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This was a difficult one to make, but ultimately an enjoyable one. This is GURPS Terradyne. You might be wondering why this is in the middle of my Lenins series, and that's because this world is actually Lenin-4. Kinda. It's technically Lenin-4's future. SJG made Terradyne in the 1990s (evidenced by this retroactively hilarious tidbit, and the Soviet Union being "temporarily embarrassed"), and by the time Infinite Worlds came out, it showed its age. SJG did something I liked, which was turn the world into an alternate history. Lenin-4 is the result, only Lenin-4 is in the 2020s. I will make that one, but I wanted to make GURPS Terradyne first because it's far more interesting. I love this setting because of the 1990s sensibilities. China is on the rise, but Japan is also a great power. The Soviets are still around.
Terradyne is a hard science fiction setting, which features a conflict between the United Peoples of Earth (a UN replacement) and Terradyne, a megacorporation turned de facto interplanetary empire. The United Peoples of Earth are much more powerful than the UN, and work more similarly to the United States, but national governments still have a lot of control over local issues and even dissent over the Terradyne issue. I have indicated this on my key, which has China being on the most anti-Terradyne end, and the Japanese on the most pro-Terradyne end.
Now, for the changes and guesses I made. I mostly changed around borders in Africa and the Middle East, because SJG unhelpfully provided a map of OTL 1990 (complete with East Germany) with some sea level rise. I decided to use Zauberfloete21's 30 meter sea level rise map rather than fiddling around with what SJG provided, since that's a more realistic map, but I did screw around with the Netherlands because SJG makes the point that the Dutch kept the seas out. I kept Israel out of the UPOE as a conjecture based on their history with the 2027 bombing. I also conjectured that this eventually led to a Syrian civil war and a second Iran-Iraq War[1], which gave me an excuse to mess around with the borders there. The sourcebook also mentions regional wars in Eastern Africa, Central Asia, Central America and the Middle East, so it's not like I'm violating some enforced "no more war in the future" thing. A lot of the Martian settlements are conjecture, save for Uruk and Lowell. As are the continued existence of Tranquility Station and Zhukov Base, and that Japanese base. I made Brazil one of the more powerful Earth-based powers, creating a Lusophone/Hispanophone alliance system around them. I kept Yugoslavia together, and kept Namibia in South Africa, which is more to indicate it's an alternate history than it is to match the 1990s origin of the map. I also left some countries out of the UPOE, to indicate that this isn't some united humankind future.
[1] I thought this makes more sense from a 1990s perspective. More inter-Middle East conflicts, no 9/11, War on Terror, "Mission Accomplished," bombing weddings with drones and ISIS crap.
Terradyne is a hard science fiction setting, which features a conflict between the United Peoples of Earth (a UN replacement) and Terradyne, a megacorporation turned de facto interplanetary empire. The United Peoples of Earth are much more powerful than the UN, and work more similarly to the United States, but national governments still have a lot of control over local issues and even dissent over the Terradyne issue. I have indicated this on my key, which has China being on the most anti-Terradyne end, and the Japanese on the most pro-Terradyne end.
Now, for the changes and guesses I made. I mostly changed around borders in Africa and the Middle East, because SJG unhelpfully provided a map of OTL 1990 (complete with East Germany) with some sea level rise. I decided to use Zauberfloete21's 30 meter sea level rise map rather than fiddling around with what SJG provided, since that's a more realistic map, but I did screw around with the Netherlands because SJG makes the point that the Dutch kept the seas out. I kept Israel out of the UPOE as a conjecture based on their history with the 2027 bombing. I also conjectured that this eventually led to a Syrian civil war and a second Iran-Iraq War[1], which gave me an excuse to mess around with the borders there. The sourcebook also mentions regional wars in Eastern Africa, Central Asia, Central America and the Middle East, so it's not like I'm violating some enforced "no more war in the future" thing. A lot of the Martian settlements are conjecture, save for Uruk and Lowell. As are the continued existence of Tranquility Station and Zhukov Base, and that Japanese base. I made Brazil one of the more powerful Earth-based powers, creating a Lusophone/Hispanophone alliance system around them. I kept Yugoslavia together, and kept Namibia in South Africa, which is more to indicate it's an alternate history than it is to match the 1990s origin of the map. I also left some countries out of the UPOE, to indicate that this isn't some united humankind future.
[1] I thought this makes more sense from a 1990s perspective. More inter-Middle East conflicts, no 9/11, War on Terror, "Mission Accomplished," bombing weddings with drones and ISIS crap.
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I had been wondering what the new Mars looked like. I hope you are OK with me linking to your maps on the blog: https://transhumanspace.blogspot.com/2020/07/gurps-terradyne.html