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Shooting Stars Aren't Lucky

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An alternate history where it is a colonial post apocalyptic world set in 1700's. 


"Remembering that nursery rhyme my mother taught when I was a child. To "wish upon a star" of any kind to me is pure bad luck not just for one person, but the world. Because of what had happened in the year of 1722, was be very not so wishful, but sinful." - King George IV of French-British Empire


In 1718, many dozens of astronomers all over Europe began to see and spot many celestial objects coming near Earth. Most are asteroids and meteors. Then in 1722, the meteors reach into the atmosphere and start to hit the Earth's surface. 

On March 5th, 1722 a series of massive meteors hit many major European cities and Asian cities in China and Japan.

9:59 PM

The Kingdom of France was first to be hit by fallen heavenly bodies. And the French city of Paris is first to get hit and wiped off the map, the king of France last words before  being dead was, "Oh lord have mercy on my soul, I think Jesus has came back." and then northern France was hit hard by impacts

10:06 PM

Britain is hit and London is greatly destroyed along with the surrounding towns. King George II of England was said to have died in the disaster that had destroyed the royal city of London. Only his son had survived, King George III.
Berlin was wiped off the map as well making Prussia very weak afterwards, then was the Polish capital Warsaw and Polish major city of Krakow were hit and massive Poles were killed in the disaster. 

Prague is hit at 10:00 PM, making Austria-Hungary's first major cities to be hit by meteors, following Vienna, Budapest, Split, and Bratislava.  

10:10 PM

The Pope dies in the meteor impacts in Rome, the Papal States have declared to be nonexistent country in Italy anymore. Rome the ancient and beautiful city is gone as if somehow God had brought down his wrath on civilization. The blast was heard from as far away in the city of Venice and Naples. 

10:23 PM

The country of Spain is hit 3 times by a wave of meteors, the Spanish royal family are luckily brought to safety along with a few citizens as well. But by 10:30 PM, the Spanish cities of Madrid and Seville and Barcelona are destroyed along with it many residents dead or missing.
Portugal was all wiped out and devoid of life, everyone in Portugal died in same strikes of shooting stars that hit Spain

10:35 PM

The province of Greece (then the Ottoman Empire), which Greek cities such as Athens, Delphi, Rhodes, and many Greek cities were destroyed in falling celestial objects

10:36 PM

Ottoman Empire's capital of Istanbul is destroyed by 2 strikes of meteors, and a few Ottoman provinces are hit as well killing many Turkish in the process. The Ottoman emperor sadly uttered his own last words to his officials saying, "I never would of thought that in my lifetime something this beautiful and dangerous to occur to me."


10:40 PM

The Swedish cities of Stockholm and Helsinki (Back then Sweden used to own Finland) are destroyed in one meteor impact.

10:41 PM

The Russian cities of Moscow, Rostov and Kiev are all destroyed by impacts made by falling shooting stars.

10:45 PM

The Netherlands after being hit by meteors is now beginning to have floods in the whole country due to tidal waves that occurred from meteors splashing into the ocean. Sending tsunamis of at least 20 stories high, and killing many more in the process the Dutch never had seen before. 

5:01 AM

China is hit and millions of Chinese die in meteor impacts and Shanghai and Beijing are gone. The Ming Dynasty loses only a quarter of it population. But the royal family were warned and evacuated to safer grounds 50 miles away from Beijing. 

5:02 AM

The Kingdom of Korea, loses it's capital city of Seoul by meteors and the royal Korean family luckily were spared from death from the skies. They declare hours later that Pusan is to be the new capital of Korea.

5:12 AM

Japan along with it major cities of Osaka and Edo (now called Tokyo) have been destroyed by meteors.

The day ends and the world of colonial times faces a huge another great dark age to come as Europe and Asia have been hit by meteors. Mankind struggles to survive to years to come after the tragic event in 1722.


By the next year of 1723, the country of France has lost all of it's royal families from the disaster of yesteryear. Without anyone having royal blood to restore the French throne, the French ask the Kingdom of England for help. The capital of Britain was now replaced as Manchester, also having lost Scotland from the tragic event, and London as well. The new king of England, King George III, allowed giving help to the French.

The French and British government declare that they have merged together to form a new country called, France-Britain. 

