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But then both Centrum and Reich-5 were listed as interested, which would seem impossible (basically canon that the two Infinity enemies don't overlap).
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The sidebar on IW54 suggests that Centrum renegades—or even the official leadership, if backed into a corner—might be able to make an alliance with Reich-5. So even before the "Red Moon"
Pyramid article it was established as something that
could happen, even if it hadn't already. Also, I don't think there were any examples of Centrum and Merlin-1 overlapping until Taft-1 got fleshed out in
Worlds of Horror, so there's a first time for everything.
I grant that Centrum
tech is limited to Q6-Q8, while Reich-5's mules can't cross quanta. But nexus portals can go damn near anywhere, and there's nothing
impossible about both sides using nexus portals to go to Q5.
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Given how prevalent Reich-5's limitation to Quantum 3 is, I think it's more likely that Rache-Welt is also on Quantum 3.
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I don't know if I would call the limitation "prevalent". I think in the main
Infinite Worlds books Reich-5 is only unambiguously on three or four worlds: Nostradamus, Friedrich, Merlin-1, maybe Agamemnon? And implied to be on Merlin-3. All those are Quantum 3 worlds, but it's a small sample size to generalize from, especially if those are just the
first few worlds they managed to reach.
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Though I think one of the reasons that Reich-5's travel has always been limited to in-quanta is because, if Reich-5 could go to Quantum 4, it could go to Quantum 2, and that's too many worlds even for Infinite Worlds...
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This logic applies to the Reich-5 mules, but nothing says that if they find a nexus portal (or Chronobahn route or whatever) to Q4, they have to find one to Q2 too.