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Old 06-17-2010, 06:45 PM   #10
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Default Re: Pyramid #3/20: The universe might be finite, but you can always find a new one

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Originally Posted by Captain-Captain View Post
Two objections 1) Giving the PDF the title SJG37=2620 instead of something like Pyramid 3-20.
I very much doubt that was a conscious decision. It's clearly a bug of some sort, especially considering that my copy was named just fine. I downloaded mine from my email notice ("A new file has been added to your account; click here to download it"), so that may have been the difference, BTW.

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2) IW canon establishes a) projectors have a 2 Quantum range and it is not possible for Centrum to get to homeline or vice versa. Reich 5 has very limited transdimensional access and the chronobahn has largely been limited to Q3 and Q4. Only the Cabal is supposed to have easy access to Homeline and it's adjacent worlds.

Here we have Red Moon on Q5 with BOTH Centrum and Reich 5 infiltration and the implication that Centrum and Reich 5 are aware of each other. This would fly in the face of the opening fiction on IW.45-46 that establishes centrum knew next to nothing about the term 'Nazi' let alone specifics of Reich 5.
(A) Centrum is on Q5 worlds. Among other things, we know for a fact that they have spies on Homeline. Centrum agents on Q5 worlds should definitely be rare, but they do exist. (I do agree that it seems unlikely for Centrum to be on Red Moon. Considering the reason they're there, though, it makes sense that they'd devote the resources necessary to make it happen.)

(B) I don't see how the vignette you refer to implies that Centrum knows "next to nothing" about Reich-5. In fact, as I read it, it shows that they're keeping tabs on them and their interaction with Homeline/Infinity with great interest. They just aren't experts on National Socialism or its implications, and are thus very confused as to why Infinity is so focused on them. (It's a lack of understanding, not a lack of intelligence.)

(C) As for Reich-5, hell, the GM or author can justify the Chronobaun going darn near anywhere. The fact that it crosses from Q3 to Q4 actually makes more of an argument that it can cross over into other quanta.
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