# Peshawar Lancers Universe

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 23, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111 "2010-02-23T13:44:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111/21 "2010-02-25T05:35:38Z")

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I am still awaiting permission to join the group.

I am leaning toward some sort of Imperial installation on a coastal island. A school, a hospital, a District Commissioner, traders coming and going, that sort of thing. Sort of Deep Space Nine.

But i am still looking for some characters.

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111/22 "2010-02-25T12:26:32Z")

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> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#):
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> But i am still looking for some characters.

You mean character _types_, or alternate history versions of real-life people?

Since it’s 2025—and a bit after the initial point of divergence—I’m assuming the former, unless analogues of real-life people are acceptable. [William Walker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29) comes to mind, although he actually died in 1860, so that might be a little unusable. [Ferdinand de Lesseps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Lesseps), on the other hand, would never have gotten his chance to try and build the Panama Canal. Maybe someone could try to start it up, with possibly similar horrific failures?

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111/23 "2010-02-25T14:09:37Z")

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Well Panama is presumably part of the general Latin American Empire Sterling mentions only in passing. I think he mentions a “Colonel of the month” governing.

But a trader or a filbusterer like Walker might be fun.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peshawar-lancers-universe/530111/24 "2010-02-25T14:13:25Z")

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Well Panama is presumably part of the general Latin American Empire Sterling mentions only in passing. I think he mentions a “Colonel of the month” governing.

But a trader or a filbusterer like Walker might be fun.

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