauria to the north, which was returning to a militaristic state, and requested that Minstonia absorb them. Minstonia agreed, so long as they help the Vichsti Republic invade Torrovn and their holy city.

1310AD Central Ilthin Canal

By the 12th century, it was becoming necessary for faster naval travel between the Ilthin Gulf and the Andreian Sea. A canal was proposed in 1287 to be built in Cuvea and construction began in 1302. The project was expected to be completed by 1310, but due to restrictions of several wars, the project wasn't completed until 1331. Once the canal was open, several countries who were bared from accessing the Andreian Sea by being denied access through the I.N.Channel, were able to access and trade in the Andreian Sea. Even today the Central Ilthin Canal is an important location in international trade.

1630AD Interway

After the Grand War, industry was thriving in Minston, but the road infrastructure was still poor. Prime Senator Coppenbauld introduced the 'Interway and General Infrastructure Act of 1630' in February, and although criticisms arouse of the practicability of the Interway, the Theatre passed it in April. Construction of the new roads, rail lines, air docks, and the Interway created thousands of jobs for the Minston people. The Interway was a large road that would follow the path of the Continental Web without stopping through towns and cities, allowing for long distance travel to become much faster.

Section IV

Title screen of the Torris game:
Gears & Toil: A Raythe Grand Strategy

• Maybe antibiotics weren't discovered untl the late 18th century (or at all) (concept from Sliders)
• Argillians refused to help Earth nations when Ussaria sunk. Irony (or whatever) for when small new nations couldn't help when Ro fell.

Past the 18th century

• The 1700s were a time of great technological advances and progress in space exploration
• From the 1710s to the 1730s, the foundations of colonizing Ro began.
• In the 1720s, astronomers discover radio signals coming from the nearest neighboring star
• In the 1740s the first attempt at traveling to the Alpha Kohin system after the discovery of two life holding planets, each with sentient life
• Planets of Geant and Arica at constant war with eachother
• Stuck at a WWI/WWII tech era for hundreds of years
  • Atomic technology not discovered by either side
• Somewhat advanced in short range space travel, mostly between the two planets
  • Missiles/Military transport/Fighters
• Used for proxy wars
  • Arica supported by CPSP and the AP
  • Geant supported by the AN, AA, and the LoS
• 1770s, Geant on path of collapse, war lords fighting over areas of land
• 1770s, Arica run by a police state
• 1770s, Minston comes into contact with Yankee Kingdom and re-establishes communications between Raythe and Earth

Section V

• Ansyiel had colonists for Merchant Republics as well, which led to Ansyiel becoming a large trade focused nation
• Bomb shelters popular around the world in case of regular bombing, even though nukes aren't a threat.
• Internet = AoraNet = AORA Net
  • Original AORANET name was the WorldSys
• Online = Connected
• AORA = Advanced Obornia Research Academy
• ITA = International Trade Alliance - A multinational alliance of corporations working together to strengthen themselves
• ITA Connected - Catalog of ITA member products that can be purchased via AoraNet
• No antitrust laws
• "East India Company"-like entities
• (Dan Carlin talking about League of Nations [SOURCE])
  • International community gets monopoly on airpower when it starts to develop so when nation goes against world opinion, International Community can crush them.

• Alt-alt timeline: Possible combo of Darkstar and nofall where nation in old world feels they need to own the new world and fight against Minston's "Ilthin for Ilthin" campaign
• Alt-History: Napoleonic WWI - First Grand War
  • Blue: Arits
  • Red: Four Corners Nations
  • Green: The Coalition of Greats

• Alt History: Companies become powerful enough to buy out large amounts of land/nations, have their own military, have a say in international affairs.

• Alt History (or event in OTL): Something (virus?) causes grasses (wheat, rye, rice, etc.) to die, causes global famine (Source: Death of Grass)

• Iron Mill Rebellion: group of iron mills and other crafts around the country cause a rebellion because of almost nonexistent wages, terrible work conditions, etc. Failed.

