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{{dablink|This section is a distillation in synopsis form of what is known about the authors planning from web fora posts and their websites.<br/>''It is about a future or forthcoming thread of action, though one well founded on the naval actions in the novels ''1633'' and ''1634: The Baltic War'', which have set the table. The later work also foreshadows a planned "screw-powered frigate" class of ships under development in {{16plac|Magdeburg}} by [[Admiral]] {{16char|John Chandler|Simspon|p=John Simpson}}<ref>{{Cite 34TBW|long=yes|last=Weber|first=David|pp=|q=}}</ref

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Busy best selling authors [[David Weber]] and [[Eric Flint]] in 2002 (writing ''{{1633}}'' and {{ROF-1}}) originally contracted together and with [[Baen's Books]] to co-write the five {{plot thread|main thread|p="main series"}} books. When working on the long delayed {{34TBW}} novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (It took three planned "windows-of-opportunity" before one worked in ''The Baltic War'') well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully given the attention-to-detail needs, general reasonableness, and characteristic "historical accuracy" imposed by Flint from the beginning{{TheBeginning}}, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread&mdash;one based on the {{USE}} as a naval power, which historically alters the fact that {{Gustavus}}'s [[Swedish Empire]] was not (Many are unaware that Sweden did colonize north America&mdash;colonies which were aborbedabsorbed into British North American colonies behind the wall of ships helping the nascent [[British Empire]] come into being during the Seventeenth century).

====The Americas thread====