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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen
If you want some technobabble to explain why it works that way, how about this: conveyors and projectors, in order to move between timelines, orient themselves on the quantum signature of the nearest large gravity source. Then they regress the quantum signature back to the desired divergence point, then follow the divergent signature back up to the local present in the destination timeline. Since it's the quantum signature of the large body that you're locked onto, you always arrive in the same relative position, even if the signature has moved relative to other signatures in the destination timeline.
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An interesting variation would be to allow this at a certain difficulty operation level (-4 for solar system planets, -8 for interspace), but make it simpler for the conveyor to find and travel to timelines that diverge specifically on the celestial body onto which you're locked. Say, from Mars you could go to terraformed Mars, red-forests Mars, full-of-canals Mars, little green martians' Mars, Barsoom Mars...
EDIT: and maybe even find out that
our deserted, cold Mars is a hellish exception among hundreds of lush Mars-echos inhibited by advanced tripod conquerors in different stages of their history, and their billions of human slaves...