Back in the ancient times of the internet (as in a few months ago),
I created a contest to celebrate reaching half a million subscribers.
Well, I hit half a million, and to celebrate this milestone,
I gave you guys a contest. You, the viewer, were to write your own mini AlternateHistoryHub video.
To write an alternate scenario based around a topic you enjoy, and if I enjoy it enough,
it'll be showcased, in this video.
Right now. 3 fans won and now it's time to show what they made. The following scenarios are the ones
I found the most interesting in well, written and wrote 100% by fans.
Do they need to be perfectly realistic? No, it's just for fun. The only changes
I made are grammar or to cut down to the sake of time,
Alright, first up is Jason Wages.
"What if the 'War of the Worlds' Hoax was real?" On Halloween,
1938 Young Orson Welles detailed the terrifying account of a Martian invasion of Earth.
Over the radio, in his fake news broadcast,
he described the resulting destruction as our conventional weapons of the Era,
feebly attempted to fight off a technologically superior
Martian Force, only for the Martians to fall to the natural
microorganisms and Bacteria and our atmosphere.
While the broadcast was part of a Mercury Theater Radio Show and was just a hoax,
it was realistic enough to set off a
widespread panic, as some people across the country mistook the drama for the real deal.
But what if the invasion was the real deal, what if in an alternate timeline the events of that Halloween night had in fact,
actually happened, and a strike force of Martian war machines fell out of the sky nearly 80 years ago?
How would humanity change following the War of the Worlds? For this scenario,
we will use the version of the story as narrated by Orson Welles.
The Martians are launched earthward via cylinder-shaped projectiles,
Impacting the world like meteorites. The Martians pilot towering tripod vessels highly resistant to weapon fire
armed with a devastating heat ray, and those people they don't outright kill, they gather as food. In our timeline,
1938 was a period of great change.
The Nazis took their first steps of their reign of terror across Europe,
with the invasion of Austria, while the US was taking steps to
bring itself out of the great depression. On the heels of an
unexpected worldwide Martian Blitzkrieg, World War II would end before it even began.
Major cities across the Planet would be prime targets for the attacks as fast-moving Martians aimed for large
population centers with cities [like] New York and London left in Ruins and
Depopulated despite the severity of this attack however the Martian tripods are limited by their ground travel speed the radio broadcast
Makes it clear they lack the ability to fly and their ability to airdrop Forces lacks precision
Since they land in low value locations like Grover's mill new Jersey as the invasion barely lasts a week
It would be unlikely they would be able to saturate the planet with enough forces to kill off a majority of the population either
Major leaders like President Roosevelt or Hitler would have enough time to be airlifted out to remote safe
Locations while the tripods hoofed it across the countryside before the assault can truly begin to stamp out humanity the common cold
Finishes them off how would this affect the world around us well first the age-old question has been answered, we're not alone
There is life out there
and it wants to kill us and eat us the nations of the world would be forced to put [aside] their differences and
Galvanize against a common enemy what's left of the Martian forces would be immediately collected by each respected government [and]
Dissected both the tripods and their pilots their technology would be stripped and adapted to service humanity in
Particular the Martian Heat-ray as well as Advanced systems like computers robotics
Generators and so on the space program would become the primary industry for the planet with an emphasis on its
Application Towards war with its technological and industrial
Superiority [the] Nazis would use the opportunity to place themselves Center stage in the world as its savior
realigning Hitler's nationalistic rhetoric and hatred to instead Rally
Humanity against their nightmarish Martian enemies the league of Nations had begun to show itself as a weak and ineffective
Governing Force Planet Earth would react to the United States had after the pearl harbor attack in our timeline
Immediately mobilized for war knowing their vulnerability to disease
Humanity would undoubtedly develop bioweapons with the intent of eradicating Martians
following the discovery of Nuclear by German scientist on [Ohan] two months after the Martian attack
The World Powers would each begin an arms race to develop the nuclear bomb the initial intent being for use against the Martians
Human Society would be forever changed reverse engineered Martian technology would set humanity decades ahead of where we currently are
Scientifically moon landings would take place by the late 40s turning it into a [ford] [defense] [base] in an effort to protect the people
Governments would tighten control over their populations much like the nazis and the soviet Union had and until the Martian threat was proven
Eradicated this perpetual state of control would continue indefinitely
[whether] or not first contact with aliens would result in a unified Earth government like in star
[trek] is up to debate but odds are the major powers of the time would be unwilling to give [up] their respective influences and ideologies
Intent that once the martians were dealt with they would immediately turn their advanced weapons against their original earthbound foes
Follow-up assaults by Mars would be unlikely
arriving unprepared for Natural Airborne contaminants the Martians
demonstrated that Bacteria was an alien concept to them and would be unable to perfect defenses or
sterilization procedures without samples to work with having their entire invasion force
Eradicated by disease and less than a week mars would view the earth as a poisonous nightmare
Eventually we would find our way to mars and Earth would finally get the retribution it sought for decades our first step on another
Planet would not be one of exploration and discovery
But of conquest and revenge [a] step that would shape humanity for all time the next scenario is from the hero
[1:36] who answers what if Mexico attacked America in World War one in
1917 Victoriano, Huerta
Is returned to power in Mexico after avoiding arrest in America with Mexican [president]?
