Just read Ministry of Space. The Alternate history timeline is unrealistic as fuck, but it makes me want it to be real so very badly.
Just read Ministry of Space. The Alternate history timeline is unrealistic as fuck...
Jacob Williams
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Caleb Howard
i think the segregation still practiced in the time line would be terrible.
Michael Smith
Give me a quick rundown.
Evan Williams
The narrative moves back and forth between the last days of World War II, the first few years of the British space programme, and the year 2001. The British had captured and relocated to England all the scientists and equipment found in Peenemünde, among them Dr. Wernher von Braun and the plans and pieces of the V-2 rocket bomb. Peenemünde and American advance troops are then (intentionally) obliterated by friendly fire, so that they cannot challenge the emergent British technological advantage.
The entire scheme is masterminded by Royal Air Force officer Air Commodore Sir John Dashwood, survivor of the Battle of Britain, who manages to convince Winston Churchill to establish the Ministry of Space and fund it with a black budget. The following years see British pilots:
Breaking the sound barrier (1946).
Launching the first artificial satellite in 1948, called Victory and radio-broad-casting "God save the King" in Morse Code.
Pioneering manned spaceflight (1950), in a reinforced and pressurized cabin, in rocketplane named Britannia, wearing Leather jackets and sitting in a leather chair. John Dashwood becomes the first man in space. He loses his legs in the process, but receives a knighthood.
Building a space station (1953–56) named "Churchill Station".
In 1957 the National Service Act 1948 is not abolished, but now includes service in "The Royal Space Force".
Landing on the Moon (1957) and in 1960 finding water on the Moon.
Establishing a colonial base on Mars in 1969, with nuclear motors and 700 people.
Daniel Rodriguez
The story ends in 2001 and involves an American attempt to go into space, and their blackmailing of the British government concerning the secrets of the black budget that funded the Ministry of Space (which was derived from looting gold reserves from Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust). However, thanks to Dashwood's crimes, the British space programme has a manned spacecraft that has reached Saturn, thriving British Martian and lunar colonies, asteroid belt mines and at least three Earth orbital space stations providing the country with free solar energy. The unrepentant Dashwood dismisses the Ministry's outrage at its origins with the claim that England will not care about the truth when it has reaped such benefits from the programme. However, the price of progress is hinted at in a closing page that shows that the culturally static Empire practices segregationism; the black female pilot that flew Dashwood to one of the space stations for questioning is shown to be staying in "Non-White Woman" quarters.
Cameron Watson
>Limey cope
Keep dreaming and keep enjoying that American Hegemony.
Parker Walker
This sounds interesting user. It looks like a good read.
Lincoln Gutierrez
Why would putting men into space lead to segregation?
Still, sounds interesting.
Lincoln Sanchez
Ha, what the fuck. Is this some kind of Brexit coping mechanism written by Nige?
Jeremiah Collins
I read this a few years ago. It has some elements that are massively unrealistic, and it just oozes anti-American resentment, but it's still an interesting read.
Whoever wrote this is a big fan of 1950s sci-fi and deeply resents the decline in worldly importance that England experienced after World War II.
The "how the hell did England fund this huge space-project?"-reveal was apparently supposed to be astonishing, but I thought it was rather predictable. It also wouldn't work.
Joshua Torres
It didn't lead to segregation -- it apparently preserved it.
Chase Collins
I read this when I was in Sixth Form College in 2005.
doesn't it end with some ham fisted hurr durr blackies go live in your coloured quarters and whiteys go live in your white quarters
Brody Peterson
Says it was written by Warren Ellis with art by Chris Weston for image comics.
Thomas Ross
Why is he saluting like an american?
Bentley King
lol i just noticed that.
Noah Jones
It's really fucking dumb. Britain wasn't even legally segregated in the 1940s. That was always a colonial idea.
Kayden Mitchell
Didn't Britain outlaw stuff like Segregation and Slavery way before America?
Jose Bennett
It's a dumb comic in a lot of ways. Apparently those colonial policies were applied elsewhere -- for reasons that aren't really clear.
John Lewis
>He thinks this mindset comes from the British right
Adorable.
Angel Scott
Yeah, to the extent that they literally had to train American G.I.s to not lynch black soldiers in Britain.
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Hudson Ortiz
It's how they salute in the Royal Navy.
Blake Rivera
The Royal Space Force spawned out of the RAF though
Dylan Roberts
Crabs ain't worth shit.
Eli Ortiz
Right? If segregation was applied postwar to keep the South Africans on board why would India stick around? Technological benefits that wouldn't even start to kick in for another ten to twenty years? Remember that historically India became independent two years after WWII ends. Did Gandhi and Nehru just sort of give up? Did the Americans and Soviets suddenly start ignoring their hatred of every empire except their own? We get a throwaway line about how the Empire is in trouble but that never goes anywhere. It's just a disjointed mess more focused on cool shots and random political statements than a coherent world.
Elijah Evans
That mindset comes from all of Britain. If those isles had been swallowed by the sea 300 years ago, the world would be in a better place now. The jew is nothing compared to the anglo.
Brandon Lewis
replacing anti-semitism with anti-angloism. interesting idea
Nolan Sanchez
So which variety of foreigner are you? One of the countries that we created? Or one of the countries who tried to take over the world and we stopped?
Some autistic German-Iranian on /pol/ has been shilling that idea since at least 2012 with the "beady-eyed anglo who hungers for aryan blood" (assuming that he wasn't that kid who tried to shoot up Munich in 2016). Naturally bongs on /pol/ adopted this as a badge of pride. Pic related.
Gavin Lewis
Marvellous.
Caleb Foster
>One of the countries that we created?
Exploited. The word is exploited.
>Or one of the countries who tried to take over the world and we stopped?
You mean the Krauts? As in the one time you were on the right side of history.
You also forgot the times where you utterly embarrassed yourself, like the three times you thought going to Afghanistan was a good idea and wound up with nothing to show for it except a bunch of dead bongs.
Michael Fisher
UK was on the right side of history when it came to the Falklands too.
An even more cartoonishly villainous dictatorship ran Argentina than ran Nazi Germany.
Angel Cruz
Well its a terrible story, so of course a hack like Ellis was behind it.
Aiden Sanders
>tfw no colonial bf to "civilise" while he cries that basic sanitation and the rule of law are racist
Logan Sanchez
>reading a comic about alt history
>complaining about it being unrealistic
u a stupid doo doo head
Anthony Gomez
This sounds like Über levels of HÖWEVER.
Isaac Howard
The end didn't even make sense! There was an Indian guy in a turban at the board meeting he was just in
Brayden Baker
Uber is dogshit, and they were dragging it out for waaaaaay too long.
Grayson Richardson
It has some strong points, though.