At 02:44 PM 8/26/98 PDT, Razorclaw X wrote:

The idea that the Axis won a world-wide victory is ridiculous beyond 
words, but the alternate world is interesting. It needs to be fleshed 
out more, but mind you don't get distracted.

	Critic, I don't think you looked at the rest of the story. In chapter 

3, 

it's noted that the Axis world and our own diverged about (thumbs thru 

fic 

 Except the fact that the Critic is critiquing "Chapter 2" and not 
"Chapter 3," which leads me to believe that this historical note 
should've come earlier (I haven't read this, btw, but from this 
discussion that's obviously a big point)

Actually, there is an inference in Chapter 1 that this is an alternate that
branched earlier than WW2, 
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	His morning classes were dull, even at the accelerated  
program that Ranma was in.   In his current class, he listens half- 
heartedly as the instructor drones on about some lesser-known  
aspects of the history of the Empire.   *Who really cares about  
some failed revolution in Britain�s old North American colonies?,*  
he thinks with a bored sigh.   The western region of North America  
had been a colony of the Empire for over a century, after the war  
with Spain.   *Would the shape of the world really have changed  
that much?*   There had been peace in the world for the last  
several decades, since it was divided up among the three  
superpowers in the last war: Japan, Germany, and Russia.   Ranma  
could care less about history himself.   Science was all that  
mattered to him. 

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