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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?
Red Peril:
James II wasn't really hated for himself or even his Catholicism per se, the main problem was that the last openly (Charles II was a secret Catholic) Catholic monarch was Charles I who had started the English Civil War by (amongst other things) claiming he ruled by Divine Right, which was an essentially Catholic belief. To most people in England a new Catholic monarch represented the possibility of another Civil War and launching a relatively bloodless coup to install William III seemed the preferable option. These days monarchs in England are still barred from being practicing Catholics, but they can belong to other religions. I am waiting impatiently for the first Buddhist king, although like many British people I just consider them a bunch of troublemakers who should be forced to give up their positions en masse.
Rusty:
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--- Quote from: Turtle on 11 Apr 2008, 20:11 ---I'm sticking with "It's nearly identicle with slight tweaks in technology". You can assume from some of the references made that the world is largely similar (Pintsize's Lincoln and Castro beards, for instance), so I like to think that an Einsteinian (Amazing word) person was born that helped humans make the leap in technology that we have not.
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so chances are, QC is either in the present day, without the weakening of NASA in the past, or set about 10-15 years in the future
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Im going with this. first thought was slightly future- because the technology wouldnt be far off with the right funding, and would correspond with why theres almost no cars- nobody can afford gas :roll:. but then, with NASA staying strong, it could mean that cars are outdated...
and yeah, i know jeph just hates drawing cars
Jepser:
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--- Quote from: Jepser on 14 Apr 2008, 11:13 ---My country has never been named after a citrus fruit. xD
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Jesper, I apologize to you and all inhabitants of the Netherlands.
A child of William III and Mary II would have made a difference. Instead of Hanover and Britain dynastically joined, it would have been the Netherlands and Britain.
What was the Dutch position on female succession? Hanover & Britain's dynastic joining of 1714-1837 ended with the accession of Queen Victoria-- the Hanoverians didn't allow females to be monarchs, so a the succession went to the fifth-eldest son of George III (as opposed to Victoria, who was the daughter of the Duke of Kent, George III's fourth-oldest son). I suspect that the British-Dutch union would have ended at some similar way-- either by an amicable dissolution or a Dutch rebellion.
Perhaps if Jeph has one of his characters make a trip to New York, and it is called Nieuw Amsterdam we'll know for sure that this is what happened!
(yeah, right!)
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Don't worry, it's not that big of a deal. ;)
But female succession only became an item in the late 19th century, when king William III died with a young daughter and a widow as only heirs. (first we had steward William I - V, then king William I - III. They weren't very creative with the names. xD) His widow, queen Emma, took care of all the official duties, while her daughter Wilhelmina was the actual Queen of the Netherlands. At that point Luxemburg (a country about the size of Rhode Island I guess, between Belgium and Germany) split off from the kingdom. They didn't accept a queen, whereas the Netherlands did.
I think the problem with the Netherlands would've been the problems with the regents and the patriots that took place around the same time as the French revolution. The regents were representatives of the different provinces in the States-General, an early form of parliament. The patriots were the Dutch equivalent of the French ones in that time.
Both parties weren't very friendly towards the steward, and he actually had to flee the country ultimately. (It must be said that the steward of that time, William V, was a very weak ruler.) William V's son returned to the Netherlands in 1815, and was crowned King William I.
(Btw, I'm not entirely sure what this all has to do with the QC universe, but history is fun so ah well. xD)
Oh yeah, something on-topic, I don't believe QC is meant to be set in the future, 'cause Marten and Faye regularly discuss albums that just came out in our world. I think it's set in our time, but some genius (Hanners' father?) invented AnthroPC's. NASA going stronger than in our world sounds like a nice theory, but I don't think the car-thing should be taken that serious. Raven has a VW Beetle, doesn't she? And Amanda hired a car once, just to get from the air port to Faye's place.
Aegir:
I seem to remember the rest of the crowd finding it really odd that Hanners grew up on a space station. I think someone said something to the effect of, "You're tell me you grew up IN SPACE?!"
I don't think technology is that different, either, because aside from AnthroPCs, everything is almost exactly the same. I mean, the Roomba is still just as primitive as real-world Roombas.
QC still has to take place in an alternate universe, though, because if I crawled up and down every street in Massachusetts I wouldn't run into any of the characters.
Doug S. Machina:
Well, no. They'd be avoiding the weird guy crawling up the street. :lol:
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