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I'll See You A Few Years Down The Road - FH Map

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A few months ago people on the AlternateHistory.com Maps and Graphics Forum were jumping on the future history bandwagon; I started a map of my own, then halfway through decided to add in a total polar ice cap melt. I subsequently realised I had never finished my global flooding blank map and decided it was 'easier' to start from scratch. The result was this basemap, which I posted on the UCS thread. I got around to finishing the political map recently, and the end product is above

The extreme climate change is probably ASB, but I wanted to depict a world where the Clathrate Gun fires and we aren't reduced to Stone Age savages or driven to extinction. I tried to avoid a number of FH clichés (and am sure stumbled into an equal number of other ones). I similarly attempted to balance out the more morbidly pessimistic details with some positive trends and an overall suggestion of progress, but still think it ended up several shades more dystopian than I intended, in particular the elephant in the room that I ultimately decided not to include in the legend.

Credit to QuantumBranching for his Global High Summer, whose general theme and colour scheme I adapted for this.
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sukigirlz's avatar

big fan of this one, weirdly heartwarming despite the deep shit its in