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| Sky Pirate Extraordinaire. | Sky Pirate Extraordinaire. | ||
| - | AH.com member hailing from [[offtopic:Slovakia]]. | + | AH.com member hailing from [[offtopic:Slovakia]]. He joined the board in late June 2008 and still feels like an honorary n00b, but seems to be learning quickly... |
| - | Probably the only one so far. He joined the board in late June 2008 and still feels like an honorary n00b, but seems to be learning quickly... | + | |
| Lives in the "Far East" of his homeland, on the territory of what was once the proud county of Zemplín. A typical central European fellow with very mixed heritage (yeah, it's a long story). Naturally multietnic, multilingual and whatnot... | Lives in the "Far East" of his homeland, on the territory of what was once the proud county of Zemplín. A typical central European fellow with very mixed heritage (yeah, it's a long story). Naturally multietnic, multilingual and whatnot... | ||
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| Beware, he is a fierce localpatriot. But with a great sense of humour and irony. | Beware, he is a fierce localpatriot. But with a great sense of humour and irony. | ||
| - | In his free time, he enjoys archery, cycling, reading, bookworming anything about history (or what interests him at the current moment), having fun with his dog and lots more... | + | In his free time, he enjoys archery, cycling, reading, bookworming anything about history (or what interests him at the current moment), having fun with his two dogs and lots more... |
| He's a big fan of the European Space Agency, often jokingly referring to himself as "an avid, jingoistic ESA fanboy". | He's a big fan of the European Space Agency, often jokingly referring to himself as "an avid, jingoistic ESA fanboy". | ||
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| + | Contrary to popular belief, his nickname is not pronounced as "Pet Ike", but more like "Petty que ?" ("que" as in Spanish for "what"). | ||
| ==== Favourite historical eras and AH settings ==== | ==== Favourite historical eras and AH settings ==== | ||
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| * the High and Late Middle Ages (with a preference for central European scenarios) | * the High and Late Middle Ages (with a preference for central European scenarios) | ||
| - | * World War One | + | * [[pods:WWI|World War One]] |
| - | * the inter-war period of the 20th century | + | * the interwar period of the 20th century |
| * aviation history (both civilian and military, mainly aircraft from the first half of the 20th century) | * aviation history (both civilian and military, mainly aircraft from the first half of the 20th century) | ||
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| * anything related to tiny insular countries with bizzare histories and to lesser known, but equally odd historical wars (and often, a combination of both) | * anything related to tiny insular countries with bizzare histories and to lesser known, but equally odd historical wars (and often, a combination of both) | ||
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| + | * African and Polynesian TLs | ||
| * attempts at TLs with original and often silly PODs, usualy based on extremely obscure or mundane-looking events in history | * attempts at TLs with original and often silly PODs, usualy based on extremely obscure or mundane-looking events in history | ||
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| * visiting his beloved "Photos from Alternate Worlds", "Things that look like Alternate History, but aren't", "Alternate World Propaganda", "Flag" and "Map" threads... and contributing to them quite often | * visiting his beloved "Photos from Alternate Worlds", "Things that look like Alternate History, but aren't", "Alternate World Propaganda", "Flag" and "Map" threads... and contributing to them quite often | ||
| - | * coming up with crazy or oddly humorous scenarios and ISOT ideas in the ASB forum (such as [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113415|"Charles de Gaulle becomes a gangsta rap enthusiast"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=102424|"Roman airships vs. tech-wanking cyborg Nazis vs. zombie ninja motorbikers"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124128|"Guns of the Inuits"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113888|"Cossacks vs. Aztecs vs. Orcs"]] or [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=120538|"Maxis creates a Sim City game based on... Sin City..."]] ;-) ) | + | * coming up with crazy or oddly humorous scenarios and ISOT ideas in the ASB forum (such as [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113415|"Charles de Gaulle becomes a gangsta rap enthusiast"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=102424|"Roman airships vs. tech-wanking cyborg Nazis vs. zombie ninja motorbikers"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124128|"Guns of the Inuits"]], [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=113888|"Cossacks vs. Aztecs vs. Orcs"]] or [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=120538|"Maxis creates a Sim City game based on... Sin City..."]] ;-)) |
