Foxboy Wrote:Seems to be a consensus for JUST the USA. Can we get official declaration of what territories swap? I know at LEAST the lower 48 from "our timeline (OTL)" is swapped, and a couple of Mexican states, but what about Hawaii, Cuba, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the various "Commonwealth" Territories?
With Alaska and Hawaii still "uptime" there's at least SOMEWHERE for the various deployed service men and women to go "home" to while things settle. Pearl Harbor for the Fenspace-setting Navy, and one of the cold-weather training camps in Alaska at least for the Army.
Are the territories that swap just the ones considered fully part of the countries in TL-191 at the time?
The earlier draft of the story had just the lower-48 being swapped out, not Alaska and Hawaii. That left the governors of Alaska and Hawaii as the joint executives of what was left of Fen|USA, including the US possessions in the south Pacific. (It also let the Pacific Fleet keep its home port, and gave StellviaOil and Wonderland Farms some place to make deliveries to in order to keep said fleet running. Logistics were assumed to be organized for the other fleets, but were never specified.) Canada wasn't swapped - that gave 191|USA a shock when they tried to exert power over what they thought were their Canadian territories. No word on Cuba or Puerto Rico.
However, that's subject to change now that we've rebooted...
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