[seasong]

Actually, it is less that, even. Keep in mind that those parallels that are being held down are the exact same parallels that are being exploited to keep Homeline's economy booming.

If all of those worlds were to begin trading with each other and Homeline on a fair and equitable basis, Time Tours LTD wouldn't be able to charge an arm and a leg, because the locals would be giving the tours.

Infinite worlds, infinite wealth... infinite people, finite wealth.

If I ever ran a campaign in this setting, the players would probably be starting on Coventry. Or on their way there, when a transporter accident sends them to a world where they can go on the down low while they work out a way to destroy Homeline's death grip.

(as an interesting side note: if Homeline truly is the only place projectors can work from, they could have gone a very different route, becoming an ultracosmopolitan center of trade through which all other worlds pass, and would probably be MORE wealthy now, because the wealth would not be limited to what they themselves can manipulate)