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- ==== Welcome to the Twilight of the Anthropocene Wiki! ====
+===== Welcome to the official Twilight of the Anthropocene Wiki! =====
-== The Official Database for information on the TotA World ==
- Twilight of the Anthropocene is an Alternative History Mod for the Paradox Game //Hearts of Iron IV//.
-It has two major Points of Divergence:
+=== Twilight of the Anthropocene is an Alternative History Mod for the game, Hearts of Iron IV. ===
-  - 1935: Konrad Zuse invents the MOSFET, the first transistor, facilitating significant earlier developments in [[Computing|computing technology]]. The advancement in technology from this point has created a significant shift in human civilization by the 2020s, with sophisticated AI algorithms integrated into much of everyday life, [[Space Exploration|significant space colonization and space industry]], and the integration of security robotics into the police and militaries of many nations.
-  - 1943: Adolf Hitler's flight from Smolensk is successfully sabotaged, resulting in his earlier death and a collapse of German stability in the war effort. Instead of a rush to Berlin, the European front of WWII becomes a quagmire of ardent Nazi resistance and some semblance of nation-rebuilding by the Allies, resulting in the three-way split of Germany into the [[Republic of Westphalia]], the [[Prussian Democratic Republic]], and the [[Republic of Austria-Bavaria]].
-By the 2020s, humanity's future and even its own self-concept is uncertain. As computing algorithms grow closer towards [[Computing|General Artificial Intelligence]], and advancements in medical science allow for the proliferation of [[Cybernetics|cybernetic augments]] and [[Gene-Editing|gene-splicing]], many are beginning to question if humanity will make it out of the near-future, and if we'll even be recognizable as human if we do.
+The year is 2021, and a new era for humanity looms on the horizon, but how human this new era will be is unknown.
+This timeline consists of two major Points of Divergence:
+=== 1905 ===
+  * Following on from his patent of the AND-logic circuit element, Nikola Tesla experiments further and develops the first proto-transistor. While it takes a while for this technology to be utilised, its first use-case is in the sporadic adoption of desktop calculator units during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_I|First World War]], primarily for assistance in artillery calculations. This is just the start in the development of [[Computing|computing technology]]. Further adoption and iteration from this point on facilitates a significant shift in teh technological capabilities of humanity by the 2020s.
+=== 1943 ===
+  * The plane containing Fuhrer Adolf Hitler explodes on its way back from Smolensk, signalling the last moments of a unified German war effort. Instead of a rush to Berlin, the European front of WWII becomes a quagmire of ardent Nazi resistance, rampant German defections and insubordination, dog-eat-dog hostilities, and the culmination of the Western portion of the war via nation-rebuilding by the Allies, resulting in the three-way split of Germany into the [[Republic of Westphalia]], the [[Prussian Democratic Republic]], and the [[Republic of Danubia]]. In the East, despite many successes in defending its Pacific territories, [[Japan|the Japanese Empire]] is able to see the writing on the wall and makes moves towards a separate peace, ensuring the security of its holdings in [[Japan#Taiwan|Taiwan]], [[Korea]], and [[Manchukuo]].
+By the 2020s, futuristic technologies - those that science-fiction writers could only dream of decades ago - are now a facet of everyday life: [[Smart Technology#Mobile Phones|pocket-sized supercomputers]]; holiday adventures to [[Space Exploration#Luna|the Moon]]; integrated phygital interfaces mark [[Smart Technology#Smart Cities|“Smart Cities”]] the world over; [[Alternetics#Cybernetics|cybernetic]] and [[Alternetics#Genetics|genetic alterations]] as the fashions-de-jour; [[Smart Technology#Robotics|robotized police and military units]]; and [[Space Exploration#Astro-Mining|new opportunities of resource extraction]] found in the capture and mining of asteroids in [[Space Exploration#Mars|Martian orbit]]. Many are beginning to question if humanity will make it out of the near-future, and if we'll even be recognizable as human if we do.
+Though both geopolitics and technology are both exceedingly interesting and unfamiliar, [[Government Structure|Statecraft]] and [[Ideology]] are give or take the same as in OTL; our pages on these 2 will show you what is the same, Market Liberalism, and the little flowers of TotA's politics, Anocratic Dirigisme, please fly on by!