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It was fun o7

In the wake of the Vanishing, the several dams powering the Nile broke all at once, besides what was on the river. What followed was hundreds of several-thousand-pound concrete MONOLITHS making their way down the Nile, leaving a second wake of destruction in their path. It is believed thousands are to have died, and injuries their ten thousands. Those who were left collapsed into anarchy, though the world was watching.

What followed THIS was quite possibly the largest global force ever. The leftover United Nations, the Svalbardian government, representatives from surviving insular nations, and tens of thousands of people risking it all to serve humanity and protect Egypt from further destruction. It is said that there were so many planes and ships, that quite literally no more could come. People from Mexico City, those who had been on vacation to Paris or London, even a handful of Antarctic stationers, all indeed chipped in and helped in the best way they could.

Unofficial flag used for the Mission. Note that the peacekeepers tended to use the United Nations and Egyptian flags instead.

Some did charity tournaments on games they liked, others provided relief aid and helped the Egyptians left get on their feet again. Many assisted in airlifting those severely injured to hospitals. Even in New York City, the provisional American government hosted a day of silence. No driving or even making sounds was allowed, except for essential workers and those in hospitals. The City that once never slept, had to sleep. Even a brave Indonesian who managed to prevent a plane crash on the way there, brought a life-sized costume of famous pre-Vanishing internet meme Tung Tung Tung Sahur. Recordings of him helping feed the people and kickstart back agriculture also led to an explosion in donation.

It is estimated that within the first two weeks following the establishment of the Mission in the Southern Nile (January 15, 2029; intentionally chosen to reflect the first day of Ramadan in 2029), visits to sites like St. Judes spiked hundredfold. The lack of servers on the continental mainland and the risk of undersea cables being compromised led to in turn, the shutdown of many sites. Some temporarily, others from the stress, the loss of the people who were integral, so on and so forth. Even still, off the internet, governments took in those from cities like Cairo and Alexandria in refugee camps, like on the former area of Calais (established 2031) and right next to the city of Paris on the vanished parts.

arab.org Vanishing Charity donation button on January 17, 2029.

In 2030, one in three Egyptians left were expected to die by 2035 due to disease, famine, and conflict. In 2035, the actual number was one in twenty. On August 12, 2036, it was reported that 97% of Egyptians had stabilized. Though the crisis was still ongoing, things were much better due to the global coalition. It is estimated that nearly every rump statelet left on Earth (save for perhaps North Korea or some inland country) with enough to give and access to sea/airports, had at least someone contribute.

Over on Xitter, the hashtag #ChinaStandsWithEgypt rose to the top of the leaderboard, due to China's own struggles with the collapse of the Yellow River dam system and locks across the country. China too faced several villages wiped off the map as well as famine and starvation. Historically this did not go well. Legends spoke of a Unifier hiding in a bunker taking advantage of the disparate people. At the very least, a warlordism era could literally not happen as much as the surviving nations strong enough were few and far between instead of packed in proximity to eachother.

X (Formerly Twitter) on the night of September 21, 2031

Eventually though, people turned back to their own countries and finding a way to survive, and eventually the Mission was disbanded in the late 2040s. Though, for a few solid years, human civilization was united as it had ever been. To this day, the anniversary of it's founding is celebrated every month, especially in Egypt. It was the strong cooperation spirit that persisted in memory, and eventually the United World Congress would be founded as a successor organization centuries later...

The premise is that after the 2025-2029 term under Trump, state government deteriorates and eventually it's decided they are all abolished in favor of counties. To avoid rigging, they would not be allowed to change until 11/8/2028.

County-by-county map

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On June 21, 2026, due to concerns about climate change and the desertification of Texas as well as the west being culturally and politically different, the Texas State Assembly voted to let the west secede. It would pass in the US.

Originally the Democratic Party pushed for Puerto Rico statehood to balance the US 26-26, though with the rise of a more centrist and less extreme Libertarian-Reform coalition (along smaller centrist parties) and became a third party, similar to the german party system. This allowed it to possibly be 17v17v17 under the right conditions, though Puerto Rico statehood is up ahead.

It became official on July 4, 2026, and with the upcoming Senate elections later that year, it was a no brainer that people wanted to be the first senator of a new state. Many ran, though few were notable, and among them were Pfluger and Blanco. Blanco, catering to many Hispanic Texans in the state, was able to gain many southern votes. Though it was not enough compared to Pfluger's strategy of trying new farming methods. This combined with famines in the region made him win.

Also, the libertarian candidate Pat Dixon was able to act as a spoiler effect, leading to some counties being more unexpected then usual. Regardless, August was sweared in at El Paso as the first Senator of the 51st state.

West Texas in higher quality

https://emptycontinents.miraheze.org/

To keep it short, this wiki is meant to try and see how wikipedia would be like in EC's 2378. Please please if you plan to use the wiki make a miraheze account. If you edit without it, it will show your ip which can be BAD.

Do not vandalize and do not document stories here; rather document the actual lore events itself similar to how Wikipedia does it. Any questions? Ask me or Pacmantaco! My username on miraheze is Hymenopteranis.

Have fun!! please

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Here is the map of the inner solar system in it's full glory!

