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Depending on what world you were in, the year 1865 looked remarkably different. In one world, the defeated South would find itself facing "Reconstruction" for the foreseeable future. In another, a newly elected President McClellan signed a peace treaty recognizing the Confederate States of America.
Not all the differences in various worlds would be found in North America. In one world, Paraguay would somehow win the Battle of the Riachuelo. In another, the Morant Bay Rebellion is peacefully diffused. All of these would have repercussions that would lead to worlds no one could have predicted.
But none of these would look anything like the 1865 occupied by one Ander Drumein, currently residing comfortably in the American House in Boston. Boston was the seat of government for a British colony that consisted of what would be known in other worlds as the thirteen American colonies and Eastern Canada. And American House was the hotel where anyone who wanted the latest technological 'necessities' went. The House had an elevator, a telegraph office, and even a dirigible berth on the roof of the building. Granted, the colonies didn't 'enjoy' the airship traffic that could be seen in Europe, but it was growing.
Outside of an expanding Russian presence in Alaska and a Chinese trading city in what would be known as San Francisco in other worlds, North America remained wild. The Spanish maintained colonies in the Caribbean, but there attempts to establish a presence in Mexico, Central and South American had been thrown back by the indigenous empires in those continents. Spain had a trading city on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the French maintained one at the mouth of the Mississippi, but otherwise North and South America remained untamed and unexplored.
Boston had become the stepping off point for young men who wanted to seek their fortunes in the wilds of North America. Legends of treasures, strange creatures and lost cities abounded. Boston was the seat of government, industry and scientific advances. From there, they would go to New York to find financing and manpower, and then proceed to Buffalo either by air, rail or canal, and finalize their forays into the Wild West.
That wasn't why Ander Drumein was in Boston, though. Ander Drumein was there because he was the sole inheritor of the estate of one Nicholas Montgomery, the premier inventor of America who held several patents related to the burgeoning airship industry, among others. What that estate would consist of, Ander didn't know. But as he sat in the waiting room of his room in American House, a knock on the door by a messenger boy was about to put him on the first step of the greatest adventure of his life.
Not all the differences in various worlds would be found in North America. In one world, Paraguay would somehow win the Battle of the Riachuelo. In another, the Morant Bay Rebellion is peacefully diffused. All of these would have repercussions that would lead to worlds no one could have predicted.
But none of these would look anything like the 1865 occupied by one Ander Drumein, currently residing comfortably in the American House in Boston. Boston was the seat of government for a British colony that consisted of what would be known in other worlds as the thirteen American colonies and Eastern Canada. And American House was the hotel where anyone who wanted the latest technological 'necessities' went. The House had an elevator, a telegraph office, and even a dirigible berth on the roof of the building. Granted, the colonies didn't 'enjoy' the airship traffic that could be seen in Europe, but it was growing.
Outside of an expanding Russian presence in Alaska and a Chinese trading city in what would be known as San Francisco in other worlds, North America remained wild. The Spanish maintained colonies in the Caribbean, but there attempts to establish a presence in Mexico, Central and South American had been thrown back by the indigenous empires in those continents. Spain had a trading city on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the French maintained one at the mouth of the Mississippi, but otherwise North and South America remained untamed and unexplored.
Boston had become the stepping off point for young men who wanted to seek their fortunes in the wilds of North America. Legends of treasures, strange creatures and lost cities abounded. Boston was the seat of government, industry and scientific advances. From there, they would go to New York to find financing and manpower, and then proceed to Buffalo either by air, rail or canal, and finalize their forays into the Wild West.
That wasn't why Ander Drumein was in Boston, though. Ander Drumein was there because he was the sole inheritor of the estate of one Nicholas Montgomery, the premier inventor of America who held several patents related to the burgeoning airship industry, among others. What that estate would consist of, Ander didn't know. But as he sat in the waiting room of his room in American House, a knock on the door by a messenger boy was about to put him on the first step of the greatest adventure of his life.