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Decades Of Darkness is an Alternate History timeline originating on Alternate History Dot Com. The creator, Jared, got the idea from a contest to create a historically plausible version of S.M. Stirling's The Draka series: a mega evil slaver doom empire, built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world. "DoD", as it's commonly abbreviated, deviated considerably from this origin, which is just as well for that part of the world's population not living under said Empire. You can read the completed story here at the AH.com forum or here or here.

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  • Decades Of Darkness is an Alternate History timeline originating on Alternate History Dot Com. The creator, Jared, got the idea from a contest to create a historically plausible version of S.M. Stirling's The Draka series: a mega evil slaver doom empire, built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world. "DoD", as it's commonly abbreviated, deviated considerably from this origin, which is just as well for that part of the world's population not living under said Empire. You can read the completed story here at the AH.com forum or here or here.
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  • Decades Of Darkness is an Alternate History timeline originating on Alternate History Dot Com. The creator, Jared, got the idea from a contest to create a historically plausible version of S.M. Stirling's The Draka series: a mega evil slaver doom empire, built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world. "DoD", as it's commonly abbreviated, deviated considerably from this origin, which is just as well for that part of the world's population not living under said Empire. In a dark twist on the values which America holds so dear, this empire is in fact the United States. The tale begins as a strategically timed heart attack kills off Thomas Jefferson at the worst moment of the historical New England separatist movement in 1809. The bumbling James Madison, his successor, gets into a war with Great Britain and the New England rebels in 1811 and loses handily. Since New England was the center of abolitionist ideology in our world, its secession from the Union swings the political balance in favor of slavery advocates. From here on, the timeline somehow manages to become broader in scope until it is global, while at the same time getting more and more detailed. It ends in 1935 as the world seems to be settling into a three four-way Cold War (called the Silent War) between the four world-dominating power blocs, the USA (known, owing to its evil, as "Alt USA" or *USA), the German Empire (a mostly monarchist federation under the Hapsburgs), the Russian Federation (an enormously complicated Czarist-federal-democratic... thing stretching from Constantinople to Beijing) and the Restored Empire (an Indian Rim-centered Australian-led alliance) and its main ally, Nippon. Needless to say, much has changed in the intervening time. Decades of Darkness is one of the most influential AH.com timelines, and its style of presentation has inspired many others. It is often cited alongside earlier works from soc.history.what-if such as For All Time as among the classics of Alternate History Web Original work. It was concluded on 20.1.2009. A series of vignettes and a novel exploring the future of this world remain in the works. You can read the completed story here at the AH.com forum or here or here.
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