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==Plot threads==
No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series—be it geographical or character based—the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. Indeed, in an October 2007 announcement on his web site, Flint announced an agreement that the three joint books (under contract since 2002) with best selling author [[David Weber]] will take place in a '''Naval thread''', indicating the Eurocentric focus of the series, at least taken with some expressed interest by [[Michael Stearns]] to curtail slave trading before it builds up steam, will likely create settings well outside Europe as the technologically advanced naval capabilities of the {{USE}} give it a reach not available to the average European power, even if it resorts to sailing ships over oceanic distances where the {{Emergency Committee}} and [[
===Geographical threads===
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# 4.1.1 West Central European thread-- 1: de main thread so far
# 4.1.2 Eastern European thread
# 4.1.3 Southern European thread
# 4.1.x Western European thread
# 4.1.x East Central European thread-- 4: Austria, Saxony, Brandenburg, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, and eastern Baltic
# 4.1.x Southeastern European thread-- 6: Provisional, Austria, Bavaria, Hungary, Romania, Ottoman Europe--esp. the Balkan's
# 4.1.x Northern Europen thread
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====Central European thread====
The "Central European thread" or more correctly, the "Central and Southwest Central European thread", is the "main plot thread" of the series.
====Eastern European thread====
The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East_Central_European_thread, the later of which may be understood as the base line through eastern parts of modern day Germany, Austria, western [[Hungary]]. The first fiction written within these theatres was the novelette {{ROF-1|s="The Wallenstein Gambit"}} and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in {{ROF-1}} but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors scheduling issues, so the plot begun by Flint and finished in outline took a back seat to southern, western and central European events which both had ready collaborating authors and themes of their own to explore in the neohistory. So in June 2006, the writing team of {{16writ|Paula|Goodlett}} and {{16writ|Gorg |Huff }} cracked the Eastern European barrier in {{GG08|IN="Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 1: A Russian Noble"}}
=====East Central European thread=====
{{dablink|Main article: [[#Eastern European thread|Eastern European thread]] (just above)}}
Other works that can be characterized in the setting are parts of the novel {{34TBC}} and the forthcoming sequels {{35SoB}} (long delayed while resolving the demanding schedules of Flint and [[David Weber]]— which delayed the whole series for several years as the {{34TBW}} sequel would have been adversely affected.) and {{35TEF}} are also believed to be set in the Eastern or East Central threads. Beginning in September 2007 Flint began the ongoing serialization of the [[The Anaconda Project]] novel which continues from where ''The Wallenstein Gambit'' left off
The original "working title" of ''Soldier of Bohemia'' was ''1635: King of Bohemia'', and that title and clues revealed in {{34TBC}}, which in the most part geographically can be laid in this regional setting. The solo Flint novel, [[The Anaconda Project]] (Serialized to date solely in [[the Grantville Gazettes]]) is also in the setting, and is believed to be the prequel to Soldier of Bohemia which it is speculated, will center its action on the reactions of the new king of Austria-Hungary, Ferdinand III of Austria, and his attack on Wallenstein even as he makes peace with Gustavus and the {{USE}}, or not. That coming conflict has been foreshadowed in three separate works: The Bavarian Crisis, Flint's tale in {{ROF-2}}, and in the Anaconda Project itself, where Wallenstein is strong arming the popular accidental-hero (part of ''The Wallenstein Gambit'') {{16char|Morris|Roth}} into becoming a general and heading up his army and plans in the east for he and Pappenheim expect to be busy in the south with {{16CHAR|Ferdinand III|Austria|p=Ferdinand III of Austria}}'s armies.
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====Naval thread====
{{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>}}
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
OK, here's the problem. The novel I'm starting on, Fire in the Hole, requires a wide range of knowledge to write properly. Some of that I have (the history of the period, for instance). Some I can get, from friends. But some of it requires me to scramble like a monkey. Any help I can get will be appreciated.{{I2}}
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====The Americas thread====
Stories in [[1632 Slushpile]] regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the {{16inst|Essen Steel Corporation}} and {{16inst|Essen Chemical}} are foreshadowing activities (mining [[Chromium]] for one) in [[North America]], and others are pursuing [[latex]] [[Rubber]] in [[South America]]. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and [[David Weber]] ([[#Naval thread|see above The Naval thread]]) will in part involve expeditions sent by [[
==Notes and references==
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