From left to right, big to small, the circles represent:

• Sol
• Mercury
• Venus
• Zoozve*
• Earth
• Luna
• Mars/Ares (both names used coextensively)
• Deimos
• Phobos
• Vesta (Oblong)
• Ceres
• Pallas
• Interamnia
• Hygiea
• Asteroid Belt (minor objects merged for simplicity)
• Jupiter
• Ganymede
• Calisto
• Io
• Europa
• Amalthea (Also oblong)
• Himalia
• Thebe (Roundish)

*Zoozve is a quasi-moon of Venus, meaning that it stays close over many years. For simplicity, it is shown as a moon.

You may not have heard of most of these, but they're just the inner 4 planets, their important moons, major asteroids, the sun, and Mercury (we're going to turn you into a dyson sphere BUDDY /hj)

Please note not everything here is perfectly spherical or oblong, they're shown as such for simplicity. I would also like to give credit for now-kinda-dead Wakefield Institute wiki, a worldbuilding sci-timeline focusing on the colonization of Mars, and strange politics. It's a fever dream and really goated PLEASE go contribute or at least read it.

Speaking of wikis, we have one! Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em. It's still a work in progress but for now you're welcome to contribute and add lore! The wiki is intended to show how Wikipedia might look in this timeline's 2378. The link is: https://emptycontinents.miraheze.org/wiki/Empty_Continents_Wiki and remember to make an account so edits dont show your IP.

Remember..

Hi so I'm back. Sorry the dust storm was really bad, there was a hab lockdown for some weeks. Please nevertheless do enjoy my Wikipedia scouring! - Juno

2368 Mars storm

On Vrishika 9, 403 at 12:34 pm (June 7, 2368 in Terranesian Space) the Planetary Weather Service station in Crux released a dust storm advisory for parts of the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. About four hours later, a dust storm originating within the Radial Environment Dome swept across the landscape at a staggering 30 miles per hour. Due to its strangely fast speed, combined with it being the first dust storm for many colonists unadjusted to the lack of air resistance, it was seen as a shock to anyone the vicinity and the planet as a whole. The death toll was 4 people with 159 injured, the worst disaster in Martian history. It crossed Olympus Mons, though did not head for the European station in the caldera. It was well known for being the day Twitter had some of the funniest tweets, and the infamous "looks like SOMEONE couldn't handle the storm" post by @/junotweets the day after.

John Van Horn

John Van Horn (born April 13, 2309) is an Astro-Polonian researcher, businessman, and the 6th and concurrent Areonesian president since the election of 2364, winning a very stark mandate of popular vote against the Liberal party. Van Horn also founded LobbyLink services, an implant corporation allowing for faster human communication, described in the New York Times as "the new social media".

RED Incident (Early draft version)

3.6 roentgens. Just enough.

^^ Someone update this as the incident is progressing this isn't helping

Tejanos Creole

Tejanos Creole is an Indo-European language in the Intersolarian sector of the Romance branch. It is mainly descended from Gulfard English along the Texan coast, Mexican Spanish and English, and decades of communication with other Solarnesians across Sol. It is estimated that up to 15,000 know it as a primary language and up to 30,000 in general thanks to Texan companies' involvement in spaceports widely, with their economy mainly focused on that. It is considered by many as a dialect of Mexican Spanish, though some consider it as independent thanks to its grammar rules and lexicon.

Ares Revitalization Project

The Ares Revitalization Project (or ARP for short) were a multi-step plan to terraform Mars as a whole, involving the construction of a magnetic deflector at the L1 Mars-Sol point (concurrent location of the UWC Joint Base Phoenix) as well as melting the ice poles in some way to flood lower elevations with water, with finally planting grass seeds and soil. The plan was cancelled thanks to the lack or realism and high budget, though made it far in the Areonesian Legislative Subcluster. To date, it is a common topic discussed in alternate history circles, including the elusive Filled Continents community.

Republic of Gardenview (Those Who Know)

Gardenview, officially the Republic of Gardenview, is a semi-recognized nation consisting of habitats in Cislunar space. It was founded in 2298 and is the oldest unrecognized non-Terran/Lunar nation. It claimed to have a population of 1,200. According to research by the Fort Worth Concordat, Gardenview had maintained a neutral policy against pirates, and was the result of constrained PTSE of pre-Vanishing Roblox.

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REDDIT KILLED MY ENTIRE SCRIPT SO FAR AHH

As the last arable and truly habitable lands on Earth were carved, humanity looked to the stars and head forth to new frontiers; for various goals like new nations, domination, or research, and meeting various fates and varying levels of success. Sophonts tended to have way less (or more) discrimination in space for example; though they were free from crude international laws, they were subject to the outlaws that followed them.

If you head further from home, the population drops and so does your security as pirate spacecraft emerge, with people stealing things like ice water or fuel to maintain a monopoly or get rich, and organized criminal groups and even proto-states are becoming a more and more unavoidable problem..

But, above all, Space is much different than it was 400 years ago. Here is what the Outer Continents look like, on December 31, 2377. This is a classroom map of the interior solar system, though it appears somewhat dated and incorrect at spots.. mostly right though, right?

Please please please ask questions! And if you see something contradicting the lore.. no you didnt. And no i'm not posting this to imaginarymaps because i know for sure they wouldn't accept me. Too scared.

I know its technically not an AU but im not doing another huge space map for an emptycontinents spinoff alternate universe, i just decided to use the Outer! prefix for things. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

The image is in the comments (of both posts; if it gets taken down)! Essentially the premise is: What if Sneakers O'Toole became real?

Dont ask questions about the dates none of this makes ANY sense