Chan Wei Lik wrote:

From: David Johnston

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To the author: When are you going to tell us how did the Imperial

universe

diverged from ours? It's been 12 chapters already and we still don't

know

about that one. It's quite interesting given that most asian empires

were

not very expansionist. Maybe because they had China as a neighbour?

One

which didn't expand much either.

Actually, the author dropped some hints in the early part of the story.

IIRC,

it diverged when the British won the American Revolution.  I would like
more details though.

read more carefully.

He also dropped hints that Japan never went into the Tokugawa
seclusion that it did in our Timeline.

This happens *BEFORE* the American revolution, although I
have trouble seeing how they are connected.

On a purely story level the author could have Regular Ranma
go over his memories and a history text-book to work out
where his memory becomes unreliable - perhaps a really
embarrassing moment in history class and Ranma goes
off to the library muttering *Never Again!* to himself.

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