Topic: murtalianconfederacy's alternate alternate-history Iron Stars setting
A while ago (no idea how long) I designed a few Martian vessels for Iron Stars. Back in 2016, when I finally obtained Dreadnoughts and Iron Stars, my interest was re-kindled enough to try and launch an alternate IS setting. But, as with quite a few things around that time, it died. I initially was planning on transferring the core concept to SAE, but that died too.
Then, about a month ago, I decided to re-start work on it. I had three factions--the Martians, a Balkan Confederation and a Russian Union of Revolutionary Committees, but I needed others. Finally, going through multiple updates (first to the alien powers, then the non-central human players, then the Big Five/Six, then the rest of the solar system's powers), here it is: the complete alternate alternate-history Iron Stars setting. Over 600 vessels designed for about thirty factions in total. Yep, I don't dream small...
Just a note: two factions were late additions. The Selenite Clans and the Mercurian Dictatorships were not designed until around three days before today. Initially Mercury was uninhabited and the Selenites would have been in a similar way to how they would have been treated if the narrator of 'First Men in the Moon' had been successful. But I decided instead to make them a power in their own right. I had intended to make them low-tech but instead...well, they ain't going to be a pushover. Neither are the Mercurians. Despite their presence in the document itself, please feel free to disregard them if they're too munchy.
Another note: during the design process, I didn't know when Saudi Arabia became Saudi Arabia. I thought it was later than it was, so initially christened that state the Arabian Union. Afterwards I found out they were around before the Calamity, so changed the faction name to Saudi Arabia, but missed the change for the Yanbu' al Bahr class gunboat. My apologies
Because of the max size limit, I've had to create five individual documents (the original was 6MB)
[attachment=1]IS Alt Alt-History Setting by murtalianconfederacy Title.pdf[/attachment]
[attachment=0]IS Alt Alt-History Setting by murtalianconfederacy British, French, Japanese.pdf[/attachment]