History Literature / SeparatedAtBirthAmericaAndDrakia

''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/separated-at-birth-america-and-drakia.470992/ Separated at Birth: America and Drakia]]'' by Ephraim Ben Raphael on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom is one take on this sub-genre, and is at once very similar but very different from the above. Although it is a more realistic take on the Draka, it's better to say that it's more of a {{Reconstruction}} of the series that tries to make the rapid rise to power of the Draka (or Drakia, as they're known in this timeline) more believable. Another major theme in this timeline, as its name suggests, is how Drakia is the EvilCounterpart of America: being created as a result of the same war, both expanding rapidly across the continent and demanding the assimilation of everything in their way into their own way of life...

* LensmanArmedRace: This is another feature shared by this work and the original [[{{Literature/TheDraka}} Draka series]] by Stirling. In ''Separated at Birth'', it's justified as being the result of an alternate, later Napoleonic Wars leading to accelerated technological development. As an example, the 1850s sees the the WWI-like proliferation of breechloading rifles, poison gas and primitive machine guns in most European armies, while by the 1870s, heavier than air aircraft have already been developed. By the end of the 20th century, there are space colonies and space bombers and genetic engineering [[spoiler: including making artificial plagues]], though genetically engineered human-wolf-baboon hybrids did not make an appearance like in the original novels.

* SchizoTech: This is another feature shared by this work and the original [[{{Literature/TheDraka}} Draka series]] by Stirling. In ''Separated at Birth'', it's justified as being the result of an alternate, later Napoleonic Wars leading to accelerated technological development. As an example, the 1850s sees the the WWI-like proliferation of breechloading rifles, poison gas and primitive machine guns in most European armies, while by the 1870s, heavier than air aircraft have already been developed. By the end of the 20th century, there are space colonies and space bombers and genetic engineering [[spoiler: including making artificial plagues]], though genetically engineered human-wolf-baboon hybrids did not make an appearance like in the original novels.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: The Final War causes Global Social Disruption at the best and a Global Social Collapse at the worst, leading to the death of billions and severe damage to Earths ecosystems. However there are still small nation states holding on and trying to rebuild.]]

* EagleLand: WordOfGod says the Americans ITTL were modeled after another AlternateHistory.com timeline, ''A More Perfect Union'', where the United States lived up to its ideals of freedom and democracy to a greater extent than in our own, while still expanding to a far greater extent throughout the Western Hemisphere. With the country's most reactionary elements excised early on to Drakia, America has been an exemplary beacon of freedom to the world practically since its inception. Tragically, [[DownerEnding it doesn't save them]] from the [[TheWarToEndAllWars Final War]].

* WonTheWarLostThePeace: [[spoiler: While Drakia wins the Final War, their victory proves to be this as Japan, Rhomania, and Russia, unhappy with Drakia's treatment of their allies, turn on them and Dart's plans to impose Christianity on Drakia's Muslim subjects leads to the Muslim Princely States and Martial Races rising up, leading to the collapse of the "Final Society" after fourteen months.]]