In Spain, the Spanish lost it next door neighbor of Portugal to the fallen heavenly bodies. The Spanish royal monarchs declare that they will never forgive for what God had done to Spain and the whole world. They order that every Bible in Spain to be taken and burned, and any Roman Catholic followers will be executed for "worshiping God who has now become evil". As the result many Catalans in Catalonia were enraged by the result of this, the Catalans months later break away from the Kingdom of Spain and form their own kingdom, the Kingdom of Catalonia. Spain is now having turned totally Atheist from the disaster of 1722. 

Denmark on the other hand was never hit by any shooting stars in 1722, all of Denmark had been spared from the deadly global event. And resulted in the Danish becoming more powerful to create colonial empire, they make colonies in South America and take the Spanish colony of Cuba as they'res. 

Sweden is unable to recover from the Sky Event of 1722, they could collapse at any giving time as Danes speak, although the Danes have offered that Swedes should join the Danish Empire, but rejected since they will refuse to allow themselves be ruled by another country. Sweden has increased in crime and often it is total anarchy in small villages in Sweden. 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth however managed to survive and keep it country together from the aftermath of the meteor showers. Only having lost two major cities. Prussians were weak and almost to the point of collapse that the Polish took Prussia and annexed to their empire. Allowing themselves called the Polish-Lithuanian-Prussian Commonwealth. Overtime of months the Poles and Lithuanians expand their borders into former Russian territory, finding Russian survivors who are willing to live in a new country of a greater Poland. While the Austrian and Hungarians were suffering from major famines and diseases from the aftermath, the Austria-Hungary Empire was too going to collapse like Prussia.

But Poland look at what the Austrians were facing and they need helped. They Austrians were desperate for anything to have themselves cured from the aftermath of events that had followed from 1722. Poles were allowed to annex all of Austria-Hungary and allowed them to have self-rule over themselves. On the other hand the now rump state of Bohemia was refusing to allow Poland to annex them as part of the Polish-Lithuanian-Prussian Empire. Unless they given back Silesia to the Czechs. Despite minor disagreements between the Polish and Czechs the Czechs were given back Silesia and allowed themselves to be annexed under self-rule of Poland-Lithuania-Prussia. By the 1730's the Polish were now considered a greater power in all of Europe, and largest empire that Europe has seen to come. They become successful in making colonies in Africa, India and parts of the Americas. 

Russia however was known nation to have been hit at least 15 times from shooting stars. Moscow, Kiev, Rostov were gone in a single day and Russia was purely disorderly anarchic state in Europe. They have given up claims on expanding eastwards to Siberia and Central Asia, due to the resources and economy being destroyed in 1722. 

The Italian peninsula remained the same, all expect that Papal States were gone in a flash after the days of events that had followed after March 2nd. Some Italian states such as Tuscany, Venetian Republic, Milan, Genoa, and Savoy decided to have themselves be neutral from international affairs and to be isolated since then. While the Kingdom of Sicily was all annexed and taken over by the breakaway Kingdom of Catalonia. Malta was also taken by the Catalans and the coast of Libya was settled by them as well. 

Switzerland being another European nation to not even been hit by falling celestial objects, survived quite well in the aftermath. The Swiss have began to form great relations with Tuscany, Genoa, Venetian Republic, Milan and Savoy. But Switzerland is pretty much isolated from the rest of the Western world in general like it's Italian allies. 

Romania was another survivor kingdom of Europe not to be hit by meteors, and are known to have constant trade with Poland-Lithuania-Prussia. 

Ottoman Empire have suffered many damages and civil disorders in the aftermath of 1722. They lost many provinces in Middle East, Turkey itself and in the Balkans. They also were laughed at when the Catalans took and annex their islands of Crete and Cyprus. Ottomans by now have purely became more atheist and less religious over period of time. They could never understand that why would Allah their savior would send falling heavenly objects down to them so they could die. Just like the Spanish, the Ottomans are very angered by all religions in the world since The Sky Event of 1722.

The Netherlands was screwed to the point that they would of cease to exist if they didn't allowed themselves to become part of the French-British Empire. Many Dutch have by now in 1725 have migrated to Spain or Denmark or France-Britain to live new lives and escape the poverty many had faced in Holland. Holland was now also becoming a swamp again, many Dutch people were very isolated from even at least 4 miles apart from villages. Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam were flooded and hit by meteors in disaster of 1722. The Dutch now felt betrayal by God, and saw that they no longer had dream of making colonies in Asia or the New World or India. Resulting in them selling every single last Dutch colony to the Spanish Empire, to try and get their economy back to good health again.

