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ADVANCED CHAR EXPERIMENTWORLD MAP
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OLD; have moved on from this old story project and even replaced this map once. This concept has been recycled and is being re-implemented (eventually LOL) over at Sentient-Aberration -- (Yes, that's a new account).
Updated Summary
An Earth in a dimension parallel to our own, this world has suffered far more numerous encounters with large meteors and on a more frequent basis. The sheer scope and frequency of the impacts has resulted in an evolutionary scene where humans are NOT the only highly developed and intelligent beings on the planet.
Contains known locations and details from ACX 1 and parts of the ACX 2 Beta that was released on my previous account. This version focuses mainly on Eruassia, and will be updated as locations are added in the story.
The map is very large... It resizes three times in your browser, and registers as 8MB. You'll probably need to download it to see the marked locations on Eruassia.
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Cool, i like alternate-earth worlds, sometimes i imagine what would have happened if Franz Ferdinand didn't got assasinated or if Germany had another leader during World War II, i like alternate realities
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I'm not a big fan of the multiple/infinite realities hypothesis in general, but it is still fun to play the what-if game when it comes to finding a way to make something like Pokemon plausible under real-world conditions.
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Well, it could happen on an alternate Earth XD
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Assuming that cataclysm on Earth increases the rate of evolutionary mutation (a theory that I, myself have developed as a student of the Earth Sciences), an alternate Earth with a history of a very high rate of asteroid bombardment and volcanism could plausibly result in a planet with not just one, but several advanced species and competing races.
It's important not to forget that it wasn't long ago in geologic time that Humans were not the only sentient race on our planet (other hominids like Neanderthals, Homo erectus, etc. existed parallel to us.) What if other species had advanced like primates have in the real world? It's not that hard to believe in a world where a Lucario looks at a feral dog like we humans look at an ape.
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It may sound like a pseudo science of mine, but i also like to think about "Ripple realities", a realities exponentially different from each other, what if said cataclysm happened because of an alternate point of impact of a meteorite?, or a more close example, what if you wrote the previous message with a delay of a few minutes, or hours, or what if you did something different altogether?, you did all of that parallelously, on exponentially different ripples.....yeah, it sounds a bit crazy, but something i've been recently thinking XD
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By definition, that sounds like the same alternative reality model that I'm using in ACX. The "Ripple" in this case was caused by the demolition of a large inner-solarsystem object just outside of Earth's orbit early on in Earth's history that led to a large amount of planetary debris orbiting between Earth and Mars. Another object was torn to pieces 450 million years ago and the debris caught in orbit between Earth and the Moon. There is effectively a planetary debris ring around the Earth in near-Earth orbit out to geostationary and lunar orbit distances. Perturbations in the orbits of these objects send them into the planet's gravity well often (every 100,000 years or so). The planet is hit by objects capable of demolishing cities on a much more frequent basis (every decade), but statistical likelihood of an impact in such an area is low.
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Quite interesting, and based on such a probability i'm guessing citizens of the planet have some sort of "Fallout shield" to shelter themselves for impact, right?, or does every impact terminates the current civilization and starts a new cycle?
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There are intermediate-scale defense systems (e.g., microwave-powered laser deflectors and a few nuclear missile systems) across the planet and an early warning system, but nothing overly developed yet. Modern civilization is still only <10,000 years old in the alternate world, so no major cataclysm has yet been faced greater than a Yellowstone-sized eruption (which was caused by the events at the end of the first story). Combat attack platforms like Meteor (UI-2032-B 'METEOR' Mk.IV Concept (Update 2) ) were envisioned as defense systems, but instead the technology was twisted and used for terrorism. Another technologically-related primarily orbital system called "Comet" is to come later in the series with the primary purpose of being an asteroid-defense battle station.
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"Twisted and used for terrorism", kinda like SHIELD's Insight proyect used by HYDRA, cool!, i'm getting interested in this story!, i'll have to give myself some time to read it...i'm terrible at that XD
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I have noticed some parallels between what I have been doing and the Marvel SHIELD/Hydra universe. It actually got bad enough that I had to rename my own antagonist group (ENIGMA) which ironically used to be called Hydraforce (a name I thought sounded silly and was looking to change as it was). I say ironic here because I hadn't been into Marvel's stuff until very recently (2015, last few years) and was not inspired by or really even aware of Marvel's HYDRA when coming up with them.
That being said, it's kind of a cool parallel in the end, to think that my line of thinking perhaps flows slightly similar to Marvel's on something like this.
