Crowdsourcing the Timeline

[Mark Skarr]

Acyl wrote:

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Southeast Asia should probably be simply 'East Asia' here. Mainly because China and the Koreas are considered Northeast Asian countries. There's a suggestion that the Philippines be invaded in the thread, but that's the only mention of a Southeast Asian country per-se. 

Incidentally, the real-world US has a pretty serious mutual defence treaty with the Philippines, signed in 1951, which would likely still exist in IST.

If you're referring to ??, the romanised city name would be Chóngqìng or Chongqing.  

Ah, good point.  When I'm working on stuff, I'm just getting it on paper.
I'll have to check the IST History of WWII.  It may be the U.N. instead of the US, but the point is still valid.  Will read more when I have time (or Bob can make a declaration, if he gets time to).
And, uh, yeah, it was supposed to be that.  It didn't show up as a mispelled word because Word had no idea what it was.
As for "nitpicking," I don't want to over-step my place, but, I think Bob would agree: "bring it on!"  While this isn't our world, knowing bits and pieces about the real China will help us define the IST China.
An important note is that IST China has been pretty secretive--they're not even on the security council anymore.  Right now, I'm just picking up events from the real world and taking the ones that have an IST flair when viewed that that lens. 
As for Australia--I agree.  I figure that Australia will be one of the most important locations of the war.  Which is ironic as that's where my old IST Alice Springs, the IST Mental Instution, is located (hence the reference to "patients" in a previous post.  I-Beam, Johnny T-Rex, Psleeper, Running Gag, and Starchild were all patients there (I'll have to see if my original notes survived the five moves since I ran that campaign).  I-Beam had PTSD.  Johnny T-Rex had suffered a personality collapse and was now "obnoxious."  Psleeper had a nervous breakdown.  Running Gag . . . was Running Gag (and not allowed out without supervision--she wasn't a patient, she was a resident.  "I GOTTA GO WALKIES!").  Starchild suffered from suicidal depression, which was bad for a cosmic-level entity.  They were all, quite powerful, but too dangerous and unpredictable to be let out on their own (it was a humor-centered game that turned out pretty well).