| * trying to act like a bloody darn expert in threads involving scientific fields he understands | * trying to act like a bloody darn expert in threads involving scientific fields he understands | ||
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| * commenting on nearly anything | * commenting on nearly anything | ||
| - | * participating in the [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/timelines/ah.com_eternals?s[]=eternals|AH.com Eternals Role Play]] (joined in December 2010) | + | * participating in the //**[[shared worlds:AH.com Eternals]]**// roleplay (joined in December 2010) and in the //**[[shared worlds:Countries of An Alternate World Two Asterisks|The Countries of An Alternate World 2*]]**// map game (joined in June 2012) |
| - | * updating the wiki and generally fiddling around with it | + | * updating the wiki and generally fiddling around with it. According to [[offtopic:Thande]], Petike is apparently the only other member besides himself who even seems to know we //have// a wiki anymore. |
| - | ==== Writing for AH.com and Works on the Board ==== | + | ==== Writing for AH.com ==== |
| - | Petike hasn't created any real timelines or stories of his own yet, but plans to change this fact in the iminent future. One of his currently ongoing projects concerns creating a timeline and comprehensive background to a European version/reimagining of FASA's classic //Crimson Skies// universe. Homages and pulpy atmosphere galore, guaranteed ! He isn't planning to post it on AH.com - for now... | + | One of his currently ongoing projects concerns creating a timeline and comprehensive background to a European version/reimagining of FASA's classic //Crimson Skies// universe. Homages and pulpy atmosphere galore, guaranteed ! He isn't planning to post it on AH.com - for now... |
| A long time ago, he also had plans to create an ASB clockpunk-wank scenario featuring an early industrial revolution in late medieval Europe, with the help of another member, [[euio]]. This timeline would be based on the previous works of both. In Petike's case, it was this silly scenario idea : **//[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=98574|Those magnificent men in their ornithopters...]]//** | A long time ago, he also had plans to create an ASB clockpunk-wank scenario featuring an early industrial revolution in late medieval Europe, with the help of another member, [[euio]]. This timeline would be based on the previous works of both. In Petike's case, it was this silly scenario idea : **//[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=98574|Those magnificent men in their ornithopters...]]//** | ||
| - | Petike's first finished TL was a short one-shot story written in a single post. It can can be found in the "Worst Timeline Ever" thread. So yeah... [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2480346&postcount=76|It involves an eternal Cold War between tech-wanking Welsh and the merry old mongolian butcher, baron Sternberg... Oh, and Aztecs... and Churchill... and time travel... and Turtledove's Race... and fish and chips and yorkshire pudding...]] | + | Petike's first finished pseudo-TL was a short one-shot story written in a single post. It can can be found in the "Worst Timeline Ever" thread. So yeah... [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2480346&postcount=76|It involves an eternal Cold War between tech-wanking Welsh and the merry old mongolian butcher, baron Sternberg... Oh, and Aztecs... and Churchill... and time travel... and Turtledove's Race... and fish and chips and yorkshire pudding...]] |
| - | In other news, he's finally started work on a comprehensive and realistic timeline. The POD concerns queen Mary of Hungary (of the Anjevin dynasty) not dying from a lethal accident in May 1395. Since she was pregnant at the time, she soon gives birth to a son (who died along with her in OTL). The boy becomes the go-to future heir of her husband, Sigismund of Luxembourg (who in OTL only had one daughter with his second wife, Barbara of Celje). And from there on, world history... dun-dun-dun... will never be the same again... ;-) The reason behind the TL ? Petike needs it as a background for a planned AH short story about a geeky aspiring ATL writer, who's desperately trying to publish his debut alternate history novel in an ATL 1995, 600 years after the POD. ;-) More to come... | + | ==== Works (finished and planned) ==== |