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To be fair, Marvel didn't became popular untill they started making the recent movies, i'm not a comic-person myself, so i only know about SHIELD and HYDRA because of movies and my own post-research on the matter
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Yeah, the movies got me into the Marvel stuff. Had a hard time staying interested before recent stuff. I will say I pull a lot of inspiration from a lot of places and can list everything I've modeled something from or play a nod to in my writing. The Marvel universe was not one of them, though. I've found that my ideas and those from the outside occasionally wind up evolving parallel to each other, though. It can be a little unnerving sometimes when they get a little too similar.
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I hear ya, even if i base my ideas of a certain universe, i always check if someone didn't do that first XD
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When I first looked at the map, my only complaint was the lack of useful information. Then, I saw the note suggesting a download to see the marked locations in Eruassia. Once I did that, reading the map and seeing where Robert is going made a significant difference. Thank you.
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The map started out huge... And now that I look at it, I'm a little disappointed with the detail on it that makes it difficult for others like you to see the relevant information, like you've pointed out. I think I'll employ Terragen for this task next time...
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I see many of the world has flooded over XD. Awesome map my friend
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Flooded? This is an alternate dimension map. Also, the northern ice cap is not represented here, as it generally isn't on our maps either.
Lol, thanks XD
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I see more water and less landmass but also see similar shapes of continents. That is where I got the flooded thought. I get it now ^^
Welcome ^^
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Increase the thickness of Icetonia and flatten the map a little afterward, and things might look a little better, proportionally speaking. I don't think I have the right aspect ratio for the earth's circumference (which is estimated to be roughly the same). But you're right, it would still appear that water covers more of the surface in this case.
Also notice, that if this were our planet, it has the Pacific (Abyss) in the center, not the Atlantic.
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Actually, parallel territory for Ecuador could be anywhere in Sedonia, or along the western coast of the Arkanian continent.
There are parallel territories for many real-world countries here... However, they are not necessarily in the same region of the world (Spain would share the same region as South American countries ans such here).
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Oh I see x3
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I was hoping you'd do something like this someday but I wasn't expecting it this soon! It's very interesting to see where everything is.
Abyssal Ocean! (and a couple of other things)
I'm guessing that the Sea of Despair is the one with the strange spacial distortions. It looks like it might be something to do with the islands at its edges. There seems to be quite a lack of nations on here, or are some of these just the names of continents/landmasses which will be detailed later? Also, the ocean between Eruassia and Arkania isn't named.
I can see a very obvious crater which Scion is on the edge of. It's seems very unusual for more than a handful of sentient species to evolve naturally on one planet and I like how you've been thinking about possible explanations behind it. I'm guessing that budding civilisations (perhaps of various species) have been destroyed in the past by these impacts before the current human one came into being.
I can't quite see what it's meant to say just below Silex Territory, the writing's obscured by the mountain range. I can see this image OK in the gallery and the download works as well, but the image on this page doesn't seem to want to display for some reason.
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The sea of Despair is like the Bermuda and Dragon Triangles in our world. It contains the elusive Island that Cassie is from. And that ocean is the Eruassian Ocean and needs to be labeled...
There are actually many rather large and somewhat fresh-looking craters across the the entire map, but none as large as the cataclysmic East Eruassian impact relic. Where our world saw the last major impact 65 million years ago, the world you see here has seen no less than eight similar impacts in the last 45 million years. This has forced an unusual rapid evolution phenomena in several places globally... It made it so that in order to survive, only the most intelligent of all creatures would continue to beat extinction. Several races of other creatures evolved from their primitive forms like humans did aside them.
SIAN TERRITORY is what it reads. It was most of what was formerly Sinaria (Hydraforce land). Only Eruassia is anywhere close to properly labeled. The rest needs to be updated as time progresses. I'll have their flags and everything else. The image is misbehaving here too, Click it once, and it displays normally; click it again, and it will show full size. But I don't know what to tell you about the default display...
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The default display is working now.
Thanks for the interesting info. I could make out Sian Territory well but its not the easist word to see. The part I was referring to was the word literally directly below the Silex Territory word (If I squint at it, it looks kind of like it says Mt. Silver 
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That would be Mt. Shasta, which will reappear within the next few released chapters. Those were supposed to be dark-gray labels... Must've messed up with the layer type there. That should also be labeled with Kankursk, which it appears I might have forgot. There is also a very hard to see Mt. Pazra label in the Kardon Desert near the large lake there. Eh, doesn't really matter; this is a work in progress that will be subject to steady updating as time goes on.
