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..George Bush Senior's assassination attempt on Reagan is successful in 1981, preventing the Brady Bill, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the stock market crash of '88.

-Mike <8]

Secret Service agents accidentally interpret a hand signal to mean "Eliminate the Vice-President NOW" as a menace to national security...VP Dan Quayle goes down in a hail of weapons fire, forcing President Bush to get a vice president who is actually capable of doing something.....

Altenately, President Bush is assassinated, the Secet Service fails to act on orders, and President Dan Quayle assumes the role of Commander in Chief with nuclear capabilities...China, Russia, and France decide to strike while Quayle is still asking about the funny red telephone in the Oval Office....

Sorry back to the Mechanoids.


What if the Mechanoids protects all lifeforms that are good and selfish in the Megaverse.

Entropy starts killing everything in the megaverse all of the powers in the megaverse have to help each other stop it before it finishes the job.

Order wins the cosmic struggle...
All planets and dimensions start to become uniform and static.
...and It's up to hippies, punk rockers, and vegas stage magicians to prevent total cessation of all orginality and progress

China and Europe exchanged Destinies.

New Empire Unified Europe in 1490,The Chinese Empire falls the same year and splits into severl kingdoms who are competing against one another.

how different do you think would the world will be?

Roswell...the alien ship that supposedly crashes there turns out to be a mini core node of the Great Machine from Megaversal Builder...only either by accident that scrambled its original programming or sheer good fortune, the node is independent-minded, generally self-sustaining, and lacks the hatred of other lifeforms that the Great Machine has...(it's possible that the node grew independent and rebellious of its parent matrix and in the insuing battle to survive, it was blasted into another dimension)...The node is willing to cooperate with the humans in exchange for access to resources and the means to construct its own factories and powerplants....It warns of 'great danger' that will eventually threaten both itself and Humanity, and will willingly help build up Earth's economy, technologies, and defenses against the future threat(the Great Machine coming after its 'traitor'...or something the node learned of and which helped decide it against the Machine?)...The node is currently helping direct global economies and negotiate trade treaties, while producing an army of 'protectors' to defend (or, conspiracy theorists insist, exterminate/enslave) Humanity.....

Earth is invaded by vicious demonic beings with a fatal weakness....Gold....It is also learned that centuries ago, an organization of European mystics happened upon the first incursion of these beings and contained the first wave, and set in motion a conspiracy to gather resources to study, combat, and ultimately slay the beasts...The REAL reason for the Swiss banks is to collect gold metal to keep trapped in deep cells the monsters' leadership...Fort Knox in the United States conceals the prisoners of war of a second incursion, stopped by American Free Masons. In the coming war, gold becomes a strategic metal, not for its monetary value, but for its use as a weapon against the demons....Hording gold becomes a crime...'gold drives' become essential to human victory...

Then comes another species of demonic beings...who cannot withstand the touch of crystallized carbon(their unstable biochemistries get catalyzed and locked into a similar crystalline structure...a diamond-tipped dart essentially turns them into diamond-sculptures petrified into eternity).

What if it were discovered that certain alien intelligences(like the Lord of the Deep) consider Mechanoid on the Half-Shell to be a tasy treat?

Some more good ideas!

Mythic creatures are found to have escaped reality by hiding in plain sight...inside books....Books, bookstores, libraries, and private collections are found to be massive reserves of tappable mystical energy...

LOL Good one DuckFoot!


How about there was no dark ages. Science wasn't hampered by religion. We have not only explored, but actually colonized other planets outside of the solar system for hundreds of years now.

The Dark Ages never ended...if anything, they truly earn their name...Civilization is progressively smashed by wandering circuits of barbarian migrations...Asia and Eastern Europe by the Mongols and Turks, Britain and western Europe by Germanic and Scandanavian tribes, the Islamic states by sub-Saharan peoples migrating out of the growing desert regions...Cities become either walled city-states holding out against the barbarian tides, or else become tithe-payers hit up annually by the barbarians ...centralized religions become the exception, rather than the rule, as the nomads' animistic beliefs hold sway, and an emerging fanaticism against 'useless' pursuits such as scholarship and science, the pursuit of which 'makes men weak', such as brought Rome down(once it become TOO civilized and fell to infighting that weakened it)....

