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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 United States of Europe give it a reach not available to the average European power, even if it resorts to sailing ships over oceanic distances where the [[1632 institutions#Grantville Emergency Committee|Emergency Committee]] and [[1632 institutions#New United States|New United States]] authorities were careful to hide key portions of their library resources in order to maintain a technological edge as they "gearing down".

===Geographical threads===

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=====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 [[1634: The Bavarian Crisis]] and the forthcoming sequels [[1635: Soldier of Bohemia]] (long delayed while resolving the demanding schedules of Flint and [[David Weber]]— which delayed the whole series for several years as the [[1634: The Baltic War]] sequel would have been adversely affected.) and [[1635: The Eastern Front]] 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 beginning in the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]] in [[Prague]] with discussions in the early chapters about acting militarily and politically (by local [[1632 institutions#Committees of Correspondence|CoCs]]) in the east ([[Silesia]] and other outlying areas of southern [[Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth]]).

The original "working title" of ''Soldier of Bohemia'' was ''1635: King of Bohemia'', and that title and clues revealed in [[1634: The Bavarian Crisis]], 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 United States of Europe, or not. That coming conflict has been foreshadowed in three separate works: The Bavarian Crisis, Flint's tale in [[Ring of Fire II]], and in the Anaconda Project itself, where Wallenstein is strong arming the popular accidental-hero (part of ''The Wallenstein Gambit'') 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 [[1632 characters#Ferdinand_III of Austria|Ferdinand III of Austria]]'s armies.