Infinity has just found a Q6 world, and I-Scouts have determined that it's 1933 - and FDR was
just assassinated. Like, days ago, just before Infinity found the world.
Infinity is worried that this world could turn out like Reich-5 (same divergence point). But how to stop that? John Nance Garner is going to be inaugurated President of a shaken United States, but how can Infinity get him to the New Deal, Lend-Lease, etc.?
Infinity doesn't have agents on the ground, and there's already a power struggle going on in the White House & the Democratic Party, immediately on who is going to be the new Vice President. There are a million names out there, from segregationists to socialists.
(Note that it's too early for Henry Wallace, as he had held no office before becoming Secretary of Agriculture in 1933. Not to mention that Infinity knows that he did a bad job as President, 1941-1945, on Reich-5)
And what about killing Hitler and/or Stalin? If there was ever a time to break Infinity's no-killing rule, it would be during Hitler's rise to power and Stalin's famines & purges. But then maybe someone just as evil, but not as crazy/incompetent, comes to power...
Then there's the timing: FDR assassinated, Infinity discovers the world. Did his assassination make the world 'accessible' to Homeline? Did Infinity observation somehow 'cause' FDR's assassination?
And was his assassination a 'natural divergence', like the ones that create more regular parallels? Or did an outtime actor kill FDR?
At Q6, it's reachable by Centrum. Surely Interworld wouldn't go this far - but they don't have Homeline's history with Nazis, and don't know about Reich-5.
What about The Cabal? Or even someone from Homeline?
And is this world an echo or parallel? Infinity hasn't been able to determine yet.
Could the assassination have been an attempt to 'move' it upwards by Centrum? Can Infinity's attempts to stave off another Reich 'move' it downwards?
Or what if saving the world from Nazis 'moves' it
upwards?