That's great one Taalismn!


Have we done the one where civilazation never even happened? Where agriculture never took place. We are still a hunter/ gatherer society.

1935----Global radio is coming into its own, when radio stations around the world receive mysterious signals.....signals that can only come from outer space...
Humanity now has irrefutable evidence of alien life beyond our world...with at least three strong radion sources within our immediate stella 'neighborhood'.....Evidence suggests that they are light years away from us, but the volume of signals suggests energetic, technologically advanced societies with powerful radio transmission capability...including a number of unusually modulated,if weaker, signals(television and satellite internet broadcasts), and years, if not centuries, away from being able to make physical contact with Earth...or are they so far away? Hysteria sweeps some quarters of the Earth, while others deny the existance of the signals....The German National Socialists and Russian Communists are quick to claim kinship to the 'advanced civilizations beyond Earth'(and, in the case of the Nazis, direct relationship). Rumors spread of cyphers in the signals holding the blueprints to alien technological secrets...or of imminent contact with Earth....And WW2 proceeds with the niggling question if the Allies or the Axis really DOES know something else about the alien signals the rest of the world doesn't...

duck-foot wrote:what was the name of the book. it was similiar to taalismn concept. only the aliens known has the Race invaded earth in ww2.

anways great idea taalismn

Ah...It was the master of Alternate Histories, Harry Turtledove, in his World War series...He also had Confederate diehards from the future introduce AK-47s to the Confederacy in 'Guns of the South', had an ongoing series dealing with an America where the Civil War never ended and spilled over into Canada, an America that is discovered to be populated by easily enslaved protohumans, and a host of other alternaties as well...

We have listed many hundreds of alternate ideas for other dimensions! Is that cool or what!


What if we were stuck in a world where the only entertainment was pro wrestling!

What if the Russians chased Napoleon all the way back to France and HELD all the territory they took from Napoleon, then expanded laterally out of the Polish Corridor and grabbed, or married into, the rest of Europe?

Time-Travelling Soviet hardliners introduce AK-47s, modern artillery, and T-34s to the Russian armyo fhte time, keep the Czar, but push him into the background as a puppet of a Soviet-style 'advisory council')....

That would be a typical thing for those people do.


How about a world where humans were immune to any and all diseases.

Nobody EVER makes the connection between smoking, fattening foods, and suicidal life styles, and cancer, heart disease, and shortened life expectancies....(a succession of U.S. Surgeon Generals are assassinated by the Tobacco Lobby and fast food franchises as a warning to other official trouble-makers).

How about a world where things that would harm us would actually be healthy! Like smoking cigarettes and drinking heavily would be beneficial to the human body.

duck-foot wrote:

Aramanthus wrote:How about a world where things that would harm us would actually be healthy! Like smoking cigarettes and drinking heavily would be beneficial to the human body.

aramanthus you are a genius. if only that was true.

Woodt Allen---'Sleeper'..."Cigarette, sir? Nicotine is the most healthful thing for your body...."

Lycanthropy is a form of flu....every year, DNA-swapping strains of influenza emerge....The Asian Avian Flu is infamous, turning its victims into birds....some people permanently become birds, others are left with avian features...Other less dangerous strains turn people temporarily into other animals, or into bad versions of the original 'Wolfman'(only substitute dog, cow, horse, marmoset, etc...)

What does that make swineflu do to those poor victims!

I have to keep this one active too!

Not to mention what the DNA-swapping version of Rabies does to you...Or Hoof and Mouth disease.....Then there's the scourge of the tropics....Mosquito-borne influenzas....disfiguring like 'The Fly'...and used as an excuse for multiple mistaken 'swattings'....

Those are some very interesting ideas. You could always use a retro virus programmed to carry out those sort of task. One which self destructs after it delivers the goods.

The Solar System resembles the sci-fi fantasies of the Pulp Era....Venus is a wet, humid, swamp, and Mars is cold but habitable...both worlds have sentient life waiting to be discovered by intrepid Earthmen....Hints that Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn, against all common sense, may also harbor life....