• Many drug, food, safety, etc. regulatory laws were implemented at a much slower pace

• Ponvaer is cream colored country that appears in 600BD from old Warjan land. Rival of Vichsti for centuries. Gets split into three parts by 400AD, which eventually the remains of the three segments unite in 700AD, only to be annexed in the Torrovn War. 3 parts: Ponvaer, Illiat Ponvaer, and Torrovn Ponvaer.

• For a form a government, have two people from each province. One from an urban area and from a rural area (measured via population density)

• World Trials (Olympics) either formed by Minston, the Varian Empire, and Obornia in the International City, or was formed by a southern/eastern Minstos nation and that was only participated in by the local nations until it was introduced world wide
  • Challenges include athletic and intellectual feats, occurring every 5 years. It's to celebrate the cultures of participants.

• World Fairs occur every 4 years

• Alt name for Norvein was Novatier

• Alt history that follows V2 Minston with V3 Geography and early history. Ends up with Federal Provinces of Minston and the Independent Okka of Ferrudon (capital Tarviand)

• Perhaps Argillians require a sort of mana crystal or powder to survive, draining the energy from said ore until depleted, thus requiring more. Ore is actually uranium.
  • Perhaps the reason why Argillians refused to help humanity when Earth-colonized Raythe began to fall was because they discovered what humans used uranium for after Earth nuked itself via WWIII.
  • Raythe colonized because Raythe/Ro both have large amounts of uranium which could be mined and transported to Earth, also traded with Argillians for uranium under the guise that they too required amounts for survival.
  • Maybe not MASSIVE uranium on Raythe, but only on Ro. Many other resources on Raythe though. Otherwise nuclear weapons could possibly be used by terrorists.

• Second asteroid belt caused by rouge planet crashing into planet in that orbit

• Unfinished gravity drive recovered from Ro, finished on Raythe so they can move to Geant/Arica. Explains why tech is good enough to travel to other system, but not take clear pictures of planets.

• The islands of Savamoz first had people arrive in the 900s BD. The islands were a group of warring city states, with the largest power being Avalyon of the North Eastern Isle. When powers from the mainland began looking to colonize the New World, Savamoz was an obvious stepping stone. To defend themselves against the foreign powers, the city states united to form the nation of Savamoz in the late 300s BD. By 100 BD, Savamoz was pushed to only the southernmost part of the Southern Isle. By 300, Savamoz was designated International Territory.

• Astronomers note sometime in renaissance era of an asteroid smashing into a planets moon, are able to see the aftermath, causing a panic for a while among civilians. People who could afford it built underground bunkers to live in case of an asteroid hitting Raythe. The panic eventually died down and the bunkers were repurposed and mostly forgotten until the Grand War era.

• Maybe AoraNet takes advantage of technical limitations and embraces minimalism

List of great powers by date

c. 1500	c. 1600	c. 1627	c. 1733	c. 1780
Allorian Kingdoms	Allorian Kingdoms	Allorian Kingdoms	Allorian Kingdoms	Allorian Kingdoms
Ansyiel	Ansyiel	Ansyiel	Ansyiel	Ansyiel
	Alkine	Alkine	Aryiss	Aryiss
Totalist Aerum	Great Aerum	Great Aerum	Duriam	Duriam
Minston Republics	Minston Republics	Minston Republics	Minston Republics	Minston Republics
			Ohrid	Ohrid
Enoth	Enoth	Sovubein	Sovubein
Tinyiel	Tinyiel	Tinyiel	Tinyiel	Tinyiel