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| + | * //**[[timelines:Better Weather Less Revolutionary Bloodshed More Indigestions - An Alternate History of the Kingdom of Hawaii|Better Weather, Less Revolutionary Bloodshed, More Indigestions : An Alternate History of the Kingdom of Hawaii]]**// - Created pretty spontaneously in March 2012, while taking part in the [[alternate history:Weekly Flag Challenge]]. At first, it was just a simple backstory, but - as Tolkien would put it - //"the tale grew in the telling"//. There are plans for a far longer and far more detailed future remake. | ||
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| + | * //**[[timelines:LOSERS - The League of Small European Republics and States TL]]**// - Currently planned TL with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek atmosphere. It will focus on 7 of the smallest European countries (i.e. [[offtopic:Iceland]], [[offtopic:Luxembourg]], [[offtopic:Monaco]], [[offtopic:Andorra]], [[offtopic:Liechtenstein]], [[offtopic:San Marino]], [[Malta]]) and their efforts to create a functioning but logistically feasible army and/or air force within a 20th century timeframe. | ||
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| + | * //**The Fox and the Lillies**// (working title) - A TL that was conceived in 2010 and has been long in the making, but often suffered delays. Since 2012, it is again in the process of being written. It's meant as an attempt at a comprehensive and realistic timeline. It is not posted on AH.com yet, since the author wants to write a sufficient amount of chapters before fully greenlighting it. The POD concerns queen Mary of Hungary (of the Anjevin dynasty) not dying from a lethal accident in May 1395. Since she was pregnant at the time, she soon gives birth to a son (who died along with her in OTL). The boy becomes the go-to future heir of her husband, Sigismund of Luxembourg (who in OTL only had one daughter with his second wife, Barbara of Celje). And from there on, world history... dun-dun-dun... will never be the same again... | ||
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| + | * //**The Sun Sets Behind the High Hill**// - A Czechoslovak [[timelines:Protect and Survive spinoffs|spinoff]] of //**[[timelines:Protect and Survive]]**//. Originally planned to launch in the summer or early autumn of 2012. As of February 2013, two sample chapters have been posted - read them [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7197871&postcount=502|here]] and [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7250182&postcount=513|here]] (plus an addendum to the second one [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7251162&postcount=516|here]]). Paradoxically, these are the first two chapters of the intended epilogue. Why an epilogue first ? Because you have to know where you're going in order to get there... ;-) | ||
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| + | * //**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260711|A brief history of Nuthekrofívotracu and the Holy Dhaklada Commonwealth]]**// - As with the Hawaiian TL, more of a rough draft or fragment based on the backstory text for a flag contest, rather than a full-fledged TL. This brief story and history sketch takes the reader into a world where, for some [[alternate history:ASB]] reason, the Doggerland peninsula never got flooded or submerged after the end of the last ice age. The large new appendage of the European mainland completely alters its northwestern coast, creating a massive butterfly effect that creates a completely different historical development for Europe and the world, despite some [[alternate history:OTL]] patterns frequently reappearing. | ||
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| + | ==== Appearances in AH.com fiction ==== | ||
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| + | Appears in [[offtopic:BlackWave]]'s //**[[timelines:Swarm on the Somme]]**// saga as an Austro-Hungarian private helping out a lost group of Australian soldiers on the western front. | ||
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| + | Gets a cameo role in [[offtopic:Glen]]'s **//[[timelines:Dominion of Southern America]]//** TL as one of the founders of a republican successor state to the Kingdom of Hungary. | ||
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| + | ==== Relations with other AH.commers ==== | ||
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| + | He is typically calm and polite to others. | ||
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| + | He argued once with [[Admiral Canaris]] over the military tech of the Star Wars and Dune universes - the topic was, naturally, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=104292|"Who would win ?"]] | ||
