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>deep breath I've made an alternate setting where the Earth is exactly as it was historically, except I've considered the socio-political consequences of Witches going back to classical antiquity. WWII went down almost exactly the way it did in reality, except it was interrupted in early 1943 by the Martian invasion. Yes, those Martians, with tripods and heat-rays and black smoke and all that shit. It's Turtledove meets Wells meets Witches. I did this partially because I'm not crazy about the Neuroi - I like how they're mysterious, constantly changing tactics and can seemingly "manufacture" wildly different vessels in a short time to allow for said tactics changes; but in the entire first season there's only one real "dogfight" because of this; most of the time the Witches are just hammering away at flying beamspam battleships, which is meh. With Martians you keep some of that otherworldly "weirdness," truly alien aliens, and you can have actual interesting fights instead of "dogfights are useless, massed 88mm flak from the ground is super effective." (Seriously, artillery > beamspam.) It also lets me mix up Witches and classic fighter planes all together, which is much more fun then limiting yourself to just pantsu. Pic related.