Section VI

Unionist Party
Founded	1375
Succeeded by	Federal Party

Countries / Decades	before	1440					1450					1460					1470					1480					1490					1500					1510					1520					1530					1540					1550					1560					1570					1580					1590					1600					1610					1620					1630					1640					1650					1660					1670					1680					1690					1700					1710					1720					1730					1740					1750					Current	Decades / Countries
Aerum	1410																																																																																								1632																																																																	Aerum
	1410
Alkine	1750																																																																	Alkine
Alloria	1750																																																																	Alloria
Ansyiel	1750																																																																	Ansyiel
Aryiss	1750																																																																	Aryiss
Atolles	1750																																																																	Atolles
Briconta	1750																																																																	Briconta
Chiferra	1750																																																																	Chiferra
Corro-Rokko	1750																																																																	Corro-Rokko
Cuvea	1750																																																																	Cuvea
Duriam	1750																																																																	Duriam
Enoth	1750																																																																	Enoth
Eyata	1750																																																																	Eyata
Goddrine	1750																																																																	Goddrine
Ikamein	1750																																																																	Ikamein
Itoliae	1750																																																																	Itoliae
Jeris	1750																																																																	Jeris
Jonpe	1750																																																																	Jonpe
Karuma	1750																																																																	Karuma
Kordiat	1750																																																																	Kordiat
Lucinea	1750																																																																	Lucinea
Migul	1750																																																																	Migul
Minston	1750																																																																	Minston
Nabalen	1750																																																																	Nabalen
Northurnia	1750																																																																	Northurnia
Ohrid	1750																																																																	Ohrid
Pennamber	1750																																																																	Pennamber
Polea	1750																																																																	Polea
Sontirri	1750																																																																	Sontirri
Sovubein	1750																																																																	Sovubein
Tamos	1750																																																																	Tamos
Tektala	1750																																																																	Tektala
Terruban	1750																																																																	Terruban
Tinyiel	1750																																																																	Tinyiel
Toumyn	1750																																																																	Toumyn
Vikela	1750																																																																	Vikela
Zanziet	1750																																																																	Zanziet
Countries / Decades	before																																																																																																																																																																	Current	Decades / Countries
		1700					1710					1720					1730					1740					1750					1760					1770					1780					1790					1800					1810					1820					1830					1840					1850					1860					1870					1880					1890					1900					1910					1920					1930					1940					1950					1960					1970					1980					1990					2000					2010

Date	States/Peoples											Events
pre-6th c. BC	Prehistoric Britain, Prehistoric Ireland
6th to 1st c. BC	British Iron Age, Iron Age tribes in Britain, Insular Celtic
	Gauls		Brythons				Picts	Gaels
51 BC	Gallia Lugdunensis (Roman province)
43 AD			Britannia (Roman province)									Roman conquest of Britain
410	Brythons			Anglo-Saxon England	Hen Ogledd
638						Kingdom of Strathclyde						Viking raids
843
845	Kingdom of Brittany
878					Danelaw
911	Duchy of Normandy
927				Kingdom of England
1054						Kingdom of Alba						Norman conquest of England
1079									Kingdom of Mann and the Isles
1098			Cymru				Kingdom of Norway					Norman invasion of Ireland
1171										Lordship of Ireland
1204												Magna Carta Treaty of York
1266
1282												Wars of Scottish Independence
1333	Bailiwick of Guernsey	Bailiwick of Jersey	Isle of Man
1469						Kingdom of Scotland						Poynings' Law
1541												Scottish Reformation Tudor conquest of Ireland Union of the Crowns
1607										Kingdom of Ireland		Flight of the Earls Plantation of Ulster Wars of the Three Kingdoms
1641											Confederate Ireland
1649				Commonwealth of England								Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1653				Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
1660				Kingdom of England		Kingdom of Scotland				Kingdom of Ireland		Penal Laws Revolution of 1688 Battle of the Boyne
1707				Kingdom of Great Britain								Acts of Union 1707 Battle of Culloden Irish Rebellion of 1798
1801				United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland								Act of Union 1800 Catholic Emancipation Irish Potato Famine
1919											Irish Republic	Irish War of Independence Partition of Ireland
1921/2				United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland						Northern Ireland	Irish Free State
1937											Ireland	The Emergency Battle of Britain The Troubles Celtic Tiger
1999				Wales		Scotland						Good Friday Agreement

*Make one of these for individual nations. Also one for Minston Republics as a whole, showing the nations that became each republic