Dutch East Indies, Dutch colonies in India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Dutch discovered Australia, and their Caribbean islands were all given away to mostly the Spanish. A few islands in the coming 1740's were taken and annexed by the Danish only to find them totally lifeless perhaps from not have been contacted the Netherlands for a long time. Danish were only able to just find abandon Dutch towns and ports in the Caribbean. 

Meanwhile on the other side of the world in Asia, things weren't doing well either...

In China, the Ming Dynasty have decided to ban all kinds of contact from not just European countries, but by Asian countries as well. 

Korean Kingdom is purely a isolated state in East Asia, many Japanese and Europeans have began calling Korea, the "hermit kingdom". Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan are very isolated and have no contact from any parts of the outside world, only having contact with one another. 

Japan since the disaster in 1722, have lost half of it's population from the tragic event. The Japanese lost their city of Osaka, Sapporo, Hakodate, Aomorii, and Edo. Japanese are somewhat isolationists but began to only allowing just only Spanish to come ashore to trade them. They were very unhappy to have heard that the Dutch were no longer customers to Tokugawa Japan. 

In India, many Spanish colonists have taken control over the uncontacted British colonies in India, and the country of Mysore have became a great power in Asia, as it has taken the African states of Somalia as colonies. 

Persia is very isolated and continues to be so to this very day. 

By the 1760's, most Europeans have fled to their colonies across the world, in the Americas, Africa, and Asia and Oceania. In North America the former British and French colonies were redrawn by map and given new borders. The British and French created a new dominion of theirs called the Dominion of North America, which is very bilingual in the languages of French and English. 

British were very unhappy to have heard the Danes took Virginia, Polish took Carolina, and that the former colony of Georgia have decided to become part of a independent state called the Republic of Florida. Which took the colony of the Bahamas as well.

Danish in the New World, often saw the Spanish as great enemies and often were in disputes and minor wars in the Caribbean and parts of North America and Latin America. Rarely do sometimes the Danes and Spanish would go to war with one another, which in the Danish-Spanish War, the Spanish lost their claims of Louisiana to the Kingdom of Denmark, which afterwards was renamed to the Danish colony of Dexas. Spanish were often pissed that the Danes took their large Caribbean colony of Cuba and their colony of Puerto Rico. 

In the Patagonian Wars the Danish were successful in taking over the Spanish viceroy of Rio de La Plata (Argentina) in the war. Making the Spanish feel that Denmark is trying to expand it empire in the New World. If the Danish do try and expand furthermore in the New World, it be fairly obvious to the Spanish, but unpredictable at where the Danes will expand next. Spanish will perhaps never surely know for sure. 

In one war that occurred in Central America in 1740's, the Danish tried to defeat the Spanish and have control over Central America so they could have access to the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately and luckily the Danes lost and the Spanish won. But the outcome was not so good for the Danish Empire, since now they have at least 500,000 Danish colonists that are living in Spanish Central America after the war ended. Denmark's colony of Danish Honduras was in the end annexed by the Spanish colony of New Spain.

However another shocking discovery was that Spanish discovered that Portugal did indeed survived sort of... The former Portuguese colony of Brazil, became Portugal's successor called the Empire of Brasil. Amazed by that they no longer call themselves as "Portuguese" and that they now on refer to themselves as simply "Brasilians". Another amazement by the Spanish was that the "Brasilians" have retook Portugal's former colonies in Africa and Asia. 

While in Oceania, the Spanish were a little too late in making a big colony in Australia, they did managed to make one, which is named the Dominion of New Aragon. (Western Australia in OTL) 

The Spanish were unhappy to have discovered that Danes too the Dutch discovered island of Tasmania and New Zealand without consequence. 

French and British on the other hand have still control in most of Australia's mainland which is still named Australia, but with a bilingual community of French and English speakers. Who happen to have a accent mixed of French and English and sounds so smooth and romantic. (The French of course sound romantic by accent lol)



The disaster that struck on March 2nd of 1722 was a global unpredictable event that killed millions and if not maybe at least a billion, but many have recovered and simply moved to their European colonies to live new daily lives in peace and harmony. It will be until at least 2000 AD, when the meteor strucken places in Europe will be back to normal for living in. 


And let me tell you that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Wish a Upon Star is very forbidden to even sing. Because since 1722, stars are always considered threats to mankind. 

There many stars out there that could one day go boom or hit Earth without notice or prediction. Hopefully lets hope not another shooting star comes again. 

Because shooting stars aren't lucky to wish upon anymore....
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