Quote:Yeah, but in the end the CoDominium is gonna blow itself to splinters anyway, Doug or no Doug. As I recall, it's barely a decade from the end of the Falkenberg stories to the Great Patriotic War, at which point the CoDominium is history and the Empire of Man is just starting out on Sparta.
And nature's course, assuming he'd showed up around Falkenberg's time, would be to global thermonuclear war. The CoDominium caused a build-up of pressures that simply wasn't gonna be released peacefully -- not, at least, without some hellacious social engineering.
Depending on how much Doug were to think through any meddling, he could manage to soften the blow of the Great Patriotic War a little. Not enough to save the CoDo, but maybe enough to prevent Earth from becoming totally fucked for the rest of history.---
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