Re: Maj Space: Maj - North America - help please!

I am digging out my local history books to tackle New Crescent. Don't
worry, I won't be adding in any Katrina style devastation (Im doing
that in the d20 Modern city book I'm working on). Having grown up with
the old creole folk tales will, however, color my writing. It's going
to take a long time for me to crank this out. The one year anniversay
is in less than 30 days now and things are getting squirrely (I won't
go on about it, if you want to see whats up go to my site
http://humidcity.com) Anyway between that and possibly having to
evacute this weekend, if Chris amps up, I am going to have to be
tardy. I promise it will be worth it. BTW I am keeping tabs on the
surroundings and think they will work very well for my take on things.
-Loki

On 8/2/06, Rian A. McMurtry <Whalejudge@???.com> wrote:
>     I'd shrink Iberian territories in Vinland.  In RW history, they were slow
> about moving north--no rich native nations dripping in gold and silver and
> turquoise and jade to conquer, just miles and miles of desert and hostile
> natives.  In RW history, Spain conquered some of the Pueblo lands in the early
> 1540's, abandoned them, and came back in 1598.  Spain didn't have much to do with
> Baja California until the late 17th century except missionaries.  It wasnt
> until 1769 that Spain sent an expedition to bring Alta California under control,
> establishing San Diego and Monterey; 1776 to establish Yerba Buena (San
> Francisco).  The Russians were still in the Aleutians!  Spain brought Texas in
> begining 1716, responding to French probings from the Mississippi.
>     Albion establishing itself in California?  *shrug*.  Especially if
> Iberia's got a major war going on in South America.  Maybe make a more determined
> move to control Baja or up the coast to the Colorado and the Gila, but not too
> much.  California, at the time, was a LOT different than today.  Most of the
> south--desert.  No Salton Sea to grow crops around.  The Central Valley turning
> into a giant marsh with the winter and spring rains; Lake Tulare still
> dominating the southern Valley (don't bother trying to find it on a map; it got
> drained and plowed quite a while back).  I'd say hand Albion coastal settlements
> from (RW) Vancouver to Monterey, with a large area between Southern California
> and the Rio Grande--perhaps claimed by both but under the control of neither.
>
>     In the RW, Russia came to N. America across Siberia.  Is that still their
> route?
>
>     It sounds as if Quebec has been handed to the Norse.  That so, are the
> Franks concentrating on New Crescent?
>
>     Nova Albion doesn't seem much involved on the Atlantic side; just in
> California.   What about Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, the Bahamas, Florida?
> Florida and the Florida Straits (between Florida and Cuba) could easily be a
> battleground between Iberia, Frankland, and Albion.  Native confederacies could be
> established between the Ohio and the Great Lakes (Shawnee, Delaware) and in the
> Southern interior (Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole), upstate
> New York (Iroquois), plains.
>
>     New Crescent (should that be "New Croissant"?) could be the base for a
> number of Frankish settlements along the Mississippi.and coastline (St. Louis,
> Biloxi, Mobile) (New Orleans dates from 1718, incidentally!).
>
> Question:  What about the Caribbean?
>
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