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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[[#Plot threadthreads|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<ref name="TheBeginning">{{Cite web|title=How it all started (Baen Bar Authors forum post 2 March 1999)|accessdate=2008-06-12|url=http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/faqs/how_it_started.html|quote={{I}}I'm posting a new topic in a shameless bid to enlist aid and assistance in my next book. Y'all understand this is a serious and solemn project and there'll be none of the usual badinage, disrespect, wild-eyed-opinion-spouting, surly remarks and the other stuff that routinely transpires in the Bar. (Yeah, sure. And pigs will fly.){{I2}}

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 basic rule is: NO CHEATING. There will not be any "convenient" stuff that wouldn't likely be in a small town. (No military convoys which just "happen" to be parading through town, for instance). On the other hand, the population of the town (which includes a lot of coal miners from the area who are in town that day for a wedding) are the type of blue-collar folks who can jury-rig damn near anything if the stuff is either there or can be obtained.{{I2}}

Finally, a TIP. Alternate history novels have a tendency (for obvious dramatic reasons) to focus too narrowly on the military dimension of the problem. I want to cast a broader net. ... (more)}}</ref>, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread—one based on the [[United States of Europe (1632 series)|United States of Europe]] as a naval power, which historically alters the fact that 1632_characters[[List of 1632 characters#Gustavus_II_Adolphus_of_SwedenGustavus II Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus]]'s [[Swedish Empire]] was not (Many are unaware that Sweden did colonize north America—colonies which were absorbed 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====

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 [[List of 1632 characters#Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus]] and [[Mike Stearns]] to American shores, as Stearns ([[de facto]]: Flint's alter-ego), has a burn to address and cut off the slave trade as he did in his Rivers of War series.

==References==