That's a great one! What about naturally occuring portals that allows human to cross any distance between set doorways.

The American Revolution doesn't take place until the late 20th century, with the dawn of the internet...LIkewise, the subsequent wave of European revolutions takes place in the modern era...

I guess that means Napoleon started WW1!

Aramanthus wrote:I guess that means Napoleon started WW1!

Nah..France doesn't produce a Corsican imperialist until much later....He does become a terrorist who masterminds a plot to fly a jet into the Effiel Tower...

Does that mean the french would be ruled by the what Charles the XX?

The Czars fall under the influence of a messianic televangelist broadcasting to the Russian masses, and whose graphic public assassination starts riots between the faithful and those who (rightfully) believe that the Czar had fallen under the spell of a bad advisor...and revolution flares hardest in ...Australia...spreading to the Americas....

LOL It sounds like a soap opera! The Day the World Burned and Turned!

That was a complicated alternate history. Good thing they didn't have nukes in that alternate time line.

France devises an 'infernal device' based on radioactive elements during WW1, and uses its prototype devices to break the deadlock of trench warfare...one of the German victims who falls to flash burns and radiation poisoning is a dispatch messenger by the name of Adolf Hitler(effectively nipping that time line in the bud)...but a lack of understanding of the effects of the crude nuclear weaponry results in a zone of desolation along the French/German border...Suddenly aware of how it has just poisoned a substantial portion of its own country, France tries to place a moratorium on further development of the science(and proliferation globally), while at the same time accelerating its colonial program to move more of its focus, government, and population into its foreign properties(further inciting unrest in those regions).
Meanwhile, other countries race to acquire their own infernal devices and atomic science...Britain and America already experimenting with 'nautiluses'...nuclear propulsion for submarines....

duck-foot wrote:

Aramanthus wrote:That was a complicated alternate history. Good thing they didn't have nukes in that alternate time line.

you mean the shifting alliances. but in reality tis true. todays friends are tomarrows enemies.

Or political liabilities....

That is very true! Very true! You are quite right Duckfoot!

Alien land developers appear over Earth, making an offer to buy up areas of urban blight, relocate the residents, and rebuild the areas into housing.shopping/recreation for alien races(like galactic time shares)....Neighborhood residents protest the vague promise of 'relocation', land speculators seek to buy up(or muscle away) the real estate in anticipation of being bought out by alien(s), local land developers howl about preferential treatment given to non-resident aliens, local advocacy groups are worried about alien business invasions....New Yorkers become particularly divided over an offer from orbit to buy Coney Island....

I think those urban areas would have to be in lands other than the CS. I think they might protest. (At the very least!)

Aramanthus wrote:I think those urban areas would have to be in lands other than the CS. I think they might protest. (At the very least!)

CS or US, do you mean?
I prefer the modern era....Sure, that means aliens would be looking at large parts of Mexico City and Calcutta...

But I'd really like to see Donald Trump trying to face off against an alien battlecruiser(aliens 1, Trump 0000000000000000000)

LOL That would add to a lot of Reality Shows. Ok, now that you say in our or the Pre-Rifts era, I can see that happening. Especially if they can appear looking like a normal human.

And if they appeared less than human...you have the xenophobia problem...I mean, what of gentlemanly aliens arrived offering to help us with our problems in exchange for a liitle real estate...and they happened to look like giant cockroaches?

How about those giant alien rooster roaches probe the earth for years before they apprach us with their little probes which looks like them. IE....... regular cockroaches.

My god! We've been BUGGED!

Call Terminex!

Cosmic Cloud Extermination Services, anybody?

Oh no not one of those energy cloud beings! Ahhhhh!! Run away! Where's "William Shatner" since he's always responisble for these beings coming to earth!

With 'Boston Legal'---Try litigating against alien real estate developers...Thought you could escape, hey, Shatner?

And then he'd sit on the chair that is the highest in the courtroom and then say........(In William Shatner's voice) "Scott give me everything you can!"