Venustiano Carranza removed from power in a german back coup
Mexico is a threat to America once more promising to regain national pride after the bitter
Mexican-American war
President Huerta allies with the Central powers and attacks
America after the USa declares war against Germany the Mexican struggle against a strong American defense and begin
Successfully with the initial invasions however germany is able to supply
Reinforcements, and advanced German weaponry for the assault against the [us] yet the us
[Army] would be too well defended to push back further and a stalemate would likely occur as Mexico begins to reinforce the newly conquered
territory aid from Germany would start to weaken due to pressures in Europe and
American Convoy Raids and the Caribbean after several months of fighting
Texas would be recon curt and the us would begin to push towards Mexico the Mexican army would be stronger than it [was] in the
Mexican-American War and Trench warfare combined with chemical warfare would cause the casualty rate to rise
Driving Mexico back would be a costly endeavor as the war would become a Mexican defense
against the American counter-Attack following the recapture [of] Texas America would blockade the
Caribbean to prevent Germany from being able to assist the Mexicans and supply
Reinforcements America would eventually occupy, Mexico City
it's unlikely that Mexico would be able to succeed against the sheer size of the American army [and] industrial work Force an
unconditional Surrender would take place with president Huerta being removed from power for the last and final
Time America would then place primary focus on defeating Germany in Europe?
[the] war would end with an allied victory and the defeating of the central powers the aftermath of a second war against
[Mexico] would be severe the public would be outraged with Mexico and the [u.s.]
Would dismantle its government and strip away its armed forces
[the] [Great] [war] would be longer than it had been in our timeline due to the war with Mexico
Anywhere from [six] months to over three years?
Despite all this America would still have been [a] powerful nation at the end of the war and it would have increased
Relations with the international world the final scenario was from Leather constructs answers
What if a virus killed everyone on Earth above the age of 15 in?
2004 tensions in the Korean Peninsula escalate into full-scale war which results in North Korea's [loss], but before them
They unleashed a deadly extremely advanced virus in the South Korea. It spreads like wildfire
Infecting the entire planet in under a year how it never displayed symptoms on March 7th the disease
activated instantly killing all of its targets
But the [by] had two special traits it only killed Humans above the age of [fifteen]
And it drastically slowed the aging process of surviving children on the first day planes crashed
Society stopped and for the next 200 Years life went into your stereotypical apocalypse
But then countries began rising out of the rubble the first was the reformed states of America its capital in Sanctuary City
Modern-Day
Buffalo the Nation Promised Old American freedoms and prosperity unlike the Oppressive
dictatorships in small [City-States] scattered across old America with this promise in Power the rSA United the territory East of the
Mississippi into its nation but the leaders soon went power-hungry and formed a dictatorship this angered the people and Florida seceded
Florida won the Civil war that followed in the United States of America was born once again
But the nation was plagued with strife two countries the people's democratic
Republic of America and the Empire of America battled the weakened us and were almost
Victorious having all but Florida under their control until a new huge superpower saved the u.s.
The Texas Federation the American Texas alliance annihilated the totalitarians after a century the Americans
Texas and californians met the old world three nations prospered in the old world the European
Communist Union Central African Empire and the Ucs our
United Chinese Socialist Republics after first contact
the EcU invaded the USA and
partnered with the PDr A
the Texans devised a plan to defeat the old world first they reduced the fact that the old world errs did not know about the
Californians which would attack China and Africa in a surprise attack not an invasion
but an attack against known
military Bases farms
And occupy some cities to make them seem like an invasion was coming the next phase would be helped the USa rebels gain power [wipe]
Out enemy gulf fleets launch an assault through
Scandinavia and capture their capital of new Berlin if all else fails launch Several Nuclear strikes at them and kill as many as [possible]
[Texas] had 32 Nuclear weapons in space on September [18th]
[23:25] [four] million
Texas Soldiers and two million rebels invaded Communist America and captured Sanctuary city resulting in the PDr a
collapsing and a new American superpower being born
the us Navy wiped out the Europeans in the gulf of [Mexico]
But before the Texas invasion of scandinavia the nations of the world detected an anomaly near the orbit of Mars
Huge orange [sleek] ships arrived in orbit around Earth and set the humans and message humans
We are the Atlanteans
We want Earth back riots looting in Murder Ran Rampant Alien bombers destroyed every missile silo military base in
Communication satellite on the planet the leaders of the world decided that Texas would launch its space nukes at the fleet the plan
Sorta backfired the ships were heavily damaged, but instead of running away
[they] crashed in the Earth one landed near Longhorn City, Texas's largest City one near recolonized
New York City and another in the ruins of London after three months of brutal fighting between the
Atlanteans and Europeans two million Ecu troops died in combat New York was liberated by the u.s.
Ending with the surrender of a thousand Atlanteans after the defeat [of] Atlantis a treaty was made
Allowing them to settle oceania anyway congratulations to those who won pat yourself on the back for those who didn't win
I thank you for simply participating in the contest
[I] read every scenario sent to me through my various social media accounts many were good, but three had to win
[I] [loved] alternate history of course with theorizing the one if but also the fiction that [has] created from it these scenarios
Didn't need to be realistic
[you] just simply had to have fun making them just as I have fun making these videos and have reached half a million subscribers
[just] [from] doing so here's to five hundred thousand more. This is cody of the altering history Hub