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| + | Likes to argue with [[alt_historian]] over scenarios related to the history of spaceflight. | ||
| - | Recently, while taking part in the Weekly Flag Challenge, he wrote a mini TL [[[[timelines:better_weather_less_revolutionary_bloodshed_more_indigestions_-_an_alternate_history_of_the_kingdom_of_hawaii|about an alternate history of the Kingdom of Hawaii]]. At first, it was just a simple backstory, but - as Tolkien would put it - //"the tale grew in the telling"//. You can [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=235155|find it here]]. | ||
| ==== Threads started by him that he's most proud of ==== | ==== Threads started by him that he's most proud of ==== | ||
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| **15.** The USA/CSA want Canada and/or Cuba and, dammit, they'll get them ! | **15.** The USA/CSA want Canada and/or Cuba and, dammit, they'll get them ! | ||
| - | **16.** Nothing ever happens in South America, Africa, Australia or Oceania. | + | **16.** [[alternate history:Nothing ever happens in South America]], Africa, Australia or Oceania. |
| **17.** Bizzarely, nothing ever happens in Switzerland either - since 99,9 % of all TLs just turn it into an [[alternate history:uninvadable super-duper switzerland|unchanging and uninvadable Space Filling Statelet]]. It //kind of just exists// in its own separate pocket universe, even though every AH map of Europe will trick you into thinking it actually might have some ties to historical processes, whether positive, negative or neutral. And don't you ever dare to redraw its sacred unchanging borders - that's a major no-no !!! ;-) | **17.** Bizzarely, nothing ever happens in Switzerland either - since 99,9 % of all TLs just turn it into an [[alternate history:uninvadable super-duper switzerland|unchanging and uninvadable Space Filling Statelet]]. It //kind of just exists// in its own separate pocket universe, even though every AH map of Europe will trick you into thinking it actually might have some ties to historical processes, whether positive, negative or neutral. And don't you ever dare to redraw its sacred unchanging borders - that's a major no-no !!! ;-) | ||
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| As for revanchism and pointless "who has the right" discussions - if you'll ask him on his opinion about these sort of things, he'll probably just use quotes like //"An eye for an eye and the world will become blind."// as an answer and leave it at that. | As for revanchism and pointless "who has the right" discussions - if you'll ask him on his opinion about these sort of things, he'll probably just use quotes like //"An eye for an eye and the world will become blind."// as an answer and leave it at that. | ||
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| * micronations (he is the proud ruler of one) | * micronations (he is the proud ruler of one) | ||
| - | * archipelagos (his dream is to annex [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land|Franz Josef Land]] and the Falklands to his aforementioned micronation) | + | * archipelagos (his dream is to annex [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land|Franz Josef Land]] to his aforementioned micronation) |
| * assault rifles with a bullpup configuration | * assault rifles with a bullpup configuration | ||
| - | * steampunk / clockpunk / otherformulaicnameformspunk | + | * steampunk / clockpunk / otherformulaicnamepunk |
| * aviation history and vintage aircraft | * aviation history and vintage aircraft | ||
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| //**"To be honest..."**// | //**"To be honest..."**// | ||
| - | //**"**//(Something, something) //**...I aprove."**// *cool shades smiley* | + | //**"**//(Something, something) //**...I approve."**// *cool shades smiley* |
| //**"It kind of reminds me of..."**// | //**"It kind of reminds me of..."**// | ||
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| //**"Incidentally..."**// | //**"Incidentally..."**// | ||
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| + | //**"Personally speaking..."**// | ||
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| + | //**"Something from/In my Sparrow Avengers (European Crimson Skies) Universe..."**// | ||
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| + | "(INSERTNAME)//**, you so funny."**// (used to mock turgid official statements made by politicians or celebrities) | ||
| The board members are welcomed to write down any other catchphrases that would come to mind... :-) | The board members are welcomed to write down any other catchphrases that would come to mind... :-) | ||