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Gedrin · 04-28-2014, 05:44 PM

Prime Directive - X: The "Prime Directive" worlds are named for the fictional Prime Directive from the StarTrek television show common on worlds close to Homeline. Homeline has recently uncovered a string of worlds where a, yet unknown, party has deliberately introduced technologies vastly in advance of the development of that parallel. While the pattern of introducing disruptive tech is shared, nothing else seems to be in common among these worlds. This has lead Homeline to speculate the PD worlds represent a series of experiments.

PD-1: This world is locally 1640. It's divergent point is in 1632 when several dozen "small" city killer nuclear weapons were dispersed among the powers of Europe. The initial use of the weapons were on the battlefields, destroying both sides. Amsterdam (while Gustavus Adolphus was in the city) and Rome were destroyed, presumably with their respective weapons. This has lead to the practice of sending groups of elite soldiers to travel the trade routes with wagons concealing nuclear weapons poised for retaliatory strikes. MAD and economic collapse have ended the Thirty Years War.

PD-2: Primative transistor based electronics are introduced in 1910. History proceeds relatively apace, WWI, The Great Depression, WWII. Most advances are in the academic spheres until WWI. Nazi bombing campaigns are vastly more devastating with the aid of electronic guidance and rudimentary guided bombs. Great Britain counters with radar guided SAMs and improved radar detection. The Battle of Britain rages in 1939, while computer aided research efforts proceed in the US and Nazi Germany on their respective nuclear bomb programs.

PD-3: Near the height of its power, Rome has been given the steam engine.

PD-4: In 1300's Europe, the Paris has absolute control over a massive stockpile of broad spectrum antibiotics.

04-28-2014, 05:44 PM	#98
Gedrin Join Date: Jul 2007	Re: New Reality Seeds Prime Directive - X: The "Prime Directive" worlds are named for the fictional Prime Directive from the StarTrek television show common on worlds close to Homeline. Homeline has recently uncovered a string of worlds where a, yet unknown, party has deliberately introduced technologies vastly in advance of the development of that parallel. While the pattern of introducing disruptive tech is shared, nothing else seems to be in common among these worlds. This has lead Homeline to speculate the PD worlds represent a series of experiments. PD-1: This world is locally 1640. It's divergent point is in 1632 when several dozen "small" city killer nuclear weapons were dispersed among the powers of Europe. The initial use of the weapons were on the battlefields, destroying both sides. Amsterdam (while Gustavus Adolphus was in the city) and Rome were destroyed, presumably with their respective weapons. This has lead to the practice of sending groups of elite soldiers to travel the trade routes with wagons concealing nuclear weapons poised for retaliatory strikes. MAD and economic collapse have ended the Thirty Years War. PD-2: Primative transistor based electronics are introduced in 1910. History proceeds relatively apace, WWI, The Great Depression, WWII. Most advances are in the academic spheres until WWI. Nazi bombing campaigns are vastly more devastating with the aid of electronic guidance and rudimentary guided bombs. Great Britain counters with radar guided SAMs and improved radar detection. The Battle of Britain rages in 1939, while computer aided research efforts proceed in the US and Nazi Germany on their respective nuclear bomb programs. PD-3: Near the height of its power, Rome has been given the steam engine. PD-4: In 1300's Europe, the Paris has absolute control over a massive stockpile of broad spectrum antibiotics.