VicMage Earth update
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camwynBought the Replogle globe yesterday, got it home, and carved the holes. I now have the globe mounted properly for VicMage purposes. The continents are all staying exactly where they are in our world, because I am having enough trouble painting over stuff without obscuring the names I need that I do not want to slice things off and reposition them, but for now it's a decent reference. . .
Thanks to the wonders of Testors Aluminum colour, all of Siberia east of central Mongolia now lies beneath the ocean, except for a few islands. Kamchatka's definitely gone - sorry, Risk fans. No attacking the Westlands through that peninsula for you. Korea is floating around loose. The Japanese island chain has been successfully shattered, with Honshu taking the brunt of it; they're in about five or six pieces. Kiss the Indochina peninsula and most of the island of Sumatra goodbye, the only thing left in that region is a bit of northern Vietnam and Laos that forms the Kingdom of Annam. The Borneo portion of the island that features Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei has been sunk, as has the island of Mindanao and quite a few of the other smaller islands. Other bits of Indonesia get to stay, though. Nothing like a good island chain for pirate raids*.
Manchuria lies at the bottom of the ocean now, too, except for a few bits around the Inner Mongolia region. Mongolia itself is all above water. Most of Tibet is beneath the waves, having been violently subducted under the Indian continental plate during the original quake. Lhasa's definitely gone, but there's a few cities still available. Nepal's still there, although its geography is almost entirely vertical. Annapurna has been subtitled 'Olympus' and Everest's English name has been painted over, replaced with Chomolungma. Dots of Testors Lime Gold indicate where parts of China are still above water; I'm not very happy with that part of the paint job, but it was the best I could do, and it's only a rough reference anyway. Hainan and Taiwan Islands are both above water, although Taiwan is a bit smaller than it used to be. The non-Chinese names for Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong have been painted over. Beijing's gone and Nanjing has been renamed, since it no longer qualifies as the 'southern capital'. Xi'an was renamed to Chang'an, although the quake means that it's a couple hundred miles from where it used to be.
According to the general arrangement of things, the Empire is a pretty damn warm place. Sanxing Province, the former Sichuan region, is reasonably close to the same latitude as our world's Sri Lanka, unless I miss my guess. It's not gonna be snowing very often in Chang'an, either. Other parts of the Empire have cooler climates, but it'll take me a while to work it all out and relabel the globe for latitude and longitude... I will note, though, that it's a good thing Tibet and the neighbouring countries have been pushed to such obscenely high altitudes, because I posited snowy mountains and woolly antelope hunting and yaks, and the equator runs through FSCKING BHUTAN. Right spang through Thimphu. At least this explains the old elephant sacrifices in pre-Cataclysm Sanxing.
I'm sure there's plenty more to muck with, but my room's not all that well ventilated and I didn't want to breathe the fumes any more last night.
*Everything's better with pirates. Everything is also better with monkeys. Pirates with monkeys are exponentially better than either pirates or monkeys alone. Giant robots also make things better. Monkeys who are ALSO pirates are even better than ordinary pirates with monkeys. Monkey pirates who pilot giant robots are almost infinitely better than either pirates with monkeys or pirates with giant robots or ordinary monkeys with giant robots. Just so you know.
Thanks to the wonders of Testors Aluminum colour, all of Siberia east of central Mongolia now lies beneath the ocean, except for a few islands. Kamchatka's definitely gone - sorry, Risk fans. No attacking the Westlands through that peninsula for you. Korea is floating around loose. The Japanese island chain has been successfully shattered, with Honshu taking the brunt of it; they're in about five or six pieces. Kiss the Indochina peninsula and most of the island of Sumatra goodbye, the only thing left in that region is a bit of northern Vietnam and Laos that forms the Kingdom of Annam. The Borneo portion of the island that features Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei has been sunk, as has the island of Mindanao and quite a few of the other smaller islands. Other bits of Indonesia get to stay, though. Nothing like a good island chain for pirate raids*.
Manchuria lies at the bottom of the ocean now, too, except for a few bits around the Inner Mongolia region. Mongolia itself is all above water. Most of Tibet is beneath the waves, having been violently subducted under the Indian continental plate during the original quake. Lhasa's definitely gone, but there's a few cities still available. Nepal's still there, although its geography is almost entirely vertical. Annapurna has been subtitled 'Olympus' and Everest's English name has been painted over, replaced with Chomolungma. Dots of Testors Lime Gold indicate where parts of China are still above water; I'm not very happy with that part of the paint job, but it was the best I could do, and it's only a rough reference anyway. Hainan and Taiwan Islands are both above water, although Taiwan is a bit smaller than it used to be. The non-Chinese names for Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong have been painted over. Beijing's gone and Nanjing has been renamed, since it no longer qualifies as the 'southern capital'. Xi'an was renamed to Chang'an, although the quake means that it's a couple hundred miles from where it used to be.
According to the general arrangement of things, the Empire is a pretty damn warm place. Sanxing Province, the former Sichuan region, is reasonably close to the same latitude as our world's Sri Lanka, unless I miss my guess. It's not gonna be snowing very often in Chang'an, either. Other parts of the Empire have cooler climates, but it'll take me a while to work it all out and relabel the globe for latitude and longitude... I will note, though, that it's a good thing Tibet and the neighbouring countries have been pushed to such obscenely high altitudes, because I posited snowy mountains and woolly antelope hunting and yaks, and the equator runs through FSCKING BHUTAN. Right spang through Thimphu. At least this explains the old elephant sacrifices in pre-Cataclysm Sanxing.
I'm sure there's plenty more to muck with, but my room's not all that well ventilated and I didn't want to breathe the fumes any more last night.
*Everything's better with pirates. Everything is also better with monkeys. Pirates with monkeys are exponentially better than either pirates or monkeys alone. Giant robots also make things better. Monkeys who are ALSO pirates are even better than ordinary pirates with monkeys. Monkey pirates who pilot giant robots are almost infinitely better than either pirates with monkeys or pirates with giant robots or ordinary monkeys with giant robots. Just so you know.
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Date: 2002-08-23 08:55 am (UTC)Re: Question
Date: 2002-08-23 09:12 am (UTC)Where are the photos?
Date: 2002-08-23 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: Where are the photos?
Date: 2002-08-23 06:27 pm (UTC)