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The text is now much clearer to read for the map in general, but now the locations in Silex Territory except for Mt. Shazta are difficult to see.
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The contrast on your monitor may be making it difficult for you, while it looks fine to me on mine. I'll have to check it on my big 1080p monitor during the day (I'll wake up my brother if I do it now). I know for a fact that there is a marked difference between the two... Though it could just be the difference between the LCD and LED backlights.
Either way, if you're still having a hard time after I darkened those, others probably will too. I'll have to see if I can lock a specific color profile to it.
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Thanks ^^
I might use it for a contest at some point.
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Seems heavily based on our world, am I right? ^^ It also seems like that the ocean's quite broadened. The area equivalent to our europe seems quite shrunk because of all the water. Other than that, this is a very cool world map. ^^ That bit with Kanto as the Japan-stand in is funny. xD
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The broadened Ocean will become important in ACX3, if I can ever get my act together.
Also, notice all the massive meteor impact points. This place has had a violent past that aims to explain how humans in that world did not wind up as the only intelligent beings.
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Ah, neat. ^^ I wonder how that will play out. ^^
Sounds exiting.
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Woah, this is nicely done. All the... fiddly bits... really brings it out. And wow did the plates ever go differently in this world.
Welp, NZ's not on here. I'm not even sure where the equivalent is. XD;
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Zeal Islands, bottom left. Most major countries have corresponding zones in this dimension. I even mirrored Japan, calling it "Kanto" just to be funny
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It's hardly even a joke, really... Until Unova, all main regions were based on real chunks of Japan. (Unova being the NYC area, of course.)
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Unova is based off of NYC? Do you have some sort of reference?
(I am really beginning to regard B/W as a dead cartridge... You can't re-challenge trainers, gym leaders, or anything? How they hell am I supposed to train anything after-the-fact?)
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This image help? link
The Nimbassa domes are rechallengeable, and I think Cynthia can be battled daily in certain months? Not much, though... still working through it personally, though. I think I can try battling you tomorrow (that is, Thursday), though.
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Hah! Unbelivable. I'd say that is unmistakable proof O_o Heck, with the subway, and the biggest city they've had so far, I guess it fits.
The sites in Nimbasa do not yield EXP or EV points, do they? I thought Pokemon games were done with this stagnant game crap (nothing to do after you beat the game once, but re-challenge the league 300 times. Boring 
I'll try to have some things I'm working on done by tomorrow night. Right now, I'm either spread so thin across too games, or lacking key items in black... add that to the fact I haven't played a real person in MANY months, and I have to admit, I'm feeling wide-open here.
You're in the same Time Zone, right (Eastern DT)? A time ought to be established.
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Yep! The American Football players alone kinda tell you it's far from PokΓ©pan. The Liberty Garden thing was kinda a clear parallel too.
Battle Subway and Institute give no EXP, but the sports stadiums at the north end do.
EDT, yes. Until I leave for school Sunday, but that's the end of realistic availability for me as well.
So... hmm. Wanna try 1:00ish? Most times should work for me, it seems. Best to IM me to catch my attention.
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Liberty garden. I take it that is supposed to be a parallel to the statue of Liberty/Liberty Island. Ha ha, clever. XP
It's going to have to be around more like 4PM... My sleeping is better, but still pretty messed up. No doubt, I'll be crashed at 1:00.
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'k. I'll try to slip in some last-minute training... my team isn't really assembled that well yet, with a few frustrating weaknesses I probably can't patch by this afternoon. Hooray for level battles at least?
Again, IM me whenever you're up.
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I overslept... Things are incomplete... :shot:
I guess I'll send an IM soon. Expecting my father home with dinner soon. Might wait until after I eat something.
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That was one of my guesses. (Hey we're bigger here!)
I would almost make Japan/Kanto akin to how it is often compared to in real life - ... er, that makes no sense. I mean how Johto and Sinnoh are also visible.
But then again ACX isn't exactly the Pokemon world.
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One of the things that few realize about this parallel dimension, is that while it somewhat mirrors our world, it also seems to mirror the pokemon universe in a similar way. It's almost "halfway between".
The story and its world has many subtle references to pokemon heritage; Japanese is known as "Kantonese", there are animals akin to Pokemon, there is a killer Raichu that belongs to the "Lieutenant", and there is even a Nurse Joy at some point (more as a joke than anything else, though). Heck, I even engineered a lot of technology to scientifically mimic the pokemon storage system, and the healer machines used at pokemon centers.
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