Twilight of the Anthropocene Wiki

Twilight of the Anthropocene is an Alternative History Mod for the game, Hearts of Iron IV.

The year is 2021, and a new era for humanity looms on the horizon, but how human it 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 on this and develops the first proto-transistor. While it takes a while for this technology to be thoroughly utilised, its first use-case is in the sporadic adoption of desktop calculator units during WWI, primarily developed to assist in calculations for artillery. This is just the start in the development of 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, 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 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: pocket-sized supercomputers; holiday adventures to the Moon; integrated phygital interfaces mark “Smart Cities” the world over; cybernetic and genetic alterations as the fashions-de-jour; robotized police and military units; and new opportunities of resource extraction found in the capture and mining of asteroids in 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.